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[theme music playing]

[Rick] Yo.

-What up?
-What's up?

-What's going on?
-[Rick] Well, I got some news.

Um, I gotta leave
for a few days.

Um, I've gotta go
meet the agent

that's been working
on this water license.

Um, and I gotta go meet him
down in Vancouver.

The timing's [bleep] terrible,
but I pushed it off all year.

And if I don't get this done
right now, then, you know,

[bleep] is just not gonna
move at all.

Timing kind of sucks,
but that's pretty important.

There's only two things
to focus on right now,

it's getting pay
out of the cut

to the plant and getting
that [bleep] pay

through the plant,
and that's it.

-[Bailey] Sounds good.
-Appreciate it, guys.

All right.

On the edge of what I just
told all those guys,

I mean, just with the way
things have been going,

just kinda just keep
your eyes on everything,

you know what I mean?

[Zee] No problem.
I'll keep it light

and keep everyone fed.

And if not, a swift kick
in the ass will solve it.

-[Zee] I can yell, too.
-[sighs] Thanks, buddy.

[Zee] Yeah.

Everything's still
up in the air.

You know,
with this water license,

our future here is unknown.

And I could be stuck

holding something
that's not worth anything.

I'm not saying I'm gonna
come back with an answer,

but by going down there
and having some talks,

I might be able
to make this happen.

[narrator] Rick Ness's
mining career

is on shaky ground.

After going all in
to buy his own claim
early this season,

he needs to secure
a new water license,

or this could be
his last chance to mine
Duncan Creek gold.

We gotta make sure
we get every ounce of gold
out of the ground here

before the winter
freezes us out of here.

It's coming soon.

The guys here, they've worked
so hard this year,

and, you know,
they even risked

their gold bonus
and everything that we've got
on... on Vegas Valley.

[narrator] Rick has risked
$1 million

to mine the 180-foot-deep
Vegas Valley.

But his gamble
is starting to pay out,

delivering over $670,000
in gold last week.

Now, he's aiming to smash
his original 1,500-ounce goal

and get as much gold
as possible for his crew.

[narrator] Rick's struggles
have put the crew on edge

and frayed their relationship
with foreman Buzz Legault.

So, while he's away,

Rick's put best friend,
Zee Zaremba, in charge.

[Zee] Whatever I can do
to help

keep everyone
on the same page
while Rick's gone.

Rick was saying keep,
uh, pay at the plant,
and keep the plant...

um, running.

So, that's our main
objective at this point, so...

If you don't take any risks,
you may not get reward.

[narrator] Mechanic Ryan Kent
clears tailings.

Our gold bonus
went into that cut,

and pretty excited
to actually see

what this ground
can give all of us.

[Bailey]
It's the final push here,

and the main focus is to keep
that plant running.

And I'm pushing to the limit
to try to keep it fed.

[narrator] In the cut,

Bailey Carten digs pay.

Well, I promised Rick that,
uh, you know, that plant

won't stop till,
uh, till it freezes.

Hopefully, you know,
he gets-- comes back

with some good news,

or, you know,
or at least has an idea

of what the heck
our future is gonna be.

Oh, [bleep].

Looks like
the water is rising.

It's a challenge every day
right now,

how much groundwater
is coming in here.

It's just a pain
in the [bleep] ass.

We'll have to go back
to hauling the slop
to keep the cut dry.

Hey, Buzz, can you hear me?

[Buzz over radio]

[Bailey] I've gotta get
this crap out of this hole.

Go back down
and move this pump again.

[narrator] 180 feet deep
in Vegas Valley,

Bailey has dug
below the water table...

causing the cut to flood
and a mud slide to wash in,

covering the pay
in worthless sludge.

To fix the problem,
Buzz will dig a deeper pit

for the pump
to drain the water,

while Bailey removes the slop
on top of the pay

and trucks it to a waste pile.

Until that's done,
no pay can be sent
to the plant.

[Buzz speaking]

We are dealing
with the slop right now,

throwing sloppy loads,

sloshing back and forth
in the rock trucks.

Hey, Bailey, you got a copy?

Yeah, go ahead, Zee.

[Zee] Hey, man.
How you doing down there?

This pay pile
is getting pretty low.

No more fresh pay
is going up to the pile.

[Bailey] Not getting
much accomplished,

only can do two scoops
at a time loading the trucks.

So that's, uh,
where a lot of the time is,

you know,
disappearing here.

