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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.