"Gold Rush" The Last Dance

1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Do you want subtitles for any video? -=[ ai.OpenSubtitles.com ]=- 2 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:15,760 This season has been a real fight. 3 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:18,960 I really thought that we had 4 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:20,560 this property locked down. 5 00:00:22,100 --> 00:00:25,860 But I see why it's broken people and companies. 6 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:28,860 The amount of cash to pay the bills 7 00:00:28,860 --> 00:00:30,400 just consumes you. 8 00:00:32,660 --> 00:00:34,800 Now it's time to finish strong, 9 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:37,830 or the house of cards falls. 10 00:00:40,260 --> 00:00:42,860 This year, I finally became a landowner. 11 00:00:42,860 --> 00:00:44,660 It's been a dream come true. 12 00:00:44,660 --> 00:00:47,100 But I still don't have a water license for next year. 13 00:00:47,100 --> 00:00:48,560 I went for broke. 14 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:50,600 One of the biggest gambles of my mining career, 15 00:00:51,300 --> 00:00:52,660 opening up Vegas Valley. 16 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:54,600 If we don't bring it home, 17 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:56,500 I could lose everything. 18 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:26,000 Now, as temperatures plummet, 19 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:28,400 gold prices soar 20 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:29,560 to a record 21 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:33,100 2,680 bucks an ounce. 22 00:01:34,100 --> 00:01:36,860 Miners have just days... 23 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:39,100 ...to cash in. 24 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:43,900 What the ! 25 00:01:43,900 --> 00:01:45,960 We're not going down without a fight. 26 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:48,660 Attaboy, boss! 27 00:01:48,660 --> 00:01:49,660 Nice job. 28 00:01:49,660 --> 00:01:51,100 Want to see how we finished up? 29 00:02:12,460 --> 00:02:13,760 Load up! 30 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:15,860 30-year-old mine boss... 31 00:02:15,860 --> 00:02:16,700 In the back. 32 00:02:16,700 --> 00:02:18,160 ...Parker Schnabel 33 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:20,160 is in uncharted territory. 34 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:27,660 This season's been a bit of an ass-kicker. 35 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:30,900 A lot of lean ground. 36 00:02:30,900 --> 00:02:33,160 Spent a lot of money. 37 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:36,560 Record high gold prices are saving our ass. 38 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:39,460 It's the only light in a very cloudy sky. 39 00:02:40,460 --> 00:02:43,000 But it also hurts because record high prices 40 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:44,700 would have been the time to have a record season. 41 00:02:45,860 --> 00:02:47,260 Parker kicked off 42 00:02:47,260 --> 00:02:51,860 his season chasing a record 10,000 ounces. 43 00:02:51,860 --> 00:02:54,260 He's thrown everything at it, 44 00:02:54,260 --> 00:02:56,700 burning through more cash than ever 45 00:02:56,700 --> 00:02:58,960 to crack his Dominion Creek claim. 46 00:03:00,060 --> 00:03:02,960 But the land has fought back. 47 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:06,560 And he's banked just 6,088 ounces. 48 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,300 We started the season with a 10,000-ounce goal. 49 00:03:12,260 --> 00:03:14,660 We brought it down to an 8,000-ounce goal. 50 00:03:14,660 --> 00:03:16,260 And we're nowhere close. 51 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:21,160 But in 14 years of mining, 52 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:22,800 we've never set a goal and not hit it. 53 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:26,000 So the fight's not over. 54 00:03:28,460 --> 00:03:30,500 We just moved Bob into the bridge cut. 55 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:34,760 Mitch is 56 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:36,960 sluicing the elbow cut with Roxanne. 57 00:03:38,900 --> 00:03:40,760 We're scratching at every last bit of ground 58 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:41,760 that we've got available. 59 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:44,460 And we do have one trick left up our sleeve. 60 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:47,160 I'm just headed up to Gold Run. 61 00:03:47,700 --> 00:03:50,360 We are going to 62 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:52,100 go see if we can 63 00:03:52,100 --> 00:03:54,300 throw some more ounces at our target. 64 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:57,900 As most miners 65 00:03:57,900 --> 00:04:00,060 prepare to shut down for winter, 66 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:02,760 Parker's Hail Mary play 67 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:05,000 is to open a whole new operation 68 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:06,160 at Gold Run. 69 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:10,560 Bought two months ago, 70 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:13,800 this 1,100-acre claim is some of the richest ground 71 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:15,760 ever mined in the Klondike. 72 00:04:19,100 --> 00:04:20,500 Prospectors 73 00:04:20,500 --> 00:04:23,860 first found gold here in 1898. 74 00:04:23,860 --> 00:04:25,300 Since then, 75 00:04:25,300 --> 00:04:29,460 Gold Run has produced nearly 10 tons of gold. 76 00:04:29,460 --> 00:04:33,400 Today, worth over $800 million. 77 00:04:34,860 --> 00:04:38,360 Now, Parker needs this legendary claim 78 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:41,160 to deliver once again. 79 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:44,360 We desperately need something that has some decent gold in it. 80 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:46,700 We've got a cut in there that 81 00:04:46,700 --> 00:04:49,400 the monitor has been washing. 82 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:52,360 Tyson's meeting me here. 83 00:04:58,100 --> 00:05:00,160 - What's up? - Hi. 84 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:05,700 When you look at the area we've covered, 85 00:05:05,700 --> 00:05:08,230 this is a fairly significant chunk. 86 00:05:10,660 --> 00:05:12,660 What are you hoping to see come out of this ground here? 87 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:15,200 Hopefully there's tons of gold in it. 88 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,100 All righty. Let's do it. 89 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,500 So this is the final step. 90 00:05:27,260 --> 00:05:29,100 Then we need a plant running and, 91 00:05:29,100 --> 00:05:31,400 you know, we need gold coming in. 92 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:35,660 Tyson has already opened up a one-acre cut. 93 00:05:35,660 --> 00:05:38,400 To remove the overburden quickly, 94 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:41,400 Parker blasts it with a water monitor, 95 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:43,760 washing the worthless dirt away 96 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:47,600 and revealing Gold Run's premium pay dirt underneath. 97 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:49,900 When the boss is out working, 98 00:05:49,900 --> 00:05:51,760 not looking at future plans, 99 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:53,600 up here monitoring, 100 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:55,200 you know we really need the gold. 101 00:05:57,100 --> 00:05:58,860 Even Bosco's helping out. 102 00:05:58,860 --> 00:06:01,260 He's digging away, trying to find gold. 103 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:05,500 Parker's gotten us a long ways 104 00:06:05,500 --> 00:06:07,260 in the time I've been mining with him. 105 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:12,460 Purchased Gold Run and he thinks it's a good idea, 106 00:06:12,460 --> 00:06:14,060 then I'll stand behind him 107 00:06:14,060 --> 00:06:15,400 any day of the week. 108 00:06:17,860 --> 00:06:19,160 We're at the point 109 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:22,360 where we're ready for rock trucks to come up here. 110 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:25,560 Come in, haul this pay down to the wash plant. 111 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:29,000 Pay ready to haul, 112 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,060 Parker turns his attention 113 00:06:31,060 --> 00:06:33,000 to his Gold Run wash plant. 114 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:42,700 I don't really know anything about this wash plant. 115 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:46,800 I'll have the boys fire this thing up and see if it works. 116 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:47,760 Hopefully it does. 117 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:50,700 There's no other wash plant close, so, 118 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:52,300 this will have to do. 119 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:54,430 Come on. 120 00:06:56,700 --> 00:06:58,560 This ancient shaker deck 121 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:02,260 came as part of Parker's Gold Run purchase. 122 00:07:02,260 --> 00:07:06,900 It's capable of sluicing 180 yards of pay an hour. 123 00:07:06,900 --> 00:07:11,400 And has massive 600 square feet runs. 124 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:14,000 Parker's biggest ever sluice box. 125 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,660 The only problem, 126 00:07:16,660 --> 00:07:19,200 it's an untested relic. 127 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:21,360 I know it'll cause a big headache for 128 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:22,860 Tyson and Alec. 129 00:07:22,860 --> 00:07:25,260 And they already have a lot on their plate. 130 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:27,800 But we need the ounces. 131 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,060 I see you found the place. 132 00:07:31,060 --> 00:07:32,760 Yeah. This is it? 133 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:34,460 What do you figure? 134 00:07:34,460 --> 00:07:35,960 It's definitely a unit. 135 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:38,600 It's got a lot of character. 136 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:40,500 Try and do Parker a solid 137 00:07:40,500 --> 00:07:42,100 and see if we can get this thing running. 138 00:07:42,100 --> 00:07:43,360 Yeah, I'm game. 139 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:45,660 Doesn't look like the grizzly bears work. 140 00:07:45,660 --> 00:07:47,300 No, yeah, the pins are out of them. 141 00:07:47,300 --> 00:07:48,200 Yeah. 142 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:50,460 Let's just see if the generator 143 00:07:50,460 --> 00:07:51,460 -wants to start and then... - Yeah. 144 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:53,600 ...we can go from there. 145 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:55,860 To get it running, 146 00:07:55,860 --> 00:07:56,860 Tyson 147 00:07:56,860 --> 00:07:58,600 and mechanic Alec Kelly... 148 00:07:58,600 --> 00:07:59,630 I hear a tick. 149 00:07:59,630 --> 00:08:01,760 ...first need to fire up the generator 150 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:02,860 and pump. 151 00:08:07,260 --> 00:08:08,600 Holy ! 152 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:13,360 Okay. 153 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:15,300 -There's hope. - That's pretty cool. 154 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:17,900 Oh, we got power. 155 00:08:17,900 --> 00:08:19,400 Oh, yeah, we got lights. 156 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:22,160 Shall we see what it does? 157 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:24,860 -Here we go. - Yeah. 158 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:34,700 - Nothing. - Nothing. 159 00:08:35,660 --> 00:08:38,400 What's going tick over there? 160 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:40,560 Something in one of these guys. 161 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:45,960 -This one's moving. - Okay. 162 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:46,860 Screen that. 163 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:48,660 Screen. 