1 00:00:02,689 --> 00:00:05,239 This year's all about proving to myself and to my crew 2 00:00:05,275 --> 00:00:07,275 that we can be successful out here mining. 3 00:00:07,310 --> 00:00:09,620 [narrator] On thisGold Rush... 4 00:00:09,655 --> 00:00:11,655 [Rick] When the plant's down, it's never good, man. 5 00:00:11,689 --> 00:00:15,029 [narrator] ... Rick Ness pays the price for a bad call. 6 00:00:15,068 --> 00:00:17,238 Shut the pump off, shut the pump off! 7 00:00:17,275 --> 00:00:18,755 Look, I'm done with this [bleep]. 8 00:00:18,793 --> 00:00:20,723 What the [bleep] are we gonna do, though? 9 00:00:20,758 --> 00:00:23,378 [narrator] Tony Beets is on the hunt... 10 00:00:25,586 --> 00:00:27,096 [narrator] ...for new ground. 11 00:00:36,620 --> 00:00:39,520 [narrator] And Parker Schnabel aims for the top. 12 00:00:39,551 --> 00:00:40,621 [man] Here we go! 13 00:00:40,655 --> 00:00:42,515 We got a chance of breaking records this year. 14 00:00:42,551 --> 00:00:43,901 [man] Holy [bleep]! 15 00:00:43,931 --> 00:00:45,411 [Mitch] Well, look at how bad it's bleedin' there. 16 00:00:45,448 --> 00:00:47,588 This whole cut's gonna be underwater. 17 00:00:47,620 --> 00:00:49,030 [man] Get out of the way! 18 00:01:07,206 --> 00:01:09,136 [narrator] At Paradise Hill, 19 00:01:09,172 --> 00:01:11,242 king of the Klondike, Tony Beets, 20 00:01:11,275 --> 00:01:13,205 is three quarters of the way 21 00:01:13,241 --> 00:01:15,241 through the short Yukon season. 22 00:01:34,034 --> 00:01:36,344 [narrator] With winter fast approaching, 23 00:01:36,379 --> 00:01:38,719 Tony gathers the family to plan out 24 00:01:38,758 --> 00:01:40,028 the rest of the season. 25 00:01:45,068 --> 00:01:47,588 You know you look like my side of the family, right? 26 00:01:47,620 --> 00:01:48,760 She's the reason I look so funny. 27 00:01:54,034 --> 00:01:55,104 Oh, Not too bad. 28 00:01:55,137 --> 00:01:56,377 We've been drawing quite a bit of pay 29 00:01:56,413 --> 00:01:58,033 out of the mega cut there. 30 00:01:59,344 --> 00:02:00,344 [Mike] Oh, yeah. 31 00:02:00,379 --> 00:02:02,279 How many weeks you think you have left there? 32 00:02:02,310 --> 00:02:03,550 Give or take, three weeks. 33 00:02:04,965 --> 00:02:06,755 Three weeks? That's not that great. 34 00:02:08,758 --> 00:02:10,028 You know about your target. 35 00:02:10,068 --> 00:02:11,278 Yet, what are you gonna do about it? 36 00:02:17,724 --> 00:02:18,524 Okay. 37 00:02:20,965 --> 00:02:24,025 [narrator] Mike's run the trommel hard all season. 38 00:02:24,068 --> 00:02:26,618 Now he's down to the last two acres 39 00:02:26,655 --> 00:02:29,095 of the 18-acre mega cut. 40 00:02:29,137 --> 00:02:31,827 With just three weeks' pay left to run, 41 00:02:31,862 --> 00:02:34,142 Tony's on the hunt for new ground 42 00:02:34,172 --> 00:02:36,862 to get him to his season goal. 43 00:02:40,206 --> 00:02:41,686 [Tony speaking] 44 00:03:09,137 --> 00:03:10,927 [narrator] Since the 1890s, 45 00:03:10,965 --> 00:03:14,895 miners have left their mark across Paradise Hill. 46 00:03:14,931 --> 00:03:17,241 The remains of their mine works 47 00:03:17,275 --> 00:03:20,065 could point to where the best gold was found. 48 00:03:25,517 --> 00:03:27,237 [Tony speaking] 49 00:03:55,172 --> 00:03:56,722 [Tony continues speaking] 50 00:04:00,689 --> 00:04:03,409 [narrator] Near one of the old-timers' mineshafts, 51 00:04:03,448 --> 00:04:06,238 Tony finds what could be a vital clue. 52 00:04:06,862 --> 00:04:08,792 [Tony speaking] 53 00:04:11,931 --> 00:04:14,691 [narrator] Where there's quartz, there's often gold. 54 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,140 [narrator] The old-timers dug these holes by hand, 55 00:04:33,172 --> 00:04:36,832 and Tony believes they may not have reached the pay layer. 56 00:04:36,862 --> 00:04:38,692 To find out if he's right, 57 00:04:38,724 --> 00:04:42,904 he brings in a 220 excavator to punch a test hole. 58 00:04:54,344 --> 00:04:56,174 [Tony speaking] 59 00:05:20,517 --> 00:05:21,997 [Kevin] Oh, that one doesn't look great. 60 00:05:23,862 --> 00:05:27,722 Well, can't reattach it because she [bleep] broke. 61 00:05:27,758 --> 00:05:30,098 Not just broke, but [bleep] broke. 62 00:05:30,137 --> 00:05:32,587 This piece here is supposed to be over here. 63 00:05:32,620 --> 00:05:34,970 [narrator] While Kevin fixes the excavator, 64 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,210 Tony carries on exploring. 65 00:05:37,241 --> 00:05:41,071 [Tony speaking] 66 00:05:50,965 --> 00:05:53,715 [narrator] In the 1890s, old-timers used 67 00:05:53,758 --> 00:05:55,828 powerful hoses called monitors 68 00:05:55,862 --> 00:05:57,972 to blast pay dirt off the hill 69 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,380 and into simple wooden sluice runs. 70 00:06:01,413 --> 00:06:04,523 Tony believes the parts of the hill that they missed 71 00:06:04,551 --> 00:06:07,661 could still contain thousands of ounces in gold. 72 00:06:16,310 --> 00:06:18,070 [narrator] One hundred twenty yards east 73 00:06:18,103 --> 00:06:19,863 of the 50-foot shaft, 74 00:06:19,896 --> 00:06:22,586 Tony has discovered the exposed edge 75 00:06:22,620 --> 00:06:25,520 of an old-timer's monitored cut. 76 00:06:25,551 --> 00:06:28,171 The gold-rich pay should be much closer 77 00:06:28,206 --> 00:06:29,586 to the surface here, 78 00:06:29,620 --> 00:06:31,930 if they left any behind. 79 00:06:36,586 --> 00:06:37,656 [Kevin] I think we're laughing. 80 00:06:40,620 --> 00:06:44,410 And that should be that. Now, looks good to me. 81 00:06:44,448 --> 00:06:46,588 No leaks, I'm happy. Tony can take it 82 00:06:46,620 --> 00:06:48,310 and keep on digging. 83 00:06:52,137 --> 00:06:53,827 [narrator] If Tony can find enough 84 00:06:53,862 --> 00:06:57,692 of the light-colored gravel that is rich in gold, 85 00:06:57,724 --> 00:07:00,664 this could be the ground to save his season. 86 00:07:23,241 --> 00:07:26,481 [narrator] Now, Tony needs to know how far 87 00:07:26,517 --> 00:07:29,547 the pay streak continues into the hill. 88 00:07:47,413 --> 00:07:48,413 [Mitch] Here we go. 89 00:07:50,206 --> 00:07:53,716 [narrator] At Indian River, 26-year-old Parker Schnabel 90 00:07:53,758 --> 00:07:57,098 is racing to bank enough gold to buy new ground 91 00:07:57,137 --> 00:08:00,377 and expand his mining empire. 92 00:08:03,655 --> 00:08:04,995 -[Mitch] Yeah. -[Parker] Yeah, buddy. 93 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:11,660 [narrator] After four years, 94 00:08:11,689 --> 00:08:13,689 Parker has finally finished mining 95 00:08:13,724 --> 00:08:16,834 Tony Beets' ground, the Last Cut. 96 00:08:16,862 --> 00:08:20,412 Now he's firing up Big Red in the Airstrip Cut, 97 00:08:20,448 --> 00:08:23,408 just 300 yards away from Sluicifer. 98 00:08:24,965 --> 00:08:26,275 I really never would have thought that Big Red 99 00:08:26,310 --> 00:08:28,550 would have gotten through that much ground in a season. 100 00:08:28,586 --> 00:08:31,306 Mitch and Brennan did a really good job getting through it. 101 00:08:31,344 --> 00:08:34,104 We definitely made money on that cut. 102 00:08:34,137 --> 00:08:36,787 [narrator] Together for the first time this season, 103 00:08:36,827 --> 00:08:41,277 Sluicifer and Big Red are running over 10,000 yards 104 00:08:41,310 --> 00:08:42,620 of dirt per day. 105 00:08:42,655 --> 00:08:47,545 They use 300,000 gallons of water every hour, 106 00:08:47,586 --> 00:08:50,896 which flows back into two massive ponds. 