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[Parker] Nine years ago,
I came to the Yukon.
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This is just the beginning.
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You know, I mean, that pan,
we're gonna be throwing
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thousands of those
through our plant every day.
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The Klondike brings all
sorts of crazy people together.
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I've seen a lot show up
trying to make their fortune.
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A lot of people
have come and gone...
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but we're still here.
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But gold miners are in
for a shock this year.
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You know, you're paying more
for just about everything.
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Inflation hit a 30-year high
last month.
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[Parker] The world's
all screwed up.
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Fuel prices are crazy.
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Spare parts are hard to find.
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And crazy high gold prices
are gone.
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One thing about these issues is
it's gonna burn some people up.
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Tony Beets is struggling
with Red Tape.
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Fred, he's in the middle
of nowhere.
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Lack of experience
is going to hurt him.
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Rick Ness, rumor has it,
he's not even coming back.
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We have to hammer down
like never before.
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This season is going
to be our toughest season yet.
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[Paul] On the all-new season
of Gold Rush.
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[Tony speaking]
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It's do or die this season.
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And right now,
we are trying to survive.
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[Tony speaking]
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We're hitting it
with everything we got.
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That's what
we've been waiting for.
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You're washing rocks.
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Parker has asked me to
come from Australia to help him
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with his new Alaskan operation.
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If you need to stop
really fast, use this one.
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[man] This is like
the best pan I've ever had.
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Hey, miracles happen, right?
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Not in my world.
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What the [bleep] is going on
with the Hulk?
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[metal clanging]
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Oh, [bleep]!
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Hey. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Stop, stop, stop.
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Get out of my face and leave.
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A lot of sacrifices go
into making this happen.
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This is hard.
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He's right at mine site.
Let him [bleep] work.
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[Tony speaking]
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Looks like Fairbanks
is [bleep] day one.
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[bleep] me.
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[man 1] One, two, three...
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[woman 1] Nine, ten.
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[man 2] Eleven, twelve,
thirteen, fourteen, fifteen.
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[woman 2] Eighty, one hundred.
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One-ten, one-twenty.
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[woman 2] Two-forty,
two-fifty, two-sixty.
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- 448.95.
- [bleep] yeah.
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Fifty thousand ounces of gold.
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- Whoo!
- Fifty down. Fifty to go.
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[wind howling]
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Snow is very deep.
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It's the most snow since
I started lining up here,
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you know what, nine years ago.
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[Paul] Parker Schnabel came
to the Klondike
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at just 18 years old.
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Since then, he's pulled over 45,000
ounces of gold out of the ground,
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today worth $86 million.
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Now, at the ripe old age
of 27, he's planning his exit.
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[Parker] It's looking like
this season's going to be
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massively different
than the last few.
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We're in a brave new world.
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[Paul] The Klondike Parker
knew years ago is changing.
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All the best ground is
taken, and restrictions are increasing.
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[Parker] With the state
of permitting right now,
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you know, everybody's businesses
are at serious risk.
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[Paul] To keep
his gold mining dreams alive,
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Parker's expanding,
opening a new claim in Alaska.
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[Parker] We are going
to Alaska,
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and we are setting up
a new operation over there.
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The biggest challenge this year
is gonna be figuring out
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how to manage two mine sites
in different countries.
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There's a lot of money
at risk.
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It's really difficult surviving
those kind of expansions.
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[Paul] But first, he's staging
a Klondike blitz.
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[Parker] Getting things going here at
Scribner is now the main focus.
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We've got a lot to do.
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You know, when you start
adding up all the projects,
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it sounds like
a hell of a lot.
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[Paul] To add
even more pressure,
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Parker's losing
his main water license
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on his gold-rich airstrip
claim at the end of the year.
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[Parker]
There's no wiggle room.
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You know, normally
with mining, it's like,
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"Oh, what you don't get done,
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you just can do
the next season."
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On this ground, this season,
there is no next season.
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Any gold that
we leave in the ground
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is probably staying there.
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So we need to get it all done.
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[Paul] With fuel prices
rising to record highs
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and the supply chain that
feeds his operations in tatters,
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there's no margin for error.
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But that's not stopping
the young mine boss.
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[Parker] The big thing for me is
that I really like to push ourselves
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and find more gold each year,
like last year was a huge season.
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But I think we might be able
to have a 10,000-ounce season.
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Oh, but it looks like
they're getting some stripping done.
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I'm guessing that's Tyson.
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How's it goin'?
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Pretty good. You, man?
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Oh, not bad.
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- You guys have been busy.
- Yeah.
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Camp's sorted.
And now out we're moving dirt.
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Looks like it.
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[Paul] Plant boss Tyson Lee is
getting a jump on stripping the airstrip,
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a chunk of ground that has brought in
over $9 million worth of gold so far.
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[Parker] Okay. So you guys
are just gonna plug away here,
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so you might just leave it,
like leave the snow
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from where that line
is forward,
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just leave it undisturbed
and just carry this stuff up,
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corner it out
up that way, you know?
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Don't want the ramp turning
into [bleep] halfway through.
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[Parker] No. And
that's what's going to happen.
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So the line with Tony must be
right in here somewhere, huh?
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Yeah, it's pretty close.
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[Paul] Parker leases all the claims
at the airstrip except for two.
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Those are owned
by Klondike kingpin
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and long-time frenemy
Tony Beets.
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[Parker] Okay. Where is he?
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Tony?
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I believe at the Hill.
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He hasn't got anything
out here?
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No, I haven't seen him.
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- Obviously, it doesn't look like--
- Brought a couple of trucks
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out the other day,
but other than that--
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Wait, so he's moving equipment
out of Indian River Camp?
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Yeah.
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That doesn't make any sense.
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[Tyson] Not much
does with him.
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Like we've done better and
better the further downstream we've gone.
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The license is going to expire
with the gold in the ground.
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I'll go talk to him.
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I'm just gonna go sit down
with Tony
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and see what his plan is
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because if he's not gonna
mine it,
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then I'll probably ask him
if we can.
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You know, Tony and I have always
had a bit of a rocky relationship.
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But then, like, would we be where
we are if Tony hadn't given us,
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you know, a chance
in the beginning
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when we first showed up
in the Yukon?
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Probably not.
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Truth is he's helped us
out a lot.
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That's worth something,
I guess.
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[Tony speaking]
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[Paul] Tony had been mining
for 30 years...
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[Tony speaking]
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[Paul] ...when he gave
the 18-year-old a shot...
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[Tony speaking]
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[Paul] ...when no one else
would.
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[Tony] 140.65.
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[Paul] And it paid off
for both of them.
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[Tony speaking]
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[Paul] But as the stakes
got higher, egos collided.
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[Tony speaking]
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Just show up in the spring
and shutting us down?
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[Tony speaking]
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Tony won't talk today.
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Have a judge
tell me that, Tony.
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[Paul] Climaxing
in an explosive battle
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over mining the airstrip
that Tony owns...
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[Tony speaking]
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[Paul] ...that Parker
holds the water license on.
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Give me one good reason not
to tell you to go [bleep] yourself.
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Well, the last few years,
I don't know, it's been weird.
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[Paul] Now Parker
finds himself once again
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trying to broker a deal
with the king of the Klondike
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over this long-disputed piece
of land.
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- [Parker] Tony.
- [Tony speaking]
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- Hi.
- [Tony speaking]
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[Parker] How are you?
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- [Tony speaking]
- Good. How are you?
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- [Tony speaking]
- Good to see you.
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[Tony speaking]
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- It was good.
- [Tony speaking]
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- I got COVID.
- [Tony speaking]
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Have you heard from Rick Ness?
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[Tony speaking]
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- [Parker] How was your winter?
- [Tony speaking]
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You've got...
you've still got a lot of years left in you, Tony.
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[Tony speaking]
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Are you gonna, like, get old
and grumpy or are you gonna get--
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[Tony speaking]
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No, Minnie will kill you.
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[Tony speaking]
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I know Minnie well enough to know
that you would not get away with that.
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[Tony speaking]
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- Not great.
- [Tony speaking]
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I mean, it's...
Yeah, it's... you know,
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well, everything that's good is either
tied up or been mined, right?
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- [Tony speaking]
- [Parker] Right.
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And the scary thing is now
they're starting to get it.
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[Tony speaking]
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We have a lot going on.
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That's part of the reason
I wanted to talk to you.
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Right now, we're stripping up
to your line...
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Mm-hmm.
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...and you've still got a couple of
claims on the bottom end of that.
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But I don't see...
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you haven't been out there
at all.
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[Tony speaking]
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[Parker] So are you open
to us mining it?
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[Tony speaking]
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Okay.
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[Tony speaking]
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And then do you think
for those two claims
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we could have them just
a flat royalty
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at 15% rather than applying
to like that sliding royalty scale?
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[Tony speaking]
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- [Parker] Right.
- [Tony speaking]
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[Parker] Okay.
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We'll do our best
to get that done.
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I can't promise
we'll get it all, but...
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[Tony speaking]
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[Parker] ...we're going
to sure as hell try.
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All right. Well, that sounds
like a deal to you.
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[Tony speaking]
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I better go get to work.
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[Tony speaking]
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Thanks, Tony.
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[Tony speaking]
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[Parker] That's the result
we were looking for.
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But I think we kind of just
doubled our workload for the season here.
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[Paul] Before he even
steps foot in Alaska
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and despite already
being stretched thin,
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Parker's just
secured more ground
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than he's ever mined
in one season.
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[Tony speaking]
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[Paul] Forty years ago,
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Tony left the Netherlands seeking
his fortune in the Klondike.
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[Tony speaking]
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[Paul] Over three decades,
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he's built a gold mining
empire from nothing.
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Last season, he invested
millions on monster machines
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to continue expanding
on the Indian River.
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But those plans were trashed
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when he couldn't secure
a permit.
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[Tony speaking]
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I know.
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[Paul] Now, to hang on
to what he's built,
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he faces the battle
of a lifetime.
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[Tony speaking]
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[Paul] Hemmed in
by regulations,
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Tony's only option
for gold is Paradise Hill
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and he needs to be digging paydirt
in two weeks to hit his target.
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But there's a problem.
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His path to the claim
is blocked
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by the deepest snow on record.
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[Mike] I hate snow right now
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'cause every time you remove
the snow, it snows again.
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[bleep] [bleep].
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There's so much of the [bleep]
this year
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that we had a [bleep] problem
finding places to put it.
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[Paul] Tony's put
youngest son, Mike,
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in charge of the startup crew
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and clearing snow and ice from
the only access road to the site.
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There's very few people
my dad can trust
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to do this job
because someone else,
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if it starts to slide,
they'll panic
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00:16:01,974 --> 00:16:03,491
and they'll do
something stupid
268
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that they're not supposed to,
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and they can get themselves
seriously injured.
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00:16:07,732 --> 00:16:09,215
If I get killed
on the mine site,
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who's my mommy
and daddy gonna sue?
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My mommy and daddy?
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00:16:12,732 --> 00:16:14,629
That's why I can get away
with a lot more [bleep].
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[man] Mike, you copy? Mike.
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00:16:23,525 --> 00:16:24,801
Yeah.
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[man] I got stuck
in a snowbank with the loader.
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[man] Can you come
and have a look at it?
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Loader operator got
a little too vigorous
279
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and went a little too far,
found a hole.
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[Paul] To haul
the 38-ton loader out...
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It's sitting right on ice.
You can't do jack [bleep].
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[Paul] ...Mike brings
in the 18-ton D6 dozer.
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Let's go.
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You ready to go backwards?
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You're in there good.
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You're on ice.
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00:17:22,077 --> 00:17:24,077
So you got about
as much traction as a [bleep]
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trying to climb a hill.
289
00:17:26,111 --> 00:17:28,525
Gonna need something
a little bit heavier.
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00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:32,456
The ground in front of us
is frozen, so it's no traction.
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00:17:32,491 --> 00:17:36,008
And we need to get something with
a little bit more weight than the D6,
292
00:17:36,043 --> 00:17:38,008
so I'm thinking of the grader
293
00:17:38,043 --> 00:17:39,525
'cause the grader
will have nice traction,
294
00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:41,456
but it'll also have quite a
decent amount of weight on it.
295
00:17:41,491 --> 00:17:43,146
But I don't know
if it'll have enough either.
296
00:17:45,422 --> 00:17:51,629
[Paul] Mike ups the ante
with a 28-ton 275 horsepower grader.
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00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:09,974
[Tony] Whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa.
298
00:18:10,008 --> 00:18:12,456
[Tony speaking]
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00:19:04,905 --> 00:19:07,353
[Paul] Tony's plan, weigh down
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a 31-ton rock truck
with heavy overburden
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00:19:10,732 --> 00:19:14,318
to create
a 67-ton monster.
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00:19:14,353 --> 00:19:15,767
[Tony speaking]
303
00:20:10,698 --> 00:20:12,215
[Parker] Thanks
for being here.
304
00:20:12,249 --> 00:20:13,422
Big job ahead of us.
305
00:20:13,456 --> 00:20:15,629
Yeah, there's a lot of work.