164 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:59,060 I like how something sounds a little loose. 165 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:03,100 Damn, this thing's a rock. 166 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:07,660 Can we see if we can get some water? 167 00:09:07,660 --> 00:09:09,800 Go take a look at the water pump. 168 00:09:17,500 --> 00:09:18,700 All right, here we go! 169 00:09:19,900 --> 00:09:20,960 Got her runnin'. 170 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:26,500 yeah! 171 00:09:26,500 --> 00:09:27,760 We got water! 172 00:09:30,100 --> 00:09:31,300 I'll go grab the loader. 173 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:36,660 All righty, here we go. 174 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:38,860 First scoop of Gold Run pay. 175 00:09:46,500 --> 00:09:47,930 Buddy, we're sluicin'. 176 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:53,500 This is really amazing that we got this plant going this fast. 177 00:09:55,300 --> 00:09:56,960 A lot of things went right. 178 00:09:58,860 --> 00:09:59,860 You know, this plant, 179 00:09:59,860 --> 00:10:02,160 it's old, it's nasty. 180 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:05,560 It seems to be doing the job, so I think we should call it Rock Gobbler. 181 00:10:07,560 --> 00:10:08,860 At this point in the season, 182 00:10:08,860 --> 00:10:10,460 should be thinking about going home, 183 00:10:10,460 --> 00:10:12,360 but we just fired up a third wash plant. 184 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:14,760 We got three wash plants running now 185 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:16,460 between Gold Run and Dominion. 186 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:19,460 We're not going down without a fight. 187 00:10:37,100 --> 00:10:38,800 -You got that tiger torch? -Yeah. 188 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:43,460 weather. 189 00:10:43,460 --> 00:10:46,460 -The temperatures are just brutal right now. - Yeah. 190 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:50,500 There we go. 191 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:58,360 We're all pushing hard to get to our season goal. 192 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:00,800 Um, the guys have gambled everything on this. 193 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:01,730 On Vegas Valley here. 194 00:11:01,730 --> 00:11:03,160 You know, they put up their gold bonuses. 195 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:05,100 and stuck the year out with me, 196 00:11:05,100 --> 00:11:06,460 and they deserve to get it. 197 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:09,960 Rick Ness 198 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:12,060 is on the brink of a windfall. 199 00:11:13,300 --> 00:11:15,660 After spending his season's profits 200 00:11:15,660 --> 00:11:18,000 to open the Vegas Valley cut, 201 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,260 he's already broken even, 202 00:11:20,260 --> 00:11:24,000 hauling out 379 ounces of gold 203 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:25,400 in just two weeks. 204 00:11:26,900 --> 00:11:31,260 But with his water license on the claim expiring soon, 205 00:11:31,260 --> 00:11:33,260 the only thing that's certain 206 00:11:33,260 --> 00:11:35,460 is that the crew needs to pull in 207 00:11:35,460 --> 00:11:38,160 as much gold as possible. 208 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:40,000 We don't know what's gonna happen, 209 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,300 but one thing I know for sure is that we have to get 210 00:11:42,300 --> 00:11:43,900 every ounce out of it before 211 00:11:43,900 --> 00:11:46,200 the winter freezes us out of here. And that's coming soon. 212 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:55,200 -Hey, guys. - Hey, Rick. 213 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:58,960 Well, I know it feels like we're done. 214 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:02,100 The weather's here, but we're not quite done yet. 215 00:12:02,100 --> 00:12:03,800 You guys have worked so hard this year. 216 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,100 I know you don't need some big speech, 217 00:12:06,100 --> 00:12:07,660 but, you know, 218 00:12:07,660 --> 00:12:10,360 I just wanted to tell you that I appreciate you guys a lot. 219 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:12,360 And I don't know 220 00:12:13,100 --> 00:12:14,200 what the future is here, 221 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:16,060 but let's just focus on this one for now 222 00:12:16,060 --> 00:12:18,300 and knock it out of the park. 223 00:12:18,300 --> 00:12:19,700 - Yeah. - Should we do this? 224 00:12:19,700 --> 00:12:21,100 -Let's do it. -! Let's do it. 225 00:12:21,100 --> 00:12:22,160 Let's do it. Let's go. 226 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:26,460 To bank a big final payday, 227 00:12:26,460 --> 00:12:28,560 Rick's crew must sluice 228 00:12:28,560 --> 00:12:30,100 24 hours a day 229 00:12:30,100 --> 00:12:34,100 for the rest of the week without any shutdowns. 230 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:37,400 We're still shy of our goal, so, 231 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:38,560 really, this is the last push. 232 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:40,700 And with this weather coming in, 233 00:12:40,700 --> 00:12:42,300 this push could be cut short. 234 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:46,700 We're getting to colder temperatures right now. 235 00:12:48,100 --> 00:12:50,660 It does seem like this is gonna be our final stretch here. 236 00:12:50,660 --> 00:12:52,700 And we'll have to run night shifts 237 00:12:52,700 --> 00:12:54,860 just to keep that plant from not freezing. 238 00:13:03,100 --> 00:13:05,260 After a full day of sluicing 239 00:13:05,260 --> 00:13:07,700 without any problems... 240 00:13:07,700 --> 00:13:10,660 Uh, I got Zee over in the loader. Load and pay. 241 00:13:10,660 --> 00:13:12,660 I'm over here just taking care of the tailings. 242 00:13:12,660 --> 00:13:16,000 Zee and Ryan brave Arctic temperatures 243 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:17,900 during the first night shift. 244 00:13:20,100 --> 00:13:22,200 It's only getting colder. 245 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:23,700 You know, you got ice going through the pipes. 246 00:13:23,700 --> 00:13:26,760 You always take a chance of something freezing and bursting. 247 00:13:28,660 --> 00:13:30,560 We're at that point in the year where 248 00:13:30,560 --> 00:13:32,000 the temperatures are dropping 249 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,000 and everything's kind of freezing up. 250 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:35,760 It's gonna be more beneficial 251 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:37,030 just to keep the plant running, 252 00:13:37,030 --> 00:13:39,660 so you're not wasting time in the morning thawing stuff out. 253 00:13:46,660 --> 00:13:47,760 Hey, Zee, you got a copy? 254 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:50,230 Yeah, go ahead. 255 00:13:50,230 --> 00:13:52,160 Hey, you didn't shut that shaker deck off, did you? 256 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:56,100 Uh, no. 257 00:13:56,100 --> 00:13:57,400 Hey, man, shut the plant down. 258 00:13:59,500 --> 00:14:00,460 All right. 259 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:07,200 Ah, the shaker deck just stopped. 260 00:14:09,660 --> 00:14:11,160 What the ! 261 00:14:20,060 --> 00:14:21,300 belt. 262 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:32,200 ! 263 00:14:37,500 --> 00:14:38,900 Hey, Rick, you got a copy? 264 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:41,730 Yeah, go for Rick. 265 00:14:42,660 --> 00:14:45,260 Hey, if you want to come down to the plant quick, 266 00:14:45,260 --> 00:14:49,160 the belt for the shaker deck snapped. 267 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:52,260 So what we have here, this is our main belt that drives 268 00:14:52,260 --> 00:14:54,100 the shaker deck to move back and forth. 269 00:14:54,100 --> 00:14:55,860 And without this belt, 270 00:14:55,860 --> 00:14:57,100 this deck doesn't shake. 271 00:14:57,100 --> 00:14:59,760 All that material that we just piled up in there freezes up. 272 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:01,560 Water lines start to freeze up. 273 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:02,560 So really, right now, 274 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:03,700 time is not on our side, 275 00:15:03,700 --> 00:15:05,100 and neither is Mother Nature, so... 276 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:07,760 Ice all over this thing. 277 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:09,900 There's ice everywhere. - Look at that. 278 00:15:09,900 --> 00:15:11,800 - Yeah. -This is all gonna freeze up 279 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:12,860 if we don't get this fixed. 280 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:30,000 - Oh, no. -Belt for the shaker. 281 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:31,260 ! For real? 282 00:15:31,260 --> 00:15:33,300 At Duncan Creek, 283 00:15:33,300 --> 00:15:36,100 Ryan and Zee's first night shift 284 00:15:36,100 --> 00:15:38,700 has ground to a freezing halt. 285 00:15:40,060 --> 00:15:42,960 We're kind of limited on time. We got freezing quick. 286 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:45,360 And there's a pretty good pile stuck in the shaker. 287 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:46,260 ! 288 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:48,760 I know I don't have one. 289 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:50,160 What are we gonna do? 290 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:51,500 We can't fix it. I mean, 291 00:15:51,500 --> 00:15:53,660 we can fix conveyor belts. We can't fix those. 292 00:15:54,900 --> 00:15:56,460 You got any of those conveyor belt pieces? 293 00:15:56,900 --> 00:15:57,860 The clips? Yeah. 294 00:15:58,900 --> 00:16:00,160 I got 'em. 295 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:02,660 And it's strong enough to hold a conveyor, 296 00:16:02,660 --> 00:16:04,560 what's telling us we can't do it on this? 297 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:07,460 We're already down. 298 00:16:07,460 --> 00:16:09,400 We don't have any other choice, really. 299 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:12,000 The longer we wait, we're not firing back up. It's froze. 300 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,560 Well, let's... I'll go find those clips. 301 00:16:16,460 --> 00:16:19,260 Monster Red shaker deck belt 302 00:16:19,260 --> 00:16:22,000 transfers power from a drive motor 303 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:23,360 to a pulley wheel 304 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:26,100 that vibrates the wash plant's screens. 305 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:29,300 But it snapped, 306 00:16:29,300 --> 00:16:31,200 stopping the plant from cleaning 307 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:32,760 the gold-rich pay dirt. 308 00:16:34,260 --> 00:16:35,760 Without a replacement, 309 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,360 Ryan intends to fix the broken belt 310 00:16:40,300 --> 00:16:42,100 by drilling two holes, 311 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,200 then use a conveyor clip to join the pieces, 312 00:16:47,260 --> 00:16:49,360 and file down the screws 313 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:51,100 so the belt can pass safely 314 00:16:51,100 --> 00:16:53,200 over the pulley and drive wheel... 315 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:55,960 getting Rick's crew 316 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:57,630 back on the gold. 317 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:01,460 I know this is silly to try to put a belt back together, 318 00:17:01,460 --> 00:17:03,360 but we don't have one. 319 00:17:04,100 --> 00:17:05,160 I mean, 320 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:07,460 sometimes, sometimes weird works. 321 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:14,200 Ah, found some... 322 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:15,860 Found the clips, found the tool. 323 00:17:15,860 --> 00:17:18,460 - Nice. - Found the tool and the clip. 324 00:17:18,460 --> 00:17:19,660 - And the tools. - Yep. 325 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:23,800 -If this doesn't work... -Plant freezes. 