"Gold Rush" Vegas Valley Verdict

1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 2 00:00:21,460 --> 00:00:22,600 [sighing] 3 00:00:25,060 --> 00:00:26,360 [Parker] Here we are at the end of the season. 4 00:00:27,100 --> 00:00:28,560 At this point, we're, like, 5 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:30,560 not even anywhere near 1,000 oz, 6 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:33,560 so that's a little bit disappointing. 7 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:35,490 And gold-wise across the board, obviously, 8 00:00:35,500 --> 00:00:37,660 we're way below where we wanted to be. 9 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:43,560 [narrator] Thirty year old Parker Schnabel 10 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:47,990 is struggling to end the season on a high note. 11 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,660 After starting with lofty aspirations 12 00:00:50,660 --> 00:00:53,860 and a 10,000 oz target, 13 00:00:53,860 --> 00:00:57,390 a series of bad calls has banked him 14 00:00:57,400 --> 00:00:58,860 just half that 15 00:00:58,860 --> 00:01:02,860 and left him with just one running wash plant. 16 00:01:02,860 --> 00:01:05,490 [Parker] Big Red's doing half an ounce an hour, 17 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:07,560 you know, the last few cleanups were kind of bad. 18 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:11,560 So... We're still very short on gold 19 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:13,600 and very short on time. 20 00:01:16,060 --> 00:01:17,460 [narrator] With only a few weeks left 21 00:01:17,460 --> 00:01:20,060 before winter shuts him down, 22 00:01:20,060 --> 00:01:23,690 Parker is back where he was at the start of the season, 23 00:01:23,700 --> 00:01:26,660 flush with ground but none of it thawed. 24 00:01:26,660 --> 00:01:28,860 Or ready to sluice. 25 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:30,860 [Parker] I'm in the Elbow Cut. 26 00:01:30,860 --> 00:01:34,390 This little corner where we first started last year. 27 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:39,160 This pit is the most logical one to take out next, 28 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:41,990 because it would be the first one 29 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,260 that would need to come out next year. 30 00:01:44,260 --> 00:01:47,660 But right now, it's an added cost. 31 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:52,060 You know, it's not ready to be sluiced. 32 00:01:52,060 --> 00:01:54,690 But we can make it ready with a bit of ripping. 33 00:01:54,700 --> 00:01:56,760 We normally don't rip gravel. 34 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:01,300 It's very hard on the 11s, but we need gold coming in. 35 00:02:02,100 --> 00:02:04,560 This was a very avoidable situation. 36 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:06,460 I should have got this ready months ago 37 00:02:06,460 --> 00:02:07,990 so that it would have been fine to sluice it. 38 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,500 So that was a major [bleep] on my part. 39 00:02:13,260 --> 00:02:15,190 [narrator] Adding to Parker's problems, 40 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,000 his crew is already stretched thin. 41 00:02:18,900 --> 00:02:20,090 At the Bridge Cut, 42 00:02:20,100 --> 00:02:22,760 they're sluicing red gravels with Big Red. 43 00:02:24,100 --> 00:02:25,460 A mile north, 44 00:02:25,460 --> 00:02:28,490 alongside the mined out Long Cut, 45 00:02:28,500 --> 00:02:30,560 ten of his crew are also opening up 46 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:32,660 a new cut for next season. 47 00:02:34,860 --> 00:02:37,090 One thousand feet to the south 48 00:02:37,100 --> 00:02:40,560 on the corner of last season's mega rich money pit, 49 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:42,060 Parker is stripping 50 00:02:42,060 --> 00:02:44,700 a three-acre area called the Elbow Cut. 51 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:48,660 This is where he wants to sluice next. 52 00:02:48,660 --> 00:02:52,560 But he still has to remove two feet of overburden. 53 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:56,600 Then, rip the frozen pay layer in just days. 54 00:02:59,860 --> 00:03:01,390 To move the dirt quickly, 55 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:05,360 Parker's breaking out another massive D11 dozer. 56 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:09,260 Yeah. They've come up with this [bleep] stupid plan 57 00:03:09,260 --> 00:03:11,590 with the most expensive thing they can find. 58 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:13,700 Money-burning D-11. 59 00:03:14,260 --> 00:03:15,660 Briefcases of money burning. 60 00:03:15,660 --> 00:03:17,490 It's got a new Ripper, 61 00:03:17,500 --> 00:03:20,660 a new undercarriage, new edges. 62 00:03:20,660 --> 00:03:23,300 It's ready to go wreck itself in the [bleep] piggy bank. 63 00:03:25,260 --> 00:03:26,860 [narrator] Foreman Mitch Blaschke 64 00:03:26,860 --> 00:03:28,560 hops in the second D-11 65 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:31,090 to join Parker moving the overburden. 66 00:03:31,100 --> 00:03:32,190 [Mitch] Right now, Parker and I 67 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:33,230 are in the Elbow Cut, 68 00:03:33,230 --> 00:03:36,290 and when you think about it, It's very expensive. 69 00:03:36,300 --> 00:03:38,290 You're running a multi-million dollar dozer 70 00:03:38,300 --> 00:03:40,990 that consumes a lot of fuel. 71 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:42,460 But it's the only way we're gonna get this gold 72 00:03:42,460 --> 00:03:43,790 out of the ground this season. 73 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:46,390 Right now, with gold prices being high, 74 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,660 Parker said, "Let's get some more of it." 75 00:03:49,660 --> 00:03:52,100 So, he's throwing everything we can at it here. 76 00:03:54,060 --> 00:03:57,090 [narrator] To haul out the mud as fast as possible. 77 00:03:57,100 --> 00:04:03,090 Parker has also called in his 750 excavator and biggest rock trucks, 78 00:04:03,100 --> 00:04:05,690 We got to keep our load counts high for the day. 79 00:04:05,700 --> 00:04:09,460 I just gotta send it through these mud ruts like they're not even here. 80 00:04:09,460 --> 00:04:10,300 Just keep moving. 81 00:04:11,500 --> 00:04:12,660 Personally, for me, 82 00:04:12,660 --> 00:04:14,260 I love going as fast as you can. 83 00:04:14,260 --> 00:04:16,260 Driving these things is like... 84 00:04:16,260 --> 00:04:17,660 I feel like a giant kid in the sandbox, 85 00:04:17,660 --> 00:04:19,260 just driving my big rock truck. 86 00:04:19,260 --> 00:04:21,860 It's a lot of fun to go fast. 87 00:04:21,860 --> 00:04:24,690 [narrator] Greenhorn operator James Kurtz 88 00:04:24,700 --> 00:04:26,760 runs one of the trucks. 89 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:38,760 [truck whirring] 90 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:40,360 [James] Holy [bleep]. 91 00:04:44,660 --> 00:04:46,400 I might be stuck. 92 00:04:49,860 --> 00:04:50,900 Oh, [bleep]. 93 00:04:52,860 --> 00:04:54,460 Yeah, this thing is stuck. 94 00:04:55,100 --> 00:04:56,200 [bleep]. 95 00:04:58,660 --> 00:04:59,660 I'm a bit stuck here. 96 00:04:59,660 --> 00:05:01,660 You might need to come up and pull me out. 97 00:05:01,660 --> 00:05:04,060 [James over radio] I kind of buried in the mud a little bit. 98 00:05:07,460 --> 00:05:10,160 Why am I not surprised? 99 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:11,660 [Mitch] You know, when the edge gets soft there, 100 00:05:11,660 --> 00:05:13,090 it's a long ways down for these trucks. 101 00:05:13,100 --> 00:05:15,460 So you don't want the truck tumbling off 102 00:05:15,460 --> 00:05:16,960 the back side of it here. 103 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:19,560 And we're gonna have a little look here. 104 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:20,660 Oh, yeah, he's stuck. 105 00:05:24,300 --> 00:05:26,460 Hey, you can't park there! 106 00:05:26,460 --> 00:05:28,390 [narrator] To rescue the truck, 107 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:34,090 Mitch pulls rookie excavator operator Jack Frischkorn out of the cut, 108 00:05:34,100 --> 00:05:37,000 to travel 600ft to the waste pile. 109 00:05:39,260 --> 00:05:40,960 [Jack] James, man, what'd you do? 110 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:42,560 [both chuckling] 111 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:44,160 [James] Yeah, she's a bit soft. 112 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:45,830 [Mitch] So, right now, 113 00:05:45,830 --> 00:05:47,490 we've got Jack up here with the 750, 114 00:05:47,500 --> 00:05:50,390 and this is his first time pulling something out like this. 115 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,090 But no better time to learn than the present. 116 00:05:53,100 --> 00:05:54,460 All right, Jack, bring her in. 117 00:05:54,460 --> 00:05:55,990 Let's see if you can't reach in the box there 118 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:57,990 and get this thing tugged out. 119 00:05:58,000 --> 00:05:58,790 You just gotta watch 120 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:00,860 that you don't slide the bucket out 121 00:06:00,860 --> 00:06:03,060 and end up coming down and clipping the cab. 122 00:06:03,060 --> 00:06:05,760 So, just try and get him some pull there 123 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:06,860 and just try and inch it back. 124 00:06:06,860 --> 00:06:08,560 And let's see what happens here. 125 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:09,860 [engine whirring] 126 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:14,090 [Jack] Pulling on the driver's side there didn't work. 127 00:06:14,100 --> 00:06:16,800 [Mitch] Hey, man, you might want to get around the other side there. 