107 00:08:53,379 --> 00:08:55,409 I'm out here, with JM and 108 00:08:55,448 --> 00:08:58,378 the stripping crew just trying to get some pay opened up. 109 00:09:00,344 --> 00:09:02,454 Hopefully, we shouldn't run into too many problems 110 00:09:02,482 --> 00:09:05,002 because we've got a lot of dirt to move. 111 00:09:07,103 --> 00:09:09,413 [narrator] There is almost two months' worth of pay 112 00:09:09,448 --> 00:09:11,238 in the Airstrip Cut. 113 00:09:11,275 --> 00:09:13,785 Parker is pushing his crew to mine it out 114 00:09:13,827 --> 00:09:16,997 in half that time, before winter hits. 115 00:09:18,862 --> 00:09:23,032 Co-foreman Mitch Blaschke is in charge of making sure 116 00:09:23,068 --> 00:09:26,408 both plants keep running. 117 00:09:26,448 --> 00:09:28,378 [Mitch] Parker just decided that they wanted to add 118 00:09:28,413 --> 00:09:30,763 a little bit more to our agenda for the year, 119 00:09:30,793 --> 00:09:32,933 and that's certainly a tough thing to do. 120 00:09:32,965 --> 00:09:35,235 He got into this cut very late this season, 121 00:09:35,275 --> 00:09:36,545 and there's so much ground water. 122 00:09:36,586 --> 00:09:39,236 We've got ponds on one side, the river on the other. 123 00:09:40,793 --> 00:09:42,663 On the other hand, well, it seems to have 124 00:09:42,689 --> 00:09:44,659 a lot of gold in it. The ground's good. 125 00:09:44,689 --> 00:09:45,829 There's gonna be a challenge, 126 00:09:45,862 --> 00:09:48,072 and there's certainly one down here at the Airstrip. 127 00:09:52,034 --> 00:09:54,724 It's been a lot of grey, rainy days, 128 00:09:54,758 --> 00:09:55,998 and, I mean, that makes you tired 129 00:09:56,034 --> 00:09:57,384 and missing home a lot. 130 00:09:57,413 --> 00:09:59,033 I just hope everybody can stay positive, 131 00:09:59,068 --> 00:10:01,998 and we can finish off what Parker's put in place. 132 00:10:02,034 --> 00:10:04,074 [narrator] Co-foreman Brennan Ruault 133 00:10:04,103 --> 00:10:06,523 is responsible for managing the cut. 134 00:10:06,551 --> 00:10:08,381 It seems to look like a lot of [bleep] water 135 00:10:08,413 --> 00:10:10,413 coming into the cut here in front of the feeder. 136 00:10:12,482 --> 00:10:14,072 Gonna take a peek at this. 137 00:10:18,793 --> 00:10:20,143 Take a look at that. 138 00:10:20,172 --> 00:10:21,522 This is a lake here. 139 00:10:22,482 --> 00:10:23,832 Gonna go grab Mitch. 140 00:10:26,758 --> 00:10:29,168 Buddy, I just see a whole big lake back there of water. 141 00:10:29,206 --> 00:10:31,306 Dude, it's back here, too. 142 00:10:31,344 --> 00:10:33,344 Looks like it's coming out of the berm right over here. 143 00:10:35,413 --> 00:10:39,343 Holy [bleep]! 144 00:10:39,379 --> 00:10:40,689 Well, look at how bad it's bleeding there. 145 00:10:42,517 --> 00:10:44,927 [narrator] Water from Sluicifer's tailings pond 146 00:10:44,965 --> 00:10:47,685 is leaking through the quickly-built berm. 147 00:10:48,896 --> 00:10:50,716 There's so much pressure in that pond 148 00:10:50,758 --> 00:10:52,098 pushing back this way. 149 00:10:52,137 --> 00:10:53,617 This thing blows out, 150 00:10:53,655 --> 00:10:55,445 and that whole pond's gonna come this way. 151 00:10:55,482 --> 00:10:57,002 This whole cut's gonna be underwater. 152 00:10:57,517 --> 00:10:58,787 Holy [bleep]! 153 00:10:59,620 --> 00:11:01,380 [narrator] Sluicifer's pond holds 154 00:11:01,413 --> 00:11:03,553 two million gallons of water. 155 00:11:06,413 --> 00:11:09,763 The leaking berm could easily give way, 156 00:11:09,793 --> 00:11:11,903 flooding Parker's only cut. 157 00:11:14,620 --> 00:11:16,170 That isn't looking too good. 158 00:11:17,172 --> 00:11:19,412 So why don't you try and reinforce this thing? 159 00:11:19,448 --> 00:11:20,928 -Yeah. -I'm gonna go grab every pump we've got, 160 00:11:20,965 --> 00:11:23,785 and get 'em set up, you know, get some ditches in here. 161 00:11:23,827 --> 00:11:25,477 -Yeah, Let's get after it. -Okay, buddy. 162 00:11:26,551 --> 00:11:28,001 [narrator] Mitch's plan, 163 00:11:28,034 --> 00:11:31,764 dig ditches to drain the excess water into a sump, 164 00:11:31,793 --> 00:11:34,313 install a pump to empty the cut 165 00:11:34,344 --> 00:11:36,004 and use a D10 dozer 166 00:11:36,034 --> 00:11:39,004 to reinforce the berm with coarse tailings. 167 00:11:41,413 --> 00:11:44,173 [Brennan] Look at that. That's five feet back from the bank. 168 00:11:44,206 --> 00:11:46,446 Like, if I was to go on this bank slough, and tip me over, 169 00:11:46,482 --> 00:11:48,662 it could [bleep] be the end of that dozer. 170 00:11:48,689 --> 00:11:50,689 [narrator] With Sluicifer still running, 171 00:11:50,724 --> 00:11:53,524 3,300 gallons of water 172 00:11:53,551 --> 00:11:57,311 are being added to the unstable pond every minute. 173 00:11:57,344 --> 00:12:00,864 The pressure is on rookie plant boss, Tyson Lee, 174 00:12:00,896 --> 00:12:03,656 to dig over 500 feet of ditches 175 00:12:03,689 --> 00:12:05,619 to drain the water away. 176 00:12:05,655 --> 00:12:06,995 It's definitely a fight trying to get 177 00:12:07,034 --> 00:12:08,284 this water under control. 178 00:12:08,310 --> 00:12:12,170 And right now, Mitch, Brennan and I are madly scrambling 179 00:12:12,206 --> 00:12:13,546 trying to get it under control 180 00:12:13,586 --> 00:12:15,896 to the point where we can keep mining this ground. 181 00:12:17,620 --> 00:12:19,210 [narrator] Mitch installs a pump 182 00:12:19,241 --> 00:12:22,031 capable of shifting over 4,000 gallons 183 00:12:22,068 --> 00:12:23,998 of water a minute. 184 00:12:24,034 --> 00:12:25,794 I've been able to pull our dewatering pump. 185 00:12:25,827 --> 00:12:27,237 This is it right here. 186 00:12:27,275 --> 00:12:29,925 We're gonna get it put in, start sucking all this water. 187 00:12:29,965 --> 00:12:30,965 I'll get this dried out, 188 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:32,970 so we can actually see what's going on here. 189 00:12:40,172 --> 00:12:41,172 Whoo! 190 00:12:41,206 --> 00:12:43,276 You can see already how much 191 00:12:43,310 --> 00:12:44,310 the water table's dropping. 192 00:12:44,344 --> 00:12:45,794 These ponds are starting to drain over here. 193 00:12:51,517 --> 00:12:53,587 You know what, you guys? I want you way back out of the way 194 00:12:53,620 --> 00:12:55,140 because if this berm blows, 195 00:12:55,172 --> 00:12:57,482 it'll wipe every one of you out, and you guys can't [bleep] around. 196 00:12:58,827 --> 00:13:00,717 [narrator] Brennan needs to widen the berm 197 00:13:00,758 --> 00:13:02,098 with coarse tailings. 198 00:13:02,137 --> 00:13:06,617 But he'll have to drive this 63-tonne D10 dozer 199 00:13:06,655 --> 00:13:09,965 onto the unstable 30-foot berm. 200 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:11,340 I know as good as anyone here 201 00:13:11,379 --> 00:13:13,969 that if this berm blows out, our season could be over. 202 00:13:15,758 --> 00:13:16,658 Between the three of us, 203 00:13:16,689 --> 00:13:18,549 I have the most dozer experience, 204 00:13:18,586 --> 00:13:19,826 but it still doesn't mean that this [bleep] 205 00:13:19,862 --> 00:13:21,032 can't go wrong in a second. 