306
00:20:15,663 --> 00:20:18,594
[Paul] After striking a deal
with Tony Beets,
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00:20:18,629 --> 00:20:23,284
Parker Schnabel now needs to
mine more ground than ever before,
308
00:20:23,318 --> 00:20:26,491
and he has to do it before
the end of the season.
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00:20:26,525 --> 00:20:29,008
[Parker] This spring is gonna
be what sets us up for,
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00:20:29,043 --> 00:20:30,974
you know, if we can get it
done by the fall or not.
311
00:20:31,008 --> 00:20:33,491
So let's just give it our best
312
00:20:33,525 --> 00:20:35,111
and let's see
if we can get her done.
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00:20:40,456 --> 00:20:42,732
[Paul] To take
on Tony's ground,
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00:20:42,767 --> 00:20:45,732
Parker's mobilizing
his entire operation
315
00:20:45,767 --> 00:20:48,594
to strip the extra 45 acres
316
00:20:48,629 --> 00:20:51,905
and wants to be pulling
in gold in just a week.
317
00:20:53,801 --> 00:20:54,905
[Parker] Let's make it happen.
318
00:20:57,284 --> 00:21:02,180
[Paul] Parker leads from the
front in his 73-ton D10 dozer.
319
00:21:04,801 --> 00:21:06,836
[Parker] Let's mine
some [bleep] gold.
320
00:21:16,043 --> 00:21:18,629
Best way to figure out how to
manage a bunch of different projects at once
321
00:21:18,663 --> 00:21:20,043
is probably
just go start doing it.
322
00:21:29,318 --> 00:21:32,767
With my grandpa back
in the '40s and '50s,
323
00:21:32,801 --> 00:21:36,870
he managed a whole bunch of
different logging camps all over Alaska
324
00:21:36,905 --> 00:21:40,939
and how they didn't have
Internet or sat phones or anything.
325
00:21:40,974 --> 00:21:42,215
So I don't know how he did it.
326
00:21:45,387 --> 00:21:50,318
[Paul] Parker already has 45 acres
of ground to mine at the airstrip.
327
00:21:51,870 --> 00:21:56,146
By adding Tony's 45,
he's now up to 90 acres,
328
00:21:57,249 --> 00:22:00,284
50% more than
he mined last year.
329
00:22:04,629 --> 00:22:07,043
If he can get through it all,
330
00:22:07,077 --> 00:22:10,801
he could beat last season's
$15 million total.
331
00:22:16,353 --> 00:22:18,560
[Parker] Keep going ahead and swing
her in tight to the bank.
332
00:22:20,491 --> 00:22:21,767
Straddle that bank.
333
00:22:22,801 --> 00:22:24,353
[Paul] Across the claim,
334
00:22:24,387 --> 00:22:27,698
Tyson Lee is digging ditches
and building berms
335
00:22:27,732 --> 00:22:31,422
in the 480 excavator
in the pre-stripped ground
336
00:22:31,456 --> 00:22:33,043
nearest to the Indian River.
337
00:22:34,905 --> 00:22:37,491
[Tyson] This year,
we had a record snowfall.
338
00:22:37,525 --> 00:22:41,732
So we're having a lot of
melting snow coming into our cut.
339
00:22:41,767 --> 00:22:45,111
We've got to get this ditch in
and armor up the riverbank
340
00:22:45,146 --> 00:22:48,491
before the Indian River is
flooding into us like none other.
341
00:22:49,905 --> 00:22:52,146
I've seen people lose
entire cuts
342
00:22:52,180 --> 00:22:53,732
because they don't have
good drainage.
343
00:23:14,318 --> 00:23:15,353
[metal clanging]
344
00:23:15,387 --> 00:23:16,560
Oh, [bleep].
345
00:23:23,180 --> 00:23:24,732
The [bleep] is going on?
346
00:23:29,387 --> 00:23:32,077
Hey, Jordan,
you got a copy, Jordan?
347
00:23:32,111 --> 00:23:36,836
Yeah, man, looks like one of the pins
in the truck on the 480 snapped on me.
348
00:23:37,905 --> 00:23:40,560
It's the last thing
we need right now.
349
00:23:40,594 --> 00:23:45,629
[Paul] A broken pin has
stopped Tyson's ditching in its tracks.
350
00:23:45,663 --> 00:23:48,905
[Parker] You know, these pins,
they hold each segment together.
351
00:23:48,939 --> 00:23:50,491
It's like a zipper.
352
00:23:50,525 --> 00:23:53,836
One of the links in the zipper
broke, and now I can't use it.
353
00:23:59,215 --> 00:24:04,422
[Paul] The 58-ton excavator's 35-foot
track is made up of links
354
00:24:04,456 --> 00:24:07,353
held together
by 52 coupling pins.
355
00:24:10,077 --> 00:24:11,939
One has snapped,
356
00:24:11,974 --> 00:24:14,525
causing the track to slip off
its rollers...
357
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:19,560
and the tensioning idler
to drop out of position.
358
00:24:21,318 --> 00:24:26,422
To fix, the idler must be put
back into its housing,
359
00:24:26,456 --> 00:24:31,111
the track pulled on to
the frame, and the pin replaced.
360
00:24:39,732 --> 00:24:41,111
Just got to pull
the track up over
361
00:24:41,146 --> 00:24:43,215
so we can just put it
all back together right here.
362
00:25:06,939 --> 00:25:08,801
That's a broken pin there.
That's a broken one.
363
00:25:10,249 --> 00:25:13,698
[Paul] Before they can secure
the track back onto the frame,
364
00:25:13,732 --> 00:25:17,905
mechanic Jordan Sands needs
to guide the tensioning idler
365
00:25:17,939 --> 00:25:19,698
back into its housing.
366
00:25:19,732 --> 00:25:21,594
- [Jordan] Hey, Tyson.
- Tyson!
367
00:25:23,180 --> 00:25:24,801
[Jordan] Man, can you
just push on the idler.
368
00:25:24,836 --> 00:25:26,387
We're just going to crack
the adjuster.
369
00:25:26,422 --> 00:25:27,905
You can just ease into it
with the blades
370
00:25:27,939 --> 00:25:30,180
- instead of trying to push on it with the bucket.
- [Tyson] Okay.
371
00:25:32,008 --> 00:25:35,560
[Paul] Tyson must maneuver
the 19-foot dozer blade
372
00:25:35,594 --> 00:25:37,525
with pinpoint accuracy.
373
00:25:39,043 --> 00:25:40,491
He's going to push
the idler in for us.
374
00:25:40,525 --> 00:25:42,456
So it's back
in its little slot.
375
00:25:42,491 --> 00:25:45,767
Jordon's in there with a bar
trying to hold it up,
376
00:25:45,801 --> 00:25:49,525
and he just needs me to push
on the idler very gently
377
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:51,456
while he's trying
to line it up.
378
00:25:51,491 --> 00:25:53,077
And I can't see anything.
379
00:25:53,111 --> 00:25:55,629
So I'm solely relying
on Jordan right now.
380
00:26:00,284 --> 00:26:01,801
Very delicate process.
381
00:26:01,836 --> 00:26:04,974
You know, a D10 would push
this whole over sideways.
382
00:26:14,594 --> 00:26:15,732
Hang on.
383
00:26:24,318 --> 00:26:25,629
Back off a little bit.
384
00:26:32,594 --> 00:26:33,698
[Jordan]
Grab your right clutch
385
00:26:33,732 --> 00:26:35,560
and just steer over
like this far.
386
00:26:43,008 --> 00:26:44,146
Bit more.
387
00:26:46,663 --> 00:26:48,422
In the hole, boy.
388
00:26:50,905 --> 00:26:52,939
[Paul] For the final part
of the fix,
389
00:26:52,974 --> 00:26:55,456
Jordan must get
the replacement pin
390
00:26:55,491 --> 00:26:57,077
through the holes
in the track.
391
00:27:05,629 --> 00:27:06,732
Let's go.
392
00:27:08,077 --> 00:27:09,146
Go on.
393
00:27:09,180 --> 00:27:11,146
Hooked up.
She tightened up with grease.
394
00:27:12,594 --> 00:27:14,146
Good to dig dirt, make money.
395
00:27:14,180 --> 00:27:17,180
[Paul] Tyson and the 480
are back in the game
396
00:27:17,215 --> 00:27:21,939
digging ditches before the melt
delivers any flooding into the cut.
397
00:27:21,974 --> 00:27:24,249
It's like it's all back
together working...
398
00:27:24,284 --> 00:27:25,456
working as it should,
399
00:27:25,491 --> 00:27:28,284
so that's why we have the best
mechanics in the Klondike.
400
00:27:48,629 --> 00:27:50,180
[Fred] We're taking
a huge gamble.
401
00:27:50,215 --> 00:27:51,629
There is no safety net.
402
00:27:51,663 --> 00:27:53,215
It's a lot more real
for us this season.
403
00:27:53,249 --> 00:27:55,422
We've put everything
we have into this.
404
00:27:55,456 --> 00:27:57,215
We're not relying
on outside sources.
405
00:27:57,249 --> 00:27:58,974
This is all us.
406
00:27:59,008 --> 00:28:01,284
[Paul] Military veteran
Fred Lewis
407
00:28:01,318 --> 00:28:03,905
is gearing up
for another battle.
408
00:28:03,939 --> 00:28:06,525
In the midst
of a precarious economy,
409
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:10,318
Fred's refinanced his home
in the hope of him
410
00:28:10,353 --> 00:28:12,801
and his crew striking it rich.
411
00:28:12,836 --> 00:28:14,422
[Fred] I started this all
to help veterans,
412
00:28:14,456 --> 00:28:16,180
and that's still
my long-term goal.
413
00:28:16,215 --> 00:28:18,043
I'm doing this
for my band of brothers.
414
00:28:20,077 --> 00:28:21,870
[Paul] Tapped out
of cash,
415
00:28:21,905 --> 00:28:27,043
there's no way back for Fred
if he doesn't find gold this year.
416
00:28:28,353 --> 00:28:30,801
So I've set a goal for this
season of 500 ounces.
417
00:28:30,836 --> 00:28:34,249
It sounds like a big jump
from our last season total of 110,
418
00:28:34,284 --> 00:28:35,870
but that's what we need.
419
00:28:38,318 --> 00:28:41,870
[Paul] After just six ounces
in his first season,
420
00:28:41,905 --> 00:28:44,146
Fred hit his stride
in his second.
421
00:28:44,180 --> 00:28:45,870
Not only did we do it,
we beat it.
422
00:28:45,905 --> 00:28:46,974
I can't believe it.
423
00:28:47,008 --> 00:28:50,284
[Paul] Banking 110 ounces
and breaking even.
424
00:28:50,318 --> 00:28:51,629
Whoa.
425
00:28:53,008 --> 00:28:54,629
But costly disasters.
426
00:28:56,215 --> 00:28:58,077
[Fred] This one's done
for the season.
427
00:28:58,111 --> 00:29:01,111
[Paul] ...left him needing
more cash to start the season.
428
00:29:07,180 --> 00:29:09,663
Now I've got my claws sunk
so deep into this,
429
00:29:09,698 --> 00:29:11,456
I think, at this point,
430
00:29:11,491 --> 00:29:13,043
I would take just
about any risk
431
00:29:13,077 --> 00:29:15,353
if I thought
it was feasible to overcome.
432
00:29:15,387 --> 00:29:17,111
So we're going for it.
433
00:29:19,939 --> 00:29:24,318
[Paul] Fred's claim lies 46
miles west of Dawson City,
434
00:29:24,353 --> 00:29:26,146
deep in the wilderness.
435
00:29:26,180 --> 00:29:29,629
To get there, he must cross
the mighty Yukon River.
436
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,456
[Fred] This is the first look
I've gotten at the river this season.
437
00:29:49,491 --> 00:29:51,353
I expect it to be way less
than this.
438
00:29:51,387 --> 00:29:53,146
Right now, we're looking
at several...
439
00:29:53,180 --> 00:29:56,008
I mean, maybe even over a week
for this to be broken.
440
00:29:56,043 --> 00:29:58,698
And then they've got to get
all the big ice cleared from upstream,
441
00:29:58,732 --> 00:30:00,698
has to pass down.
442
00:30:00,732 --> 00:30:01,836
This is bad.
443
00:30:01,870 --> 00:30:03,767
[Paul] For four months
of winter,
444
00:30:03,801 --> 00:30:06,663
an ice road over the river
has connected Dawson
445
00:30:06,698 --> 00:30:09,284
with a highway
to Fred's claim.
446
00:30:09,318 --> 00:30:13,284
But as the snow and ice melt,
it's too dangerous to cross.
447
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,594
With precious little time
to get on the gold,
448
00:30:17,629 --> 00:30:20,836
Fred's forced to wait
for the ice to break up
449
00:30:20,870 --> 00:30:23,456
and the ferry
to start running.
450
00:30:23,491 --> 00:30:26,974
We have this 200-meter stretch
of river we can't cross.
451
00:30:27,008 --> 00:30:29,939
So right now,
can't do anything,
452
00:30:29,974 --> 00:30:32,939
can't go to our claim,
can't get anything set up
453
00:30:32,974 --> 00:30:34,525
until Mother Nature
let's go of winter.
454
00:30:36,353 --> 00:30:37,905
It's a horrible start.
