"Gold Rush" Quicksand

1 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,200 [soft music playing] 2 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:19,074 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm 3 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:21,790 [Rick] I definitely hit a big snag 4 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:23,260 from the beginning of the season 5 00:00:23,260 --> 00:00:24,600 with all this water license nonsense. 6 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:27,190 So water licensing doesn't go through. 7 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:28,760 That's pretty much the end of Rally mining. 8 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:31,690 You know this ground will be, will be no more. 9 00:00:31,700 --> 00:00:34,190 [narrator] After discovering he could only have 10 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:37,790 one more year to mine on his claim, 11 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:41,660 Rick Ness is taking the bull by the horns. 12 00:00:41,660 --> 00:00:43,760 [Rick] We gotta get as much gold as we can this season, 13 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:46,860 so that no matter where, wherever the cards may fall, 14 00:00:46,860 --> 00:00:48,860 we're in the best position we can be to deal with it. 15 00:00:48,860 --> 00:00:51,090 What are we gonna do? We gotta go for it. 16 00:00:51,100 --> 00:00:54,090 [narrator] He's all in on a mission to uncover, 17 00:00:54,100 --> 00:00:55,490 once and for all, 18 00:00:55,500 --> 00:00:57,800 what's at the bottom of Rally Valley. 19 00:00:58,260 --> 00:01:00,360 If it lives up to its promise, 20 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:03,230 Rick could make a life-changing score. 21 00:01:04,660 --> 00:01:06,760 [Rick] The real good news is this water is out of Rally Valley. 22 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:08,660 I mean, that has been a pain in our asses, 23 00:01:08,660 --> 00:01:09,690 but everybody pulled together, 24 00:01:09,700 --> 00:01:11,730 and we really move that [bleep] out of there fast. 25 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:14,090 Today, right now, it's gonna be a good day. 26 00:01:14,100 --> 00:01:15,660 Rally Valley's open. We're gonna go down there 27 00:01:15,660 --> 00:01:17,790 and start pulling some of the richest pay we've ever run. 28 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:20,900 So what else could there be better than that? You know? 29 00:01:22,460 --> 00:01:24,290 [narrator] Rick's leading the charge 30 00:01:24,300 --> 00:01:26,990 to haul pay and build a stockpile 31 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:28,930 so they can start sluicing. 32 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:41,200 That's what we're ridin'. 33 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:43,230 Wait, wait. What the [bleep] is going on? 34 00:01:43,660 --> 00:01:45,400 [tumbling sound] 35 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:47,460 This is not good. 36 00:01:47,460 --> 00:01:48,500 This looks... 37 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:52,400 Oh [bleep]! [bleep]. 38 00:01:55,100 --> 00:01:56,660 What the [bleep] am I supposed to do with that? 39 00:01:56,660 --> 00:02:00,300 The whole [bleeping] cut's flooded with silky, muddy, [bleep] 40 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:08,030 [bleep] me. 41 00:02:09,900 --> 00:02:11,330 That look like it's got gold in it? 42 00:02:13,260 --> 00:02:14,190 I don't think so. 43 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:15,660 We're gonna have to move it all 44 00:02:15,660 --> 00:02:16,660 before we get back to the pay. 45 00:02:18,860 --> 00:02:21,190 [narrator] For the last two weeks, Rick's crew 46 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:23,090 have been draining the pool of water 47 00:02:23,100 --> 00:02:27,800 at the bottom of the 190-foot deep Rally Valley cut. 48 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,560 But falling dirt from the high, unstable walls 49 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:35,290 has mixed into the leftover water, 50 00:02:35,300 --> 00:02:38,290 creating a thick layer of soupy gloop, 51 00:02:38,300 --> 00:02:40,360 stopping Rick from getting to the 52 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:42,600 gold-rich pay layer underneath. 53 00:02:44,100 --> 00:02:45,400 Rick's only option... 54 00:02:45,900 --> 00:02:47,860 dig out the silty slop 55 00:02:47,860 --> 00:02:50,260 and truck it to a waste site. 56 00:02:50,260 --> 00:02:51,760 We're in a deep [bleep] hole, 57 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:53,900 and getting it out of here is painful. 58 00:02:58,660 --> 00:03:00,490 Need to get my excavator up top there 59 00:03:00,500 --> 00:03:03,460 so I can pull some of this [bleep] off of there. 60 00:03:03,460 --> 00:03:06,000 Load it in the truck and get a solid spot. 61 00:03:09,460 --> 00:03:11,830 It's pretty, pretty [bleep] soft here. 62 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:17,860 I don't want to run this excavator 63 00:03:17,860 --> 00:03:19,190 into something like this, 64 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,100 where I don't know where the [bleep] bottom is. 65 00:03:21,860 --> 00:03:23,700 [sloshing] 66 00:03:25,300 --> 00:03:26,530 [bleep] 67 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:36,600 I don't, I just don't like it. 68 00:03:38,460 --> 00:03:40,230 [groaning] [bleep]. 69 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:45,360 [crashing] 70 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:46,900 What the [bleep]? 71 00:03:52,260 --> 00:03:53,590 And the more I move the machine, 72 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:55,830 the worse it's seeming to get. So... 73 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:02,130 Buzz, you got a copy? 74 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:05,690 Why don't you meet me down at Rally Valley? 75 00:04:05,700 --> 00:04:07,200 We got a problem down here. 76 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,990 [narrator] Foreman Buzz Lego brings in the 700 excavator 77 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,900 to pull the 460 from the quagmire. 78 00:04:19,660 --> 00:04:21,290 The problem is not knowing right here. 79 00:04:21,300 --> 00:04:23,960 If I knew the bottom was, in, you know, a foot, 80 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:25,590 two foot, three foot, four foot, 81 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:27,990 I'd just go ahead and [bleep] shove down. 82 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:29,660 You know, I would at least have this thing stable, 83 00:04:29,660 --> 00:04:31,130 and I could crab walk it out of here. 84 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:35,590 I'm gonna go grab that real big, heavy chain. 85 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:36,400 [bleep] 86 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:39,090 He doesn't want to lift up right now 87 00:04:39,100 --> 00:04:40,600 because he's stable where he's at. So... 88 00:04:46,900 --> 00:04:48,160 I don't have a whole lot of experience 89 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:49,190 pulling excavators out of places, 90 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:51,300 usually I'm using an excavator to pull a truck. 91 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:08,900 Sounds good in my head. We'll see how it goes. 92 00:05:09,660 --> 00:05:11,560 [narrator] One wrong move, 93 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:13,760 and the 51-ton machine 94 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:16,200 could be lost in the quicksand. 95 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:20,130 [machine whirring] 96 00:05:29,660 --> 00:05:31,730 [mechanical straining] 97 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:51,930 [Buzz] Keep going. 