326 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:25,660 -...the plant's gonna freeze. - Plant freezes, season's done. 327 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:28,960 A magnet to something? 328 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:30,600 Oh, . 329 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:32,200 And so, what our plan is, 330 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:35,000 we'll shave this down once we get it bolted in half and half. 331 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:36,760 - Yeah. - The only problem I see, 332 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:38,560 we just gotta get it for the initial startup. 333 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:40,300 -That's the most violent. -Yeah. 334 00:17:40,300 --> 00:17:41,960 Yeah, once it's rotating, it's on. 335 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:43,160 Once you get a hole there, it's gonna blow up 336 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:44,330 -right away. - Yeah. 337 00:17:44,330 --> 00:17:46,160 -That's water done. - Okay. Let's get it going. 338 00:17:49,860 --> 00:17:52,130 That is a good hole there. 339 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:57,560 -Looks good. -There's definitely a sense of urgency right now. 340 00:17:57,560 --> 00:17:59,600 Um, hopefully this fix works. 341 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:01,260 Hopefully Ryan can do it quick enough. 342 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:07,000 Hell yeah. 343 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,560 - I'm gonna cut these off. Watch your eyes. - Oh, yeah. 344 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:18,360 Look at that. 345 00:18:18,360 --> 00:18:21,000 -I like it. - Both sides, yeah, you're good. 346 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:22,760 We'll put that little bit of tape around it. 347 00:18:24,860 --> 00:18:26,100 Just trying to keep 348 00:18:26,100 --> 00:18:28,360 the least amount of metal to metal contact we can. 349 00:18:29,360 --> 00:18:31,930 Take the belt over. I'll grab the guns. 350 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:36,560 Well, this is it. Fingers crossed. 351 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:38,800 Ready? 352 00:18:41,260 --> 00:18:42,300 Oh, . 353 00:18:42,300 --> 00:18:44,000 - You all right? - Yeah. It's heavy. 354 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:45,800 Yeah. It ain't light. 355 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:47,860 You got to get around that pulley back there first. 356 00:18:49,460 --> 00:18:50,560 Let's do it. 357 00:18:52,360 --> 00:18:53,460 - Okay, ready? - Yup. 358 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:55,360 - Hold on. - Yup. 359 00:19:00,100 --> 00:19:03,000 Okay. There it is. It fits right in there. 360 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:04,660 You know, this belt is in terrible shape. 361 00:19:04,660 --> 00:19:06,200 There's a lot of damage to it. But... 362 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:08,760 if that holds, I'm okay with it. 363 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:10,860 -That's it. - That's it. 364 00:19:11,860 --> 00:19:13,360 We are gonna fire up again. 365 00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:16,060 Let's hope this works. We're gonna know right away. 366 00:19:16,060 --> 00:19:18,860 It all relies on this fix right here. 367 00:19:21,860 --> 00:19:23,160 Come on. 368 00:19:25,300 --> 00:19:26,530 Come on. 369 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:30,760 If it gets running, it got through the hardest part. 370 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:36,160 -It's lit. 371 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:38,160 It's running. We gotta get going. 372 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:40,160 Dude, nice job. Okay, let's get some dirt in it. 373 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:43,130 Thank God that worked. 374 00:19:43,130 --> 00:19:44,800 We can celebrate it later, 'cause we still... 375 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:45,860 We gotta get some dirt in that thing. 376 00:19:45,860 --> 00:19:48,260 We haven't hit our goal yet. So, let's get moving. 377 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:24,000 King of the Klondike, 378 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:25,560 Tony Beets, 379 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:28,660 has been pushing his family hard all season. 380 00:20:29,360 --> 00:20:33,360 They've delivered 5,290 ounces 381 00:20:33,360 --> 00:20:35,160 and brought him to the brink 382 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:37,300 of his best gold haul 383 00:20:37,300 --> 00:20:39,160 of his 40-year career. 384 00:21:00,460 --> 00:21:04,100 Now, with gold prices breaking records, 385 00:21:04,100 --> 00:21:06,360 Tony's in a rush to cash in. 386 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:11,700 Cousin Mike is running a stockpile of pay dirt 387 00:21:11,700 --> 00:21:14,560 through his Sluice-A-Lot plant at Indian River. 388 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:20,560 Son Mike is sluicing Paradise Hill pay 389 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:21,660 through his trommel. 390 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:26,700 And Tony's also banking royalties 391 00:21:26,700 --> 00:21:28,900 from eldest son, Kevin, 392 00:21:28,900 --> 00:21:30,600 mining on his own 393 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:32,100 for the first time. 394 00:21:53,660 --> 00:21:55,100 Ready to head out? 395 00:21:55,100 --> 00:21:56,300 We're ready to head out. 396 00:21:56,300 --> 00:21:58,460 Couldn't have done everything without you guys. 397 00:21:58,460 --> 00:22:00,060 I'm gonna be able to go home and, you know, 398 00:22:00,060 --> 00:22:03,060 tell everybody about my experience here. And you guys 399 00:22:03,060 --> 00:22:05,160 made it really good for me, that's for sure. 400 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:08,160 Appreciate you guys coming out this year and helping us out. 401 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:10,700 Thanks for everything, Kev. It was a pleasure working for you. 402 00:22:10,700 --> 00:22:11,660 Thank you. 403 00:22:11,660 --> 00:22:12,800 - Thank you. -Thank you. 404 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,860 Hunter and Chase had prior commitments they had 405 00:22:16,860 --> 00:22:18,760 to go deal with, so, 406 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:22,460 so we are down to the bare skeleton crew at this point. 407 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:27,400 For the last six months, 408 00:22:28,100 --> 00:22:29,260 Kevin has struggled 409 00:22:29,260 --> 00:22:32,300 to ahead of the mine boss learning curve. 410 00:22:33,100 --> 00:22:36,300 Now he's failed to secure his crew 411 00:22:36,300 --> 00:22:38,100 for the entire season, 412 00:22:38,100 --> 00:22:40,560 and is down two key members 413 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:43,360 at the worst possible time. 414 00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:46,260 Now night shift is kibosh. We don't have the people. 415 00:22:46,260 --> 00:22:48,000 Everyone is on days, 416 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:49,160 and we're just gonna keep 417 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,460 going throughout the days and get the last little bit 418 00:22:51,460 --> 00:22:52,560 of pay run. 419 00:22:53,660 --> 00:22:55,500 We're getting down to the wire at this point. 420 00:22:55,500 --> 00:22:58,460 We're on our final big push to get to 1,000 ounces. 421 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:06,000 Kevin still needs 320 ounces of gold 422 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,760 to reach his 1,000-ounce break even target. 423 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,060 The push is on. You know, we're down to just day shift now. 424 00:23:15,060 --> 00:23:16,300 We lost Hunter and Chase there. 425 00:23:16,300 --> 00:23:18,160 They went home for the season. 426 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:19,800 So, you know, we're gonna just do 427 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,060 one shift a day on the wash plant. 428 00:23:22,060 --> 00:23:24,160 In the links cut extension, 429 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:25,900 foreman Brennan Ruault 430 00:23:25,900 --> 00:23:28,860 is busy digging pay. 431 00:23:28,860 --> 00:23:32,260 We worked our asses off this year as a small team 432 00:23:32,260 --> 00:23:33,230 and, uh... 433 00:23:33,230 --> 00:23:34,900 So after everything we've faced this year, 434 00:23:34,900 --> 00:23:36,100 I'd be pretty bummed out 435 00:23:36,100 --> 00:23:38,400 if we don't hit our 1,000-ounce target, you know. 436 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:42,700 In a last gasp effort to hit his goal, 437 00:23:42,700 --> 00:23:45,960 Kevin's brought on new hire Gary Masters 438 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:47,160 to load the plant. 439 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,360 The stress levels go up towards the end of the season 440 00:23:56,100 --> 00:23:58,260 because you're aiming for that goal, 441 00:23:58,260 --> 00:24:00,360 and you're pushing really, really hard. 442 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:07,100 Oh, ! 443 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:09,860 ! 444 00:24:19,500 --> 00:24:21,260 You all right over there, Gary? 445 00:24:21,900 --> 00:24:23,200 What the is going on? 446 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:27,160 Okay, I'm on my way. 447 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:30,400 ! 448 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:38,360 Oh. Oh. 449 00:24:39,660 --> 00:24:42,260 -Oh, yeah, the felt clips tore apart again, eh? - Yeah. 450 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:50,060 See that in there? 451 00:24:52,460 --> 00:24:53,860 Like, we knew this was gonna happen. 452 00:24:53,860 --> 00:24:56,160 We have a vulcanized belt that's one piece, right, 453 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,660 but we've been just kind of waiting to change it. 454 00:24:58,660 --> 00:25:01,000 If we just pulled this out, it wouldn't have been so bad. 455 00:25:02,060 --> 00:25:04,160 Seven weeks ago... 456 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,500 - We've been down about 11 hours now. 457 00:25:07,500 --> 00:25:10,160 ...Kevin faced a frantic struggle to patch up 458 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,300 the same broken belt, 459 00:25:12,300 --> 00:25:14,360 fixing it with conveyor clips. 460 00:25:15,360 --> 00:25:16,560 Okay, that's it. 461 00:25:20,300 --> 00:25:22,560 Now completely shredded, 462 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:24,600 the belt needs replacing. 463 00:25:26,700 --> 00:25:28,000 Got the call from Brennan, so, 464 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:30,360 I'm down to have a look-see. 465 00:25:32,100 --> 00:25:32,960 Hola. 466 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:34,860 Hey, Kev, how are you, buddy? 467 00:25:34,860 --> 00:25:36,560 - Oh, no. - She's ! 468 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:39,900 My rough battle plan 469 00:25:39,900 --> 00:25:42,860 is that we'll hook up with the 220, 470 00:25:42,860 --> 00:25:45,300 use that to yard it out. 471 00:25:45,300 --> 00:25:46,960 - Okay. -Then pick it up 472 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,560 with the 480 to pull it all the way out. 473 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:51,560 And then we can swing it, set it down on that side. 474 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:55,800 Okay. 475 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:57,560 Everybody start standing clear. 476 00:26:10,360 --> 00:26:11,360 There we go. 477 00:26:18,360 --> 00:26:19,800 Lift your bucket up a bit. 478 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,000 Okay. 479 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:23,860 Now try both straight back. 480 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:25,560 Whoa, whoa, whoa. 481 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,460 Hold on, hold on. 482 00:26:29,700 --> 00:26:31,260 Get in the 480? 483 00:26:31,260 --> 00:26:33,560 - Yes. - Want me to put those chains in the bucket? 484 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:35,760 - Yeah, they're already hanging off the back. - Okay. 485 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,660 Next step is Brennan is gonna hop into the 480. 486 00:26:38,660 --> 00:26:40,560 I'm gonna hook up our four-point sling 487 00:26:41,460 --> 00:26:43,800 to the frame of this conveyor. 