128 00:06:20,460 --> 00:06:22,000 Yeah, you'll have a better angle there. 129 00:06:28,860 --> 00:06:30,460 A little bit more. 130 00:06:30,460 --> 00:06:32,390 Try and give a little throttle there. 131 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:33,660 Yep. Work with him, work with him. 132 00:06:33,660 --> 00:06:34,600 Keep going. 133 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:37,460 You got it. Nice job, guys. 134 00:06:37,460 --> 00:06:38,760 Whoo! 135 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:41,090 [bleep] out, baby. 136 00:06:41,100 --> 00:06:44,460 [James] Right on. We got her out safe and sound. 137 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:46,460 That's how it's done. 138 00:06:48,060 --> 00:06:49,400 Dude, we got her. 139 00:06:50,460 --> 00:06:52,760 [Jack] Yeah, we'll keep her off the edge. 140 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:54,300 -[all laughing] -[Mitch] All right. Thanks. 141 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:56,960 [Jack] It definitely has been a while 142 00:06:56,960 --> 00:06:58,030 since I got a truck stuck. 143 00:06:58,030 --> 00:07:00,160 So I'm just glad the boys are here to pull me out. 144 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:01,760 When you're stuck on the side of a mud dump 145 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:03,260 looking down the side of the hill, 146 00:07:03,260 --> 00:07:04,560 it's never fun. 147 00:07:06,260 --> 00:07:08,560 [Mitch] You know, we got that truck back up and rolling. 148 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:10,460 It definitely cost us a little bit of time, 149 00:07:10,460 --> 00:07:12,660 but we're back moving dirt now 150 00:07:12,660 --> 00:07:14,400 and, hopefully, it doesn't happen again. 151 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:16,560 [narrator] The truck rescued, 152 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:19,160 Mitch rejoins Parker in the cut 153 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:21,190 to get the last of the mud out 154 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,660 before ripping the frozen pay 155 00:07:23,660 --> 00:07:26,300 so that they can sluice by the end of the week. 156 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:30,260 It's definitely expensive. 157 00:07:30,260 --> 00:07:31,390 It's difficult. 158 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:32,560 But Parker said, 159 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:35,260 "Man, we've got to get more gold in this season." 160 00:07:35,260 --> 00:07:37,290 So that's left us with no other option 161 00:07:37,300 --> 00:07:39,260 than getting in there with the dozer 162 00:07:39,260 --> 00:07:41,060 and ripping that ground. 163 00:07:41,060 --> 00:07:42,460 We're just hoping there's enough gold in here 164 00:07:42,460 --> 00:07:44,000 to make all this worthwhile. 165 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:47,360 Hey, Parker, you got a copy? 166 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:50,360 What do you think, man? How's your side looking? 167 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:52,860 Yeah, we've got all the mud out. 168 00:07:52,860 --> 00:07:55,460 [Parker over radio] It's crazy how good progress we're making. 169 00:07:55,460 --> 00:07:57,360 [Mitch] I can't believe we got it done. 170 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:59,860 That's just pay dirt. 171 00:07:59,860 --> 00:08:02,790 [Parker] Now we've got to get this bunch of pay ripped out. 172 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:04,100 Get Roxanne down here. 173 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,990 And keep some decent gold coming in. 174 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:09,560 We've got to get this [bleep] done. 175 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:26,590 [Kyle] We're running dirt. 176 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:28,390 This is the end push! 177 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:29,290 Let's go, go, go! 178 00:08:29,300 --> 00:08:32,390 If Rick's right about this Vegas Valley, 179 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:35,960 we're all excited to see what kind of gold we got in the sluice runs. 180 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:40,000 [narrator] Rick Ness is on a make-or-break treasure hunt. 181 00:08:40,700 --> 00:08:41,860 After hitting it big 182 00:08:41,860 --> 00:08:43,990 earlier this season at Rally Valley, 183 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,390 He struggled to find another hot spot 184 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:51,890 before deciding to gamble on Vegas Valley. 185 00:08:51,900 --> 00:08:57,060 Now, after burning six weeks and one million dollars, 186 00:08:57,060 --> 00:09:00,960 he's finally sluicing the 160-foot deep cut 187 00:09:01,460 --> 00:09:03,260 and is just days away 188 00:09:03,260 --> 00:09:05,760 from finding out if his big gamble 189 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:07,100 will deliver a bonanza 190 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:09,360 or a bust. 191 00:09:09,860 --> 00:09:10,930 To put it lightly, 192 00:09:10,930 --> 00:09:12,490 it's got to be [bleep] good ground to make it work. 193 00:09:12,500 --> 00:09:13,860 To make this gamble worth it. 194 00:09:13,860 --> 00:09:16,860 So, you know, that's why we're in the business we are. 195 00:09:16,860 --> 00:09:19,160 This is a volatile business. 196 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:22,060 [narrator] With Rick's water license about to expire, 197 00:09:22,060 --> 00:09:24,760 it could be his last ever season 198 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:26,660 mining at Duncan Creek. 199 00:09:27,660 --> 00:09:30,160 And with winter on the horizon, 200 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:32,560 tensions are running high. 201 00:09:33,660 --> 00:09:34,790 [Rick] Everybody's nervous about it because 202 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:36,490 we don't necessarily have all the time in the world. 203 00:09:36,500 --> 00:09:38,490 But I'm betting on it paying off. 204 00:09:38,500 --> 00:09:40,990 The bottom line is, you got to put gold in these guy's pockets. 205 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:42,860 I mean, at the end of the day, that's what they're here for. 206 00:09:42,860 --> 00:09:44,100 They got bills to pay. 207 00:09:45,260 --> 00:09:47,060 [Chris] Bailey, quit [bleep] off. 208 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:49,660 Did you know if you can't turn right, 209 00:09:49,660 --> 00:09:50,960 a lot of times, you can turn left? 210 00:09:52,460 --> 00:09:53,990 I don't tell everyone what I'm doing. 211 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:55,890 [Chris] How about I just dump it down here 212 00:09:55,900 --> 00:09:57,490 and we'll be just fine? 213 00:09:57,500 --> 00:09:59,690 There's a solution for every problem. 214 00:09:59,700 --> 00:10:01,960 [shouting] There's always a solution. 215 00:10:04,300 --> 00:10:06,660 We'll get through this day, I promise. 216 00:10:08,260 --> 00:10:10,860 You know, everybody lives together and long hours and all that. 217 00:10:10,860 --> 00:10:12,160 [bleep] you know, it can be toxic for a crew, 218 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:15,660 and when that happens, you kind of lose control. 219 00:10:15,660 --> 00:10:17,560 My buddy Zee is on his way in right now. 220 00:10:17,560 --> 00:10:19,400 Actually, I'm shorthanded as usual. 221 00:10:27,460 --> 00:10:29,790 It's always good when he comes here, makes everybody laugh. 222 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:31,390 And at the end of the season like this, 223 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:33,260 we can all use a little bit of that, that's for sure. 224 00:10:33,260 --> 00:10:35,490 [narrator] To help the final push, 225 00:10:35,500 --> 00:10:39,560 Rick has called in best buddy "Zee" Zaremba. 226 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:42,100 Look at the smile on his face. 227 00:10:42,700 --> 00:10:43,860 Danny! 228 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:46,590 -What's up, buddy? -What's up? 229 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:48,060 What's going on? 230 00:10:48,900 --> 00:10:51,160 -Good to see you, buddy. -Good to see you. 231 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:52,660 [Rick] You're coming into something, 232 00:10:52,660 --> 00:10:54,800 it's gonna look a hell of a lot different than it did this spring. 233 00:10:55,660 --> 00:10:57,190 So we're done with the Rally Valley? 234 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:58,790 Yeah, we've dubbed this new spot in Vegas Valley 235 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:00,990 because it's kind of the same. 236 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:02,290 -Okay. -It's just as deep. 237 00:11:02,300 --> 00:11:03,290 [Zee] How much stripping? 238 00:11:03,300 --> 00:11:06,360 It was all at 200 ft again. Yeah. 239 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:08,760 So we haven't seen any gold in a couple months here. 240 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:10,560 And everyone's probably happy about that. 241 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:11,890 Yeah, yeah, very happy. 242 00:11:11,900 --> 00:11:14,890 Everybody's finding a way to get on everybody else's last nerve. 243 00:11:14,900 --> 00:11:16,360 It's just it's such a mess. 244 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:18,860 Great, just great. 245 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:23,790 How's Chelsea doing? I mean, I know that that 246 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:26,600 can't be fun at all for either of you guys... 247 00:11:27,460 --> 00:11:28,590 What is... Like anything. 248 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:31,200 -I mean, we have good days and bad days, so... -Yeah. 249 00:11:33,660 --> 00:11:35,560 [narrator] Earlier in the season... 250 00:11:35,560 --> 00:11:37,790 How's things, man? How's things back home? 251 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:42,160 [narrator] Zee's wife Chelsea received devastating news. 252 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:48,160 She ended up getting diagnosed with two forms of cancer actually. 253 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:49,900 Shut the [bleep] up. 254 00:11:51,300 --> 00:11:53,460 -Chelsea? -Yeah, 33. 255 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:56,090 So... [clears throat] 256 00:11:56,100 --> 00:11:59,100 -Yeah. -[bleep] man, I'm sorry. 257 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:05,260 She was the one that pushed for me to come up. 258 00:12:05,260 --> 00:12:07,390 Well, God bless her for letting you take-off like this. 259 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:09,460 -I mean, that's... -You know how much she cares about you, too. 260 00:12:09,460 --> 00:12:10,690 I do. Yeah. 261 00:12:10,700 --> 00:12:12,590 That's incredibly generous of her, to let you come up here. 262 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:15,260 -Yeah. -Like, I really appreciate it. 263 00:12:15,260 --> 00:12:16,490 It's not lost on me, that's for sure. 264 00:12:16,500 --> 00:12:17,860 No, whatever you need. 265 00:12:17,860 --> 00:12:20,000 Like I said before, whenever you need help, I'm here. 266 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:23,260 [Rick] Let's go see the guys. 267 00:12:23,260 --> 00:12:24,460 [Zee] Let's go see 'em. 268 00:12:26,060 --> 00:12:28,960 [narrator] Rick puts Zee straight to work 269 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:31,490 trucking pay out of Vegas Valley 270 00:12:31,500 --> 00:12:33,990 to Monster Red's pay pile. 271 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:35,160 [Zee] I know kind of how 272 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:36,990 all these guys are feeling right now. 273 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,360 I mean, hopefully, me coming up here 274 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:39,860 will spark a little bit of life 275 00:12:39,860 --> 00:12:42,460 and give 'em a good boost in morale. 276 00:12:42,460 --> 00:12:46,100 It's good to tackle another huge project and get all that payout. 277 00:12:49,060 --> 00:12:50,660 Hold on a sec here. 278 00:12:50,660 --> 00:12:53,360 -[wheels grating] -She's spinning. 279 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:57,400 -[Zee] Hey, Bailey. -Oh, I see, I'm coming. 280 00:12:58,760 --> 00:12:59,890 [Rick] You see that truck's stuck. 281 00:12:59,900 --> 00:13:03,260 It ain't going nowhere. 282 00:13:03,260 --> 00:13:05,390 [Bailey] It is funny, you know, when Zee shows up, 283 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:06,890 someone always tosses him in the truck 284 00:13:06,900 --> 00:13:08,660 that's not working properly. 285 00:13:09,660 --> 00:13:10,700 [bleep] 286 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:13,960 [Zee] Thanks, Bailey. 287 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:18,460 [Bailey laughing] 288 00:13:18,460 --> 00:13:20,090 [swears and laughs] 289 00:13:20,100 --> 00:13:22,990 [bleep] you, Bailey. Bailey is just [bleep] laughing at me. 290 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,990 [Rick] There's all that bickering I was missing. 291 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:27,660 I'm glad we're all on the same page. 292 00:13:27,660 --> 00:13:29,590 [Zee] Me too. Hopefully, we can all move forward from this 293 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:31,260 and work together good. 294 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:40,190 [Rick] As of right now, the monster rip is a two machine job, 295 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:42,260 so I'm just taking care of the tailing. 296 00:13:42,260 --> 00:13:43,360 Kyle's feeding it. 297 00:13:46,660 --> 00:13:47,860 Oh, [bleep]. 298 00:13:47,860 --> 00:13:50,860 The feeder's smoking! Hey! The feeder's smoking. 299 00:13:50,860 --> 00:13:53,960 [bleep] Not good. Not good. Not good. 300 00:13:54,860 --> 00:13:55,800 Shut it down. 301 00:13:56,900 --> 00:13:58,260 [bleep] 302 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:02,660 Oh, [bleep]. 303 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,000 Oh, [bleep]. 304 00:14:13,660 --> 00:14:15,890 [bleep] That does not look good. 305 00:14:15,900 --> 00:14:17,560 [narrator] At Duncan Creek, 306 00:14:17,560 --> 00:14:21,790 Monster Red's feed conveyor has gone up in smoke. 307 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:23,000 [Rick] [bleep] was that? 308 00:14:23,860 --> 00:14:26,260 If that [bleep] belt smoked, I don't have another one. 309 00:14:26,260 --> 00:14:28,100 We got no way of feeding this plant. 310 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:36,760 [Rick] Do you see anything? 311 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:38,460 There's one nick right here. 312 00:14:38,460 --> 00:14:40,860 Well, something stopped it from turning. 313 00:14:40,860 --> 00:14:44,760 Usually, when that happens, it's 'cause it's trying to rip itself apart. 314 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:48,090 If this belt's torn and we can't [bleep] fix it, then that's it. 315 00:14:48,100 --> 00:14:50,090 I mean, we don't have another feeder to feed this plant. 316 00:14:50,100 --> 00:14:52,760 If we're waiting on a belt, we might as well pack it up. 317 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:56,490 These things go 30-40 grand, so I can't afford to have a spare. 318 00:14:56,500 --> 00:14:57,860 Everything on the site. 319 00:14:58,500 --> 00:14:59,500 We're [bleep], we're so [bleep]. 320 00:15:05,860 --> 00:15:07,430 I found a rock! 321 00:15:09,900 --> 00:15:11,460 That is a big [bleep] rock in here. 322 00:15:11,460 --> 00:15:12,500 It's stuck. 323 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:16,090 I'm assuming that had come through this side 324 00:15:16,100 --> 00:15:20,360 and actually rolled down into this cog pulley right here, 325 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:23,160 so it's not allowing this pulley to spin anymore. 326 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:26,760 But up front, we have a motor up there that spins the drive. 327 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:29,460 That up there was spinning, back here was not spinning. 328 00:15:31,460 --> 00:15:32,760 -Hey, Rick. -Yeah? 329 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:35,160 It's wedged in pretty [bleep] good. 330 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:36,160 -Is it? -Yeah. 331 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:37,560 There's no tears or nothing that, you can see... 332 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:38,990 No, everything down here is solid. 333 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:40,790 It looks like it just got in there. 334 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:41,860 [Rick] Holy [bleep]. 335 00:15:41,860 --> 00:15:43,060 Well, then, if that's the case, 336 00:15:43,060 --> 00:15:44,260 let's just let some tension off 337 00:15:44,260 --> 00:15:46,090 and try to pry that [bleep] out of there. 338 00:15:46,100 --> 00:15:48,260 All right, Kyle, can you reach the tension? 339 00:15:48,260 --> 00:15:49,760 [Kyle] Yep, you're good. 340 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:53,360 All right. Tensions off. 341 00:15:55,860 --> 00:15:56,860 [bleep]. 342 00:15:58,660 --> 00:15:59,930 Oh, wow... 343 00:16:02,460 --> 00:16:04,160 Holy [bleep]. That's big. [laughing] 344 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:08,390 There she is. 345 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:09,360 -Nice. -Did you get it? 346 00:16:09,900 --> 00:16:11,160 You got it out. 347 00:16:11,700 --> 00:16:13,160 [bleep] grooved her. 348 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:14,890 We got lucky there. 349 00:16:14,900 --> 00:16:16,760 Yeah, we live to fight another day 350 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:17,660 s what I'm hearing. 351 00:16:17,660 --> 00:16:19,090 What... [bleep]. 352 00:16:19,100 --> 00:16:21,360 Rick probably having a heart attack. 353 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:23,260 Yeah, well, we got really lucky on that one. 354 00:16:23,260 --> 00:16:24,630 You know, I don't have a spare belt. 355 00:16:24,630 --> 00:16:27,560 If it would've been damaged, we'd have no feeder to run this plant, 356 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:29,690 and pretty much could've just packed it up for the season. 