98 00:06:11,260 --> 00:06:12,530 Oh, [bleep]. 99 00:06:13,860 --> 00:06:15,860 It's unstable a lot 100 00:06:15,860 --> 00:06:16,990 farther up than I thought. 101 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:18,600 It just kept wanting to sink. 102 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,030 We can't spend weeks trucking that out of here. 103 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:28,760 There's no way I'm getting trucks in the back of the cut, 104 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:30,490 so I don't know what the hell I'm gonna do now. 105 00:06:30,500 --> 00:06:32,030 I'm gonna have to come up with another plan. 106 00:06:32,500 --> 00:06:33,530 There's got to be another way. 107 00:06:55,060 --> 00:06:57,160 This spring's been in a bit of a [bleep] fight, 108 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:59,030 you know, we've dived into this property 109 00:06:59,660 --> 00:07:02,260 just headfirst and in a massive way 110 00:07:02,260 --> 00:07:03,990 and are spending, you know, 111 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:06,400 way more money than we ever have. 112 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:10,260 [narrator] One hundred miles from the Keno Mountains. 113 00:07:10,260 --> 00:07:11,890 Two weeks into the season, 114 00:07:11,900 --> 00:07:14,760 29-year-old Parker Schnabel 115 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:16,930 is in an unfamiliar situation. 116 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:20,260 Gunning for 10,000 oz of gold 117 00:07:20,260 --> 00:07:22,760 worth $25,000,000, 118 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:26,360 he's only brought in 5.6 oz, 119 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:28,930 and has no wash plants running. 120 00:07:30,060 --> 00:07:32,260 We don't really know... 121 00:07:32,260 --> 00:07:34,660 We know what we're doing, but we don't know this property, 122 00:07:34,660 --> 00:07:37,060 you know, a rough line of like, "Here's where 123 00:07:37,060 --> 00:07:40,130 it's profitable for us", where the pay really starts. 124 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,760 [narrator] Parker's bet everything 125 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:44,260 on starting the season 126 00:07:44,260 --> 00:07:47,090 opening his 20-acre Long Cut, 127 00:07:47,100 --> 00:07:50,230 but the cut has proven unpredictable. 128 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:52,890 So arguably... 129 00:07:52,900 --> 00:07:54,800 in some ways, we don't know what we're doing. 130 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,290 Roxanne is gonna fire up this week, which will be good 131 00:07:59,300 --> 00:08:01,660 and hopefully we'll be well on our way 132 00:08:01,660 --> 00:08:04,000 to a big old record breaking season. 133 00:08:05,260 --> 00:08:06,960 I know we're going to break records 134 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:08,430 in the cost department. 135 00:08:08,860 --> 00:08:11,260 So hopefully we'll break 136 00:08:11,260 --> 00:08:14,060 some records in the gold department as well. 137 00:08:14,060 --> 00:08:16,860 [narrator] Parker's crew have stockpiled pay dirt 138 00:08:16,860 --> 00:08:19,760 from the frozen Long Cut's ditches. 139 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:21,760 And will finally get a read 140 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:24,030 on how good the gold is. 141 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:35,560 You know, once the wash plants stabilized, 142 00:08:35,560 --> 00:08:38,590 the pads happy, our water systems happy. 143 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:41,130 We really just need to get Roxanne up and running. 144 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,360 This has certainly been quite the undertaking 145 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:45,990 here to get us to this point. 146 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,090 But you know, we've got some thawed paydirt. 147 00:08:48,100 --> 00:08:49,660 Now it's all about getting that dirt 148 00:08:49,660 --> 00:08:51,090 through this wash plant. 149 00:08:51,100 --> 00:08:52,490 And hopefully when it's all said and done, 150 00:08:52,500 --> 00:08:53,790 there's a big old pan of gold 151 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:54,930 to show for all this hard work. 152 00:09:08,260 --> 00:09:09,960 -[Tyson] How's it going? -[Parker] Not bad. How are you? 153 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:12,460 -All right. -[Parker] I'm just worried about this setup. 154 00:09:12,460 --> 00:09:14,660 Both running out of water. And... 155 00:09:14,660 --> 00:09:16,700 This thing falling off the bank. So... 156 00:09:19,460 --> 00:09:21,090 as long as there's a couple of people here 157 00:09:21,100 --> 00:09:22,090 to watch those things, 158 00:09:22,100 --> 00:09:23,560 and neither one of them is good. 159 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:25,160 [Tyson] Yeah, for sure. 160 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:26,090 [Parker] Don't run out of water. 161 00:09:26,100 --> 00:09:27,960 And don't let the plant fall off the hill. 162 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:29,730 -Yeah. -[Parker] Do your thing. 163 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:33,960 [Tyson] The Long Cut... This is the moneymaker. 164 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:35,860 This is what we're after right here. 165 00:09:35,860 --> 00:09:38,460 So, let's go get her fired up. 166 00:09:38,460 --> 00:09:40,990 [narrator] Parker's 10-inch pump can shift 167 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,790 3000 gallons of water per minute 168 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,390 through Roxanne, which drains away 169 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:49,090 from the pad via a makeshift trough. 170 00:09:49,100 --> 00:09:50,230 Here comes the water. 171 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:12,360 [Mitch] All right! 172 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:13,290 That's what we want here. 173 00:10:13,300 --> 00:10:15,360 As you can see now, that water is falling 174 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:16,560 right into the trap. 175 00:10:16,560 --> 00:10:19,000 It's washing out the way we want it. 176 00:10:20,560 --> 00:10:21,630 Let's do it. 177 00:10:28,460 --> 00:10:30,260 The bank will be [bleeping] fine. 178 00:10:30,260 --> 00:10:31,430 You can quote me later. 179 00:10:36,260 --> 00:10:38,760 It's time for Roxanne to turn on that red light here. 180 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:40,490 Wash some rocks. 181 00:10:40,500 --> 00:10:41,730 Let's go, baby. 182 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:49,490 [Emma] We're all super excited. 183 00:10:49,500 --> 00:10:52,430 We're about to really start the season and get her going. 184 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:11,930 [Emma] What's going on? 185 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:14,690 [bleep] 186 00:11:14,700 --> 00:11:16,900 [Tyson] The wash plant pad is washing away. 187 00:11:24,060 --> 00:11:24,990 VOLVO 188 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:26,760 The whole tray doesn't seem to be catching 189 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:29,790 much of the water, and it's pouring over the edge. 190 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:31,860 [narrator] The discharged water from the plant 191 00:11:31,860 --> 00:11:34,660 is pouring over the top of the tray 192 00:11:34,660 --> 00:11:37,190 and eating away at Roxanne's pad, 193 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:39,560 putting it at risk of collapse. 