488 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:45,900 And then hopefully he can take the weight 489 00:26:45,900 --> 00:26:48,300 and swing it out the last little bit. 490 00:26:49,460 --> 00:26:53,260 And we'll place it on the ground, put the belt on. 491 00:26:53,260 --> 00:26:55,560 Brennan, you can see what you're doing to pull it out? 492 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,460 -! - Whoa! 493 00:27:07,260 --> 00:27:09,160 - Whoa! -No arm. 494 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:12,160 Yeah, I barely touched the joysticks. 495 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,760 I let them go and it kept sliding, so sorry about that. 496 00:27:16,500 --> 00:27:18,360 At Scribner Creek, 497 00:27:18,360 --> 00:27:20,460 rookie mine boss Kevin Beets 498 00:27:20,460 --> 00:27:22,660 is battling to keep 499 00:27:22,660 --> 00:27:25,100 his 1,000-ounce goal in sight. 500 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:27,700 You basically clear the supports. 501 00:27:27,700 --> 00:27:29,960 So if you can swing it out... 502 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,500 - Yay! - Beautiful. 503 00:27:35,460 --> 00:27:36,560 There we go. 504 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:46,560 We're just sliding the belt up, 505 00:27:47,360 --> 00:27:50,000 and then we get the new one on. 506 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,900 It's one continuous piece, like a rubber band. 507 00:27:52,900 --> 00:27:54,660 It's gonna be a lot of fun. 508 00:27:58,060 --> 00:28:01,860 The new belt weighs in at 1,500 lb 509 00:28:01,860 --> 00:28:05,460 and needs to be stretched over the head and tail drums. 510 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,360 We're both gonna use the crane and the excavator 511 00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:14,760 to try to get the belt started on the rollers. 512 00:28:17,100 --> 00:28:18,860 Where's the pry bar? 513 00:28:18,860 --> 00:28:21,200 We just need to get over this tail, pull it, and then we're golden. 514 00:28:25,660 --> 00:28:26,760 Trying to pry this. 515 00:28:28,260 --> 00:28:29,100 There we go. 516 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:39,260 Golden, Ponyboy. 517 00:28:40,660 --> 00:28:42,560 Say that's a success right there. 518 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,760 We have the belts on the frame. So... 519 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:49,360 we're ready to put it back in. 520 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:52,460 There we go. 521 00:28:53,460 --> 00:28:56,000 I'm gonna give it a push with the 220 for the last little bit. 522 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:57,100 Yeah, you bet. Okay. 523 00:29:05,300 --> 00:29:06,260 Whoo! 524 00:29:07,100 --> 00:29:10,000 Whoo! Smooth like butter. 525 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:11,860 - Attaboy, boss. 526 00:29:12,700 --> 00:29:15,260 All right. Piece of cake. 527 00:29:15,260 --> 00:29:16,800 - yeah. - Good job. 528 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:18,700 Whoo! Skeleton Crew. 529 00:29:18,700 --> 00:29:21,060 -Twenty-four. 530 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,360 That went really well, so we'll get back running. 531 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,860 Run hard till, uh, we get snowed out. 532 00:29:29,900 --> 00:29:31,460 We got our 1,000 ounces somehow. 533 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,860 40 miles north at Paradise Hill... 534 00:29:54,300 --> 00:29:58,760 While his eldest son tries to prove himself as a mine boss, 535 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:05,760 Tony wants to smash his best ever gold haul of 5,295 ounces. 536 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:11,760 To do it, he needs to run a third plant and is looking to daughter Monica. 537 00:30:41,260 --> 00:30:45,000 We're just using the pipe so that we can hook 538 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,600 the pump up to the plant and start sluicing. 539 00:30:49,460 --> 00:30:51,100 It's been a long time coming. 540 00:30:55,260 --> 00:30:56,760 We got the pipeline together. 541 00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,100 We could have water at the plant by the end of day. 542 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:08,960 Last week, Tony bought Monica 543 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,100 a new half-a-million-dollar wash plant. 544 00:31:12,100 --> 00:31:18,260 She has set up the plant, and run a 1,000-foot-long pipeline to feed it water. 545 00:31:18,260 --> 00:31:22,900 Now she's asked Tony to help her drag and connect it to the pump. 546 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,200 Tony Beets is in full "get-her-done" mode. 547 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:25,230 In a race to get his youngest child, Monica, on the gold... 548 00:32:27,660 --> 00:32:34,560 ...Tony is battling to connect a 1,000-foot-long water pipe to her new wash plant's pump. 549 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:03,960 - And then we can throw some dirt through. 550 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:12,760 -Hey, could you start the pump up, please? - All right. 551 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:14,660 Let her rip. 552 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:26,160 Yes. 553 00:33:28,260 --> 00:33:30,160 So are you ready? 554 00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:10,300 Yeah. 555 00:34:10,300 --> 00:34:13,760 Harald is a super-sluice wash plant 556 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:18,400 designed to tackle coarse rocks like the old timer tailings. 557 00:34:20,460 --> 00:34:23,560 It separates large boulders from gold 558 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:29,260 with three hydraulic-powered decks, armed with 93 steel teeth 559 00:34:29,260 --> 00:34:36,100 that push rocks weighing up to 4,000 lb into the tailings pile. 560 00:34:36,100 --> 00:34:41,260 The finer pay dirt drops through the decks where sluice runs catch the gold. 561 00:34:43,260 --> 00:34:44,900 It's nice to see it sluicing. 562 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:46,600 I'm impressed. 563 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:52,000 , yeah. 564 00:34:54,700 --> 00:34:56,100 - Okay. 565 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,260 I'm happy that the plant is running and it's all running well. 566 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,460 Hoping that the plant stayed running good for night shift. 567 00:35:46,100 --> 00:35:49,660 Right now it's cold, there's no denying it, 568 00:35:49,660 --> 00:35:52,360 but Parker wants to keep sluicing. Gold prices are high. 569 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:54,760 He wants to try and get every ounce we can this season. 570 00:36:01,300 --> 00:36:03,760 In a last throw of the dice, 571 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:09,560 Parker Schnabel has two plants running twenty-four-seven at Dominion, 572 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:12,460 and at his Hail Mary gold run cut, 573 00:36:12,460 --> 00:36:17,100 Parker and Tyson pull out as much pay dirt as they can. 574 00:36:19,300 --> 00:36:21,260 We have wash plants on all the ground 575 00:36:21,260 --> 00:36:23,530 that we've got that is sluice-able. 576 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,100 I just need another hour or two here to finish cleaning the rest of this 577 00:36:29,100 --> 00:36:30,360 and then haul this stuff out of here, 578 00:36:31,500 --> 00:36:32,860 down to the wash plant. 579 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:46,400 You want to just barely barely see the outlines of the riffles. 580 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,760 We can turn the pump down. That's no problem. 581 00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:52,160 I think I would. I think I'd turn it down a click or two. 582 00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,760 At the Rock Gobbler wash plant, 583 00:36:55,760 --> 00:37:00,260 gold recovery expert Chris Doumitt dials in the sluices 584 00:37:01,860 --> 00:37:04,960 We inherited this wash plant when we bought the property. 585 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,360 It's all brand new to us. 586 00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:09,360 We don't have a lot of time left in the season, 587 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,860 but you got to have this thing dialed in properly, right? 588 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:16,660 Otherwise, why are you doing it all? 589 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:19,560 We're going to make those adjustments here. 590 00:37:32,860 --> 00:37:34,900 That one click made a world of difference. 591 00:37:36,860 --> 00:37:38,760 -That looks really good now. -Yeah. 592 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:41,860 I think this is gonna do it. 593 00:37:41,860 --> 00:37:43,560 Okay, young man, I gotta go around. 594 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:45,060 - I'll see you around. - Okay. 595 00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:54,760 We've got three plants running and everybody's just stretched thin. 596 00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:58,260 Parker, he's under a lot of stress. 597 00:37:58,260 --> 00:38:02,560 This could be the first year that we do not reach our goal. 598 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,300 So now is the time when we really have to push. 599 00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:09,200 We're gonna make this work. 600 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,600 Let's see if we can push this to the end of the season. 601 00:38:16,060 --> 00:38:18,600 Gotta play everything by ear today. 602 00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:25,560 Alec and operator John Kurtz push 150 yards of pay an hour through the plant. 603 00:38:31,060 --> 00:38:33,260 I never thought in a million years that 604 00:38:33,260 --> 00:38:37,060 this thing would be still functional, but, uh, it is. 605 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:39,900 It's gobblin' rocks. 606 00:38:46,260 --> 00:38:47,700 Everything's looking good. 607 00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:51,700 I'm just gonna hop in the loader here and deal with some fine tailings. 608 00:38:51,700 --> 00:38:52,700 We're getting up there. 609 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:56,000 Oh, feed belt is stuffed. 610 00:38:57,460 --> 00:38:58,260 What the ? 611 00:38:59,860 --> 00:39:01,560 . Shut it down. 612 00:39:10,860 --> 00:39:12,160 . 613 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:15,200 What the happened? 614 00:39:16,700 --> 00:39:17,860 Holy . 615 00:39:24,300 --> 00:39:26,260 Here it is, the end of the season. 616 00:39:26,260 --> 00:39:29,900 You just gotta scrape up the... rest of the pay you've got 617 00:39:29,900 --> 00:39:31,900 in all the little corners and edges 618 00:39:31,900 --> 00:39:34,200 and get it through a wash plant. 619 00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:36,900 At Gold Run, 620 00:39:36,900 --> 00:39:40,630 while Parker pulls every last scrap of pay... 621 00:39:43,100 --> 00:39:44,560 Why is this belt not working? 622 00:39:45,860 --> 00:39:47,400 Too much weight? 623 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:48,900 ...half a mile away, 624 00:39:48,900 --> 00:39:54,460 the tailings conveyer on his Rock Gobbler plant has piled up with rocks, 625 00:39:54,460 --> 00:39:56,100 shutting down the plant. 626 00:39:57,460 --> 00:39:58,560 We gotta clear it out. 627 00:40:00,860 --> 00:40:02,360 Yeah, we're gonna be here for hours. 628 00:40:05,300 --> 00:40:06,300 , man. 629 00:40:14,460 --> 00:40:17,400 Right now operating costs are going up and 630 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,260 money getting made is going down. 631 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:27,960 Here comes Tyson. 632 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:33,560 What the happened? 633 00:40:35,100 --> 00:40:37,760 We had a little bit of a conveyor jam up. 634 00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:40,160 Well, let's try and get this thing back going here. 635 00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:42,200 Still got more material to send it, you guys. 636 00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:44,100 -We need a running wash plant. - Yep. 637 00:40:46,100 --> 00:40:49,560 So right now we don't have any other option than the Rock Gobbler. 