[Zee] Running out of pay
and stopping

the plant is not an option.

[narrator] Buzz lowers
the pump

into the deepened
drainage pit.

[Buzz speaking]

[Zee over radio] Hey, Bailey,
you got a copy?

Bailey, do you got a copy?

I said, "Bailey,
do you have a copy?"

Give me a second.

[Zee] This pay pile
is just getting really low.

We're, like, down
to the nitty-gritty up here.

Yeah, man,

this is gonna take a little
bit longer than expected.

It's gonna take a day or two,
uh, for us to do this,

just to get the stuff down.

[Zee] Yeah, if you're gonna
be a day,

I definitely
don't have enough, um...

[Bailey] Well, I don't know
what you wanna do.

Um, as much as I hate
to shut down the plant,

um I actually think
we're gonna have to.

[bleeping]

I know, Rick said...

...you know, keep pay
coming to the plant

and keep the plant moving.

That's the only things
he wanted.

[whirring stops]

[Zee] Who knows how long
it's gonna take Bailey

to get back on the pay,

so this is our
only option right now.

[Parker] Nobody wants
a company to die.

We're at the point
where it's just a monster,

we just need
to shove handfuls of gold

down its throat in order

to not lose our ass.

[narrator] As winter descends
on the Yukon,

Parker Schnabel finds himself
in an unfamiliar position.

[Parker] The season's starting
to wind down to a close.

It's been difficult.

We're well behind
this season right now.

It's a struggle.

And it's only gonna get worse.

[narrator] Parker started
the year with high hopes...

aiming to pull $25 million

from his recently purchased
Dominion Creek claim.

But decoding the ground
has proved difficult,

and he's only banked
$14 million.

To right the ship,

he wants to bring in
another 2,500 ounces

before the big freeze.

Man, it's been a rough one
with where we're at for gold,

and we're just coming
into panic season for me.

[narrator] Right now,
he's sluicing the Elbow Cut,

which netted him
280 ounces last week.

And his wash plant, Big Red,

is working through the top
pay layer in the Bridge Cut.

But the gold payouts
have been meager.

[Parker] Big Red's
just about done

plowing away on top gravels.

The Bridge Cut,
I don't know how
to un- bleep] this

as far as gold goes.

The numbers in the Bridge Cut
haven't been over the top.

We're just fighting
and scrounging

for the little bit of gold
we can get.

[narrator] In the Bridge Cut,

plant boss Tyson Lee
loads trucks

with the last red gravels
for Big Red.

[Tyson] We got
the red layer sluice

through Big Red
in this section,

and that's it for sluicing
in the Bridge Cut.

-Hey, man, how's it going?
-[Parker] Do you wanna go
look at this

-with me real quick, Tyson?
-[Tyson] Yep.

This is, like...

a little bit thawed.

So, I think with gold prices
where they are...

-[Tyson] Yeah?
-...we should try to get
some ounces out of here.

[Tyson] The only thing is,
we were leaving it
for next year,

which kinda... You know,
that was the whole name
of the game,

stepping away
from the Bridge Cut
was we had lots of...

lots of ground
on pay for next year.

Regardless, we need
the ounces.

We have a lot of bills
to pay.

-Right on.
-[Parker] Right?

[Tyson] What we could try
doing is just doing, like,

a perimeter lap
around the whole thing

and see-- see how that goes.

[Parker] Okay,
that's fine with me.

You guys have your work
cut out for you, then.

Yeah, definitely.

[Parker] All right.

[narrator] In the 114-acre
Bridge Cut,

Big Red
is almost done sluicing

a 15-foot-thick layer
of red gravels

that's averaged
just half an ounce
per 100 yards.

Beneath the red gravel
is the real moneymaker.

Fourteen feet of frozen
rich White Channel pay,

which Parker believes could be
four times richer.

To bank it this season,
Tyson will pull the thawed pay

from the perimeter
and run it through Big Red.

We just need to keep
gold coming in.

So, we're gonna pull strips
around the outside edge
of the Bridge Cut,

and hopefully,
it has a lot of gold in it.

[narrator]
While the stripping crew get
to work at the perimeter...

the sluice crew load
the last of the red gravel.

Gold prices are up,

every speck of gold counts.

And hopefully, we'll see
a lot better results

out of Bridge Cut.

[man] Hey, Tyson.