206 00:13:31,862 --> 00:13:33,592 As you can see, my tracks are right 207 00:13:33,620 --> 00:13:34,690 on the [bleep] edge of this. 208 00:13:45,931 --> 00:13:47,761 This does not feel good underneath of me at all. 209 00:13:49,724 --> 00:13:51,104 Whoa-oh-oh. [bleep] 210 00:13:52,620 --> 00:13:53,760 [man] Get out of the way! 211 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:01,240 Whoa-oh-oh. [bleep] 212 00:14:02,379 --> 00:14:04,659 Right. I'm gonna enter this. 213 00:14:06,413 --> 00:14:08,313 [narrator] In the Airstrip Cut, 214 00:14:08,344 --> 00:14:11,144 Brennan's 63-tonne D10 dozer 215 00:14:11,172 --> 00:14:15,382 is hanging off the edge of an unstable 30-foot berm. 216 00:14:16,379 --> 00:14:18,689 Feel that for a dead drop, holy man. 217 00:14:27,172 --> 00:14:28,902 That could have been bad. [laughs] 218 00:14:32,931 --> 00:14:34,281 Well, I'm finally to the point 219 00:14:34,310 --> 00:14:36,000 where I'm starting to feel a little bit more comfortable. 220 00:14:39,206 --> 00:14:41,206 Bringing a bunch of this coarse tailings over. 221 00:14:41,241 --> 00:14:42,831 Starting to get a lot more width to it. 222 00:14:44,448 --> 00:14:46,788 And, uh, building the strength up to this thing. 223 00:14:50,310 --> 00:14:51,550 Whoo! 224 00:14:51,586 --> 00:14:53,966 Quite happy that's over with. 225 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,410 I got this wider now, and I feel a lot safer about it. 226 00:14:58,758 --> 00:14:59,718 [sighs in relief] 227 00:14:59,758 --> 00:15:01,968 I'm glad this is over with. 228 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:03,480 [narrator] With the berm fixed, 229 00:15:03,517 --> 00:15:08,097 Mitch, Brennan, and Tyson, race to meet Parker's goal, 230 00:15:08,137 --> 00:15:11,857 mining out the Airstrip Cut before winter shuts them down. 231 00:15:11,896 --> 00:15:13,896 So we have no more worries about having that thing 232 00:15:13,931 --> 00:15:14,831 blow out anymore, 233 00:15:14,862 --> 00:15:17,312 which, uh, I think we're all a little bit 234 00:15:17,344 --> 00:15:19,454 more nervous of it than we were showing. 235 00:15:19,482 --> 00:15:22,282 So I'm happy that we're ready to roll, 236 00:15:22,310 --> 00:15:24,070 you know, it's just time to get back to digging pay. 237 00:15:38,379 --> 00:15:40,689 [Rick] We're well over halfway through the season right now. 238 00:15:40,724 --> 00:15:43,034 Uh, we've had some bumps along the way. 239 00:15:43,068 --> 00:15:45,068 You know, we had a major late start, 240 00:15:45,103 --> 00:15:47,523 and, uh, don't even get me started on the deep cut. 241 00:15:47,551 --> 00:15:49,311 What a [bleep] disaster that was. 242 00:15:49,344 --> 00:15:51,344 [narrator] With just over a month 243 00:15:51,379 --> 00:15:53,309 until the end of the season, 244 00:15:53,344 --> 00:15:57,694 Rick Ness' 1,000-ounce season goal is finally 245 00:15:57,724 --> 00:15:59,384 within his grasp. 246 00:15:59,413 --> 00:16:01,243 [Rick] I've got a great team behind me this year, 247 00:16:01,275 --> 00:16:04,755 and, uh, just gotta hope we don't hit any major snags 248 00:16:04,793 --> 00:16:07,003 and just gotta keep the momentum up. 249 00:16:14,482 --> 00:16:16,342 You don't stop, there's no lunch breaks, 250 00:16:16,379 --> 00:16:17,859 no coffee breaks. 251 00:16:17,896 --> 00:16:20,306 You literally just put your head down 252 00:16:20,344 --> 00:16:21,934 and get going to work every day. 253 00:16:24,896 --> 00:16:27,376 This year's strategy for as far as spending, 254 00:16:27,413 --> 00:16:29,553 is just not spending. 255 00:16:29,586 --> 00:16:30,996 You know, I don't have the money to spend, 256 00:16:31,034 --> 00:16:33,594 so, you know, just keeping it simple. 257 00:16:33,620 --> 00:16:35,720 That's gonna be the key to getting back on track. 258 00:16:35,758 --> 00:16:37,928 You know, after a year like last year, 259 00:16:37,965 --> 00:16:40,165 we're getting what we need and what we need only, 260 00:16:40,206 --> 00:16:42,376 and anything else is, uh, you know, 261 00:16:42,413 --> 00:16:44,003 we're gonna have to do without. 262 00:16:52,413 --> 00:16:53,523 [Karla] Are you excited to have 263 00:16:53,551 --> 00:16:55,071 another trucker on board? 264 00:16:55,103 --> 00:16:57,143 [Chris] Am I excited to have another trucker on board? 265 00:16:57,172 --> 00:17:00,482 Yeah, have you been lonely trucking by yourself? 266 00:17:00,517 --> 00:17:02,407 Yeah, it's nice to be able to honk at somebody 267 00:17:02,448 --> 00:17:04,028 every once, uh, when you drive by. 268 00:17:05,379 --> 00:17:06,589 [Karla honks horn] 269 00:17:06,620 --> 00:17:08,340 [Karla] You're driving like a granny. 270 00:17:19,827 --> 00:17:20,827 Oh, [bleep]! 271 00:17:23,241 --> 00:17:24,211 Hey, Carl, you gotta get down here. 272 00:17:27,586 --> 00:17:29,856 [narrator] The lay flat hose that feeds water 273 00:17:29,896 --> 00:17:31,786 to the wash plant has split. 274 00:17:36,034 --> 00:17:38,144 Shut the pump off. Shut the pump off! 275 00:17:39,965 --> 00:17:41,205 [Carl] Yeah, Rick, we got a, uh, 276 00:17:41,241 --> 00:17:42,621 we got a hole on this lay flat, dude. 277 00:17:42,655 --> 00:17:44,515 It's, uh... She's toast. 278 00:17:44,551 --> 00:17:46,551 We're gonna have to do something different. 279 00:17:50,655 --> 00:17:52,585 [narrator] Until the hose is fixed, 280 00:17:52,620 --> 00:17:54,900 Rick's plant is shut down, 281 00:17:54,931 --> 00:17:58,481 losing him almost $2,000 every hour. 282 00:17:58,517 --> 00:17:59,787 What's going on, Carl? 283 00:17:59,827 --> 00:18:02,407 So this lay flat, obviously, isn't holding up, right? So... 284 00:18:02,448 --> 00:18:04,138 -Huh. -What're we gonna do about it? 285 00:18:05,724 --> 00:18:08,724 [narrator] Eleven weeks ago, the lay flat burst, 286 00:18:08,758 --> 00:18:10,478 shutting down the plant. 287 00:18:10,517 --> 00:18:12,277 Holy [bleep] mud. 288 00:18:12,310 --> 00:18:13,070 Whoa! 289 00:18:14,206 --> 00:18:16,826 [man] Working with junk, man. 290 00:18:16,862 --> 00:18:18,932 [narrator] Rick ordered a quick fix. 291 00:18:18,965 --> 00:18:20,615 [Rick] Fire it up, see what it looks like. 292 00:18:20,655 --> 00:18:21,585 [engine starts] 293 00:18:21,620 --> 00:18:23,170 A two-dollar fix. That will get us through 294 00:18:23,206 --> 00:18:24,206 another week probably. 295 00:18:26,655 --> 00:18:28,895 [narrator] But now he's paying the price. 296 00:18:28,931 --> 00:18:31,101 [Rick] Yeah, I mean, that sucks. 297 00:18:32,068 --> 00:18:34,168 I mean, the rigid pipe that we have is ten-inch 298 00:18:34,206 --> 00:18:35,446 and that lay flat, six. 299 00:18:35,482 --> 00:18:37,692 I mean, we could put the lay flat through it. 300 00:18:37,724 --> 00:18:39,524 I mean, that should keep the rocks off it, 301 00:18:39,551 --> 00:18:41,381 keep it from getting punctured. 302 00:18:41,413 --> 00:18:43,973 [narrator] Rick's plan to feed the lay flat hose 303 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,550 through sections of ten-inch hard pipe is cheap 304 00:18:47,586 --> 00:18:50,066 and should take just a couple of hours. 305 00:18:50,103 --> 00:18:52,243 [Carl] If this is just a band-aid, right, like, uh, you know, 306 00:18:52,275 --> 00:18:54,275 it's a good chance that it's gonna do the same thing it just did, right? 307 00:18:54,310 --> 00:18:55,380 -Yeah. -[Carl] You know what I mean? 308 00:18:55,413 --> 00:18:57,243 -I don't want to be, uh... -I don't either. 309 00:18:57,275 --> 00:18:58,755 [Carl] I don't want to be digging it up again. 