455
00:30:37,939 --> 00:30:39,180
I mean, this is just a mess.
456
00:30:48,732 --> 00:30:50,767
[Tony speaking]
457
00:30:58,111 --> 00:31:00,284
[Paul] Two days
ahead of schedule,
458
00:31:00,318 --> 00:31:02,836
Tony's crew have cleared
the snow
459
00:31:02,870 --> 00:31:05,318
and they're ready to start
mining for gold.
460
00:31:07,525 --> 00:31:08,732
But first...
461
00:31:10,801 --> 00:31:12,939
[woman] Hi!
462
00:31:12,974 --> 00:31:17,249
[Paul] ...Tony gathers three
generations of the Beets family.
463
00:31:17,284 --> 00:31:19,318
[Minnie] Look who's here.
Look, Catherine.
464
00:31:19,353 --> 00:31:21,180
- Look who's here.
Is that Grandpa? - [Tony speaking]
465
00:31:26,422 --> 00:31:28,043
Like we never left, Tony.
466
00:31:28,077 --> 00:31:30,043
- [Tony speaking] - Some
things got a little bigger.
467
00:31:30,077 --> 00:31:31,663
[Tony speaking]
468
00:31:34,043 --> 00:31:35,663
[Mike] So what's the plan
this year?
469
00:31:35,698 --> 00:31:37,836
[Tony speaking]
470
00:31:43,525 --> 00:31:44,836
[Mike] I thought
we had that lined up.
471
00:31:44,870 --> 00:31:47,870
[Tony speaking]
472
00:32:05,767 --> 00:32:07,008
How deep are you going?
473
00:32:07,043 --> 00:32:09,043
[Tony speaking]
474
00:32:13,870 --> 00:32:15,353
- That's deep.
- [Tony speaking]
475
00:32:22,767 --> 00:32:24,560
[Paul] Tony's Paradise Hill
claim
476
00:32:24,594 --> 00:32:28,387
contains the Klondike's
legendary White Channel Pastry.
477
00:32:32,318 --> 00:32:36,043
To hunt it down, he's going
to dig deeper than ever before.
478
00:32:37,663 --> 00:32:41,111
First, he'll start by opening
the cold cut,
479
00:32:41,146 --> 00:32:46,974
a sprawling 9-acre site where he
hopes to find paydirt at 130 feet.
480
00:32:49,732 --> 00:32:55,180
100 yards away, he'll chase the pay
streak as it rises to 30 feet
481
00:32:55,215 --> 00:32:56,767
by opening the blue cut.
482
00:33:02,456 --> 00:33:04,284
With fuel costs rising,
483
00:33:04,318 --> 00:33:07,456
it'll cost millions just
to get down, to pay.
484
00:33:12,663 --> 00:33:13,836
What we have planned here,
485
00:33:13,870 --> 00:33:15,146
we'll have lots of ground
to pull from.
486
00:33:15,180 --> 00:33:16,284
- [Tony speaking]
- Yeah.
487
00:33:16,318 --> 00:33:17,870
- [Tony speaking]
- Whether they have the gold
488
00:33:17,905 --> 00:33:19,767
in the ground though,
that's a different story.
489
00:33:20,836 --> 00:33:22,353
Clearly, that's where
the gold is.
490
00:33:22,387 --> 00:33:23,594
Gotcha.
491
00:33:23,629 --> 00:33:27,008
[Tony speaking]
492
00:33:34,767 --> 00:33:35,801
Mm-hmm.
493
00:33:35,836 --> 00:33:37,146
[Tony speaking]
494
00:33:47,077 --> 00:33:48,422
Who says that?
495
00:33:48,456 --> 00:33:49,698
No one says that.
496
00:33:49,732 --> 00:33:52,077
[Tony speaking]
497
00:34:03,077 --> 00:34:04,180
Oh, Lord.
498
00:34:04,215 --> 00:34:05,594
Yeah, you better get
a lot of gold mined
499
00:34:05,629 --> 00:34:07,698
because otherwise we
cannot afford auction sales.
500
00:34:09,870 --> 00:34:12,456
[Tony speaking]
501
00:34:12,491 --> 00:34:14,215
- We'll see you guys later.
- [Tony speaking]
502
00:34:49,870 --> 00:34:52,318
Everyone from Dayton to Eric,
y'all are rock truck drivers.
503
00:34:52,353 --> 00:34:55,387
Lisa and James, you two
are gonna be on the 750s.
504
00:34:55,422 --> 00:34:57,249
Ruby, you're gonna be
on the 950.
505
00:34:57,284 --> 00:34:59,318
Mike, you're gonna be
my co-dozer.
506
00:34:59,353 --> 00:35:00,974
My dozer's blocking the road.
507
00:35:01,008 --> 00:35:03,939
We're gonna treat it like a
hull breach in a ship in space.
508
00:35:03,974 --> 00:35:05,836
I'm gonna go first
and everyone on the outside
509
00:35:05,870 --> 00:35:07,387
is going to slowly come in
with me.
510
00:35:07,422 --> 00:35:09,215
[Tony speaking]
511
00:35:12,180 --> 00:35:14,801
[Paul] Tony wants to hit
pay in just a week.
512
00:35:14,836 --> 00:35:18,422
So he's sending Mike and
a fleet of ten rock trucks,
513
00:35:18,456 --> 00:35:22,491
three excavators, and two
giant dozers to the cold cut.
514
00:35:26,284 --> 00:35:28,284
Follow me!
515
00:35:28,318 --> 00:35:29,870
[Tony speaking]
516
00:36:01,456 --> 00:36:04,284
[Mike] We're literally throwing everything we
have at this cut right now.
517
00:36:04,318 --> 00:36:06,180
Everyone knows what they're doing.
Everyone's going.
518
00:36:06,215 --> 00:36:09,249
Just go, go, go, go, go
and be like clockwork.
519
00:36:09,284 --> 00:36:11,594
I mean, we seem to have a
pretty good crew so far this year,
520
00:36:11,629 --> 00:36:13,387
hopefully it'll be good.
521
00:36:13,422 --> 00:36:15,732
We're all just trying to work
together in this chaos.
522
00:36:22,698 --> 00:36:24,525
This year, we have
so many new excavators,
523
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,215
so many new trucks,
so much other equipment,
524
00:36:27,249 --> 00:36:28,629
so much more than we used to.
525
00:36:30,456 --> 00:36:31,663
My dad says
he's going to let me
526
00:36:31,698 --> 00:36:34,043
and Kevin take charge,
which will be good
527
00:36:34,077 --> 00:36:35,560
'cause he's also not always
running around
528
00:36:35,594 --> 00:36:36,939
like a chicken
with its head cut off.
529
00:36:36,974 --> 00:36:40,180
I feel we can expand
even further, do more.
530
00:36:40,215 --> 00:36:42,663
He likes to micromanage.
I don't blame him.
531
00:36:42,698 --> 00:36:45,525
He didn't become this
successful from relying on others,
532
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,111
so it makes it very hard
for him to do that.
533
00:36:49,905 --> 00:36:51,870
[Ruby] I think Mike's going
to do a great job.
534
00:36:51,905 --> 00:36:54,560
He's been doing it already
since he was he was young.
535
00:36:54,594 --> 00:36:57,560
And as long as he can keep
that balance between operating
536
00:36:57,594 --> 00:37:00,422
and also making sure
that everything is running efficiently
537
00:37:00,456 --> 00:37:02,870
and everybody's doing
their job properly,
538
00:37:02,905 --> 00:37:04,146
I don't see it going wrong.
539
00:37:07,905 --> 00:37:10,180
[Tony speaking]
540
00:37:43,215 --> 00:37:45,594
[Fred] This is a big
frickin' deal,
541
00:37:45,629 --> 00:37:48,077
and I have never seen
anything like this.
542
00:37:52,663 --> 00:37:55,939
[Paul] Three days after
he arrived in Dawson City,
543
00:37:55,974 --> 00:37:57,801
Fred gathers with the town.
544
00:38:00,594 --> 00:38:01,698
[man] It's going.
545
00:38:03,146 --> 00:38:05,456
[Paul] Miners have monitored
the spring breakup
546
00:38:05,491 --> 00:38:10,456
of the frozen Yukon River
since the 1896 Gold Rush.
547
00:38:10,491 --> 00:38:13,594
The exact time is recorded
by a wire
548
00:38:13,629 --> 00:38:17,353
connecting a tripod
on the ice to the shore.
549
00:38:17,387 --> 00:38:20,077
When the ice moves,
the wire snaps,
550
00:38:20,111 --> 00:38:22,767
signaling the start
of the mining season.
551
00:38:22,801 --> 00:38:25,180
[man] It's going, it's going!
552
00:38:25,215 --> 00:38:26,629
Watch you.
553
00:38:26,663 --> 00:38:27,974
Yeah, yeah.
You guys watch out.
554
00:38:28,008 --> 00:38:29,215
Oh, yeah.
Back, back, back.
555
00:38:30,905 --> 00:38:32,939
Come over here.
Come over here. Slide a little more.
556
00:38:32,974 --> 00:38:34,318
Wire snaps.
557
00:38:34,353 --> 00:38:35,801
[man] Oh!
558
00:38:37,663 --> 00:38:39,491
- [alarm blares]
- Listen.
559
00:38:42,836 --> 00:38:44,422
It is official.
560
00:38:50,387 --> 00:38:52,284
A lot of work ahead,
but this is the first step
561
00:38:52,318 --> 00:38:53,870
to getting us
across the river, so...
562
00:38:53,905 --> 00:38:55,560
- [boy] Oh, no, no.
- ...it's go time.
563
00:39:11,491 --> 00:39:13,663
You can see the massive
amounts of ice coming down here.
564
00:39:13,698 --> 00:39:15,836
It's gonna be a while.
565
00:39:15,870 --> 00:39:17,560
It's probably the best news
we could possibly get.
566
00:39:17,594 --> 00:39:20,008
This is the catalyst for
the beginning of our season.
567
00:39:21,387 --> 00:39:24,215
But now that it's broken, we
don't have any time to mess.
568
00:39:24,249 --> 00:39:28,111
So at this point, it's all
hands on deck, ready to roll.
569
00:39:28,146 --> 00:39:29,284
It's go time.
570
00:39:49,422 --> 00:39:51,215
We have a lot of ground
to get through,
571
00:39:51,249 --> 00:39:52,698
a lot of rocks
we have to wash.
572
00:39:52,732 --> 00:39:54,870
And right now, we have
no wash plant running.
573
00:39:56,594 --> 00:39:58,008
[Paul] On the airstrip,
574
00:39:58,043 --> 00:40:00,594
Parker Schnabel's plant boss
Tyson Lee
575
00:40:00,629 --> 00:40:05,456
races to dig ditches before the mother
of all snow melts causes a flood.
576
00:40:08,318 --> 00:40:10,146
Not a day and not a dime.
577
00:40:10,180 --> 00:40:15,767
[Paul] Rock truck driver Tatiana Costa
hauls dirt to build the berms.
578
00:40:15,801 --> 00:40:20,249
There's so much ground to
go through this year, it's insane.
579
00:40:24,629 --> 00:40:26,008
Whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa!
580
00:40:26,043 --> 00:40:28,732
Holy [bleep].
What's that? Holy [bleep].
581
00:40:28,767 --> 00:40:30,594
Tyson.
Tyson, you got a copy, Tyson?
582
00:40:32,456 --> 00:40:33,767
[Tyson] Go ahead, tater tot.
583
00:40:33,801 --> 00:40:35,215
[Tatiana] Got to come here
right now.
584
00:40:35,249 --> 00:40:38,974
The cut is flooding.
It's like Niagara Falls just burst into the cut.
585
00:40:39,008 --> 00:40:40,939
Come here right now.
586
00:40:40,974 --> 00:40:43,180
[bleep].
Okay, I'm on my way.
587
00:40:43,215 --> 00:40:45,732
[Paul] Snowmelt
is filling the ditch
588
00:40:45,767 --> 00:40:48,043
and threatening
to flood the cut.
589
00:40:48,077 --> 00:40:52,732
If it does, Acres of gold rich
ground could be underwater,
590
00:40:52,767 --> 00:40:54,594
delaying mining for weeks.
591
00:40:58,043 --> 00:41:00,008
[Tyson] We have practically
Niagara Falls.
592
00:41:00,043 --> 00:41:02,560
And this is because
of a record snowfall year,
593
00:41:02,594 --> 00:41:04,111
and it's starting to warm up.
594
00:41:04,146 --> 00:41:05,870
So we have to deal
with this now.
595
00:41:08,318 --> 00:41:11,111
The only thing I can think of
is we have a six-inch pump,
596
00:41:11,146 --> 00:41:12,491
so I'm going to radio Alec.
597
00:41:16,525 --> 00:41:18,629
[Paul] The 74 horsepower pump
598
00:41:18,663 --> 00:41:20,870
has been on the bank
all winter
599
00:41:20,905 --> 00:41:25,043
in bitter temperatures
dropping below minus 50.
600
00:41:25,077 --> 00:41:32,008
Tyson and mechanic Alec Kelly work fast to
fire it up before the melt floods the cut.
