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[suspenseful music playing]

[Tyson] Come on, Jarv.

It's time to move
to our new home.

[Tatiana] Shall I go ahead?

[metal clanks]

[Jordan] All right,
let's go trucking.

We're moving, uh, 10 years'
worth of mining operation

in record time.

[Parker] We're moving our yard
and our camp over to Dominion,

but we've spent $15 million
for the ground.

I have no landlord. I can do
it however the [bleep] I want

and life's standing.

[narrator]
Twenty-eight-year-old
Parker Schnabel

is all in on the biggest
gamble of his life.

He bought one of
the last historically

gold-rich pieces of land
left in the Yukon,

Dominion Creek,

and there's no turning back.

Dominion gold is a lot of work
for the next few years.

It's a lot of ground.

I feel a bit nervous
because it...

It's all been so...

It all happened so fast.

[Tyson] We don't really know
what's gonna happen.

I think everyone's really
concerned about that.

And Parker's gotta have
a lot of stress on him

right now and a lot of work
ahead of him.

[suspenseful music playing]

This is getting pretty soft.

[tires whirring]

Yeah.

Gonna need a push.

[engine revving]

[Jordan] Yeah, push, push.

Yeah, it's going.

[narrator]
The potential payout
for Parker's new claim

is a staggering
80,000 ounces of gold

worth $160 million,

but it's known
for not giving up
its treasure easily.

[Parker] Dominion's a creek
that's had a hell of a lot

of mining on it,
but it has killed everybody

that's shown up here
because they've always been

in a huge rush to get gold
out of the ground.

It gets very expensive
very fast.

[narrator] The gold is buried
40 feet deep.

To pull it from the ground,

he'll need to spend
millions on top

of the $15 million
he paid for the claim.

And that's just the start.

Parker's also got access
to mine

untapped virgin ground
on Australia Creek.

[Parker] The last four or
five years, we've had really

good financial security,
but no ground security.

And now we've got really
good ground security

and no financial security.

And that's a little scary.

[narrator] To crack the code
at Dominion

and land a big payday
before going broke,

Parker's in desperate need
of a plan.

What's happening?

Hey, not a whole lot.
How are you?

Oh, I'm doing pretty good.

I know that we have
a lot of things on the go.

We have Australia Creek.

We have Dominion now.

I'm trying to figure out

what the best... way

of dealing
with all of this is.

I don't know
if Dean made much money

throughout the years
or not, honestly.

Um...

I mean, he just made
15 million bucks.

-Yeah.
-[laughter]

Like, there is that.

[Parker] Yeah. Best season
yet was his shortest.

[laughter]

Um, but, uh,

what's killed everybody
is that they've been
in a huge rush.

This property has taken out

a few people and nobody's
really come out of it

very far ahead.

And you're looking
at 40 foot deep ground.

-[Mitch] Oh, wow.
-And on Australia,

some of the holes are
10 feet to bedrock.

So, we can afford to wait

and strip that later.

On Dominion, we're gonna have
to have a lot of work done

before we're washing any rocks
and making any money.

So, I think we should
shift gears,

press pause
on all our other projects.

This is Dean's pit
as of when we took over,

so I think that, like,
just like step one

is to pick up
where Dean left off

and just get those
cuts down to gravel

or something that will
start falling, right?

Yeah.

[Tyson]
Do you have a rough idea

of how much you need
to pull out

or would like to pull
out of the ground

to kind of
keep things floating?

Like, to not
be totally screwed,

we'd need to do
5,000 ounces this season.

And so, where that comes from,
I don't really know.

All right,
well, what's the game plan
for the week then?

[Parker] If we can get
200,000 square feet

in a week,
then we'd be really good.

If you start thinking
about all of it,

-it's an overwhelming...
-[Tyson] Yeah.

-amount of work.
-[Tyson] Let's put on

-those horse blinders.
-[Parker] Yup.

All right. Thanks, guys.

-All right. Yup.
-Thanks, man.

-[Tyson] Let's go do it.
-[Mitch] Yeah.

[Mitch] You know,
we got a game plan now,

but 5,000 ounces might not
sound like a lot of gold

from what we got
in the past,

but with everything
we got going on this season,

that's gonna be a tall order.

[narrator] Dominion Creek
is a massive 7,500 acres,

equivalent to almost
10,000 football fields.