357 00:16:29,700 --> 00:16:31,490 But imagine... Ease the tension off it. 358 00:16:31,500 --> 00:16:33,330 Pull it out, re-tension it. 359 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:38,900 Put this little guy back in the wild where she belongs. 360 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:44,960 That could have cost us the a major [bleep] up this season. 361 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:47,760 Fire it up. 362 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:50,690 [narrator] With Monster Red running, 363 00:16:50,700 --> 00:16:55,660 Rick is back on track for his first Vegas Valley Gold Way. 364 00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:57,560 [Rick] Let's go! 365 00:16:57,560 --> 00:16:58,760 [dramatic music playing] 366 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:19,660 [Tony speaking] 367 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:30,560 [narrator] After a mid-season lull in gold production, 368 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:34,660 Klondike legend Tony Beets is gaining momentum. 369 00:17:34,660 --> 00:17:39,460 And in striking distance of his final 5,000 oz season goal. 370 00:17:39,460 --> 00:17:42,160 To hit it, he's running two wash plants. 371 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:47,900 The trommel at Paradise Hill and his prized dredge, on the Indian River. 372 00:17:48,460 --> 00:17:50,760 [Tony speaking] 373 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:06,260 [narrator] Tony fired up the ancient dredge last week 374 00:18:06,260 --> 00:18:10,560 to cash in on the record-high gold price. 375 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:13,560 But it's already raced through its one-acre cut 376 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:16,100 and will soon run out of pay. 377 00:18:32,060 --> 00:18:33,660 [narrator] For over two months, 378 00:18:33,660 --> 00:18:38,260 Tony's two other Indian River wash plants have sat idle, 379 00:18:38,260 --> 00:18:41,360 waiting for frozen ground to melt. 380 00:18:41,360 --> 00:18:44,160 Now, with just a few weeks left, 381 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:46,360 he finally has thawed pay dirt 382 00:18:46,360 --> 00:18:48,960 close to his 30-year-old Shaker deck 383 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:52,660 and wants rising star Cousin Mike to run it. 384 00:18:57,100 --> 00:18:58,460 Hi. 385 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:04,260 It is old, 386 00:19:04,260 --> 00:19:07,560 so that requires a lot more maintenance and a lot more fixing. 387 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:17,360 So, Sluice-a-lot. 388 00:19:17,360 --> 00:19:18,860 It's pretty reliable. 389 00:19:18,860 --> 00:19:19,760 It's easy to move. 390 00:19:24,300 --> 00:19:27,400 Well, we'll have a look in the back and we'll have to move the plant. 391 00:19:31,460 --> 00:19:32,960 Yes, for sure. 392 00:19:33,660 --> 00:19:34,560 All right. 393 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:48,260 [narrator] Eight weeks ago, 394 00:19:48,260 --> 00:19:52,800 Tony started to open up a three-acre extension to the comeback cut, 395 00:19:53,700 --> 00:19:56,300 exposing the frozen pay dirt to melt. 396 00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:59,560 The now thawed pay gravels, 397 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:04,100 are just 500ft away from his old Shaker Deck wash plant, 398 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:10,660 But Cousin Mike wants to use the newer, more reliable Sluice-a-lot 399 00:20:10,660 --> 00:20:12,990 located over a mile away 400 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:16,090 at the still frozen Corner cut. 401 00:20:16,100 --> 00:20:20,560 To get sluicing, Mike must drag the 45-ton wash plant 402 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:23,990 past the camp, around a broken bridge 403 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:28,090 all the way through the mined out cut to a new pad 404 00:20:28,100 --> 00:20:31,130 and fire it up by the end of the day, 405 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:35,390 [Ruby] Get out of here. You're not the boss. 406 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:37,560 Just 'cause your last name is Beets. 407 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:39,660 -[bleep]. -What? 408 00:20:39,660 --> 00:20:40,860 -You want to fight? -Yeah. 409 00:20:40,860 --> 00:20:44,760 Let's go, run you over with your own dozer. 410 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:46,260 [narrator] To help with the move, 411 00:20:46,260 --> 00:20:49,560 Cousin Mike's brought in partner Ruby Mahoney, 412 00:20:51,360 --> 00:20:52,360 Watch your fingers. 413 00:20:53,860 --> 00:20:55,560 [Ruby] You're not gonna shorten the cables? 414 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:56,890 Are you not concerned? 415 00:20:56,900 --> 00:20:58,460 -Nope. -Nope. 416 00:20:58,460 --> 00:21:00,100 -Okay. -Yeah. 417 00:21:01,300 --> 00:21:04,060 [Mike] This is a brand new D-10 that Tony just bought. 418 00:21:04,060 --> 00:21:04,990 We haven't used it much. 419 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,560 It's a very nice machine. 420 00:21:09,260 --> 00:21:10,660 All right. 421 00:21:10,660 --> 00:21:11,860 First plan. Move it with this dozer. 422 00:21:12,500 --> 00:21:14,160 Let's see what it does. 423 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:21,160 [machinery straining] 424 00:21:27,700 --> 00:21:30,990 And we already are struggling, getting uphill 425 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,360 and barely moving through these spinning tracks. 426 00:21:33,900 --> 00:21:34,890 For [bleep] sakes. 427 00:21:34,900 --> 00:21:37,460 [Ruby] The longer the cable, the less control. 428 00:21:37,460 --> 00:21:40,660 I was surprised he didn't want to shorten it, but he's stubborn. 429 00:21:40,660 --> 00:21:42,090 [straining] 430 00:21:42,100 --> 00:21:43,460 You're just digging yourself a hole. 431 00:21:44,260 --> 00:21:45,260 Yeah, I know. 432 00:21:45,260 --> 00:21:47,430 [Ruby] Why don't we shorten the cable? 433 00:21:49,900 --> 00:21:51,460 Ruby came up with a good idea. 434 00:21:51,460 --> 00:21:53,460 We'll shorten this cable. Give it another shot. 435 00:21:53,460 --> 00:21:56,360 Hopefully, I will have more traction that way. 436 00:21:56,360 --> 00:21:58,290 [Ruby] Perfect. Give it a pull. 437 00:21:58,300 --> 00:21:59,890 [Mike over radio] Okay. There she goes. 438 00:21:59,900 --> 00:22:01,990 [Ruby] We'll see if she goes. 439 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:03,560 [metallic creaking] 440 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:07,200 Perfect. Well, let's get this thing moving before it starts snowing. 441 00:22:08,460 --> 00:22:12,260 [narrator] Next up, Mike must maneuver past the broken bridge. 442 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,760 It's narrow and a deep drop on each side. 443 00:22:19,700 --> 00:22:21,360 Just keep on walking. 444 00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:24,090 [Mike] You've got to stay away from the edges. 445 00:22:24,100 --> 00:22:26,630 You never know how strong these edges are. 446 00:22:29,100 --> 00:22:30,360 [Mike over radio] How does it look, Ruby? 447 00:22:31,460 --> 00:22:32,660 Yeah, you're good. 448 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:39,090 [Mike] I'm getting very close here to our final spot. 449 00:22:39,100 --> 00:22:41,600 It could have soft material underneath the path. 450 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,560 Oh, [bleep]. 451 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:45,500 The ground below me is very soft. 452 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:48,890 Coming to a hole there. 453 00:22:48,900 --> 00:22:52,560 [narrator] Mike wants to pull the plant to the edge of the pad 454 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:57,060 to allow enough room for tailings to fall safely. 455 00:22:57,760 --> 00:22:59,190 We just need big rocks here. 456 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:01,760 Where is the 260 loader? 457 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,660 We've got to bring in a couple of buckets of rocks. 458 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,660 [narrator] The pad reinforced. 459 00:23:09,660 --> 00:23:13,990 Mike drives the 63-ton dozer right on the edge 460 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,260 to pull the plant into its final position. 461 00:23:17,260 --> 00:23:20,160 [Mike] It won't take much for this thing to flip off the edge. 462 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:21,660 Well, then it will be [bleep]. 463 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,300 Let's see how far I can go here. 464 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:31,060 [man] Your right side's getting pretty far off that edge. 465 00:23:31,060 --> 00:23:33,160 [Mike] Yeah, I'm getting pretty close to the edge. 466 00:23:35,300 --> 00:23:37,560 But we don't want to risk sliding into the cut. 467 00:23:38,660 --> 00:23:40,100 [Ruby] Well, he's just too close. 468 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:42,060 [metallic creaking] 469 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:53,560 [Tony speaking] 470 00:23:57,300 --> 00:23:58,260 Okay. 471 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:02,160 [Tony speaking] 472 00:24:02,860 --> 00:24:04,160 [machinery whirring] 473 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:07,160 [Tony speaking] 474 00:24:14,100 --> 00:24:15,560 What do you think, Ruby? 475 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:16,560 That went really well. 476 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:18,190 Well, I have my wife here, 477 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,860 so she always brings me good advice. 