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Let's get down to business.

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NARRATOR: On this Gold Rush...

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Need a bigger pan.

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..the greatest paydays...
We broke the scale!

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..in Gold Rush history.

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(TONY SPEAKING)

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From the biggest...
(LAUGHTER)

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This is definitely a record breaker.

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..to the most surprising.

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That's a (BLEEP) beauty.

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(TONY SPEAKING)

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These are the gold weighs
that change lives.
And for the first time...

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PARKER: That's just over
5 million bucks.

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..we reveal the total
multimillion dollar gold haul.

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We earn this (BLEEP) with blood,
sweat and some tears.

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From the last 12 years...

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(CHEERING)

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Best (BLEEP) crew in the Klondike!

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2012, Big Nugget Mine, Alaska.

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Hey, uh, careful on that one.
I put a little too much in there.

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All right, I'll baby it. Good man.
Hope it'll make it over there.

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Seventeen-year-old Parker Schnabel
is six weeks

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into his second season
mining for gold.

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His best weekly haul ever
is 25 ounces.

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But this young, ambitious mine boss
has only just got started.

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PARKER: So, I know you've been
sitting in a truck all day,

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but it's for good reason
cos we're going
for 50 ounces this week.

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50 ounces? Whoa.

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We'll need a lot of dirt,
so keep doing your thing.
You got it.

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2012 prices, 50 ounces
is worth $80,000,

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almost double what Parker made
in his first season.

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But the gold is no vanity project.

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And he needs the money to pay
for a road to access
his Smith Creek claim.

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Virgin ground he believes is filled
with big gold.

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We have to run a lot of dirt to get
50 ounces.

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But we're going to.

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Today, we'll put about
1,000 yards through our plant.

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This plant's never seen
1,000 yards in a week before,
let alone in a day.

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I don't know if the plant's gonna
be able to handle that.

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To race through the pay,
Parker cranks his grandpa's
26-year-old wash plant.

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(MACHINE RATTLING)
There's a new rattle.

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There's a big part of
the bearing right there.

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The extra load
has destroyed a bearing

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on one of the trommel's
guide wheels...

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Cut the power.

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..forcing Parker to shut down.

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The bearing on the upper side here
completely went out on us.

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I got to change this outside bearing
right here.

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What... what do you want to do?
I think I'm gonna have
to torch it off.

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This is no easy bush-fix.

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Fail, and Parker risks missing
his target of 50 ounces.

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There's the broken piece.

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And then there's part
of the bearings... (CHUCKLES)
what's left of them.

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I'd rather be able to set
the new one in
and screw it right back down.

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We're ready to go.
Let's start it up.

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Stand back.

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Look at that.

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Having lost most of the day,

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Parker pushes on through
the night to reach
his 1,000 yard a day target.

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It's tough right now cos, you know,
we're tired,

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we've been working long hours.

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You can't see really
cos it's pretty dark.

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You know, this plant's being
pushed hard.

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Parker pulls the mats...
Shut it down.

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..and gathers his crew for a career
defining gold weigh.

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MITCH: I think it's
definitely gonna come
down to the wire for sure.

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Right.

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We worked real hard.

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We worked together,
and hopefully,
the results will show that.

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Parker's biggest
weigh in so far is 25 ounces.

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MAN: 30, 32, 35.

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55. 55 ounces.

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In one week.
MAN: That's pretty exciting, guys.

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Worth $88,000...

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PARKER: That's pretty
impressive right there.

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..the biggest payday
by far of his young career.

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We'll start working on Smith Creek.
We're cracking that open.

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Yeah, it's pretty relieving.

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This game-changing
gold funds the road
to the nugget rich Smith Creek.

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Secures Parker a season
total of 192 ounces...

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Got to go where the gold is.
The Yukon is the place to be.

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..and propels him to the Klondike...

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All right, let's get down
to business. MAN: Yeah.

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And that's $3 million
right there on the table.

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..where Parker goes on to record
the three biggest weekly gold weighs
on Gold Rush.

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In 2018, 955 ounces.

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When I came up here six years ago,
that was the dream.

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At the time,
worth over a million dollars.

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In 2021...

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MAN: And we're still going.
Keep her going, keep her going.

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(ALL CHEERING)

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..a staggering 1,168 ounces.

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A $2 million payday.

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PARKER: Don't drop it.

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And in 2020, an all-time scale
busting gold weigh.