To kickstart the new project,

Parker's tasked Mitch
and Tyson

with expanding Dean's old cut

and wants the first
four-and-a-half acre,

40 foot deep section

down to frozen pay gravels

by the end of the week.

[Mitch] All right, let's see
what this place is all about.

Let's get ready
to move some dirt.

[dramatic music playing]

Man, things are changing
around here so quick,

but, uh, just really happy
that Parker

was able to put
this deal together here.

We got some stability now.

I think it's a great
new home for us.

[Tyson]
Parker's given us a week

to get this cut down
to gravel.

I don't know
what you're thinking, Mitch,

but, man,
this is some deep ground.

It's gonna take
a little bit for us

to get this out of here.

[Mitch] It doesn't seem
that bad when you're just

looking at it on paper.

But once you come out here

and start moving this dirt,

it's a long way to the bottom.

It's not gonna be easy.

We're in the money pit
right now here

because we're gonna spend
a whole bunch

before we ever see anything
come out of this.

Here's to hoping there's
a hell of a lot of gold here.

Yup. We're, uh, definitely
gonna need

a little bit
to pay the bills now.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Tony speaking]

[narrator]
Two weeks into the season,

King of the Klondike
Tony Beets

has already spent over
a million dollars

stripping overburden
at Paradise Hill

and still isn't on the gold.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] Tony's lifeline
of an amended water license

allows him to return
to his Indian River claims,

but it would mean moving
his whole operation.

He must now decide
whether to stay

at the hill
or pivot to Indian.

[Tony speaking]

[Monica] It's always good
to head out to the Indian.
I love it out there.

It's beautiful
and it'll be nice

to see what it looks like.

I mean, it's been a few years
since we've been out there,

so hopefully all of our
[bleep] is still out there.

-[Tony speaking]
-Knife?

-Yeah [indistinct]
-For liposuction?

[Tony speaking]

-There you go.
-[Tony speaking]

[narrator] Forty miles south
of Paradise Hill,

Tony's Indian River claim
has over eight miles

of pre-stripped
gold-rich ground.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] Eight years ago...

[narrator] Tony resurrected
an old dredge

to mine one of the most
lucrative valleys

in the history of the Yukon.

Tony's pretty obsessed
with dredges

because, I mean, they work.

[narrator] Doubling down
on the gold-rich ground,

Tony added
a second wash plant,

a shaker deck.

[Tony speaking]

[Monica] Two hundred.

[narrator]
In just two seasons...

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] I think we will.

[narrator]
His operation pulled in

a massive $10 million
of gold.

Anyway... Holy [bleep].

[laughs]

[narrator] Now, he finally
has the chance to return.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] Yeah. When we left,
we literally just pulled up

our underwear
and [bleep], didn't we?

[Tony] Mmm-hmm.

[Tony speaking]

[Monica]
It's a great picture
of you, Dad.

-The one on the frame.
-What? Yeah...

[Monica laughing]

For a while,
I was living in this camp.

I think I was living
in this room.

Oh, it had a rough life.

And there was an ant colony.
You see all that duct tape?

That was to keep
the ant colony that was living

in between the desk
and the wall

from getting out.

[Kevin speaking]

[Tony speaking]

[man] Uh-huh.

The chutes?

[Tony speaking]

Yeah.

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] And we're gonna be
trying to get a lot

of sluicing done here
as soon as we can.

[Tony speaking]

[suspenseful music playing]

[Ruby] With ten rock trucks,
three excavators,

two G11s and a D6,

like, it is seriously
all hands on deck.

Yeah. We're moving [bleep]
dirt, as Tony would say.

[laughs]

It's chaos.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] After scouting
his Indian River claim,

Tony is facing a dilemma,

gamble on a move
to the Indian

or stick to the Super Pit
on Paradise Hill?

[Mike] I don't know about you,
but I have nightmares
of mud like this.

[bleep].

[narrator]
As temperatures rise,

the winter snow
and ice flood the cut,

creating a thick
black mud stew.

[Mike] It's sticky,

it's everywhere

and it takes forever
to [bleep] dry.

It makes working
on the hill [bleep].

[suspenseful music playing]

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] Right.
Be there in a sec.

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] You know,
you can always smell it.

[Mike] How much do you want?

Oh, half a pail will do then.

[laughs] Oh.

[Mike] Yeah.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator]
If Tony's hit Paradise's
white channel pastry,

it could swing his decision
to the hill.

[Monica] Hello.

Oh, we're surviving.

[Tony speaking]

I know. I even made sure
there was hot water for you.

You even remember
how to do that?

[Tony speaking]

[suspenseful music playing]

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] That's awesome.

[Tony speaking]

[Monica]
No, that's super promising.

[Tony speaking]

[Zee] Woo! Here we go.

We're back, baby.

Running Monster Red.

Couldn't be happier.

We're running good pay, so...

nothing but up and up
from here.

[narrator] 125 miles
from the Klondike
in Keno City,

Rick Ness is already
on the gold.

[bleep] beautiful day.
Storm's going away.

We're getting gold.

Starting off
with what I'm coming out,

it's incredible,
you know what I mean?

It's been too long
since I've seen gold

in the box, and right now,
we've got that.

[narrator] After going MIA
for over a year

and hitting rock bottom,

Rick's had to sell

his late mom's house

to kickstart his season.

Now he's a man on a mission,

chasing a 1,000-ounce
$2 million dream.

Running old
stockpiled pay dirt,

he needs to net 20 ounces

by the end of the week.

[Rick]
This is a great beginning.

I mean,
I couldn't be happier.

But we're never
gonna get to our goal

with just three people.

I gotta get more people
in here.

So I reached out
to a buddy of mine

and he recommended someone.

They've done a lot of work
in the oil fields in Alaska.

A lot of experience
with big equipment,

so it should work out.

And if it doesn't, they're
gonna be gone by the end

of the week because I'm not
carrying people this year.

-I got faith in you.
-[Morgan] Good.

-[Zee] All right?
-Sweet.

[Zee] All right. Good.

[Morgan] I'm really excited
to be out here with Rick.

I've heard only good things
about him

from our mutual friend,

but it's a little
nerve-wracking knowing

Rick is really relying
on some good help

and me doing it right.

And that's a lot of weight
on my shoulders.

[narrator]
Twenty-eight-year-old
operator Morgan Lauren

has been running
heavy equipment

since she was
eighteen years old.

[Morgan] I'm from Alaska
and I've been up

in the oil field
for like 10 years.

I quit my job
and I'm really risking

being out here and being away
from everything at home.

I grew up gold panning
with my family.

My earliest memory is
in a piece of equipment.

I was maybe four or five
sitting on my grandpa's lap

as he was putting in
an air strip at his house
in the dozer.

I've never worked
on a gold claim before.

I'm hoping to come out of it

where if one day I wanted
to go and open my own claim,

I would be like,
"Yep, I know the steps.

I know what's needed."

And it's evident every single
second I'm out here

how much I have to learn.

Oh, my God.

What's the matter?

This [bleep] is so frozen.

You're just not quite getting
your bucket straight.

That's all.

See how... See how the top

-of that bucket slide?
-[Morgan] Yeah.

[Rick] That's how you want it.
There you go.

Twist it down on the first,

go ahead, move forward.

[Morgan] Okay.

[Rick] Give it some juice.

Whenever your tires
start to spin...

-Yeah?
-Just lift off on the bucket,

-that will put
pressure on them.
-Okay.

So I'm gonna do it on value

and I'll loosen it up
for you, all right?

-Thank you.
-Yeah.

[Zee] It's nice.
I mean, Morgan showed up.

She seems to got
the hang of it already.

She's doing great.

I watched her make her passes.

I'm confident she's, uh,
the right one for the job.

She'll be fine
loading the plant,

just from the little bit
I've been watching, so...

It looks like Rick made
a pretty good choice.

Um, hopefully,
the rest of his choices

are as good as Morgan.

[Morgan]
Operating this loader
is entirely different

than what I've always had
at work

and even laying
around at home.

That thing is
over 40 years old,

and it has definitely
been used and abused.

What the heck?

Hey, Rick. There's no water.

There's no water
at the plant.

[Rick] [bleep].

-What happened?
-There's no water.

-What the [bleep]
is that all about?
-[Morgan] I don't know.

[Rick] All right,
let's just go check the pump.

[narrator] Without water,
Rick can't wash pay dirt

and can't catch gold.

[water pump failing to start]

[bleep], it's killing
the batteries.