601
00:41:32,043 --> 00:41:35,111
You'd say closer to the
river's more thawed than further away?
602
00:41:35,146 --> 00:41:36,698
- Looks like it.
- Yeah.
603
00:41:36,732 --> 00:41:38,629
- All clear?
- Oh, yeah.
604
00:41:45,180 --> 00:41:46,318
Come on, baby.
605
00:41:55,525 --> 00:41:56,732
Oh, yeah!
606
00:41:58,525 --> 00:42:00,836
Oh, my [bleep].
607
00:42:00,870 --> 00:42:03,146
You said you had faith in it.
608
00:42:03,180 --> 00:42:05,905
It's gonna wash away the berms and
the pump's gonna be in the drain.
609
00:42:15,939 --> 00:42:17,043
[bleep].
610
00:42:18,836 --> 00:42:21,870
We could move your truck
and get the whole thing
611
00:42:21,905 --> 00:42:24,387
and get that staged up
at least.
612
00:42:24,422 --> 00:42:27,318
If we hook up to the teeth
on the front...
613
00:42:27,353 --> 00:42:28,525
- Yeah.
- ...real tight.
614
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:30,043
You can kind of like
roll the bucket
615
00:42:30,077 --> 00:42:32,456
and it'll pull the pipe
straight with it.
616
00:42:32,491 --> 00:42:35,043
Oh, yeah. I just really
don't want to break that pipe.
617
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:48,663
Come down a little bit.
618
00:42:48,698 --> 00:42:50,836
Try curling the bucket up.
619
00:42:50,870 --> 00:42:54,767
[Paul] Tyson uses
the two-ton excavator bucket...
620
00:42:54,801 --> 00:42:56,111
Down just a little bit.
621
00:42:56,146 --> 00:42:57,698
[Paul] ...to separate
the connection
622
00:42:57,732 --> 00:43:00,146
without damaging
the pipe or the pump.
623
00:43:01,870 --> 00:43:03,767
Hold it right there.
624
00:43:03,801 --> 00:43:05,284
That'll do.
625
00:43:05,318 --> 00:43:07,525
These bower fittings work
on different angles,
626
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:11,180
but as you can tell, little
impurities can cause it to leak.
627
00:43:11,215 --> 00:43:13,422
[Paul] By smoothing
the bower fitting,
628
00:43:13,456 --> 00:43:16,111
Alec creates a better seal.
629
00:43:16,146 --> 00:43:17,732
Shall we see if that wants
to seal for us?
630
00:43:17,767 --> 00:43:19,318
I'll give her a try.
631
00:43:19,353 --> 00:43:21,525
Hey, move your ass.
Go on.
632
00:43:24,422 --> 00:43:27,146
[Paul] Flood water
continues to fill the ditch.
633
00:43:27,180 --> 00:43:29,905
If they can't get the pump
up and running,
634
00:43:29,939 --> 00:43:32,387
the melt could soon
shut down the cut.
635
00:43:34,974 --> 00:43:36,008
Okay.
636
00:43:37,594 --> 00:43:39,043
Up just a little bit.
637
00:43:43,318 --> 00:43:47,111
Use just your stick
to bring it in right there.
638
00:43:48,353 --> 00:43:50,043
Lift her up and swing away.
639
00:43:52,180 --> 00:43:53,456
See what happens this time.
640
00:44:08,111 --> 00:44:10,284
Oh!
641
00:44:10,318 --> 00:44:11,663
Whoo-hoo!
642
00:44:14,111 --> 00:44:15,318
[Paul] Problem solved.
643
00:44:15,353 --> 00:44:16,732
The pump's flowing.
644
00:44:16,767 --> 00:44:18,594
[Paul] Tyson can get back
to digging.
645
00:44:20,801 --> 00:44:24,146
We have the whole valley of
water coming down to this one spot,
646
00:44:24,180 --> 00:44:27,663
keeps coming and coming, and I'm
trying to get this drainage in place.
647
00:44:53,249 --> 00:44:55,594
[Paul] In the mountains
above Keno...
648
00:44:55,629 --> 00:44:57,043
[water splashing]
649
00:45:01,008 --> 00:45:02,836
Oh, I love these mud puddles.
650
00:45:02,870 --> 00:45:05,629
[Paul] ...Fred Lewis
is on a mission.
651
00:45:05,663 --> 00:45:10,111
Now the river has broken,
he's called in mechanic, JB Mayer...
652
00:45:11,422 --> 00:45:13,594
Holy [bleep]!
653
00:45:13,629 --> 00:45:15,111
[laughs]
654
00:45:15,146 --> 00:45:18,077
[Paul] ...to investigate a vital
piece of equipment for the season.
655
00:45:20,905 --> 00:45:22,491
[Fred] I have a couple
of leads on a dozer.
656
00:45:22,525 --> 00:45:23,698
[JB Mayer] Oh, really?
657
00:45:23,732 --> 00:45:25,801
This dozer is probably
the most important thing
658
00:45:25,836 --> 00:45:27,422
we could acquire right now.
659
00:45:27,456 --> 00:45:29,732
That is the biggest
missing part
660
00:45:29,767 --> 00:45:32,111
to our, to our season
this year.
661
00:45:32,146 --> 00:45:36,560
If we can't get a dozer,
obviously we're not mining gold this year.
662
00:45:36,594 --> 00:45:40,732
[Paul] They're heading to Duncan Creek
to meet with mine owner Troy Taylor,
663
00:45:40,767 --> 00:45:42,422
who's got a dozer for sale.
664
00:45:43,767 --> 00:45:46,594
- He is Rick Ness's claim owner.
- Oh, okay.
665
00:45:46,629 --> 00:45:48,801
So he's got experience
in gold mining quite a bit.
666
00:45:49,905 --> 00:45:52,008
I would think, you know,
if he sold us some junk
667
00:45:52,043 --> 00:45:54,249
and... and then, you know,
we get it up there
668
00:45:54,284 --> 00:45:56,353
and, you know,
it breaks down and it's...
669
00:45:56,387 --> 00:45:57,456
- We know where he lives.
- Yeah.
670
00:45:57,491 --> 00:45:58,767
- Yeah, I mean...
- [Fred laughs]
671
00:46:10,767 --> 00:46:11,939
You see this thing?
672
00:46:13,043 --> 00:46:15,318
- How's it going?
- Good. How are you?
673
00:46:15,353 --> 00:46:16,698
- Nice to meet you.
- You found me.
674
00:46:16,732 --> 00:46:18,629
Yeah.
675
00:46:18,663 --> 00:46:20,249
Holy cow!
This thing's big.
676
00:46:23,008 --> 00:46:28,698
[Paul] The Komatsu D355
weighs 53 tons.
677
00:46:28,732 --> 00:46:29,939
[Troy] It's a beast.
678
00:46:29,974 --> 00:46:32,594
It's done a lot of work for us
over the years.
679
00:46:32,629 --> 00:46:39,698
[Paul] The 14-foot blade is capable of shifting
almost 30 tons of dirt in one push.
680
00:46:39,732 --> 00:46:42,767
[Troy] At 410 horsepower, I
think that's what it's rated at.
681
00:46:42,801 --> 00:46:43,939
[Fred] That's like a D9--
682
00:46:43,974 --> 00:46:46,870
[Troy] Yeah, that's right.
Something like that.
683
00:46:46,905 --> 00:46:48,353
[Fred] What year
did you say it was?
684
00:46:48,387 --> 00:46:49,767
[Troy] 1984.
685
00:46:52,111 --> 00:46:53,594
It's got a leak
in the final drive,
686
00:46:53,629 --> 00:46:56,180
so I can show you that
and how to deal with that.
687
00:46:56,215 --> 00:46:59,801
Well, we want to...
can we get, can we hear a starting up and hear it roar?
688
00:46:59,836 --> 00:47:01,215
[Troy] Sure.
Are you ready for that?
689
00:47:03,974 --> 00:47:05,560
[Fred] Oh, wow.
690
00:47:05,594 --> 00:47:07,008
- Yeah.
- Oh, wow.
691
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:11,767
Okay. Here we go.
692
00:47:11,801 --> 00:47:13,284
[engine choking]
693
00:47:19,974 --> 00:47:21,111
Uh-oh.
694
00:47:21,146 --> 00:47:22,629
Sounds like the battery
is a bit weak.
695
00:47:24,008 --> 00:47:25,387
Yeah.
696
00:47:27,387 --> 00:47:28,870
It's not a good start, eh?
697
00:47:31,974 --> 00:47:34,008
I've got some jumper cables
in my truck.
698
00:47:40,180 --> 00:47:41,422
That's good.
699
00:47:42,801 --> 00:47:44,318
Don't wanna
blow anything up here.
700
00:47:48,698 --> 00:47:50,146
Okay. You're ready?
701
00:47:53,318 --> 00:47:56,008
[engine starting]
702
00:47:59,456 --> 00:48:01,180
Come on, baby.
703
00:48:01,215 --> 00:48:03,870
Come on. Come on.
704
00:48:03,905 --> 00:48:05,422
- [Fred] Come on, baby.
- [Troy] Come on.
705
00:48:05,456 --> 00:48:07,905
[Fred] Woo-hoo-hoo!
706
00:48:07,939 --> 00:48:10,111
- [Troy] It's alive.
- It's alive.
707
00:48:11,905 --> 00:48:13,353
She's purring
like a kitten now.
708
00:48:13,387 --> 00:48:14,801
This is what we wanted
to hear.
709
00:48:20,387 --> 00:48:21,801
Yeah.
710
00:48:23,836 --> 00:48:26,111
Keep your hand
on the ledge and...
711
00:48:31,422 --> 00:48:32,767
You know,
that thing's so tall.
712
00:48:34,525 --> 00:48:37,387
I mean, that's a massive amount
of snow and dirt right there.
713
00:48:38,801 --> 00:48:41,284
[Paul]
JB has 20 years' experience
714
00:48:41,318 --> 00:48:43,594
working on heavy equipment
in the Army.
715
00:48:45,353 --> 00:48:46,629
So I looked over here,
716
00:48:46,663 --> 00:48:49,249
I don't see anything
new coming out hydraulic wise.
717
00:48:49,284 --> 00:48:51,456
Everything looks good
and solid.
718
00:48:51,491 --> 00:48:54,905
I did see on this side there's
one roller that is, kind of, wobbling.
719
00:48:54,939 --> 00:48:56,353
[Fred] Okay.
720
00:48:56,387 --> 00:48:58,318
[JB Mayer] But you see that
one's smaller, and there's a gap there.
721
00:48:58,353 --> 00:49:00,284
[Fred] Is it missing a seal
or something?
722
00:49:00,318 --> 00:49:01,939
[Jab Mayer] No, it's just
starting to go out.
723
00:49:01,974 --> 00:49:03,387
The rollers,
the rollers go out.
724
00:49:03,422 --> 00:49:04,870
[Fred] It's a big fix
or is it an easy fix?
725
00:49:04,905 --> 00:49:06,594
No, easy fix.
726
00:49:06,629 --> 00:49:08,180
- Man, I don't know.
- What are your thoughts?
727
00:49:09,939 --> 00:49:13,043
This is, you know, to me, this
is a big deal for our season.
728
00:49:13,077 --> 00:49:15,318
I think we need to seal it.
I think we need to say yes.
729
00:49:18,284 --> 00:49:20,870
All right.
So I guess the only other thing we have to ask is price.
730
00:49:20,905 --> 00:49:23,077
What do you...
What are you thinking?
731
00:49:23,111 --> 00:49:29,491
What we think it's worth
is 45,000, and so, um...
732
00:49:29,525 --> 00:49:31,698
Okay. You mind if JB and I go
and have a little talk?
733
00:49:31,732 --> 00:49:32,905
- [Troy] Sure.
- Just talk it over?
734
00:49:32,939 --> 00:49:34,629
- Yeah.
- [Fred] Okay, cool. We'll be back in a minute.
735
00:49:34,663 --> 00:49:35,767
- [JB Mayer] Cool.
- All right.
736
00:49:35,801 --> 00:49:37,111
What are you thinking?
737
00:49:37,146 --> 00:49:39,525
Man, I tell you, I think
you're getting a deal of a lifetime.
738
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:40,629
I do, too.
739
00:49:40,663 --> 00:49:42,663
Um, I hate to... I hate
to nickel and dime,
740
00:49:42,698 --> 00:49:45,629
but if we could get
that down to 40,
741
00:49:45,663 --> 00:49:49,111
it opens up extra money for us and...
and it would pay for the shipping.
742
00:49:49,146 --> 00:49:50,387
You're the budget guy.
743
00:49:50,422 --> 00:49:52,249
So, I mean, you know what
I mean, but I'm just telling you,
744
00:49:52,284 --> 00:49:54,767
from my opinion, I think
it's worth, you know,
745
00:49:54,801 --> 00:49:56,732
you know, every penny of it,
you know?
746
00:49:59,525 --> 00:50:00,870
So what do you think?
747
00:50:00,905 --> 00:50:02,491
- We definitely want it.
- Yeah.
748
00:50:02,525 --> 00:50:03,905
Um, I want to ask
one question.
749
00:50:03,939 --> 00:50:05,146
I don't want to offend you.