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Are they like
200 apiece or 300 apiece or...

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They're like 500 apiece.
PARKER: What?

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..2,294 ounces

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worth nearly $4.4 million.

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(LAUGHING) That's like the biggest
one we've ever had, isn't it?

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Oh, yeah. This is definitely
a record breaker.

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RICK: Yeah, it's getting colder
and colder every morning.

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I can't even see out
the windshield anymore.
There's so much frost.

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In his first season as a mine boss,

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Rick Ness is chasing
the dream of striking it rich

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with a crew made up of friends
from home.

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RICK: We're so close to our target,
I just don't know
what to do anymore.

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I mean, we've exhausted
all of our ground.

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Rick needs a final
27-ounce gold weigh

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to hit his 1,000-ounce goal
and send everyone home
with gold in their pockets.

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But winter is closing in.

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He's out of thawed pay and his
wash plant is shut down.

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RICK: We ain't giving up.

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I got somebody flying
in today to help me out.

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For the final push,
Rick leans on the one person
who will always answer his call.

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Hey. (BLEEP) Arriving in style?

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Yeah, well, you know.
How you doin', Dad?

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It's good to see you, man. You too.

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I'm here to help. That's awesome.

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Rick's dad has over
30 years' experience
operating heavy equipment.

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RICK: We're short 27 ounces.

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Goddamn it. You've got to get
that (BLEEP) 1,000 ounces.

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Perhaps a second look
at your drill charts there
and see where you...

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See where your best veins are.
Maybe you got some more
left that you can...

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..quickly access.

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Where that pile of overburden is,
that's where the bedrock came up

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and that's where
all the best drill holes were.

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And it is where
we did our best gold.

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I'll jump on that D9
and give it my best shot.

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They plan to open a small extension
to the cut in the hope
it has enough thawed pay.

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And in less than no time,
Rick Senior

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RICK OVER RADIO:
Let's fire up Durt Reynolds.

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I want to make sure we get all
the dirt run through the plant.

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This paydirt's still frozen
and full of chunks, but

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I don't even give a (BLEEP) ,
we're gonna run it anyways.

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We're into the minuses.
Everything's got to keep moving.

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Even us.

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RYAN OVER RADIO: Looks like
we're not feeding right.
What the (BLEEP) happened?

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I'm guessing
that chunky (BLEEP) got stuck
in there and froze up.

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We're not feeding the plant.

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Frozen pay
has clogged the hopper feeder.

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To try and dislodge the blockage,

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Rick turns up
the conveyors to top speed.

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We just hit it full speed.

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We'll know if it's gonna
come loose, cos
if it ain't (BLEEP) freed up,

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it's gonna tear that belt.

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Ben...

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bump that (BLEEP).

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Oh, it don't sound good. Ben...
bump that...

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One more time.

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RICK: There she goes.
BEN: There she goes.

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Holy (BLEEP) , look
at those big (BLEEP) chunks.

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I think those are the two
that are really blocking it.

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RICK: Whoo!

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Four hours later, the pay
from the extension runs out.

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RYAN: This is the last
bucket of paydirt for the year.

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All right. Shove her on through
and we'll shut it down.

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Copy that.

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Rick shuts down for the final
time this season

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and gathers the crew
to see if they've hit
their 1,000-ounce goal.

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Oh. Oh, yeah.

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So, we had 27 ounces to get.

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Might be in that jar.
I think it's time to find out.

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That's 20.

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MAN 1: Looking good. MAN 2: Yeah.
There's our 27 ounces.

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(ALL CHEERING)

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There's another. (MAN BLEEPS)

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(ALL CHEERING)

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The final gold weigh, 132.49 ounces.

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At the time, worth $159,000.

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Blew by it.

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Rick's biggest ever gold weigh...

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propels him 100 ounces over
his 1,000 ounce season goal.

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RICK: You guys deserve
all the credit.

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(ALL CHEERING)

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The following season
Rick vacates the Klondike...

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(RICK SPEAKING)

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..to hunt Keno's famous
monster nuggets...

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What? ..and hits the jackpot.

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That's a (BLEEP) beauty,
like that's worth
some serious money.

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..with a 1.5 ounce nugget,
the biggest
ever found on Gold Rush.

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And in 2021, Rick goes
from strength to strength...

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106 plus 100. That's 206.

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..with his three
biggest weekly gold weighs...

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That's 315 ounces on the week.

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This'll sound really good.