Why aren't you starting, pig?

Yeah, I don't know what else
to do besides pulling

the suction basket,
see if it's clogged up.

I don't know
what else it could be.

We need the excavator,
pull it up,
see what it looks like.

I just wanna get
running again.

It's just pissing me off.

If we don't have a water pump,
we can't be sluicing.

That kind of puts us
at a standstill.

[tense music playing]

[Zee] Rick's down by the pump.
I'm gonna come up here

and just make
sure everything's good.

[narrator]
Rick Ness' operation
is at a standstill.

His only pump
for feeding water

to the wash plant
has broken down.

[Zee] Time's a-wasting.

We need to get that pump
up and running.

[Morgan]
I was running the plant

and realized
we don't have any water.

And this is something
that's so simple,

but it ends up being,
you know, make-or-break today.

[narrator]
Every hour they're down

means less gold

and Rick's target
for 20 ounces

by the end of the week
slips further away.

[Rick] I don't know what else
to do besides pull up

the suction basket,
see if it clogged up.

[Morgan] Come up.

[Rick] This is a [bleep] pump.
I do not need it going down.

I mean,
it's an expensive thing, so...

It's just a pain in the ass.

[Morgan] Oh, yeah.

[Rick] That thing
was [bleep] buried.

[Morgan] Dude,
that thing was bad.

[Rick] Buried.

Great. Now, this river
is running really dirty

because of the spring runoff,
so everything's coming down

the river right now,
dirt, sediment, sand.

And they're all getting
caught right here
in our suction hole, so.

All you can do is dig it out

and you clean the dirt off it.

That's what we get for trying
to run this time of year.

And hopefully that's it.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, she got pressure.

Plenty of pressure.

You gotta push on...
Push the button.

[water pump failing to start]

[Rick] [bleep] sake.

I hate pumps.

You know what the...
You know what pumps
have to do?

Water pumps? One [bleep] job.

Pump water.

You know what
they almost never
[bleep] do? Is their job.

For one reason or another,
this [bleep] pump
isn't, uh, priming.

It's probably just got
an [bleep] air lock somewhere.

I'm thinking if we get
the small one

and set it up there
and then open both

top and bottom valves

just to get air and pressure,

'cause that worked
in the oil field.

[Rick] It should...
I mean, if we plumb it
in here, it should...

It should fill that
and then it should back

in air out of this line.

[Morgan] So we think
we had an air lock.

We weren't getting any
suction out of this one,

so we're gonna try,

use the little pump
and hook up over here

and just kind of start
force-feeding water into it,

see if we can get it
flowing again.

[narrator]
Rick's pump sucks water

from the river using
a rotating impeller.

This creates
centrifugal force

that pulls water in

and then pushes it out

towards Rick's wash plant.

But air has caused
a blockage in the pump,

stopping the water flow.

Morgan's plan,
use a second pump

to force more water
into the system.

The extra pressure
should push the air out

and allow the water
to flow to Monster Red.

[machinery whirring]

We've already wasted
most of the day on that, so...

Hopefully this will work.

[Rick] It shouldn't take long.
If it's gonna work,

it's gonna work quick.

We'll know when it takes off.

Fingers crossed.

I think it went.

Yeah, she primed.

That was it.

[Zee] There we go.
There's some water.

Here it comes.

[Rick] So, it ended up
being a fairly easy fix,

but we spent all [bleep]
morning diagnosing it.

That kind of pisses
me off, but...

Either way,
we're gonna get up there,
run it, and get some gold.

[Morgan] Oh, hello, sir.
Would you like a ride?

[Rick] I would love a ride.

[engine revving]

Run it, run it.

-Well, I think you did
a good job today.
-Thanks.

You can stay
at least till tomorrow.

[laughter]

[Morgan]
I'm feeling pretty thankful,

actually, that I took
the risk to come out here.

I'm feeling good in Rick,
I'm feeling confident in him,

and I think this is gonna be
a really good season for us.

[Rick] Been pretty impressed.

Morgan was right there
running through stuff

and helping me getting
that pump going, so...

She's a breath of fresh air,
you know what I mean?

She's a good one.
If I can get a few

more like her, we'll be set.

It's a precarious situation
right at the moment.

We're gonna run
out of money in

about eight to ten weeks.

[narrator] To conquer
his new Dominion Creek claim,

Parker's unleashed
a torrent of cash,

spending $21,000 a day

to strip the first
four-and-a-half acres

of his new money pit
down to pay in just one week.

Parker finally bought us
some ground

and, yeah, we got a lot of it.

[narrator] Three days in,

they've gotten
through half that.

[Stephan] Three more days
to finish this will be...

pretty tight.

But we might make it.

[narrator] Twenty-year veteran
dozer operator

Stephan Larose
is breaking up ground

ahead of the crew in a D11.

Capable of pushing 45 yards
of dirt in every push,

the 850-horsepower,

124-ton monster
is the lead machine

of Parker's money pit
stripping operation.

[Stephan] We're about four
feet depth right now.

It's pulling pretty hard,
but it's the way it is.

Whoops.

Oh, my [bleep].

Hello, Mitch.
You copy, Mitch?

[Mitch] Yeah, go for Mitch.

Hey, Mitch,
I got an oil spring

all over the place
in the back of the cut here.

[Mitch] Well, man,
you're just gonna have
to hang tight there.

[Stephan]
Okay. Thank you. 10-4.

Nothing's easy
on this machine to fix.

I expect major
it's gonna take time

just to get in,
just to get here.

Look where we are.
We're at the end
of the cut too.

You know, I've been working on
equipment for a long time

in the Yukon and this is one
of those things

that you hate to see is

your machinery is about far
away from you as it can be

and then it breaks down.

[narrator] Halfway through
Parker's stripping blitz

in the money pit,
the lead D11 dozer

has gone down in the worst
possible location.

[Mitch] Now I'm having to use
a dozer just to be able

to gain access out here.

Obviously we're not driving
our service trucks back here

to work on this thing.

[Stephan] Hey, Mitch.

Wow, you weren't kidding, huh?

[Stephan]
You see it from there already?

Oh, yeah.

[Stephan] It's this...

[Mitch] Man, that's pretty
wild for that thing to pop
like that.

-[Stephan] Yes.
-[Mitch] Yeah.

Broke the eye right
off the end of it.

[Stephan] Yeah,
broke right off. Mmm-hmm.

Well, we need to figure out
how we're gonna get this
thing outta here.

Right now, we're just
looking at our D11T here

and we broke the barrel off

the end of
the ripper cylinder.

So we gotta get it
swapped out here.

[narrator] Two cylinders power
the ripper up and down,

but one has broken clean off

and must be replaced,

leaving the blades
stuck deep in the mud,

paralyzing the dozer.

[Parker] So it's good to see
my usual good timing

is in full force.

[Mitch] Oh! Yeah.

Heckin' [bleep].

What happened?

[Mitch] Just broke the end
of the rod right off.

We need to try
and get the ripper out

of the ground,
but we're only using half

of the power
that we normally have here.

I can probably just
come in here sideways

and push some of this out
of the way and then get
underneath it.

[Mitch] Okay.

[engine starts]

Come on, come on, come on.

There we go.

Yeah. That'll work.

-Good?
-[Mitch] Thanks, buddy.

Right now, we're just
walking the D11 out here.

Now this is the full
definition

of limping your way home.

[narrator] To get
the D11 back into the cut

as fast as possible...

Just put it right there.

[narrator]
Mechanic Jordan Sands

brings in a replacement
cylinder

from the laydown yard.

[Jordan] There it is.

[Mitch] This is off of an 11R
so a different model,

but as long as it will work
on this, we'll be happy.

Some repair required.

[Jordan] Yeah.

[dramatic music playing]

[Mitch] Beautiful.

-This is looking good.
-[Jordan] Nice.

I'm just hooking up
the hydraulic lines.

Ripped one apart, so we
gotta put a new one on.

[Mitch] You know, we're taking
this part off of a dozer

that's been sitting parked
for who knows how long,

so no guarantees
this is gonna work,

but we're gonna cross our
fingers here and hope it does.

[dramatic music playing]

[machine whirring]

All right.

[Jordan] Beautiful.

Yeah, it's working.

[bulldozer rattling]

[Mitch] Well, the D11
is back in action.

Just really fortunate we
had a part to put on it.

So, it could've been
a lot worse,

but it's fixed
and ready to go.

Last guy back
is buyin' the beer.

Okay.
Well, I guess I'm broke then.

[laughs]

[narrator] After five hours
of downtime,

the D11 is ready
to get back to work.

[Mitch on radio]
Stephan, you gotta copy?
Stephan?

[Stephan speaking]

Hey, buddy, this D11T is all
back in action for you,

so you're back to moving mud.

[Stephan speaking]

[Mitch on radio]
No problem, man.

You know, three days
to make all this happen.

You know,
we lost a little time here,

but hopefully, we don't have
any more trouble.

[dramatic music playing]

[narrator] After finally
hitting pay dirt

in the super pit

on Paradise Hill,

the Beets family
must now decide

whether to stay at Paradise

or gamble on Indian River.

Yeah, the mud here
is ridiculous.

-Yeah.
-[Mike] Yeah.

It's literally almost
like starting from zero.

I mean, it's gonna be
a lot more work whereas

staying out in the hill,
if we have everything here...

A move always takes way
more than what you think

and it always takes
more time as well.

[Mike] Literally, you always
find out there's more work

than you thought
there would be.

It'll be the shaker deck
in the Indian when we do
start sluicing?

You're gonna put all
your focus on putting that

together?

You don't wanna try

to get the trommel
in place here first?

Okay.

But if we've made
this decision,

we can't be mad about
this decision later.

[Mike clears throat]

[laughter]

[Mike] Wait.

[Monica] Are your pants
burning?

[laughter]

So I guess, decision made?

[Tony speaking]

Yes.

[Tony speaking]

[Monica] Sounds good.

[Minnie] Sounds like a plan.

[narrator] Now Tony
has committed to relocating

his operation
from Paradise Hill,

his 6,000 ounce
season goal hangs

on the success
of the Indian River.

[dramatic music playing]

[Tyson] Parker got some
ground from Dean

and it came with a lot
of equipment.

[narrator] At Dominion Creek,

Parker's crew
are treasure hunting

in their new yard.

[engine rumbling]

The equipment
is in very rough shape.

I don't like this junk.

[acoustic music playing]

[Parker laughs] Oh, yeah.

Look at this old
ancient thing.

[engine turning over]

The tires of this are worth
more than the machine.

Then we got a short bus!

[engine revving]

[Parker] Oh, yes. She's still
got air in all the tires.

-Thank you.
-[Ryan] You're welcome.

I think out of everything,
that is the most useful

vehicle that he bought here,
including all the equipment.

Yup.

[Parker] This is [bleep] sick.

[dramatic music playing]

[fire crackling]

So what's your thought so far?

Yeah. I mean, it feels good.

It feels good to be in
the equipment, to be out here.

I like working with Rick.

[Zee] I thought
I was coming up here to...

Just to help him get
the plant up and running,

but I kind of switched gears
and now I'm hoping

to just get him mentally
prepared for the season.

-Hey.
-[Zee] Hey.

[Rick] Oh, you got fire going
and everything.

[groans] Oh, buddy, I'm tired.

[Zee] Is she all cleaned up?

Oh, yeah, she... Well,

listen, the gold room
is barely set up and I am

not qualified to be running
that [bleep], let me
tell you that.

-So I've seen cleaner gold.
-[Zee] All right.

[Rick] But I don't know.
I mean, it's...

I mean, for what we're up
against, holy [bleep].

I'm pretty happy about it.

We got long ways to go.

You know,
we've got gear coming in,

we've got more crew coming in,

you know, then we're off
to the races.

That's when...
That's when we crank it up
to 11, get after it.

Without further ado,
would you like to see

the dirtiest gold
you've ever sees in your life?

[Zee] I'd like to see
what it weighs.

[Rick] Yeah, me too.

[dramatic music playing]

[Zee] Oh, that ain't too bad.

[Rick laughs]
Yeah, that's pretty dirty.

But here we go, two,

five, eight, 10, 15...

Holy [bleep]
it's going over 20.

-20, 21.2 ounces.
-[Zee] Nice.

[Rick] Holy [bleep].

[Morgan] It's a good start.

[narrator] Rick's first gold
of the season

has exceeded his target,

delivering a $42,000
cash injection.

What do you think, Morgan?

I'm excited.

[Rick] Is that the dirtiest
gold you've ever seen
in your life?

You know what though?
It's still gold.