310 00:18:58,793 --> 00:19:01,523 [narrator] Carl wants to replace the lay flat hose 311 00:19:01,551 --> 00:19:03,721 with all hard pipe, 312 00:19:03,758 --> 00:19:07,068 but Rick will need to hire in a fusion machine, 313 00:19:07,103 --> 00:19:10,283 and it'll take at least a day to fuse the pipe, 314 00:19:10,310 --> 00:19:14,030 costing over $20,000 in lost gold. 315 00:19:14,068 --> 00:19:16,588 Are you sure you don't want to fix this properly? Like, you know. 316 00:19:16,620 --> 00:19:18,030 The best scenario is what you want, right? 317 00:19:18,068 --> 00:19:19,828 We fuse the pipe, and we put a hard line 318 00:19:19,862 --> 00:19:21,452 from pump to plant. 319 00:19:21,482 --> 00:19:23,902 But, you know, we don't have a fusion machine. 320 00:19:23,931 --> 00:19:26,481 And I can't afford to shut the wash plant down for that long. 321 00:19:26,517 --> 00:19:29,377 So I guess we just take some of that hard pipe that we have 322 00:19:29,413 --> 00:19:32,723 and I'm gonna lay flat with it and hope for the best. 323 00:19:32,758 --> 00:19:33,898 [Carl] Let's [bleep] get at her, then. 324 00:19:33,931 --> 00:19:34,861 Right. 325 00:19:54,482 --> 00:19:55,972 [Rick] Nice. Looks pretty clean. 326 00:19:57,241 --> 00:19:58,101 [barks] 327 00:19:58,137 --> 00:19:59,617 Oh, there's Champ. He's gonna help. 328 00:20:04,034 --> 00:20:05,454 We need a better flashlight. 329 00:20:07,034 --> 00:20:09,104 Can you see anything? 330 00:20:09,137 --> 00:20:11,717 No, you're nowhere near my end. [laughs] 331 00:20:11,758 --> 00:20:13,448 Okay, [bleep]. That ain't gonna work, then. 332 00:20:14,275 --> 00:20:16,615 [Rick] What do you recommend? 333 00:20:16,655 --> 00:20:19,235 [Carl] Well, we're standing on it. Gravity should pull it down, right? 334 00:20:19,275 --> 00:20:23,515 Uh, maybe up on... I'll set the one end up on the plant maybe, huh? 335 00:20:23,551 --> 00:20:24,971 [Carl] Yeah. I'll come up there, then. Yeah. 336 00:20:31,379 --> 00:20:32,619 Watch yourself. 337 00:20:43,724 --> 00:20:45,864 -[man] Yeah, look at that. -[Rick] She got it. 338 00:20:46,793 --> 00:20:48,243 Don't let that go through. 339 00:20:48,275 --> 00:20:49,685 [Carl] She keeps yanking on it. 340 00:20:49,724 --> 00:20:51,104 -[Rick] Stop yanking on it. -[Carl laughs] 341 00:20:51,137 --> 00:20:51,927 Okay. 342 00:20:59,310 --> 00:21:00,790 That's a [bleep], everybody. 343 00:21:00,827 --> 00:21:02,137 Okay, so, clamps? 344 00:21:02,172 --> 00:21:04,142 [narrator] After three hours down, 345 00:21:04,172 --> 00:21:07,382 Rick connects the hose to the water supply. 346 00:21:07,413 --> 00:21:11,973 Now he just has to hope that this fix will last him 347 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,070 the rest of the season. 348 00:21:15,103 --> 00:21:17,103 Well, we shouldn't have any more problems with this lay flat. 349 00:21:17,137 --> 00:21:18,687 I mean, we've got it armored now. 350 00:21:18,724 --> 00:21:19,864 It's hard pipe over it all. 351 00:21:19,896 --> 00:21:21,446 It will be buried under the road, 352 00:21:21,482 --> 00:21:22,412 so nothing can burst it. 353 00:21:22,448 --> 00:21:23,408 It should be good. 354 00:21:30,655 --> 00:21:32,235 [narrator] Coming up... 355 00:21:32,275 --> 00:21:33,855 [Mitch] We're barely keeping up. 356 00:21:33,896 --> 00:21:35,066 This cut will be flooded in no time. 357 00:21:45,586 --> 00:21:47,236 [narrator] At Paradise Hill, 358 00:21:47,275 --> 00:21:50,165 Tony Beets is on the hunt for new ground. 359 00:21:59,793 --> 00:22:01,933 [narrator] He's found pay dirt left behind 360 00:22:01,965 --> 00:22:03,405 by the old-timers. 361 00:22:03,448 --> 00:22:05,308 All right. 362 00:22:05,344 --> 00:22:08,624 [narrator] And called in drilling expert Liam Ferguson 363 00:22:08,655 --> 00:22:11,755 to find out how far the pay streak extends 364 00:22:11,793 --> 00:22:13,143 under the hill side. 365 00:22:13,827 --> 00:22:15,407 [Tony speaking] 366 00:22:15,448 --> 00:22:16,238 [Liam] Yeah. 367 00:22:18,827 --> 00:22:19,617 [Liam] Okay. 368 00:22:20,689 --> 00:22:21,899 Well, we're all set up, ready to go. 369 00:22:21,931 --> 00:22:23,551 So we'll put a few holes in and... 370 00:22:30,758 --> 00:22:31,588 For sure. 371 00:22:33,793 --> 00:22:36,173 [laughs] All right. See you, Tony. 372 00:22:40,034 --> 00:22:42,834 [narrator] Drilling comes with a big price. 373 00:22:42,862 --> 00:22:46,102 $20,000 for just two test holes. 374 00:22:48,620 --> 00:22:51,790 Liam will drill the holes 300 feet apart 375 00:22:51,827 --> 00:22:55,067 to find out how far the pay streak extends. 376 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,830 [Liam] Tony's just marked this spot for us. 377 00:23:00,862 --> 00:23:03,412 We're just getting set up here. 378 00:23:03,448 --> 00:23:05,068 Well, we'll drill this one down, 379 00:23:05,103 --> 00:23:07,073 um, take the samples, 380 00:23:07,103 --> 00:23:08,663 and then head back to wash it off, 381 00:23:08,689 --> 00:23:10,789 and we should figure out from that 382 00:23:10,827 --> 00:23:12,407 if it's worth mining or not. 383 00:23:15,896 --> 00:23:17,926 Snow in September is a little bit strange, 384 00:23:17,965 --> 00:23:20,715 but we're just gonna have to suck it up 385 00:23:20,758 --> 00:23:21,618 and deal with it, I guess. 386 00:23:26,448 --> 00:23:30,618 [narrator] The sonic drill vibrates 150 times a second, 387 00:23:30,655 --> 00:23:32,855 allowing the hollow shaft 388 00:23:32,896 --> 00:23:34,406 to collect a clean core sample. 389 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,450 [Liam] Tony has high expectations for this ground. 390 00:24:02,482 --> 00:24:04,862 He has a lot riding on it, so I really hope we can 391 00:24:04,896 --> 00:24:06,066 find him some good gold. 392 00:24:06,103 --> 00:24:07,933 We're gonna get these samples 393 00:24:07,965 --> 00:24:09,135 washed up here pretty soon, 394 00:24:09,172 --> 00:24:10,972 and then we'll know for sure. 395 00:24:21,448 --> 00:24:22,828 [narrator] At Indian River, 396 00:24:22,862 --> 00:24:25,552 Parker Schnabel's running two wash plants 397 00:24:25,586 --> 00:24:27,236 in the Airstrip Cut 398 00:24:27,275 --> 00:24:30,405 in a bid to sluice the entire 26 acres 399 00:24:30,448 --> 00:24:31,828 before winter. 400 00:24:37,827 --> 00:24:40,337 This year's been unseasonably wet. 401 00:24:40,379 --> 00:24:42,899 We just had a nasty rainstorm all night, 402 00:24:42,931 --> 00:24:45,281 half the morning, and, 403 00:24:45,310 --> 00:24:47,240 you know, we're just trying to keep this cut dried out, 404 00:24:47,275 --> 00:24:49,135 and it seems like every time you go check the pumps, 405 00:24:49,172 --> 00:24:50,172 the water table just keeps 406 00:24:50,206 --> 00:24:51,966 coming up and up instead of dropping. 407 00:24:55,413 --> 00:24:57,413 Look at that, tabarnak,it's [bleep] 408 00:24:57,448 --> 00:24:59,068 water everywhere, man. 409 00:24:59,103 --> 00:25:03,553 [narrator] Operator JM Mercier is digging pay for Sluicifer. 410 00:25:03,586 --> 00:25:06,306 We need to pump as soon as possible. 411 00:25:06,344 --> 00:25:08,694 I can't continue digging that stuff right now. 412 00:25:08,724 --> 00:25:11,104 I can't even tell if I'm digging into pay. 413 00:25:12,793 --> 00:25:14,383 [JM] Hey, Mitch, can you hear me? 414 00:25:15,275 --> 00:25:17,475 [Mitch] Yeah, go ahead, JM, what's up? 415 00:25:18,724 --> 00:25:21,314 I'm a little bit concerned about the water here. 416 00:25:21,344 --> 00:25:22,624 It's kind of a mess right now. 417 00:25:22,655 --> 00:25:24,895 We can check the pump, I think it's not running. 418 00:25:24,931 --> 00:25:26,451 As soon as you can will be perfect. 