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[Parker] You know, this season has been complicated and expensive.

Dominion's been quite a learning curve.

A lot of very, very bad ground.

We can talk about how great it will be in the future,

but it doesn't, uh, doesn't help us pay any bills right now.

The fact that I'm actually needing to come up with money

and like selling things kills me.

-Are you buying this thing? -We're hoping.

I guess it all depends, hey?

We're just trying to get some emergency gear at the right price.

This is the nicest one that I can do.

It is a fairly tight tractor.

-[Brian] Where are you at? -[Parker] Where am I at?

Um...

Two hundred grand.

I was thinking we'd come in closer to the buck and a half mark.

Oh, 150.

Um...

Yeah. I mean, the truth is I need the money.

So how about, uh, we just settle on your side of the middle at, like, 165 ?

One sixty two.

[Parker] Fine.

[chuckles]

[Brian] Sounds good.

[Parker] Bosco.

Load up.

[Brian] Um, I'm not sure why Parker gave me such a good deal.

Maybe he's a little tight on gold this year. He's getting desperate.

[Parker] We're a mining company.

We should be making money gold mining.

Embarrassing is what it is.

Right now, we've got multiple wash plants running.

Well, this week should be the last of sluicing in the Long Cut.

There's definitely a serious concern that Roxanne might spend a large portion

of the tail end of this season shut down.

[narrator] At the start of the season, Parker Schnabel

made the call to mine out the Long Cut.

And it's been an expensive slog for foreman Mitch Blaschke.

After five months, the cut's almost out of pay,

and Parker now needs to find new ground.

[Mitch] Parker's been looking all over every property we have

trying to find more dirt we can sluice.

But it's all about finding that thawed material.

You know, it wouldn't be the first time we've bit off

a little bit more than we could chew.

[narrator] With over 9,500 acres of ground,

Parker is claim-rich but pay-dirt poor.

This late in the season,

any stripped ground is frozen and not ready to run.

Roxanne is just about done in the Long Cut,

and we're still quite short on gold.

And so Mitch and I are just trying to figure out

where Roxanne should spend the rest of it here.

And I feel like I'm walking through a minefield.

[narrator] To make matters worse,

Parker has just weeks left in the season

to mine over 3,000 ounces and hit his 8,000-ounce goal.

[Mitch] So what have we got over here?

-[Parker] So camp is just over that hill, right? -[Mitch] Yeah.

And these are all tailings

from mining in the 80s to early 90s.

And they're all done with an old push box, but they're thawed.

So we need to decide whether we gamble

that these tailings are mineable, right?

And I mean, I don't know, somebody else has already been in here, man.

This is their leftovers.

[Parker] I think the best thing to try to do

is to try to know where Roxanne's gonna go.

We can, like, bring a mini hoe over with a little test trommel.

The whole question is, how much of the gold do they get?

-And, uh... -[Parker] Which is a good reason

to come in with a smaller plant and do a test.

[Mitch] Okay.

[narrator] In the early 1980s, miners sluiced the perimeter of Parker's camp,

leaving piles of tailings.

They used a primitive push box wash plant,

and a dozer to feed pay directly into the sluice box.

Parker hopes this inefficient method left lots of gold behind.

Now covered in trees, Parker must remove the top layer of vegetation

to get to the thawed tailings.

[Parker] I'm just exploring a little bit trying to figure out how to identify

what I think is the good stuff versus the waste.

These tailings are one of the best options if there's gold in them.

And we, you know, pretty desperately need to keep the plant running

and hopefully on something that has some decent gold in it.

So Tyson's gonna come down with our little test trommel,

and we're gonna do some testing and see if there's any gold in there.

-Come on. -[barks]

Right now, we're just trying to run a yard of different materials.

And then we'll do a cleanup and we'll see what's in it.

[Tyson] Oh, yeah.

[narrator] Before Parker commits to mining the tailings,

he's running a three-yard test.

We are getting there one shovelful at a time.

[narrator] To be viable, he needs one gram of gold minimum.

[Tyson] This is our final bucket.

[Parker] This is the last one?

Maybe we'll get the confidence that we need. Maybe not. I don't know.

We'll pan it and lay it and see what we find.