[Tyson] Parker wants
the perimeter of the cut
sluicing by tonight.

We gotta pound
through this [bleep]

and then get back to sluicing.

[rattling]

What the [bleep] is that?

-What the... [bleeping]
-[rattling continues]

[man] Hey! Cut it out!

[bleep]! Clamp bars
are [bleep] gone.

[bleep]!

This is not good.

[whirring stops]

[Tyson]
What the [bleep] happened?

[man] What the actual [bleep],
Big Red?

[Tyson]
We got a side tension bar
laying down here, man.

Yeah, and we probably
got two,

and [bleep] nuts and bolts.

[man] [bleep] me.
I just absolutely
[bleep] can't.

I can't fix this.

[narrator] At Dominion Creek,
Parker Schnabel's wash plant,

Big Red, has shaken
itself apart.

[Tyson] How did our
side tension bar [bleep]
on on us?

The structural integrity
of Big Red here is so weak,

just had enough
to spin off those nuts

one last time
or shear the bolts.

[narrator] Five months
of relentless sluicing

has destroyed the hardware

securing Big Red's
side tension bars,

which hold
the screens in place.

Is there any chance you can
patch it back together?

Take a look at how [bleep]
this thing is, man.

We can't weld to nothing.
It's paper-thin there.

This is not a Band-Aid fix.

This is a complete
[bleep] rebuild.

[Tyson] For [bleep] sakes.

This is not good.

Big Red's [bleep] dead, man.

She's finally
calling it quits.

[motor sputtering]

[narrator]
Without a wash plant,

the crew can't run
the White Channel pay

that could save the season.

[Tyson] We've gotta go
come up with a plan 'cause...

we gotta keep a wash plant
going here in the Bridge Cut.

[narrator]
King of the Klondike,
Tony Beets,

is gunning for
a record-breaking season.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] The King's
only 180 ounces away

from hitting his
5,000-ounce target

and wants to smash
through it this week.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] Tony already
has two plants

producing gold...

the Trommel at Paradise Hill

and Sluice-A-Lot
at Indian River.

Now, with time
on the season running out,

he wants to fire up
a third plant,

and it's on daughter, Monica,
to make it happen.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] Seven weeks ago...

This cut was gonna be mine.

[narrator] ...Monica attempted
to kickstart

the two-acre Hester Cut,

prime virgin ground
left behind by the dredges

that Tony believes
could deliver a quick
monster payday.

[Monica] I'm really excited
to see...

what kind of gold
we get out of here.

[narrator]
But a series of setbacks...

[narrator]
...left Tony's hopes

for a third sluicing operation
dead in the water.

Now, he has a pump
draining the cut

and is ready to sluice.

[Tony speaking]

[Monica] It's full
of [bleep] water.

The pump can't keep up.

[Monica] Me, too.

Should we poke around,

see what it looks like
down there?

[narrator] To dig out
the pay dirt,

the cut needs
to be dry enough

to support the weight
of the machines.

[Tony speaking]

It's pretty [bleep] squishy.

You're slowly sinking.

[Tony speaking]

[Monica] Yeah.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] The waterlogged mud

means getting equipment
into the cut is impossible.

I mean, that's not dirt,

that's pudding.

[Tony speaking]

Talk about a waste
of [bleep] time.

I have an idea.

What do you think

if we got what gold was left

in some of these
old-timer tailings?

I mean,
it's not virgin ground,

but there's gold in it still.

[narrator] 1,000 feet
from the Hester Cut

lies a pile of tailings
left behind by the old-timers.

Four years ago,
Tony sluiced them

for five weeks,
banking 330 ounces.

[Monica] Really glad
T. Beets likes the idea.

I think it's brilliant,
but that's 'cause I had it.

Tony, you want the tailings
on the other side?

[Tony over radio]

[narrator] Monica stockpiles
the tailings,

ready to sluice through
the Moose Creek trommel,

and Tony's hopes
for a triple-plant blitz

are back from the dead.

[Tony speaking]

[Parker]
Big Red is pretty well
dead for the season.

Like, it has taken
an ass-kicking,

and there's definitely no time

or manpower
to fix it this year.

[narrator] At Dominion Creek,

Parker's scramble
to haul in enough gold

to hit his 8,000-ounce,
$20 million target,
has been derailed

by the death
of his wash plant, Big Red.

[Parker] We need a new plan

to run more ground
in the Bridge Cut.

Bob is our highest
yardage plant.

So, we're gonna go get

the biggest production
wash plant we have.

I'm really hoping
that the Bridge Cut

can go, you know,
a couple ounces an hour.

But we'll see.

[narrator] 25 miles away
at Sulfur Creek...

wash plant, Bob, has sat idle
for nearly three weeks.

Now he wants it moved
to Dominion

and fired up
by the end of the day.

[Tyson] We just need to get
Bob out of Sulfur,

over to Dominion,
and we're running out of time.

[Jordan] [bleep] pull on it.

[man] There you go.

Honestly, like, I'm surprised
we're even moving this plant.

I don't even listen
when he [bleep] comes up

with an idea anymore.

It's kind of a pain
in the ass.

[bleep], we probably moved
a plant [bleep] 100 times.

Everyone's run ragged.

[narrator] To move the plant,
Tyson must use

Jordan's 50-year-old
Pacific P-16 heavy-duty hauler

that he's never driven before.

[Tyson] Do you want me
to pilot you back
and help unload--

[bleep] no,
you take it yourself.

I'm not sitting with you.

Do you want more time
to [bleep] around,

or do you wanna
just haul the plant?

-[Tyson] No, I'll haul it--
-Okay, there you go.

Take your corners wide,
like you always would.

But don't [bleep] it up
is the goal.

-Um, yeah.
-[Tyson] Sounds good, man.

-You'll be fine.
-[Tyson] All righty.

Okay, see ya.

-[Tyson] Here goes nothing.
-[engine revving]

She's rough.

First time hauling
anything in this Pacific.

Last thing I wanna do
is [bleep] this wash plant up.

[Jordan over radio]

Doing my best, man.

[narrator] Built in the 1960s
for use in the logging trade,

the P-16 is
a six-by-six-wheel-drive
monster...

packing a V12 twin-turbo
diesel engine

that can produce
up to 525 horsepower.

[narrator]
Weighing in at 25 tons,

with no power steering,

driving the steep
mountain roads

to Dominion is no easy task.

[Tyson] If you take it
slow and steady...

we'll get there in one piece.

Hey, Jordy, I'm just
pulling into the Dominion.

[Jordan over radio] 10-4.

So here we go.
We're at the Bridge Cut here.

Bob's new home.

Nice and gentle.

[rumbling]

Sluice runs are on.

Just gotta get this
up on the hill
and sluice it tonight.

Tight section. Tyson,
we're coming across
the cross stitch now

with the pipe.

No. Hey.

We really don't want to damage
these sluice runs

'cause they're the only ones
we got.

Just take it easy.
Thread the needle, baby.

Yeah, nice and slow.

All right. Coming through
the worst of it.

Looking good.

Okay. Prewash
is in line right now
with the SuperStacker.

Really close. Forward. Yep.

Yep, right there.

Nice work, guys.
Nice work, Tyson.

[Parker] You guys have made
quick work of this move.

-We're trying.
-I appreciate that.

No worries, man.

[narrator] Just eight hours
after leaving Sulphur,

Bob is set and ready to sluice
premium white channel pay

that could save
Parker's season.

Here we go.

See what the Bridge Cut
has to offer.

Fire her up.

-Thanks, guys. See you.
-Take care.

[Parker] This part
of the Bridge Cut
isn't quite ready to go,

but it's partially ready.

And at this point in time,
we'll accept partially ready.

Desperate times, right?

Until all this muck is gone,
you know, we're gonna have
more and more fun.

It just never ends
in this cut.

[narrator] Rick Ness is away
dealing with red tape

over the water license
to mine his ground,

leaving his crew in charge
of bringing in the gold.

But sluicing is at a dead stop
while they truck out
the worthless mud

drowning their
Vegas Valley pay.

It's nasty [bleep],
but it is what it is.

We're gonna have
to [bleep] deal with it.

[narrator] Foreman Buzz
has checked out,

meaning it's on
Rick's friend Zee
to come up with a plan.

[Zee] Rick's pretty stressed
out, obviously, with the whole
water license thing,

and instead of hauling muck,
we should be hauling pay.

Hey, Bailey, you got a copy?

Go ahead.

[Zee] I'm contemplating
going over that overspill

where Monster Red used to be
over by Rally Valley

and maybe just hauling
some of that over here
to keep the plant going.

[Bailey] Yeah, that sounds
good to me, man.

Might as well scrape up
whatever's laying around.

