This year's all about proving to myself and to my crew
that we can be successful out here mining.
On thisGold Rush...
When the plant's down, it's never good, man.
... Rick Ness pays the price for a bad call.
Shut the pump off, shut the pump off!
Look, I'm done with this [bleep].
What the are we gonna do, though?
Tony Beets is on the hunt...
...for new ground.
And Parker Schnabel aims for the top.
Here we go!
We got a chance of breaking records this year.
Holy [bleep]!
Well, look at how bad it's bleedin' there.
This whole cut's gonna be underwater.
Get out of the way!
At Paradise Hill,
king of the Klondike, Tony Beets,
is three quarters of the way
through the short Yukon season.
With winter fast approaching,
Tony gathers the family to plan out
the rest of the season.
You know you look like my side of the family, right?
She's the reason I look so funny.
Oh, Not too bad.
We've been drawing quite a bit of pay
out of the mega cut there.
Oh, yeah.
How many weeks you think you have left there?
Give or take, three weeks.
Three weeks? That's not that great.
You know about your target.
Yet, what are you gonna do about it?
Okay.
Mike's run the trommel hard all season.
Now he's down to the last two acres
of the 18-acre mega cut.
With just three weeks' pay left to run,
Tony's on the hunt for new ground
to get him to his season goal.
Since the 1890s,
miners have left their mark across Paradise Hill.
The remains of their mine works
could point to where the best gold was found.
Near one of the old-timers' mineshafts,
Tony finds what could be a vital clue.
Where there's quartz, there's often gold.
The old-timers dug these holes by hand,
and Tony believes they may not have reached the pay layer.
To find out if he's right,
he brings in a 220 excavator to punch a test hole.
Oh, that one doesn't look great.
Well, can't reattach it because she broke.
Not just broke, but broke.
This piece here is supposed to be over here.
While Kevin fixes the excavator,
Tony carries on exploring.
In the 1890s, old-timers used
powerful hoses called monitors
to blast pay dirt off the hill
and into simple wooden sluice runs.
Tony believes the parts of the hill that they missed
could still contain thousands of ounces in gold.
One hundred twenty yards east
of the 50-foot shaft,
Tony has discovered the exposed edge
of an old-timer's monitored cut.
The gold-rich pay should be much closer
to the surface here,
if they left any behind.
I think we're laughing.
And that should be that. Now, looks good to me.
No leaks, I'm happy. Tony can take it
and keep on digging.
If Tony can find enough
of the light-colored gravel that is rich in gold,
this could be the ground to save his season.
Now, Tony needs to know how far
the pay streak continues into the hill.
Here we go.
At Indian River, 26-year-old Parker Schnabel
is racing to bank enough gold to buy new ground
and expand his mining empire.
Yeah. Yeah, buddy.
After four years,
Parker has finally finished mining
Tony Beets' ground, the Last Cut.
Now he's firing up Big Red in the Airstrip Cut,
just 300 yards away from Sluicifer.
I really never would have thought that Big Red
would have gotten through that much ground in a season.
Mitch and Brennan did a really good job getting through it.
We definitely made money on that cut.
Together for the first time this season,
Sluicifer and Big Red are running over 10,000 yards
of dirt per day.
They use 300,000 gallons of water every hour,
which flows back into two massive ponds.
I'm out here, with JM and
the stripping crew just trying to get some pay opened up.
Hopefully, we shouldn't run into too many problems
because we've got a lot of dirt to move.
There is almost two months' worth of pay
in the Airstrip Cut.
Parker is pushing his crew to mine it out
in half that time, before winter hits.
Co-foreman Mitch Blaschke is in charge of making sure
both plants keep running.
Parker just decided that they wanted to add
a little bit more to our agenda for the year,
and that's certainly a tough thing to do.
He got into this cut very late this season,
and there's so much ground water.
We've got ponds on one side, the river on the other.
On the other hand, well, it seems to have
a lot of gold in it. The ground's good.
There's gonna be a challenge,
and there's certainly one down here at the Airstrip.
It's been a lot of grey, rainy days,
and, I mean, that makes you tired
and missing home a lot.
I just hope everybody can stay positive,
and we can finish off what Parker's put in place.
Co-foreman Brennan Ruault
is responsible for managing the cut.
It seems to look like a lot of water
coming into the cut here in front of the feeder.
Gonna take a peek at this.
Take a look at that.
This is a lake here.
Gonna go grab Mitch.
Buddy, I just see a whole big lake back there of water.