478 00:24:22,260 --> 00:24:23,690 -Yes, I do. -Right? 479 00:24:23,700 --> 00:24:25,090 Is that what you wanted to hear? 480 00:24:25,100 --> 00:24:28,160 That is what I wanted to hear. 481 00:24:36,660 --> 00:24:38,100 [machinery starting up] 482 00:24:49,460 --> 00:24:52,090 [Parker] Ripping pay like we're doing in the Elbow Cut 483 00:24:52,100 --> 00:24:54,260 is not an ideal situation. 484 00:24:54,260 --> 00:24:55,400 It's expensive. 485 00:24:56,700 --> 00:24:59,690 [narrator] In a frantic move to save his season 486 00:24:59,700 --> 00:25:01,660 and bank more gold, 487 00:25:01,660 --> 00:25:07,100 Parker has blown $250,000, opening up the new Elbow Cut, 488 00:25:08,460 --> 00:25:13,360 We need to get the rest of this rip out and sluiced and get the gold. 489 00:25:13,360 --> 00:25:16,060 [narrator] While Parker finishes up in the cut, 490 00:25:16,060 --> 00:25:22,590 the rock trucks start hauling the ripped pay to be sluiced through wash plant Roxanne, 491 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:26,090 [man] We're gonna try and get this wash plant moved as fast as possible. 492 00:25:26,100 --> 00:25:27,760 Parker's down there in the Elbow Cut right now. 493 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,260 The trucks are hauling the pay out of there. 494 00:25:30,260 --> 00:25:31,960 He wants to keep that going on all day. 495 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:33,860 So we're gonna have traffic on the road. 496 00:25:33,860 --> 00:25:35,590 We're just gonna have to watch out with those guys. 497 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,660 Hopefully, we can get this done today and get it back running. 498 00:25:38,660 --> 00:25:40,560 Shall we get this plant moved and get after it? 499 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:41,730 If Parker's down there, 500 00:25:41,730 --> 00:25:43,360 he's not gonna be too impressed with us sitting here. 501 00:25:43,360 --> 00:25:44,560 All right, let's get after it. 502 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,460 -It's good. -Let's go, guys. 503 00:25:46,460 --> 00:25:52,560 [narrator] Roxanne is currently located at the far end of the Long Cut. 504 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:57,360 Mitch and his crew must convoy the custom-built million-dollar plant 505 00:25:57,360 --> 00:26:01,490 and all its parts a mile down a narrow ridge road. 506 00:26:01,500 --> 00:26:06,560 Safely avoiding rock trucks hauling pay to its new pad, 507 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:11,560 200ft downstream from the Elbow Cut. 508 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,990 [Tyson] We're just doing a quick and dirty move to get this thing down. 509 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,260 Get that Elbow Cut, [bleep] sluiced, and then we're all going home. 510 00:26:18,260 --> 00:26:20,230 Hopefully. rich. 511 00:26:22,660 --> 00:26:26,960 [man] We got the shaker deck, sluice runs, pump, pipeline, conveyors. 512 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:28,460 We can get it all down there. 513 00:26:28,460 --> 00:26:30,900 All right, Let's move the wash plant. 514 00:26:35,660 --> 00:26:37,360 Right now. I'm hauling the radio stacker 515 00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:40,290 over to Roxanne's new pad, and this road is tight. 516 00:26:40,300 --> 00:26:43,100 We have haul trucks on it, but we have no time to waste. 517 00:26:44,460 --> 00:26:45,700 Holy [bleep]. 518 00:26:47,260 --> 00:26:48,660 That was close. 519 00:26:50,660 --> 00:26:52,260 These truckers are nuts, man. 520 00:26:53,100 --> 00:26:55,260 We had a close call with the rock truck. 521 00:26:55,260 --> 00:26:59,500 These guys pulled out with the wash plant on, might be a different story. 522 00:27:08,660 --> 00:27:13,800 [narrator] Tyson must now drag the 40-ton wash plant up the 30-foot path. 523 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,190 [Tyson] The big concern is that narrow spot. 524 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,760 You've got to really focus on how you set yourself up here. 525 00:27:23,860 --> 00:27:25,260 This is a steep and narrow ramp. 526 00:27:25,260 --> 00:27:28,390 We're dragging rocks in and up the 480 here. 527 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,560 I don't know how much it's going to like pulling it up this slope. 528 00:27:32,860 --> 00:27:34,860 If this thing gets off to an edge, 529 00:27:34,860 --> 00:27:36,760 it's going to topple right over. 530 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,860 Come on, keep it going! 531 00:27:39,860 --> 00:27:43,990 [Tyson] It doesn't want to pull it, if it's just climbing up on an angle. 532 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:45,600 Whoa, whoa, 533 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:51,490 Well, you can see when Tyson's got the angle all wrong there on the bucket, 534 00:27:51,500 --> 00:27:53,460 It will never work like that. 535 00:27:53,460 --> 00:27:56,360 [Tyson over radio] Mitch, I know how to pull a wash plant. 536 00:27:56,360 --> 00:27:59,590 So get your panties out of your butt. 537 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,930 [Mitch] Yeah. It's called work smarter, not harder, right? 538 00:28:05,360 --> 00:28:07,660 [Parker over radio] You guys doing all right over there? 539 00:28:07,660 --> 00:28:10,200 Oh, yeah, one day at a time. 540 00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:19,260 Keep it going! 541 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,660 Here we go. She's back to the top. 542 00:28:22,660 --> 00:28:25,390 We're getting close to the sluice runs. 543 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:26,660 [Tyson] How are we looking? 544 00:28:26,660 --> 00:28:28,090 [Mitch] Keep it going. 545 00:28:28,100 --> 00:28:29,590 This is the tricky bit. 546 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,500 The wash plant's got to come in with a couple of engines and the sluice runs. 547 00:28:35,860 --> 00:28:38,990 Are you maxed out on your pull there? 548 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,300 [Tyson] No, I can pull a little more. 549 00:28:42,100 --> 00:28:43,660 Man, that's sketchy. 550 00:28:45,100 --> 00:28:48,460 -I don't like this angle. -Yeah, just a little bit further, man. 551 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,760 Hang on a second. Whoa! 552 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,000 [Mitch] You're still good here. You're still good. 553 00:28:58,200 --> 00:28:59,760 Hold it there. Hold it there. 554 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,100 I think that's done it. 555 00:29:02,660 --> 00:29:04,000 [Tyson] Well, good. 556 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,760 Shall we get her disconnected and get me the hell out of here? 557 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:09,360 [Mitch] Yeah, let's do that. 558 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,660 [bleep] That's close. Tyson. 559 00:29:12,660 --> 00:29:14,860 Yeah, right, anymore, and I think she'd flip. 560 00:29:16,860 --> 00:29:18,890 [Mitch] Hang on, Tyson. Keep your machine steady. 561 00:29:18,900 --> 00:29:19,960 We're working on it. 562 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:22,190 Clear. 563 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,190 [Tyson] Okay, I'm gonna try walking her down. 564 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:25,860 [Mitch] Okay, keep her careful. 565 00:29:25,860 --> 00:29:28,560 Now, we just got to get Tyson off the hill here. 566 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:30,160 Well, here we go. 567 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:31,200 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. 568 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:33,160 [bleep] 569 00:29:38,260 --> 00:29:40,200 That was a little close for comfort. 570 00:29:42,300 --> 00:29:44,460 Holy [bleep], got Roxanne up there, 571 00:29:44,460 --> 00:29:47,460 managed to get the excavator back down in one piece. 572 00:29:47,460 --> 00:29:51,060 But that definitely was one of the scariest experiences 573 00:29:51,060 --> 00:29:52,060 I've had in an excavator. 574 00:29:52,060 --> 00:29:55,360 So, don't want to do that again anytime soon. 575 00:29:56,860 --> 00:29:58,660 She's here. It's up on the pad. 576 00:29:58,660 --> 00:30:00,990 That's, I think, probably the narrowest one we've ever had, 577 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:02,260 that thing trying to drag it up... 578 00:30:02,260 --> 00:30:03,390 Yeah, nice work. 579 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,860 ...that steep ramp with that 480 was on its tiptoes. 580 00:30:05,860 --> 00:30:08,060 You know, I'm just gonna go to camp and change my pants. 581 00:30:08,060 --> 00:30:10,390 [all laughing] 582 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,360 Everybody's done an awesome job. 583 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,460 We're gonna get this thing fired back up and going. 584 00:30:14,460 --> 00:30:15,860 -[man] All right. -Sounds good. 585 00:30:15,860 --> 00:30:17,460 -Nice job. -Nice work. 586 00:30:17,460 --> 00:30:19,360 -Hey! -All righty. 587 00:30:28,900 --> 00:30:29,890 [man] What do you think, Alec? 588 00:30:29,900 --> 00:30:31,360 You ready to fire this thing up? 589 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:32,390 [Alec] Yep. All good to go. 590 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,690 All right. Let's get her shaking. 591 00:30:34,700 --> 00:30:35,990 We got some dirt slung up this thing. 592 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:36,960 [Alec] Sounds good. 593 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:38,160 Here we go. 594 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:39,160 [machinery starting up] 595 00:30:45,660 --> 00:30:47,590 All right. It's the first bucket of pay dirt 596 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:49,760 from the Elbow Cut going into Roxanne. 597 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,590 Here we go. It's the first bucket going through Roxanne. 598 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:56,800 She's not done for the season yet. 599 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,460 It's the end of the season. 600 00:31:15,460 --> 00:31:17,190 We're pulling prey from Vegas Valley. 601 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:20,190 Hopefully, it's good and the weather holds out. 602 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,460 Yeah, no, everyone's definitely pumped to have Zee back. 603 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,860 Zee's getting up doing breakfast in the morning. 604 00:31:27,860 --> 00:31:29,290 Knows what needs to get done, 605 00:31:29,300 --> 00:31:31,660 jump in and help out where needed. 606 00:31:31,660 --> 00:31:33,100 So it's going really good. 607 00:31:33,900 --> 00:31:35,460 He's up here helping me out, 608 00:31:35,460 --> 00:31:38,360 making sure that the season ends on a strong note. 609 00:31:39,260 --> 00:31:40,790 [narrator] With Zee back, 610 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,860 Rick's crew are at full strength. 611 00:31:43,860 --> 00:31:46,560 But with just a few weeks left in the season, 612 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:49,560 the clock is ticking on Rick's crew, 613 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:53,590 chasing down two million dollars in gold. 614 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,260 [Rick] I just didn't realize how much stress I was carrying, 615 00:31:56,260 --> 00:31:58,260 knowing that we weren't getting any gold. 616 00:31:58,260 --> 00:31:59,760 But we're up and running right now. 617 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,760 We've got a shot at it and it feels really [bleep] good. 618 00:32:06,860 --> 00:32:08,260 Holy [bleep]. 619 00:32:08,260 --> 00:32:10,400 Ryan, Ryan, Ryan, hit the bypass. 620 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:12,260 [Rick swearing] 621 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:14,860 It's the water line, let go. 622 00:32:16,660 --> 00:32:18,000 [groans] 623 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,260 [machinery powers down] 624 00:32:22,260 --> 00:32:23,660 [bleep]. Hose blew off. 625 00:32:31,300 --> 00:32:32,960 It just slid right off. 626 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:34,160 Well, at least it's nothing major. 627 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:35,160 No. 628 00:32:36,660 --> 00:32:38,090 [Rick] So I'm heading up top. 629 00:32:38,100 --> 00:32:40,060 Ryan's gonna feed that water line up to me, 630 00:32:40,060 --> 00:32:41,360 and I'm just gonna tighten the new clamp. 631 00:32:42,500 --> 00:32:43,760 It should be easy. 632 00:32:45,660 --> 00:32:46,660 Attach this water line. 633 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:49,460 Holy [bleep]. 634 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,260 Holy [bleep]. Dude, we got problems. 635 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,000 Holy [bleep]. 636 00:33:03,500 --> 00:33:05,660 Holy [bleep]. Dude, we got problems. 637 00:33:05,660 --> 00:33:07,660 We've got more than a water line going on here. 638 00:33:07,660 --> 00:33:09,790 We got [bleep] screen damage, big time. 639 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:11,160 So that's the problem right there. 640 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,090 We've got some significant damage. 641 00:33:13,100 --> 00:33:14,760 [narrator] At Duncan Creek, 642 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,990 in its first week running Vegas Valley pay, 643 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,860 Monster Red is once again shut down. 644 00:33:21,860 --> 00:33:24,660 And it is [bleep] up our universe, man. 645 00:33:24,660 --> 00:33:25,790 That's a big [bleep] hole. 646 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:29,560 Looks like you've got one, two, three, four, five, 647 00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:31,490 you got at least six of them down below 648 00:33:31,500 --> 00:33:33,860 that are right in line with this rock right here. 649 00:33:33,860 --> 00:33:35,490 [Rick swearing] 650 00:33:35,500 --> 00:33:36,600 [Ryan grunting] 651 00:33:38,300 --> 00:33:41,090 -That's a big [bleep]. -Yeah. 652 00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:42,990 [Rick] That's way too big for these screens to handle. 653 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,430 A rock like that will [bleep] destroy everything in this plant quick. 654 00:33:48,860 --> 00:33:52,160 The only rock that's supposed to be going into this lower screen deck 655 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:54,090 is rock that's big enough to fit through here. 656 00:33:54,100 --> 00:33:56,490 That's our first section, the second section of screen deck, 657 00:33:56,500 --> 00:33:58,460 the rock that's supposed to be coming through these 658 00:33:58,460 --> 00:33:59,960 is only supposed to be that big. 659 00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:02,460 So that big rock right there is going through, 660 00:34:02,460 --> 00:34:05,260 and it's puncturing the smaller screen decks. 661 00:34:05,260 --> 00:34:07,760 And what that's doing is causing bigger material 662 00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:10,000 to build up in our distribution box. 663 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:15,260 [narrator] Paydirt is fed into Monster Red's hopper 664 00:34:15,260 --> 00:34:17,590 and filters through a top screen 665 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,090 and then a second deck below. 666 00:34:20,100 --> 00:34:23,990 Before the gold-rich slurry travels through the sluice box. 667 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,060 Where the precious metal is caught. 668 00:34:27,060 --> 00:34:30,760 A large rock has smashed through the top deck, 669 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,460 allowing more rocks to fall through, 670 00:34:33,460 --> 00:34:36,000 damaging the second screen deck. 671 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:37,990 Ryan needs to replace 672 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,660 all of Monster Red's broken screen deck panels 673 00:34:41,660 --> 00:34:43,760 before any more damage is done, 674 00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:46,390 it should be a quick fix. 675 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,160 Given the wash plant's unique plastic, 676 00:34:50,060 --> 00:34:51,900 easy-to-insert replacements. 677 00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,090 You know, this is gonna put us down a couple of hours. 678 00:34:56,100 --> 00:34:59,060 It's unfortunate, but we've got to get it fixed now. 679 00:34:59,060 --> 00:35:01,900 If we keep doing damage, we're just wasting gold and wasting time. 680 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:08,760 I mean, this is a bigger job than we thought here, 681 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:10,990 so I'm thankful the hose blew. 682 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,560 We just caught a really big [bleep] up here. 683 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:14,760 Yeah, and that would have gotten worse quick. 684 00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:15,960 When you think about it 685 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:17,690 would have been several more hours till the end of the day. 686 00:35:17,700 --> 00:35:21,300 Yep, That's several hours for that [bleep] middle deck to get destroyed. 687 00:35:30,260 --> 00:35:31,660 [Ryan] A little newer. 688 00:35:35,300 --> 00:35:37,460 Now we're going to fire back up. 689 00:35:37,460 --> 00:35:38,890 I'll jump up there. If you want to fire it up, 690 00:35:38,900 --> 00:35:40,560 we'll make sure all those screen decks 691 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:41,990 that we put in aren't gonna bounce out. 692 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:43,100 Okay. 693 00:35:43,700 --> 00:35:46,160 Holy [bleep]. That's slick. 694 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:47,460 All right, go ahead and let 'er rip. 695 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,060 [engine starts] 696 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:51,360 You look good. 697 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:52,760 -Good. -I say we're all right. 698 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:54,360 -All right. Cool. -[bleep] run it. 699 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:00,890 -[Ryan cheers] -[Rick whoops] 700 00:36:00,900 --> 00:36:04,460 That's [bleep], boys. That's what we're here for. 701 00:36:04,460 --> 00:36:07,260 [narrator] Monster Red back washing rocks. 702 00:36:07,260 --> 00:36:11,690 Rick is a step closer to seeing his first Vegas Valley gold 703 00:36:11,700 --> 00:36:16,060 and finding out if his million-dollar gamble will pay off. 704 00:36:17,300 --> 00:36:19,760 We'll only have a few weeks to sluice, 705 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,200 but, hopefully, that's all we need to hit our goal. 706 00:36:36,500 --> 00:36:40,290 [Michael] We're gonna try to keep [bleep] sluicing for as long as possible. 707 00:36:40,300 --> 00:36:42,990 We're in it to sluice to make the gold. 708 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,090 [narrator] The Beets family are in full swing. 709 00:36:46,100 --> 00:36:49,360 With son Mike running the trommel at Paradise Hill. 710 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:52,100 [Michael] This is what we got to do. 711 00:36:53,060 --> 00:36:54,060 Keep on balling. 712 00:36:55,100 --> 00:36:56,560 [narrator] And at Indian River, 713 00:36:56,560 --> 00:37:00,060 Cousin Mike finally has Sluice-a-lot on the gold. 714 00:37:00,860 --> 00:37:02,990 So it's very nice to have Sluice-a-lot, 715 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,090 and we've got to keep that thing going. 716 00:37:06,100 --> 00:37:09,390 We will give it our 100% to keep sluicing 717 00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,960 and to keep finding some more gold until the end. 718 00:37:14,060 --> 00:37:16,460 [narrator] Tony's other Indian River moneymaker 719 00:37:16,460 --> 00:37:18,290 is his prized dredge 720 00:37:18,300 --> 00:37:21,100 that has nearly finished it's one-acre cut. 721 00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:25,000 [Greg] We gotta swing a little. 722 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:27,300 It's moving by itself. 723 00:37:27,900 --> 00:37:29,760 Hey, Cooper, are we close? 724 00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:30,860 That way. 725 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:32,760 How do we line it up? 726 00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:34,760 I don't know if we're there. 727 00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:36,790 [narrator] Dredge master Greg Mason, 728 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,990 has been on a mission to help smash the Beets' 729 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,460 5,000oz season target. 730 00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:45,260 [Greg] That's the ultimate goal. 731 00:37:45,260 --> 00:37:47,160 Getting the gold out of the ground 732 00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,860 and putting it into Minnie's ATM. 733 00:37:55,060 --> 00:37:56,460 We can't keep going. 734 00:37:56,460 --> 00:37:58,360 We've just run out of ground. 735 00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:00,090 So the dredge is gonna shut down. 736 00:38:00,100 --> 00:38:01,860 Time to put her to bed. 737 00:38:01,860 --> 00:38:03,190 Pack her for the winter. 738 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,160 Yep. I lift my bucket line as high as I can. 739 00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,590 Use my back winches to pull me forward 740 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:10,490 as close to ground as I can. 741 00:38:10,500 --> 00:38:12,360 That's putting it to bed, we call it. 742 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,490 It's been good running this old vintage machine. 743 00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:29,000 There's none other like it. 744 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:39,160 [Tony speaking] 745 00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:41,300 [Greg] Who is it? 746 00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:48,560 Well, you didn't give me no more ground, so that's it. 747 00:38:49,500 --> 00:38:51,260 -[Tony speaking] -Yep. 748 00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,660 It did, I think. 749 00:38:57,660 --> 00:39:00,690 [narrator] The dredge has completed its mission, 750 00:39:00,700 --> 00:39:03,860 finishing the one-acre cut ahead of schedule. 751 00:39:05,300 --> 00:39:07,460 I'm curious to see the gold totals. See what... 752 00:39:07,460 --> 00:39:08,860 [Tony speaking] 753 00:39:08,860 --> 00:39:10,760 I'm hoping we ran into a couple of pillows, 754 00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:13,260 you know, a little richer and would be nice. 755 00:39:17,100 --> 00:39:18,160 Okay. 756 00:39:24,660 --> 00:39:26,600 [Tony speaking] 757 00:39:34,860 --> 00:39:36,360 [Rick] How can we take this bad beauty? 758 00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:39,090 Oh, hey! Got any grease to get me in this thing or what? 759 00:39:39,100 --> 00:39:40,090 [Rick laughing] 760 00:39:40,100 --> 00:39:41,160 [narrator] At Duncan Creek, 761 00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:44,260 Zee is eager to get a ride in Rick's new beater. 762 00:39:44,260 --> 00:39:47,160 [Zee] This thing is [bleep] sweet. 763 00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,660 How far do you think we can jump this off the pay pile? 764 00:39:49,660 --> 00:39:51,490 [Rick] Oh, [bleep]. 765 00:39:51,500 --> 00:39:53,460 -[engine accelerating] -[both laughing] 766 00:39:54,460 --> 00:39:56,100 [both laughing] 767 00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:00,760 Like you always say, might go half assed. 768 00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:02,630 [Rick] Full ass, baby. 769 00:40:05,060 --> 00:40:06,860 -[groans] -[Zee] Did you just shatter the window? 770 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:09,060 [both chuckle] 771 00:40:09,060 --> 00:40:10,360 Come on. 772 00:40:19,500 --> 00:40:20,590 What up, guys? 773 00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:21,960 [Minnie] How are you? 774 00:40:22,460 --> 00:40:23,660 [Tony speaking] 775 00:40:23,660 --> 00:40:26,460 We had a pretty good week. We sluiced all week. 776 00:40:28,700 --> 00:40:29,860 Well, it's really nice to see. 777 00:40:29,860 --> 00:40:31,590 [Ruby] It looks beautiful. 778 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:33,790 Michael, let's start with yours. 779 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,660 [narrator] To hit their 5,000oz target, 780 00:40:36,660 --> 00:40:42,290 the Beets need their three wash plants to deliver 637 oz. 781 00:40:42,300 --> 00:40:44,790 First up, Mike's trommel from the Hill. 782 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:46,560 [Ruby] Okay, you ready? Go. 783 00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:50,560 [Michael] Ten, 20, 30, 784 00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:54,800 80, 90, 150, 160, 785 00:40:56,500 --> 00:40:59,300 230, 240, 250... 786 00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,000 251.48. 787 00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:05,760 [Tony speaking] 788 00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,090 [Ruby] That's a pretty good amount of gold, Mike. 789 00:41:08,100 --> 00:41:09,160 [Minne] It is. 790 00:41:09,900 --> 00:41:11,760 So what happens with Sluice-a-lot? 791 00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:13,060 [narrator] Second to weigh in, 792 00:41:13,060 --> 00:41:16,990 the gold from the extension of Tony's comeback cut. 793 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:18,330 [Ruby] Ready, set, go. 794 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:24,260 Sixty, 70, 100, 110... 795 00:41:24,260 --> 00:41:25,460 A hundred and twenty. 796 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,260 146.46. 797 00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:30,900 [Tony speaking] 798 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,960 [narrator] Finally, the last gold from the dredge. 799 00:41:39,460 --> 00:41:41,100 [Ruby] Ready? Steady. Go 800 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,260 [Minnie] Ten, 20, 30, 40, 801 00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:51,560 50, 58.74. 802 00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:52,760 [Ruby] So that's not bad. 803 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,560 -[Minnie] Fifty-eight ounces. -[Ruby] Greg must be happy. 804 00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:57,360 [Tony speaking] 805 00:42:01,460 --> 00:42:03,460 Puts us just over 4800. 806 00:42:04,260 --> 00:42:08,260 [narrator] Worth $12.6 million, 807 00:42:08,260 --> 00:42:12,260 just 200 oz short of their season goal. 808 00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:29,400 -Incoming! -Hey. 809 00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:31,460 Hey, buddy. 810 00:42:33,500 --> 00:42:34,660 You got some new scenery now? 811 00:42:34,660 --> 00:42:37,260 Yeah. Getting Roxanne up on the flat pad there 812 00:42:37,260 --> 00:42:39,890 was definitely... We didn't have a lot of real estate. 813 00:42:39,900 --> 00:42:42,090 [Tyson] It was quick, fast, in a hurry. 814 00:42:42,100 --> 00:42:43,360 Yeah. Nice job getting that up there. 815 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:44,760 -Thanks, man. -That was a tight one. 816 00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:46,090 Yeah, definitely. 817 00:42:46,100 --> 00:42:47,760 Hopefully, there's some gold in that stuff. 818 00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:52,490 [narrator] Parker is gunning for 8,000oz this year. 819 00:42:52,500 --> 00:42:53,460 To hit it, 820 00:42:53,460 --> 00:42:56,360 he needs to deliver nearly 1,000oz a week 821 00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:57,660 for the rest of the season. 822 00:42:57,660 --> 00:43:00,360 How's our trusty dirt washer Big Red? 823 00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:02,760 Big old Big Red, right? 824 00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,460 [narrator] First up, Big Red in the bridge cut, 825 00:43:05,460 --> 00:43:09,160 so far, averaging 90oz per week. 826 00:43:10,100 --> 00:43:15,360 20, 40, 60, 80, 90, 827 00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:19,360 95... Ooh, 100.1. 828 00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:20,190 There you go. 829 00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:22,190 I had... 830 00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:24,690 I think a little bit fell out of his sleeves there. 831 00:43:24,700 --> 00:43:28,360 You don't want to know how much it cost me to get that one over 100. 832 00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:30,090 [all laughing] 833 00:43:30,100 --> 00:43:32,660 We'll see what the old Elbow Cut does. 834 00:43:32,660 --> 00:43:35,160 [narrator] After three days sluicing, 835 00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:37,160 Parker is banking on the Elbow Cut, 836 00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:39,890 being as rich as the money pit. 837 00:43:39,900 --> 00:43:44,460 Which, last season, averaged 380oz a week. 838 00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:47,560 [Tyson] Here we go. 839 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:53,490 20, 40, 60, 150, 170, 840 00:43:53,500 --> 00:43:58,060 200, 210, 282.3. 841 00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:03,690 [narrator] Worth nearly $740,000. 842 00:44:03,700 --> 00:44:05,090 -Nice. -Yeah. 843 00:44:05,100 --> 00:44:07,490 -Nice. -That's what we're supposed to be doing. 844 00:44:07,500 --> 00:44:08,490 There we go. 845 00:44:08,500 --> 00:44:10,390 Yeah, back in it. 846 00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:12,560 Now we're back to where we should be. 847 00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:13,660 What does that give us? 848 00:44:13,660 --> 00:44:17,300 So for the week, we have 382.4 oz. 849 00:44:18,100 --> 00:44:20,500 Still a good week. Season total... 850 00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:24,760 5425.4. 851 00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:28,590 [narrator] With gold at over $2600 an ounce, 852 00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:34,160 the season haul is worth over $14 million in gold. 853 00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:36,360 We needed that pit to come out this year. 854 00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,560 It'll probably just refreeze if it temps start dropping. 855 00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:42,090 Because it's, like, even colder now than it was, right? 856 00:44:42,100 --> 00:44:43,290 Mmm-hmm. 857 00:44:43,300 --> 00:44:46,090 I hear it's supposed to get below freezing this weekend. 858 00:44:46,100 --> 00:44:47,260 [Parker] That's probably a bigger problem 859 00:44:47,260 --> 00:44:48,760 than the cost of ripping it, really. 860 00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:49,890 Yeah. 861 00:44:49,900 --> 00:44:52,290 All right, fellas, I'm gonna bag this stuff up. 862 00:44:52,300 --> 00:44:54,690 -Sounds good. -All righty. Doom it. 863 00:44:54,700 --> 00:44:55,860 [Parker] Good job, Mitch. 864 00:44:55,860 --> 00:44:57,360 -Thank you. -You too, Tyson. 865 00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:00,190 [Chris] Yeah, you too, Tyson. 866 00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:03,560 And it's so nice to come into something as nice as the Elbow Cut. 867 00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,860 I really screwed up by not stripping it this summer. 868 00:45:06,860 --> 00:45:08,690 That's what gives you the sleepless nights. 869 00:45:08,700 --> 00:45:10,490 -Oh, well. -Yeah. 870 00:45:10,500 --> 00:45:12,390 As long as you don't come to that door one day and go, 871 00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:13,460 "I just fired myself." 872 00:45:13,460 --> 00:45:15,490 Oh, I think about it all the time. 873 00:45:15,500 --> 00:45:16,590 Don't do that. 874 00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:18,290 Too many people depend on you now. 875 00:45:18,300 --> 00:45:19,660 All right, youngster. 876 00:45:19,660 --> 00:45:21,560 -Thanks, Chris. -We'll catch you later. 877 00:45:32,260 --> 00:45:33,790 -Hey, man. -Hey. 878 00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:34,990 Finally, back to a gold there. 879 00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:37,160 -It's been a while. -Couple of months. 880 00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:38,590 [narrator] Rick and his crew 881 00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:41,360 gambled all their seasons' profits, 882 00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:45,560 one million dollars, to dig down to Vegas Valley's pay streak. 883 00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:49,460 Now, it's time to see if they've hit the jackpot. 884 00:45:49,460 --> 00:45:51,560 You guys put your gold bonuses on the line for that. 885 00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:56,560 A long-time stripping, digging a deep [bleep] hole and not knowing, 886 00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:59,390 "You know, if we get to the bottom, what would be at the bottom?" 887 00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:00,460 This is the start of it. 888 00:46:00,460 --> 00:46:02,560 Yeah, it's definitely been some challenge. 889 00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:05,360 -starting that cut. -Should we weight it up? 890 00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:09,860 All right, so there's a fair amount in here, so let's count it out. 891 00:46:09,860 --> 00:46:11,460 [narrator] Rick's old hotspot, 892 00:46:11,460 --> 00:46:15,490 Rally Valley, averaged 300oz a week. 893 00:46:15,500 --> 00:46:19,160 He's hoping the first pay from Vegas Valley 894 00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:21,260 will deliver at least 200. 895 00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:24,000 And... 896 00:46:24,500 --> 00:46:30,800 10, 20, 30, 40, 50... 897 00:46:34,100 --> 00:46:36,100 56.7. 898 00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:43,290 And, cool. 899 00:46:43,300 --> 00:46:44,860 I'll tell you right now, there's 200 in this bottle. 900 00:46:44,860 --> 00:46:47,260 [all cheering] 901 00:46:47,260 --> 00:46:50,060 -[bleep] yeah! -256.7 oz. 902 00:46:50,060 --> 00:46:51,760 [woman] Yeah, that's almost halfway. 903 00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:53,360 -what we need. -Halfway home. 904 00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:58,060 [narrator] Worth over $670,000. 905 00:46:58,060 --> 00:46:59,790 [Rick] Take that all day. 906 00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:00,890 That's what we dug all that [bleep] dirt for, boys. 907 00:47:00,900 --> 00:47:05,260 That's over half a million dollars in one run. 908 00:47:05,260 --> 00:47:09,160 If I don't say it, like... I'm very thankful for you, like, you guys... 909 00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:10,990 You are incredible. You keep this thing going, 910 00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:12,560 like, we're having a hell of a season. 911 00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:14,160 I know you guys have been pushing hard. 912 00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:15,560 We're so [bleep] close to the end. 913 00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:16,960 All we need is a couple more weeks. 914 00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:18,360 You guys giving it all you got. 915 00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:19,690 We're all gonna leave here with a bunch of gold in our pockets, right? 916 00:47:19,700 --> 00:47:22,190 And I hope you guys see that, too. 917 00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:23,360 Thanks. Feuds. 918 00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:24,190 -Cheers. -Cheers. 919 00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:25,360 Cheers. 920 00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,790 You're the best. Thank you. Good job, guys. 921 00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:29,090 [narrator] With his first haul, 922 00:47:29,100 --> 00:47:33,790 Rick's made back over half of what he wagered on Vegas Valley. 923 00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:37,360 Now, he needs to keep firing on all cylinders 924 00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:39,990 until winter shuts him down. 925 00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:42,960 That was a hell of a gold way to start off Vegas Valley, 926 00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:45,090 something we desperately needed. 927 00:47:45,100 --> 00:47:47,890 Well, that's a long gap in the middle of the season to go without getting gold. 928 00:47:47,900 --> 00:47:49,460 But we just got a pile of gold. 929 00:47:49,460 --> 00:47:52,190 We got a couple of weeks to get another pile of gold. 930 00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,390 It's going to get more and more difficult the deeper we go. 931 00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:56,460 But it'll mean that there's that much more gold there. 931 00:47:57,305 --> 00:48:57,604 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org