419 00:25:26,482 --> 00:25:28,622 All right, man, I'll come over and take a look at it. 420 00:25:29,413 --> 00:25:31,213 Thank you, my friend. 421 00:25:33,275 --> 00:25:35,025 We're barely keeping up. With this one down, 422 00:25:35,068 --> 00:25:36,688 this cut will be flooded in no time. 423 00:25:36,724 --> 00:25:38,174 So I got to figure something out here 424 00:25:38,206 --> 00:25:40,786 and get it back up and going. 425 00:25:40,827 --> 00:25:43,547 [narrator] The pump Mitch installed has failed, 426 00:25:43,586 --> 00:25:46,756 and the water level in the cut is rising. 427 00:25:46,793 --> 00:25:49,903 He needs to make a quick fix before the pay becomes 428 00:25:49,931 --> 00:25:51,591 too wet to dig, 429 00:25:51,620 --> 00:25:54,310 forcing the wash plants to shut down. 430 00:25:58,827 --> 00:26:01,377 [Brennan] What's goin' on, Mitch? That thing run out of fuel or what? 431 00:26:01,413 --> 00:26:02,973 It's this alternator here, 432 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,210 and unfortunately, it's not charging. 433 00:26:06,241 --> 00:26:08,071 Without the alternator, the pump won't run 434 00:26:08,103 --> 00:26:09,833 'cause it won't stay charged, right? 435 00:26:09,862 --> 00:26:12,342 We need this pump more than ever right now, too. 436 00:26:12,379 --> 00:26:14,339 [Mitch] Let's just go back to the yard and see what we got. 437 00:26:25,103 --> 00:26:26,553 [Brennan] Let's hope we have an alternator, buddy. 438 00:26:26,586 --> 00:26:27,586 [Mitch] You wanna look in there? 439 00:26:27,620 --> 00:26:28,860 -I'll look in here? -Okay. 440 00:26:31,758 --> 00:26:33,138 Doesn't look too promising. 441 00:26:35,344 --> 00:26:37,144 I don't think there's anything in this sea can. 442 00:26:39,482 --> 00:26:41,412 -Looks like you found one. -[Mitch] Not the right one. 443 00:26:41,448 --> 00:26:43,028 And that's everything we got, I mean... 444 00:26:43,068 --> 00:26:44,098 [Brennan] So what are we gonna do? 445 00:26:49,344 --> 00:26:50,454 [Mitch] I think I got an idea. 446 00:26:50,482 --> 00:26:52,142 [Brennan] Yeah? All right. Well, let's hear it. 447 00:26:52,172 --> 00:26:54,282 I mean, what's an alternator do? 448 00:26:54,310 --> 00:26:56,030 -Powers it up. -Charges the battery, right? 449 00:26:56,068 --> 00:26:58,718 -Yep. -What's a battery charger do? 450 00:26:58,758 --> 00:27:01,588 Charges a battery, right? 451 00:27:01,620 --> 00:27:04,170 [laughs] Man, this thing looks like a nightmare. 452 00:27:04,206 --> 00:27:05,616 [narrator] Using an old charger, 453 00:27:05,655 --> 00:27:08,445 Mitch is hoping he can bypass the alternator 454 00:27:08,482 --> 00:27:11,002 and charge the pump's battery directly. 455 00:27:11,034 --> 00:27:12,384 I don't know if it works, 456 00:27:12,413 --> 00:27:13,763 but it's definitely been around a while. 457 00:27:13,793 --> 00:27:14,793 [Brennan laughs] 458 00:27:14,827 --> 00:27:16,277 Probably older than you and I combined. 459 00:27:16,310 --> 00:27:18,720 Yeah, it looks like it's been through a few wars. 460 00:27:18,758 --> 00:27:21,068 So we got half the puzzle here. 461 00:27:21,103 --> 00:27:23,483 But the next thing is, we need a way to power this. 462 00:27:25,137 --> 00:27:27,377 [Brennan] A whole bunch of generators up here. 463 00:27:27,413 --> 00:27:29,833 [Mitch] That's why we don't ever throw anything away. 464 00:27:29,862 --> 00:27:32,342 Now, the next step, is this thing gonna run? 465 00:27:34,310 --> 00:27:35,760 See if it'll start, Brennan. 466 00:27:36,689 --> 00:27:38,929 -[engine turning over] -Try it out. 467 00:27:38,965 --> 00:27:40,335 [engine whirring] 468 00:27:40,379 --> 00:27:41,169 [laughs] 469 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:46,830 [bleep] yeah! 470 00:27:55,931 --> 00:27:58,141 [Mitch] Oh, man, easy. [grunts] 471 00:27:59,965 --> 00:28:01,585 [Brennan] You good? 472 00:28:01,620 --> 00:28:04,100 [Mitch] Yeah, I gotta get a little closer, I think. 473 00:28:04,137 --> 00:28:05,757 So how is this all going to work, Mitch? 474 00:28:05,793 --> 00:28:07,523 Like, what's your whole plan of attack here? 475 00:28:07,551 --> 00:28:10,001 So this is creating power for this. 476 00:28:10,034 --> 00:28:12,074 And this is creating power for the pump. 477 00:28:12,103 --> 00:28:14,283 -[Brennan] Right. -[Mitch] Come on, baby. 478 00:28:14,310 --> 00:28:15,970 [engine turning over, running] 479 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:17,410 -[Brennan] One pull only? -[Mitch] Yeah. 480 00:28:17,448 --> 00:28:18,478 [Brennan] Oh, yeah. 481 00:28:20,689 --> 00:28:23,099 Well, that's a good sign. 482 00:28:23,137 --> 00:28:25,137 -Try it out, see what we got? -[Brennan laughs] 483 00:28:31,724 --> 00:28:33,174 [Mitch] We'll see if it comes on here. 484 00:28:38,206 --> 00:28:41,136 [alternator running] 485 00:28:41,172 --> 00:28:43,722 -Yeah, buddy! -Whoo! [bleep] yeah! 486 00:28:43,758 --> 00:28:45,758 Let's get this [bleep] water table down. 487 00:28:51,413 --> 00:28:52,483 It might not be pretty, 488 00:28:52,517 --> 00:28:54,547 it might not be the best way to do it, 489 00:28:54,586 --> 00:28:55,716 but, hey, it's simple, 490 00:28:55,758 --> 00:28:58,168 it's what we had laying around here and it works. 491 00:28:58,206 --> 00:29:00,026 [narrator] With the pump up and running 492 00:29:00,068 --> 00:29:02,308 and operators digging pay, 493 00:29:02,344 --> 00:29:05,974 the crew still has a chance to mine out the Airstrip 494 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,620 in record time. 495 00:29:25,517 --> 00:29:27,027 We're on a really tight timeframe 496 00:29:27,068 --> 00:29:28,208 for the rest of the season, 497 00:29:28,241 --> 00:29:30,481 and we've gotta scratch every last bit of pay 498 00:29:30,517 --> 00:29:31,307 out of the cut. 499 00:29:33,137 --> 00:29:36,517 [narrator] At lower Duncan Creek, the Ness crew races 500 00:29:36,551 --> 00:29:38,311 to make up for downtime 501 00:29:38,344 --> 00:29:42,074 caused by a burst lay-flat hose. 502 00:29:42,103 --> 00:29:45,413 Honestly, you have to expect things to go wrong. 503 00:29:45,448 --> 00:29:48,448 So it's... It's how you act when things do go wrong 504 00:29:48,482 --> 00:29:51,792 and how quickly you can adapt to change them. 505 00:30:13,206 --> 00:30:15,306 [Carl] This is absolute dog [bleep], man. 506 00:30:15,344 --> 00:30:17,484 The lay-flat's leaking inside the case. 507 00:30:19,172 --> 00:30:21,552 -You gonna copy, Rick? -[radio static] 508 00:30:21,586 --> 00:30:22,826 Yeah, you better get down here. 509 00:30:22,862 --> 00:30:25,932 [narrator] Only three days after making the fix, 510 00:30:25,965 --> 00:30:28,995 the lay-flat hose inside the hard pipe 511 00:30:29,034 --> 00:30:31,284 has burst again. 512 00:30:31,310 --> 00:30:33,340 Look, I'm done with this [bleep], man. We gotta... 513 00:30:33,379 --> 00:30:35,759 -We gotta get it fixed properly, here, right? -[sighs] I agree. 514 00:30:35,793 --> 00:30:37,243 What the [bleep] are we gonna do, though? 515 00:30:37,275 --> 00:30:38,995 I say we hardline it. 516 00:30:39,034 --> 00:30:41,074 -Yeah. -Well, I mean, how long is that gonna take, Carl? 517 00:30:41,103 --> 00:30:42,833 You know, you're looking at a day 518 00:30:42,862 --> 00:30:44,212 to put this in, right? 519 00:30:47,172 --> 00:30:48,522 [Rick] I don't think we have a choice. 520 00:30:50,310 --> 00:30:52,140 Yeah, [bleep] it, I'm in. 521 00:30:52,172 --> 00:30:53,832 -You're in? Okay, I can do that. -All right. 522 00:30:53,862 --> 00:30:56,242 -Let's do it. All right. -All right. 523 00:30:56,275 --> 00:31:00,305 [narrator] This time, Rick agrees to Carl's lasting fix, 524 00:31:00,344 --> 00:31:05,104 but the downtime will cost him over $20,000 in lost gold. 525 00:31:06,344 --> 00:31:07,864 We're doing really what we should 526 00:31:07,896 --> 00:31:09,066 have done right off the bat, 527 00:31:09,103 --> 00:31:11,243 is we're going to replace all this lay-flat hose 528 00:31:11,275 --> 00:31:14,065 to our pump with hard HDPE pipe. 529 00:31:14,103 --> 00:31:15,523 We just got to get it done quick. 530 00:31:22,620 --> 00:31:24,410 [Carl] Oh, it's the real deal, man. 531 00:31:25,655 --> 00:31:28,825 [narrator] To fuse together sections of hard pipe, 532 00:31:28,862 --> 00:31:32,792 new crew member Ben Bellai brings in the fusion machine. 533 00:31:32,827 --> 00:31:34,927 So this thing is a 618 fuser. 534 00:31:34,965 --> 00:31:37,445 So basically, what we're going to do is take this ten-inch pipe, 535 00:31:37,482 --> 00:31:39,792 um, and basically slam them together, 536 00:31:39,827 --> 00:31:40,967 fuse it all together, 537 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,410 uh, face it, heat it up. 538 00:31:44,241 --> 00:31:45,861 Put a ton of pressure to it 539 00:31:45,896 --> 00:31:47,826 and then fuse a bunch of lengths of pipe. 540 00:31:51,310 --> 00:31:53,550 [narrator] With the wash plant shut down, 541 00:31:53,586 --> 00:31:57,856 Ben must now create 230 feet of hard line pipe 542 00:31:57,896 --> 00:32:00,066 in just one day. 543 00:32:00,103 --> 00:32:01,833 [Carl] End of the day, we're gonna have more downtime 544 00:32:01,862 --> 00:32:03,862 if we do stuff not properly here, right? 545 00:32:05,793 --> 00:32:07,693 This will... This is going to pay off in the end. 546 00:32:14,379 --> 00:32:17,069 Yeah, this time of year, when the plant's down, it's never good, man. 547 00:32:17,103 --> 00:32:18,833 It's crunch time, so we got to get this done 548 00:32:18,862 --> 00:32:21,242 as quick as we can, get back up and running. 549 00:32:26,517 --> 00:32:30,027 [narrator] The fusion machine heats the two ends of the pipe 550 00:32:30,068 --> 00:32:32,378 at 400 degrees Fahrenheit, 551 00:32:32,413 --> 00:32:34,553 fusing them together with pressure. 552 00:32:42,068 --> 00:32:44,968 Nice. Here's the final piece of this guy. 553 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,410 Let's take a look at it, everybody. 554 00:32:51,689 --> 00:32:52,619 Looks good, eh? 555 00:32:53,827 --> 00:32:55,657 [Ben] Oh-ho, yeah, real clean. 556 00:32:57,517 --> 00:33:00,277 [narrator] Carl and Ben must now transport 557 00:33:00,310 --> 00:33:02,590 the fused sections of pipeline 558 00:33:02,620 --> 00:33:05,930 across the claim and through the creek. 559 00:33:09,655 --> 00:33:12,135 Reason why we're going this slow is, I do not want 560 00:33:12,172 --> 00:33:13,382 to damage any equipment. 561 00:33:13,413 --> 00:33:14,413 We're doing good right now, 562 00:33:14,448 --> 00:33:15,898 so let's not jinx it. 563 00:33:20,206 --> 00:33:22,306 Coming up to the creek right now. 564 00:33:22,344 --> 00:33:23,864 [narrator] At this time of year, 565 00:33:23,896 --> 00:33:26,716 the creek runs fast with rainwater. 566 00:33:26,758 --> 00:33:30,478 The force could be enough to drag the pipe downstream. 567 00:33:32,310 --> 00:33:34,000 Well, we're in the river now. 568 00:33:36,965 --> 00:33:39,615 Holy... 569 00:33:39,655 --> 00:33:42,165 Now it's up to the doors. Oof! 570 00:33:45,034 --> 00:33:47,384 One good thing is, we got clean tires now. 571 00:33:59,241 --> 00:34:00,721 We gotta get this pipe in here right away, 572 00:34:00,758 --> 00:34:03,028 'cause every moment that we are not running water, 573 00:34:03,068 --> 00:34:04,968 we're not getting gold. 574 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:06,830 That's why we're hustling our ass right now. 575 00:34:09,206 --> 00:34:11,716 You guys get out of the way, I'm just gonna swing this [bleep]. 576 00:34:22,620 --> 00:34:24,830 -Right there, buddy. -Down, down, down! 577 00:34:24,862 --> 00:34:26,412 Perfect. 578 00:34:26,448 --> 00:34:29,688 [narrator] Carl clamps the sections of pipe together. 579 00:34:29,724 --> 00:34:31,904 -We are so close right now. -Yeah, we're so close. 580 00:34:31,931 --> 00:34:33,451 Uh, like, this is our last flange. 581 00:34:33,482 --> 00:34:35,142 We get this tightened up. We're gonna run it. 582 00:34:35,172 --> 00:34:36,972 We'll see if we got any leaks. 583 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,070 And then we'll bury this thing, so we're close. 584 00:34:39,103 --> 00:34:39,903 [machine whirring] 585 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,760 We're actually gonna put in a bigger pump, too, 586 00:34:46,793 --> 00:34:48,003 which is gonna give us a lot more pressure. 587 00:34:50,344 --> 00:34:52,524 This is gonna improve the yardage that we can run through the plant, 588 00:34:52,551 --> 00:34:53,931 and that's the whole point. 589 00:34:53,965 --> 00:34:55,655 [narrator] With the new hard pipe, 590 00:34:55,689 --> 00:34:58,449 Rick can now run a more powerful pump, 591 00:34:58,482 --> 00:35:02,522 allowing him to run 20% more dirt every hour. 592 00:35:12,448 --> 00:35:14,898 Just swinging the pump into position right now. 593 00:35:19,965 --> 00:35:21,825 We just got to get it done and get back around it, 594 00:35:21,862 --> 00:35:22,832 and that's all that matters. 595 00:35:29,655 --> 00:35:30,855 Perfect. 596 00:35:37,620 --> 00:35:38,860 Good job, buddy. 597 00:35:40,965 --> 00:35:43,405 Turn this [bleep] around and start this thing up. 598 00:35:43,448 --> 00:35:46,098 [engine starting] 599 00:35:53,517 --> 00:35:55,997 [man] That's a lot of water! [laughs] 600 00:35:57,103 --> 00:35:58,343 So we got it fixed properly now, 601 00:35:58,379 --> 00:36:00,209 we're not gonna have to deal with this again this year. 602 00:36:02,379 --> 00:36:03,719 Awesome. 603 00:36:03,758 --> 00:36:05,998 [narrator] The downtime has cost Rick 604 00:36:06,034 --> 00:36:08,934 $22,000 in lost gold. 605 00:36:08,965 --> 00:36:12,855 But the new pump allows him to run the plant faster, 606 00:36:12,896 --> 00:36:15,786 and he should make it back in under a week. 607 00:36:15,827 --> 00:36:17,547 Well, I'm glad we finally took the time 608 00:36:17,586 --> 00:36:18,756 to put in the new water system. 609 00:36:18,793 --> 00:36:20,723 Uh, the great thing is that it's going to allow us 610 00:36:20,758 --> 00:36:22,518 to run an extra 20 yards an hour. 611 00:36:22,551 --> 00:36:24,001 That's an extra two ounces of gold a day, 612 00:36:24,034 --> 00:36:25,724 another four grand in our pocket. 613 00:36:25,758 --> 00:36:27,998 That [bleep] adds up. 614 00:36:38,793 --> 00:36:41,283 [narrator] It's lunchtime at Duncan Creek. 615 00:36:41,310 --> 00:36:43,210 Rick has a new use 616 00:36:43,241 --> 00:36:45,861 for the fusion machine's heater element. 617 00:36:45,896 --> 00:36:47,756 -Ooh, Casa D'Mama! -[man] Yeah! 618 00:36:47,793 --> 00:36:50,143 -Yeah! -Y'all were talking, boys, hot lunch. 619 00:36:50,172 --> 00:36:51,622 [Rick] Yeah, cook it. 620 00:36:51,655 --> 00:36:53,515 We turned it up to about 480. 621 00:36:53,551 --> 00:36:54,591 -[Rick] Yeah. -[man] Four-eighty. 622 00:36:55,689 --> 00:36:57,139 [Rick] Now we're talking. 623 00:36:57,172 --> 00:36:58,522 Does that smell good, buddy? 624 00:36:58,551 --> 00:36:59,861 That's not for you, that's for us. 625 00:37:02,758 --> 00:37:04,408 [man screams] 626 00:37:04,448 --> 00:37:05,898 [Rick] She's taking the best parts, too. 627 00:37:07,965 --> 00:37:10,025 -Shall we cut it right on it? -Yeah, cut it right on it. 628 00:37:12,206 --> 00:37:13,716 Oh, [bleep]! 629 00:37:13,758 --> 00:37:16,068 -[Karla screams] -It's okay, we can still eat it. 630 00:37:16,103 --> 00:37:17,723 [Karla] Yeah, two-second rule. 631 00:37:17,758 --> 00:37:19,858 -[man] It's hot. -[Karla] I'll get this. 632 00:37:19,896 --> 00:37:22,166 [Rick] I forgot this wasn't an actual table. 633 00:37:22,206 --> 00:37:24,026 This is actually a pretty good idea, boys. 634 00:37:24,068 --> 00:37:25,758 This is a really good idea. 635 00:37:25,793 --> 00:37:27,833 Here, Champ, you can have that. 636 00:37:27,862 --> 00:37:29,932 Here you go, got a big piece right here. 637 00:37:32,517 --> 00:37:34,927 -[man 1] Good, get it. -[man 2 laughs] 638 00:37:44,068 --> 00:37:46,588 [narrator] The king of the Klondike, Tony Beets, 639 00:37:46,620 --> 00:37:48,930 needs to find new ground. 640 00:37:48,965 --> 00:37:51,445 After prospecting a piece of land 641 00:37:51,482 --> 00:37:53,452 on the other side of the mega cut, 642 00:37:53,482 --> 00:37:56,242 he's meeting with drilling expert, Liam Ferguson, 643 00:37:56,275 --> 00:37:58,895 to find out if it holds big gold. 644 00:38:00,965 --> 00:38:02,165 Yeah, always busy. 645 00:38:04,275 --> 00:38:06,785 [Liam] We found some pretty interesting stuff. 646 00:38:07,862 --> 00:38:09,002 I've got you a map here. 647 00:38:12,275 --> 00:38:13,025 [Tony speaking] 648 00:38:16,827 --> 00:38:17,617 [Liam] Yep. 649 00:38:18,724 --> 00:38:20,104 First hole, 650 00:38:20,137 --> 00:38:21,447 not so good. 651 00:38:21,482 --> 00:38:24,032 It looks like some false bedrock in there. 652 00:38:24,068 --> 00:38:24,858 [Tony speaking] 653 00:38:26,068 --> 00:38:27,718 [Liam] That threw us off a bit. 654 00:38:31,655 --> 00:38:33,305 But in the second hole, 655 00:38:33,344 --> 00:38:35,034 we saw some pretty good grades. 656 00:38:36,724 --> 00:38:37,764 Yeah. 657 00:38:37,793 --> 00:38:38,593 [Tony speaking] 658 00:38:44,172 --> 00:38:47,622 We're looking at about ounce per 100 yards. 659 00:38:47,655 --> 00:38:48,785 Mmm-hmm. 660 00:38:48,827 --> 00:38:50,787 Getting a little better near the bottom upwards 661 00:38:50,827 --> 00:38:52,277 to an ounce a quarter, an ounce and a half. 662 00:38:53,827 --> 00:38:54,617 [Liam] Yeah. 663 00:38:56,689 --> 00:38:59,209 [narrator] At that rate, the ground would be 664 00:38:59,241 --> 00:39:01,141 even richer than the mega cut. 665 00:39:01,172 --> 00:39:03,072 One week of mining here 666 00:39:03,103 --> 00:39:06,973 could earn Tony nearly a million dollars. 667 00:39:07,931 --> 00:39:08,721 [Liam] All right. 668 00:39:10,758 --> 00:39:11,618 [Liam] All right, see you, Tony. 669 00:39:32,586 --> 00:39:34,616 [narrator] After getting the good news, 670 00:39:34,655 --> 00:39:37,855 Tony heads back to camp for the weekly gold weigh. 671 00:39:39,068 --> 00:39:40,338 -[Minnie] Hi. -[Monica] Hey. 672 00:39:40,379 --> 00:39:41,449 [Tony speaking] 673 00:39:41,482 --> 00:39:43,412 Oh, non-stop like usual. 674 00:39:44,689 --> 00:39:46,899 So how was everybody's week? 675 00:39:50,620 --> 00:39:51,480 [Mike] Yeah. 676 00:39:51,517 --> 00:39:53,967 [Tony speaking] 677 00:40:07,034 --> 00:40:09,724 So did you find anything when you went exploring? 678 00:40:18,379 --> 00:40:19,449 [Minnie] That's good. 679 00:40:19,482 --> 00:40:20,932 Yeah, it's getting harder and harder these days. 680 00:40:20,965 --> 00:40:23,475 [Tony speaking] 681 00:40:23,517 --> 00:40:25,477 You gotta find your next best ground. 682 00:40:28,344 --> 00:40:29,834 Are we gonna weigh some gold, then? 683 00:40:30,758 --> 00:40:32,658 [Tony speaking] 684 00:40:32,689 --> 00:40:34,339 [narrator] So far this season, 685 00:40:34,379 --> 00:40:37,969 the trommel has averaged 200 ounces every week. 686 00:40:39,103 --> 00:40:42,453 Forty, 60, 65, 70, 80, 687 00:40:42,482 --> 00:40:46,452 100, 150, 160, 170, 688 00:40:46,482 --> 00:40:51,662 200, 240, 270, 280, 290, 689 00:40:51,689 --> 00:40:55,689 300. 308.16. 690 00:40:55,724 --> 00:40:57,384 [narrator] The biggest gold weigh 691 00:40:57,413 --> 00:40:59,553 the Beets have had this season, 692 00:40:59,586 --> 00:41:03,786 worth close to $600,000. 693 00:41:07,034 --> 00:41:08,794 [Minnie] That's not a bad haul for this. 694 00:41:08,827 --> 00:41:09,857 [Mike] No, that's pretty good. 695 00:41:11,586 --> 00:41:12,376 [Minnie] Yeah. 696 00:41:12,931 --> 00:41:14,171 [Tony speaking] 697 00:41:15,137 --> 00:41:16,307 Yeah. 698 00:41:16,344 --> 00:41:18,454 So what's our season total, like, now? 699 00:41:18,482 --> 00:41:22,072 2,317.68. 700 00:41:22,103 --> 00:41:27,553 So we're only 700 ounces away from 701 00:41:27,586 --> 00:41:29,066 Tony's goal. 702 00:41:29,103 --> 00:41:31,483 [Tony speaking] 703 00:41:41,172 --> 00:41:43,032 [narrator] Having found new ground, 704 00:41:43,068 --> 00:41:45,338 and had their biggest weigh of the season, 705 00:41:45,379 --> 00:41:48,859 the tide is finally turning for the king of the Klondike. 706 00:41:48,896 --> 00:41:51,516 I mean, we're not quite where we wanna be yet. 707 00:41:53,344 --> 00:41:54,414 Well, it's like I always said, 708 00:41:54,448 --> 00:41:56,338 don't count your chickens till they're hatched. 709 00:41:57,586 --> 00:41:59,546 Well, you better check up on everybody. 710 00:42:03,379 --> 00:42:04,519 Can you just [bleep] off? 711 00:42:07,482 --> 00:42:09,342 No, I'm gonna cook supper for you. 712 00:42:13,965 --> 00:42:14,925 Bye. 713 00:42:14,965 --> 00:42:15,755 [Tony speaking] 714 00:42:26,241 --> 00:42:28,481 [narrator] After a week of breakdowns, 715 00:42:28,517 --> 00:42:31,857 Rick and the crew sit down to weigh their gold. 716 00:42:35,793 --> 00:42:39,213 Well, it's gonna be a light week, I can tell you that. 717 00:42:39,241 --> 00:42:40,931 -[Carl] So, like, how light? -Well, 718 00:42:40,965 --> 00:42:43,715 you think about what we've dealt with, right? I mean, uh, 719 00:42:43,758 --> 00:42:46,098 we had to make some major improvements to the plant. 720 00:42:46,137 --> 00:42:47,787 Yeah, well, and it also comes down to that you finally 721 00:42:47,827 --> 00:42:49,137 let me fix that thing properly, 722 00:42:49,172 --> 00:42:50,692 you shut the wash plant down, right? So... 723 00:42:50,724 --> 00:42:52,284 Well, you know how stubborn I get, right? 724 00:42:52,310 --> 00:42:53,380 Like, if that thing's not running, 725 00:42:53,413 --> 00:42:55,073 then we ain't making any gold, so... 726 00:42:55,103 --> 00:42:57,243 And I've seen how fragile you were when we were putting it in, 727 00:42:57,275 --> 00:42:59,165 and it was taking too long, I could see the smoke 728 00:42:59,206 --> 00:43:00,686 -coming out of your ears. -[laughs] 729 00:43:00,724 --> 00:43:02,144 There was a string of expletives. 730 00:43:02,172 --> 00:43:04,932 But she's good to go, and most importantly, 731 00:43:04,965 --> 00:43:07,135 um, it also upped our yardage. 732 00:43:07,172 --> 00:43:08,172 -[men] Yeah. -Right? 