Copy that.

Get this [bleep] plant moving.

[narrator] Two weeks ago,
Rick pulled Monster Red
from Rally Valley.

[Rick] There she goes.

[narrator] Where it sat
for four years,

sluicing the richest dirt
of his mining career.

That's [bleep] huge.

[narrator] Zee believes
its old pad is covered
in over spilled gold-rich pay

that could bank them
a fast buck while they clear
the slop in Vegas Valley.

[Zee] We're gonna grab
a loader and a truck

and go to get that overspill
and start the plant back up.

This should buy us
a little bit of time.

We know there's gold in it.

Oh, this is it.

-[Buzz speaking]
-[Zee] Yeah.

Throw as much [bleep]
at the wall.

Something will stick
eventually, right?

Honestly, the first
couple of scoops,
they look good.

I got your truck full.

[narrator] Buzz delivers
the first truck load

ready to run
through Monster Red.

You improvise.
You pivot with what you got.
This is what we got.

What the [bleep]!

[bleep]

Buzz, you got a copy.
There's something wrong
with the loader.

I got no power.

Won't even lift up a scoop.

Honestly, right now,
we don't have time for this.

[bleep]

This is bad. I mean,
we've only got one loader.
This is not good.

[narrator] While hauling
emergency pay
from an old wash plant,

Rick Ness crew member, Zee,
has lost power in his loader.

Hey, Ryan, you got a copy?

The loader is shooting a code,
and it ain't even
[bleep] moving.

We'll plug it in and we'll see
what's not reading.

It looks like we have
a sensor problem, and...

...that's a problem.

This is our intake right here.

It's reading your pressure
into the engine.

So a pretty vital...

...component for something
that small.

There she is.
Man, that thing is sooted up.

What is it?

It's not getting
a voltage reading.

I know for a fact we don't
have that [bleep] sensor.

So I'm gonna go
look at a few things.

But until then, it's kind of
[bleep] dead where it sits.

Yeah, and that's my problem
is this is only
a three prong in mine.

It's got to at least
be a four.

[sighs]

Basically, everything
we've got here doesn't have
the sensor we need on it.

Um, a lot of the [bleep] here
is a lot older.

It kind of puts us into
a little bit of a predicament.

I should've had
another one ordered.

I gotta figure this
[bleep] out.

If it's down down,
I mean, we're [bleep].

It's the worst possible time.

Uh, I believe I found
what we need
in Rick's side-by-side.

There she is.

The chance of us
getting this going
is gonna be pretty slim.

But [blows air]
I'm hoping it'll work.
Let's put her in.

Easy fix. Easy swap.

Keep our fingers crossed
it works.

Dude, what the [bleep]?

No code. Code's off.

-All right.
-Lift it.

See what you got
and see if you got power.

[Zee] Phew. Way better.

[laughing]

Miraculously, the side-by-side
parts might actually, uh,
make it through the season.

[Zee] Hey, Buzz,
you got a copy?

Ryan got this thing fixed.

You want to swing back down,
we'll get the rest of this
over to the plant.

We're gonna go ahead
and run it through the plant.

Um, hopefully, it buys us
enough time to when Bailey
can start hauling pay again.

[narrator]
With Monster Red running,

Rick's mission to blow
past 1,500 ounces is back on.

[Zee] Now we're back
up and running.

Thank God.

[Buzz speaking]

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] Tony Beets
and his daughter, Monica,

are trying to tap into
a last ditch source of gold
on the Hester Cut.

[Monica] Yes, I do.

It's a gorgeous machine.

Well, I appreciate it.

[narrator] Tony's surprise,
a new half-million dollar
wash plant.

[Tony speaking]

I still get a birthday
present, though, right?

[laughing]

[narrator] The new plant
is unlike any
in Tony's arsenal.

Known as a super sluice,
it's designed to handle
big boulders.

Pay dirt is fed
into the hopper.

Water washes the gold
from the rocks.

Hydraulic steel fingers
push the waste away...

...while the heavier gold
falls to the sluices below.

[narrator] To set up
the new plant
as fast as possible,

Tony brings in the A Team.

First, Monica and Glen
must lift up the 17-ton plant

while cousin Mike drags
the skids into position.

Then Mike Beets
will use a dozer
to pull it onto its pad.

[Monica] Oh, goodness.

He's got his radio out.

Which means he's getting ready
to yell at me.

Holy [bleep].

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] Skids installed,

Mike drags the plant
into position next to
the old timer tailings.

[Tony speaking]

We're going to use the 700
to push it the rest of the way
into place.

[Monica] That was
pretty smooth.

[narrator] The new plant's
in place,

but before Tony can cash in
on the old timer tailings,

there's still work to do.

[Tony speaking]

[woman] There's a lot of work
that will have to be done
on Big Red.

It hasn't been
our biggest producer,
but it's got gold in it.

Big Red's tired.
It's been working all year,

a year longer
than it should have.

[narrator] It's the final
clean up at Parker's oldest
wash plant, Big Red,

which has shaken itself
to death.

We'll have to figure out
what we feel like doing.

Whether we reconstruct,
rebuild or walk away.

The tailing shoot
is real [bleep] thin.

I can almost stick my finger
through the hole.

[narrator] Across 12 seasons,

Big Red has hauled in
a staggering 34,300 ounces,

banking Parker
over $53,000,000 in gold.

It's like a battled warrior.

Grandma's had the teeth
knocked out of her.

But we still love the thing.

Yeah. [laughing]

[Bailey] It's going great
today, you know,
sending pay to the wash plant

and doing what we're supposed
to be doing here.

[narrator] After a tough week,

Rick Ness's crew
are back on track.

[Zee] This is awesome.
Got through the muck

and now we're
hauling pay again

so that Kyle can keep
feeding the plant.

It worked out pretty good.

-[Rick] Hello.
-Hello.

-This looks cozy.
-[woman] Welcome back.

[narrator] At the end
of the shift,

Rick is back from his
water license meeting
in Vancouver,

in time to find out
how much gold his crew
delivered without him.

Frustrating.

The least that could
have happened was I could have
came back with answers,

but I don't have any.

I really thought that maybe
that by going down there

and having some talks,
that it might be able to...

it would have done some good,
but really, yeah,
it's nothing.

I got nothing to report back,
so I apologize for that.

-You know, one way or another
would be [bleep] great, right?
-Yep.

[Rick] Because then you
can plan on it.

But when you don't know
at all, it's, uh,

it's a [bleep] thing.

[narrator] If Rick's license
is not renewed,

he won't be able to mine
his ground next season.

I was paying, you know,
paying everything
into this place

to never have
to leave it again,
and now that it's paid for,

I sure as hell
don't want to leave it.

But it's one of those
things where we're...

...gonna have to wait and see.

You kept things going here.

-How did this week really go,
you know?
-[Ryan] Zee broke a loader.

[laughing]

You're side-by-side
provided what I needed.
[laughing]

I give you points
for creativity there.

That's [bleep] impressive.

We all know our jobs.

We all know the [bleep]
that needs to be done.

And we all know
what we got invested.

That being said,
should we weigh up some gold?

-[woman] Let's do it.
-Let's see what you guys got.

[narrator] Last week,
Vegas Valley delivered
a massive 256 ounces of gold.

[Rick] All right, here we go.

[narrator] If they hit
300 this week,

Rick will smash his original
1,500-ounce gold.

But downtime at the plant
cost them two days
of sluicing.

[Rick] Let's do this.

Twenty, 30, 40, 60,

80, 100, 110.

-[tapping cannister]
-122.82.

[narrator]
Worth over $320,000,

but less than half
of what he was hoping for.

[Buzz speaking]

-Not as good as last time.
-Still quarter
of a million dollars.

[Bailey] We did run
some of that stuff
from Monster Red spill.

So, like, obviously
there wasn't going to be a lot
of gold in that.

And that brings us what,
over 1,300 ounces
on the season.

We aren't quite there yet.
You know, we got

a little less than 200 ounces
to get, and this
is going to be

the hardest 200 ounces
we get all season.

It's not gonna be easy.

-We still got a lot of fight
left in us.
-Yeah.

We just keep [bleep] rolling
the way we're rolling.

I really think
that that gamble
is gonna pay off.

I can see
that you're ready to go.

I'm ready to do it.

-Shall we get after it?
-Yep.

-Let's go.
-Let's [bleep]
make it happen, guys.

[Zee] The Gold Way was good,
but not as good as we wanted.

So a little bit of uncertainty
if we're gonna hit...
hit our final goal.

I came back with no answer
on the water license
which is frustrating.

We got to move forward
from that.

We didn't get as much gold,
but, you know, we're still
on our way to our season goal.