750
00:50:05,180 --> 00:50:07,732
Um, with our budget
being super tight right now,
751
00:50:07,767 --> 00:50:10,284
is there any chance
you could go down to 40?
752
00:50:10,318 --> 00:50:12,043
Uh... Well.
753
00:50:13,284 --> 00:50:14,594
How about this,
before you answer?
754
00:50:14,629 --> 00:50:15,974
Because I can tell you
don't like it.
755
00:50:16,008 --> 00:50:18,836
What if I offer you
1% of gold bonus
756
00:50:18,870 --> 00:50:20,318
at the end of our season
from what we pull?
757
00:50:20,353 --> 00:50:21,905
Hmm.
758
00:50:21,939 --> 00:50:23,456
[Fred] Because that would save
our budget now
759
00:50:23,491 --> 00:50:26,801
and at the end of the season,
we'll give you that plus some.
760
00:50:26,836 --> 00:50:28,663
Yeah. Okay.
761
00:50:28,698 --> 00:50:33,525
If I take 40
and 1% gold bonus, yeah?
762
00:50:38,215 --> 00:50:40,698
Yeah.
I think we could do something like that, it sounds good.
763
00:50:40,732 --> 00:50:42,594
- Yeah.
- Awesome. Let's do it.
764
00:50:42,629 --> 00:50:44,767
And our target right now
is 500 ounces,
765
00:50:44,801 --> 00:50:47,801
so it should be enough to more
than cover that five grand
766
00:50:47,836 --> 00:50:49,284
and it really helps us out
in a bind.
767
00:50:49,318 --> 00:50:50,456
So I really appreciate it.
768
00:50:50,491 --> 00:50:52,146
We got a dozer.
769
00:50:52,180 --> 00:50:53,801
It's awesome, man.
I'm super happy with it.
770
00:50:53,836 --> 00:50:55,146
- Ah! You have no idea.
- [Troy] Yeah.
771
00:50:55,180 --> 00:50:56,974
[Fred] All right. Well,
we'll get out of your hair.
772
00:50:57,008 --> 00:50:59,043
- All right.
Yeah. - I'm super excited. Thank you so much.
773
00:50:59,077 --> 00:51:00,456
- All right, Troy.
- [indistinct chatter]
774
00:51:00,491 --> 00:51:01,698
- Thanks.
- Take care.
775
00:51:12,939 --> 00:51:15,594
We want to get this
cut down and done
776
00:51:15,629 --> 00:51:17,111
well within the next week.
777
00:51:17,146 --> 00:51:20,870
All this stuff is nice to work
right now that's frozen,
778
00:51:20,905 --> 00:51:22,249
but the moment
it starts to thaw,
779
00:51:22,284 --> 00:51:25,594
it makes it a lot harder
and more expensive to work it.
780
00:51:27,905 --> 00:51:30,870
[Paul] The Beets family
led by son Mike,
781
00:51:30,905 --> 00:51:33,111
are throwing everything
they've got
782
00:51:33,146 --> 00:51:38,525
into stripping the cold cut
of 700,000 tons of dirt
783
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:43,008
in the hopes of hitting
Paradise Hill's infamous white channel pay
784
00:51:43,043 --> 00:51:44,939
in less than a week.
785
00:51:44,974 --> 00:51:48,870
[Mike] If we don't get this
cut done in the time allotted,
786
00:51:48,905 --> 00:51:50,905
sucks to be us, we're just
going to have to work harder.
787
00:52:13,456 --> 00:52:14,870
[man speaking]
788
00:52:14,905 --> 00:52:16,111
[Kevin] [bleep] Thanks.
789
00:52:17,525 --> 00:52:18,974
Go for Kevin.
790
00:52:19,008 --> 00:52:20,594
[man speaking]
791
00:52:25,146 --> 00:52:27,284
Copy. Take that truck
back to the yard, please.
792
00:52:27,318 --> 00:52:28,801
Main yard. Main yard.
793
00:52:30,594 --> 00:52:32,456
Ah! I'll be back.
794
00:52:34,284 --> 00:52:36,456
[Paul] As they work through
the deep overburden,
795
00:52:36,491 --> 00:52:39,491
Tony's oldest son and
chief mechanic, Kevin Beets,
796
00:52:39,525 --> 00:52:42,525
is battling to keep the rock
trucks in working order.
797
00:52:45,594 --> 00:52:48,698
[Kevin] Ah, [bleep].
798
00:52:48,732 --> 00:52:50,732
There are several bolts
missing from this machine,
799
00:52:50,767 --> 00:52:52,836
which are kind of important.
800
00:52:56,215 --> 00:52:57,560
Not supposed to do that.
801
00:52:58,905 --> 00:53:00,939
[Jess speaking]
802
00:53:00,974 --> 00:53:02,387
Kevin, go for Kevin.
803
00:53:02,422 --> 00:53:03,698
[Jess speaking]
804
00:53:10,663 --> 00:53:13,698
[grunts] Might as well run to
the staging there as well then.
805
00:53:19,939 --> 00:53:21,560
[man 2] Oh, [bleep]!
That's not good.
806
00:53:27,939 --> 00:53:29,318
Ooh, that's a lot of smoke.
807
00:53:34,422 --> 00:53:35,732
Hey, Kevin.
Copy, Kevin.
808
00:53:36,836 --> 00:53:38,249
Go for Kevin.
809
00:53:38,284 --> 00:53:40,836
Yeah, I just blew a rad
up here on the Cat.
810
00:53:40,870 --> 00:53:43,456
[bleep].
811
00:53:43,491 --> 00:53:46,594
Give me a minute, I'll hop in a truck.
I will be right there.
812
00:53:47,663 --> 00:53:49,629
Change of plans.
813
00:53:49,663 --> 00:53:51,387
Never [bleep] fails.
814
00:53:58,663 --> 00:54:02,180
Okay. Let's have a look-see.
815
00:54:02,215 --> 00:54:03,215
That's not good.
816
00:54:04,801 --> 00:54:07,939
Looks like a hose busted.
817
00:54:07,974 --> 00:54:09,456
[Paul] In a matter of hours,
818
00:54:09,491 --> 00:54:13,387
a third of Tony's fleet of
rock trucks are out of action.
819
00:54:15,215 --> 00:54:16,767
[Mike] What's going on
with this?
820
00:54:16,801 --> 00:54:18,491
[Kevin] Uh, rad line's busted.
821
00:54:18,525 --> 00:54:21,077
We need an O-ring piece,
which we don't have in stock.
822
00:54:21,111 --> 00:54:23,836
So, uh, truck's down
for a bit.
823
00:54:23,870 --> 00:54:25,146
How long you figure?
824
00:54:25,180 --> 00:54:27,111
With the way shipping has
been, probably a couple of days.
825
00:54:28,905 --> 00:54:30,043
[bleep]! That's no good.
826
00:54:30,077 --> 00:54:31,594
I need as many trucks
as possible right now.
827
00:54:31,629 --> 00:54:33,974
You're going to call Tony
to figure out a plan?
828
00:54:34,008 --> 00:54:35,939
No.
829
00:54:35,974 --> 00:54:37,801
There's a lot of trucks
at the Indian, right?
830
00:54:37,836 --> 00:54:39,146
I believe so.
831
00:54:39,180 --> 00:54:41,318
Only take me a day
to slip into the Indian
832
00:54:41,353 --> 00:54:42,594
and go grab the truck,
833
00:54:42,629 --> 00:54:44,732
so I'll go line that up
834
00:54:44,767 --> 00:54:46,801
and you make sure stuff
don't break around here.
835
00:54:46,836 --> 00:54:48,146
Yeah, sounds good.
836
00:54:48,180 --> 00:54:50,767
[Paul] No longer needing
to check with Tony,
837
00:54:50,801 --> 00:54:54,284
Mike decides to leave the cut
at a critical time
838
00:54:54,318 --> 00:54:59,284
gambling he can get back
before any disaster strikes.
839
00:54:59,318 --> 00:55:01,939
[Mike] Because the more trucks we
got, the more production we're getting.
840
00:55:18,939 --> 00:55:21,008
[Paul] In the mountains
above Keno City...
841
00:55:23,836 --> 00:55:26,491
Rally crew member
Nathan Thornington
842
00:55:26,525 --> 00:55:28,422
maintains the equipment
843
00:55:28,456 --> 00:55:31,663
as he waits for the arrival
of his boss, Rick Ness.
844
00:55:50,008 --> 00:55:51,732
- How you doing, buddy?
- Hey. Hey.
845
00:55:51,767 --> 00:55:53,974
- Yeah, it's been a couple of seasons.
- It's been a while, eh?
846
00:55:54,008 --> 00:55:55,594
- Yeah.
- How are things going, anyways?
847
00:55:55,629 --> 00:55:56,836
Going great with me.
848
00:55:56,870 --> 00:55:58,801
It'd be nicer if I knew more
of what was going on myself.
849
00:55:58,836 --> 00:55:59,905
Yeah, I know.
850
00:55:59,939 --> 00:56:01,732
Yeah, because I've just
been up here in the dark
851
00:56:01,767 --> 00:56:05,146
a little bit for the
last week, ten days or something.
852
00:56:05,180 --> 00:56:07,698
We're going to liquidate
some stuff here and, you know,
853
00:56:07,732 --> 00:56:09,767
and thin the herd out,
I guess,
854
00:56:09,801 --> 00:56:12,698
and hopefully, hopefully,
we'll be back out soon, right?
855
00:56:12,732 --> 00:56:15,594
But as of, as of us mining
this season, I have no idea.
856
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:18,939
[bleep]
857
00:56:18,974 --> 00:56:20,732
It's not very good.
858
00:56:20,767 --> 00:56:23,353
'Cause we're already at least a
couple of weeks behind by now.
859
00:56:23,387 --> 00:56:24,663
Yeah.
860
00:56:24,698 --> 00:56:27,629
Last year was awesome and
you think, like, what happened?
861
00:56:29,077 --> 00:56:31,043
[Rick] This'll sound
really good.
862
00:56:31,077 --> 00:56:32,801
- No!
- Wow!
863
00:56:32,836 --> 00:56:34,594
[Rick] Doesn't that look cool,
though? Look at that.
864
00:56:34,629 --> 00:56:35,870
That represents victory
right there.
865
00:56:35,905 --> 00:56:37,905
- [Nathan] Yeah.
- I don't know how to top it.
866
00:56:37,939 --> 00:56:40,111
I mean, I will.
I'll top it next year.
867
00:56:40,146 --> 00:56:42,456
I haven't been able to talk
to Rick much.
868
00:56:42,491 --> 00:56:44,284
To be honest with you, I
have no idea what's going on.
869
00:56:44,318 --> 00:56:45,594
Um...
870
00:56:45,629 --> 00:56:47,111
Well, I hope
everything's all right.
871
00:56:47,146 --> 00:56:49,215
- Like...
- Yeah.
872
00:56:49,249 --> 00:56:55,249
All we can do is tighten up some
stuff around the yard here and hope and pray
873
00:56:55,284 --> 00:56:57,111
that we... we're out here
mining soon, right?
874
00:57:13,491 --> 00:57:15,836
[Mike] Now we're here.
875
00:57:15,870 --> 00:57:17,767
We'll go see about getting that
rock truck out of the line.
876
00:57:17,801 --> 00:57:19,077
Okay.
877
00:57:19,111 --> 00:57:22,008
[Paul] Mike Beets is on the
hunt for a working rock truck
878
00:57:22,043 --> 00:57:24,698
at the family's shuttered
Indian River camp.
879
00:57:26,387 --> 00:57:28,215
And here's the rock truck
we came here to get.
880
00:57:29,422 --> 00:57:33,043
[Paul] With three rock trucks
down at Paradise Hill,
881
00:57:33,077 --> 00:57:36,525
Mike's hoping this one
will keep things moving.
882
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:38,456
[Mike] We don't want to slow
down the production there
883
00:57:38,491 --> 00:57:39,594
even in the slightest.
884
00:57:39,629 --> 00:57:41,905
So we're over here
grabbing a rock truck,
885
00:57:41,939 --> 00:57:44,491
even though it's costing me
and Ruby not being there.
886
00:57:44,525 --> 00:57:46,698
The hell!
887
00:57:46,732 --> 00:57:48,767
[Ruby] All the fluids are good
and still in place.
888
00:57:48,801 --> 00:57:50,008
So hopefully she starts.
889
00:57:50,043 --> 00:57:51,974
Otherwise, it's a complete
waste of the day.
890
00:57:55,387 --> 00:57:56,491
[engine chokes]
891
00:57:56,525 --> 00:57:57,905
Oh, come on.
892
00:57:59,905 --> 00:58:01,456
Oh, are you [bleep] kidding?
893
00:58:02,836 --> 00:58:04,249
Come on, baby.
One more time.
894
00:58:04,284 --> 00:58:05,387
Start out for me.
895
00:58:07,043 --> 00:58:08,491
Yeah. There we go.
896
00:58:10,525 --> 00:58:13,077
[Paul] To speed up
the stripping at Paradise Hill,
897
00:58:13,111 --> 00:58:15,698
Mike grabs a spare D6 dozer.
898
00:58:17,974 --> 00:58:20,353
[Mike] It's taking us
a bit longer than I thought.
899
00:58:20,387 --> 00:58:22,284
We've already been out
and about to do this
900
00:58:22,318 --> 00:58:24,491
about for four
and a half hours.
901
00:58:24,525 --> 00:58:26,974
That's a lot of time
[bleep] go wrong.
902
00:58:27,008 --> 00:58:29,387
Three to four minutes is all
it takes to [bleep] go to hell
903
00:58:29,422 --> 00:58:30,698
when you're running trucks.
904
00:58:32,146 --> 00:58:33,767
Ruby,
you're in the rock truck.
905
00:58:33,801 --> 00:58:35,180
Evan will act as a pilot car.
906
00:58:35,215 --> 00:58:37,215
I'm going to [bleep] off
ahead of you guys.
907
00:58:37,249 --> 00:58:39,215
Let's get going
while we can still get going.
908
00:58:44,870 --> 00:58:49,215
[Paul] Mike now faces a
40-mile drive back to Paradise Hill.
909
00:58:49,249 --> 00:58:52,456
To avoid the road bends
on the highways,
910
00:58:52,491 --> 00:58:54,663
Mike's taking local roads.
911
00:58:54,698 --> 00:58:58,215
It's an icy, mud slicked route
back to the hill.
912
00:58:59,525 --> 00:59:02,008
Lost all my momentum
on the [bleep].
913
00:59:02,043 --> 00:59:05,146
Bob's old road is garbage.
914
00:59:09,456 --> 00:59:10,836
Look at this.
915
00:59:16,767 --> 00:59:18,905
[bleep]
916
00:59:18,939 --> 00:59:21,111
It's [bleep] road's way
too [bleep] greasy.
917
00:59:21,146 --> 00:59:24,043
I'm not going to be able
to get up at this rate.
918
00:59:24,077 --> 00:59:27,249
[Paul] Up ahead, the
steepest part of the road...
919
00:59:28,870 --> 00:59:31,939
a hill on a 25 degree incline.
920
00:59:35,939 --> 00:59:38,491
[Mike] It's a dangerous game
trying to drive up that hill
921
00:59:38,525 --> 00:59:39,629
when it's this muddy.
922
00:59:45,456 --> 00:59:47,353
[Ruby speaking]
923
00:59:51,180 --> 00:59:52,801
Oh, I mean...
I don't know about you,
924
00:59:52,836 --> 00:59:54,767
but I've been slipping
and sliding across [bleep]
925
00:59:54,801 --> 00:59:56,387
everywhere I've been going,
926
00:59:56,422 --> 00:59:58,525
and I'm most definitely
not going to make that hill.
927
00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:01,456
Oh, okay.
Do we have a game plan?
928
01:00:01,491 --> 01:00:04,422
[Mike] I don't know.
I'll have a chat with my dad.
929
01:00:06,732 --> 01:00:08,043
Tony Beets, do you copy,
Tony Beets?
930
01:00:09,594 --> 01:00:12,939
We came out at the Indian to
replace the rock truck that was down,
931
01:00:12,974 --> 01:00:15,456
but the road is so [bleep]
greasy right now,
932
01:00:15,491 --> 01:00:17,008
I'm pretty sure I ain't going
to make that hill.
933
01:00:18,180 --> 01:00:20,387
[Tony speaking on radio]
934
01:00:20,422 --> 01:00:21,732
[Mike] Okay. I'll be waiting.
935
01:00:25,663 --> 01:00:28,215
[Tony speaking]
936
01:00:51,318 --> 01:00:53,284
We're hoping
to make this quick
937
01:00:53,318 --> 01:00:56,249
and get that rock truck back
so we can get it to work.
938
01:00:56,284 --> 01:00:58,008
But as is, I think it's going
to be pretty late
939
01:00:58,043 --> 01:01:00,387
before the rock trucks
makes it back to camp.
940
01:01:08,456 --> 01:01:09,594
[Tony speaking]
941
01:01:19,111 --> 01:01:20,318
Okay.
942
01:01:20,353 --> 01:01:21,801
[Paul] Tony's plan.
943
01:01:21,836 --> 01:01:25,974
Unload the 18 ton D6
from Mike's low loader.
944
01:01:27,629 --> 01:01:29,387
[Tony speaking]
945
01:01:33,491 --> 01:01:37,594
[Paul] Without the weight of
the D6 and traveling at speed,
946
01:01:37,629 --> 01:01:40,870
Tony reckons the low loader
should make it up the hill.
947
01:01:42,387 --> 01:01:44,008
[Tony speaking]
948
01:01:44,043 --> 01:01:45,215
- [Mike] Yeah, yeah.
- [Tony speaking]
949
01:01:48,801 --> 01:01:49,870
[Mike] I know.
950
01:01:56,111 --> 01:01:57,663
[Mike speaking on radio]
951
01:01:58,870 --> 01:02:00,318
[Tony speaking]
952
01:02:07,008 --> 01:02:08,284
[Mike] Okay.
953
01:02:18,387 --> 01:02:21,111
Come on, you [bleep].
954
01:02:29,767 --> 01:02:32,594
[bleep] damn [bleep].
955
01:02:32,629 --> 01:02:34,180
I'm flying all over the place.
956
01:02:36,146 --> 01:02:37,560
[Tony speaking]
957
01:02:39,939 --> 01:02:41,629
[Mike] Give me a sec.
958
01:02:44,560 --> 01:02:45,836
What the [bleep]!
959
01:02:48,008 --> 01:02:49,387
[Tony speaking]
960
01:02:57,594 --> 01:02:59,836
[Mike] [bleep] road
is so [bleep] slick.
961
01:03:02,353 --> 01:03:03,836
[engine revving]
962
01:03:08,456 --> 01:03:10,732
[Mike speaking]
963
01:03:10,767 --> 01:03:11,905
[Tony speaking]
964
01:03:17,249 --> 01:03:18,732
[Mike] Come on. Come on.
965
01:03:21,732 --> 01:03:23,111
Oh, yeah.
There we go.
966
01:03:24,974 --> 01:03:26,353
Yee-ha!
967
01:03:29,560 --> 01:03:32,732
[Mike speaking]
968
01:03:32,767 --> 01:03:34,111
[Tony speaking]
969
01:03:36,111 --> 01:03:38,594
[Paul] The truck
and the D6 dozer
970
01:03:38,629 --> 01:03:40,801
are finally headed
to the hill.
971
01:03:42,525 --> 01:03:45,836
With dad's help,
Mike's back on track.
972
01:03:45,870 --> 01:03:47,767
[Mike] So, I better hurry
to get this dozer
973
01:03:47,801 --> 01:03:51,353
and that rock truck back to the
Hill so I can get them working.
974
01:03:51,387 --> 01:03:53,491
It won't be long
till we start hauling pay.
975
01:04:11,525 --> 01:04:14,043
- Hey there, youngster.
- What's happenin'?
976
01:04:14,077 --> 01:04:17,318
[Paul] With more ground
to mine than ever before...
977
01:04:17,353 --> 01:04:18,905
- [Parker] Good to be seen.
- How you doing?
978
01:04:18,939 --> 01:04:23,905
[Paul] ...and plans to open up even
more in Alaska later in the year,
979
01:04:23,939 --> 01:04:28,318
Parker calls a council of war
with trusted lieutenants,
980
01:04:28,353 --> 01:04:33,663
foreman Mitch Blaschke and
gold recovery expert, Chris Doumitt.
981
01:04:33,698 --> 01:04:34,836
It's good and bad.
982
01:04:34,870 --> 01:04:39,456
It's good because
we have lots of ground.
983
01:04:39,491 --> 01:04:42,387
It's bad because
we will have an additional,
984
01:04:42,422 --> 01:04:45,111
whatever, two million square
feet to mine for Tony.
985
01:04:46,180 --> 01:04:47,801
[Mitch] That's a lot
of sluicing on its own,
986
01:04:47,836 --> 01:04:49,491
let alone anything else.
987
01:04:49,525 --> 01:04:51,525
[Parker] Yeah.
988
01:04:51,560 --> 01:04:54,077
There's a lot there.
There's... there's a lot to do.
989
01:04:54,111 --> 01:04:56,422
I wouldn't be suggesting it if I
didn't think we could get it done.
990
01:04:56,456 --> 01:04:58,215
So our leases will have
a pretty busy season.
991
01:04:58,249 --> 01:05:00,249
A lot of landlords
to keep happy.
992
01:05:00,284 --> 01:05:02,732
[Chris] Yeah. Not a lot of us.
993
01:05:02,767 --> 01:05:04,146
It sounds like
too much stress.
994
01:05:04,180 --> 01:05:05,491
I quit.
995
01:05:05,525 --> 01:05:07,456
We know what the [bleep]
we're doing, don't we?
996
01:05:17,008 --> 01:05:19,974
So here we are, in
the first cut of the season.
997
01:05:21,836 --> 01:05:24,008
[Paul] Despite
the team's reservations,
998
01:05:24,043 --> 01:05:26,560
Tyson has sprinted
out of the blocks.
999
01:05:26,594 --> 01:05:28,870
He's protected the cut
from flooding
1000
01:05:28,905 --> 01:05:30,698
and is ready to run paydirt.
1001
01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:40,146
Hey, tater tot, that's the first
load of pay going to Big Red,
1002
01:05:40,180 --> 01:05:43,284
so we got a lot of rock
to wash this year
1003
01:05:43,318 --> 01:05:44,353
and a lot of mud to move.
1004
01:05:44,387 --> 01:05:46,008
So let's make her count.
1005
01:05:46,043 --> 01:05:48,594
Woo-hoo! Let madness begin.
1006
01:05:48,629 --> 01:05:51,594
[Paul] Now it's on Mitch
to get the plant fired up.
1007
01:05:52,629 --> 01:05:54,525
It's going to be
a crazy challenge to try
1008
01:05:54,560 --> 01:05:56,146
and get through
all this dirt this year.
1009
01:05:57,801 --> 01:06:00,387
And the only way we're going
to get it is if we do it right
1010
01:06:00,422 --> 01:06:01,905
and even doing
everything right,
1011
01:06:01,939 --> 01:06:03,870
I still don't know if we're
going to get through it all.
1012
01:06:03,905 --> 01:06:06,870
There's going to be so much
pressure on sluicing,
1013
01:06:06,905 --> 01:06:10,698
which means that these wash
plants have to run flawless.
1014
01:06:10,732 --> 01:06:14,387
[Paul] It's the earliest
Parker's ever tried to sluice.
1015
01:06:14,422 --> 01:06:18,284
Wash plant, Big Red, has been
lying in the cut all winter
1016
01:06:18,318 --> 01:06:20,111
with record snow
1017
01:06:20,146 --> 01:06:24,767
and temperatures dropping
below minus 50 degrees.
1018
01:06:24,801 --> 01:06:26,077
[Parker] You about
ready to fire up?
1019
01:06:26,111 --> 01:06:28,043
[Mitch] Yeah. Just got
to throw some water at it,
1020
01:06:28,077 --> 01:06:29,836
- hopefully, all that works.
- All right.
1021
01:06:29,870 --> 01:06:31,870
And then see if she remembers
how to shake.
1022
01:06:39,077 --> 01:06:41,284
[Parker] Ready. Give it.
1023
01:06:43,146 --> 01:06:44,249
[engine starting]
1024
01:06:44,284 --> 01:06:47,077
Come on. Wake up. Wake up.
1025
01:06:47,111 --> 01:06:48,974
Come on.
1026
01:06:49,008 --> 01:06:51,698
It's been a long winter.
It might take it a minute.
1027
01:06:51,732 --> 01:06:54,008
[engine starts]
1028
01:06:58,870 --> 01:06:59,974
Oh, yeah.
1029
01:07:06,215 --> 01:07:08,215
All right, now we've got
our water pump fired up.
1030
01:07:08,249 --> 01:07:09,663
We're just going to let it
warm up here,
1031
01:07:09,698 --> 01:07:11,422
but it's sending water
up the Big Red.
1032
01:07:13,353 --> 01:07:14,836
[Paul] Wash plant,
Big Red,
1033
01:07:14,870 --> 01:07:16,870
separates the gold
from the dirt
1034
01:07:16,905 --> 01:07:18,836
using only gravity and water.
1035
01:07:20,905 --> 01:07:23,111
Pay dirt is loaded
into the feeder
1036
01:07:23,146 --> 01:07:27,353
and blasted with 90,000
gallons of water per hour,
1037
01:07:27,387 --> 01:07:29,629
washing out the dirt and rocks
1038
01:07:29,663 --> 01:07:32,732
while the heavier gold
settles into the sluices.
1039
01:07:44,318 --> 01:07:46,905
Well, we'll start the shaker,
fire up the feed bin.
1040
01:07:46,939 --> 01:07:49,284
As long as all that's working
and happy,
1041
01:07:49,318 --> 01:07:52,836
we can start putting this dirt in
there and start turning it into gold.
1042
01:07:52,870 --> 01:07:54,663
You ready?
1043
01:07:54,698 --> 01:07:55,974
Here we go.
1044
01:07:57,905 --> 01:07:59,318
Come on, baby.
1045
01:08:02,801 --> 01:08:06,146
[Paul] For Parker, to hit
his target on the airstrip,
1046
01:08:06,180 --> 01:08:10,801
Big Red will need to sluice
24X7 for its longest season ever.
1047
01:08:13,939 --> 01:08:16,111
You know, for this wash plant
to sit up here
1048
01:08:16,146 --> 01:08:18,215
through a Yukon winter,
1049
01:08:18,249 --> 01:08:21,456
got it fired right back up
here and we're back to washing rocks.
1050
01:08:21,491 --> 01:08:23,456
If you look around here,
1051
01:08:23,491 --> 01:08:27,111
you know, we're the only ones,
as far as I can see, doing it.
1052
01:08:27,146 --> 01:08:29,560
So that just tells you
we're off to an early start
1053
01:08:29,594 --> 01:08:32,318
because everybody knows if you're going
to make any money up here,
1054
01:08:32,353 --> 01:08:33,629
this is the only way to do it.
1055
01:08:38,836 --> 01:08:40,422
Send it, man!
Let's go!
1056
01:08:40,456 --> 01:08:43,180
[Paul] With Tony,
at least a week from running,
1057
01:08:43,215 --> 01:08:47,698
Fred not even at his claim,
and Rick Ness nowhere to be found,
1058
01:08:47,732 --> 01:08:50,077
Parker is well ahead
of the game.
1059
01:08:55,836 --> 01:08:57,801
Here we go.
It's what it's about.
1060
01:09:00,801 --> 01:09:02,422
Not gonna lie,
it feels pretty good, man.
1061
01:09:17,836 --> 01:09:19,353
As long as that trommel
is not spinning,
1062
01:09:19,387 --> 01:09:21,422
all we're doing is spending
money and getting nothing.
1063
01:09:21,456 --> 01:09:23,905
I just want to get
the [bleep] job done.
1064
01:09:23,939 --> 01:09:25,663
[Paul] On Paradise Hill,
1065
01:09:25,698 --> 01:09:28,318
the Beets are desperate
to get on the gold.
1066
01:09:30,560 --> 01:09:32,905
Expert operator, Ruby Mahoney,
1067
01:09:32,939 --> 01:09:35,698
has been mining
for ten days straight,
1068
01:09:35,732 --> 01:09:38,594
reaching 70 feet down
in the cold cut.
1069
01:09:51,525 --> 01:09:52,870
Ah.
1070
01:10:00,974 --> 01:10:03,422
[Ruby on radio] Mike Beets,
you got a copy? Mike, Mike?
1071
01:10:03,456 --> 01:10:04,698
Yeah, go ahead, Ruby.
1072
01:10:06,456 --> 01:10:08,698
[Ruby on radio] Do you mind
coming over here for a minute?
1073
01:10:08,732 --> 01:10:10,215
Yeah, I'll be over there
in a second.
1074
01:10:21,905 --> 01:10:23,870
Oh, yeah.
1075
01:10:23,905 --> 01:10:26,318
I think we finally hit pay.
1076
01:10:26,353 --> 01:10:28,146
[Mike] Oh, that's good.
Took us long enough.
1077
01:10:28,180 --> 01:10:30,111
[Ruby] No kidding.
1078
01:10:30,146 --> 01:10:31,594
[Mike] That's definitely
pay right there.
1079
01:10:31,629 --> 01:10:34,146
- You can see it all over.
- [Ruby] That yellowy stuff.
1080
01:10:34,180 --> 01:10:35,353
Yeah, that's good stuff.
1081
01:10:36,456 --> 01:10:38,284
It has that nice sound
when we drop it, too.
1082
01:10:38,318 --> 01:10:40,387
Click, click, click, click of
the rocks. I love that sound.
1083
01:10:40,422 --> 01:10:41,732
[Ruby] Yep. Perfect.
1084
01:10:41,767 --> 01:10:43,836
[Mike] Which means,
we can start sluicing soon
1085
01:10:43,870 --> 01:10:46,698
and we'll have a massive cut
to work from.
1086
01:10:46,732 --> 01:10:50,560
[Paul] Ruby's hit the pay
layer shallower than expected.
1087
01:10:50,594 --> 01:10:53,663
The distinctive
iron stained yellow soil
1088
01:10:53,698 --> 01:10:56,491
contains rounded
riverbed rocks,
1089
01:10:56,525 --> 01:11:00,732
both good indicators that
the ground contains gold.
1090
01:11:00,767 --> 01:11:03,422
If it is quality pay dirt,
1091
01:11:03,456 --> 01:11:05,077
it could mean they've struck
1092
01:11:05,111 --> 01:11:09,525
a massive 60-foot deep
white channel pay layer.
1093
01:11:09,560 --> 01:11:11,525
Tony Beets, do you copy?
Tony Beets, do you copy?
1094
01:11:12,905 --> 01:11:14,456
[Tony speaking]
1095
01:11:14,491 --> 01:11:16,422
Hey, Dad. We struck pay.
1096
01:11:17,698 --> 01:11:19,663
[Tony speaking]
1097
01:11:19,698 --> 01:11:21,008
[Mike] Okay.
1098
01:11:22,767 --> 01:11:25,698
[Tony speaking]
1099
01:11:25,732 --> 01:11:30,422
[Paul] Tony's test will decide just
how profitable his season will be.
1100
01:11:30,456 --> 01:11:32,732
[Tony speaking]
1101
01:11:45,043 --> 01:11:46,491
[Tony speaking]
1102
01:11:51,111 --> 01:11:52,836
[Paul] On Paradise Hill,
1103
01:11:52,870 --> 01:11:55,594
the Beets have finally
hit pay,
1104
01:11:55,629 --> 01:11:59,525
but Tony won't risk running what
they've found through the wash plant
1105
01:11:59,560 --> 01:12:01,387
until he's sure
there's gold in it.
1106
01:12:05,974 --> 01:12:07,387
[Tony speaking]
1107
01:12:34,318 --> 01:12:37,594
[Paul] Tony's banking on
the cold cut delivering big
1108
01:12:37,629 --> 01:12:40,422
if he's to hit
his 5,000-ounce target.
1109
01:13:01,146 --> 01:13:03,043
[Tony speaking]
1110
01:13:12,491 --> 01:13:14,525
[Paul] After hitting
pay early,
1111
01:13:14,560 --> 01:13:17,456
Tony could be on
for a bigger payout
1112
01:13:17,491 --> 01:13:19,663
than the king of the Klondike
expected.
1113
01:13:19,698 --> 01:13:21,387
[Tony speaking]
1114
01:13:44,732 --> 01:13:45,974
Good job.
1115
01:13:46,008 --> 01:13:48,491
- You ready for this?
- How you doing, man?
1116
01:13:48,525 --> 01:13:50,387
Oh, man.
Look at the river.
1117
01:13:50,422 --> 01:13:53,594
Still a lot of debris,
but she's rolling.
1118
01:13:53,629 --> 01:13:56,043
[Paul] Two weeks late
to start his season,
1119
01:13:56,077 --> 01:13:59,353
it's finally go time
for Fred and his crew.
1120
01:13:59,387 --> 01:14:01,284
[truck honking]
1121
01:14:01,318 --> 01:14:03,111
- [Fred] There he is.
- [JB Mayer] All right.
1122
01:14:05,594 --> 01:14:07,043
- You made it.
- Yeah.
1123
01:14:09,836 --> 01:14:13,146
[Paul] Fred and J.B.
are joined by Buzz Legault,
1124
01:14:13,180 --> 01:14:15,215
an experienced local miner
1125
01:14:15,249 --> 01:14:17,663
who enlisted with Fred
last season.
1126
01:14:17,698 --> 01:14:19,939
[Fred] Buzz is a loyal friend,
1127
01:14:19,974 --> 01:14:22,387
and he knows a hell of a lot
about mining.
1128
01:14:22,422 --> 01:14:24,801
Without buzz,
we're dead in the water.
1129
01:14:26,180 --> 01:14:27,939
Hey, we're pumped.
We're ready to go.
1130
01:14:27,974 --> 01:14:29,146
All right, let's do it.
1131
01:14:30,905 --> 01:14:32,801
I feel kind of jittery,
kind of excited.
1132
01:14:32,836 --> 01:14:34,008
I'm ready to get this moving.
1133
01:14:34,043 --> 01:14:36,043
You know, once we cross
that river,
1134
01:14:36,077 --> 01:14:38,043
that's pretty much
when our season begins.
1135
01:14:38,077 --> 01:14:41,836
[Paul] Get to his remote
California Creek claim,
1136
01:14:41,870 --> 01:14:44,905
Fred will have to cross
the Yukon River,
1137
01:14:46,525 --> 01:14:50,180
drive 46 miles on the top
of the world highway...
1138
01:14:50,215 --> 01:14:53,111
at an altitude of 3,000 feet,
1139
01:14:53,146 --> 01:14:55,525
then turn off road
1140
01:14:55,560 --> 01:14:58,560
down a treacherous
half-mile dirt track
1141
01:14:58,594 --> 01:15:00,043
to reach his base camp.
1142
01:15:27,870 --> 01:15:28,974
[Fred] I came out here,
kind of,
1143
01:15:29,008 --> 01:15:30,767
thinking that
there would be some snow,
1144
01:15:30,801 --> 01:15:32,146
but it's definitely
winter up here.
1145
01:15:34,422 --> 01:15:37,008
Oh, man.
1146
01:15:37,043 --> 01:15:40,387
I just look back
at one of these side roads
1147
01:15:40,422 --> 01:15:42,249
off of the main road here,
1148
01:15:42,284 --> 01:15:47,111
and I think we're going
to be snowed out.
1149
01:15:54,180 --> 01:15:55,387
[Fred] Oh, boy.
1150
01:16:01,043 --> 01:16:02,698
Look at all the snow.
1151
01:16:04,284 --> 01:16:05,387
Hey.
1152
01:16:08,836 --> 01:16:11,422
This snow here
is three to four feet deep.
1153
01:16:11,456 --> 01:16:15,629
Yeah, we're going to have to
do quite a bit of snow removal.
1154
01:16:15,663 --> 01:16:19,663
[Paul] The road to Fred's claim
is buried under thick snow and ice...
1155
01:16:21,767 --> 01:16:25,111
and with Fred's new dozer
still in Keno,
1156
01:16:25,146 --> 01:16:28,732
all they have to clear it
is Buzz's little dozer.
1157
01:16:49,215 --> 01:16:50,939
[Fred] Right now, we're kind
of in a time crunch.
1158
01:16:50,974 --> 01:16:53,077
I have my fuel guy come
up here to deliver fuel,
1159
01:16:53,111 --> 01:16:55,663
but he beat us up here
and right now he's been waiting
1160
01:16:55,698 --> 01:16:58,180
for probably several hours
on us to get out here.
1161
01:16:58,215 --> 01:17:00,594
So we really got to freaking
move right now.
1162
01:17:03,594 --> 01:17:06,870
[Paul] Fred's ordered half
a season's worth of fuel.
1163
01:17:06,905 --> 01:17:10,146
If the dozer can't open
the road for the fuel truck,
1164
01:17:10,180 --> 01:17:14,698
it will have to leave and
Fred will suffer yet another setback.
1165
01:17:17,456 --> 01:17:19,422
Hopefully, that fuel truck
is not going to leave.
1166
01:17:19,456 --> 01:17:21,111
So that's my biggest concern
right now.
1167
01:17:32,870 --> 01:17:34,698
Bringing that little dozer
out here was a gamble.
1168
01:17:34,732 --> 01:17:36,801
I honestly didn't know what it
was going to be able to do.
1169
01:17:36,836 --> 01:17:38,836
I hadn't anticipated
this much snow.
1170
01:17:38,870 --> 01:17:40,422
So have we not gambled
with that,
1171
01:17:40,456 --> 01:17:42,318
we'd be up [bleep] creek
right now.
1172
01:17:42,353 --> 01:17:44,387
This thing
is an absolute savior.
1173
01:17:48,387 --> 01:17:49,939
[dozer honking]
1174
01:17:55,974 --> 01:17:58,146
He's ready to go.
He doesn't have any more time.
1175
01:17:58,180 --> 01:18:00,732
So we're just going to have to get
[bleep] moving to get out of his way.
1176
01:18:06,560 --> 01:18:08,180
Ooh.
1177
01:18:08,215 --> 01:18:09,560
Oh, boy.
1178
01:18:18,732 --> 01:18:20,905
Fuel truck made it up.
So I think my truck is good to go.
1179
01:18:20,939 --> 01:18:23,525
I'm going to hop in and I'm going to go for it.
We got to get up there.
1180
01:18:33,180 --> 01:18:35,974
- [bleep] yeah, dude.
- [bleep] yeah.
1181
01:18:36,008 --> 01:18:38,077
Without the little dozer,
we couldn't have did it, man.
1182
01:18:38,111 --> 01:18:39,905
She's a beast,
that little guy.
1183
01:18:39,939 --> 01:18:42,422
- I love it.
- Let's get to [bleep] work.
1184
01:18:42,456 --> 01:18:44,043
[Paul] After two weeks,
1185
01:18:44,077 --> 01:18:47,043
Fred is finally ready
to start his season.
1186
01:18:48,698 --> 01:18:50,318
[Fred] I know
the gold's there,
1187
01:18:50,353 --> 01:18:53,043
but it's on me to get it
out of the ground and on the scales.
1188
01:18:54,974 --> 01:18:56,249
Let's go down there
and check it out.
1189
01:18:58,560 --> 01:19:00,594
What the [bleep] is that?
1190
01:19:03,698 --> 01:19:04,905
Holy crap!
1191
01:19:04,939 --> 01:19:06,353
[JB Mayer] I thought
we were mining a creek.
1192
01:19:06,387 --> 01:19:07,732
[Fred] Wow!
1193
01:19:07,767 --> 01:19:09,629
That's... Oh, my [bleep].
1194
01:19:09,663 --> 01:19:11,111
Wow!
1195
01:19:11,146 --> 01:19:13,939
Our entire claim is under ice.
1196
01:19:16,491 --> 01:19:18,870
That's a glacier, right there.
1197
01:19:23,939 --> 01:19:27,629
[Paul] Last year, Fred mined
the banks of California Creek.
1198
01:19:29,663 --> 01:19:35,491
Now the gold-rich pay dirt is
buried under a sheet of ice.
1199
01:19:35,525 --> 01:19:36,870
This blows my mind.
1200
01:19:38,387 --> 01:19:39,974
What the hell are we going
to do, man?
1201
01:19:40,008 --> 01:19:42,353
So this is where we separate
the men from the boys.
1202
01:19:42,387 --> 01:19:44,905
Right now, I feel like a little
boy and we need to think really hard
1203
01:19:44,939 --> 01:19:46,801
about how we're going to
tackle this before we tackle it
1204
01:19:46,836 --> 01:19:48,111
because someone could die
in this...
1205
01:19:48,146 --> 01:19:49,456
- Oh, for sure.
- ...easy.
1206
01:20:05,180 --> 01:20:07,387
[Tony speaking]
1207
01:20:51,836 --> 01:20:53,801
[babbling]
1208
01:21:04,422 --> 01:21:06,318
I haven't seen any gold yet.
1209
01:21:06,353 --> 01:21:07,594
We have been just stripping
1210
01:21:07,629 --> 01:21:10,732
and, like, between
the stripping and the wages,
1211
01:21:10,767 --> 01:21:12,629
it's an expensive month.
1212
01:21:12,663 --> 01:21:15,836
[Paul] Tony's hit pay dirt
earlier than expected,
1213
01:21:15,870 --> 01:21:20,870
which means he could have a
massive 60-foot layer of gold rich gravels.
1214
01:21:20,905 --> 01:21:22,732
- [Tony speaking]
- [Minnie] Hey, how are you?
1215
01:21:22,767 --> 01:21:23,974
[Tony speaking]
1216
01:21:27,801 --> 01:21:29,387
That's fine, eh?
1217
01:21:29,422 --> 01:21:30,974
That's the first gold
I've seen this year.
1218
01:21:31,008 --> 01:21:33,215
[Tony speaking]
1219
01:21:39,077 --> 01:21:40,491
How are Michael
and Kevin doing?
1220
01:21:40,525 --> 01:21:42,077
[Tony speaking]
1221
01:21:44,353 --> 01:21:47,146
But it's good for you that
you delegated to them though,
1222
01:21:47,180 --> 01:21:50,560
that...
and then, and that you kind of stay out of their way a little bit.
1223
01:21:50,594 --> 01:21:52,387
- [Tony speaking]
- It's good for them.
1224
01:21:53,594 --> 01:21:55,594
[Tony speaking]
1225
01:21:59,836 --> 01:22:01,318
It's nice to see
a little bit of gold,
1226
01:22:01,353 --> 01:22:04,594
but it would be nice to
actually start having real gold weighs again.
1227
01:22:04,629 --> 01:22:07,939
[Tony speaking]
1228
01:22:07,974 --> 01:22:09,560
[Minnie] I just got to go
to town, so...
1229
01:22:09,594 --> 01:22:11,560
[Tony speaking]
1230
01:22:11,594 --> 01:22:13,663
- Okay.
- [Tony speaking]
1231
01:22:13,698 --> 01:22:14,801
Yeah.
1232
01:22:16,732 --> 01:22:18,491
[Tony speaking]
1233
01:22:19,767 --> 01:22:21,215
[Minnie] Quit your whining.
1234
01:22:23,836 --> 01:22:28,284
[Paul] Tony's gamble to go for
the deep gravels is paying off
1235
01:22:28,318 --> 01:22:32,629
and he could bank even more
than his target of 5,000 ounces
1236
01:22:32,663 --> 01:22:37,077
if the white channel pay gets
richer the deeper they go.
1237
01:22:37,111 --> 01:22:40,111
[Tony speaking]
1238
01:23:15,387 --> 01:23:17,111
- [man 5] Hey.
- [Mitch] Yo. What's up?
1239
01:23:17,146 --> 01:23:19,767
- [man 5] You made it, huh?
- Oh, yeah.
1240
01:23:19,801 --> 01:23:21,284
- [man 5] How's it going?
- Not too bad.
1241
01:23:21,318 --> 01:23:23,043
[Paul] Back in the Gold Room,
1242
01:23:23,077 --> 01:23:26,801
Parker's crew are ready for
their earliest gold weigh ever.
1243
01:23:26,836 --> 01:23:28,318
[man 5]
And then there's Parker.
1244
01:23:28,353 --> 01:23:29,594
- All right.
- [man 5] Hey, youngster.
1245
01:23:29,629 --> 01:23:30,732
[Parker] Do you want
to come in?
1246
01:23:30,767 --> 01:23:31,870
[man 5] Oh, what's up,
Doze man?
1247
01:23:34,491 --> 01:23:36,939
We're going to have too much
ground this year?
1248
01:23:36,974 --> 01:23:41,284
I mean,
since when have we not, like,
1249
01:23:41,318 --> 01:23:43,077
taken on too much?
1250
01:23:43,111 --> 01:23:45,215
We basically, you know,
we've bitten off a lot.
1251
01:23:45,249 --> 01:23:48,698
I mean, this is
like the all-you-can-eat Vegas buffet.
1252
01:23:48,732 --> 01:23:51,491
But if you look at that
ground down there
1253
01:23:51,525 --> 01:23:52,629
and how much of it there is,
1254
01:23:52,663 --> 01:23:54,870
if we do get through it all,
1255
01:23:54,905 --> 01:23:56,732
man, I think we could have
a hell of a season.
1256
01:23:56,767 --> 01:23:58,043
Yeah.
1257
01:23:58,077 --> 01:23:59,146
All right, Chris.
1258
01:23:59,180 --> 01:24:00,387
You want to see
how we started out?
1259
01:24:00,422 --> 01:24:01,801
- [Parker] Yeah. What you got?
- Mitch?
1260
01:24:01,836 --> 01:24:03,870
- [Mitch] Let's see it.
- Lookie, baby.
1261
01:24:03,905 --> 01:24:05,836
It's your machine, Big Red.
1262
01:24:05,870 --> 01:24:07,560
- You ready?
- It takes everybody, man.
1263
01:24:07,594 --> 01:24:09,043
It's your machine.
1264
01:24:09,077 --> 01:24:11,215
[Paul] After running
for four days,
1265
01:24:11,249 --> 01:24:16,422
the team is eager to see how
the new Tony Beets' claim pays out.
1266
01:24:16,456 --> 01:24:17,456
[Chris] All right.
1267
01:24:17,491 --> 01:24:23,249
20, 40, 60, 70.
1268
01:24:23,284 --> 01:24:24,732
Come on, keep going. 80.
1269
01:24:24,767 --> 01:24:25,836
We're going to break a 100?
Huh?
1270
01:24:25,870 --> 01:24:27,249
[Mitch] We're going.
We're going.
1271
01:24:27,284 --> 01:24:28,905
110. 120.
1272
01:24:31,284 --> 01:24:34,180
137.8.
1273
01:24:34,215 --> 01:24:38,043
[Paul] Worth over $240,000.
1274
01:24:38,077 --> 01:24:40,801
- [Chris] Not bad for a first run.
- [Mitch] Yeah.
1275
01:24:40,836 --> 01:24:42,767
And you got to think about
how early it is
1276
01:24:42,801 --> 01:24:44,008
and it was thawed.
1277
01:24:44,043 --> 01:24:46,456
So all I can say is
"Thanks, Tony."
1278
01:24:46,491 --> 01:24:48,008
[Chris] Thanks, Tony. Yeah.
1279
01:24:48,043 --> 01:24:49,836
[Mitch] It should be a
busy place down here this year
1280
01:24:49,870 --> 01:24:51,284
- if we get through all that ground.
- Yeah.
1281
01:24:51,318 --> 01:24:53,698
Especially, once you get
Slucifer going,
1282
01:24:53,732 --> 01:24:55,318
this place gets hopping.
1283
01:24:55,353 --> 01:24:56,560
[Mitch] Keep up
the good work.
1284
01:24:56,594 --> 01:24:58,008
[Parker] Thanks, guys. Thanks...
1285
01:24:58,043 --> 01:25:00,905
Thanks for coming back
this year, too.
1286
01:25:00,939 --> 01:25:02,008
Chris.
1287
01:25:03,491 --> 01:25:05,249
I heard my vo...
I heard my name.
1288
01:25:05,284 --> 01:25:06,767
Yes, Lord.
1289
01:25:08,043 --> 01:25:10,422
[Parker] Thanks... Thanks
for coming back this year.
1290
01:25:10,456 --> 01:25:11,974
Oh, well,
thanks for the invite.
1291
01:25:12,008 --> 01:25:14,456
- It's good to have the gang back together.
- It is.
1292
01:25:14,491 --> 01:25:16,663
Things seem solid
and equipment's running good
1293
01:25:16,698 --> 01:25:20,422
and we've got gold
on the scale and yeah...
1294
01:25:20,456 --> 01:25:21,456
[Mitch] Knock on wood.
1295
01:25:22,560 --> 01:25:24,318
It's all downhill
from here, right?
1296
01:25:24,353 --> 01:25:25,491
[laughter]
1297
01:25:25,525 --> 01:25:27,870
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
1298
01:25:27,905 --> 01:25:29,111
I'm out. Excuse.
1299
01:25:29,146 --> 01:25:30,939
- Cool.
- Okay.
1300
01:25:30,974 --> 01:25:33,387
[Parker] We definitely
have a lot to do this year.
1301
01:25:33,422 --> 01:25:34,732
The plate's overflowing.
1302
01:25:36,387 --> 01:25:37,525
But...
1303
01:25:39,284 --> 01:25:42,318
this is a good start if we're going
to try to get it all done, but...
1304
01:25:44,629 --> 01:25:47,870
my dad would not be impressed
if I were saying things like this.
1305
01:25:47,905 --> 01:25:50,043
He'll...
"You got to be optimistic and, you know,
1306
01:25:50,077 --> 01:25:51,180
get after it," but...
1307
01:25:55,249 --> 01:25:56,629
We'll see.
1308
01:26:10,594 --> 01:26:13,249
Rick's a pretty,
pretty closed off guy,
1309
01:26:13,284 --> 01:26:16,353
but it just seems like lately he's
been a little bit more closed off.
1310
01:26:16,387 --> 01:26:19,284
Last year, Rick did over
2,000 ounces
1311
01:26:19,318 --> 01:26:20,836
and the fact
that he's not up there,
1312
01:26:20,870 --> 01:26:22,836
they're just chomping
at the bit to try and do
1313
01:26:22,870 --> 01:26:26,422
even more this season is
a real head-scratcher for me.
1314
01:26:26,456 --> 01:26:31,456
I was actually going back up for
a stretch and give him a hand and,
1315
01:26:31,491 --> 01:26:33,732
um, now it's to the point
where I can't even,
1316
01:26:33,767 --> 01:26:35,491
you know,
get a text message back.
1317
01:26:36,767 --> 01:26:39,905
To be receiving text messages
and phone calls from family
1318
01:26:39,939 --> 01:26:41,387
and asking
why he's not up there,
1319
01:26:41,422 --> 01:26:42,698
it's a little worrisome.
1320
01:26:42,732 --> 01:26:45,284
I mean, I've asked in the text
messages, "Are you good?"
1321
01:26:46,387 --> 01:26:48,318
It's kind of no response.
1322
01:26:48,353 --> 01:26:50,215
That's why I feel like
it'll just be better for me
1323
01:26:50,249 --> 01:26:52,008
to drive over
to his house now.
1324
01:26:52,043 --> 01:26:54,974
Um, I just feel
like something's definitely going on.
1325
01:26:55,008 --> 01:26:56,043
I just... I don't know.
1326
01:26:56,077 --> 01:26:57,767
I love the guy,
and I hope he's all right.
1327
01:26:57,801 --> 01:26:59,008
That's all I really want.
1328
01:27:04,111 --> 01:27:05,594
Well, let's see if he's here.
1329
01:27:28,043 --> 01:27:30,249
[Rubi barking]
1330
01:27:30,284 --> 01:27:31,318
There's Rubi.
1331
01:27:33,284 --> 01:27:34,525
Holy [bleep]!
1331
01:27:35,305 --> 01:28:35,495
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