638 00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:53,400 This is the last thing we want to be doing at this time of year. 639 00:40:58,100 --> 00:41:00,160 You have that pretty much cleaned out, don't you? 640 00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:03,260 Yeah. I want to give her a go. 641 00:41:03,260 --> 00:41:05,660 -I'm done with the shoveling gizmos. - All right, man. 642 00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:15,560 . 643 00:41:23,060 --> 00:41:24,100 Oh, yeah! 644 00:41:25,300 --> 00:41:26,260 Yeah? 645 00:41:26,260 --> 00:41:27,460 -It's good. - It's good? 646 00:41:27,460 --> 00:41:29,300 -It's good. -Whoo! 647 00:41:29,300 --> 00:41:30,630 yeah. 648 00:41:33,100 --> 00:41:34,600 Whoo! 649 00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:37,160 Halle--lujah. 650 00:41:39,460 --> 00:41:40,360 Here we go. 651 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:59,260 Got the first scoop going back in the Rock Gobbler. 652 00:41:59,260 --> 00:42:01,700 I think this thing still has a lot of life left in it. 653 00:42:03,100 --> 00:42:06,730 Let's go, baby. Whoo! 654 00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:11,400 Hey, Alec and John, you guys got a copy? 655 00:42:12,500 --> 00:42:14,260 Go ahead, Tyson. 656 00:42:14,260 --> 00:42:15,960 How are things going down there, guys? 657 00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:17,900 You guys got the plant back up and going yet? 658 00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:19,860 Yeah, we sure do. 659 00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:21,800 Nice work, man. 660 00:42:22,700 --> 00:42:23,860 Good job, guys. 661 00:42:23,860 --> 00:42:25,500 Few rocks ain't gonna hurt us. 662 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:28,900 Every ounce that's still in the ground 663 00:42:28,900 --> 00:42:31,060 has to be fought pretty damn hard for. 664 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:47,000 Oh, man. 665 00:42:49,100 --> 00:42:52,960 Oh! Whew. It is cold. 666 00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:55,400 I'm gonna switch the light on. You want to jump the 460? 667 00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:56,530 -Yeah. -Do the tailings, 668 00:42:56,530 --> 00:42:58,260 I'll just get in the loader and we'll run this thing. 669 00:42:58,260 --> 00:42:59,260 All right, let's do it. 670 00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:04,400 Rick and longtime friend Zee 671 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:09,600 tackle another freezing night to prevent Monster Red from icing over. 672 00:43:11,500 --> 00:43:12,900 You're still happy that you came up, 673 00:43:12,900 --> 00:43:14,600 now that I stuck you on night shift with me? 674 00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:16,500 Well, I'm still awake... 675 00:43:16,500 --> 00:43:18,960 ...so that's good. - laughs] 676 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:23,560 Oh, man, the things you do. 677 00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:25,260 You come all the way up here to help me out, and I just... 678 00:43:25,260 --> 00:43:26,600 ...abuse the bleep] out of you, 679 00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,500 put you on night shift, run you ragged, 680 00:43:29,500 --> 00:43:31,060 and then send you back home to your wife. 681 00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:33,200 Right? chuckles] 682 00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:36,060 Let's just hit the goal. I'll be happy with that. 683 00:43:36,060 --> 00:43:37,660 If we don't get all this dirt run, 684 00:43:37,660 --> 00:43:39,560 I... I don't know that we're gonna hit our goal. You know what I mean? 685 00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:42,900 Like, we're gonna need every bit out of this pile, if we're hoping to get it. 686 00:43:43,460 --> 00:43:44,760 Yeah, I agree. 687 00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:52,000 I'm tired, but I can't stop thinking 688 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:53,560 that I hope we had enough here to hit our goal. 689 00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:56,000 I mean, this team... This team deserves it. 690 00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:57,360 They put the goalposts on the line, 691 00:43:57,360 --> 00:43:59,260 and these... these guys worked harder than 692 00:43:59,260 --> 00:44:00,660 any crew that I've ever had out here. 693 00:44:11,860 --> 00:44:12,960 Hey, Rick, you got a copy? 694 00:44:14,100 --> 00:44:15,960 Yes, sir. Go for Rick. 695 00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:19,760 Hey, man, there's like water pouring out from the backside of the feeder, 696 00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:22,200 and it's washing the rocks out. 697 00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,000 Feeder? What do you mean, the feeder? 698 00:44:25,100 --> 00:44:27,560 Like, on the backside of the feeder. 699 00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:28,460 All right, got it. 700 00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:36,000 . 701 00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:42,530 Water by the feeder, doesn't make any sense. 702 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:46,400 What the ? 703 00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:48,860 Holy . 704 00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:51,100 waterline. 705 00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:55,660 There's a waterline back there that feeds the plant. 706 00:44:55,660 --> 00:44:59,900 If that washes out, it'll take the feeder down the hill with it. 707 00:44:59,900 --> 00:45:04,500 The main waterline is leaking through the pad supporting the wash plant. 708 00:45:07,460 --> 00:45:08,900 . 709 00:45:08,900 --> 00:45:11,500 That's not even enough water to keep material moving through the plant. 710 00:45:12,660 --> 00:45:15,330 We just don't have enough water pressure anymore. 711 00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:19,300 That waterline... Something's wrong with that waterline. 712 00:45:19,300 --> 00:45:20,760 You got to go down and turn the pump off. 713 00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:21,800 -. - All right. 714 00:45:23,460 --> 00:45:24,800 Why is there water everywhere? 715 00:45:27,900 --> 00:45:29,460 Shut it down like this, 716 00:45:29,460 --> 00:45:33,100 it's gonna be frozen in a matter of probably half hour, an hour or so. 717 00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:44,660 I don't know what happened. 718 00:45:44,660 --> 00:45:46,400 Water just puking out back there. 719 00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:47,800 That's where the waterline is. 720 00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:49,600 So a rock hit or what? 721 00:45:50,460 --> 00:45:51,860 Fixable, or... 722 00:45:51,860 --> 00:45:53,360 We're not gonna be able to do anything with this tonight, man. 723 00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:55,300 Like, we... it... It's dark. 724 00:45:55,300 --> 00:45:57,000 Let's just pack it in and we'll look in the morning. 725 00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:58,260 All right. 726 00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:13,660 . 727 00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:16,800 A lot of water did that. 728 00:46:17,660 --> 00:46:19,300 At Duncan Creek, 729 00:46:19,300 --> 00:46:22,760 Rick and Zee investigate the full extent 730 00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:25,900 of their late night waterline disaster. 731 00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:30,430 -I'll dig it up. We'll see what we get. -All right. 732 00:46:32,900 --> 00:46:34,800 Down at the feeder pump 733 00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:37,160 Rick's crew inspect the equipment 734 00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:41,860 after it lay dormant for half the night in subzero temperatures. 735 00:46:42,660 --> 00:46:45,100 Ah! ice. 736 00:46:45,660 --> 00:46:47,660 It's freezing quick. 737 00:46:47,660 --> 00:46:50,500 What we have now is two and a half inches of ice 738 00:46:50,500 --> 00:46:52,400 all the way around this eight inch ring 739 00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:55,200 that's completely solid all the way into the impeller. 740 00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:57,300 And then still... we gotta still find the... 741 00:46:57,300 --> 00:46:59,360 wherever the hole's at, behind the grizzlies. 742 00:47:01,500 --> 00:47:04,000 To discover the source of the leak, 743 00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:06,100 Rick will need to dig up the waterline. 744 00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:14,100 You're on the side of it. 745 00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:19,100 Yeah, so I'm just gonna try to dig below it. 746 00:47:19,100 --> 00:47:20,700 So that way I don't it up anymore. 747 00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:25,130 Oh, , look at that. 748 00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:29,200 -You're not gonna like what you see. -Big hole, eh? 749 00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:31,500 Yeah, it's... it's big. It's like half the pipe. 750 00:47:32,860 --> 00:47:34,260 . . 751 00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:40,160 . That's bad. 752 00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:48,600 -That's way worse than I expected. - Yeah. 753 00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:50,300 That's not something we're gonna be able to fix. 754 00:47:51,260 --> 00:47:53,000 Not this year. 755 00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:56,000 This obviously got caught by the bucket last night. 756 00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,060 It's literally the size of the tooth. 757 00:47:58,060 --> 00:47:59,500 line should have never been there. 758 00:47:59,500 --> 00:48:00,930 Uh, anybody would have done it. 759 00:48:00,930 --> 00:48:03,260 It would've happened eventually. Someone was gonna hit that thing. 760 00:48:03,260 --> 00:48:04,860 I mean, we're constantly moving stuff. 761 00:48:04,860 --> 00:48:07,360 This line should have been on the other side of the... the feeder. 762 00:48:09,260 --> 00:48:12,100 That's a... a catastrophic failure. 763 00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:21,100 Hey, Rick! 764 00:48:21,900 --> 00:48:24,360 -Ooh. -That is how fast that freezes up. 765 00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:26,100 Holy , where is that from? 766 00:48:26,100 --> 00:48:28,560 That's out of the pump, feeding the plant. 767 00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:30,000 We're taking an eight inch suction, 768 00:48:31,100 --> 00:48:32,160 taking it down to three and a half, 769 00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:33,760 -four inches of suction. -Yeah. You're choking it. 770 00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:36,560 It looks like you could barely fit a baseball through it. 771 00:48:37,060 --> 00:48:38,260 . . 772 00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:41,160 That water line's got a big old hole in it. 773 00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:44,300 That plant's frozen up already. 774 00:48:44,300 --> 00:48:49,060 So try to get it thawed to do another run, ain't gonna happen. 775 00:48:51,500 --> 00:48:53,860 With the broken water line, 776 00:48:53,860 --> 00:48:56,760 and the pump and wash plant frozen solid, 777 00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:00,660 Rick has a tough call to make. 778 00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:02,800 Hey, guys. 779 00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:05,460 Well, that's it. We're shut down for the season. 780 00:49:13,860 --> 00:49:17,000 We didn't get a chance to run all that pay through, so that's kind of . 781 00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:20,530 Especially if we can't come back next year without a water license. 782 00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:25,760 It's time to winterize. Let's just hope we got enough gold in the box. 783 00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,460 There was really no way we were gonna go any farther, so, 784 00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:31,860 that's it. Uh, we're done. 785 00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:35,760 We almost got all the pay run. 786 00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:38,760 Hopefully we got enough gold. But it's gonna be close. It always is. 787 00:49:54,100 --> 00:49:56,560 All right, it's starting to blend out. 788 00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:03,860 That's it for Sluice-A-Lot this season. 789 00:50:05,060 --> 00:50:07,260 At the comeback cut extension, 790 00:50:07,260 --> 00:50:11,800 Tony Beets' nephew Cousin Mike, is out of thawed paydirt. 791 00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:15,100 It's finally done. 792 00:50:15,100 --> 00:50:19,130 But 40 miles north at Paradise Hill... 793 00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:28,600 the king still has two of his kids sluicing towards a new record gold haul. 794 00:50:53,660 --> 00:50:55,460 When you hit the pile, 795 00:50:56,460 --> 00:50:59,360 first thing you do is you go up. 796 00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:01,400 At wash plant Harald... 797 00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:03,660 So when you hit that bank, 798 00:51:03,660 --> 00:51:06,260 -first gear is gonna be your best friend. -Okay. 799 00:51:06,260 --> 00:51:11,000 ...Monica trains her crew to feed the plant with the old timer tailings 800 00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:14,760 that she believes are rich in lost gold. 801 00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:17,860 It's really nice to see Harald up and running. 802 00:51:17,860 --> 00:51:19,660 Hopefully, we can get some gold out of it. 803 00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:25,200 Just checking to make sure that the boys are keeping up. 804 00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:27,660 Make sure Andrew's not overfeeding it. 805 00:51:27,660 --> 00:51:29,800 The rocks come out clean. 806 00:51:32,260 --> 00:51:34,600 As long as we keep the dirt in the box, 807 00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:37,260 keep everything moving, Monica should be very happy. 808 00:51:37,260 --> 00:51:43,660 Excavator operator Andrew Moran feeds a 100 yards of old timer tailings an hour. 809 00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:47,160 It's just a big coin machine. 810 00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:51,060 In the loader, Roy Hoekstra does double duty... 811 00:51:52,460 --> 00:51:53,900 This stuff is hard. 812 00:51:53,900 --> 00:51:55,460 ...restocking the pay pile, 813 00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:03,000 and hauling the re-washed tailings to a dump site 200 feet away. 814 00:52:05,460 --> 00:52:09,800 I just have to watch and make sure everything's going good on the plant. 815 00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:13,560 Make sure the tailings are not piling up and, uh, Andrew has enough pay. 816 00:52:15,660 --> 00:52:17,500 I don't have much room here. 817 00:52:17,500 --> 00:52:21,100 A lot of obstacles, like the water line, 818 00:52:21,100 --> 00:52:24,460 the fuser, the fuel tank and stuff. 819 00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:38,760 I got hooked on something there. 820 00:52:40,900 --> 00:52:42,060 What the ? 821 00:52:44,260 --> 00:52:46,260 Andrew. bleep], the water pipes. 822 00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:47,800 Oh, . 823 00:52:57,730 --> 00:53:00,160 Monica, do you copy? Monica? The pipes are bursting. 824 00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:03,260 He's gonna turn the pump off. 825 00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:13,000 Mike, do you copy, Mike? 826 00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:14,560 Go ahead. Go ahead. 827 00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:17,730 Hey, my pipe burst down at the Hester Cut. 828 00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:20,660 Do we have a collar and a breather? 829 00:53:20,660 --> 00:53:23,360 Yeah. Okay, I'll be down there as soon as possible. 830 00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:32,100 Greenhorn operator Roy has caught a water pipe with his loader, 831 00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:37,260 ripping open a hole further down the pipeline. 832 00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:44,860 -Well, this is up. - No . 833 00:53:48,100 --> 00:53:49,800 I got the drill, I got some bits, 834 00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:51,800 so I'll, uh, cut a hole around the crack. 835 00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:57,330 Why don't you lift it up? 836 00:53:57,330 --> 00:53:59,300 It just has to be over there, so the thing comes off the ground. 837 00:53:59,300 --> 00:54:01,800 So here's the collar, 838 00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:02,900 we're gonna put it around the hole, 839 00:54:02,900 --> 00:54:05,260 and Mike's gonna put a breather right here. 840 00:54:06,300 --> 00:54:09,000 That is a quicker fix than fusing the pipe. 841 00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,300 That's good. It ain't got to be pretty. 842 00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:17,800 To get back on the gold fast, 843 00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:23,160 Monica installs a rubber backed metal collar that seals the damaged pipe. 844 00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:26,760 Then screws in a breather. 845 00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:30,660 This prevents the risk of an air lock blocking the pipe 846 00:54:30,660 --> 00:54:33,100 by allowing trapped air to escape. 847 00:54:36,260 --> 00:54:38,400 Andrew. Andrew, do you copy? 848 00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:40,460 - Go ahead. -Can you start the pump back up? 849 00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:48,660 I'm gonna wait to see if it actually explodes. 850 00:54:53,900 --> 00:54:55,730 Nice. No geyser. 851 00:54:56,660 --> 00:54:58,200 We're aces good to go. 852 00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:03,400 Pipe's all fixed. 853 00:55:04,260 --> 00:55:05,560 Now we're ready to fire up. 854 00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:12,600 Perfect! 855 00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:26,000 Pipe? 856 00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:46,160 Okay. Don't go away mad. 857 00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:35,560 Okay, last scoop. 858 00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:37,360 Here we go. 859 00:56:38,060 --> 00:56:39,760 Whoo! 860 00:56:41,660 --> 00:56:43,660 Oh, spilled a bit. That's all right. 861 00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:48,260 Parker Schnabel's Gold Run crew 862 00:56:48,260 --> 00:56:51,100 has sluiced through their last pay pile of the season... 863 00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:56,000 ...and at Dominion... 864 00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:58,100 Well, here we go. Shutting down Bob for the season. 865 00:57:01,060 --> 00:57:04,060 ...wash plant Bob has also finished 866 00:57:04,060 --> 00:57:09,360 running the last of the thawed gold-rich White Channel pay. 867 00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:11,360 We ran all the thaw we could get. 868 00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:14,100 Hopefully, there's a lot of gold in the box. 869 00:57:14,100 --> 00:57:16,100 So, it really only leaves Mitch 870 00:57:16,100 --> 00:57:18,900 sluicing the elbow cut with Roxanne. 871 00:57:18,900 --> 00:57:20,300 That pit is right on the edge 872 00:57:20,300 --> 00:57:21,900 of the money pit from last year, 873 00:57:21,900 --> 00:57:23,560 which was very rich ground, 874 00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:26,600 some of the best ground that the company's mined ever. 875 00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:29,460 We'll finish strong, do the best we can. 876 00:57:31,730 --> 00:57:33,500 Just hoping we can get the last of this material 877 00:57:33,500 --> 00:57:35,460 through this wash plant here. 878 00:57:35,460 --> 00:57:36,660 There's not a lot of dirt left, 879 00:57:36,660 --> 00:57:39,100 but there's certainly no time left. 880 00:57:41,560 --> 00:57:43,400 At the elbow cut, 881 00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:47,460 Parker's last shot at hitting his 8,000 ounce goal 882 00:57:47,460 --> 00:57:50,460 is now in the hands of foreman Mitch Blaschke 883 00:57:51,730 --> 00:57:55,860 and the million-dollar custom-built wash plant, Roxanne. 884 00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:03,560 We had a hell of a season, 885 00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:05,960 and it's been one fight after the next. 886 00:58:06,860 --> 00:58:08,160 I think we've just reached that point 887 00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:10,560 where we're fighting it, every scoop. 888 00:58:12,660 --> 00:58:15,500 We've been in the elbow cut, ripping this pay dirt, 889 00:58:15,500 --> 00:58:17,260 but the problem we're running into right now 890 00:58:17,260 --> 00:58:19,160 is it's just not thawing out. 891 00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:21,900 The temperatures are just getting too cold here. 892 00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:25,730 Even though the sun's up, it's still well below freezing. 893 00:58:25,730 --> 00:58:27,200 It's really only gonna get worse. 894 00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:31,100 We're starting to see big frozen chunks 895 00:58:31,100 --> 00:58:34,000 working their way down the shaker deck. 896 00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:38,660 Frozen pay dirt is like kryptonite when sluicing for gold. 897 00:58:38,660 --> 00:58:41,560 Ice chunks can jam up the wash plant, 898 00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:43,360 and if they make it through, 899 00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:45,760 carry gold into the waste tailings. 900 00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:48,760 I think we're probably at the point of the season 901 00:58:48,760 --> 00:58:50,460 where we should be shutting this plant down. 902 00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:57,060 But the decision to shut down the wash plant 903 00:58:57,060 --> 00:58:59,760 is definitely, you know, one for Parker to make. 904 00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:02,000 I don't think anybody else can really make that call. 905 00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:05,800 -Hey, Parker, you got a copy? 906 00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:07,960 We need you to rip down here to Roxanne. 907 00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:22,360 -What's up, man? - Hi, Mitch. 908 00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:25,860 What do you think of that pay dirt? 909 00:59:25,860 --> 00:59:29,460 You see all those frost chunks coming off the top deck there. 910 00:59:29,460 --> 00:59:31,960 I mean, that's all got gold in it. 911 00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:33,460 I think we should shut this thing down, 912 00:59:33,460 --> 00:59:35,160 save that stuff for next year. 913 00:59:36,160 --> 00:59:37,200 What do you think? 914 00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:39,100 'Cause it's not too bad. 915 00:59:39,100 --> 00:59:41,000 Like, right now, it's probably, like, 916 00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:45,300 less than 10%, wouldn't you say? 917 00:59:47,760 --> 00:59:48,800 Well, it's up to you, man. 918 00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:50,360 I mean, we can try and keep sluicing, 919 00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:53,630 but we're definitely losing some gold. 920 00:59:56,100 --> 00:59:57,730 Yeah, I think that we should run it. 921 01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:12,060 It doesn't look too good right now 922 01:00:12,060 --> 01:00:14,060 for, you know, trying to hit our season goal. 923 01:00:14,060 --> 01:00:16,760 I think that has a lot to do with Parker's decision here 924 01:00:16,760 --> 01:00:18,100 to want to keep running. 925 01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:20,730 It's definitely a gamble here 926 01:00:20,730 --> 01:00:23,730 when you're rolling the dice with frozen pay dirt. 927 01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:26,100 Come on. Over here. 928 01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:34,160 Let's see if I can break the frost up a bit. 929 01:00:35,860 --> 01:00:38,260 To help keep his season alive, 930 01:00:38,260 --> 01:00:40,400 Parker uses a D10 931 01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:43,560 to break up the elbow cut's frozen pay dirt 932 01:00:43,560 --> 01:00:46,660 in a desperate attempt to help it thaw. 933 01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:50,560 10% loss is far from ideal, 934 01:00:50,560 --> 01:00:52,260 but we are where we are. 935 01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:55,260 We need the gold. 936 01:00:56,360 --> 01:00:58,760 And it's my fault. We could have done things differently. 937 01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:01,260 But hindsight's 20-20, right? 938 01:01:01,260 --> 01:01:05,260 So, I think that we'll just see it through. 939 01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:14,160 Roxanne's holding on strong. 940 01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:16,100 We got a bit less in the pay pile. 941 01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:22,360 1,000 feet away, operator Justin Fraser 942 01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:27,160 loads 250 yards of pay an hour into the plant. 943 01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:28,260 We just gotta make this work, 944 01:01:28,260 --> 01:01:29,800 try to get all the pay through the plant 945 01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:31,660 and finish the season off strong with Roxanne. 946 01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:37,360 Oh, sake. 947 01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:47,460 Right now, we're battling the hopper plugging up. 948 01:01:48,060 --> 01:01:50,200 Not cooperating with us. 949 01:01:52,660 --> 01:01:54,260 Well, let's get that cleaned up, 950 01:01:54,260 --> 01:01:57,200 and once we get, you know, the plant back running, 951 01:01:57,200 --> 01:01:59,300 we'll do everything we can to sluice this. 952 01:01:59,300 --> 01:02:01,360 You need help in here, Liam? 953 01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:04,400 - Sure. - I am coming in. 954 01:02:04,400 --> 01:02:05,900 You got that big steel box there. 955 01:02:05,900 --> 01:02:08,460 You dump this wet material into it, it freezes up... 956 01:02:11,100 --> 01:02:13,600 ...and eventually it ends up just choking down, 957 01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:15,860 you can't get the material on the belt, 958 01:02:15,860 --> 01:02:18,600 up the conveyor belts, into the wash plant. 959 01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:21,460 - Whoa. Whoa! 960 01:02:21,460 --> 01:02:24,460 Parker wants us to finish sluicing this material, 961 01:02:24,460 --> 01:02:26,600 he wants to try and get this gold this year. 962 01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:28,100 That means we gotta fight it out. 963 01:02:28,100 --> 01:02:30,500 - Whoa, watch yourself. 964 01:02:30,500 --> 01:02:32,300 Timber! 965 01:02:32,300 --> 01:02:34,800 Well, this is probably pretty good, hey, Liam? 966 01:02:34,800 --> 01:02:36,660 -What do you say we go fire this up? 967 01:02:38,660 --> 01:02:40,860 - Yes, sir. 968 01:02:40,860 --> 01:02:43,260 If I fire up the propane torch on that rear, 969 01:02:43,260 --> 01:02:45,360 -on that heinie... -Oh, yeah. 970 01:02:47,260 --> 01:02:48,460 Firing up. 971 01:02:48,460 --> 01:02:50,600 -Here we go. 972 01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:06,800 We got Roxanne fired back up here. 973 01:03:18,060 --> 01:03:20,000 What's going on with the pre-wash? 974 01:03:24,660 --> 01:03:27,400 It's all froze up. Shut it off! 975 01:03:38,460 --> 01:03:40,160 It's all froze up. 976 01:03:40,160 --> 01:03:41,800 We gotta shovel it. 977 01:03:44,260 --> 01:03:48,200 Oh, buddy. This is not getting fun. 978 01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:50,460 We're definitely battling some problems today. 979 01:03:51,460 --> 01:03:55,460 Seconds after firing Roxanne back up, 980 01:03:55,460 --> 01:03:57,860 Parker's last plant sluicing 981 01:03:57,860 --> 01:04:00,400 is jammed with frozen pay dirt 982 01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:03,860 -and shut down again. 983 01:04:03,860 --> 01:04:06,460 I showed up to go 12 rounds, so let's keep going. 984 01:04:06,460 --> 01:04:07,860 -Oh, yeah. 985 01:04:07,860 --> 01:04:10,000 I think the bell's about ready to ring here. 986 01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:12,860 We'll keep doing what we can do here. 987 01:04:12,860 --> 01:04:14,660 I know Parker wants to keep sluicing, but... 988 01:04:14,660 --> 01:04:16,600 - It doesn't make sense anymore. -No. 989 01:04:16,600 --> 01:04:19,000 We're not making money when we're doing it like this. 990 01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:21,760 I think we're really at a point here 991 01:04:21,760 --> 01:04:23,360 where we need to really reconsider 992 01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:25,360 whether we should keep sluicing or not. 993 01:04:25,360 --> 01:04:27,360 - Hey, Parker, you got a copy? 994 01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:30,360 -We need you to get down here to Roxanne. 995 01:04:42,200 --> 01:04:44,160 What's up? 996 01:04:44,160 --> 01:04:46,560 It's just been one problem after the next. 997 01:04:46,560 --> 01:04:48,900 Put material in the hopper feeder, 998 01:04:48,900 --> 01:04:50,860 it freezes up, we get it cleared out, 999 01:04:50,860 --> 01:04:53,760 it gets up to the pre-wash, it's all piled up there. 1000 01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:56,860 It must just be that there was a lot of water in that gravel, right? 1001 01:04:56,860 --> 01:04:58,660 Yeah, there's a ton of moisture. 1002 01:05:00,060 --> 01:05:03,100 I think it might be time to put old Roxanne to bed for the year. 1003 01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:05,300 We should stay going longer. 1004 01:05:12,500 --> 01:05:14,960 But, yeah, we'll stop. We'll stop this mayhem. 1005 01:05:16,730 --> 01:05:19,430 -I think we've worn out our welcome. -Yeah. 1006 01:05:21,900 --> 01:05:23,200 Well, that sucks. 1007 01:05:24,830 --> 01:05:25,860 So close, man. 1008 01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:31,900 How's the cleanup look? -Frozen. 1009 01:05:31,900 --> 01:05:33,500 Is there some gold in there? 1010 01:05:33,500 --> 01:05:35,760 It's kind of hard to tell with it all frozen. 1011 01:05:37,100 --> 01:05:38,860 -Just say yes. - Yeah, it looks great. 1012 01:05:38,860 --> 01:05:40,830 -Best cleanup of the season, man. 1013 01:05:43,200 --> 01:05:45,260 A season's worth of gold in those mats. 1014 01:05:46,160 --> 01:05:47,160 Perfect. 1015 01:05:59,560 --> 01:06:01,560 30 miles north, 1016 01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:05,660 winter has also shut down the Beets family's season... 1017 01:06:11,100 --> 01:06:12,730 - Hi, guys. -Hello. 1018 01:06:12,730 --> 01:06:14,100 ...and they all gather... 1019 01:06:14,100 --> 01:06:16,260 So, everybody's bringing in gold. 1020 01:06:16,260 --> 01:06:18,460 ...for their final gold weighs. 1021 01:06:25,060 --> 01:06:29,360 With 5,290 ounces already banked, 1022 01:06:29,360 --> 01:06:34,860 Tony is just five ounces short of his best ever gold haul. 1023 01:06:34,860 --> 01:06:36,830 What are we wearing first? 1024 01:06:42,260 --> 01:06:44,660 - First up, 1025 01:06:44,660 --> 01:06:48,000 the old timer tailings from wash plant Harald. 1026 01:06:51,860 --> 01:06:54,260 Four, five, ten, 1027 01:06:55,060 --> 01:06:57,000 thirty, forty... 1028 01:06:58,260 --> 01:06:59,860 Forty-six forty-six. 1029 01:07:00,400 --> 01:07:04,160 Worth $124,000. 1030 01:07:04,160 --> 01:07:05,360 - Oh, wow. 1031 01:07:07,400 --> 01:07:09,600 Uh, like, 76-ish. 1032 01:07:09,600 --> 01:07:12,530 -Yeah. 1033 01:07:14,960 --> 01:07:20,000 Next, Cousin Mike's Indian River gold from Sluice-A-Lot. 1034 01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:22,500 All right, here comes Sluice-A-Lot. 1035 01:07:24,160 --> 01:07:26,200 Twenty, fifty, 1036 01:07:26,200 --> 01:07:28,730 ninety, hundred, hundred-ten, 1037 01:07:29,360 --> 01:07:31,830 hundred-and-sixty, two hundred, 1038 01:07:31,830 --> 01:07:35,560 two-hundred-eleven point eighty-eight. 1039 01:07:35,560 --> 01:07:40,560 Worth over $565,000... 1040 01:07:42,500 --> 01:07:44,460 ...rounding off Tony's gold, 1041 01:07:44,460 --> 01:07:46,960 Mike's Paradise Hill trommel. 1042 01:07:48,300 --> 01:07:49,830 Ready, steady, go. 1043 01:07:51,730 --> 01:07:54,200 Ten, fifteen, twenty, fifty, 1044 01:07:54,200 --> 01:07:56,860 hundred-and-fifty, hundred-and-sixty, 1045 01:07:56,860 --> 01:08:01,400 two hundred, two-ten, two-twenty... 228.7. 1046 01:08:01,400 --> 01:08:03,260 Mmm! 1047 01:08:03,260 --> 01:08:07,600 Worth over $600,000. 1048 01:08:07,600 --> 01:08:09,400 If I didn't have such a shortage of employees 1049 01:08:09,400 --> 01:08:11,100 'cause the Indian kept taking them, 1050 01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:13,730 I'd probably be able to run some more. 1051 01:08:13,730 --> 01:08:16,900 Well, if we had your guys, people and equipment, we would run more too. 1052 01:08:16,900 --> 01:08:19,830 -To be fair, is this competition? - What? 1053 01:08:19,830 --> 01:08:21,100 -Is it a competition. - No, no, no. 1054 01:08:24,760 --> 01:08:28,960 5,777.12. 1055 01:08:30,300 --> 01:08:34,300 So, you're 777 ounces over your target. 1056 01:08:36,730 --> 01:08:41,300 Finally, it's judgment day for eldest son Kevin. 1057 01:08:42,260 --> 01:08:44,500 How's it been going out in the Scribner? 1058 01:08:44,500 --> 01:08:46,830 Not too bad. We've obviously finished mining. 1059 01:08:46,830 --> 01:08:47,860 Got everything wrapped up. 1060 01:08:52,100 --> 01:08:55,260 Let's see. I mean, we set ourselves a goal of 1,000 ounces this year. 1061 01:08:55,260 --> 01:08:57,060 We aimed pretty high. 1062 01:08:57,060 --> 01:08:58,500 That's why we needed to break even. 1063 01:08:59,260 --> 01:09:01,260 Rookie mine boss Kevin 1064 01:09:01,260 --> 01:09:04,260 has three weeks' worth of sluicing to weigh. 1065 01:09:04,260 --> 01:09:09,260 To hit his target, he needs 320 ounces. 1066 01:09:10,200 --> 01:09:11,460 Let's pour, guys. 1067 01:09:11,460 --> 01:09:14,760 Ten, twenty, forty, fifty, eighty, ninety, 1068 01:09:14,760 --> 01:09:16,860 one-ten, one-forty, one-fifty, 1069 01:09:17,830 --> 01:09:21,460 one-eighty, one-ninety, 200, 250, 260, 1070 01:09:21,460 --> 01:09:23,860 three hundred, three-ten, three-twenty, 1071 01:09:24,760 --> 01:09:29,760 three-sixty, three-seventy... 375.80. 1072 01:09:30,660 --> 01:09:34,900 Worth just over $1 million. 1073 01:09:34,900 --> 01:09:36,300 Oh, my , such a relief. 1074 01:09:36,300 --> 01:09:39,000 -I can finally pay everyone off. - Right. 1075 01:09:43,260 --> 01:09:46,360 Thousand-fifty-six point-five-seven. 1076 01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:51,160 Good, first year, to actually reach our goal and beat it a little bit. 1077 01:09:56,000 --> 01:09:57,360 -I'm happy for you guys... 1078 01:09:57,360 --> 01:09:58,560 -...that you succeeded. - Thank you. 1079 01:09:58,560 --> 01:10:00,260 It may mean for us to step the hell back 1080 01:10:00,260 --> 01:10:02,760 so that the operation can run itself, and then walk away. 1081 01:10:02,760 --> 01:10:04,500 Oh! 1082 01:10:04,500 --> 01:10:06,000 Never will happen. 1083 01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:08,560 -That's my goal. 1084 01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:13,300 I don't know. After us stepping out on our own this year, 1085 01:10:13,300 --> 01:10:15,860 I think we can really respect what you guys started with 1086 01:10:15,860 --> 01:10:18,100 to get to a mine site this big. 1087 01:10:18,100 --> 01:10:19,500 Like, it's a lot of work. 1088 01:10:19,500 --> 01:10:20,860 Thank you. I appreciate that. 1089 01:10:22,100 --> 01:10:24,500 Thank you. And it didn't come just by ourselves. 1090 01:10:24,500 --> 01:10:27,200 -Like, you guys have helped us out as well, so... -Oh, a great deal. 1091 01:10:29,660 --> 01:10:32,260 Everybody needs a little bit of help here and there. 1092 01:10:33,860 --> 01:10:37,460 Combined, the Beets family empire 1093 01:10:37,460 --> 01:10:41,100 has 6,834 ounces, 1094 01:10:42,500 --> 01:10:46,760 worth $18.3 million. 1095 01:10:56,600 --> 01:10:58,060 Yeah, I'm happy. 1096 01:11:08,760 --> 01:11:10,100 -Yeah, I think so. 1097 01:11:11,900 --> 01:11:14,360 No. No. No. 1098 01:11:14,360 --> 01:11:19,900 -Bugger off. 1099 01:11:22,900 --> 01:11:24,160 Coming up... 1100 01:11:24,160 --> 01:11:25,560 Let's see how we finished up. 1101 01:11:43,160 --> 01:11:45,500 After his record gold haul, 1102 01:11:45,500 --> 01:11:48,930 Tony Beets is already planning for next season. 1103 01:11:49,460 --> 01:11:51,600 -Oh, yeah. 1104 01:11:55,200 --> 01:11:56,960 Oh, my... awful. 1105 01:11:56,960 --> 01:11:59,160 Just the amount of work to start. 1106 01:12:03,360 --> 01:12:04,460 Well... 1107 01:12:08,360 --> 01:12:10,930 You're looking at a project. 1108 01:12:13,400 --> 01:12:15,400 You have a weird definition of fun, but yes. 1109 01:12:36,060 --> 01:12:38,100 - Hi, guys. 1110 01:12:38,100 --> 01:12:39,260 Nice fire. 1111 01:12:39,260 --> 01:12:42,260 At Duncan Creek, the Ness crew 1112 01:12:42,260 --> 01:12:46,300 are eager to tally their final haul of the season. 1113 01:12:46,300 --> 01:12:49,830 Remember when you called me after you got done with Rally Valley 1114 01:12:49,830 --> 01:12:54,000 and was like, "We can all go home now, all with money." 