Dude, it's back here, too.
Looks like it's coming out of the berm right over here.
Holy [bleep]!
Well, look at how bad it's bleeding there.
Water from Sluicifer's tailings pond
is leaking through the quickly-built berm.
There's so much pressure in that pond
pushing back this way.
This thing blows out,
and that whole pond's gonna come this way.
This whole cut's gonna be underwater.
Holy [bleep]!
Sluicifer's pond holds
two million gallons of water.
The leaking berm could easily give way,
flooding Parker's only cut.
That isn't looking too good.
So why don't you try and reinforce this thing?
-Yeah. -I'm gonna go grab every pump we've got,
and get 'em set up, you know, get some ditches in here.
-Yeah, Let's get after it. -Okay, buddy.
Mitch's plan,
dig ditches to drain the excess water into a sump,
install a pump to empty the cut
and use a D10 dozer
to reinforce the berm with coarse tailings.
Look at that. That's five feet back from the bank.
Like, if I was to go on this bank slough, and tip me over,
it could be the end of that dozer.
With Sluicifer still running,
3,300 gallons of water
are being added to the unstable pond every minute.
The pressure is on rookie plant boss, Tyson Lee,
to dig over 500 feet of ditches
to drain the water away.
It's definitely a fight trying to get
this water under control.
And right now, Mitch, Brennan and I are madly scrambling
trying to get it under control
to the point where we can keep mining this ground.
Mitch installs a pump
capable of shifting over 4,000 gallons
of water a minute.
I've been able to pull our dewatering pump.
This is it right here.
We're gonna get it put in, start sucking all this water.
I'll get this dried out,
so we can actually see what's going on here.
Whoo!
You can see already how much
the water table's dropping.
These ponds are starting to drain over here.
You know what, you guys? I want you way back out of the way
because if this berm blows,
it'll wipe every one of you out, and you guys can't around.
Brennan needs to widen the berm
with coarse tailings.
But he'll have to drive this 63-tonne D10 dozer
onto the unstable 30-foot berm.
I know as good as anyone here
that if this berm blows out, our season could be over.
Between the three of us,
I have the most dozer experience,
but it still doesn't mean that this
can't go wrong in a second.
As you can see, my tracks are right
on the edge of this.
This does not feel good underneath of me at all.
Whoa-oh-oh.
Get out of the way!
Whoa-oh-oh.
Right. I'm gonna enter this.
In the Airstrip Cut,
Brennan's 63-tonne D10 dozer
is hanging off the edge of an unstable 30-foot berm.
Feel that for a dead drop, holy man.
That could have been bad.
Well, I'm finally to the point
where I'm starting to feel a little bit more comfortable.
Bringing a bunch of this coarse tailings over.
Starting to get a lot more width to it.
And, uh, building the strength up to this thing.
Whoo!
Quite happy that's over with.
I got this wider now, and I feel a lot safer about it.
I'm glad this is over with.
With the berm fixed,
Mitch, Brennan, and Tyson, race to meet Parker's goal,
mining out the Airstrip Cut before winter shuts them down.
So we have no more worries about having that thing
blow out anymore,
which, uh, I think we're all a little bit
more nervous of it than we were showing.
So I'm happy that we're ready to roll,
you know, it's just time to get back to digging pay.
We're well over halfway through the season right now.
Uh, we've had some bumps along the way.
You know, we had a major late start,
and, uh, don't even get me started on the deep cut.
What a disaster that was.
With just over a month
until the end of the season,
Rick Ness' 1,000-ounce season goal is finally
within his grasp.
I've got a great team behind me this year,
and, uh, just gotta hope we don't hit any major snags
and just gotta keep the momentum up.
You don't stop, there's no lunch breaks,
no coffee breaks.
You literally just put your head down
and get going to work every day.
This year's strategy for as far as spending,
is just not spending.
You know, I don't have the money to spend,
so, you know, just keeping it simple.
That's gonna be the key to getting back on track.
You know, after a year like last year,
we're getting what we need and what we need only,
and anything else is, uh, you know,
we're gonna have to do without.
Are you excited to have
another trucker on board?
Am I excited to have another trucker on board?
Yeah, have you been lonely trucking by yourself?
Yeah, it's nice to be able to honk at somebody
every once, uh, when you drive by.
You're driving like a granny.
Oh, [bleep]!
Hey, Carl, you gotta get down here.
The lay flat hose that feeds water
to the wash plant has split.
Shut the pump off. Shut the pump off!
Yeah, Rick, we got a, uh,
we got a hole on this lay flat, dude.
It's, uh... She's toast.
We're gonna have to do something different.
Until the hose is fixed,
Rick's plant is shut down,
losing him almost $2,000 every hour.
What's going on, Carl?
So this lay flat, obviously, isn't holding up, right? So...
-Huh. -What're we gonna do about it?
Eleven weeks ago, the lay flat burst,
shutting down the plant.
Holy mud.
Whoa!
Working with junk, man.
Rick ordered a quick fix.
Fire it up, see what it looks like.
A two-dollar fix. That will get us through
another week probably.
But now he's paying the price.
Yeah, I mean, that sucks.
I mean, the rigid pipe that we have is ten-inch
and that lay flat, six.
I mean, we could put the lay flat through it.
I mean, that should keep the rocks off it,
keep it from getting punctured.
Rick's plan to feed the lay flat hose
through sections of ten-inch hard pipe is cheap
and should take just a couple of hours.
If this is just a band-aid, right, like, uh, you know,
it's a good chance that it's gonna do the same thing it just did, right?
-Yeah. You know what I mean?
-I don't want to be, uh... -I don't either.
I don't want to be digging it up again.
Carl wants to replace the lay flat hose
with all hard pipe,
but Rick will need to hire in a fusion machine,
and it'll take at least a day to fuse the pipe,
costing over $20,000 in lost gold.
Are you sure you don't want to fix this properly? Like, you know.
The best scenario is what you want, right?
We fuse the pipe, and we put a hard line
from pump to plant.
But, you know, we don't have a fusion machine.
And I can't afford to shut the wash plant down for that long.
So I guess we just take some of that hard pipe that we have
and I'm gonna lay flat with it and hope for the best.
get at her, then.
Right.
Nice. Looks pretty clean.
Oh, there's Champ. He's gonna help.
We need a better flashlight.
Can you see anything?
No, you're nowhere near my end.
Okay, [bleep]. That ain't gonna work, then.
What do you recommend?
Well, we're standing on it. Gravity should pull it down, right?
Uh, maybe up on... I'll set the one end up on the plant maybe, huh?
Yeah. I'll come up there, then. Yeah.
Watch yourself.
Yeah, look at that. She got it.
Don't let that go through.
She keeps yanking on it.
Okay.
That's a [bleep], everybody.
Okay, so, clamps?
After three hours down,
Rick connects the hose to the water supply.
Now he just has to hope that this fix will last him
the rest of the season.
Well, we shouldn't have any more problems with this lay flat.
I mean, we've got it armored now.
It's hard pipe over it all.
It will be buried under the road,
so nothing can burst it.
It should be good.
Coming up...
We're barely keeping up.
This cut will be flooded in no time.
At Paradise Hill,
Tony Beets is on the hunt for new ground.
He's found pay dirt left behind
by the old-timers.
All right.
And called in drilling expert Liam Ferguson
to find out how far the pay streak extends
under the hill side.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, we're all set up, ready to go.
So we'll put a few holes in and...
For sure.
All right. See you, Tony.
Drilling comes with a big price.
$20,000 for just two test holes.
Liam will drill the holes 300 feet apart
to find out how far the pay streak extends.
Tony's just marked this spot for us.
We're just getting set up here.
Well, we'll drill this one down,
um, take the samples,
and then head back to wash it off,
and we should figure out from that
if it's worth mining or not.
Snow in September is a little bit strange,
but we're just gonna have to suck it up
and deal with it, I guess.
The sonic drill vibrates 150 times a second,
allowing the hollow shaft
to collect a clean core sample.
Tony has high expectations for this ground.
He has a lot riding on it, so I really hope we can
find him some good gold.
We're gonna get these samples
washed up here pretty soon,
and then we'll know for sure.
At Indian River,
Parker Schnabel's running two wash plants
in the Airstrip Cut
in a bid to sluice the entire 26 acres
before winter.
This year's been unseasonably wet.
We just had a nasty rainstorm all night,
half the morning, and,
you know, we're just trying to keep this cut dried out,
and it seems like every time you go check the pumps,
the water table just keeps
coming up and up instead of dropping.
Look at that, tabarnak,it's
water everywhere, man.
Operator JM Mercier is digging pay for Sluicifer.
We need to pump as soon as possible.
I can't continue digging that stuff right now.
I can't even tell if I'm digging into pay.
Hey, Mitch, can you hear me?
Yeah, go ahead, JM, what's up?
I'm a little bit concerned about the water here.
It's kind of a mess right now.
We can check the pump, I think it's not running.
As soon as you can will be perfect.
All right, man, I'll come over and take a look at it.
Thank you, my friend.
We're barely keeping up. With this one down,
this cut will be flooded in no time.
So I got to figure something out here
and get it back up and going.
The pump Mitch installed has failed,
and the water level in the cut is rising.
He needs to make a quick fix before the pay becomes
too wet to dig,
forcing the wash plants to shut down.
What's goin' on, Mitch? That thing run out of fuel or what?
It's this alternator here,
and unfortunately, it's not charging.
Without the alternator, the pump won't run
'cause it won't stay charged, right?
We need this pump more than ever right now, too.
Let's just go back to the yard and see what we got.
Let's hope we have an alternator, buddy.
You wanna look in there?
-I'll look in here? -Okay.
Doesn't look too promising.
I don't think there's anything in this sea can.
-Looks like you found one. Not the right one.
And that's everything we got, I mean...
So what are we gonna do?
I think I got an idea.
Yeah? All right. Well, let's hear it.
I mean, what's an alternator do?
-Powers it up. -Charges the battery, right?
-Yep. -What's a battery charger do?
Charges a battery, right?
Man, this thing looks like a nightmare.
Using an old charger,
Mitch is hoping he can bypass the alternator
and charge the pump's battery directly.
I don't know if it works,
but it's definitely been around a while.
Probably older than you and I combined.
Yeah, it looks like it's been through a few wars.
So we got half the puzzle here.
But the next thing is, we need a way to power this.
A whole bunch of generators up here.
That's why we don't ever throw anything away.
Now, the next step, is this thing gonna run?
See if it'll start, Brennan.
-Try it out.
yeah!
You good?
Yeah, I gotta get a little closer, I think.
So how is this all going to work, Mitch?
Like, what's your whole plan of attack here?
So this is creating power for this.
And this is creating power for the pump.
Right. Come on, baby.
One pull only? Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Well, that's a good sign.
-Try it out, see what we got?
We'll see if it comes on here.
-Yeah, buddy! -Whoo! yeah!
Let's get this water table down.
It might not be pretty,
it might not be the best way to do it,
but, hey, it's simple,
it's what we had laying around here and it works.
With the pump up and running
and operators digging pay,
the crew still has a chance to mine out the Airstrip
in record time.
We're on a really tight timeframe
for the rest of the season,
and we've gotta scratch every last bit of pay
out of the cut.
At lower Duncan Creek, the Ness crew races
to make up for downtime
caused by a burst lay-flat hose.
Honestly, you have to expect things to go wrong.
So it's... It's how you act when things do go wrong
and how quickly you can adapt to change them.
This is absolute dog [bleep], man.
The lay-flat's leaking inside the case.
-You gonna copy, Rick?
Yeah, you better get down here.
Only three days after making the fix,
the lay-flat hose inside the hard pipe
has burst again.
Look, I'm done with this [bleep], man. We gotta...
-We gotta get it fixed properly, here, right? I agree.
What the are we gonna do, though?
I say we hardline it.
-Yeah. -Well, I mean, how long is that gonna take, Carl?
You know, you're looking at a day
to put this in, right?
I don't think we have a choice.
Yeah, it, I'm in.
-You're in? Okay, I can do that. -All right.
-Let's do it. All right. -All right.
This time, Rick agrees to Carl's lasting fix,
but the downtime will cost him over $20,000 in lost gold.
We're doing really what we should
have done right off the bat,
is we're going to replace all this lay-flat hose
to our pump with hard HDPE pipe.
We just got to get it done quick.
Oh, it's the real deal, man.
To fuse together sections of hard pipe,
new crew member Ben Bellai brings in the fusion machine.
So this thing is a 618 fuser.
So basically, what we're going to do is take this ten-inch pipe,
um, and basically slam them together,
fuse it all together,
uh, face it, heat it up.
Put a ton of pressure to it
and then fuse a bunch of lengths of pipe.
With the wash plant shut down,
Ben must now create 230 feet of hard line pipe
in just one day.
End of the day, we're gonna have more downtime
if we do stuff not properly here, right?
This will... This is going to pay off in the end.
Yeah, this time of year, when the plant's down, it's never good, man.
It's crunch time, so we got to get this done
as quick as we can, get back up and running.
The fusion machine heats the two ends of the pipe
at 400 degrees Fahrenheit,
fusing them together with pressure.
Nice. Here's the final piece of this guy.
Let's take a look at it, everybody.
Looks good, eh?
Oh-ho, yeah, real clean.
Carl and Ben must now transport
the fused sections of pipeline
across the claim and through the creek.
Reason why we're going this slow is, I do not want
to damage any equipment.
We're doing good right now,
so let's not jinx it.
Coming up to the creek right now.
At this time of year,
the creek runs fast with rainwater.
The force could be enough to drag the pipe downstream.
Well, we're in the river now.
Holy...
Now it's up to the doors. Oof!
One good thing is, we got clean tires now.
We gotta get this pipe in here right away,
'cause every moment that we are not running water,
we're not getting gold.
That's why we're hustling our ass right now.
You guys get out of the way, I'm just gonna swing this [bleep].
-Right there, buddy. -Down, down, down!
Perfect.
Carl clamps the sections of pipe together.
-We are so close right now. -Yeah, we're so close.
Uh, like, this is our last flange.
We get this tightened up. We're gonna run it.
We'll see if we got any leaks.
And then we'll bury this thing, so we're close.
We're actually gonna put in a bigger pump, too,
which is gonna give us a lot more pressure.
This is gonna improve the yardage that we can run through the plant,
and that's the whole point.
With the new hard pipe,
Rick can now run a more powerful pump,
allowing him to run 20% more dirt every hour.
Just swinging the pump into position right now.
We just got to get it done and get back around it,
and that's all that matters.
Perfect.
Good job, buddy.
Turn this around and start this thing up.
So we got it fixed properly now,
we're not gonna have to deal with this again this year.
Awesome.
The downtime has cost Rick
$22,000 in lost gold.
But the new pump allows him to run the plant faster,
and he should make it back in under a week.
Well, I'm glad we finally took the time
to put in the new water system.
Uh, the great thing is that it's going to allow us
to run an extra 20 yards an hour.
That's an extra two ounces of gold a day,
another four grand in our pocket.
That adds up.
It's lunchtime at Duncan Creek.
Rick has a new use
for the fusion machine's heater element.
-Ooh, Casa D'Mama! Yeah!
-Yeah! -Y'all were talking, boys, hot lunch.
Yeah, cook it.
We turned it up to about 480.
Yeah. Four-eighty.
Now we're talking.
Does that smell good, buddy?
That's not for you, that's for us.
She's taking the best parts, too.
-Shall we cut it right on it? -Yeah, cut it right on it.
Oh, [bleep]!
-It's okay, we can still eat it.
Yeah, two-second rule.
It's hot. I'll get this.
I forgot this wasn't an actual table.
This is actually a pretty good idea, boys.
This is a really good idea.
Here, Champ, you can have that.
Here you go, got a big piece right here.
The king of the Klondike, Tony Beets,
needs to find new ground.
After prospecting a piece of land
on the other side of the mega cut,
he's meeting with drilling expert, Liam Ferguson,
to find out if it holds big gold.
Yeah, always busy.
We found some pretty interesting stuff.
I've got you a map here.
Yep.
First hole,
not so good.
It looks like some false bedrock in there.
That threw us off a bit.
But in the second hole,
we saw some pretty good grades.
Yeah.
We're looking at about ounce per 100 yards.
Mmm-hmm.
Getting a little better near the bottom upwards
to an ounce a quarter, an ounce and a half.
Yeah.
At that rate, the ground would be
even richer than the mega cut.
One week of mining here
could earn Tony nearly a million dollars.
All right.
All right, see you, Tony.
After getting the good news,
Tony heads back to camp for the weekly gold weigh.
Hi. Hey.
Oh, non-stop like usual.
So how was everybody's week?
Yeah.
So did you find anything when you went exploring?
That's good.
Yeah, it's getting harder and harder these days.
You gotta find your next best ground.
Are we gonna weigh some gold, then?
So far this season,
the trommel has averaged 200 ounces every week.
Forty, 60, 65, 70, 80,
100, 150, 160, 170,
200, 240, 270, 280, 290,
300. 308.16.
The biggest gold weigh
the Beets have had this season,
worth close to $600,000.
That's not a bad haul for this.
No, that's pretty good.
Yeah.
So what's our season total, like, now?
2,317.68.
So we're only 700 ounces away from
Tony's goal.
Having found new ground,
and had their biggest weigh of the season,
the tide is finally turning for the king of the Klondike.
I mean, we're not quite where we wanna be yet.
Well, it's like I always said,
don't count your chickens till they're hatched.
Well, you better check up on everybody.
Can you just off?
No, I'm gonna cook supper for you.
Bye.
After a week of breakdowns,
Rick and the crew sit down to weigh their gold.
Well, it's gonna be a light week, I can tell you that.
So, like, how light? -Well,
you think about what we've dealt with, right? I mean, uh,
we had to make some major improvements to the plant.
Yeah, well, and it also comes down to that you finally
let me fix that thing properly,
you shut the wash plant down, right? So...
Well, you know how stubborn I get, right?
Like, if that thing's not running,
then we ain't making any gold, so...
And I've seen how fragile you were when we were putting it in,
and it was taking too long, I could see the smoke
-coming out of your ears.
There was a string of expletives.
But she's good to go, and most importantly,
um, it also upped our yardage.
Yeah. -Right?
So, you know, the end result here is that
we probably got it pumped up to 120 yards an hour now.
Pretty impressive for that little screen deck.
Yeah, it is. I mean, we can make up that lost time.
-You bet. -You know?
We certainly can.
We'll take the hit this week, but overall,
we're gonna see the benefits from it.
Hell, yeah.
Well, let's weigh it up.
To hit his 1,000-ounce goal,
Rick needs at least 67 ounces of gold
-per week. We're going for it.
Five, ten, 40, 30.
Well, it's gonna be over 40 anyway, there we go.
44.55.
Only two-thirds of what he needs.
For the time we lost, that's not bad at all.
I don't mind saying 44 is kind of disappointing.
I know that it's not one of our best gold weighs,
and I hate to admit it, but...
if I would have listened to you, Carl,
maybe there would be more gold in the pan.
With the gold total at 642 ounces,
Rick now has just five weeks to hit his season goal
and save his mining career.
I just wanna thank all you guys for busting ass.
Yeah.
And Ben for getting that fusion up here.
You guys are awesome.
You guys are all the reason right here again
why we have gold, and, uh,
it's not gonna stop. I think with the improvements we've made,
it's only gonna go up from here.
Yeah. Pump it out.
Right? Yeah.
Well, let's go get after it.
Let's go make money. Let's get after it.
-Yeah. -Do it.
Oh, yeah.
One hundred miles west at Scribner Creek,
the Schnabel crew is ready to weigh up.
Junior!
That one was looking like we were gonna kiss here.
How'd it go this week?
I hear there was a little bit of excitement down there.
Yeah, we found a little leak in the berm there.
Well, it wasn't so small actually,
so it was pretty busy trying to get that buttoned up,
so the berm wall didn't blow out and lose all our water
in the pond, right, for Sluicifer?
That would have, what, fed back into the cut, or...
Yeah, all over all of our pay, everything.
It's insane, the amount of water in there. Like,
it's just puking out of both sides.
Well, there's the pond on one side
and the river on the other, so...
-Fun stuff. Yeah, man.
Meanwhile, I'm trying to find somewhere to dig dry pay
to keep the wash plants going.
Yeah, trying to keep two plants going at the same time, right?
-Yeah. -Did you lose much sluicing time?
No. -No, we kept them going,
-but it was... It was... -Touch and go.
Your stomach was turning watching the water levels come up,
but, yeah, we got it fixed, so let's just pray to hell
that it makes it past this season.
Why I'm asking if you lost any sluicing time,
because this was a very interesting week.
Two plants, both on the same cut,
basically side-by-side.
We have two pans of gold here.
Well, why don't you bust 'em out and show us?
First up, Sluicifer's second week
of Airstrip gold.
I'm not doing your little counting up thing.
No, no, you're good.
We're looking at 172.15.
Worth $327,000.
That's pretty decent.
Red, on the other hand...
So, from Red, we're looking at 145.3.
Worth $276,000.
-It's a good week. -Yeah, it's a really good week.
-317 ounces. 317?
Sluicifer and Big Red
have pulled in over $600,000 worth of gold.
For the season total, we just broke 6,000 ounces.
-Great. -6,002 ounces.
Good. All right.
That's sweet.
Nearly 2,000 ounces more
than Parker mined this time last year.
Next time onGold Rush...
Fred Lewis is out of luck...
Hold on, I'm gonna get Alex some help.
...and out of pay.
Is that everything we got?
Right now, we are dead in the water.
Rick Ness calls on an old friend.
I think it's in there sideways.
If I don't get our goal this year,
I don't see continuing on.
And Parker Schnabel
faces his biggest loss of the season.
It's really smoky.
Grab what you can and get out of there.
I don't want you to even consider not going.