194 00:11:39,560 --> 00:11:41,460 My biggest fear is the sluice runs 195 00:11:41,460 --> 00:11:42,860 falling off the pad 196 00:11:42,860 --> 00:11:44,700 and then the wash plant following. 197 00:11:45,700 --> 00:11:47,790 [narrator] Tyson tries to shore up the bank 198 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:50,300 with rocks and old tires. 199 00:11:55,900 --> 00:11:57,600 [Tyson] We're gonna have to shut the plant down. 200 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:02,400 [Mitch] Oi! 201 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:20,730 [dramatic music playing] 202 00:12:22,900 --> 00:12:25,060 Parker's itching to get the gold coming in, 203 00:12:25,060 --> 00:12:27,290 and right now we're trying our best to do that for him. 204 00:12:27,300 --> 00:12:30,560 But it's just one problem after another, it seems. 205 00:12:30,560 --> 00:12:33,260 [narrator] Parker Schnabel's crew have shut down 206 00:12:33,260 --> 00:12:34,960 wash plant, Roxanne. 207 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:36,760 After a torrent of overflowing 208 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:40,290 water started to wash away its pad. 209 00:12:40,300 --> 00:12:42,190 [Mitch] You can see where the water is hitting our tray. 210 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:43,390 It's not landing in the tray. 211 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:44,590 It's landing short of it, 212 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:47,090 which is why all this water is going out around the back. 213 00:12:47,100 --> 00:12:49,760 So, we've got to get the tray closer. 214 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:51,490 And that's gonna allow it to do its job 215 00:12:51,500 --> 00:12:53,000 and get the water away from us here. 216 00:12:55,860 --> 00:12:58,300 Probably need to pull the whole tray out, though. 217 00:12:58,960 --> 00:12:59,890 Pull it all out. 218 00:12:59,900 --> 00:13:01,590 Clean all this. 219 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:03,890 Set it. Just a little bit of dirt 220 00:13:03,900 --> 00:13:05,600 to hold it. We'll re-bed that. 221 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:10,490 Obviously, it's time we could be sluicing here, 222 00:13:10,500 --> 00:13:12,430 and unfortunately we are not. 223 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:16,560 [narrator] Tyson must first move 224 00:13:16,560 --> 00:13:18,160 the 30-foot-long excess 225 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:20,490 water tray out of the way 226 00:13:20,500 --> 00:13:23,360 and re-dig the ditch that it sits in. 227 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:25,660 Then, reposition the tray 228 00:13:25,660 --> 00:13:27,060 back in the ditch, 229 00:13:27,060 --> 00:13:29,390 directly under the sluices. 230 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:31,260 If positioned correctly, 231 00:13:31,260 --> 00:13:33,590 it will catch the excess water 232 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:36,630 and channel it safely away from the pad. 233 00:13:47,660 --> 00:13:49,130 [Tyson] Yeah, that'll be good there. 234 00:13:50,700 --> 00:13:53,330 It's just going to take a little bit of adjustment here. 235 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:57,760 [Mitch] If we can just lose a little bit of this, 236 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:00,190 that's where it was hanging up on last time. 237 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:02,030 Yeah, just that little point right there. 238 00:14:04,060 --> 00:14:05,190 [Tyson] Is it gonna be sitting on that 239 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:06,900 pile of dirt I put there now? 240 00:14:09,260 --> 00:14:10,990 Just got to get this perfect here. 241 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:12,490 Right in place. Right in the money. 242 00:14:12,500 --> 00:14:13,900 Right in the butter zone. 243 00:14:32,660 --> 00:14:33,790 We got everything moved around, 244 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:34,990 adjusted here. We're gonna fire 245 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:36,600 the water back up and give it a check. 246 00:14:39,260 --> 00:14:40,330 [Mitch] Let's do it. 247 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:47,490 Oh, yeah, we got some water now. 248 00:14:47,500 --> 00:14:49,600 Hopefully, second time's the charm here. 249 00:14:51,300 --> 00:14:53,130 Come on, baby. She heavy. 250 00:14:55,860 --> 00:14:57,700 That's looking better. 251 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:12,860 That water's falling right into the drain. 252 00:15:12,860 --> 00:15:15,330 It's washing out the way we want it. 253 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:31,860 What do you think? Time to wash some rocks? 254 00:15:31,860 --> 00:15:33,060 Yeah, let's do it, man. 255 00:15:33,060 --> 00:15:34,260 Let's throw some dirt at it. 256 00:15:34,260 --> 00:15:35,700 [Parker] Sounds good. 257 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,590 [narrator] Tony Beets, has put the pedal to the metal, 258 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:12,990 determined to turn around his fortunes 259 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,990 and haul the family business back on track, 260 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,430 after last year's season of chaos. 261 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,990 [narrator] In just two weeks, Tony's already banked 262 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,990 774 oz of gold, 263 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:38,600 worth $1700,000. 264 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:52,890 [narrator] Tony's given youngest son, Mike, 265 00:16:52,900 --> 00:16:54,890 and daughter Monica, 266 00:16:54,900 --> 00:16:57,190 the job of getting a third plant 267 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:59,500 up and running on Paradise Hill. 268 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:03,360 Now without eldest son Kevin, 269 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:06,760 who's left to run his own claim, 270 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:08,660 Tony's counting on his nephew, 271 00:17:08,660 --> 00:17:11,460 27-year-old cousin, Mike, 272 00:17:11,460 --> 00:17:13,900 to run his Indian River operation. 273 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:29,700 And then there's always someone keeping an eye on things. 274 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:00,460 [narrator] To keep up momentum 275 00:18:00,460 --> 00:18:03,460 and hit Tony's 5000-ounce target, 276 00:18:03,460 --> 00:18:05,560 cousin Mike's two wash plants 277 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:07,360 need to bring in a total 278 00:18:07,360 --> 00:18:09,260 of at least 200 oz a week. 279 00:18:09,260 --> 00:18:11,190 Tony put me in charge. 280 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:13,760 So that means there's a little bit more 281 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:17,460 pressure on my shoulders this season. 282 00:18:17,460 --> 00:18:18,490 Which I don't mind. 283 00:18:18,500 --> 00:18:21,660 I hope I do a good job and don't disappoint Tony. 284 00:18:21,660 --> 00:18:23,390 You know, we hope it will be better than 285 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:24,830 what we did last year. 286 00:18:29,700 --> 00:18:32,360 [narrator] Tony's shaker deck has been running 287 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:34,260 gold-rich pay nonstop 288 00:18:34,260 --> 00:18:36,060 for the last two weeks, 289 00:18:36,060 --> 00:18:39,700 manned by veteran Beets crew member Len Hoekstra. 290 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:07,830 That's not good. 291 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:10,690 Tony, do you have a copy? 292 00:19:10,700 --> 00:19:12,230 All the parts coming apart. 