1115 01:12:54,000 --> 01:12:55,330 We could've. I mean, honestly, we could've. 1116 01:12:55,330 --> 01:12:57,560 That was the season we all left with gold in our pocket already. 1117 01:12:57,560 --> 01:13:01,100 That... I mean, that arguably would have been the smartest thing to do. 1118 01:13:02,560 --> 01:13:04,030 It would've been our most successful season, 1119 01:13:04,030 --> 01:13:06,130 the biggest profit, you know, ever. 1120 01:13:06,130 --> 01:13:08,560 But then I had to go put, like, a million dollars of gold 1121 01:13:08,560 --> 01:13:09,860 to tackle a pit like Vegas Valley. 1122 01:13:11,260 --> 01:13:15,160 That was the decision, basically, you guys all made, 1123 01:13:15,160 --> 01:13:17,560 and thanks again for that, too. 1124 01:13:17,560 --> 01:13:19,060 Like, that took a lot. 1125 01:13:21,500 --> 01:13:25,960 Rick and his crew gambled their early season gold 1126 01:13:25,960 --> 01:13:30,460 to chase a $2 million payday in Vegas Valley. 1127 01:13:30,460 --> 01:13:33,060 It's already delivered half of that, 1128 01:13:33,060 --> 01:13:36,460 and now everything they get is pure profit. 1129 01:13:40,760 --> 01:13:42,160 Let's see it, see the gold. 1130 01:13:42,160 --> 01:13:43,400 That is what we're here for. 1131 01:13:45,360 --> 01:13:47,930 Well, all right. Here we go. 1132 01:13:47,930 --> 01:13:49,760 We'll find out how much we did this season. 1133 01:13:53,360 --> 01:13:56,400 Twenty, thirty, forty, 1134 01:13:56,400 --> 01:14:01,600 fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, 1135 01:14:01,600 --> 01:14:04,460 ninety, hundred, 1136 01:14:06,260 --> 01:14:09,400 -Ah. 1137 01:14:09,400 --> 01:14:11,260 Hundred-ten-point-seven-nine. 1138 01:14:12,460 --> 01:14:14,560 - We're still short. 1139 01:14:21,260 --> 01:14:23,860 -Um... -I feel like there's lingering news. 1140 01:14:23,860 --> 01:14:25,860 -Oh, you think there's more? 1141 01:14:28,160 --> 01:14:29,760 You know I love leaving you guys hanging. 1142 01:14:29,760 --> 01:14:32,100 Here's the rest of it right here. 1143 01:14:33,760 --> 01:14:35,260 There's 200 ounces in here. 1144 01:14:37,730 --> 01:14:38,860 And... 1145 01:14:40,660 --> 01:14:41,960 That's another 100 ounces. 1146 01:14:45,100 --> 01:14:47,360 -Whoo! Whoo! 1147 01:14:49,200 --> 01:14:51,660 In its final week of running, 1148 01:14:51,660 --> 01:14:56,930 Vegas Valley has paid out a massive 411 ounces, 1149 01:14:56,930 --> 01:15:00,260 one-point-one million dollars. 1150 01:15:02,360 --> 01:15:05,260 - Whoo! -So, if my math is correct, 1151 01:15:05,260 --> 01:15:11,060 that brings us to 1,720.05 ounces, guys. 1152 01:15:11,060 --> 01:15:12,830 - Whoo! - That's it. We did it. 1153 01:15:14,830 --> 01:15:18,860 In just six months, Rick's small crew of seven 1154 01:15:18,860 --> 01:15:23,400 has mined over $4.5 million of gold. 1155 01:15:24,760 --> 01:15:27,600 Um, there's six jars in here. 1156 01:15:30,060 --> 01:15:31,600 If you're wondering, 1157 01:15:31,600 --> 01:15:34,460 each one of these will get you more than 50 grand, so... 1158 01:15:34,460 --> 01:15:37,130 Pass all that... Pass that down to Buzz. 1159 01:15:37,130 --> 01:15:38,830 There's 25 ounces in each one of these. 1160 01:15:40,030 --> 01:15:41,560 That's a ton of gold right there, man. 1161 01:15:42,560 --> 01:15:44,660 Take that and, yeah, have a party, save it, 1162 01:15:44,660 --> 01:15:46,360 do whatever the you want with it. You guys earned it. 1163 01:15:46,360 --> 01:15:48,100 -Thank you. Thank you. -Thank you. 1164 01:15:48,100 --> 01:15:50,760 Seriously, this is... This goes a long ways, man. 1165 01:15:50,760 --> 01:15:52,260 We all busted our asses or it. 1166 01:15:52,260 --> 01:15:55,760 Every person here just grinded out this year. 1167 01:15:55,760 --> 01:15:58,760 And you could see it. You could see it in everybody. 1168 01:15:58,760 --> 01:16:00,960 It was amazing. 1169 01:16:00,960 --> 01:16:03,260 You guys pulled this whole thing together. I mean, that... 1170 01:16:04,060 --> 01:16:05,660 Everybody has weaknesses. 1171 01:16:05,660 --> 01:16:07,860 I have a lot of them. Um... 1172 01:16:08,760 --> 01:16:09,960 You guys fill in the gaps, 1173 01:16:09,960 --> 01:16:13,300 and that's the only reason I'm making this work, 1174 01:16:13,300 --> 01:16:15,660 is because you guys are filling those gaps, so... 1175 01:16:15,660 --> 01:16:17,760 I mean, you guys took the gamble this year, 1176 01:16:17,760 --> 01:16:19,730 and it paid off, 1177 01:16:19,730 --> 01:16:22,930 and it's looking like next season might be a bit of a gamble 1178 01:16:22,930 --> 01:16:25,930 since everything's up in the air. So... 1179 01:16:27,000 --> 01:16:29,160 Who's willing to... You guys wanna gamble again? 1180 01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:30,460 -I'll gamble. - Yeah? 1181 01:16:30,460 --> 01:16:32,560 -We're with you. - Yeah? 1182 01:16:35,030 --> 01:16:37,360 You know, $4 million with such a small crew, 1183 01:16:37,360 --> 01:16:39,560 and what we have to go through to get it, 1184 01:16:39,560 --> 01:16:42,400 I couldn't be more proud of these guys, and I... 1185 01:16:42,400 --> 01:16:44,400 You know, I don't wanna do it with anybody else. 1186 01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:47,460 We all took a chance, 1187 01:16:47,460 --> 01:16:49,360 but Rick picked a hell of a crew right here. 1188 01:16:51,460 --> 01:16:53,560 Rick's gave me a lot of opportunities this year. 1189 01:16:53,560 --> 01:16:57,160 I really hope we get our water license to come back. 1190 01:16:57,160 --> 01:16:58,660 There's a lot to be said for next year. 1191 01:16:58,660 --> 01:16:59,800 There's a lot of uncertainties there, 1192 01:16:59,800 --> 01:17:02,760 but if I got these guys with me, we'll figure it out. 1193 01:17:23,400 --> 01:17:24,860 - Hey, hey. -Hey, hey, hey. 1194 01:17:24,860 --> 01:17:26,130 -What's happening? - How's it going? 1195 01:17:26,130 --> 01:17:28,560 - How's it going, guys? 1196 01:17:28,560 --> 01:17:29,760 That good or that bad? 1197 01:17:29,760 --> 01:17:32,560 You know, it just makes you really appreciate 1198 01:17:32,560 --> 01:17:36,060 -those warm days for sluicing, I tell you what. 1199 01:17:36,060 --> 01:17:40,960 After one of the hardest seasons of Parker Schnabel's career, 1200 01:17:40,960 --> 01:17:45,460 it's time to see if he's hit his 8,000-ounce goal 1201 01:17:45,460 --> 01:17:48,560 or missed his target for the first time 1202 01:17:48,560 --> 01:17:51,400 in his 14 years as a mine boss. 1203 01:17:53,360 --> 01:17:56,030 You guys definitely had your challenges this year. 1204 01:17:56,030 --> 01:17:57,760 This year. This week. 1205 01:17:57,760 --> 01:17:59,460 -Every day. - Yeah. 1206 01:17:59,460 --> 01:18:02,260 Yeah. It just feels like 1207 01:18:02,260 --> 01:18:06,130 it was a disjointed season with a lot of problems, 1208 01:18:06,130 --> 01:18:08,300 but we got through it. 1209 01:18:09,130 --> 01:18:10,830 You wanna see how we finished up? 1210 01:18:12,300 --> 01:18:17,060 Parker has 6,088 ounces of gold in the bank. 1211 01:18:17,060 --> 01:18:20,960 To his his goal, he needs a record weekly haul, 1212 01:18:20,960 --> 01:18:23,760 nearly 2,000 ounces. 1213 01:18:23,760 --> 01:18:26,360 -Mr. Bob? - Let's do it. 1214 01:18:27,360 --> 01:18:30,930 First on the scales, wash plant Bob. 1215 01:18:30,930 --> 01:18:32,560 60, 80... 1216 01:18:32,560 --> 01:18:36,160 It ran pay from the bridge cut all week. 1217 01:18:36,160 --> 01:18:39,460 Two hundred, two-fifty, 1218 01:18:39,460 --> 01:18:41,660 two-eighty, three hundred, 1219 01:18:42,460 --> 01:18:44,460 three-thirty, three-forty... 1220 01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:50,560 Three-forty-three-point-seven. 1221 01:18:50,560 --> 01:18:54,960 Worth over $920,000. 1222 01:18:56,200 --> 01:18:57,400 Nice. 1223 01:18:57,400 --> 01:18:59,400 -Not bad, huh? - Yeah. 1224 01:19:00,600 --> 01:19:01,860 And Mitch... Roxanne. 1225 01:19:02,500 --> 01:19:04,200 Here we go. 1226 01:19:04,200 --> 01:19:07,760 Roxanne sluiced pay from the elbow cut, 1227 01:19:07,760 --> 01:19:11,400 the most promising pit at his Dominion Creek claim. 1228 01:19:11,400 --> 01:19:15,730 180, 240, 270... 1229 01:19:19,360 --> 01:19:22,000 306.3. 1230 01:19:22,560 --> 01:19:25,260 Well done. Well done. 1231 01:19:25,260 --> 01:19:29,260 Worth $820,000. 1232 01:19:30,660 --> 01:19:32,030 Nice job, Mitch. 1233 01:19:32,030 --> 01:19:33,460 -Thanks, man. - Nice. 1234 01:19:34,260 --> 01:19:37,260 And we got a new one, the Rock Gobbler. 1235 01:19:38,030 --> 01:19:40,460 -Who named it that? -I don't know. 1236 01:19:42,560 --> 01:19:44,360 Parker, you wanna look at this one? This is your baby. 1237 01:19:44,360 --> 01:19:46,260 It's your new ground. 1238 01:19:46,260 --> 01:19:48,760 Last up, Rock Gobbler, 1239 01:19:49,730 --> 01:19:51,400 fired up this week 1240 01:19:51,400 --> 01:19:55,400 to sluice the first dirt from Parker's Gold Run cut. 1241 01:19:57,100 --> 01:20:00,100 There's that. 1242 01:20:01,160 --> 01:20:05,060 And that ground over there is really, really chunky. 1243 01:20:06,300 --> 01:20:08,630 We're gonna throw this on top of it. 1244 01:20:11,100 --> 01:20:12,260 - Wow. - Sweet. 1245 01:20:12,260 --> 01:20:13,360 Oh, wow. 1246 01:20:15,660 --> 01:20:17,400 Nice. 1247 01:20:17,400 --> 01:20:21,500 So, with that added in, it's 99.2. 1248 01:20:23,000 --> 01:20:26,960 Worth $266,000. 1249 01:20:26,960 --> 01:20:28,730 So, where'd that put us? 1250 01:20:28,730 --> 01:20:31,260 With that, we had a tremendous week, 1251 01:20:31,260 --> 01:20:35,360 our best week. 749.2 ounces. 1252 01:20:35,360 --> 01:20:37,030 - Wow. -That's sweet. 1253 01:20:37,030 --> 01:20:38,460 Yeah. 1254 01:20:38,460 --> 01:20:44,660 It gives us a season total, 6,837.4 ounces. 1255 01:20:47,100 --> 01:20:51,200 Record gold prices mean Parker's final total 1256 01:20:51,200 --> 01:20:55,200 is worth $18.3 million, 1257 01:20:55,200 --> 01:20:58,830 more cash than he's ever pulled in before. 1258 01:20:58,830 --> 01:21:03,830 But he's still more than 1,000 ounces short of his goal. 1259 01:21:08,860 --> 01:21:11,600 Considering the price of gold's up, we're okay, 1260 01:21:12,360 --> 01:21:14,160 which is good, 1261 01:21:14,160 --> 01:21:16,600 but , we spent a lot of money this summer. 1262 01:21:16,600 --> 01:21:17,660 Crazy. 1263 01:21:20,000 --> 01:21:22,000 Well, you got a whole crew up at the campfire 1264 01:21:22,000 --> 01:21:25,600 just breathlessly awaiting your announcement. 1265 01:21:25,600 --> 01:21:26,730 Yeah, we should go let 'em know 1266 01:21:26,730 --> 01:21:28,360 -how the season went, huh? - Yeah. 1267 01:21:29,130 --> 01:21:30,260 Let's do it. 1268 01:21:37,360 --> 01:21:39,160 Where's the beers at? 1269 01:21:39,160 --> 01:21:40,860 - Got it. - Oh, nice. 1270 01:21:42,360 --> 01:21:44,260 -There's a lot of people here. - Ah. 1271 01:21:44,960 --> 01:21:47,730 All right, first of all, 1272 01:21:47,730 --> 01:21:49,600 I really appreciate everybody being here 1273 01:21:49,600 --> 01:21:50,960 and sticking this season out. 1274 01:21:52,160 --> 01:21:56,530 It's been a a difficult one. 1275 01:21:59,000 --> 01:22:04,460 Gold production wise, we ended up at 6,837 ounces. 1276 01:22:06,930 --> 01:22:09,060 It's well short of what we were going for, 1277 01:22:09,060 --> 01:22:11,600 but we did learn a lot. 1278 01:22:12,260 --> 01:22:14,160 We know the ground much better. 1279 01:22:14,160 --> 01:22:16,100 And I have no doubt we're gonna come back next season 1280 01:22:16,100 --> 01:22:19,100 with a vengeance and a very big goal, 1281 01:22:20,200 --> 01:22:21,660 and we're gonna hit it. 1282 01:22:22,660 --> 01:22:24,400 I'm really looking forward to that. 1283 01:22:24,400 --> 01:22:28,360 And I really hope that you guys all are here for that 1284 01:22:28,360 --> 01:22:31,400 and, you know, continue to make this place a home. 1285 01:22:31,400 --> 01:22:34,160 And I just wanna thank you guys. 1286 01:22:41,030 --> 01:22:42,560 You know, it's a hell of a season. 1287 01:22:42,560 --> 01:22:44,500 We still found a lot of gold. 1288 01:22:44,500 --> 01:22:45,660 We got an awesome team here. 1289 01:22:45,660 --> 01:22:49,060 So next season, we're gonna come out here swinging. 1290 01:22:49,060 --> 01:22:52,360 We have more ground open, we have good ground open, 1291 01:22:52,360 --> 01:22:55,060 as we just saw from the final gold weighs, 1292 01:22:55,060 --> 01:22:58,960 and we just have to really try and keep that program going. 1293 01:23:00,260 --> 01:23:04,260 We failed, but it's a failure that makes success great. 1294 01:23:05,260 --> 01:23:07,560 Next year, we'll be back, 1295 01:23:08,300 --> 01:23:10,160 and we'll be back stronger. 1296 01:23:11,030 --> 01:23:12,500 I don't like this feeling. 1297 01:23:13,160 --> 01:23:14,930 I don't like being a loser. 1298 01:23:16,760 --> 01:23:18,260 It's not gonna happen again. 1299 01:23:20,000 --> 01:23:21,860 Next season, we're gonna kill it, 1300 01:23:22,460 --> 01:23:23,660 and that's my plan. 1300 01:23:24,305 --> 01:24:24,388 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm