"Gold Rush" Gold Rush: It's Good to be King

1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org 2 00:00:40,500 --> 00:00:42,290 On this Gold Rush... 3 00:00:46,860 --> 00:00:48,360 ...the King of the Klondike, 4 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:51,390 Tony Beets, takes on his longest day... 5 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:58,160 ...as he battles to run two operations... 6 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,700 ...gets tough with new recruits... 7 00:01:05,460 --> 00:01:09,290 ...and fights to save a key piece of equipment... 8 00:01:18,260 --> 00:01:21,300 ...all in pursuit of big gold. 9 00:01:40,500 --> 00:01:42,000 - Yeah. 10 00:01:43,460 --> 00:01:45,060 On Paradise Hill, 11 00:01:45,060 --> 00:01:49,160 Tony Beets enjoys the creature comforts of home. 12 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:51,500 This house, it really, really feels good. 13 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:00,190 Well, the way that you look, I have to look at it, 14 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:02,090 you're here six, seven months out of the year, right? 15 00:02:02,100 --> 00:02:03,900 So at least, you should be comfortable. 16 00:02:05,100 --> 00:02:06,660 The King of the Klondike 17 00:02:06,660 --> 00:02:08,990 is running two mining operations, 18 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:10,760 forcing him to split his time 19 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:14,660 between an Indian River crash pad 40 miles away 20 00:02:14,660 --> 00:02:17,460 and his home at Paradise with wife, Minnie. 21 00:02:17,460 --> 00:02:19,130 -Hey. 22 00:02:23,500 --> 00:02:25,900 That'd be nice to pull some gold out of the hill. 23 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:37,390 Tony's day begins at the 35-year-old, 350-yard-an-hour 24 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:39,090 Paradise Hill trommel... 25 00:02:39,100 --> 00:02:40,560 Shut it off! 26 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:42,900 ...run by youngest son, Mike. 27 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:48,290 At the end of the night shift, 28 00:02:48,300 --> 00:02:49,990 Tony checks the sluices 29 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,500 to determine if it's time for a cleanup. 30 00:02:53,260 --> 00:02:54,430 Looking pretty good. 31 00:02:57,300 --> 00:02:58,500 It's yellow. 32 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:18,700 - Yeah? 33 00:03:36,460 --> 00:03:37,430 Oh, yeah. 34 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:41,460 It's not gonna do a , uh, two rows the whole way. 35 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:47,030 Yeah. 36 00:03:50,300 --> 00:03:51,500 That's a nice one. 37 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:03,890 Yeah, I get cranky if I don't eat. 38 00:04:03,900 --> 00:04:07,300 While the crew gets to work cleaning out the trommel... 39 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,430 Tony and Mike head to breakfast. 40 00:04:31,860 --> 00:04:33,530 Uh, probably in a minute. 41 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:37,600 Monica, do you copy, Monica? 42 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:41,760 Do you wanna come to the kitchen? 43 00:04:48,100 --> 00:04:48,930 Good. 44 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:51,960 I've been having them haul every day, 45 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,660 got nice big paintballs, as you saw as you drive in. 46 00:04:56,860 --> 00:04:57,590 Yes. 47 00:04:57,600 --> 00:04:59,230 - Morning. - Hey. 48 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:00,860 Good morning. 49 00:05:00,860 --> 00:05:02,090 -Morning. - Fine. 50 00:05:02,100 --> 00:05:03,360 -How are you? - I like your hair. 51 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:04,430 Thanks. 52 00:05:06,900 --> 00:05:08,390 Got up early this morning? 53 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:10,560 No. I put it in at night. 54 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:12,800 Oh. It looks nice. 55 00:05:14,300 --> 00:05:16,390 It lets you plan on your day good. 56 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:17,430 Hmm. 57 00:05:20,860 --> 00:05:22,060 Yeah. 58 00:05:22,060 --> 00:05:24,260 -No "we" that statement. 