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Oh.

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That is by far, biggest
gold total for a week.

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It's almost 400 ounces, 393.

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(BLEEP) yeah.

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..taking his career gold
total so far to nearly 5,000 ounces

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worth nearly $8 million.

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Yeah, it's... It's a good feeling.

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NARRATOR: For maverick gold miner
Tony Beets,

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the secret to his biggest
gold weighs lies in the past.

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(TONY SPEAKING)

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MAN: It's huge.

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(TONY SPEAKING)

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MAN: It looks really nice.

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Powered by a single engine
and needing just a two-man crew,

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the cost-efficient dredge uses
buckets to scoop up pay

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running it through a trommel
before shooting tailings
out the back.

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Tony believes dredging
for gold will deliver
big profits.

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(TONY SPEAKING)

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The dredge is dismantled and rebuilt
at Tony's Indian River claim
to the tune of $1 million.

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I'm christening you Minnie's ATM!

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(TONY SPEAKING)

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In 2015,
Tony attempts to wake the beast
for the first time in 30 years.

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MAN: There it goes. It's going.

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Hey! Hey!

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Don't be pulling over too hard.

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Stop. Stop.

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The bucket line slipped
off the tip of the ladder,

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it's like losing a track
on the excavator.

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We've got to get
all equipment rounded up

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in the rigging to try
and pull it back on there.

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Foreman Gene Cheeseman brings
in a pipe layer to haul
the bucket ladder back into place.

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You need to be right
alongside of here.

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Pull.

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Ok. You guys ready
to run it in reverse?

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Just keep her coming.

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We did it. I can't believe that.

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Mike, let's go ahead
and get the water going
and get everything spinning.

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After a three-hour delay,

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the dredge is back
on track and catching gold.

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We're getting water going again
so you can get to run it again.

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(TONY SPEAKING) Ok.

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Tony runs the dredge for 20 hours.

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TONY: Shut it down!

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Which will reveal whether
his million-dollar gamble

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on the 75-year-old dredge
has paid off?

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(TONY SPEAKING)

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To turn a profit,
Tony needs the dredge
to produce an ounce an hour.

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(TONY SPEAKING)

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MAN: It's 21 ounces.

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(TONY SPEAKING)

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00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:50,040
WOMAN: I'm impressed.
I'm really am impressed
with what you guys done.

239
00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:52,440
So, it catches
that is no doubt, then...

240
00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:54,600
We know it's there. We've proven it.

241
00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:56,560
(TONY SPEAKING)

242
00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:00,920
Over the next four seasons mining...

243
00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,640
WOMAN: Three hundred.
That's pretty amazing.

244
00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:07,680
..Tony's dredge produces
record breaking gold weighs.

245
00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:10,680
(TONY SPEAKING)

246
00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:14,520
WOMAN: 532.6.

247
00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:18,080
..amassing almost 6,000 ounces

248
00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:23,040
in 2022 worth over
$10 million.

249
00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:24,720
Holy (BLEEP).

250
00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:32,600
2012...

251
00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:36,760
Let the game begin.

252
00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:40,920
Fred Hertz starts his second mine
at Porcupine Creek

253
00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:45,760
with the goal of putting
160 ounces on the scale.

254
00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:50,520
To help, he takes
a gamble on a rookie...

255
00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:52,320
Hey, Fred. How are you?

256
00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:54,880
I'm all right. How are you, Dustin?
I'm doing good.

257
00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:56,800
..his son, Dustin.

258
00:16:56,880 --> 00:17:01,480
DUSTIN: Fred put it in my head
that there's some ancient waterfall
somewhere around here,

259
00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:06,400
and as soon as we find
the bottom of it,
we'll never have to work again.

260
00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:09,640
With dreams of riches untold...

261
00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:13,120
FRED: All I can see is gold soup
going out of there

262
00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,000
..the team excavate
the ancient waterfall

263
00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:21,800
in the hope the deeply buried
plunge pools
contain a jackpot of gold.

264
00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:23,480
DUSTIN: Look at all those flakes.

265
00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:27,480
Early signs show
they're digging in the right spot.

266
00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:30,720
FRED: We're gonna need
every bit we can get.

267
00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:34,120
Fred spends a month
relentlessly digging down

268
00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:38,800
betting he'll strike gold
before he hit bedrock.

269
00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:41,760
Oh. Crying out loud.