The problems that we have this year with, like, wash plants

and schedules, um...

...was a pretty big screw up on my part.

Now, it's just a matter of getting enough money

to pay the payments that we have for the property and debt payments.

So we're in a bit of a precarious position at the moment.

And we need plants running till the end of the season.

All right.

It doesn't look too bad for a dirt that's been washed before.

[Parker] It looks like more than it is, but I don't know.

I need to weigh it. I have a scale at my house.

We really want to be done with overburden this week

and get down to pay as quick as we can.

Just probably about another eight feet.

[narrator] A month into their next big treasure hunt,

Rick Ness's crew has moved a mountain

and are finally on the verge of hitting Vegas Valley pay.

We're almost right to the end here, and every day counts for us.

Bailey's done a great job with this cut, managing it.

Got into a good spot.

But we still got a way to go.

We've got a lot more gold to get and not a whole lot of time to do it.

[narrator] Rick has spent nearly a million dollars of his profits

to dig down over 150 feet in Vegas Valley.

With no gold coming in and no guarantee he can mine the property next year,

Rick is praying his gamble will pay out big.

[Rick] This water license, you know, that's hanging over my head,

and we don't know what's gonna happen here.

We gotta just push it even harder.

[narrator] Facing an uncertain future for him and his crew,

Rick's hoping to double his investment and hit a $2 million jackpot.

Well...

...you guys have done a hell of a lot of stripping,

and it looks like we're getting close to pay, right?

We've only got seven or eight foot overburdened gravel sitting on the pay.

And, uh, the future is kind of unknown.

We don't know if we're coming back next year,

and I want to make sure that we get as much gold

as we can, uh, by the end of this year.

I want to just keep going a little bit farther um, upstream, extend the cut.

It's a gamble. It's going to take some time.

We just don't have time to be messing around stripping more overburden.

I think we've got the time. I really do.

Wouldn't it be smarter just to take out what we got?

I mean, there's pay right there.

[Rick] You know, if this is gonna be our last year here in Duncan Creek,

I just want to maximize it, you know?

I want to get down and get the biggest spot and get all the gold.

-I think it's not worth it anymore. -I agree.

I think it's worth a shot.

Buzz?

This whole [bleep] cut's been a risk.

The way I look at it, is we go down any farther after the pay,

then we're not gonna be able to spend it right.

If that's what you want.

Let's expand it right now.

Take that [bleep] chance.

[narrator] Over the last four weeks...

...Rick's crew has removed nearly a million yards of worthless overburden,

stepping their way down 150 feet to open up a half-acre cut

that is now just eight feet away from a 50-foot pay layer.

But with just over a month left in the season,

Rick wants to spend two weeks extending the cut by a further 60 feet.

Then, remove the last eight feet of overburden

from the hole cut down to pay

to maximize the area of gold he can get.

This extension has been quite a [bleep] mess so far.

There's water on this bank here,

and I just found some clay.

[narrator] Extending the cut,

Bailey's hit a layer of sloppy clay.

Kind of, uh, kind of concerned for us

because the water is not going to let up here at all by the look of it,

[Ryan] And Rick's decided he wants to poke into that corner

where there's quite a bit of slop right now to expose some more pay.

I just think it's not worth the risk.

The roads are going to [bleep].

We're definitely working these trucks right to the max.

Clay, it's heavy, it's wet.

The sooner we get through it, the better.

But for now, we just keep pushing.

Oh, sinking.

[bleep]

[bleep] Just buried.

Hey, Ryan, you got a copy?

[Ryan] Yeah. What's up?

I'm, uh, pretty [bleep] stuck over here.

It's pretty bad. Um, I can't move at all.

You have to get over here.

[narrator] At Duncan Creek,

operator Kyle's rock truck

has sunk into the swampy mess

while extending the Vegas Valley cut.

What the [bleep]?

We got to stop [bleep] with this corner.

I'll clear that back out a little bit.

-Yeah. -Pull the stuff out. We'll hook that on.

Yeah, right now we just work around this rock truck,

try to pull it out with a good cable.

It's definitely throwing a little bit of challenges here.

It's pretty soft.

Bailey was loading me in there, and, uh, it's all that clay.

So I ended up getting stuck.