59 00:05:24,260 --> 00:05:25,290 Unless you're talking about you 60 00:05:25,300 --> 00:05:27,830 -and your multiple personalities. - Hmm. 61 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:31,660 Are you gonna head out pretty soon? 62 00:05:34,660 --> 00:05:36,460 Has anyone heard from Kevin? 63 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:41,760 -No. 64 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:43,290 - You know what you gotta do? 65 00:05:43,300 --> 00:05:45,590 Just rent a helicopter. . 66 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:46,990 - Instead of-- - Oh, I see. . 67 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,860 -Like, we just sit there above him and say... 68 00:05:51,660 --> 00:05:52,690 This season, 69 00:05:52,700 --> 00:05:56,190 eldest son, Kevin, is running his own operation 70 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:57,490 near the Indian River. 71 00:05:58,900 --> 00:05:59,890 This is great! 72 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:14,990 Oy! 73 00:06:19,100 --> 00:06:20,230 Mm-hmm. 74 00:06:42,860 --> 00:06:47,060 With nearly 3,000 acres of gold-rich claims... 75 00:06:47,060 --> 00:06:51,600 the best way for Tony to monitor his empire is from the sky. 76 00:07:03,460 --> 00:07:05,060 Yeah, I'm just looking at all the ground over here 77 00:07:05,060 --> 00:07:06,330 that I stripped. 78 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,260 From the 1,300 acres at Paradise Hill 79 00:07:15,260 --> 00:07:16,800 managed by Mike... 80 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:19,860 it's a 40-mile flight south 81 00:07:19,860 --> 00:07:23,800 to the 44 acres Kevin has leased from Tony... 82 00:07:25,460 --> 00:07:28,060 where he's working a 3-acre section 83 00:07:28,060 --> 00:07:29,600 of the Lynx Cut. 84 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,130 Yeah? 85 00:08:07,860 --> 00:08:10,560 I can, uh, I can already see the glare from here. 86 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:13,160 -He actually looks kind of mad. 87 00:08:17,260 --> 00:08:19,400 Looks like someone made a little cut down here. 88 00:08:26,700 --> 00:08:29,600 Next door to Kevin's claim on Scribner... 89 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:34,860 is Tony's 1,200-acre Indian River claim... 90 00:08:34,860 --> 00:08:39,430 where this season, he's running two wash plants, a fleet of iron... 91 00:08:40,460 --> 00:08:44,260 and a 50-strong workforce who've been on their own 92 00:08:44,260 --> 00:08:47,900 since Tony left for Paradise Hill two days ago. 93 00:09:03,300 --> 00:09:04,600 No. 94 00:09:05,660 --> 00:09:07,500 I just got slapped and told, "No." 95 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:14,060 I think both of them are done. 96 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:17,090 I don't know why, I'm having a blast. 97 00:09:17,100 --> 00:09:18,860 It's kind of cool seeing everything from up here. 98 00:09:44,700 --> 00:09:45,700 Oh! 99 00:10:08,300 --> 00:10:10,460 Back on his Indian River claims 100 00:10:10,460 --> 00:10:12,600 after 48 hours away... 101 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:16,960 ...Tony must make sure progress 102 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:20,830 stripping a new section of the comeback cut is on track... 103 00:10:22,560 --> 00:10:25,430 ...overseen by foreman, Cousin Mike. 104 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:28,700 - What's that? 105 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:32,230 No, but we wanted to drag it over here. 106 00:10:34,460 --> 00:10:35,430 Yeah. 107 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:38,830 ...yeah. 108 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:00,090 I like working for, uh, Tony. 109 00:11:00,100 --> 00:11:02,530 You know what you get, you know what you have. 110 00:11:03,560 --> 00:11:05,660 Tony is still not slowing down, 111 00:11:05,660 --> 00:11:08,460 but running up and down between two mines, 112 00:11:08,460 --> 00:11:10,160 that's, uh, very hard. 113 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:11,990 The goal this year is big for Tony, 114 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:12,960 but it's also big for me. 115 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:16,590 This is the first year I'm in this position. 116 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:18,360 And I always like to do a good job, 117 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:21,400 but especially now because it's a... a big thing. 118 00:11:26,660 --> 00:11:27,700 Huh? 119 00:11:54,700 --> 00:11:57,790 After 48 hours at Paradise Hill, 120 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:01,790 Tony Beets has returned to his Indian River claim. 121 00:12:21,060 --> 00:12:22,590 In the Comeback Cut, 122 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:26,260 a rookie driver has tipped a rock truck on the waste pile 123 00:12:26,260 --> 00:12:29,400 and becomes stuck, slowing down production. 124 00:13:04,100 --> 00:13:05,760 Oh, yeah, when I was going up to the dump, 125 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:07,360 but, uh, it just started feeling 126 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:08,660 like I was sinking in, you know? 127 00:13:08,660 --> 00:13:10,390 So, I... I gave it a little more gas, 128 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:11,460 but I got stuck, 129 00:13:11,460 --> 00:13:13,660 and then I was trying to empty the box to go out, 130 00:13:13,660 --> 00:13:16,660 but then I just-- It just flipped, like, randomly, 131 00:13:16,660 --> 00:13:18,000 right, by itself. 132 00:13:19,100 --> 00:13:21,590 To right the 34-ton rock truck 133 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:24,260 and get production back on track, 134 00:13:24,260 --> 00:13:28,060 Tony takes control of the 750 excavator. 135 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:52,460 The rock truck is dangerously close to the edge of the pile, 136 00:13:52,460 --> 00:13:54,560 where the dirt is less compacted 137 00:13:54,560 --> 00:13:57,200 and could collapse at any moment. 138 00:15:38,860 --> 00:15:40,660 The universal joint, 139 00:15:40,660 --> 00:15:43,660 essential for handling the uneven terrain, 140 00:15:43,660 --> 00:15:45,760 is broken... 141 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:48,930 taking the truck out of action until it can be replaced. 142 00:15:59,460 --> 00:16:01,390 Tony was pretty pissed off about the whole ordeal, 143 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:04,760 but, um, I'm going back to working. 144 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:07,090 Uh, he said that things like that happen, you know? 145 00:16:07,100 --> 00:16:09,260 So, I just gotta do what I gotta do 146 00:16:09,260 --> 00:16:10,630 and keep on going. 147 00:17:47,260 --> 00:17:50,760 After spying on Kevin's operation from the sky, 148 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:54,500 now Tony is heading to Scribner for a closer look. 149 00:18:11,860 --> 00:18:12,790 Hey, Tony. 150 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:13,760 How you going, Ton'? 151 00:18:15,100 --> 00:18:16,660 Hey, I'd say this is a surprise, 152 00:18:16,660 --> 00:18:19,030 but yeah, I'm not surprised. 153 00:18:20,300 --> 00:18:21,390 As landlord, 154 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:23,990 Tony receives a 10% royalty 155 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,090 on everything Kevin mines. 156 00:18:26,100 --> 00:18:28,860 Already working the Lynx Cut, 157 00:18:28,860 --> 00:18:31,890 now Kevin is looking for his next spot. 158 00:18:33,360 --> 00:18:34,860 - Gold. - Uh, answers, mostly. 159 00:18:37,100 --> 00:18:38,330 -Very helpful. 160 00:18:38,330 --> 00:18:40,990 We just wanna know what next bit of ground we should test. 161 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:53,600 - I know. 162 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:58,400 - Okay. 163 00:19:02,660 --> 00:19:03,860 So, 30 years ago, 164 00:19:03,860 --> 00:19:06,460 was it still pretty much dozer-mining back then? 165 00:19:09,900 --> 00:19:11,290 How much did they miss back then 166 00:19:11,300 --> 00:19:13,630 doing just dozering off the floor, like all the pay? 167 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:19,930 Yeah. Is that right? 168 00:19:25,100 --> 00:19:26,400 - Yeah. 169 00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:28,860 Yeah. 170 00:19:28,860 --> 00:19:30,260 I've been eyeing that up the whole time. 171 00:19:33,060 --> 00:19:34,260 Perfect. 172 00:19:34,260 --> 00:19:36,700 You don't happen to know where that test plant out here? 173 00:19:38,500 --> 00:19:39,330 All right. 174 00:19:42,100 --> 00:19:43,490 Go look for it. No, no, no. 175 00:19:43,500 --> 00:19:44,860 Just the test plant. 176 00:19:47,260 --> 00:19:48,800 -Pickup truck, perfect. 177 00:19:50,360 --> 00:19:51,360 Okay, thanks, Tony. 178 00:19:51,360 --> 00:19:54,100 - Oh, no. 179 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:58,100 - What? 180 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:02,030 - See ya. 181 00:20:20,900 --> 00:20:22,290 He's just a big kid, eh? 182 00:20:22,300 --> 00:20:25,760 Oh, yeah, this is probably the highlight of his day, honestly. 183 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:28,190 But that... that does answer a few questions. 184 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:29,260 Oh, yeah, for sure. 185 00:20:29,260 --> 00:20:32,260 And we can mine that far piece over to our border 186 00:20:32,260 --> 00:20:34,990 -as we're sluicing. -Walking in, yeah. 187 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:36,660 He almost certainly left some stuff, 188 00:20:36,660 --> 00:20:38,400 so I'll see about getting that test plant over. 189 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:09,690 Coming up... 190 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:36,130 After checking in on the cuts, Tony heads to his office. 191 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:32,860 Stretched thin, Tony Beets is hiring new crew, 192 00:22:32,860 --> 00:22:34,960 but you need more than a good resume 193 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,190 to impress the King of the Klondike. 194 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,360 No matter how strong their handshake, 195 00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:20,490 for Tony to reach his goal of running two plants, twenty-four-seven, 196 00:23:20,500 --> 00:23:24,700 he needs to make sure the new recruits are holding their own. 197 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:41,260 Earlier in the season, 198 00:23:41,260 --> 00:23:45,390 the Greenhorn strip 20 feet of worthless overburden 199 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:50,660 to reach the gold-rich gravel layer, which was processed through the plant. 200 00:23:50,660 --> 00:23:54,460 But Tony believes some of the gravels were left behind, 201 00:23:54,460 --> 00:23:57,990 potentially worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. 202 00:24:28,100 --> 00:24:29,360 And that was just right on the top. 203 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,260 Tony's suspicion confirmed, 204 00:24:37,260 --> 00:24:41,530 it's down to rookie miner, DJ, to take out the remaining pay. 205 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:00,860 Yeah. 206 00:25:14,360 --> 00:25:17,700 - I know. 207 00:25:55,460 --> 00:25:58,760 I'm Dickjan Postema. 208 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,560 Uh, saying in my own language for now. 209 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,960 But most other guys, they call me DJ 210 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,000 because it's easier to pronounce 211 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,890 and, yeah, I'm coming from Holland. 212 00:26:10,900 --> 00:26:15,930 I'm almost at the same place as where Tony came from, from Friesland. 213 00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:21,560 Yeah, it's pretty difficult because the, yeah, the conditioning, 214 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:25,890 and you see the water and, uh, the different colors in the dirt 215 00:26:25,900 --> 00:26:28,860 and the the gravel and that kind of stuff, so. 216 00:26:28,860 --> 00:26:30,600 I'm getting used to it now. 217 00:26:32,700 --> 00:26:35,390 I personally have quite a hard time telling the difference 218 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,860 between, like pay and hard rock 219 00:26:37,860 --> 00:26:40,060 or just overburden and stuff like that. 220 00:26:40,060 --> 00:26:42,660 There's such high expectations, 221 00:26:42,660 --> 00:26:45,990 um, and such a specific way that Tony likes things done. 222 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:47,730 It's an intimidating atmosphere. 223 00:26:50,500 --> 00:26:53,600 There's still frozen dirt here underneath my pocket here. 224 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:55,730 Maybe you can take it out for me. 225 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,460 No, I'm just asking you for a favor. 226 00:27:27,860 --> 00:27:32,560 Now that Tony's happy DJ is getting all the remaining pay, 227 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:36,600 the trucks roll in and start hauling it to the plant. 228 00:27:53,100 --> 00:27:56,490 Tony is a pretty good person to talk with, 229 00:27:56,500 --> 00:27:59,460 and especially when I'm talking in my own language. 230 00:27:59,460 --> 00:28:02,030 I'm... I'm learning a lot from Tony, yeah. 231 00:29:25,460 --> 00:29:30,960 At Indian River, mine boss Tony Beets is having a day. 232 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,660 He's been driving his claim since 6:30 a.m. 233 00:29:34,660 --> 00:29:39,990 And now the road connecting camp to the rest of the mine has collapsed, 234 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,930 leaving an old bridge as the only access point. 235 00:30:03,100 --> 00:30:06,190 The bridge is unsuitable for the heavy equipment, 236 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,990 so Tony must rebuild the road 237 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:13,100 or risk his biggest iron becoming stranded in the cut. 238 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:40,330 All that's left is for Tony to test his work. 239 00:33:24,300 --> 00:33:27,690 Still on the clock, Tony grabs a quick dinner, 240 00:33:27,700 --> 00:33:29,690 before heading to the gold room... 241 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,700 ...and he knows exactly what he wants. 242 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:42,300 That's the new combo. 243 00:34:45,700 --> 00:34:51,260 In 2016, Tony paid one million dollars for a second dredge, 244 00:34:51,260 --> 00:34:54,500 originally built in 1946. 245 00:35:00,900 --> 00:35:04,660 After two years, he sunk another million dollars 246 00:35:04,660 --> 00:35:08,990 in moving and rebuilding it, but never finished the job. 247 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,800 And it's been derelict since 2018. 248 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,600 - Why is that? 249 00:36:21,260 --> 00:36:22,760 Oh, not too much. You? 250 00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:26,260 - Never-ending. 251 00:36:26,260 --> 00:36:29,090 Tony Beets has been run ragged 252 00:36:29,100 --> 00:36:32,760 but still needs to make his last check of the day. 253 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:37,330 The gold room and the latest news on his Indian River gold count. 254 00:36:38,860 --> 00:36:40,590 Well, it's slow and steady, you know. 255 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:48,130 -Well, you don't really want everybody in here, either. 256 00:36:57,100 --> 00:36:58,400 You sure about it? 257 00:37:06,260 --> 00:37:10,360 To separate the gold from the fine, worthless dirt, 258 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,760 Monica runs it through a gold table 259 00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:17,260 where water and vibrations sort the heavier gold into the grooves 260 00:37:17,260 --> 00:37:20,160 and deposit it in a bucket below. 261 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:23,000 It's then dried out, ready to be weighed. 262 00:37:24,300 --> 00:37:27,000 - All right. 263 00:37:54,100 --> 00:37:56,230 -Take it and run! 264 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:04,160 Put it in a jar? 265 00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:06,700 -Save it for a rainy day? 266 00:38:14,500 --> 00:38:16,660 Don't go away mad, as they say. 267 00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:22,700 - Yeah. 268 00:38:23,900 --> 00:38:28,490 With Tony, every part of my life he has been, 269 00:38:28,500 --> 00:38:30,660 you know, my father, my boss and everything else 270 00:38:30,660 --> 00:38:35,060 for the last, well, almost 20 years of my life, 271 00:38:35,060 --> 00:38:37,800 um, and so... 272 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:43,060 there is no one part of him separate from the other. 273 00:38:43,060 --> 00:38:47,860 Now, he's an old man, he can be a little bit more relaxed. 274 00:38:47,860 --> 00:38:50,400 Anytime my kids are around this guy is like... 275 00:38:51,460 --> 00:38:53,430 melted butter in our hands. 276 00:38:59,260 --> 00:39:02,160 After a long day on the mine site, 277 00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:05,730 Tony heads to his Indian River crash pad. 278 00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:08,430 But I don't even think I'm gonna paint them and just leave him as is, so. 279 00:41:12,260 --> 00:41:14,690 End of the day, I'm gonna crawl in the hot tub, 280 00:41:14,700 --> 00:41:17,700 so I'm gonna get naked. So I think that's it. 281 00:41:22,300 --> 00:41:24,860 Ladies and gentlemen, I got to do. 281 00:41:25,305 --> 00:42:25,161