270
00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:46,240
(BLEEP)

271
00:17:54,120 --> 00:17:56,600
That's it. We're done.

272
00:17:56,680 --> 00:18:01,600
The material is just too hard,
and this thing doesn't have
enough power to just continue.

273
00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:04,600
We're at the limits
of what the equipment can do.

274
00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:07,680
We can't go back down there no more.

275
00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:11,480
One hundred feet down,
Fred is forced to stop

276
00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:16,160
just 20 ounces short of their
160-ounce season target.

277
00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:19,240
But son Dustin isn't ready
to give up.

278
00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:22,040
DUSTIN: I don't think
we have enough gold.

279
00:18:22,120 --> 00:18:23,880
I got one last thing I can try.

280
00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:27,560
I might dredge... I might dredge
the bottom of the hole.

281
00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:33,920
Dustin brings in his mini dredge,
a suction wash plant
designed to catch gold

282
00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,960
in difficult to reach plunge pools.

283
00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:39,960
DUSTIN: It's our last
ditch effort right now.

284
00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:42,040
FRED: You want nuggets?

285
00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:47,520
Argh! My whole body's
numb right now.

286
00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:04,440
(SIGHS) Oh, Lord.

287
00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:07,480
To hit their 160 ounce
season target...

288
00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:09,160
Hey, guys.

289
00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:12,440
...success depends
on Dustin's last ditch effort.

290
00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:15,080
Well,

291
00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:17,480
fellas,

292
00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:22,600
163 ounces...
(GASPS) Oh, we made it.

293
00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:24,640
..and change.

294
00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:26,360
Oh, my gosh. Can you believe that?

295
00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:29,160
Look at that.
Oh, I was so worried.

296
00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:33,760
..worth $260,000.

297
00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:35,560
FRED: I'm proud of you guys.

298
00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:38,440
I'm proud of my team.

299
00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:41,520
WOMAN: Thanks, guys.
FRED: We got it.

300
00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:44,320
McKinley Creek, Alaska,

301
00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,160
after hitting gold
at the ancient waterfall,

302
00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:53,360
Fred and Dustin head up mountain
to search for the motherlode.
in the raging white waters.

303
00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:56,000
FRED: We're the only rednecks
crazy enough to do this.

304
00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:59,880
They scour deep ravines and freezing
plunge pools.

305
00:19:59,960 --> 00:20:01,840
(DUSTIN OVER RADIO)
Find that gold, man.

306
00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:07,280
And their bone-chilling
hard work pays off.

307
00:20:07,360 --> 00:20:10,400
Get the (BLEEP) out of here.
Yeah.

308
00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:14,000
FRED: Wow.

309
00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:19,120
Pulling in over
160 ounces of gold nuggets.

310
00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:20,800
We found gold.

311
00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:23,250
00:20:25.240 -- 00:20:29.560
In the race to put millions in gold
on the scales...

312
00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:33,040
Look at all that good stuff. Wow.

313
00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:35,400
..not every miner...
You guys ready?

314
00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:39,080
..has a big first season. 0.36.

315
00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:43,160
Some hope to find redemption
in their second year.

316
00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:47,800
FRED LEWIS:
Right now, I'm all in.

317
00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:51,480
I have nothing left
in my life to liquidate
to make this happen.

318
00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:57,200
Having banked just six ounces
in his first season
mining in Oregon,

319
00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:02,680
ex-Special Forces medic
Fred Lewis heads
to the gold-rich Klondike.

320
00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:05,360
FRED LEWIS: This is how we're gonna
vindicate ourselves

321
00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:07,840
and prove to everybody
that we can mine.

322
00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:14,760
If Fred can't deliver gold here,
his mining career will be over.

323
00:21:21,120 --> 00:21:23,320
FRED LEWIS: Keep putting pay
through the sluice

324
00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,040
and getting gold out the other end.

325
00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:31,760
What the (BLEEP)? (GRUNTS)

326
00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:36,280
No, it's (BLEEPED).

327
00:21:42,120 --> 00:21:43,720
(BLEEP) damn it.

328
00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:49,160
Hey, guys, we just threw a track
on this (BLEEPING) excavator,

329
00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:53,360
so I'm gonna need some
help over here right away.

330
00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:55,280
JB:
This is a big headache right here.

331
00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:02,880
In charge of fixing the track,
former US Army mechanic JB Mayer.

332
00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:07,960
We have a tanker's worst
nightmare in the military,
and that's a thrown track.