733 00:43:08,206 --> 00:43:10,586 So, you know, the end result here is that 734 00:43:10,620 --> 00:43:13,100 we probably got it pumped up to 120 yards an hour now. 735 00:43:13,137 --> 00:43:14,787 Pretty impressive for that little screen deck. 736 00:43:14,827 --> 00:43:17,967 Yeah, it is. I mean, we can make up that lost time. 737 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:18,830 -You bet. -You know? 738 00:43:18,862 --> 00:43:19,902 We certainly can. 739 00:43:19,931 --> 00:43:21,451 We'll take the hit this week, but overall, 740 00:43:21,482 --> 00:43:22,902 we're gonna see the benefits from it. 741 00:43:22,931 --> 00:43:24,411 Hell, yeah. 742 00:43:24,448 --> 00:43:25,588 Well, let's weigh it up. 743 00:43:26,655 --> 00:43:29,095 [narrator] To hit his 1,000-ounce goal, 744 00:43:29,137 --> 00:43:32,237 Rick needs at least 67 ounces of gold 745 00:43:32,275 --> 00:43:34,545 -per week. -[Rick] We're going for it. 746 00:43:35,448 --> 00:43:39,788 Five, ten, 40, 30. 747 00:43:39,827 --> 00:43:41,897 Well, it's gonna be over 40 anyway, there we go. 748 00:43:42,793 --> 00:43:45,213 44.55. 749 00:43:46,413 --> 00:43:50,033 [narrator] Only two-thirds of what he needs. 750 00:43:50,068 --> 00:43:51,828 For the time we lost, that's not bad at all. 751 00:43:51,862 --> 00:43:55,212 [Rick] I don't mind saying 44 is kind of disappointing. 752 00:43:55,241 --> 00:43:57,381 I know that it's not one of our best gold weighs, 753 00:43:57,413 --> 00:43:59,213 and I hate to admit it, but... 754 00:44:00,206 --> 00:44:01,616 if I would have listened to you, Carl, 755 00:44:01,655 --> 00:44:03,755 maybe there would be more gold in the pan. 756 00:44:03,793 --> 00:44:07,483 [narrator] With the gold total at 642 ounces, 757 00:44:07,517 --> 00:44:11,717 Rick now has just five weeks to hit his season goal 758 00:44:11,758 --> 00:44:14,688 and save his mining career. 759 00:44:14,724 --> 00:44:17,214 I just wanna thank all you guys for busting ass. 760 00:44:17,241 --> 00:44:18,341 [Carl] Yeah. 761 00:44:18,379 --> 00:44:20,029 And Ben for getting that fusion [bleep] up here. 762 00:44:20,068 --> 00:44:21,238 You guys are [bleep] awesome. 763 00:44:21,275 --> 00:44:23,235 You guys are all the reason right here again 764 00:44:23,275 --> 00:44:25,065 why we have gold, and, uh, 765 00:44:25,103 --> 00:44:28,003 it's not gonna stop. I think with the improvements we've made, 766 00:44:28,034 --> 00:44:29,314 it's only gonna go up from here. 767 00:44:29,344 --> 00:44:30,524 -[man 1] Yeah. -[man 2] Pump it out. 768 00:44:30,551 --> 00:44:31,591 -[Rick] Right? -[man 1] Yeah. 769 00:44:31,620 --> 00:44:32,860 Well, let's go get after it. 770 00:44:32,896 --> 00:44:34,096 -[man] Let's go make money. -[Rick] Let's get after it. 771 00:44:34,137 --> 00:44:35,617 -Yeah. -Do it. 772 00:44:35,655 --> 00:44:36,715 [Rick] Oh, yeah. 773 00:44:48,827 --> 00:44:52,207 [narrator] One hundred miles west at Scribner Creek, 774 00:44:52,241 --> 00:44:55,101 the Schnabel crew is ready to weigh up. 775 00:44:56,034 --> 00:44:57,174 Junior! 776 00:44:57,206 --> 00:44:59,166 [both whooping] 777 00:44:59,206 --> 00:45:00,786 That one was looking like we were gonna kiss here. 778 00:45:00,827 --> 00:45:01,997 [laughter] 779 00:45:06,275 --> 00:45:07,475 How'd it go this week? 780 00:45:07,517 --> 00:45:09,657 I hear there was a little bit of excitement down there. 781 00:45:09,689 --> 00:45:11,759 Yeah, we found a little leak in the berm there. 782 00:45:11,793 --> 00:45:13,723 Well, it wasn't so small actually, 783 00:45:13,758 --> 00:45:16,408 so it was pretty busy trying to get that buttoned up, 784 00:45:16,448 --> 00:45:19,208 so the berm wall didn't blow out and lose all our water 785 00:45:19,241 --> 00:45:20,791 in the pond, right, for Sluicifer? 786 00:45:20,827 --> 00:45:23,137 That would have, what, fed back into the cut, or... 787 00:45:23,172 --> 00:45:25,212 Yeah, all over all of our pay, everything. 788 00:45:25,241 --> 00:45:27,171 It's insane, the amount of water in there. Like, 789 00:45:27,206 --> 00:45:29,026 it's just puking out of both sides. 790 00:45:29,068 --> 00:45:30,478 Well, there's the pond on one side 791 00:45:30,517 --> 00:45:32,587 and the river on the other, so... 792 00:45:32,620 --> 00:45:35,030 -Fun stuff. -[man] Yeah, man. 793 00:45:35,068 --> 00:45:36,858 Meanwhile, I'm trying to find somewhere to dig dry pay 794 00:45:36,896 --> 00:45:38,276 to keep the wash plants going. 795 00:45:38,310 --> 00:45:40,520 Yeah, trying to keep two plants going at the same time, right? 796 00:45:40,551 --> 00:45:42,591 -Yeah. -Did you lose much sluicing time? 797 00:45:42,620 --> 00:45:44,410 -[man] No. -No, we kept them going, 798 00:45:44,448 --> 00:45:46,898 -but it was... It was... -Touch and go. 799 00:45:46,931 --> 00:45:49,861 Your stomach was turning watching the water levels come up, 800 00:45:49,896 --> 00:45:52,476 but, yeah, we got it fixed, so let's just pray to hell 801 00:45:52,517 --> 00:45:54,477 that it makes it past this season. 802 00:45:54,517 --> 00:45:56,967 Why I'm asking if you lost any sluicing time, 803 00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,170 because this was a very interesting week. 804 00:45:59,206 --> 00:46:01,716 Two plants, both on the same cut, 805 00:46:01,758 --> 00:46:03,898 basically side-by-side. 806 00:46:03,931 --> 00:46:06,451 We have two pans of gold here. 807 00:46:06,482 --> 00:46:09,002 [man] Well, why don't you bust 'em out and show us? 808 00:46:10,379 --> 00:46:13,309 [narrator] First up, Sluicifer's second week 809 00:46:13,344 --> 00:46:14,864 of Airstrip gold. 810 00:46:18,793 --> 00:46:20,933 I'm not doing your little counting up thing. 811 00:46:20,965 --> 00:46:22,275 No, no, you're good. 812 00:46:26,241 --> 00:46:28,791 We're looking at 172.15. 813 00:46:29,793 --> 00:46:33,213 [narrator] Worth $327,000. 814 00:46:34,137 --> 00:46:35,517 That's pretty decent. 815 00:46:37,034 --> 00:46:39,834 Red, on the other hand... 816 00:46:52,379 --> 00:46:55,659 So, from Red, we're looking at 145.3. 817 00:46:56,517 --> 00:47:00,927 [narrator] Worth $276,000. 818 00:47:00,965 --> 00:47:03,375 -It's a good week. -Yeah, it's a really good week. 819 00:47:03,413 --> 00:47:05,793 -317 ounces. -[Parker] 317? 820 00:47:05,827 --> 00:47:08,027 [narrator] Sluicifer and Big Red 821 00:47:08,068 --> 00:47:13,278 have pulled in over $600,000 worth of gold. 822 00:47:13,310 --> 00:47:16,340 For the season total, we just broke 6,000 ounces. 823 00:47:16,379 --> 00:47:17,659 -Great. -6,002 ounces. 824 00:47:17,689 --> 00:47:18,829 [Parker] Good. All right. 825 00:47:19,551 --> 00:47:20,721 That's sweet. 826 00:47:20,758 --> 00:47:23,308 [narrator] Nearly 2,000 ounces more 827 00:47:23,344 --> 00:47:26,764 than Parker mined this time last year. 828 00:47:30,379 --> 00:47:32,309 Next time onGold Rush... 829 00:47:33,551 --> 00:47:35,721 Fred Lewis is out of luck... 830 00:47:35,758 --> 00:47:37,208 Hold on, I'm gonna get Alex some help. 831 00:47:37,241 --> 00:47:38,171 ...and out of pay. 832 00:47:38,206 --> 00:47:40,306 [man] Is that everything we got? 833 00:47:40,344 --> 00:47:42,174 Right now, we are dead in the water. 834 00:47:42,206 --> 00:47:46,066 [narrator] Rick Ness calls on an old friend. 835 00:47:46,103 --> 00:47:47,693 I think it's in there sideways. 836 00:47:47,724 --> 00:47:49,834 If I don't get our goal this year, 837 00:47:49,862 --> 00:47:51,242 I don't see continuing on. 838 00:47:52,689 --> 00:47:54,029 [narrator] And Parker Schnabel 839 00:47:54,068 --> 00:47:57,208 faces his biggest loss of the season. 840 00:47:57,241 --> 00:47:58,721 [woman] It's really smoky. 841 00:47:58,758 --> 00:48:00,338 Grab what you can and get out of there. 842 00:48:00,379 --> 00:48:02,969 I don't want you to even consider not going.