And, you know,
we just got to keep
pushing hard till the end.

Hi, guys. How are you guys?

Well, I got coffee and gold,
so I'm fine.

[narrator] At Paradise Hill,

the Beets family gather
to find out if they've caught
enough gold

to beat their 5,000-ounce
season goal.

-We had another good week.
-Oh, yeah.

Good for you.

Are you jealous?

I'll count Sluice-A-Lot.
You count the hill.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] Tony needs just
180 ounces to hit
his 5,000-ounce goal.

[Monica] Okay, ready?

[narrator] First up,
the Comeback Cut extension.
at Indian River.

So this is Sluice-A-Lot.

[Monica] Yeah, we'll start
with the Indian.

[Tony speaking]

Ten, 20, 30, 60, 90, 100,

110, 160,

205.80.

[Tony speaking]

-[Minnie] That's a nice
little haul, yeah.
-[Tony speaking]

[all laughing]

[narrator] Worth $543,000.

[Minnie] That gets us
past 5,000.

-[laughing]
-[Tony speaking]

So the rest
is our bonus, right?

[laughing]

[laughing]

All right, Mike-Mike,
we're gonna do your gold now.

Ready?

[narrator] Next up,
Mike's trommel
at Paradise Hill.

Ten, 20, 30, 60.

100, 110, 160, 70, 80, 90,

-200, 220, 230, 260.
-[tapping cannister]

264.76.

[narrator] Taking their season
total to 5,290 ounces.

Almost $14,000,000 n gold.

[Minnie] It's almost 5,300.

And we're only a couple
of ounces short
of our ever best season.

[Monica] There you go.

We might even top ourselves
this year.

[Tony speaking]

-Bye, guys.
-Bye-bye.

[Minnie] That's all, folks.

-What's happening, Chris?
-Hey, Mitchell.

-How's it treating you?
-Washing gold, man.

-Washing gold?
-That's good.

Well, Big Red's dead, man.

That thing's
put in some hours.

It looked rough
three months ago.

[all laughing]

Yeah, the red gravel
did a number on her this year,
that's for sure.

What a stroke of luck
that you were able to find
thawed ground,

since we've been
battling frost all season.

Even if it's thawed
on the edges, man, run it.

We get to figure out
what the Bridge Cut
is really all about now.

We've spent
a lot of money in there.

Well, you are a gambling man.

-So this is one
of the bigger gambles, hey?
-[Parker] Yeah.

Oh, I'm [bleep] tired.

Well, we might be able
to brighten your day up
with a little bit of gold.

Let's weigh some gold.

[narrator] Parker needs
2,500 ounces
to hit his season goal.

First up, the last
of the red top gravels
from the Bridge Cut.

Come on, T.

Big Red,
last run of the season.

Ten, 20.

60, 85, 90.

96.2.

Consistent right to the end.

[narrator] Worth $250,000.

[Chris] But that's
the red gravel.

When you got Bob going.

-and you got in the good
pay dirt...
-[Tyson] Yep.

...this is what
we ended up with.

-That one's looking like
it's got some weight to it.
-[Chris] Yeah.

[narrator] Next up,

just four days of running
the deeper, richer
white channel pay.

-This is Bob.
-The cream of the crop.

The cream of the crop.
Here we go.

Let's see what it's all about.

One-twenty,

140, 200,

230,

270. Are we going
to break 300?

-290.5.
-[laughs]

[narrator] Worth $766,000.

That is very nice.

-[Parker]
That's super relieving.
-Yeah.

'Cause I've been quite nervous
about that all year.

That was pretty impressive.

[narrator] Last up, Roxanne,

which last week delivered
282 ounces.

This is the Elbow Cut
right here.

Fighting some frost
down there,

but we're getting it chewed up
and through there.

Okay, here we go.

Twenty, 70,

90, 130, 170,

200, 230...

...276.1.

Nice.

We're on a roll now,
so it brings the season total
to 6,088.2 ounces.

[narrator] Worth at today's
record-high gold price,

an incredible $16,070,000.

-[Parker] Nice.
-Yeah.

-Good week.
-Oh, yeah, yep.

[narrator] But Parker
still needs almost
2,000 ounces

to hit his season goal.

If you guys can keep
wash plants running,
try to keep them running.

We shall.

No promises, though.

Have a good one.

Thanks, Mitch.

-All righty.
-Okay.