[Rick] Yes, it is.

[Zee] It's not like
it's not worth anything.

Uh-huh.
See, I like your answer.

We've got a long way to go

but onwards
and upwards from here.

A lot more
gold coming this season.

All right, what do you say,
should we get some dinner?

-[Morgan] Oh, yeah.
-All right. Okay.

[Morgan] Well, it was awesome
getting to be part
of my first gold weigh.

I absolutely love seeing
all the gold in there.

You know, I quit my job

to come out here
and moved from Alaska,

and so this is really
big for me, and getting to see

the gold there just
makes it feel real

and it makes it feel like
I made the right choice,

so I'm really excited to see

what the season
has to bring me.

[fire crackling]

[Rick] I am gonna take
the time to appreciate
this one

single first gold weigh,
you know.

Is it my biggest
gold weigh ever?

Hell, no. Not by a mile.

But it might be
my most important.

You know, I'm still
trying to stop and just,

you know, appreciate it,
'cause, like I said,
you know...

It does mean more this year

and it's the beginning
of my new chapter.

I'm [bleep] excited about it.

[dramatic music playing]

[dramatic music playing]

Man, I don't know how
you're looking over there,

but it's looking
pretty sweet over here.

I think we, uh...

I think we got her.

[narrator] After stripping
non-stop for six days...

[Mitch] Yeah, man.
I'm starting to see a lot
of gravel pokin' through.

I think Parker will be
pretty happy

'cause we got this done
in a week.

[narrator] Parker Schnabel's
crew is finally

down to the gold pay layer.

Here we go!
We got down to some
gravels here in Dominion.

And this is real awesome here.

This is what it's all about.

We're gonna get
this ground thawed out,

we're gonna get
a wash plant set up,

and hopefully there's
a whole bunch of gold

right underneath this gravel.

[dramatic music playing]

[narrator] For 10 years,

while building his mining
empire in the Yukon,

Parker's lived out
of a trailer,

but with the purchase
of Dominion,

he now owns his first house.

I have a house now.

We're having
a housewarming party.

All aboard.

[country music playing]

So, um, the back of the bus
is gonna be the roughest ride.

-[laughter]
-So if you're in the back,
you're gonna wanna hold on.

-[man] Oh, great.
-[bleep].

[bus engine revving]

[man] Whoa!

[crew cheering]

[laughter]

Did it break?
Like, you've got a wine glass?

[man 1] Think about
the children.

-[man 2] Oh, yeah,
you got her there?
-[man 3] Yeah!

[crew cheering]

[all exclaiming]

[all groaning]

-[Parker laughs]
-[engine revving]

[chain clanking]

Everyone watch out.

[crew cheering]

Sorry about your bus, Bill.

[laughs] That's your
bus now, brother.

-[laughs]
-Unfortunately.

[engine rumbling]

Thanks for coming.
Let's get drunk and eat food.

[country music playing]

[Parker] Honestly,
like, can you imagine, like,

"Ten dead in bus accident
on a mine site"?

-[laughter]
-[woman] I can't imagine it.

That is not a headline
we need.

I've never owned
a house before.

It's very weird being
in a house out here.

Well, kinda cool.

Like, my stack can even fit,
like, 20 in here.

But it's a [bleep]
weird house.

Like, come here.

[laughter]

I wouldn't say
I'm a germaphobe,

but this is a bedroom.

And this is
the master bathroom

and, like, that creeps me out.

I don't... I don't like that.

There's carpet
around the toilet.

It's [bleep] gross.

I don't like that.

I don't like that.
I haven't used it yet.

I'm not sure I can.

[indistinct chatter]

Well, congrats on
your first house, man.

-[Chris] Yeah.
-[Parker] Thanks.

Yeah, it's, um...

-[Chris] Nice house.
-It's something.

Well, Parker, I know
this is your starter home.

We finally have a home,
that's really cool,

so I brought this
for later, the celebration.

[Parker] Oh, thank you.

-[Chris] Yeah.
-I really appreciate that.

I think we'll enjoy it.

[laughter]

[Chris]
Congratulations, Parker.

[man] Nice place, man.

Well done, young man.

[laughs] Thank you, Chris.

Congratulations
on being a land owner.

[laughs] Thanks, dude.
I appreciate that.

Yeah, we're here now.

[dramatic music playing]