But, uh, it's a pain in the ass.

[Bailey] Right now, Kyle's gonna hook it up

and we're gonna pull this truck out.

And, uh, get some air back in that tire.

Uh, the tires [bleep]. We don't have any other tires.

It blew.

Yep.

Oh, truck floor's done.

-Yeah, you might as well drive it and go park it. -Yep.

This place, [bleep], a pain in the ass.

We've been eating through pay.

It's been unbelievable.

We've kind of got to get a move on, uh, with getting pay

into a nice little stockpile 'cause we need to get our goal

and if there's nothing stockpiled,

I don't know how we're going to reach it.

[narrator] First-year mine boss Kevin Beets,

is trying to step out from his father Tony's shadow.

He's banked just over 300 ounces.

And he's ramped up sluicing 24-7 to try and hit his ambitious 1000-ounce goal.

[Kevin] Now that we're running 24, we've been chewing up the cut pretty good.

So, we really got to keep our eyes ahead

so that we do not fall [bleep] behind.

And, yeah, and push hard for 1,000 ounces.

We're gonna be running outta pay real quick.

So if we want to keep going, we have to keep on [bleep] trucking.

[narrator] With no resources to increase stripping production,

Kevin is now almost out of stockpiled pay.

[Kevin] We gotta keep that stockpile built up

so we can keep [bleep] running and get pay from the link's extension.

But it's still a far way off.

[narrator] To add to Kevin's problems,

his trusty workhorse, the 480 excavator, is down for repairs.

[Kevin] The problem with the 480 that we're having

is that there is a power issue with one of the injectors.

It's not getting juiced.

So now we gotta figure out where she'd [bleep].

[narrator] So far this season,

Kevin has mined out three acres of the links cut.

His crew has since opened up a two-acre extension next to the tailings pond.

And 300 feet north,

they're now racing to finish off stripping

a further three acres to supply pay for the rest of the year.

[Brennan] Well, right now we're opening up this cut a little bit more.

We're a little short on people,

but we just got to try and push on and make everything happen.

[narrator] In the D10 dozer, foreman Brennan Ruault

pushes overburden to their only working excavator, the 700,

to load into rock trucks to haul to a waste site.

[Brennan] So we just left Chase in charge of the loading trucks.

He's been doing good so far, but this will be a trial date,

and let's see how he does.

[Chase] This is my first time. I've never really done it before.

It's been good. I've been getting some more seat time in the excavator.

Spending my days in here.

[narrator] Former gravel pit worker, Chase Dreger

has run truck for Kevin all season

and only recently stepped up to excavator.

[Chase] Quite a few things can go wrong here.

So, yeah, I'm feeling the pressure.

I smell something burning.

Holy [bleep].

Brennan, you got a copy? Brennan?

[Brennan] Hello.

[Chase] This thing is smoking out the back right now.

[Brennan] Did you shut the key off?

It looks like it's getting way worse.

I'm just gonna pop open the engine compartment

and see if I see any flames or anything, but it's just smoking.

[Brennan] Just have to go right now.

[Chase] Oh, yeah, something's definitely on fire.

[bleep]

[grunts] [bleep]

[Brennan speaking]

[Chase] I have no idea what happened.

I really have no idea.

[Brennan speaking]

We need this excavator, and we don't have a spare machine.

Forty steps back to every one step forward here.

[Chase] There was some flames I had to hit there. I'll show you.

Let me see here.

I don't know.

-So what did you find out there, Kev? -[bleep]

Look at the starter, and you can see

-it's got a drip of solid steel. -Really?

So something shorted inside there,

made a molten ball of metal and lit everything on fire.

-From the starter? -Yeah.

Was it the same thing that happened to Matt, basically on his?

Remember when the starter did that?

Uh... yeah.

Could be us hooking the same thing up wrong.

[Matt] I smelled some hot wires

and saw some smoke coming out of this back corner here.

[narrator] Earlier this season,

the 700 went down with the same issue.

On the bottom of this caught fire.

Yeah, that's interesting.

Unless they've shorted a hole and the [bleep] plastic hosing there.

[narrator] To fix it, Kevin replaced the entire starter motor.

So, we're good.

[narrator] But it seems he didn't fit it correctly.