293 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,060 [Len] Never seen this before. 294 00:19:20,060 --> 00:19:22,000 [Mike] All the bolts came out. 295 00:19:22,700 --> 00:19:24,290 All the holes are ripped out 296 00:19:24,300 --> 00:19:25,900 and this screen just fell off. 297 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:27,590 [Len] All the welding broke. 298 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:29,460 [Mike] It's pretty much destroying itself. 299 00:19:29,460 --> 00:19:30,430 Yeah. 300 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:35,230 [Mike] Yeah. 301 00:19:36,860 --> 00:19:38,860 [narrator] The shaker deck shakes pay dirt 302 00:19:38,860 --> 00:19:40,160 through two screens 303 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:43,160 that filter out worthless rocks and dirt. 304 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:44,690 And allow gold to settle 305 00:19:44,700 --> 00:19:46,700 in the sluice runs at the bottom. 306 00:19:47,900 --> 00:19:51,590 The bearings, holding the rollers beneath the deck, 307 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:53,760 keeping the vibrations in check 308 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:55,200 have worn through. 309 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:56,490 Without them, 310 00:19:56,500 --> 00:19:59,160 the 30-year-old shaker deck is shaking 311 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:02,400 more violently and tearing itself apart. 312 00:20:15,260 --> 00:20:17,860 [narrator] The entire deck needs rebuilding. 313 00:20:17,860 --> 00:20:21,300 A massive job that will take days to complete. 314 00:20:22,100 --> 00:20:24,090 With the shaker deck out of action, 315 00:20:24,100 --> 00:20:27,090 it's down to Tony's only running wash plant, 316 00:20:27,100 --> 00:20:29,560 Sluice-A-Lot, to keep the operation 317 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:32,500 on a roll and deliver 200 oz. 318 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:45,630 Aww. 319 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:50,460 [narrator] Eric Morel feeds Sluice-A-Lot pay, 320 00:20:50,460 --> 00:20:51,690 while in the loader, 321 00:20:51,700 --> 00:20:53,560 his girlfriend and new recruit, 322 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:57,590 Enyez VJ, restocks the pay pile 323 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,090 and clears the mounting fine tailings 324 00:21:00,100 --> 00:21:02,230 from the foot of the sluice runs. 325 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:29,760 Go ahead. 326 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:36,430 Yeah, I'll be there in a couple of minutes. 327 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:42,360 Apparently, the fine tailings are piling up by the sluice 328 00:21:42,360 --> 00:21:44,990 runs of Sluice-A-Lot, and we can't have that. 329 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,990 The sluice runs don't do their job right, 330 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:48,460 then we're washing away gold, 331 00:21:48,460 --> 00:21:50,230 and we don't want to lose gold. 332 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:57,860 Tony, do you copy? Tony, it's very bad. 333 00:21:57,860 --> 00:22:01,090 [narrator] Normally, the plant is set high on a pad 334 00:22:01,100 --> 00:22:04,160 and the fine tailings flush out the sluice runs, 335 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,260 dropping away from the plant. 336 00:22:06,260 --> 00:22:08,990 But in his rush to jump start his season, 337 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,060 Tony set the plant up at ground level, 338 00:22:12,060 --> 00:22:14,860 allowing the tailings to pile up quicker, 339 00:22:14,860 --> 00:22:16,660 blanketing the sluice runs 340 00:22:16,660 --> 00:22:19,900 and preventing Sluice-A-Lot from catching gold. 341 00:22:25,460 --> 00:22:29,530 [narrator] Tony's gone from two wash plants running to none. 342 00:22:30,060 --> 00:22:32,160 And with no gold coming in, 343 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:34,260 his flying start, 344 00:22:34,260 --> 00:22:36,400 has screeched to a halt. 345 00:22:50,100 --> 00:22:51,360 [Rick] Right now, 346 00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:52,560 all the paydirt in Rally Valley is 347 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:53,960 covered in slop. 348 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:55,560 [narrator] One hundred miles away 349 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:57,760 in the mountains above Keno, 350 00:22:57,760 --> 00:22:59,860 Rick Ness is still no closer 351 00:22:59,860 --> 00:23:02,090 to getting on the gold. 352 00:23:02,100 --> 00:23:05,660 He needs to get rid of a thick layer of sloppy gloop 353 00:23:05,660 --> 00:23:07,990 stopping him from getting to the treasure 354 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,100 at the bottom of Rally Valley. 355 00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:12,860 It's just a [bleeping] mess 356 00:23:12,860 --> 00:23:16,160 and you know, I'm trying to come up with new ideas. 357 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:17,460 There's something I saw poking 358 00:23:17,460 --> 00:23:19,560 out of the woods on the property here. 359 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:20,560 It might work. It might not. 360 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:22,600 I'm not sure, but I'm just gonna check it out. 361 00:23:34,100 --> 00:23:36,460 Yeah, I mean, I've driven past this thing a million [bleep] times. 362 00:23:36,460 --> 00:23:38,090 I've seen it poking out of the woods here. 363 00:23:38,100 --> 00:23:40,160 I knew what it was. Knew it was a monitor. 364 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:43,090 I never really had much, much use for one. 365 00:23:43,100 --> 00:23:45,460 If we have everything to make this work, this will be 366 00:23:45,460 --> 00:23:48,460 a hell of a lot more efficient than running trucks down there. 367 00:23:48,460 --> 00:23:50,390 -[Rick] Hey, Ryan, you got a copy? -[radio static] 368 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,700 Come and meet me down by-- on the side of the road. 369 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:00,730 [Rick] We're going to war, boys. 370 00:24:00,730 --> 00:24:02,590 -[Ryan] It looks like it. -[Buzz laughs] 371 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:04,360 [Ryan] What's your plan here? 372 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:06,800 A six inch monitor. What do you think about that? 373 00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:09,760 [Rick] Yeah. 374 00:24:10,660 --> 00:24:12,130 [Rick] You know what I mean? It's a six inch neck down 375 00:24:12,130 --> 00:24:15,490 to what probably looks like about three inches on the end of that cannon. 376 00:24:15,500 --> 00:24:18,090 That's gonna provide a hell of a lot of pressure. If we can get a pump, 377 00:24:18,100 --> 00:24:20,660 hooked up to this thing and get the water coming out of this, 378 00:24:20,660 --> 00:24:22,090 that I know it'll handle. 379 00:24:22,100 --> 00:24:24,490 I mean, I think this will wash that silt right towards our trash pump. 380 00:24:24,500 --> 00:24:27,890 -Do you know when the last time it was used? -[Rick] This thing? 381 00:24:27,900 --> 00:24:30,460 -[Rick] I mean, by the looks-- -[Ryan] I think those trees have grown up around it. 382 00:24:30,460 --> 00:24:34,800 Yeah, I mean, honestly, it could have been sitting there for the last 40 years. 383 00:24:35,700 --> 00:24:37,600 We're gonna need a hell of a lot of hose. 384 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:39,360 And a six inch pump. 385 00:24:39,360 --> 00:24:41,430 [Buzz speaking] 386 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:47,930 [engine rumbling] 387 00:24:54,360 --> 00:24:58,190 Bailey and Kyle have searched high and low and found us a ton of six-inch clay flat, 388 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,790 and we just found this pump in the container. 