333
00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,400
The chain on a bicycle,
best way to describe it,

334
00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:17,520
except this chain weighs
much, much more than...

335
00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:19,200
than a bicycle chain. (CHUCKLING)

336
00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:26,200
JB: All right.
Now hook it on this tooth.

337
00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:28,760
Curl up a little bit.

338
00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:31,320
Ok.

339
00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,080
All right, let's get out of the way.

340
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,680
Oh, (BLEEP).

341
00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:44,360
(BLEEP)

342
00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:47,880
Oh.

343
00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:55,600
Stand back. Hold up!

344
00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:59,640
FRED LEWIS: I knew
that was gonna happen.

345
00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:01,560
Yeah.

346
00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,240
We're close as hell now, man.

347
00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:10,240
Yeah. (BLEEP) All right!

348
00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,040
WOMAN: Are we on? JB: Yeah.

349
00:23:12,120 --> 00:23:13,960
WOMAN: Heck yeah.
Let's do this.

350
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:16,040
FRED LEWIS: Find some gold.
JB: All right.

351
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,600
After almost
a full week of sluicing,

352
00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,880
Fred shuts down
for his first Klondike gold weigh.

353
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:32,840
FRED LEWIS: Did it light?

354
00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:35,120
JB: It wants to.

355
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:39,000
How many green berets
does it take to start a fire?

356
00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:41,520
The gold on the scales
will determine

357
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:45,240
if Fred can continue
his gold mining dream.

358
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:48,680
FRED LEWIS: The hard work
we put in, the hard work
we're gonna put in...

359
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,480
is for this gold
that we're about to see.

360
00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:56,640
I don't feel like we're...
greenhorns anymore.

361
00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,360
I feel like we're mining.
Oh, yeah.

362
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,080
I just want to go see
how much it is.

363
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:03,760
WOMAN: Yeah, let's... Let's do it.

364
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:06,840
Are you guys ready?

365
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,600
MAN: Oh, hell yeah.
I'm nervous.

366
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:11,280
(ALL GROANING)

367
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:19,360
FRED LEWIS: All right.
One, two,

368
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:22,840
three,

369
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:24,960
four,

370
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:29,520
five, six.
MAN: Come on, baby.

371
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:31,800
WOMAN: Keep going.
MAN: Keep going, keep going.

372
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,000
Seven. Seven.
Oh, come on. Keep going.

373
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,680
(ALL LAUGHING)

374
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:41,480
FRED LEWIS: That's awesome.
8.4 ounces.

375
00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:47,560
In one week, Fred banks
more gold than he did
in his entire first season.

376
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:51,280
FRED LEWIS: We earned this (BLEEP)
with blood, sweat and some tears.

377
00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:54,000
This was a fight, man.
The whole time. This was a fight.

378
00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:03,720
The Klondike is one of the richest
gold hotspots in the world.

379
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:08,480
Since gold was first
discovered here in 1896,

380
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:12,480
miners have pulled out
around 20 million ounces.

381
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:17,680
By modern equivalence,
a staggering $36 billion.

382
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,120
October 2013,

383
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,400
19-year-old Parker Schnabel

384
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,480
is shutting down
at the end of his first season
in the Klondike.

385
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,400
Today is the last day
of running for us,

386
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:38,480
and until we put it on a scale,
I don't think we're gonna
know what's there.

387
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:41,160
Mining ground
leased from Tony Beets,

388
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:45,000
Parker sets an ambitious
800-ounce goal.

389
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:50,600
To hit it, he needs
his final gold weigh
to be his biggest ever,

390
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,440
over 170 ounces.

391
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,960
Sorry to keep you guys waiting.

392
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:57,840
We didn't get 800 ounces.

393
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,360
We got 836.

394
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,240
(ALL CHEERING)

395
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:12,880
So, we pulled over
$1,000,000 worth of gold
out of the ground this season.

396
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:14,680
(MAN SPEAKING)

397
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:16,400
(TONY SPEAKING)

398
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:18,680
MAN 1: That's amazing.
(TONY SPEAKING)

399
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,120
Parker's crew head home happy...

400
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:33,080
..but as always, the teenage
mine boss is hungry for more.

401
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:35,920
I mean, I still got some
fight left in me.

402
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,480
What do you mean by that?
There is one goal we haven't hit.

403
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:41,560
We could go for 1,000.

404
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:43,240
Yeah.

405
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:46,520
I mean, that's the big one.
Good way to end it.

406
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:48,760
Are you in? I'm in.

407
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,120
A thousand ounces, baby.
Let's do it.

408
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,560
Determined to hit
the new 1,000-ounce goal...

409
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:03,360
..Parker and Rick
fight on deep into winter.

410
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,360
PARKER: I mean,
I could go home right now

411
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:08,680
and put 836 ounces of gold
in front of my grandpa.

412
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:12,880
But why not wait ten days
and put 1,000 in front of him.

413
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:14,680
All right? That's what I want to do.

414
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,160
The race is on right now.

415
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:22,000
We've got two trucks
and we've got two people.

416
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,080
So, I'm kind of hot seat
between machines today.

417
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,120
I don't have time to truck
this overburden
gravel out of here.

418
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:43,720
So, I'm just I got to just
keep kind of tossing it off
to the side as far as I can get it.

419
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:51,520
Oh. (BLEEP) Oh.

420
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,120
No! No, no. Oh, man.

421
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,080
Easy. Easy.

422
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:05,840
(BLEEP) machine!

423
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,480
I'm gonna definitely
have to be a little more careful.

424
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,320
And two guys mining like
this is just (BLEEP) stupid.

425
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,920
You know, we have
to find a couple of people
if we're gonna make this work.

426
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,320
With most miners
already home for winter,

427
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,520
Parker seeks help
from the only person

428
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:24,840
he knows crazy enough
to still be in the Yukon.

429
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:26,920
PARKER: So right now
I'm going to Tony's.

430
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,600
It's tough asking him for help,

431
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:31,760
but we just need to get a good final
season push right here.

432
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,520
You know, we've got ground,
but we just don't have
the people to keep doing it.

433
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:37,520
MINNIE: I know somebody.
(TONY SPEAKING)

434
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,200
You.

435
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,720
Well, you're all done.
You sit on your butt all day.

436
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,600
You might as well
give the kid a hand.

437
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,760
In a bid to hit 1,000 ounces,

438
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:52,400
Parker needs his mentor, Tony Beets,
to become his skivvy.

439
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:03,320
Oh, you're so welcome.

440
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:09,560
The next day, the king
of the Klondike turns up for duty.

441
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:13,600
PARKER: Glad you made it.

442
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,000
(TONY SPEAKING)

443
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:18,400
So, maybe you could run
our hoe and load a truck.

444
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,080
(TONY SPEAKING)

445
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,120
Sounds good.
I'm glad you made it, Tony.

446
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:25,800
I'm glad you're not.

447
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,640
I just told Tony Beets what to do.

448
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:34,160
Oh.

449
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:43,600
(TONY SPEAKING)

450
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,760
The gold mining
dream team of Parker,

451
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:57,360
Rick and Tony work
late into the night.

452
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:01,200
(TONY SPEAKING)

453
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:22,440
Right on.

454
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:30,440
After six months
mining in the Klondike,

455
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:35,600
Parker heads back to Alaska
to reveal his final gold total.

456
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,560
And my grandpa was the one
that got me in gold mining

457
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:43,440
and he's been in the hospital
in Seattle and he's back home

458
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,520
and I can't wait to share it
with him and the rest of my family.

459
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,600
Parker. Hey, Parker.

460
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,760
GRANDFATHER:
It's great to see you. You too.

461
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:57,480
Oh.

462
00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:00,200
You look... You look good.
Thank you.

463
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:01,880
Wait till you see this.

464
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:08,520
Whoa. Look at this. (LAUGHING)

465
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:12,400
I'm going to the Yukon,
1,000 ounces.

466
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,000
1,029.

467
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,520
Jeez.

468
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:19,840
I'm overwhelmed.

469
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:24,080
I never have seen that much
gold in my whole life
in one time.

470
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:27,280
Seeing my grandpa's face
when we put all that down
on the table...

471
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:30,720
..made it all worth it.

472
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:38,120
As the young
prodigy's ambitions grow,
so does his operation.

473
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:44,000
Running two wash plants,
Big Red and the wash plant
straight out of hell.

474
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,200
Slucifer!

475
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:52,120
Over the years,
the plants have been competed
in a gold mining showdown.

476
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:57,120
Slucifer produced 859.8 ounces.

477
00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:01,480
With Slucifer
bringing in over 21,000 ounces

478
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,160
worth over $31 million.

479
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:10,360
But old faithful,
Big Red takes the crown.

480
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,040
Big Red, let's do this.

481
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:16,760
Delivering a staggering
26,000 ounces worth

482
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:19,800
nearly $37 million.

483
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:21,480
We've been busy down here.

484
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,520
Let's put it that way.
RICK: Yeah, buddy.

485
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:25,250
00:32:29.040 -- 00:32:30.880
(TONY SPEAKING)

486
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:39,840
2020, desperately to cash in
on soaring gold prices,

487
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:44,880
Klondike legend, Tony Beets,
has come up with a radical plan.

488
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:46,560
(TONY SPEAKING)

489
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,800
On Paradise Hill lies
a huge pile of waste rocks

490
00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:00,960
left by miners over
a half a century ago.

491
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,400
(TONY SPEAKING)

492
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,600
Old timers used
hoses to wash valuable paydirt

493
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:38,800
from the hillside
into primitive sluice boxes.

494
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:43,760
Tony believes this early technology
only caught half the gold.

495
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:48,720
And he's eager to discover
if there's a fortune buried
in the discarded rocks

496
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,000
at the end of the sluice runs.

497
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:58,560
(TONY SPEAKING)

498
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:00,920
MAN: At least check it out.
See what's in there.

499
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:06,880
(TONY SPEAKING)

500
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,200
KEVIN: Shaker's turning on,
everyone clear.

501
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:26,520
Shaker's on.

502
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:31,520
WOMAN: Here we go.

503
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:35,680
This is the first bucket
of old timers that Tony just found.

504
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,240
(TONY SPEAKING)

505
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,520
Tony runs the plant for 60 hours.

506
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:56,360
Hi, guys.

507
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,520
To turn a profit
and prove his hunch is right,

508
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,440
the tailings need
to produce 60 ounces.

509
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:06,480
(TONY SPEAKING)

510
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:12,680
RUBY: Ten...

511
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:17,160
20...

512
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:20,760
30...

513
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,920
72.12.

514
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,880
Well, it's nice of those old
timers to leave us some, eh?

515
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:36,560
Can't (BLEEP) about that.

516
00:35:46,240 --> 00:35:50,880
Tony's plan to prospect gold
in the old timers' tailings

517
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:54,840
proves to be one
of his greatest decisions ever,

518
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:58,040
delivering over 400 ounces

519
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:02,400
worth more than three quarters
of a million dollars in gold.

520
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:06,760
(TONY SPEAKING)

521
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:30,480
PARKER: This season,
we're definitely having
to take some bigger risks.

522
00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:38,480
2021, after ten seasons mining,
27-year-old Parker Schnabel

523
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:43,120
gambles his reputation on a hunt
for his biggest bonanza ever

524
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,000
from a single claim.

525
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:52,080
He toils for four months
and spends over $4 million
getting down to pay

526
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:56,120
in Mud Mountain, a 60-foot deep cut,

527
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,280
four times richer than any
of his other claims.

528
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:05,840
Success, failure, genius, insanity.

529
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:07,520
It's all a fine line, right?

530
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,640
Mud Mountain is the deepest
cut that we've done
so far to date,

531
00:37:12,720 --> 00:37:15,840
and we've put a lot of money
and time into it.

532
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,600
We're gonna need to have
consistently good clean-ups here

533
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,520
and some really good
ones to pay for this.

534
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,280
But in the first two weeks,
running...

535
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:29,480
MITCH: 190.45.

536
00:37:31,720 --> 00:37:34,280
..Mud Mountain fails to deliver.

537
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:38,960
We need a lot more gold than that.

538
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:42,680
Pulling in just 356 ounces.

539
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,040
Send Mitch back to Dud Mountain.

540
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,040
A month before winter hits,

541
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:57,760
Parker faces the biggest failure
of his mining career.

542
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,280
PARKER: Have we figured out
where any of the gold is yet?

543
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,840
I just want to pick
nuggets out of the (BLEEP) thing.

544
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:10,920
How the hell?
Is that too much to ask?

545
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:15,320
And this is pretty much
all bedrock, huh? Yeah.

546
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:18,400
You might find some gold
in the bedrock
if that's where we're at.

547
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,640
I really don't want
to be sending bedrock up
to the wash plant there

548
00:38:21,720 --> 00:38:24,040
cos we're trying to keep that thing
in one piece.

549
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:25,720
Yeah, I get that.

550
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:30,080
But for me, it's just
making sure that we get as much gold
out of the ground as we can.

551
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,920
In a desperate bid to find the gold,

552
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:37,520
Parker decides to run the hard,
heavy bedrock
beneath the pay layer.

553
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:43,440
If this is what Parker
wants to do,
risking tearing things up

554
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:46,200
and breaking (BLEEP) ,
this is what we're gonna,
you know,

555
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:47,960
send through our wash plants here.

556
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,600
FRED LEWIS: This gnarly
bedrock that we're pulling out,

557
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:00,680
it's definitely not easy
on our equipment.

558
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:03,840
It's banging and crashing hard
on the shaker deck.

559
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:08,200
Whoa.

560
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:14,960
(BLEEP) Holy (BLEEP).

561
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:19,280
Oh.

562
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,360
PARKER: What the (BLEEP)
is going on here?

563
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:35,040
MITCH: Well, as you can see
this motor's jumping
all over the place.

564
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:36,880
The reason for that...

565
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:39,840
this right here,
this is the tensioner.

566
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,160
This keeps this motor isolated.

567
00:39:42,240 --> 00:39:44,120
And you can see it's broke.

568
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:49,240
The extra stress of running bedrock
has broken a bolt,

569
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:52,520
holding the shaker
deck's motor in place.

570
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,240
MAN: What do you think, guys?

571
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,800
Can we just pull this thing down?
Is that bolt gonna be long enough?

572
00:39:57,880 --> 00:39:59,480
(PARKER SPEAKING)

573
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,440
MITCH: Yeah.
Get this thing going again.

574
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:05,440
(PARKER SPEAKING)
Perfect.

575
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,000
We're gonna have
to pull this back into place,

576
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:10,520
re-weld this,
see if we can get it fixed.

577
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:14,800
MAN: Watch your eyes.

578
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,600
Thirty seconds or 30 feet.
That's my warranty.

579
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:25,360
Man, I think that's solid.
Let's get her fired back up.

580
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:27,040
Sounds good. Let's try her out.

581
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:49,240
Yeah. That's what I'm talking about.

582
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:56,160
Crank it up.

583
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:05,440
Four days later,
the crew gather to see

584
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:08,680
if Parker's gamble to run
bedrock was worth it.

585
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:12,360
CHRIS: 30,

586
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:17,680
150, 180, 200.

587
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:19,760
230, 250.

588
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:23,240
Keep going, 300, 350,

589
00:41:24,720 --> 00:41:28,760
399.65.

590
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:30,440
Keep her coming.

591
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:34,000
So this is on top of 300 and change.

592
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:41,040
We got another 50,
another 70, another 84.45.

593
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:43,920
You must know what those add up to.

594
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,160
484.1 ounces.

595
00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:47,840
MITCH: No way. Yeah.

596
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:51,840
A massive $870,000.

597
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:56,160
Sweet, man. That was definitely
worth the struggle.

598
00:41:56,240 --> 00:41:58,840
That's got to be the best
clean-up Big Red's ever had.

599
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:00,520
CHRIS: Yeah. Yeah, it is.

600
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:04,360
Over the final
weeks of the season...

601
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:06,280
CHRIS: Well, you wanna
see what we got?

602
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:08,400
..Mud Mountain breaks record.

603
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,760
A total of 596.6 ounces in one week.

604
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:14,840
MITCH: That's incredible.
PARKER: Wow.

605
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:18,440
After record...
CHRIS: And in this one...

606
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:23,800
So, for Mud Mountain,
we got 3,058 ounces.

607
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:28,160
..delivering over $5.5 million
in gold

608
00:42:28,240 --> 00:42:31,800
and helping Parker to his best
ever season haul.

609
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:40,400
We have 8,309.75 ounces.

610
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:42,320
(ALL CHEERING)

611
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:46,120
Cheers, guys.

612
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:47,800
(ALL CHEERING)

613
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,240
In 12 seasons of mining,

614
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:57,600
the Hoffmans, Dakota boys,

615
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:00,200
Tony, Rick...

616
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:04,920
..Fred and Parker,

617
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:12,280
together have banked 83,173 ounces,

618
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:19,960
a mind-blowing 2.6 tons of gold,

619
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:25,800
in 2022 numbers, worth $150 million.

620
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:30,520
CHRIS: You guys are the best!

621
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:32,480
Best (BLEEP) crew in the Klondike.

622
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:36,280
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