This thing is definitely down for a little bit.

Yeah, [bleep] sakes.

[sighs]

Well, this really sucks.

There was another spark off the starter earlier this year.

There was a fire in there.

[narrator] In the links cut extension,

Kevin's plans to hit pay are at a standstill,

after his only working excavator went up in smoke.

[Kevin] Faith's got the part, and I'm hoping it's going to be a fairly easy fix.

Let's see. What can I hit my head on today?

You [bleep].

Right now, we have no excavators or load truck

to haul any pay, so...

Our 1,000-ounce goal is looking less and less likely.

We are really running out of time.

There we go.

So, as you can see,

something got, uh, made contact on the inside.

Got the system so [bleep] hot, this outer frame melted.

And you can see where the drop of molten steel

was, like, beated up here and then went [makes sound].

And fell off.

One of the things I wanted to do differently,

I'm gonna pull the main power cable off.

Regoo the [bleep] out of that a bit,

provide a bit more additional protection.

It was not sparking from where we hooked up the same power cables.

The negative and the positive, we did do those wrong.

I think I've got that part sorted.

Uh, we really do need the 700 running.

Bare minimum.

I still have not got the 480 fixed.

I've had not enough time to get to it.

Okay. Starter is in.

Everything is hooked up, connected

I'm really hoping this thing fires up without too many issues.

Okay. One for the money. Two for the show. Three to get ready.

[engine starting and stopping]

No.

A bit of a turn over. Let's try that again.

[engine stuttering]

Come on.

[engine starting]

How's it going, boss?

If you can hear she's running. She's all yours.

[Brennan] Nice.

That's good. We've got the 700 back up and running.

One down, and so many more to go.

[Brennan] Well, the 700's up and running here.

We just need to keep motoring on.

[narrator] After just four hours of downtime,

Brennan is back in the race to hit extension pay before the stockpile runs out.

[Brennan] And this year has been a fight from start to finish.

But, you know, got to stay positive

for the last few weeks of the season

and hopefully we'll crush that 1,000-ounce target.

[Damien] And it has been a hell of a week here.

It's a little bit surreal right now.

The pay pile is finished, the last few buckets here,

and I'm finishing up sluicing.

[narrator] Five weeks ago, while struggling to find gold, at Dominion,

Parker spent $2.5 million on two new claims.

Gold Run and Sulfur.

[Damien] Sulfur was the gamble because we don't know

what the people prior left behind.

With all the issues there happening at Dominion, this was critical.

And, my [bleep], when you think about costs that Parker had this season

with all the purchases he done,

and the expectation was for Sulfur to perform this year.

We had hit it hard, but it definitely paid off for us.

[narrator] In just three weeks of running,

it's already delivered over 570 ounces of its 1,000-ounce target.

But has now run out of thawed pay

and has to be shut down for the season.

[Damien] It's kind of hard to believe it, but it feels bloody good.

Bob didn't give very much trouble at all, which was awesome.

It's hard to believe, like, this is all sluiced out,

and the gold was pretty damn good in there.

But it's time to look for the greener pasture.

You've done us proud, Bob. You've done us proud.

[narrator] Twenty five miles away at Dominion,

foreman Mitch is also running the Long Cut's final pay.

[Mitch] So much work has gone into the Long Cut.

You know, we've been in here all season, sluicing it.

And finally getting to that point

where we can say the Long Cut is no longer.

Right here is the last scoop of paydirt.

[narrator] Mitch has spent 19 weeks battling breakdowns,

frozen pay and inconsistent gold.

But finally he's mined out the 20-acre cut.

That is a damn good feeling.

Pretty crazy when you sit here

and look at this hole in the ground that we've made.

The amount of hours that have gone into making this all happen.

Parker said, "I don't care what it takes to get it done."

And he's really just kind of, you know, let me have at it out here.

The season isn't over yet, but the Long Cut is completed.

The big question is, where do we take Roxanne from here?

We may end up with some serious downtime.

[narrator] With Roxanne finished in the Long Cut and Bob done at Sulfur,

Parker is now down to just one wash plant

in his last piece of opened ground, the Bridge Cut.

To have any hope of finishing the season strong,

everything now rests on the results of Parker's tailings test.

Knock, knock. What's the scoop?

A little mini gold weigh for a mini wash plant, hey?

I don't have, uh, all of the things I need,

so plastic shot glasses are my measuring device.

[narrator] For the tailings to be profitable,

Parker is looking for the three-yard test to deliver one gram of gold.

[Parker] Oh, boy,.76 grams.

That sucks.

Did we break even on our costs?

Fifty bucks. We didn't make money.

We could just stop sluicing...

...but I don't... I think that's a dumb thing to do right now.

But what are we supposed to do?

Dealing with this clay has been a headache

since we first started hitting it.

It's, uh, nonstop.

The trucks are getting stuck in it.

[narrator] The Ness crew have been battling to expand the Vegas Valley cut all week,

but the layer of sloppy clay has slowed progress to a crawl.

[Buzz speaking]

[Ryan] What's up?

[Buzz speaking]

It looks like a cesspool of [bleep] chocolate milk.

I wanna talk to Rick.

[Bailey] We've got to get out of this clay.

It's just holding us back,

putting a lot of wear and tear on the trucks

and, you know, putting us farther behind to be able to get this pay.

We gotta come up with a better idea.

What's up, guys?

What's up with you?

I don't know. I'm a little nervous now. [chuckles]

Right now, we haven't sluiced for a month.

Yeah.

Um...

This extension part of the cut is slowing us down too much right now.

The season's ending.

We're getting stuck in all the slop and clay.

Yeah, I just buried my truck in a bunch of slop.

We're getting two buckets of water and [bleep] mud

out of there at a time, and it's just [bleep] way too slow.

[Ryan] And there's just way too much muck right now,

and there's not enough time.

[groans]

[Rick] I can tell everybody's pretty disgusted with this clay and water [bleep].

and if it's becoming that much of a problem, you're probably right.

We should just move on.

You're not gonna beat the [bleep] slop.

Well, so then where do we cut it off, then?

Pretty much right where Kyle got stuck.

We'll just [bleep] put a berm to hold the rest of the slop back

and dig down, I guess.

[Rick] Yeah.

Do you think that leaves us enough for this year?

[Bailey] Yeah. It ain't gonna be big,

but, you know, it's definitely with this time frame that we're in now,

might as well just take what we can get.

That'll probably get us running sooner, but...

...just kind of limits us on the size of our cut.

So, um...

[Ryan] I would rather not take any chances.

-We've got to put a lot more gold in the box. -Yeah.

[Buzz speaking]

All right. We've only got seven or eight foot overburdened gravel

sitting on the pay, hey?

So just get that overburdened grab off.

Sounds good.

[Rick] Well, the crew has definitely voiced their opinions

about extending the cut, and I'm just gonna have to go with them on this one.

In light of all the struggles we're having, we'll just cut it short.

We just won't go after that extension.

We have to move on.

We've got 1,500 ounces to get.

I mean, we don't have a choice.

At the end of the day, it was a necessary thing for us

just to, uh, take a halt and not go any further in this corner.

And we really need to contain this clay right now.

So, we're just gonna put a berm up.

Just let's take what we can get and get out of here.

[Buzz speaking]

I'm happy we're opting for pay immediately instead of keeping stripping.

We need to get sluicing again and getting more gold.

I'm scraping scraps and it's kind of like a graveyard.

And I'm running out of pay.

[narrator] Kevin's crew are down to their final loads of stockpiled pay dirt.

And Brennan still hasn't hit pay in the links cut extension.

Well, the 700's up and running here with the links cut extension.

And I'm just trying my hardest to get down to pay.

And keep the plant running.

You know, that's the most important tool on the job site right now,

'cause that's the only thing bringing in the money.

You need it running. Every minute counts right now.

[bleep]

This looks gorgeous.

Like, I'm seeing [bleep] pay. Like, look at the boulders in here.

That's just unreal.

Hey, Kev, you copy, Kevin?

[Kevin] Go for Kevin. Go for Kevin.

[Brennan] Kev, you gotta get down here with the gold pan, man.

[Kevin] I'll be right down.

Man, this [bleep] pay is unreal, Kev.

Let's have a look.

Find a puddle and let's see what this looks like.

Tell me there's a [bleep] bunch of gold in there.

We got a nice little pile here.

But there's some decent-sized flakes.

Oh, my [bleep].

Well, I'm [bleep] pumped. I'm gonna get back digging here.

-I gotta start hauling that up to the [bleep] wash plant. -Agreed.

-That is really gonna help us get to 1,000 ounces. -[bleep] We really need that.

[bleep] yeah.

So it'll be real nice to get a bit of pay and the links cut extension

and have that pay pile stocked up for Hunter running the plant over there.

So we just need to keep motoring on.

[Mitch] Oh. Oh.

No forward gears.

Looks like our transmission has left the chat.

What's going on?

The tranny gave out before we got there.

Oh, sucks.

Looking for a tow.

[Mitch] Tow strap would be great, yeah.

We'll just pull her the rest of the way in.

-Let's roll. -Ready?

-Yeah, man, let's do it. -Okay. Here we go.

Well, right now we're taking this truck back to the park's graveyard.

It's the end of the year.

These trucks have pounded down these roads for a long time,

and they're getting tired just like everybody else.

And you look up here, there's a lot of vehicles that need a lot of attention.

This one, we're adding to it.

Perfect.

All right, buddy. Well, thanks for the tow.

It was good while it lasted.

[Bailey] I'm happy that I'm finally out of the clay pool [bleep].

There's definitely a little bit of rush

to be able to get down to the pay and start hauling out here.

[narrator] After abandoning the Vegas Valley Extension,

Rick's crew have spent two days

removing the remaining eight feet of overburden in the half-acre cut.

Yeah, this stuff looks like pay to me.

You know, Rick's pretty much said

once you start hitting those bigger boulders and actually scraping it,

that's when you're gonna know that you're, you know, have the pay.

Hey, Rick, you want to come down to Vegas Valley here?

I think I might have hit pay.

[narrator] Rick has spent six weeks

and a million dollars of his profits,

removing over a million tons of overburden

in the hopes of a big score.

Oh, yeah, that's my spot.

[narrator] But if the crew have missed the pay streak

it could all be for nothing.

[Rick] Get a load of that.

That is nice-looking gold for a pan.

That's some [bleep] chunky gold.

[laughs]

That's unreal.

The gold is usually not that coarse in a pan. That's really good.

Bailey, you got a copy?

[Bailey] Go ahead, Rick.

[Rick] That's definitely pay dirt.

How does it feel to come down that far and hit it?

[Bailey] It's been a long time from the top to the bottom here.

Did a good job. Did a really good job,

[narrator] Rick's crew are now in a race to build a stockpile of pay,

move Monster Red to Vegas Valley and sluice it all

before winter shuts them down.

Guess what, guys?

That's the first load of pay out of Vegas Valley.

[bleep] yeah.

Finally on pay. Amazing.

[Buzz speaking]

It's about [bleep] time.

[Rick] It's definitely been a long time coming.

We've been pushing machines to the limits and the crew, for that matter.

But now we got to focus on getting Monster Red moved down here.

I can't wait to see the kind of gold we're gonna pull from Vegas Valley.

Hey, bud.

Hey, everybody.

Kev, how's it going, buddy?

Well, that was a tough week...

-Oh. -...with all the machines constantly going down.

They just about cried.

And you're the one that fixes it.

Like, the 700 being on fire.

That was a fun one.

Before the 700 went down, we had a bit of a stockpile going.

-Well, yeah. -And now I'm struggling to keep ahead.

-At least you got the 700 up and going real quick there. -[Kevin] Yeah.

As quick as we could all things considered.

We have persevered,

and we at least have some of the yellow [bleep] to show for it.

-Yeah. -The last little bit of the links cut.

Okay, who's doing the counting?

I have to... I have to pour, so...

Okay, I'll count.

[narrator] Kevin is still nearly 700 ounces short of his 1,000-ounce goal.

To have any hopes of hitting it,

he needs 140 ounces every week.

Ooh.

[Brennan] Ten.

Twenty, 30, 40.

Sixty.

Eighty. Ninety-nine.

One twenty.

Forty, 50.

159.05.

That's not a bad week, hey?

That's okay.

[narrator] Worth almost $400,000.

So it's 471.05 right now, our gold total.

Just under halfway.

So we need another 528.95.

Running out of time.

We do have to hustle up here. That's a lot more gold to [bleep] find.

Holy [bleep].

The, uh, pans from the links extension looked really nice,

so I think it's optimistic to hope for double.

But it would be nice if we can get double next week.

I should get my ass back out there.

-and [bleep] make sure everybody's... -Moving in the dirt.

Okay, we'll talk to you in a bit. Thanks.

Well, it was nice to see that we had another really good week

on the cleanup with all the downtime that we had.

But holy [bleep], I mean, we still have over half the season total

to find here.

It kind of makes me a little bit nervous right now.

The pressure is on.

The links extension is finally ready to start hauling out.

-So, push hard. -[Faith] Yeah, and like from that test pan,

I really hope it's as rich as we hoped it to be.

-Same. Same. -Yeah.

And we really need to hit that 1,000-ounce goal.

What's going on?

Buddy, how you doing?

It sounds like the tailings, that was a bust.

-Um... -We did some character building.

[laughing]

We tried a bunch of different stuff.

It wouldn't be anything special, you know.

-Like... -[Tyson] Hey, we did make 50 bucks.

Yeah, Tyson... That's all the gold we found was $50 worth.

Well, I hear you've finished the Long Cut there, hey?

[Mitch] Dude, the Long Cut is over.

-Yeah. -[Tyson] Congratulations.

-That was... Thanks. -[laughing]

That was a long time.

-Hmm. -Sulfur is all done.

The Sulfur is all packed up.

Yeah, and Damien's old wash plant tour of the Yukon

-is over -For the season.

If there's any further cuts away,

-that's where I'd be. -[all laughing]

-I'm getting paid by the mile, right? -[chuckles]

You'd think so. Jeez.

Well, not worth driving around.

Well, shall we throw some gold on the scale and see what we've got?

[Parker] Yeah. Start with old Big Red. Old trusty.

-Yeah. -Is she gonna keep up her triple digits?

[narrator] After Sulfur and the Long Cut shut down,

Big Red in the bridge cut is now Parker's only moneymaker.

But so far, it's averaging under 100 ounces a week.

[Tyson] Five.

Fifteen, 30.

Forty-five, 60.

We break 100 again. There's 100.

105.

111.

-Pretty consistent, really. -[Parker] Consistently poor.

We've got Big Bob here.

[narrator] When Parker bought Sulfur,

he wanted to pull in a quick 1,000 ounces.

But it's delivered just over half of that.

[Damien] Five, 10, 20, 30,

60, 70, 80,

100, 120,

150, 160,

182.2.

A total of about 750 ounces.

Well, you originally were saying you wanted 1,000.

So that's pretty close.

-I mean, not too far off. -Um...

You got to be happy with that purchase.

-No. -No?

Okay.

I really appreciate what you've done over there,

but it's been a battle.

Well, you want to see how your cut finished up, Mitch?

-Let's see what the last... -[Parker] Yeah, the Long Cut.

Yeah, the Long Cut.

The last of the Long Cut.

-So we got Roxanne and the Long Cut. -Yeah.

[narrator] At the start of the season,

Parker expected the Long Cut to deliver 3,000 ounces,

but is still 700 ounces short.

Ten, 20, 30,

45, 50, 80,

90, 100.

130, 140.

-155.9. -[Parker] Oh.

Well, I'm glad that cut's over because it was like a pain in the ass.

You got her done. Good job.

[narrator] Parker's three wash plants have delivered 449 ounces

worth over $1.1 million.

So we broke 5000, which is good.

You know, it's too bad we couldn't keep three plants going.

[narrator] With only one wash plant producing gold,

Parker has just over a month to hit his 8,000-ounce target.

Yeah, a lot of ounces missing.

Here we are at the end of the season, sluicing waste gravel.

Doesn't feel very good, but we're learning.

Try again next week.

All right.

Well, Sulfur is finished up.

The Long Cut is finally over.

And hopefully we've got more ground here for Roxanne

so we can keep sluicing.

[Parker] Well, we need to run something 'cause we still need to get more gold.

So we will keep looking for ground.

It's just such a difficult thing to try to figure out.