389 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:02,460 [Buzz] 1970's. 390 00:25:02,460 --> 00:25:04,900 [Ryan] It's a 1970s pump. 391 00:25:07,260 --> 00:25:09,900 We will be sucking water out of the river. 392 00:25:10,660 --> 00:25:12,360 It will go into this pump here. 393 00:25:12,360 --> 00:25:15,460 We plan on shooting it all the way down into Rally Valley, 394 00:25:15,460 --> 00:25:16,630 to get to the monitor, 395 00:25:16,630 --> 00:25:19,400 use the pressure from the monitor to break apart the silt. 396 00:25:21,300 --> 00:25:24,560 [Ryan] The major thing with this pump is going to be pressure. 397 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,160 We've got about a 50-60 foot hill to climb right in front of us, 398 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,860 and then we've got probably another... 399 00:25:29,860 --> 00:25:32,390 Eight hundred feet across the flat, 400 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:36,660 and then we've got probably another 200 feet at an angle down into Rally Valley. 401 00:25:36,660 --> 00:25:40,560 So, we're going to be asking every little thing that this pump can give. 402 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:42,060 [laughs] 403 00:25:42,060 --> 00:25:43,660 [Ryan] I don't think it'll work. I don't think it's powerful enough, 404 00:25:43,660 --> 00:25:46,590 but Rick's proved me wrong before. 405 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:51,260 [narrator] Rick plans to hook the old monitor up to the six inch pump 406 00:25:51,260 --> 00:25:53,960 and blast the silt with pressurized water, 407 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,090 breaking it apart and diluting the slop, 408 00:25:57,100 --> 00:25:59,760 so it can be washed towards the waste pump 409 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:01,760 and sucked out of the cut. 410 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,860 The last step here, brought the monitor down there. 411 00:26:04,860 --> 00:26:06,990 Hook the last line up to it, 412 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:08,930 and then it's just point and shoot. 413 00:26:10,460 --> 00:26:12,760 Put it there. Gonna try to get everything in front of it 414 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:14,300 washed to our pump. 415 00:26:19,300 --> 00:26:20,700 You ready to fire that thing up? 416 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:21,930 [Ryan over radio] 417 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,560 [engine whirring] 418 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:28,900 Pump's running. Here comes the water now. 419 00:26:33,300 --> 00:26:34,960 [water splashing] 420 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:36,590 [Ryan] Water's at the top of the hill. 421 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,090 I think we're using every bit of power this pump has. 422 00:26:39,100 --> 00:26:41,300 It's chugging pretty good. 423 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:52,500 -[Buzz] Oh, oh, oh. -[Rick] Is that is that water? 424 00:26:59,660 --> 00:27:01,360 [Buzz over radio] 425 00:27:01,360 --> 00:27:02,400 Copy. 426 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:06,700 [Rick] Oh, [bleep] 427 00:27:16,860 --> 00:27:18,400 [engine stops] 428 00:27:19,460 --> 00:27:21,460 [Ryan] Rick down at the bottom just gave us a heads up 429 00:27:21,460 --> 00:27:22,230 to shut it off immediately. 430 00:27:22,230 --> 00:27:24,630 So, I'm gonna see what happened. 431 00:27:29,500 --> 00:27:31,560 [Ryan] What happened? [bleep] 432 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,260 [Rick] The center swivel of that thing. 433 00:27:33,260 --> 00:27:35,860 I think it just needs to be tightened, it was all pouring out of it. 434 00:27:35,860 --> 00:27:39,400 That's all she got, dude, it almost died pushing up that hill. 435 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,090 [Ryan] Looks like the swivel on the monitor. 436 00:27:46,100 --> 00:27:48,360 There is a gasket in there. 437 00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:50,860 That swivel allows that monitor to move all over the place 438 00:27:50,860 --> 00:27:53,060 to be able to control where you're shooting the water. 439 00:27:53,060 --> 00:27:54,460 Right now, it's just pouring water out of it. 440 00:27:54,460 --> 00:27:57,460 So we're losing pressure out of the nozzle, so they're going to go down. 441 00:27:57,460 --> 00:28:00,290 Try to tighten up some bolts, Hopefully, we don't need to find a gasket, 442 00:28:00,300 --> 00:28:01,990 hopefully some stuff just tightens up. 443 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,000 We'll fire back up and we'll be back on track. 444 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:07,090 [bleep] 445 00:28:07,100 --> 00:28:08,560 -[Rick] Fire the thing back up. -[man] Yep. 446 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,260 See if we actually have enough pressure. 447 00:28:10,260 --> 00:28:13,690 [narrator] If it works, Rick could get down to pay 448 00:28:13,700 --> 00:28:15,590 by the end of the day. 449 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:17,290 Great. Yeah, let's do it again. 450 00:28:17,300 --> 00:28:18,990 Okay, everybody ready for round two? 451 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:20,730 [engine revs] 452 00:28:23,300 --> 00:28:24,560 [Ryan] All right, we're building pressure. 453 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:26,000 Here it comes. 454 00:28:34,360 --> 00:28:36,600 Yes, it's working so good! 455 00:28:39,260 --> 00:28:42,090 Well, no call's a good call so far. 456 00:28:42,100 --> 00:28:45,260 [narrator] Rick's monitor is diluting the silty gloop, 457 00:28:45,260 --> 00:28:48,890 which can now be sucked out of the cut through the trash pump. 458 00:28:48,900 --> 00:28:50,490 [Rick] I think we could use a little more pressure. 459 00:28:50,500 --> 00:28:54,300 But I'm happy. All right, let's get the [bleep] out of here. 460 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:09,700 [Tony speaking] 461 00:29:18,860 --> 00:29:23,860 [narrator] One hundred miles west of Keno, chasing a 200-ounce week, 462 00:29:23,860 --> 00:29:26,860 Tony's gone from two working wash plants 463 00:29:26,860 --> 00:29:28,200 to none. 464 00:29:29,260 --> 00:29:31,590 His shaker deck lies in pieces. 465 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:35,590 And Sluice-A-Lot has run out of room for tailings. 466 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,090 If you don't set it up quite right 467 00:29:38,100 --> 00:29:40,000 the fine tailings will pile up. 468 00:29:40,460 --> 00:29:42,290 [Mike] So I got to fix it. 469 00:29:42,300 --> 00:29:44,330 We are going to move this plant. 470 00:29:48,100 --> 00:29:50,890 [Mike] We're setting it up a little higher than it is now, 471 00:29:50,900 --> 00:29:53,460 and hopefully this will fix the fine tailing problem 472 00:29:53,460 --> 00:29:55,000 we keep having. 473 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,660 [narrator] Sluice-A-Lot is sitting at ground level, 474 00:30:00,660 --> 00:30:04,360 and fine waste tailings from the sluices have piled up, 475 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:07,360 blocking the wash plant sluice runs. 476 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:11,090 Cousin Mike's fix? Drag the 45-ton plant, 477 00:30:11,100 --> 00:30:13,860 one mile along a thin, treacherous road 478 00:30:13,860 --> 00:30:17,560 running between Indian River and the Comeback Cut. 479 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,660 To a new higher pad with more room 480 00:30:20,660 --> 00:30:22,230 for waste tailings. 481 00:30:35,260 --> 00:30:37,460 [narrator] Until the wash plant's moved, 482 00:30:37,460 --> 00:30:40,090 Tony has no gold coming in. 483 00:30:40,100 --> 00:30:42,160 Rookie foreman, cousin Mike, 484 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,400 is now in a race to get it to the new pad. 485 00:30:46,460 --> 00:30:47,800 [Tony speaking] 486 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:00,100 [engine whirring] 487 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,130 [Mike] Well, this wash plant is pretty new. 488 00:31:16,060 --> 00:31:18,100 We can't have anything happen to it. 489 00:31:21,660 --> 00:31:24,900 [Mike] You've got to pay attention here because it's sliding sideways. 490 00:31:27,300 --> 00:31:28,700 [Tony over radio] 491 00:31:32,460 --> 00:31:33,990 Yeah. I just gotta keep an eye on it, 492 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:35,730 that the trees won't [bleep] up the sluice run. 493 00:31:41,660 --> 00:31:45,560 [Mike] Yeah, so if I hit anything major with the sluice runs, 494 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:47,790 it will bend the whole thing out of shape, 495 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,700 or worse, rip it off, destroy it. 496 00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:56,900 [branches cracking] 497 00:32:02,260 --> 00:32:03,730 [Mike] Don't break it. 498 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:18,130 [engine rumbling] 499 00:32:21,660 --> 00:32:23,160 [Mike] Well, yeah, it's a lot of trees. 500 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:24,800 That's why I want to check. 501 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,560 I'm not too happy with the trees, but it's all we have. 502 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:30,230 So, keep going. 503 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,390 [narrator] At Indian River, 504 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:40,390 Tony's nephew, cousin Mike, is moving Sluice-A-Lot to a new pad 505 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,000 in an attempt to get back on the gold. 506 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:45,100 [Tony over radio] 507 00:32:51,500 --> 00:32:54,760 [narrator] Mike must maneuver the 30-foot-wide wash plant 508 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,590 along a narrow road with a dangerous drop 509 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:02,030 into the cut on one side and the Indian River to the other. 510 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,760 [Mike] If we had the whole wash plant slide in there, then, 511 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,500 that would [bleep] the whole season up right there. 512 00:33:30,460 --> 00:33:31,960 [Mike] It was a little bit too tight there. 513 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:33,600 Made it through. 514 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:09,700 It's all good to go, so we'll fire up the plant. 515 00:34:20,500 --> 00:34:21,690 [Tony speaking] 516 00:34:21,700 --> 00:34:22,830 [Mike] That works great. 517 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,000 [Tony speaking] 518 00:34:29,260 --> 00:34:32,460 [narrator] Tony's finally back in the running to hit 519 00:34:32,460 --> 00:34:34,630 his 200-ounce weekly goal. 520 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,090 This cut is the only thing making any money, 521 00:34:55,100 --> 00:34:57,430 and there's a lot of money getting spent. 522 00:34:58,700 --> 00:35:01,860 We're just trying to fight and get enough thaw every day 523 00:35:01,860 --> 00:35:05,600 to keep the plant running, so it's just a challenge for everybody. 524 00:35:06,460 --> 00:35:08,860 [narrator] At Parker Schnabel's Long Cut, 525 00:35:08,860 --> 00:35:11,790 Roxanne is finally on the gold, 526 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,560 sluicing ditch pay dirt. 527 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,390 [Tyson] Now, we're running Roxanne back up to snuff. 528 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,460 Parker wanted us running it faster, 529 00:35:19,460 --> 00:35:21,930 so that's what we're doing. 530 00:35:24,660 --> 00:35:26,830 [water rushing] 531 00:35:30,860 --> 00:35:33,100 We still don't have any water on the far run. 532 00:35:36,100 --> 00:35:37,560 [Mitch] Get up on that platform 533 00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,130 and see what's going on in the center. 534 00:35:45,100 --> 00:35:48,760 [Tyson] So like, there's tons of [bleep] 535 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:51,960 All the nozzles are getting clogged up. 536 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:55,260 [narrator] Mitch and Tyson have spotted sticks and other materials. 537 00:35:55,260 --> 00:35:56,390 [Tyson] Shut it down. 538 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,760 [narrator] Choking the supply of water to the plant. 539 00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,730 We need to go down, pull our suction basket and see what's going on here. 540 00:36:05,500 --> 00:36:07,300 [engine stops] 541 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,600 [Mitch] Oh yeah, look at that. 542 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:24,760 You can see all the sediment on this. 543 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:25,930 You can see everything on the outside. 544 00:36:25,930 --> 00:36:30,090 It does have some exposed, but it created enough suction 545 00:36:30,100 --> 00:36:32,960 that it pulled the one screen in, on this side. 546 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:35,560 That's why all these sticks are now in our wash plant. 547 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:38,390 [narrator] Thick mud in the water has caused a section 548 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:40,990 of the suction basket to implode, 549 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,990 allowing sediment and junk from the pond, 550 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,760 to be sent to the plant, 551 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,160 where it's clogged the spray bars. 552 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:49,390 We've got to get this cleaned up. 553 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,760 We got to get this pulled back out, welded up, put in place, 554 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,200 and then we got to get our wash plant cleaned out. 555 00:37:04,060 --> 00:37:05,600 [thud] 556 00:37:07,860 --> 00:37:09,890 What the hell was that? 557 00:37:09,900 --> 00:37:12,260 [Tyson] For [bleep] sakes, man. 558 00:37:12,260 --> 00:37:15,560 [narrator] On top of everything, a loader operator 559 00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:19,230 hits the radial stacker that feeds the plant. 560 00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:22,790 [Tyson] Yo. 561 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,390 Our radial stacker just got run into. 562 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,690 -[Mitch] By what? -[Tyson] A loader. 563 00:37:27,700 --> 00:37:29,600 And one of the radial tires exploded. 564 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:31,230 [Mitch] No way. 565 00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:32,800 [Tyson] Way. 566 00:37:36,460 --> 00:37:38,090 -[Mitch sighs] -Couldn't make this [bleep] up 567 00:37:38,100 --> 00:37:39,760 if I tried, I'm telling you 568 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,090 and it just... It almost [bleep] dropped. 569 00:37:42,100 --> 00:37:44,000 Hit the pre wash. That's why it didn't flip. 570 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:46,690 -[Mitch] Wicked. -[Tyson] Right? 571 00:37:46,700 --> 00:37:49,190 [Tyson] We don't have any spare of those. That's sure [bleep] 572 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:50,230 [Tyson] Come on, Jarv. 573 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,460 [Tyson] Let's go, come on. 574 00:37:53,460 --> 00:37:57,960 It's early in the season here, and people are not on their A game yet. 575 00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:02,460 [narrator] Mitch and Tyson now have to fix the suction basket, 576 00:38:02,460 --> 00:38:05,460 the spray bars and the radial stacker 577 00:38:05,460 --> 00:38:08,430 before Roxanne can get back on the gold. 578 00:38:10,660 --> 00:38:12,760 [saw buzzing] 579 00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:18,130 Everybody wants to be a gold miner until it's time to do gold mining [bleep]. 580 00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:19,860 [Mitch] Whoo! 581 00:38:19,860 --> 00:38:21,260 [Mitch] Look at that! 582 00:38:21,260 --> 00:38:24,130 As soon as that's welded up, we'll get this thing back in the water. 583 00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,090 We've lost so much time already this season, 584 00:38:29,100 --> 00:38:31,400 -and we're falling further behind. -[water spraying] 585 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,890 [narrator] Suction basket back in the water, 586 00:38:38,900 --> 00:38:41,160 next, the spray bars. 587 00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,230 -[Tyler] Hey, Mitch, -How's it going, buddy? 588 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:45,860 [screws rattling] 589 00:38:45,860 --> 00:38:48,390 Now, what we're gonna do, is remove these fittings. 590 00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:49,760 We're gonna pull these spray bars out. 591 00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:52,090 We're gonna get all the big stuff out of here, 592 00:38:52,100 --> 00:38:55,090 so that we can get back up and running 593 00:38:55,100 --> 00:38:57,060 and have full water flow. 594 00:38:57,060 --> 00:38:59,400 [Mitch] Oh, yeah. Look at all that stuff down there. 595 00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,790 [narrator] Finally, the radial stacker. 596 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,560 [Tyson] This tire's shot and this one's almost got eaten. 597 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:12,660 It looks like she came in, hit it and then backed out and tore this. 598 00:39:12,660 --> 00:39:14,660 Oh yeah, what we can do here, 599 00:39:14,660 --> 00:39:16,690 because we can jack it up high enough. 600 00:39:16,700 --> 00:39:20,260 That we can just take the tires right off and block it underneath. 601 00:39:20,260 --> 00:39:23,160 [narrator] With no replacement tires on site, 602 00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,660 they improvise, using wooden blocks 603 00:39:25,660 --> 00:39:28,060 to level up the stacker. 604 00:39:28,060 --> 00:39:30,790 Good. Hopefully nothing else was [bleep] on this thing 605 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:32,300 when they hit it with the loader. 606 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:36,960 [Tyler] We back level? 607 00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:38,390 [Tyson] All right. Here we go. 608 00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:40,400 [Mitch] Let me know when you want water. 609 00:39:40,660 --> 00:39:41,900 Send it. 610 00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:44,290 [engine starts] 611 00:39:44,300 --> 00:39:46,060 We were down for almost three hours. 612 00:39:46,060 --> 00:39:48,400 It's about time we fired this thing back up. 613 00:40:00,500 --> 00:40:02,860 [Tyson] Here's the water, time to add some dirt. 614 00:40:02,860 --> 00:40:06,660 [narrator] Roxanne's red light is back to green. 615 00:40:06,660 --> 00:40:11,490 And the team are closer to seeing what kind of gold the Long Cut holds. 616 00:40:11,500 --> 00:40:14,090 Right now, everything's doing what it should here. 617 00:40:14,100 --> 00:40:15,390 Plant's looking all right. 618 00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:16,990 We've got good flow across everything. 619 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,700 We've got the right amount of water flow, so, let's keep her going. 620 00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,190 Clean up time. 621 00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:36,960 [narrator] At Dominion Creek... 622 00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:40,860 Parker's crew, are finally on Roxanne's first cleanup 623 00:40:40,860 --> 00:40:42,760 of the Long Cut. 624 00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:44,560 [Chris] I like your gloves, Tatiana. 625 00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:46,060 [Tyson] They're for reaching in cows. 626 00:40:46,060 --> 00:40:48,190 [laughs] 627 00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,690 So this is one of the two best cleanups of the year. 628 00:40:50,700 --> 00:40:52,660 It's the first clean up. 629 00:40:52,660 --> 00:40:54,660 The other best one's the last cleanup. 630 00:40:54,660 --> 00:40:57,460 We got Roxanne set up for the first time this year, 631 00:40:57,460 --> 00:40:58,430 all new pad. 632 00:40:58,430 --> 00:41:01,360 We'll get her cleaned up and start our season. 633 00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:04,230 [Tatiana] Hopefully, it will be a first good, clean up. 634 00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,560 I just washed away [bleep] six feet of muck in the back, 635 00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:18,930 six feet of muck in the front, 636 00:41:18,930 --> 00:41:22,230 just cutting up all the silt and pumping it right out of the valley. 637 00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:24,160 [narrator] At Duncan Creek, 638 00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:27,460 Rick's crew have been monitoring for 24 hours. 639 00:41:27,460 --> 00:41:29,990 And are finally rid of the thick soup, 640 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,790 sitting on top of the gold rich pay layer. 641 00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:34,790 [Rick] As far as I'm concerned, it's going really well. 642 00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:36,760 Now, it's time to get to the good stuff. Get to the gold. 643 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,760 Right now, all we've been doing is spending money, 644 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:40,990 and I need some coming back in. 645 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,690 I can't wait to see that freaking 750 and them rock trucks 646 00:41:43,700 --> 00:41:46,400 to get down here to give me a hand getting pay out here again. 647 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:50,600 [Rick] I figured I'd just jump in the truck. 648 00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,260 Just get in where I fit in. 649 00:41:54,260 --> 00:41:55,590 [Rick] All that [bleep] gone out of Rally Valley. 650 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,660 There's nothing left in Rally Valley right now but pay dirt. 651 00:41:58,660 --> 00:42:00,100 Nothing left but gold. 652 00:42:02,700 --> 00:42:04,000 Aah! 653 00:42:06,500 --> 00:42:08,690 We're gonna start hauling some pay out, so... 654 00:42:08,700 --> 00:42:10,830 It's finally an exciting moment. We're doing something. 655 00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,490 [Rick] We're gonna be straight hauling pay for the rest of the day, 656 00:42:14,500 --> 00:42:15,860 and hopefully, the rest of the week. 657 00:42:15,860 --> 00:42:19,160 [narrator] Rick is finally back to stockpiling Rally Valley's 658 00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:22,360 gold-rich pay dirt and is one step closer 659 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:26,800 to finding out if he can deliver his 1500-ounce goal. 660 00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:30,660 [Rick] You know, we've been on a bit of a holding pattern. 661 00:42:30,660 --> 00:42:33,190 There's that little feeling like, uh, are we doing the right thing? 