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On this Gold Rush, a worldwide crisis...
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This is a massive challenge.
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...locks down the Yukon.
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I'm still at home, not being able to do anything.
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Tony, Tony, Tony, it's the film crew here.
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But out of the chaos...
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The perfect storm...
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The more up the world gets, the higher price gold should go.
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Soaring gold prices...
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And plummeting fuel costs...
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Doesn't get better than this.
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Create the opportunity of a lifetime...
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- It's like the American dream, if you ask me.
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To strike it rich.
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We're trying to buy a piece of ground in Alaska.
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That's badass.
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I want to hit it big.
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I want to be a huge success.
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That's a beauty.
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I've emptied every penny I own on this.
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- Oh! - That is insane.
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Holy smoke.
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- Wow! - Hell yeah!
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Every second counts...
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Don't stop for nobody.
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In the shortest season ever.
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This is definitely a record-breaker
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It's late May, 2020.
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Home sweet home.
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And the miners are only just returning
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from the long offseason lockdown.
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It's the latest start we've had since showing up in the Yukon.
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With this virus going on and COVID,
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this is definitely gonna be probably one of the more challenging years
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that we've ever had.
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The pandemic has put 25-year-old Parker Schnabel
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over a month behind schedule.
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Now he's in a race to make up lost time
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and cash in on soaring gold prices.
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Gentlemen.
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What's happening?
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I mean, the best thing that's happened right now is
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fuel price is really low and gold price is up.
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That's a good thing because we're trying to buy
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a piece of ground in Alaska.
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Now you guys need to make us some money
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so that we can pay for it.
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We need a war chest.
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Get a wash plant running and hopefully you can find us
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something in Alaska, that'd be nice.
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- Yeah, it would be. - Sweet.
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Pull it up.
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To build his war chest, Parker...
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Let's do this.
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Turns to the last cut, the richest ground
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they've ever mined.
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Here we go.
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Co-foreman, Mitch Blaschke and Brennan Ruautt
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fire up Big Red.
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- Big cap. - Good to go.
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Yay!
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Four miles west on the 2,000-acre promised land,
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Parker takes a big risk with his premier
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wash plant, Slucifer.
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Right now I'm letting Tyson run Slucifer.
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Mitch and Brennan are gonna be pretty busy.
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And Tyson's come a long way.
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So I think it's a good chance to see what he's got.
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Hopefully this doesn't bite either of us in the ass.
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Operator Tyson Lee has been on Parker's crew
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for five years, but this is his first time
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in charge of a wash plant.
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The heat's on my shoulders to step up to the plate.
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It feels good to have that responsibility on me.
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It's, you know, it's kind of what I've been hoping for
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over the past few years and it's time to show them what I can do.
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Come on.
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Rise to the occasion.
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Over here. Come on.
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Done everything right. I've done all I can. So here's to hoping.
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Where's all this water coming from?
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Holy crap!
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Tyson!
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A torrent of 3,300 gallons of water a minute.
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Holy .
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Is undermining the pad...
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threatening to crash the 45-ton wash plant into the pond.
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I'm just gonna throw some rock in there and hopefully it'll...
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it'll keep her shored up here.
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Parker's solution, use coarse tailings
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to strengthen the pad.
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So hopefully I don't disappear.
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I really think it'll be all right.
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An hour later, his fix seems to hold.
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Do you think it helped?
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Oh, yeah, it helped a lot.
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Now we just have to see if there's any gold in the ground.
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Your problem.
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Right on. Ten forward.
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You... come on, you knew it was coming?
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Yeah.
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Just two weeks after arriving,
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Parker has both his operations up and running,
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and he is one step closer to his dream of expanding his mining empire.
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It's nice to finally see some money coming in, hopefully,
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assuming there's gold in that .
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Back in Keno, buddy.
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Oh, look at this, the bar's even open, Kruse.
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Just my luck.
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Bars are back open and we've got ton of work to do.
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Six weeks into the short mining season, Rick Ness
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and his buddy Chris Kruse are finally out of lockdown
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and back in the Yukon.
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I'm real late.
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I needed to get my equipment running.
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I need to get crew up here.
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I'm actually starting off worse than I ever have,
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that I'm starting off in a hole this year, and that feels terrible.
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Last season, Rick barely broke even.
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This is his last chance to prove himself as a mine boss.
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Last year was brutal.
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Quite honestly I spent all winter
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trying to process how last season went.
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I've never had such a kick in the ass like that,
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but I worked pretty hard all winter to try and get some money to
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give this another shot.
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There's a whole lot of redemption waiting for me.
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If I didn't think that, I wouldn't be here.
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Rick has staked his mining future
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on a new 2,000-acre claim on lower Duncan Creek.
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But before he can run any figure,
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he has to move his entire camp eight miles to the new site.
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And there is only one man for the job,
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Yukon trucking legend, Nathan Thornington.
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- Good. How you been? - Moving camp first.
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It rained last night so those roads are just super slick.
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More weight the better.
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Good, good.
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To get Rick mining as soon as possible,
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Nathan needs to haul seven loads down winding mountain roads
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by the end of the day.
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Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
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You gotta get those guys.
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How far are we from there?
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Yikes.
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The trailer and its 1-ton load are hanging
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over a 200-foot sheer drop.
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I don't think so.
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I just don't even want to look at it.
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It had to rain last night.
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Yeah, see, as soon as it got here, it just slid.
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It takes Rick a full five hours to walk in
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the only machine strong enough to pull the trailer out of danger.
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His 70-ton 700 excavator.
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It's either gonna lift this thing out of there or it's not.
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If it's got the power, but if it doesn't...
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Am I good to lift?
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- Yeah. - Okay.
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Easy.
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Try pulling a bit more.
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More or less.
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Saved probably the first or second most vital part of my camp,
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that's the, that's the bathroom shack.
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, not a scratch on it.
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What the .
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Those might be the four most
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pathetic looking yet strongest trees in the universe.
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All right, get her moving.
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The next day, Rick hauls in the final pieces of his camp
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and assembles his slimmed down crew.
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All right.
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Well, we got everything moved over, the camp, the equipment,
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now it's time to get to mining.
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We're all here, this is, uh, this is pretty much it.
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We're going for a thousand ounces this year.
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I know we've got a short amount of time,
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but if we just work and pound it out together, I think we can get it.
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Let's do this. We good? All right.
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- Let's do it. - Yeah.
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And just like that we're up in sluicing.
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Nearly seven weeks late,
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Rick's crew finally start their season.
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I'm amazed that we're even here at this point.
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It's a testament to Rick getting all that work done.
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It's pretty damn amazing.
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This year, man, already a huge change.
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Rick stepping up, it's huge for us, right?
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It's a whole different energy this year.
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We can only hope that there's gold in this little spot.
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Rick is one step closer to redemption.
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I'm taking this year very personal.
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Honestly, when we walk out of here this fall,
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I think we're gonna have a huge amount of victory in our corner.
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In 2020, as gold prices soar to record highs,
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a greenhorn seizes the moment to set up his own gold mine.
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This is probably the biggest risk I've taken in my life.
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I don't have a job right now.
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I've got nothing coming in.
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I'm not willing to take that laying down.
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The American dream is to go out and get it with your own hands.
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I want to control my own fate.
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Former Green Beret medic Fred Lewis
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got a taste for gold working with Parker
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in Papua New Guinea, Australia and the Yukon.
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I was 14 years in the military,
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and then when I got out, having that purpose, it was just gone in one day.
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I was a wrestling coach, a girls volleyball coach, a farmer.
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I did all these things just trying to find a purpose
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and none of it made any sense to me,
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until I found gold mining.
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Fred has gambled his life savings,
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$20,000,
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on a lease to mine a 36-acre claim in Oregon's Elkhorn Mountains.
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I've emptied every penny I own on this and borrowed some,
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but this is a place that we can pull gold out of the ground
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and give ourselves a living.
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To help him mine...
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This is the road, man.
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We're way up here.
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Fred calls in a crew of combat veterans.
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I think that's Fred right there.
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In my mind, these are my heroes.
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These guys have gone through so much in their lives
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and fought so much adversity.
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So what I wanted is to give these guys not only an adventure
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and a moment to have that camaraderie back again,
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but I could give them a whole new purpose in life.
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This isn't just about gold mining,
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it's about coming together as brothers,
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living the American dream
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and pulling gold out of the ground to make ourselves our own living.
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Yeah.
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We're gonna beat the odds.
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Seriously.
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You guys in?
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- Hell yeah! - Yeah!
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- Let's do it then. - Let's go.
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One, two, three...
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There's just one problem,
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most of them have never mined before.
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In Oregon, former Green Beret medic, Fred Lewis,
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and his crew of combat veterans are on the hunt for gold.
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Everybody here is a novice, so I know
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where their heads at right now.
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They're... they're probably
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completely out of their element, but
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I can relate to that. So I'm hoping I can
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shed some light on this pretty quick to 'em.
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I have zero percent experience mining gold, mining anything,
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but I started to think, man, I could strike it rich.
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Former marine, Johnny "Stingray" Stanz
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will be in charge of Fred's water system.
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I had to retire after ten years in the Marine Corps
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when I got a really bad brain injury from getting blown up
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in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb.
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I actually got some pictures on my phone.
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Um, I was in the bed of the truck,
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manning the squad automatic weapon when the bomb went off.
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Johnny was hurt so badly,
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doctors rated his chance of walking or talking again at zero.
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Still not 100%, but definitely better than
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I could be and look at me gold mining.
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How many people can say that?
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It's gonna be a freaking task, but
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why would I have become special operations in the Marine Corps
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if I didn't like challenges.
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To turn a bunch of injured marines,
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tank drivers and recon Scout Snipers into gold miners.
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Fred's relying on Air Force veteran Kendell Madden,
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who learned the business from his uncle, gold catching legend,
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Freddy Dodge.
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One of the only guys here with mining knowledge,
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so teaching these guys something I take a lot of pride in.
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I'm really confident that these guys are gonna pull through,
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be a bad-ass team by the end of the year.
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Kendell's first student...
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Try to keep the bottom of the bucket flat
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and level as you pull it in.
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Retired Green Beret Master Sergeant,
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Stefan Generally.
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I spent my first ten years in the army mechanized inventory.
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So I've driven in combat.
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I figured driving this thing should be a piece of cake.
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I was wrong.
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Probably have to throttle up on that, bad boy.
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Say that again?
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Curl your bucket more.
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Gotcha.
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Put it down, put it down nice and soft.
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Get it, get it, get it.
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Oh, buddy.
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.
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Damn.
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On a big rock like that, next time,
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set it completely on the ground before you let go of it.
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I wasn't trying to let go of it.
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I wasn't.
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So right now that big rock's in the way,
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we can't do anything. We're gonna have to lift that rock.
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Man talk about frickin'.
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Oh, Harry.
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We've all proven ourselves as far as tenacity
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and overcoming obstacles.
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This is his obstacle right now and he's gonna figure it out.
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Yes, and just put it to the left.
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You got it.
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Oh, there she goes.
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Perfect. Let it be.
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Works for me right now.
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After graduating from Excavator 101,
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Stefan is ready to feed wash plant
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Colonel Nugget.
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All right, Kendell, let's fire it up.
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Let's go.
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There she go.
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RPMs are good.
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All right, guys, it's go time.
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Let's do it!
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Roll it.
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Oh, feed the Colonel.
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Hell yeah!
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Whoo! Let's get some gold. Whoo!
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Finally mining!
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Fred and his crew have taken the first steps
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towards their dream of striking it rich.
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Such a good feeling.
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Heyo!
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Cleaning off the top of the cleanup.
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Oh, .
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We're actually mining. Holy .
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That's where you want to be right here.
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If we can just keep this going the rest of the season.
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After two disastrous seasons,
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king of the Klondike, Tony Beets is looking to make a comeback.
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Son, Mike, leads the way.
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Running his trommel with the gold rich
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pay dirt from the Mega Cut.
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And after two weeks, has banked 140 ounces of gold.
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Got it.
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But to hit his goal,
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Tony needs to find more gold rich spots.
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Tony heads to a cut Monica opened up
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on Hunker Creek last year,
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where he believes the old-timer's dredge left behind a pile of gold.
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.
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Uh-oh.
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Trees washed down by winter storms
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have dammed Hunker Creek,
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diverting it into Monica's cut
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and submerging the pay dirt under two and a half million gallons of water.
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Tony's plan, build a dam to stop the flow of
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water into Monica's cut.
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Re-divert the creek,
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then dig a channel to drain the flood water
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and reveal the gold rich pay dirt underneath.
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Lost track.
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But unfortunately, it's probably
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one of the worst spots to lose track.
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He's having to use his boom and arm to lift himself up
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and walk the strong track.
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The actual .
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Like, he has no track.
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I mean, it's chilly beats, he'll probably
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do it like it's just another day.
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After piling 38 tons of rock and mud,
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Tony has blocked off the creek from the cut.
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A week later, the cut is drained
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and Monica has enough pay stockpile to fire up the Kiwi wash plant.
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How does it feel sitting on that pile lady?
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Oh, you know, I'm living the dream.
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Monica and Ruby run for 20 hours
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before pulling the mats to see if Tony's second spot pays off.
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Everybody ready?
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The cut must produce at least 20 ounces to be worth running.
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- Nine. - Hold on, hold on.
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9.92.
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Worth $17,000, way less than Tony hoped for.
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Tony's fallen at the first hurdle,
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unless he finds new gold rich ground,
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he could be facing another failed season.
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Things here are running good.
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The biggest challenge we face right now is that we are
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running out of good ground.
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A third of the way through this season,
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Parker is running two wash plants 24/7...
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Time to make some money!
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To build a war chest.
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You need to make some money up here and a lot of that
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needs to go towards finding more and better ground.
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Now, having already banked 2,500 ounces,
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over $4 million worth of gold...
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Parker is about to make a big move to expand
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his mining empire.
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For the first time ever, he is leaving his mine site
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during the season...
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Mitch, you'll be in charge while I'm gone.
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We'll try and keep her on track.
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To hunt new ground in his home state of Alaska.
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Right now I'm on my way to Fairbanks.
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We've got a really good opportunity on a piece of ground
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that has had a lot of historic mining.
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It's for sale.
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Guy that owns it wants $3 million for it,
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which is a lot of money.
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Buying this claim on Smallwood Creek
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could be the biggest risk of Parker's life.
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00:25:03,168 --> 00:25:05,903
So he's brought in drill expert...
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00:25:05,905 --> 00:25:08,038
Looks like he already been washing rocks.
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Liam Ferguson.
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Yeah, we got a few...
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few days, had a head start on.
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00:25:11,110 --> 00:25:14,144
So we've done a little bit of drilling now.
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For the past five days, Liam has been testing
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the ground with his state-of-the-art sonic drill.
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00:25:23,188 --> 00:25:28,158
We're seeing gold but seems to be pretty spotty.
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00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:31,996
For the potential that is here, you want to be sure.
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00:25:31,998 --> 00:25:33,297
Do you want to show me around?
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Yeah, let's go for a walk.
422
00:25:34,934 --> 00:25:36,600
Oh, this looks like fun.
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00:25:36,602 --> 00:25:38,202
How have you been going back and forth it?
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Swimming across.
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00:25:39,906 --> 00:25:41,338
Oh, .
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00:25:41,340 --> 00:25:43,107
You might not want to follow me.
427
00:25:44,109 --> 00:25:46,143
Oh, don't go there.
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00:25:46,145 --> 00:25:48,045
So you should just come down here and slam a line in
429
00:25:48,047 --> 00:25:49,713
somewhere in here, huh?
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00:25:49,715 --> 00:25:52,983
This is kind of the zone that I'd be interested in looking.
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00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:57,588
Liam drills two lines of five test holes
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deep into the ground.
433
00:26:01,893 --> 00:26:03,227
A lot of this ground is 100 feet deep.
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00:26:03,229 --> 00:26:06,130
So, it's not cheap mining, right?
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00:26:06,132 --> 00:26:08,999
That's the kind of ground that if the gold's not good,
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00:26:09,001 --> 00:26:11,235
it'll break you trying to do that.
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00:26:12,571 --> 00:26:16,073
For this ground to be worth the $3 million price tag...
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Start with the best one first.
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00:26:18,611 --> 00:26:22,279
Parker needs to see 200 milligrams per hole.
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00:26:24,816 --> 00:26:28,118
Do you want to go 100 feet for 32 milligrams, Parker?
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00:26:29,988 --> 00:26:31,789
I don't know where all the other gold's gone,
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00:26:31,791 --> 00:26:33,123
it's supposed to be there.
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00:26:34,025 --> 00:26:35,960
Not like we're hitting dead holes,
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00:26:35,962 --> 00:26:37,861
like there's gold here.
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00:26:37,863 --> 00:26:41,599
Yeah, but no major hits.
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00:26:41,601 --> 00:26:44,201
I think we're gonna stop drilling for now.
447
00:26:44,203 --> 00:26:45,569
Yeah, I agree.
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00:26:45,571 --> 00:26:48,172
As for like buying this place right now,
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I'm not putting all my eggs in this basket,
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00:26:50,843 --> 00:26:53,177
because 30 milligrams at 100 feet,
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00:26:53,179 --> 00:26:56,146
that sounds like a nightmare waiting to happen.
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00:26:56,148 --> 00:26:58,716
Yeah, it's an easy way to lose a lot of money.
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00:26:58,718 --> 00:27:01,151
Thank you for coming out here and making it happen.
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00:27:02,754 --> 00:27:05,055
Back on the Indian River...
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00:27:05,057 --> 00:27:07,157
Come on, big cat, you're falling behind out there.
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00:27:07,159 --> 00:27:08,892
Trying my best.
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00:27:08,894 --> 00:27:12,429
Parker's left foreman Mitch Blaschke in charge
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of his entire Yukon operation.
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00:27:16,034 --> 00:27:18,168
Over the last four weeks...
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00:27:18,170 --> 00:27:19,870
The bottom line, Parker's not here
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00:27:19,872 --> 00:27:21,872
and we're gonna do it my way.
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00:27:21,874 --> 00:27:25,075
He's helped rookie wash plant boss Tyson...
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Whoa!
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00:27:26,112 --> 00:27:27,678
Hey, hey, hang on!
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00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,146
Move Slucifer.
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00:27:29,148 --> 00:27:31,148
If you're telling me you're cool with that setup,
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you need to rethink your game, man.
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00:27:32,818 --> 00:27:33,817
Whoa!
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00:27:33,819 --> 00:27:36,053
And struggled to keep Big Red...
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Got all kinds of hitting the fan around here.
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On the gold.
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00:27:39,725 --> 00:27:41,425
I want to have this operation running smooth.
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I want to have a lot of gold down the gold room,
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00:27:43,229 --> 00:27:45,295
but I'm not the boss so we'll have to see if he's happy
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when he gets back.
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When Parker was on site,
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they were averaging 450 ounces a week.
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For Mitch to match that, he needs a massive 1,800 ounces of gold.
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00:27:57,943 --> 00:27:58,842
Hey. You're back.
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I'm back.
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00:28:00,012 --> 00:28:01,912
It looks like things have been going great here.
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00:28:01,914 --> 00:28:03,113
Like, you guys have been busy.
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00:28:03,115 --> 00:28:04,281
Been very busy, yeah.
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00:28:04,283 --> 00:28:06,316
About it, Brennan, let's see this stuff.
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00:28:07,852 --> 00:28:11,422
Mitch delivers 2,293 ounces...
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Holy .
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00:28:12,725 --> 00:28:14,191
That's a good month.
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00:28:14,193 --> 00:28:19,530
...smashing his target with $4.3 million of gold.
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00:28:23,735 --> 00:28:25,803
That's like the biggest one we've ever had, isn't it?
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00:28:25,805 --> 00:28:28,105
- Oh, yeah. - No, this is definitely a record-breaker.
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00:28:28,107 --> 00:28:29,239
I'm pumped.
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00:28:29,241 --> 00:28:30,941
I mean, like to be able to be gone
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00:28:30,943 --> 00:28:32,643
and have one of the best months
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00:28:32,645 --> 00:28:35,145
this company's ever had is awesome,
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00:28:35,147 --> 00:28:38,248
and like I just can't thank you guys enough.
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00:28:40,819 --> 00:28:43,821
Despite the late start, Parker's mined
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nearly 5,000 ounces.
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00:28:47,192 --> 00:28:48,025
It's never enough.
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00:28:49,862 --> 00:28:53,263
But he still needs to find new ground.
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00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:03,674
Well, we had a late start to the season,
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00:29:03,676 --> 00:29:06,143
but we're definitely making up for lost time right now.
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00:29:08,079 --> 00:29:12,950
At Duncan Creek, Rick Ness is fighting for his mining future.
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00:29:12,952 --> 00:29:15,486
This year's all about proving to myself
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00:29:15,488 --> 00:29:18,122
and to my crew that we can be successful out here mining.
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00:29:18,124 --> 00:29:20,057
If I don't get our 1,000 ounce gold this year,
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I don't see continuing on.
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00:29:22,161 --> 00:29:24,194
Halfway through the season,
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00:29:24,196 --> 00:29:28,766
he's still 600 ounces short of his 1,000 ounce gold.
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00:29:28,768 --> 00:29:31,168
I've run the numbers and there's just no way
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00:29:31,170 --> 00:29:34,738
we're gonna get to 1,000 ounces at the pace we're going.
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00:29:34,740 --> 00:29:36,607
To up his gold count,
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00:29:36,609 --> 00:29:40,210
Rick is going for broke on the new Deep Cut,
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00:29:40,212 --> 00:29:45,749
a three-acre piece of ground he believes is rich in gold nuggets.
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00:29:45,751 --> 00:29:48,385
There's 30 feet of pay in here, like they're supposed to be.
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00:29:48,387 --> 00:29:50,053
It should get us through the rest of the season.
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00:29:50,055 --> 00:29:53,123
You know, we've had to go down through over 60 feet of overburden,
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00:29:53,125 --> 00:29:55,125
you know, it's cost a small fortune,
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00:29:55,127 --> 00:29:57,995
but sometimes you got to bite the bullet, just do it.
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00:30:00,398 --> 00:30:02,933
The difference with Rick this year is
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00:30:02,935 --> 00:30:04,401
complete night and day.
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00:30:04,403 --> 00:30:05,969
He's down here busting his ass.
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00:30:05,971 --> 00:30:08,038
He's working right alongside us,
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00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,507
because he's pumped up just like the rest of us.
524
00:30:13,978 --> 00:30:15,312
, why is it doing that?
525
00:30:15,314 --> 00:30:17,181
Uh-oh.
526
00:30:18,116 --> 00:30:21,218
That is definitely bedrock.
527
00:30:22,086 --> 00:30:25,255
Rick has hit a wall of fractured bedrock
528
00:30:25,257 --> 00:30:29,259
where he expected to find gold-rich pager.
529
00:30:29,261 --> 00:30:32,062
It was just overburdened sitting right on the bedrock.
530
00:30:32,064 --> 00:30:34,331
So this whole section right here we're clearing for nothing.
531
00:30:39,371 --> 00:30:41,271
Gold.
532
00:30:41,273 --> 00:30:42,773
That's just solid clay.
533
00:30:42,775 --> 00:30:46,977
There's little strips of gravels in it, but that's all...
534
00:30:46,979 --> 00:30:50,214
I don't know. It doesn't look like where we tested last year.
535
00:30:50,216 --> 00:30:54,051
Getting it into the pan as much as I can and try to find some gold in it.
536
00:30:54,053 --> 00:30:57,120
I'm pretty, pretty nervous right now.
537
00:30:59,891 --> 00:31:02,893
If the pan contains no gold,
538
00:31:02,895 --> 00:31:07,331
his dreams of a successful season could be over.
539
00:31:15,273 --> 00:31:17,107
There ain't nothing in this.
540
00:31:17,109 --> 00:31:19,142
That's a major, major .
541
00:31:19,144 --> 00:31:21,445
.
542
00:31:28,253 --> 00:31:29,920
Right now I'm just scrambling
543
00:31:29,922 --> 00:31:32,256
to look for the future here for the rest of the season
544
00:31:32,258 --> 00:31:33,790
because the Deep Cut was supposed to be it.
545
00:31:33,792 --> 00:31:37,828
So plan is get out and find some different ground.
546
00:31:37,830 --> 00:31:40,430
In the mountains above Keno,
547
00:31:40,432 --> 00:31:43,033
Rick Ness' future as a gold miner
548
00:31:43,035 --> 00:31:46,970
hangs in the balance after striking out in the Deep Cut.
549
00:31:46,972 --> 00:31:48,272
That's a disaster, right?
550
00:31:48,274 --> 00:31:50,007
We spent a lot of time and money on that and it's...
551
00:31:50,009 --> 00:31:51,975
it's going to produce zero.
552
00:31:51,977 --> 00:31:55,946
Rick's out there looking for dirt, but you see we don't got much time left, so.
553
00:31:55,948 --> 00:31:58,815
It's not good, man. It's not good.
554
00:31:58,817 --> 00:32:01,018
I'm just gonna keep looking until I find us some
555
00:32:01,020 --> 00:32:02,185
ground we could run.
556
00:32:02,220 --> 00:32:04,154
I'm hoping that that good red gravel we were running
557
00:32:04,156 --> 00:32:05,222
continues across the creek.
558
00:32:05,224 --> 00:32:07,057
I don't see why it shouldn't.
559
00:32:07,059 --> 00:32:09,726
All of Rick's gold this season
560
00:32:09,728 --> 00:32:13,864
has come from the Cheap Cut, a pay streak of red pay gravel,
561
00:32:13,866 --> 00:32:16,166
just two feet below the surface.
562
00:32:16,168 --> 00:32:19,102
Rick believes the pay streak continues
563
00:32:19,104 --> 00:32:21,371
on the other side of the creek.
564
00:32:21,373 --> 00:32:24,942
If his hunch is right, it could save his season.
565
00:32:26,044 --> 00:32:29,179
Crossing the creek was never part of the plan this year.
566
00:32:30,515 --> 00:32:33,150
Thinking my best bet is to hug the creek a bit
567
00:32:33,152 --> 00:32:36,086
because that should afford me some thaw off the creek.
568
00:32:41,326 --> 00:32:43,193
Oh, yeah.
569
00:32:44,829 --> 00:32:47,264
We've got red gravel right here.
570
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:52,502
Hey, Kruse, let's get those rock trucks rounded up, we've got pay gravel.
571
00:32:57,141 --> 00:33:00,143
Rick's given me an opportunity to
572
00:33:00,145 --> 00:33:02,813
make more money than I've ever made in my life.
573
00:33:02,815 --> 00:33:04,982
It's a chance for me to make a better life
574
00:33:04,984 --> 00:33:07,184
for me and my fiancee.
575
00:33:07,186 --> 00:33:09,786
I mean, for Rick to just hand that to me,
576
00:33:09,788 --> 00:33:13,090
it's humbling and I don't want to let him down.
577
00:33:17,962 --> 00:33:20,230
These are nice boulders, nice looking rock, so
578
00:33:20,232 --> 00:33:21,898
looking a lot better here.
579
00:33:21,900 --> 00:33:23,266
We're back on the good pay.
580
00:33:28,906 --> 00:33:31,141
We have an emergency, we have...
581
00:33:31,143 --> 00:33:33,076
Kruse has rolled his truck in the Deep Cut.
582
00:33:33,078 --> 00:33:34,111
.
583
00:33:34,113 --> 00:33:35,979
. .
584
00:33:51,696 --> 00:33:53,397
It's all right.
585
00:33:53,399 --> 00:33:55,265
You okay? Your neck doesn't hurt nothing, buddy?
586
00:33:55,267 --> 00:33:56,400
No.
587
00:33:57,402 --> 00:34:00,404
Oh.
588
00:34:00,406 --> 00:34:01,972
Your back's not hurting, nothing?
589
00:34:01,974 --> 00:34:03,240
You all right, brother?
590
00:34:08,980 --> 00:34:10,047
Oh, yeah, I'm great.
591
00:34:10,049 --> 00:34:11,148
.
592
00:34:11,150 --> 00:34:13,116
You scared the out of me, dude.
593
00:34:13,885 --> 00:34:16,186
Yeah, I know. I up.
594
00:34:16,188 --> 00:34:18,221
No, I suddenly turned around, I didn't see any of it happen.
595
00:34:18,223 --> 00:34:20,190
I see the truck here laying on the side.
596
00:34:20,192 --> 00:34:22,192
I didn't see anybody moving around it.
597
00:34:22,194 --> 00:34:24,161
bugs.
598
00:34:24,163 --> 00:34:25,595
I'm just happy you're okay, dude.
599
00:34:25,597 --> 00:34:26,863
- Oh. - This is...
600
00:34:26,865 --> 00:34:28,298
It was, it was...
601
00:34:28,300 --> 00:34:30,100
super slow-mo.
602
00:34:30,102 --> 00:34:35,472
I've got it to the point where it picked up that front wheel before
603
00:34:36,507 --> 00:34:40,744
and it started feeling like that
604
00:34:40,746 --> 00:34:42,712
and then it didn't stop feeling like that.
605
00:34:42,714 --> 00:34:45,015
Prided myself in doing a pretty good job of
606
00:34:45,017 --> 00:34:49,286
taking care of these trucks and now I up.
607
00:34:50,121 --> 00:34:53,023
Rick brings in the 480 Excavator
608
00:34:53,025 --> 00:34:55,125
and a loader to right the truck.
609
00:34:55,127 --> 00:34:57,294
Well, I'm just trying to figure a good spot to rig it here.
610
00:34:57,296 --> 00:34:58,995
Yeah.
611
00:34:58,997 --> 00:35:00,464
It's going to be a pretty hillbilly.
612
00:35:03,668 --> 00:35:06,303
This is not how you rig stuff, but
613
00:35:06,305 --> 00:35:09,072
we need to get this thing flopped over in a timely fashion,
614
00:35:09,074 --> 00:35:10,107
so this is what we're gonna do.
615
00:35:10,109 --> 00:35:11,408
Okay. Go ahead, start pulling.
616
00:35:11,410 --> 00:35:14,978
Costing us time and money, that's not a good feeling.
617
00:35:14,980 --> 00:35:16,246
Just watch yourself.
618
00:35:16,248 --> 00:35:18,081
You should tilt it a bit more, tilt it.
619
00:35:20,718 --> 00:35:21,985
Okay.
620
00:35:24,255 --> 00:35:26,056
If you wanted out of a truck that bad,
621
00:35:26,058 --> 00:35:27,591
you just had to tell me, dude.
622
00:35:29,962 --> 00:35:31,828
Zero physical harm,
623
00:35:31,830 --> 00:35:34,464
quite possibly irreparable damage to my pride.
624
00:35:38,536 --> 00:35:41,171
Later, Karla checks the sluices
625
00:35:41,173 --> 00:35:46,276
to see if Rick's decision to cross the creek has paid off.
626
00:35:46,278 --> 00:35:47,878
It looks really good.
627
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:49,379
Oh, my .
628
00:35:49,381 --> 00:35:50,914
Holy , dude.
629
00:35:50,916 --> 00:35:52,149
I can't believe that.
630
00:35:52,151 --> 00:35:53,216
Wow!
631
00:35:53,218 --> 00:35:54,951
Look at that.
632
00:35:57,089 --> 00:35:59,089
Holy .
633
00:36:00,791 --> 00:36:02,292
Christmas came early.
634
00:36:02,294 --> 00:36:04,194
That's like an ounce right there.
635
00:36:04,196 --> 00:36:07,130
That's a beauty, like that's worth some serious money.
636
00:36:07,132 --> 00:36:10,000
Probably be four grand right there.
637
00:36:10,002 --> 00:36:11,902
As far as I know, that's bigger than anything
638
00:36:11,904 --> 00:36:13,770
Parker or Tony's pulled out of the ground.
639
00:36:13,772 --> 00:36:16,773
Last season, Rick left the Klondike to
640
00:36:16,775 --> 00:36:19,042
come to the mountains above Keno
641
00:36:19,044 --> 00:36:21,511
in the hope of finding monster nuggets.
642
00:36:22,914 --> 00:36:25,115
That's bigger than anything I expected ever out here.
643
00:36:25,117 --> 00:36:26,483
Yeah.
644
00:36:27,752 --> 00:36:31,354
His gamble is finally paying off.
645
00:36:31,356 --> 00:36:32,989
This year just feels different, you know,
646
00:36:32,991 --> 00:36:36,793
and it's got a better vibe, but I still need to hit my 1,000-ounce target.
647
00:36:36,795 --> 00:36:38,695
As long as we don't hit any major snags,
648
00:36:38,697 --> 00:36:40,363
I think we're right on track.
649
00:36:47,738 --> 00:36:49,739
All of you fought some pretty hard battles
650
00:36:49,741 --> 00:36:51,808
in your life and now we just need to do that here.
651
00:36:51,810 --> 00:36:55,212
In Oregon, rookie miner Fred Lewis
652
00:36:55,214 --> 00:37:00,016
and his team of combat veterans dream of striking it rich.
653
00:37:00,018 --> 00:37:01,284
Fred's right.
654
00:37:01,286 --> 00:37:02,819
Let's get this gold, boys!
655
00:37:02,821 --> 00:37:04,321
Oh, yeah!
656
00:37:07,358 --> 00:37:09,859
Came out here as a group of injured vets
657
00:37:09,861 --> 00:37:11,027
and yet here we are.
658
00:37:11,029 --> 00:37:14,097
We're doing everything we can in our power to
659
00:37:14,099 --> 00:37:17,267
try to bring money home, make life good again.
660
00:37:17,269 --> 00:37:20,503
For three months, Fred's Greenhorn crew
661
00:37:20,505 --> 00:37:22,806
has struggled to get on the gold,
662
00:37:22,808 --> 00:37:25,075
banking just one ounce.
663
00:37:26,177 --> 00:37:27,944
This is really bad.
664
00:37:29,180 --> 00:37:30,880
They've battled breakdown.
665
00:37:32,117 --> 00:37:33,250
I'm no mechanic.
666
00:37:33,252 --> 00:37:34,251
I don't know what that means.
667
00:37:34,253 --> 00:37:36,119
Water problems.
668
00:37:36,121 --> 00:37:37,954
Hey, hey, hey, cut off that water.
669
00:37:37,956 --> 00:37:39,589
And each other.
670
00:37:39,591 --> 00:37:41,791
Are you gonna do anything right?
671
00:37:41,793 --> 00:37:43,126
Shut your fat mouth.
672
00:37:43,128 --> 00:37:44,995
You know, morale is down.
673
00:37:44,997 --> 00:37:45,895
People want to see gold.
674
00:37:45,897 --> 00:37:47,230
They're not seeing gold.
675
00:37:48,165 --> 00:37:50,200
This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,
676
00:37:50,202 --> 00:37:53,203
but it's kind of turning into a nightmare.
677
00:37:53,205 --> 00:37:55,105
But despite all their problems,
678
00:37:55,107 --> 00:37:58,241
the combat veterans aren't giving up.
679
00:37:59,243 --> 00:38:00,143
Hurry up back there.
680
00:38:00,145 --> 00:38:02,078
Let's go.
681
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,848
We keep getting kicked, but we keep getting back up.
682
00:38:04,850 --> 00:38:06,182
If we can keep the plant up and running
683
00:38:06,184 --> 00:38:08,885
and not have as many issues, we'll get more gold.
684
00:38:08,887 --> 00:38:11,054
Thankfully we got a team that won't quit,
685
00:38:11,056 --> 00:38:13,757
no matter how much you put problems or obstacles in their way,
686
00:38:13,759 --> 00:38:15,158
they're gonna keep fighting.
687
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,927
I might just kind of try and put as many buckets as I can through.
688
00:38:17,929 --> 00:38:19,229
We need to make some money.
689
00:38:19,231 --> 00:38:20,530
We need to find some gold.
690
00:38:28,205 --> 00:38:29,306
Hey, Kyle, the...
691
00:38:29,308 --> 00:38:30,774
the hopper is jamming up, man.
692
00:38:30,776 --> 00:38:32,676
Can you come up there and knock something loose?
693
00:38:32,678 --> 00:38:34,311
- . - Yeah, let's do it.
694
00:38:34,313 --> 00:38:36,413
Leave that thing running I gotta go up there and fix it.
695
00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:44,721
Hey, man, be careful up there.
696
00:38:44,723 --> 00:38:46,790
Yeah, it's jammed up real bad here.
697
00:38:46,792 --> 00:38:48,892
We're running completely jacked up.
698
00:38:48,894 --> 00:38:51,361
. You know, you shouldn't be up on the wash plant while it's running.
699
00:38:55,767 --> 00:38:56,866
Hey, hey, hey.
700
00:38:56,868 --> 00:38:59,169
Cut the water, Johnny. Cut the water.
701
00:39:02,273 --> 00:39:04,240
Kyle, you can't be up there while it's running.
702
00:39:04,242 --> 00:39:05,508
What's going on?
703
00:39:06,977 --> 00:39:08,345
.
704
00:39:16,721 --> 00:39:20,156
We're here to mine and go home with gold in our hands.
705
00:39:20,158 --> 00:39:22,392
We need to wake the beast and we need to get things going.
706
00:39:23,961 --> 00:39:25,695
Oh, boy!
707
00:39:25,697 --> 00:39:28,898
In Oregon's Elkhorn Mountains, Fred Lewis'
708
00:39:28,900 --> 00:39:32,702
operation is at a standstill again.
709
00:39:32,704 --> 00:39:34,504
This... this is a mess.
710
00:39:34,506 --> 00:39:36,673
To get back on the gold,
711
00:39:36,675 --> 00:39:41,911
Fred's crew needs to stop pay dirt clogging the wash plant's hopper.
712
00:39:41,913 --> 00:39:44,848
The bottom of our hopper is just wavy as can be
713
00:39:44,850 --> 00:39:46,616
and I think that's where part of our issue is.
714
00:39:46,618 --> 00:39:48,685
The water is not able to rush down right, which means
715
00:39:48,687 --> 00:39:51,121
that's where you're starting to get piles and build up.
716
00:39:51,123 --> 00:39:53,656
Ex-army sergeant Kyle Pletzke
717
00:39:53,658 --> 00:39:57,594
comes up with a plan, cover the dented hopper base
718
00:39:57,596 --> 00:40:00,196
with a sloping sheet of smooth steel.
719
00:40:07,805 --> 00:40:09,706
Definitely not afraid of hard work,
720
00:40:09,708 --> 00:40:11,875
after being in the military for five years,
721
00:40:11,877 --> 00:40:14,010
a lot of it was spent in the hospital for me,
722
00:40:14,012 --> 00:40:18,148
and that was probably harder work than actually going out and be an infantryman.
723
00:40:18,849 --> 00:40:21,217
While serving in Afghanistan,
724
00:40:21,219 --> 00:40:26,156
Kyle's light-armored vehicle rolled and crushed his legs and pelvis.
725
00:40:27,024 --> 00:40:28,591
Had to relearn how to walk.
726
00:40:28,593 --> 00:40:31,961
Doctors kind of gave me a bad prognosis at one point.
727
00:40:31,963 --> 00:40:34,164
After leaving the hospital and leaving the military,
728
00:40:34,166 --> 00:40:35,598
it was tough to know what to do.
729
00:40:37,001 --> 00:40:38,234
This is...
730
00:40:38,269 --> 00:40:41,104
I think this is what I needed, you know, it's being out here
731
00:40:41,106 --> 00:40:44,207
with a good group of guys, running around a mine site,
732
00:40:44,209 --> 00:40:46,876
hopping up, still able to fix things.
733
00:40:46,878 --> 00:40:49,078
I think this might be a real calling for me.
734
00:40:49,914 --> 00:40:51,114
I've got to give it everything I can.
735
00:40:51,116 --> 00:40:52,782
There's nothing that's going to stop me from
736
00:40:52,784 --> 00:40:54,150
making this be a success.
737
00:40:55,753 --> 00:40:58,188
All right, let's fire up. We're clear.
738
00:41:00,691 --> 00:41:03,526
We'll know in about ten minutes if that hopper is gonna feed it correctly.
739
00:41:07,765 --> 00:41:09,866
Right now it is looking pretty good.
740
00:41:09,868 --> 00:41:12,101
It looks like we might have solved the problem.
741
00:41:12,970 --> 00:41:14,237
It's looking a lot better.
742
00:41:15,206 --> 00:41:16,039
Keep feeding it, Stu.
743
00:41:16,041 --> 00:41:18,741
Let's get some gold, baby!
744
00:41:18,743 --> 00:41:22,712
Kyle's fix allows Fred's crew to run uninterrupted
745
00:41:22,714 --> 00:41:24,614
for the first time this season.
746
00:41:26,083 --> 00:41:28,151
- You guys want to see? - Yeah, let's get it.
747
00:41:34,291 --> 00:41:36,025
0.24.
748
00:41:37,027 --> 00:41:39,896
Despite stepping up to fix the plant
749
00:41:39,898 --> 00:41:44,534
on their own, the crew banks just $456.
750
00:41:45,135 --> 00:41:46,402
I don't like it.
751
00:41:46,404 --> 00:41:52,075
Fred's season gold hall is still only 1.2 ounces.
752
00:41:52,077 --> 00:41:54,110
If we kept going the way we're going, I don't...
753
00:41:54,112 --> 00:41:56,412
I don't have another week, maybe two weeks in me
754
00:41:56,414 --> 00:41:59,148
running like this without something coming back in.
755
00:42:16,768 --> 00:42:19,302
Twelve weeks into the short season,
756
00:42:19,304 --> 00:42:25,141
Tony Beets has mined only $1,000 ounces of his 3,000-ounce gold.
757
00:42:33,951 --> 00:42:37,453
All season, Tony has been desperately searching
758
00:42:37,455 --> 00:42:40,657
for new gold rich pay streaks...
759
00:42:43,228 --> 00:42:45,862
But so far has drawn a blank.
760
00:42:51,402 --> 00:42:55,004
Now, Tony has come up with a new plan.
761
00:43:05,649 --> 00:43:08,117
Just down the hill from Mike's trommel
762
00:43:08,119 --> 00:43:12,088
lies a huge pile of waste rocks and gravel
763
00:43:12,090 --> 00:43:15,525
left by miners more than 80 years ago.
764
00:43:29,940 --> 00:43:33,443
Tony believes the old-timers' wooden sluice boxes
765
00:43:33,445 --> 00:43:35,244
were so primitive,
766
00:43:35,246 --> 00:43:39,215
they could have washed out hundreds of ounces in their tailings.
767
00:43:58,335 --> 00:44:00,136
He's not the one that has to lift them.
768
00:44:04,475 --> 00:44:07,276
If Tony finds gold in the tailings,
769
00:44:07,278 --> 00:44:12,248
it could be the monster payday he's been looking for all season.
770
00:44:23,427 --> 00:44:27,997
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine ten.
771
00:44:38,008 --> 00:44:40,910
To run the old-timer tails,
772
00:44:40,912 --> 00:44:44,580
Tony brings his 30-year-old shaker deck out of retirement...
773
00:44:44,582 --> 00:44:47,316
Let's get going.
774
00:44:47,318 --> 00:44:51,954
And trucks it down the hill to a narrow pad beside the tailgate.
775
00:45:04,868 --> 00:45:07,970
Tony hauls in two old dredge pontoons
776
00:45:07,972 --> 00:45:10,006
to help build the pad.
777
00:45:14,378 --> 00:45:15,578
No way.
778
00:45:20,818 --> 00:45:21,984
Where do you like to have it?
779
00:45:32,896 --> 00:45:37,133
I'm waiting for it to hit that thing. Oh, .
780
00:45:49,046 --> 00:45:50,213
Tony!
781
00:45:51,415 --> 00:45:53,015
Oh, no!
782
00:45:53,017 --> 00:45:54,283
Tony!
783
00:46:06,196 --> 00:46:07,263
Yes.
784
00:46:16,206 --> 00:46:18,107
Thank .
785
00:46:48,338 --> 00:46:49,906
Should I get going?
786
00:47:03,220 --> 00:47:04,720
That's beautiful.
787
00:47:11,929 --> 00:47:14,430
Tony runs the plant for three days
788
00:47:14,432 --> 00:47:16,098
before pulling the mats...
789
00:47:16,100 --> 00:47:18,201
72.12.
790
00:47:18,203 --> 00:47:22,138
Worth almost $130,000.
791
00:47:22,140 --> 00:47:23,105
awesome.
792
00:47:29,479 --> 00:47:34,350
Tony's plan to find gold in the old-timer tailings has paid off.
793
00:47:34,352 --> 00:47:40,022
If it continues to deliver, his 3,000-ounce gold is in his reach.
794
00:47:51,602 --> 00:47:53,369
This season's been a hell of a season
795
00:47:53,371 --> 00:47:58,407
with the whole COVID thing, but, you know, we've had two wash plants,
796
00:47:58,409 --> 00:48:00,042
pounding away all season.
797
00:48:00,044 --> 00:48:01,711
It's been really good.
798
00:48:01,713 --> 00:48:05,248
Over halfway through the shortest season ever,
799
00:48:05,250 --> 00:48:08,251
Parker's crew is tearing through ground,
800
00:48:08,253 --> 00:48:13,022
banking a war chest of over 5,000 ounces.
801
00:48:13,024 --> 00:48:14,156
Yeah, buddy!
802
00:48:14,158 --> 00:48:15,291
It's about time.
803
00:48:15,726 --> 00:48:18,394
But their success is creating a problem.
804
00:48:20,063 --> 00:48:22,331
They're almost out of the pay.
805
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:25,968
Everything's been motoring along really nice here, but
806
00:48:25,970 --> 00:48:28,571
we're certainly getting down to the last of our pay dirt.
807
00:48:28,573 --> 00:48:31,207
The amount of ground we're going through is crazy.
808
00:48:31,209 --> 00:48:33,943
Just keeping ground out ahead of Big Red and Slucifer
809
00:48:33,945 --> 00:48:36,078
is gonna be our big challenge.
810
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:37,914
For his season to be a success,
811
00:48:37,916 --> 00:48:42,585
Parker urgently needs new gold rich ground.
812
00:48:42,587 --> 00:48:45,554
I've got my eye on a piece of ground here on the Indian River,
813
00:48:45,556 --> 00:48:48,090
that looks like it should have some really good potential.
814
00:48:48,092 --> 00:48:51,260
The Airstrip Cut, a million square foot claim
815
00:48:51,262 --> 00:48:54,897
just two miles downstream from Parker's camp.
816
00:48:54,899 --> 00:48:58,000
He owns the water license, but to mine it,
817
00:48:58,002 --> 00:49:00,369
he needs to persuade the landowner.
818
00:49:01,438 --> 00:49:02,939
Hello.
819
00:49:05,008 --> 00:49:06,309
Can I come in?
820
00:49:11,048 --> 00:49:12,048
I'm good. How are you doing?
821
00:49:17,788 --> 00:49:19,822
Part of the reason why I'm here is
822
00:49:19,824 --> 00:49:24,160
we're just about done, like, around our camp
823
00:49:24,162 --> 00:49:27,730
and so I'm here... I know you've done some work in there.
824
00:49:27,732 --> 00:49:29,031
Mmm-hmm.
825
00:49:29,033 --> 00:49:30,433
But I'd love to mine around the Airstrip
826
00:49:30,435 --> 00:49:32,501
if you're game.
827
00:49:43,414 --> 00:49:44,680
Okay.
828
00:49:51,855 --> 00:49:53,889
This is a new Tony. I'm not used to this.
829
00:49:57,227 --> 00:49:59,829
Well, yeah, I appreciate that 'cause we're...
830
00:49:59,831 --> 00:50:01,330
we're always hungry for ground.
831
00:50:02,666 --> 00:50:05,267
And with that, we'll be...
832
00:50:05,269 --> 00:50:07,370
I guess we'll be paying you a lot more royalties
833
00:50:07,372 --> 00:50:08,971
than I thought we would, but that's...
834
00:50:08,973 --> 00:50:10,039
that's okay, I guess.
835
00:50:13,810 --> 00:50:14,877
Thanks, Tony.
836
00:50:21,251 --> 00:50:22,985
Wow.
837
00:50:24,121 --> 00:50:26,555
That was definitely one of the more strange meetings
838
00:50:26,557 --> 00:50:28,190
I've had with Tony Beets.
839
00:50:31,128 --> 00:50:32,962
I don't know. I mean, we got another block of ground,
840
00:50:32,964 --> 00:50:34,964
so that's the best part.
841
00:50:36,099 --> 00:50:38,968
With only eight weeks left in his season,
842
00:50:38,970 --> 00:50:43,039
Parker goes all in on the Airstrip Cut.
843
00:50:43,041 --> 00:50:47,943
His crew races to open up ground before hauling Slucifer
844
00:50:47,945 --> 00:50:50,579
five miles to its new pad.
845
00:50:50,581 --> 00:50:52,148
That's badass.
846
00:50:52,150 --> 00:50:55,351
A week later, he doubles down
847
00:50:55,353 --> 00:50:59,188
and brings in Big Red from the last cut.
848
00:50:59,190 --> 00:51:00,489
Come on, old girl.
849
00:51:04,928 --> 00:51:07,163
Nice and easy.
850
00:51:07,165 --> 00:51:08,898
Hold there.
851
00:51:08,900 --> 00:51:10,599
Phew.
852
00:51:10,601 --> 00:51:11,967
Here we go.
853
00:51:14,071 --> 00:51:17,073
With both plants running side-by-side,
854
00:51:17,075 --> 00:51:20,142
Parker's dreams of expanding his empire
855
00:51:20,144 --> 00:51:23,579
now rest on the Airstrip paying out.
856
00:51:32,222 --> 00:51:33,889
You know, I'm always worried we're gonna get
857
00:51:33,891 --> 00:51:36,225
froze out of here before we hit our goal.
858
00:51:36,227 --> 00:51:38,994
This year that's just really not an option.
859
00:51:38,996 --> 00:51:42,565
It's late summer in the mountains above Keno.
860
00:51:42,567 --> 00:51:45,734
In a few short weeks, temperatures will plummet
861
00:51:45,736 --> 00:51:49,805
and snow will blanket the area for six months.
862
00:51:49,807 --> 00:51:52,741
That plant's got to be running flat out 24 hours a day
863
00:51:52,743 --> 00:51:53,742
for the rest of the season.
864
00:51:53,744 --> 00:51:55,578
I've got to hit my target this year.
865
00:51:55,580 --> 00:51:57,980
Honestly, if I don't, this just could be my last year.
866
00:51:57,982 --> 00:52:00,983
Rick has pushed hard all year
867
00:52:00,985 --> 00:52:06,889
but is still nearly 400 ounces short of his 1,000-ounce gold.
868
00:52:06,891 --> 00:52:09,692
If we don't find a sizeable amount of gold, I mean,
869
00:52:09,694 --> 00:52:12,027
that could be the same boat as last year.
870
00:52:13,897 --> 00:52:15,965
I want to go home with a bunch of gold in my pocket.
871
00:52:15,967 --> 00:52:17,333
I know Rick does, too.
872
00:52:20,036 --> 00:52:22,438
Coming your way.
873
00:52:25,075 --> 00:52:27,009
Holy .
874
00:52:30,113 --> 00:52:32,214
What the is going on here?
875
00:52:35,318 --> 00:52:38,053
Holy . Yeah.
876
00:52:38,055 --> 00:52:39,755
That roller's piled right up.
877
00:52:39,757 --> 00:52:40,956
damn it.
878
00:52:40,958 --> 00:52:43,459
thing sitting there sideways.
879
00:52:43,461 --> 00:52:48,230
One of the 700s' carry rollers has bent out of alignment.
880
00:52:48,232 --> 00:52:50,065
me.
881
00:52:50,067 --> 00:52:53,135
And the track is unable to move.
882
00:52:54,337 --> 00:52:56,105
Something might have got in there like a big rock
883
00:52:56,107 --> 00:52:58,073
and got jammed in there, who knows.
884
00:52:58,075 --> 00:53:01,477
We're gonna have to dig those bolts out and
885
00:53:01,479 --> 00:53:04,580
bolt that roller back in there if it's not too far gone, Rick.
886
00:53:04,582 --> 00:53:06,315
Yeah.
887
00:53:06,317 --> 00:53:08,050
- Watch out. - Oh, yeah.
888
00:53:08,919 --> 00:53:10,186
Dude, it's coming out.
889
00:53:10,188 --> 00:53:11,554
- Dude, that's pretty sweet. - Wow!
890
00:53:15,992 --> 00:53:17,092
That thing is .
891
00:53:17,094 --> 00:53:18,460
This is toast.
892
00:53:20,497 --> 00:53:23,866
The 700 needs a new roller
893
00:53:23,868 --> 00:53:29,905
and the only man on site with the skills to replace it is mechanic Carl Rosk.
894
00:53:29,907 --> 00:53:31,807
Let's pop it up.
895
00:53:31,809 --> 00:53:33,075
So, yeah, man, this is our money-maker.
896
00:53:33,077 --> 00:53:34,176
This is our main hole.
897
00:53:34,178 --> 00:53:36,011
Without this thing, we're , right?
898
00:53:36,013 --> 00:53:37,513
Yeah, fire it up, give me a spin.
899
00:53:39,049 --> 00:53:40,349
Yep, better.
900
00:53:43,119 --> 00:53:44,186
Back the other way.
901
00:53:46,890 --> 00:53:48,057
Looking good, mate.
902
00:53:48,059 --> 00:53:49,225
We're in business.
903
00:53:49,227 --> 00:53:50,326
Put it down there, buddy.
904
00:53:50,328 --> 00:53:51,627
Coming down.
905
00:53:53,129 --> 00:53:56,098
I like that.
906
00:53:57,234 --> 00:53:58,968
Oh, yeah.
907
00:53:58,970 --> 00:53:59,868
That's it?
908
00:53:59,870 --> 00:54:01,337
You made it look easy, buddy.
909
00:54:01,339 --> 00:54:04,206
Carl's got the 700 back up and running
910
00:54:04,208 --> 00:54:06,041
in just three hours.
911
00:54:06,043 --> 00:54:07,443
Carl saves the day again.
912
00:54:07,445 --> 00:54:09,745
I'm not convinced you don't pull that on purpose.
913
00:54:09,747 --> 00:54:11,947
gonna be down for a week, Rick,
914
00:54:11,949 --> 00:54:14,216
and then you pull it out of your ass in a couple of hours.
915
00:54:14,918 --> 00:54:16,452
We're back to full speed.
916
00:54:22,158 --> 00:54:25,594
I just got a message here from my doctor that he wants me to call him ASAP,
917
00:54:25,596 --> 00:54:28,097
so it could be something to do with my back.
918
00:54:29,666 --> 00:54:32,201
Two years ago, Carl revealed
919
00:54:32,203 --> 00:54:35,204
he had a benign tumor growing on his spine.
920
00:54:35,206 --> 00:54:37,072
I have a tumor inside me on my lung.
921
00:54:37,074 --> 00:54:39,975
I got one on my spine and I got to get it looked at.
922
00:54:39,977 --> 00:54:41,877
- , man. - Yeah.
923
00:54:41,879 --> 00:54:43,879
Tumor, do you have cancer?
924
00:54:43,881 --> 00:54:45,514
No, well, that's we got to check it out, right?
925
00:54:48,318 --> 00:54:49,618
What's up, man?
926
00:54:51,187 --> 00:54:53,055
Yeah, I got a little bad news here, dude.
927
00:54:53,057 --> 00:54:57,326
So, um, talked to my doctor and he wants
928
00:54:57,328 --> 00:54:59,128
me to go under the knife like right now.
929
00:55:00,096 --> 00:55:01,530
Holy .
930
00:55:01,865 --> 00:55:04,233
Yeah, it's like non-negotiable, right, like, it's a special surgeon.
931
00:55:04,235 --> 00:55:07,536
So you gotta go right away.
932
00:55:07,538 --> 00:55:10,372
I'm obviously gonna leave all my stuff here for everyone, my tools and stuff, but
933
00:55:10,374 --> 00:55:12,875
I don't know if I'll be able to come back to get everything or what.
934
00:55:12,877 --> 00:55:14,743
Yeah. Well, I...
935
00:55:14,745 --> 00:55:17,479
None of that should matter, I mean, it's gonna hurt us,
936
00:55:17,481 --> 00:55:18,947
like you're my guy here, right?
937
00:55:18,949 --> 00:55:21,383
Like, this place doesn't go without you, but...
938
00:55:21,385 --> 00:55:23,585
- I feel like I'm letting everybody down. - No, no.
939
00:55:23,587 --> 00:55:25,688
You shouldn't, I mean, I was shocked at first, Carl,
940
00:55:25,690 --> 00:55:26,622
but honestly I'm happy for you.
941
00:55:26,624 --> 00:55:29,124
- I hate seeing you like that, so. - Yeah.
942
00:55:29,126 --> 00:55:31,427
You think about it, Carl, you won't have to do that all the time.
943
00:55:31,429 --> 00:55:32,728
I know I can't wait.
944
00:55:32,730 --> 00:55:33,996
Yeah. My man.
945
00:55:35,965 --> 00:55:37,166
You're gonna be a new man, Carl.
946
00:55:37,168 --> 00:55:38,567
You're gonna be a new man.
947
00:55:38,569 --> 00:55:40,169
You know, losing my mom a couple years ago,
948
00:55:40,171 --> 00:55:44,206
it helped me realize, you know, that health is really important and,
949
00:55:44,208 --> 00:55:47,910
you know, it's gonna hurt us really bad not having him here, but
950
00:55:47,912 --> 00:55:50,946
honestly it's what's best for him and I'm happy for him.
951
00:55:50,948 --> 00:55:54,883
Leaving the crew, the worst possible time, but, yeah,
952
00:55:54,885 --> 00:55:56,819
you know, I will be back soon, so.
953
00:55:56,821 --> 00:55:59,221
I'm leaving my stuff all here, I'm leaving my dog, so.
954
00:55:59,223 --> 00:56:01,123
Yeah, I gotta come back, so.
955
00:56:02,492 --> 00:56:03,392
I'm sorry, buddy.
956
00:56:03,394 --> 00:56:05,027
You can't come with me, no.
957
00:56:05,029 --> 00:56:07,963
I know, I know, I know.
958
00:56:15,705 --> 00:56:19,975
With Carl gone, Rick's goal of hitting a 1,000 ounces
959
00:56:19,977 --> 00:56:24,346
and securing his mining future is on a knife edge.
960
00:56:24,348 --> 00:56:27,349
Carl, you know, my buddy, my mechanic, I mean, he's...
961
00:56:27,351 --> 00:56:29,585
he's gonna be sorely missed.
962
00:56:29,587 --> 00:56:31,220
Man, it's just...
963
00:56:31,222 --> 00:56:32,254
I'm not gonna let my guard down.
964
00:56:32,256 --> 00:56:34,790
I'm very, very aware of what time of year it is
965
00:56:34,792 --> 00:56:36,258
and how every second counts.
966
00:56:45,969 --> 00:56:48,237
We're all in on this right now.
967
00:56:49,672 --> 00:56:53,642
In Oregon, ex-Special Forces medic Fred Lewis
968
00:56:53,644 --> 00:56:57,045
is fighting to save his first season as a mine boss.
969
00:56:57,047 --> 00:56:59,114
Any obstacles that come at this point,
970
00:56:59,116 --> 00:57:01,183
we're just gonna punch 'em in the face and keep moving.
971
00:57:01,185 --> 00:57:03,519
Pay dirt, plant, gold.
972
00:57:03,521 --> 00:57:04,787
That's pretty easy.
973
00:57:04,789 --> 00:57:08,690
Fred sunk his life savings into the Elkhorn claim
974
00:57:08,692 --> 00:57:13,529
with the dream of paying his crew of combat veterans in gold.
975
00:57:13,531 --> 00:57:15,731
You know, this gold means a lot to all of us,
976
00:57:15,733 --> 00:57:19,902
just another disabled vet who kind of, you know, come on rough times.
977
00:57:19,904 --> 00:57:22,004
So this has to be a success or
978
00:57:22,006 --> 00:57:24,139
I'm gonna end up living out of my truck for real.
979
00:57:26,910 --> 00:57:29,711
But with just weeks left of the season,
980
00:57:29,713 --> 00:57:36,185
they've only mined 2.7 ounces, worth just over $5,000.
981
00:57:36,187 --> 00:57:38,187
Babe, we have a huge problem.
982
00:57:38,189 --> 00:57:40,155
We're almost broke.
983
00:57:41,858 --> 00:57:44,726
We need more gold or we need more money.
984
00:57:44,728 --> 00:57:47,463
If we had the money, we can get more gold.
985
00:57:49,599 --> 00:57:51,800
Actually, I think the only way we're gonna be able to do this
986
00:57:51,802 --> 00:57:53,502
is with an outside investor.
987
00:57:53,504 --> 00:57:55,804
Fred asks old marine buddy
988
00:57:55,806 --> 00:58:01,043
and successful businessman Karl Smith to invest $40,000
989
00:58:01,045 --> 00:58:03,479
for a share of the gold.
990
00:58:03,481 --> 00:58:04,980
All right. You got a deal.
991
00:58:04,982 --> 00:58:06,648
Let's do it.
992
00:58:06,650 --> 00:58:08,083
It's great that we have an investor,
993
00:58:08,085 --> 00:58:10,686
but that puts us under a lot more pressure.
994
00:58:10,688 --> 00:58:13,222
It's not just my money now, it's one of my best friends' money,
995
00:58:13,224 --> 00:58:15,824
but it gives us the financial freedom to keep mining
996
00:58:15,826 --> 00:58:17,192
and to keep that dream alive.
997
00:58:18,294 --> 00:58:19,928
Hey, everybody.
998
00:58:19,930 --> 00:58:22,097
Karl is officially on board.
999
00:58:22,099 --> 00:58:23,365
We have an investor.
1000
00:58:23,367 --> 00:58:25,601
Let's get that gold!
1001
00:58:25,603 --> 00:58:28,837
Back in business!
1002
00:58:28,839 --> 00:58:31,607
Getting Karl on board, getting the investor, that's awesome,
1003
00:58:31,609 --> 00:58:33,141
that's exactly what we needed.
1004
00:58:33,143 --> 00:58:35,143
We're gonna keep pushing and we're gonna give it
1005
00:58:35,145 --> 00:58:36,478
everything we got.
1006
00:58:42,919 --> 00:58:44,553
Whoa. What the !
1007
00:58:47,023 --> 00:58:49,024
, this thing is overheating.
1008
00:58:49,026 --> 00:58:51,393
Fred!
1009
00:58:53,329 --> 00:58:55,397
Fred, yo, we got an issue here.
1010
00:58:56,866 --> 00:58:57,933
Holy crap.
1011
00:58:57,935 --> 00:58:59,268
Listen to it.
1012
00:58:59,270 --> 00:59:00,802
This could be a bad head gasket.
1013
00:59:00,804 --> 00:59:02,004
That's the cheap part.
1014
00:59:02,006 --> 00:59:03,872
However, it could be weeks to get that thing torn apart
1015
00:59:03,874 --> 00:59:05,073
and get everything here that we need.
1016
00:59:05,075 --> 00:59:07,776
It's if they have the part anywhere near here.
1017
00:59:07,778 --> 00:59:11,813
Fred relies on the 988 Loader to haul pay
1018
00:59:11,815 --> 00:59:15,918
from the cut to the plant, while a much smaller L60
1019
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:17,553
clears the tail ends.
1020
00:59:18,855 --> 00:59:22,124
Now, with the 988 out of action,
1021
00:59:22,126 --> 00:59:26,094
the L60 has to do the work of both loaders.
1022
00:59:27,063 --> 00:59:29,031
Just look at our buckets standing here, man.
1023
00:59:29,033 --> 00:59:31,133
I mean I've got less than half the amount of yardage
1024
00:59:31,135 --> 00:59:33,101
that I can move at one time.
1025
00:59:33,103 --> 00:59:35,270
We're gonna have to do night shifts, I think.
1026
00:59:35,272 --> 00:59:38,407
Stockpiling the day and at night, keep the plant up and running.
1027
00:59:38,409 --> 00:59:39,441
That's the only way to do it.
1028
00:59:39,443 --> 00:59:40,909
Yeah.
1029
00:59:40,944 --> 00:59:45,614
Fred's plan, split the crew into day and night shifts.
1030
00:59:45,616 --> 00:59:49,484
The day crew will use the L60 to stockpile pay dirt.
1031
00:59:54,290 --> 00:59:56,892
Then the night shift will use the same loader
1032
00:59:56,894 --> 01:00:00,762
to feed the plant and clear tails.
1033
01:00:00,764 --> 01:00:04,166
Pretty sunset on the mine, but not enough time to look up and enjoy it.
1034
01:00:04,168 --> 01:00:08,236
I got to keep my nose down in the ground and keep on working hard.
1035
01:00:08,238 --> 01:00:11,373
Longer we can run, the better chances we'd have
1036
01:00:11,375 --> 01:00:13,842
finding as much gold as possible.
1037
01:00:13,844 --> 01:00:17,746
Double shift is gonna get us about 20% more productivity here.
1038
01:00:17,748 --> 01:00:20,148
Well, trying to keep everything flowing is
1039
01:00:20,150 --> 01:00:24,186
a lot more difficult when you can only see a few feet in front of your face.
1040
01:00:24,188 --> 01:00:26,321
Bucket number 100 in the hopper.
1041
01:00:26,323 --> 01:00:27,589
Whoo!
1042
01:00:27,591 --> 01:00:29,191
Yee-ha!
1043
01:00:29,959 --> 01:00:33,095
Sometimes, we even impress ourselves.
1044
01:00:33,097 --> 01:00:36,498
Looks like close encounters of the third kind or something.
1045
01:00:44,173 --> 01:00:45,273
Whoa, whoa!
1046
01:00:45,275 --> 01:00:46,475
Stop, stop, stop.
1047
01:00:46,477 --> 01:00:48,810
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
1048
01:00:48,812 --> 01:00:50,178
Oh!
1049
01:00:50,180 --> 01:00:52,881
Stop, stop stop, stop.
1050
01:00:52,915 --> 01:00:54,249
Dude.
1051
01:00:55,084 --> 01:00:57,786
Rock slipped out under there or what?
1052
01:00:57,788 --> 01:01:00,455
This shift is getting a little tired or something.
1053
01:01:00,457 --> 01:01:02,424
I think you might have to help me back out of this, dude,
1054
01:01:02,426 --> 01:01:03,592
this is a little sketchy.
1055
01:01:03,594 --> 01:01:04,993
All right, yeah.
1056
01:01:11,300 --> 01:01:13,068
Scared the living out of me.
1057
01:01:13,070 --> 01:01:14,836
Yeah, that makes two of us.
1058
01:01:14,838 --> 01:01:17,172
Let's keep all the wheels down on the ground, please.
1059
01:01:17,174 --> 01:01:19,241
- Yeah, sounds good, bro. - You got it, man.
1060
01:01:20,243 --> 01:01:23,812
The late shift keep the plant running through the night,
1061
01:01:23,814 --> 01:01:26,615
but it takes its toll on the crew.
1062
01:01:29,118 --> 01:01:31,286
Doing the night shift is difficult and, you know,
1063
01:01:31,288 --> 01:01:33,455
it's been really wearing on me personally.
1064
01:01:34,657 --> 01:01:37,392
Got to come up with something else.
1065
01:01:37,394 --> 01:01:39,594
To save his crew from burnout,
1066
01:01:39,596 --> 01:01:43,765
Fred uses the investment to lease a new loader.
1067
01:01:43,767 --> 01:01:45,300
When I say all in, I mean all in.
1068
01:01:45,302 --> 01:01:47,602
This doesn't work, I'm gonna go down fighting.
1069
01:01:50,139 --> 01:01:51,573
Look at what we got.
1070
01:01:51,575 --> 01:01:53,008
Whoa!
1071
01:01:54,144 --> 01:01:55,210
Oh!
1072
01:01:58,214 --> 01:02:00,248
Looks like we got a new loader.
1073
01:02:02,218 --> 01:02:03,285
Awesome.
1074
01:02:03,287 --> 01:02:04,886
We got her till the end of the season.
1075
01:02:04,888 --> 01:02:06,988
- Really? - So we can go get it dirty.
1076
01:02:06,990 --> 01:02:09,157
- Yeah. - All right, let's freaking fire it up.
1077
01:02:09,159 --> 01:02:11,626
With the new loader on the site,
1078
01:02:11,628 --> 01:02:17,232
Fred has a shot of finding the gold he needs to pay his investor and crew.
1079
01:02:17,234 --> 01:02:20,469
Should be pretty easy to finish out the season in this big thing.
1080
01:02:20,471 --> 01:02:22,404
Just what we need to find a lot more gold.
1081
01:02:24,607 --> 01:02:28,043
We got this new piece of equipment and I can tell morale is high.
1082
01:02:28,045 --> 01:02:30,412
We're gonna work as hard as we possibly can
1083
01:02:30,414 --> 01:02:32,314
and hopefully we can salvage the season.
1084
01:02:48,664 --> 01:02:51,366
The end of the season is in sight,
1085
01:02:51,368 --> 01:02:57,072
but Klondike legend Tony Beets is still 400 ounces short of his gold.
1086
01:03:03,379 --> 01:03:05,413
And he's running out of pay dirt
1087
01:03:05,415 --> 01:03:07,516
in the 18-acre Mega Cut.
1088
01:03:56,065 --> 01:03:59,568
Tony has taken one scoop too many,
1089
01:03:59,570 --> 01:04:02,337
punching a hole in the wall between the cut
1090
01:04:02,339 --> 01:04:06,007
and a two million gallon tailings pond.
1091
01:04:15,117 --> 01:04:16,952
Holy .
1092
01:04:16,954 --> 01:04:18,987
That ain't gonna stop for a while.
1093
01:04:24,093 --> 01:04:25,994
Okay, so if we're done in the Mega Cut,
1094
01:04:25,996 --> 01:04:27,495
where are we gonna get paid for the rest of the season?
1095
01:04:29,565 --> 01:04:34,970
Unless Tony can find new ground, his season will be dead in the water.
1096
01:04:55,625 --> 01:04:58,260
With just weeks left in the season,
1097
01:04:58,262 --> 01:05:01,129
Tony's flooded the last corner of the Mega Cut,
1098
01:05:01,131 --> 01:05:04,099
his only source of gold.
1099
01:05:04,101 --> 01:05:09,204
If he can't find new ground fast, his season is over.
1100
01:05:21,918 --> 01:05:25,320
Tony is banking on an area of virgin ground
1101
01:05:25,322 --> 01:05:30,392
between the Mega Cut and an old cut he knows had good gold.
1102
01:05:31,962 --> 01:05:33,094
Okay.
1103
01:05:35,599 --> 01:05:36,564
Yeah.
1104
01:05:46,042 --> 01:05:49,778
And the... the idea is to clear off the whole section down to pay.
1105
01:05:49,780 --> 01:05:51,713
It's a pain in the ass to deal with, when it rains,
1106
01:05:51,715 --> 01:05:53,915
it's almost impossible to deal with.
1107
01:05:53,917 --> 01:05:56,618
And unfortunately, it rained just before we're gonna be dealing with it.
1108
01:05:58,821 --> 01:06:01,323
Here at the soupy mess.
1109
01:06:01,325 --> 01:06:04,092
It's like a skate rink, it's hard to turn the tire,
1110
01:06:04,094 --> 01:06:05,293
it just slides.
1111
01:06:07,096 --> 01:06:09,230
Holy .
1112
01:06:11,334 --> 01:06:13,335
That sucks.
1113
01:06:16,305 --> 01:06:17,906
Kevin, you got a copy?
1114
01:06:17,908 --> 01:06:19,307
Found a sinkhole here.
1115
01:06:19,309 --> 01:06:21,142
I'll come by, I'll pull you out.
1116
01:06:21,844 --> 01:06:23,845
Copy that.
1117
01:06:23,847 --> 01:06:25,814
We'll get the cable. Hook it up, pull it out.
1118
01:06:25,816 --> 01:06:27,415
Not a problem.
1119
01:06:30,119 --> 01:06:31,453
We're good to go.
1120
01:06:39,061 --> 01:06:40,295
Come on.
1121
01:06:40,297 --> 01:06:41,596
You stubborn .
1122
01:06:44,266 --> 01:06:45,333
!
1123
01:06:45,335 --> 01:06:47,235
Oh, whoa, whoa, Kevin.
1124
01:06:47,237 --> 01:06:50,772
That's not good.
1125
01:06:50,774 --> 01:06:52,307
Well, .
1126
01:06:53,943 --> 01:06:55,710
Yeah, that's in two pieces.
1127
01:06:55,712 --> 01:06:57,979
I've never seen a rock truck pull apart yet.
1128
01:06:57,981 --> 01:07:00,281
I've seen other breaks, I've seen frame breaks,
1129
01:07:00,283 --> 01:07:03,485
but I've not seen one pulling two, that's a new one for me.
1130
01:07:33,983 --> 01:07:35,250
We got it.
1131
01:07:35,252 --> 01:07:37,152
Very nice.
1132
01:07:40,589 --> 01:07:42,323
After three days stripping,
1133
01:07:42,325 --> 01:07:45,360
Tony's down to pay dirt in the Upper Cut.
1134
01:07:50,499 --> 01:07:52,801
But with winter just around the corner,
1135
01:07:52,803 --> 01:07:56,971
he's in a race against time to hit his season goal.
1136
01:07:56,973 --> 01:07:59,674
Hopefully, we can get our 3,000 ounces,
1137
01:07:59,676 --> 01:08:02,577
just shoving through as much as we can, fingers crossed.
1138
01:08:13,089 --> 01:08:15,723
We got two plants side by side, you know,
1139
01:08:15,725 --> 01:08:19,194
we got to fill Parker's old war chest up with all this gold here,
1140
01:08:19,196 --> 01:08:21,429
so we can put it towards this new ground that we need.
1141
01:08:21,431 --> 01:08:24,899
Just five weeks to the end of the season,
1142
01:08:24,901 --> 01:08:29,737
Parker's crew still has more than half of the Airstrip left to mine.
1143
01:08:29,739 --> 01:08:32,373
Hey! Crank it up.
1144
01:08:32,375 --> 01:08:35,710
When his trusted right-hand man Mitch Blaschke
1145
01:08:35,712 --> 01:08:38,313
receives a call from home.
1146
01:08:38,315 --> 01:08:40,048
Can you see the fire from the house?
1147
01:08:40,050 --> 01:08:41,149
It's really smoky.
1148
01:08:41,151 --> 01:08:42,684
Which way is the wind going?
1149
01:08:42,686 --> 01:08:44,152
Towards our house.
1150
01:08:44,154 --> 01:08:46,187
Grab what you can and get out of there.
1151
01:08:47,123 --> 01:08:49,023
- Hey, Parker, you got a minute. - Yeah.
1152
01:08:49,025 --> 01:08:52,026
There's some really bad wildfires down there and they're getting close to us.
1153
01:08:52,028 --> 01:08:53,394
Holy cow.
1154
01:08:53,396 --> 01:08:56,598
So my wife's down there trying to pack up everything she can
1155
01:08:56,600 --> 01:08:57,866
in the back of her car.
1156
01:08:57,868 --> 01:09:01,269
When it comes to your home being threatened by some fires,
1157
01:09:01,271 --> 01:09:04,606
it's obviously a lot more important than whatever we've got going on here.
1158
01:09:05,708 --> 01:09:08,343
I don't want you to even consider not going
1159
01:09:08,345 --> 01:09:10,078
after the conversation we've had.
1160
01:09:10,080 --> 01:09:12,847
With Mitch making an emergency departure.
1161
01:09:12,849 --> 01:09:14,149
Let me give you a hug, brother.
1162
01:09:14,151 --> 01:09:16,184
Take care and drive safe.
1163
01:09:18,120 --> 01:09:21,923
Co-foreman Brennan Ruautt must step up and run
1164
01:09:21,925 --> 01:09:24,025
the day-to-day operations.
1165
01:09:25,060 --> 01:09:27,095
It's a lot extra pressure on my shoulders.
1166
01:09:27,097 --> 01:09:29,097
At the end of the day, I have one job to do is
1167
01:09:29,099 --> 01:09:31,966
just to find as much gold as we possibly can.
1168
01:09:32,902 --> 01:09:34,702
Parker's tasked Brennan with
1169
01:09:34,704 --> 01:09:38,606
finishing the remaining 13 acres of the Airstrip Cut
1170
01:09:38,608 --> 01:09:41,109
before the Yukon winter freezes them out.
1171
01:09:41,111 --> 01:09:42,677
There's still a lot of work to do here,
1172
01:09:42,679 --> 01:09:45,046
so we got to just put the hammer down to get it done.
1173
01:09:46,582 --> 01:09:50,185
But while investigating a mined out corner of the cut...
1174
01:09:50,187 --> 01:09:52,587
What the !
1175
01:09:52,589 --> 01:09:55,156
Parker discovers a rookie error.
1176
01:09:55,158 --> 01:09:59,460
Someone has left behind gold bearing river rock.
1177
01:10:02,831 --> 01:10:04,132
I shouldn't have to walk your floor.
1178
01:10:04,134 --> 01:10:05,934
What's up, buddy?
1179
01:10:07,269 --> 01:10:09,337
I thought everybody knew how to dig pay,
1180
01:10:09,339 --> 01:10:11,539
but there are round rock everywhere.
1181
01:10:15,211 --> 01:10:18,446
Like, I shouldn't have to walk the floor and find like yards of the wrong.
1182
01:10:20,382 --> 01:10:22,050
I have hardly dug any of this.
1183
01:10:22,052 --> 01:10:23,484
I don't care.
1184
01:10:25,287 --> 01:10:27,922
You're in charge or you're not in charge?
1185
01:10:27,924 --> 01:10:29,257
Well, Mitch was in charge.
1186
01:10:29,259 --> 01:10:30,258
Mitch ain't here.
1187
01:10:30,260 --> 01:10:31,826
Yeah, well.
1188
01:10:31,828 --> 01:10:34,829
There's quite a bit missed, whoever took the last strip in the back.
1189
01:10:34,831 --> 01:10:38,800
I don't give a who it is, but it needs to get cleaned up.
1190
01:10:38,802 --> 01:10:41,069
I don't know if guys are in a rush to go home or whatever,
1191
01:10:41,071 --> 01:10:43,271
but if anybody wants to go home, they can go home.
1192
01:10:43,273 --> 01:10:46,708
That's not a reason to rush through any cuts or do anything
1193
01:10:46,710 --> 01:10:49,244
sloppy or whatever is going on.
1194
01:10:49,246 --> 01:10:52,046
We've done this racket for eight years now.
1195
01:10:52,048 --> 01:10:54,048
I shouldn't have to walk our floors.
1196
01:10:54,050 --> 01:10:56,551
There's no need to come here and be about it.
1197
01:10:58,354 --> 01:11:04,792
I'll pack and leave right now.
1198
01:11:04,794 --> 01:11:07,028
I don't give a about any of this .
1199
01:11:13,202 --> 01:11:15,370
Hey, junior. Come here, boy.
1200
01:11:15,372 --> 01:11:17,105
Sick of being treated like that,
1201
01:11:17,107 --> 01:11:19,407
like it's just a nightmare.
1202
01:11:19,409 --> 01:11:21,643
I mean, when is enough enough around here.
1203
01:11:21,645 --> 01:11:22,810
Yeah.
1204
01:11:22,812 --> 01:11:24,979
In the ten years I've been here, I've noticed that
1205
01:11:24,981 --> 01:11:28,716
he pushes a little bit more at this point.
1206
01:11:28,718 --> 01:11:32,186
And sometimes, it creates more damage than good.
1207
01:11:32,188 --> 01:11:35,790
He forgets that a lot of us are 3,000 miles away from home.
1208
01:11:35,792 --> 01:11:36,824
That's the tough part.
1209
01:11:36,826 --> 01:11:40,028
What can you say, you know, it happens every year.
1210
01:11:40,863 --> 01:11:42,530
After some cooling off time...
1211
01:11:44,166 --> 01:11:46,267
Brennan returns to the cut.
1212
01:11:47,002 --> 01:11:48,770
Just angry still.
1213
01:11:48,772 --> 01:11:51,072
This isn't the first time he's been miserable like that.
1214
01:11:51,074 --> 01:11:52,273
There's no need for it.
1215
01:11:52,275 --> 01:11:53,574
That's what I'm getting tired of.
1216
01:12:04,053 --> 01:12:04,786
Howdy!
1217
01:12:04,788 --> 01:12:06,287
Um...
1218
01:12:07,589 --> 01:12:13,027
I wanted to explain a little more my little blowup in the cut.
1219
01:12:15,130 --> 01:12:18,466
I apologize because I shouldn't do it that way.
1220
01:12:19,601 --> 01:12:22,236
, Brennan, since you've shown up here,
1221
01:12:22,238 --> 01:12:25,206
like you've come so far and you've been doing a great job,
1222
01:12:25,208 --> 01:12:27,075
honestly you have.
1223
01:12:27,077 --> 01:12:28,276
- Great. - And that's...
1224
01:12:28,278 --> 01:12:30,111
I know you've got a lot on your plate,
1225
01:12:30,113 --> 01:12:35,216
but we still have to make sure that we are following the basics
1226
01:12:35,218 --> 01:12:37,218
and that's where I'm coming from.
1227
01:12:37,220 --> 01:12:38,753
Okay. Yeah.
1228
01:12:38,755 --> 01:12:40,154
- Does that make sense? - Yep, fair.
1229
01:12:40,156 --> 01:12:42,023
Thank you. Appreciate it.
1230
01:12:42,025 --> 01:12:43,825
- No sweat. Thanks, Brennan. -Yeah, no worries.
1231
01:12:43,827 --> 01:12:45,193
Appreciate it. Thanks a lot.
1232
01:12:45,195 --> 01:12:47,061
I definitely was taken aback a little bit with Parker.
1233
01:12:47,063 --> 01:12:52,066
I do really respect him coming to apologize in a sincere way, you know.
1234
01:12:53,736 --> 01:12:56,771
Parker now needs Brennan to mine out the Airstrip
1235
01:12:56,773 --> 01:12:59,240
before winter shuts them down.
1236
01:13:00,242 --> 01:13:03,811
I want to try and conquer this season for Parker
1237
01:13:03,813 --> 01:13:05,279
and hopefully put some money in the bank
1238
01:13:05,281 --> 01:13:06,848
for some new ground for it.
1239
01:13:12,254 --> 01:13:17,258
In Oregon, wildfires have ripped through Mitch's hometown.
1240
01:13:18,594 --> 01:13:20,061
This definitely isn't looking good here.
1241
01:13:20,063 --> 01:13:22,230
I mean, stuff still smoking.
1242
01:13:23,065 --> 01:13:26,000
Crossing my fingers here and hoping for the best but...
1243
01:13:28,871 --> 01:13:32,306
There she is and it's still standing.
1244
01:13:32,308 --> 01:13:35,076
Oh, man.
1245
01:13:37,212 --> 01:13:39,147
I mean, everything's looking good.
1246
01:13:40,783 --> 01:13:42,049
Hi, Mitch.
1247
01:13:42,051 --> 01:13:43,351
It looks like you're in your house?
1248
01:13:43,353 --> 01:13:44,752
Yeah, in the house.
1249
01:13:44,754 --> 01:13:46,187
We got really lucky.
1250
01:13:46,189 --> 01:13:47,789
Unfortunately, some people did lose their houses.
1251
01:13:47,791 --> 01:13:51,225
It was a bad deal, but I mean I was planning on trying to head back up.
1252
01:13:51,227 --> 01:13:54,996
Whether you come back this fall or next spring,
1253
01:13:54,998 --> 01:13:56,597
you've always got a spot here.
1254
01:13:56,599 --> 01:13:59,100
All right, thanks. Let me know how things go.
1255
01:13:59,102 --> 01:14:01,135
It's just really nice to talk to Parker and know that
1256
01:14:01,137 --> 01:14:04,305
I've got a good place up there and, you know, I might not
1257
01:14:04,307 --> 01:14:07,375
make it back this season, but I'll certainly be back in the future.
1258
01:14:18,053 --> 01:14:20,288
No disguising it now.
1259
01:14:20,290 --> 01:14:22,123
Snow's been coming down for a bit.
1260
01:14:22,125 --> 01:14:23,791
We're near the end here.
1261
01:14:23,793 --> 01:14:27,862
At Duncan Creek, the big freeze has hit
1262
01:14:27,864 --> 01:14:32,133
and Rick is still 90 ounces short of his 1,000-ounce gold.
1263
01:14:32,135 --> 01:14:35,736
I don't like one bad season and I'm not willing to go for two.
1264
01:14:35,738 --> 01:14:39,040
But Rick has one last roll of the dice.
1265
01:14:39,042 --> 01:14:40,942
This last ditch effort, for me it's all about
1266
01:14:40,944 --> 01:14:42,610
redemption from last year.
1267
01:14:42,612 --> 01:14:46,514
To hit his goal and pay his crew a gold bonus,
1268
01:14:46,516 --> 01:14:50,084
Rick's embarking on a high-risk nugget hunt.
1269
01:14:50,086 --> 01:14:52,553
I'm going to divert the creek next to this lazy bend
1270
01:14:52,555 --> 01:14:54,355
and run the creek bed.
1271
01:14:55,824 --> 01:14:59,293
The best gold that we got all season was right next to this creek bed.
1272
01:14:59,295 --> 01:15:02,897
It's where we found the big one and a half ounce nugget.
1273
01:15:02,899 --> 01:15:04,999
All right, here we go.
1274
01:15:05,001 --> 01:15:06,200
Water's coming.
1275
01:15:11,139 --> 01:15:13,040
Oh, yeah, I like that.
1276
01:15:13,809 --> 01:15:15,443
Really happy with how it looks.
1277
01:15:16,211 --> 01:15:17,945
The old creek bed should dry right up
1278
01:15:17,947 --> 01:15:19,747
and we can start to pull the gold out of it
1279
01:15:19,749 --> 01:15:21,582
and get it to the damn wash line.
1280
01:15:23,051 --> 01:15:25,786
Rick runs every yard of creek bed pay...
1281
01:15:25,788 --> 01:15:28,022
That looks like that's the last bucket right there.
1282
01:15:28,024 --> 01:15:31,292
Before shutting down for the season.
1283
01:15:31,294 --> 01:15:32,493
Fingers crossed.
1284
01:15:35,564 --> 01:15:37,031
The crew gathers...
1285
01:15:37,033 --> 01:15:39,767
Oh, back in time for the gold bonus.
1286
01:15:39,769 --> 01:15:41,569
- Yeah, man. - I don't blame you.
1287
01:15:41,571 --> 01:15:43,404
To see if Rick's diversion
1288
01:15:43,406 --> 01:15:46,574
has delivered the nuggets he needs.
1289
01:15:46,576 --> 01:15:47,942
Part of the reason we diverted the creek was
1290
01:15:47,944 --> 01:15:49,777
we found that monster gold nugget there.
1291
01:15:49,779 --> 01:15:54,382
So I was hoping we'd find some chunky gold and here it is.
1292
01:15:54,384 --> 01:15:57,585
You know, we got some nice coarse gold out of there.
1293
01:15:57,587 --> 01:15:58,686
Holy .
1294
01:15:58,688 --> 01:16:00,021
Oh, yeah.
1295
01:16:00,023 --> 01:16:02,890
Rick's hunch has paid out big.
1296
01:16:02,892 --> 01:16:04,325
Well, I want to see that fine gold.
1297
01:16:04,327 --> 01:16:05,993
I know that's the stuff that adds up.
1298
01:16:05,995 --> 01:16:10,398
To beat his goal, Rick needs 90 ounces.
1299
01:16:12,768 --> 01:16:15,336
It just kind of keeps going, it kind of keeps going.
1300
01:16:16,939 --> 01:16:19,040
And then the scale goes to E.
1301
01:16:19,775 --> 01:16:22,877
- Holy crap. - yeah, buddy.
1302
01:16:22,879 --> 01:16:24,178
It's actually too much for our scale,
1303
01:16:24,180 --> 01:16:25,313
but I already weighed it.
1304
01:16:25,315 --> 01:16:27,615
At the end of the day, I tell you guys that we did
1305
01:16:27,617 --> 01:16:29,216
178 ounces, just over.
1306
01:16:29,218 --> 01:16:30,084
Yes.
1307
01:16:30,086 --> 01:16:33,120
And so we're at just over 1,080 ounces.
1308
01:16:33,122 --> 01:16:37,325
A year ago, Rick was on the brink of bankruptcy.
1309
01:16:37,327 --> 01:16:42,997
This season, he's led his crew to a gold haul worth over $2 million.
1310
01:16:45,301 --> 01:16:46,734
I can't thank you enough for coming back.
1311
01:16:46,736 --> 01:16:49,236
If we hadn't done this this year,
1312
01:16:49,238 --> 01:16:52,306
I don't know that there would have been another year, and you guys made it happen.
1313
01:16:52,308 --> 01:16:53,474
Appreciate it!
1314
01:16:53,476 --> 01:16:54,208
- Cheers. - Cheers.
1315
01:16:54,210 --> 01:16:56,277
- Cheers! - Cheers!
1316
01:17:02,918 --> 01:17:06,821
In Oregon, freezing temperatures have forced
1317
01:17:06,823 --> 01:17:11,926
Fred Lewis to call time on his first season.
1318
01:17:11,928 --> 01:17:14,662
The season hasn't panned out like we wanted it to
1319
01:17:14,664 --> 01:17:17,365
and the ground has just not been as good as we needed it to be
1320
01:17:17,367 --> 01:17:19,834
to pay the bills, but my major focus here was to
1321
01:17:19,836 --> 01:17:22,436
give these guys a new purpose, you know, a lot of them
1322
01:17:22,438 --> 01:17:25,606
coming out of the military are in that awkward transition,
1323
01:17:25,608 --> 01:17:30,044
trying to figure things out, and I think that was a freaking success this season.
1324
01:17:30,046 --> 01:17:34,115
After sinking $40,000 into Fred's operation
1325
01:17:34,117 --> 01:17:37,184
eight weeks ago, investor Karl Smith
1326
01:17:37,186 --> 01:17:39,787
is back for the final reckoning.
1327
01:17:39,789 --> 01:17:42,256
It's kind of time to face the music here with Karl.
1328
01:17:42,258 --> 01:17:45,026
I've got to convince him, after losing all his money,
1329
01:17:45,028 --> 01:17:49,163
that we're good enough to invest in another season, if not we're done.
1330
01:17:51,133 --> 01:17:54,035
All right, guys, this is the last gold weigh of the season.
1331
01:17:54,037 --> 01:17:55,169
Shoot, man.
1332
01:17:55,171 --> 01:17:56,370
Let's see what we got.
1333
01:17:59,975 --> 01:18:01,375
Some big chunks.
1334
01:18:04,713 --> 01:18:09,283
1.93 ounces that's our best cleanup yet.
1335
01:18:10,619 --> 01:18:15,389
That puts our total at 6.39 which is honestly embarrassing.
1336
01:18:15,391 --> 01:18:17,058
In their rookie season,
1337
01:18:17,060 --> 01:18:22,596
Fred's crew has mined just $12,000 worth of gold.
1338
01:18:22,598 --> 01:18:25,266
But we've come up with every single obstacle thrown
1339
01:18:25,268 --> 01:18:27,001
at us and we've kicked it right in the face.
1340
01:18:27,003 --> 01:18:28,402
We pulled what we could out of this ground.
1341
01:18:28,404 --> 01:18:31,205
I don't think anybody could have done any better.
1342
01:18:31,207 --> 01:18:33,107
What do you guys think?
1343
01:18:33,109 --> 01:18:34,208
Is that a true statement?
1344
01:18:34,210 --> 01:18:36,577
- Yeah. 100%. - Yeah.
1345
01:18:36,579 --> 01:18:38,612
No way to get any more gold out of that ground.
1346
01:18:40,315 --> 01:18:43,317
If we can't get more gold out of this ground,
1347
01:18:45,253 --> 01:18:47,288
that means this is the end.
1348
01:18:52,094 --> 01:18:53,694
If you're willing to go for another year,
1349
01:18:53,696 --> 01:18:58,132
I know with as much as we've learned, we can get you that money back.
1350
01:19:00,035 --> 01:19:04,939
The way I see it, I've got two options, walk away
1351
01:19:04,941 --> 01:19:10,244
or we can double down and you guys can go find some good ground
1352
01:19:10,246 --> 01:19:12,313
and we can make back my money.
1353
01:19:15,251 --> 01:19:16,984
Why don't we do this?
1354
01:19:16,986 --> 01:19:20,154
You guys go find the ground and we'll talk.
1355
01:19:20,156 --> 01:19:22,890
Are you saying that you're still interested in... in investing?
1356
01:19:22,892 --> 01:19:25,526
This team is one hell of a team.
1357
01:19:26,928 --> 01:19:30,030
I want you guys to prove to me that the ground is good
1358
01:19:30,032 --> 01:19:31,866
and I'll invest more money.
1359
01:19:31,868 --> 01:19:33,234
We'll do that right now.
1360
01:19:34,704 --> 01:19:35,870
Thank you.
1361
01:19:35,872 --> 01:19:37,838
If I walk away now, I lose everything.
1362
01:19:37,840 --> 01:19:41,108
The only way for me to make more money is to put my faith in
1363
01:19:41,110 --> 01:19:44,111
Fred, tell him to go find a better claim, find that pay dirt.
1364
01:19:44,113 --> 01:19:46,013
You know, we came out here, we learned a lot.
1365
01:19:46,015 --> 01:19:47,915
The next season, we're gonna hit the ground running.
1366
01:19:47,917 --> 01:19:50,184
We're gonna pay back all this debt and we're gonna get
1367
01:19:50,186 --> 01:19:52,920
to the point where we're actually gonna be putting gold in our pockets.
1368
01:19:52,922 --> 01:19:56,023
Let's get that gold!
1369
01:20:02,931 --> 01:20:03,798
Hey, hey.
1370
01:20:06,202 --> 01:20:09,069
After five months racing to cash in
1371
01:20:09,071 --> 01:20:11,338
on record high gold prices,
1372
01:20:11,340 --> 01:20:15,309
the Beets gather for their final gold weigh of the season.
1373
01:20:16,344 --> 01:20:17,912
Ready to weigh up the trommel now?
1374
01:20:20,782 --> 01:20:23,851
To hit their 3,000-ounce gold,
1375
01:20:23,853 --> 01:20:27,188
they still need 321 ounces.
1376
01:20:29,391 --> 01:20:35,729
290, 350, 351.36.
1377
01:20:37,033 --> 01:20:41,335
Worth over $660,000.
1378
01:20:41,337 --> 01:20:43,270
So, Mom, what's our season total?
1379
01:20:43,272 --> 01:20:45,973
3,030.26.
1380
01:20:45,975 --> 01:20:47,107
Whoa!
1381
01:20:48,244 --> 01:20:51,045
3,030 is better than 2020.
1382
01:20:52,014 --> 01:20:54,248
In their shortest season ever,
1383
01:20:54,250 --> 01:20:59,253
the Beets have mined $5.6 million worth of gold.
1384
01:21:10,966 --> 01:21:13,300
Fired up by hitting his target,
1385
01:21:13,302 --> 01:21:16,704
Tony's already thinking big for next season.
1386
01:21:25,247 --> 01:21:27,114
Want to have a little side bet here, buddy?
1387
01:21:29,218 --> 01:21:32,419
If I win, I get a new truck, red one.
1388
01:21:32,421 --> 01:21:35,222
If you win, you'll get three SUVs.
1389
01:21:39,027 --> 01:21:40,194
Started.
1390
01:21:40,196 --> 01:21:42,162
No, no, no, we're closing up.
1391
01:21:48,403 --> 01:21:49,803
Get into that thing.
1392
01:21:49,805 --> 01:21:52,006
Went right at it.
1393
01:21:52,008 --> 01:21:55,142
This season, Parker has run his wash plants
1394
01:21:55,144 --> 01:22:00,948
and his crew hard to build a war chest and find new ground in Alaska.
1395
01:22:00,950 --> 01:22:03,250
This is what you're looking for right there.
1396
01:22:03,252 --> 01:22:06,921
Wait, Chris, where are we at right before these numbers?
1397
01:22:06,923 --> 01:22:10,758
Right now, we're at 6,988 ounces.
1398
01:22:10,760 --> 01:22:13,093
. So we've had a hell of a good season.
1399
01:22:13,828 --> 01:22:18,165
The most we ever got in a year was 7,400.
1400
01:22:18,167 --> 01:22:20,334
To top his best season ever,
1401
01:22:20,336 --> 01:22:23,570
he needs just over 400 ounces.
1402
01:22:23,572 --> 01:22:25,272
We're gonna weigh up Slucifer first.
1403
01:22:25,274 --> 01:22:27,041
- Tyson, here we go. - Yes, sir.
1404
01:22:28,910 --> 01:22:30,044
20.
1405
01:22:30,078 --> 01:22:33,614
Slucifer's rookie wash plant boss Tyson
1406
01:22:33,616 --> 01:22:36,984
delivers 290 ounces.
1407
01:22:38,119 --> 01:22:40,020
Good job, you guys.
1408
01:22:40,022 --> 01:22:42,356
Brennan, this is Red.
1409
01:22:42,358 --> 01:22:47,861
While Brennan and Big Red bring in a further 226.
1410
01:22:47,863 --> 01:22:49,163
Yeah!
1411
01:22:49,165 --> 01:22:50,798
You guys, you just broke another record.
1412
01:22:52,802 --> 01:22:57,171
Our record is 7,400, and for the season,
1413
01:22:57,173 --> 01:23:01,075
we have 7,504.9 ounces.
1414
01:23:02,178 --> 01:23:03,077
Cheers, guys.
1415
01:23:06,015 --> 01:23:08,148
In a season like no other,
1416
01:23:08,150 --> 01:23:12,987
Parker and his crew have mined more gold than ever before.
1417
01:23:12,989 --> 01:23:16,924
And at 2020's record high gold prices,
1418
01:23:16,926 --> 01:23:21,161
it's worth almost $14 million.
1419
01:23:21,163 --> 01:23:22,496
To many more.
1420
01:23:22,498 --> 01:23:24,565
Cheers, guys.
1421
01:23:24,567 --> 01:23:26,000
Let's go home!
1421
01:23:27,305 --> 01:24:27,853
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