662 00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:34,560 Blah, blah. But now I know we are. 663 00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:35,690 You know, we're back. 664 00:42:35,700 --> 00:42:37,190 All the silt's got out of there. We're trucking pay. 665 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,130 We're just about ready to fire Monster Red back up. 666 00:42:39,500 --> 00:42:40,600 We're in good shape. 667 00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:42,400 We're in good shape. 668 00:42:58,800 --> 00:42:59,760 Hello! 669 00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:00,890 -[Minnie] Hi. -[Tony speaking] 670 00:43:00,900 --> 00:43:04,360 [narrator] With Paradise Hill producing no gold, 671 00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:07,090 the Beets family gather for a gold weigh, 672 00:43:07,100 --> 00:43:08,600 at Indian River. 673 00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,200 [Mike] Funny, she said the same thing at the hill. [laughs] 674 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,660 My side, Mike, what do I say when he drives up? 675 00:43:18,660 --> 00:43:20,760 -Ah, [bleep] -[Minnie] He's here again. 676 00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:24,130 It's really hard to manage to get on everybody's nerves. 677 00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:27,360 [all chuckling] 678 00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:29,930 So, how is Mike doing here? 679 00:43:34,260 --> 00:43:36,130 That doesn't mean you're scared? 680 00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:41,660 [Tony speaking] 681 00:43:41,660 --> 00:43:42,630 [Minnie] Yeah. 682 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:51,260 Yeah. 683 00:43:51,260 --> 00:43:54,190 So, seeing as they've just talked such nice things about you, 684 00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:56,260 should we weigh up the fruits of your labor? 685 00:43:56,260 --> 00:43:59,100 -Sure, let's see how well I actually did. -Fruits of your labor, eh? 686 00:44:00,900 --> 00:44:04,960 So this is for three days sluicing with Sluice-A-Lot, right? 687 00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:06,560 [Tony speaking] 688 00:44:07,460 --> 00:44:11,060 [narrator] To be on track for Tony's 5000 ounce season goal, 689 00:44:11,060 --> 00:44:14,390 cousin Mike needs to deliver 200 ounces. 690 00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:15,760 [Monica] Twenty. 691 00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:18,160 Thirty, forty. 692 00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:19,630 Fifty. 693 00:44:20,700 --> 00:44:22,130 Sixty. 694 00:44:22,860 --> 00:44:24,060 [taps bottle] 695 00:44:24,060 --> 00:44:26,130 [Monica] 75.3. 696 00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:30,800 [narrator] Worth over $188,000. 697 00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:36,760 Bringing the season total to 849 ounces. 698 00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:38,460 [Monica] Sluice-A-lot didn't sluice a lot. 699 00:44:38,460 --> 00:44:40,530 No, Sluice-A-Lot definitely didn't sluice a lot. 700 00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:54,930 [Mike] Yep. 701 00:44:56,500 --> 00:44:58,100 [Tony speaking] 702 00:45:01,060 --> 00:45:02,400 [Minnie] Well, if... 703 00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:05,300 [Mike] Yeah. 704 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,400 -[Tony speaking] -Okay. 705 00:45:12,260 --> 00:45:13,560 [Minnie] I know. 706 00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:15,400 [Tony speaking] 707 00:45:29,660 --> 00:45:31,960 Yeah, man. Nice to have Roxanne back up and running, finally. 708 00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:32,990 Yeah. Yeah. 709 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:34,390 About time we get to sluicing, huh? 710 00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:38,190 [Mitch] Yeah, it took us a bit to get there, but we're finally there. 711 00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:40,090 [narrator] Parker's about to find out 712 00:45:40,100 --> 00:45:43,260 if his bet on opening the Long Cut first 713 00:45:43,260 --> 00:45:45,560 this season will pay off. 714 00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:49,060 If the gold doesn't live up to expectations, 715 00:45:49,060 --> 00:45:50,890 his plans for the season, 716 00:45:50,900 --> 00:45:55,260 and his quest for 10,000 ounces could fall apart. 717 00:45:55,260 --> 00:45:58,090 You think you'd be able to keep up with that plant? 718 00:45:58,100 --> 00:46:00,060 [Mitch] Man, it's hungry, like, 719 00:46:00,060 --> 00:46:03,160 you know, Big Red can get through some material but... 720 00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:07,160 Roxanne is definitely a very hungry wash plant. 721 00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:08,760 Hopefully, we can keep it running. 722 00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:11,160 Bank started washing away a bit there. 723 00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:13,760 [Tyson] Yeah, that was a little scary for a couple of minutes. 724 00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:15,660 [Mitch] A little mad scramble. 725 00:46:15,660 --> 00:46:18,490 Well, how did we do Doumitt? Did we get anything? Are we rich? 726 00:46:18,500 --> 00:46:20,590 Man, you're holding that like there ain't a lot in it. 727 00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:22,190 [Tyson] Or he got strong over the winter. 728 00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:23,290 [Chris] You ready, Mitch? 729 00:46:23,300 --> 00:46:26,360 [narrator] To have any hope of hitting his target, 730 00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:30,260 Parker needs over 475 ounces a week. 731 00:46:30,260 --> 00:46:34,900 [Mitch] Fifteen, 20, 25, 28... 732 00:46:35,700 --> 00:46:37,430 30.80. 733 00:46:37,860 --> 00:46:39,060 [Chris] That's it. 734 00:46:39,060 --> 00:46:40,590 -That's all of it? -[Chris] That's it. 735 00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:42,760 [Chris] That's all we get out of that little beast. 736 00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:47,230 [narrator] Worth just over $77,000. 737 00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:53,090 We did a lot more sluicing than what's sitting there. 738 00:46:53,100 --> 00:46:54,460 [Chris] Yeah. 739 00:46:54,460 --> 00:46:58,860 [Chris] Well, you can't get to 10,000 without getting to 30 first. 740 00:46:58,860 --> 00:47:01,200 Oh, [bleep] Don't say that number around me. 741 00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:05,960 I expect a bit of calibration problems on this ground, 742 00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:07,230 of like, our process, 743 00:47:07,230 --> 00:47:10,160 and figuring out the most efficient way of doing things, right? 744 00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:11,800 Like, I expect those problems. 745 00:47:13,060 --> 00:47:16,160 [Tyson] Well, shall we go see if we can find a little bit more? 746 00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:19,700 Yeah, I'm like, really hoping that this is not gonna be... 747 00:47:21,900 --> 00:47:23,160 A theme. 748 00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:26,130 You know, and get in some good material, it can turn around. 749 00:47:27,100 --> 00:47:28,800 [Chris] It has to turn around, really. 750 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:31,630 Yeah, it's not ideal. 751 00:47:32,660 --> 00:47:34,630 Gotta go broke, if we keep doing this. 752 00:47:39,860 --> 00:47:41,690 [Parker] Thanks, guys. Thanks for everything out there. 753 00:47:41,700 --> 00:47:44,560 We're still in the start up process of this property. 753 00:47:45,305 --> 00:48:45,282 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm