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We've got more than 4 ,000 ounces, and we're not even halfway through the

season. We have to, like, focus on sluicing and hit our 10 ,000 ounces this

year. Particularly because the price of gold's really good, and nobody has a

clue how long it's going to stay that way.

Mining mogul Parker Schnabel is on a tear.

Ten weeks into the season, he's already stacked $15 million in gold.

Now. He's shifting into overdrive, eager to take advantage of the summer

weather. So we just have to make hay while the sun shines and run four

Mitch and Brennan, now they're running on the Indian River.

That's the next big pit for Roxanne.

Of course, we still have the two plants at Dominion plugging away.

Tyson's doing really well this year.

He's doing a very good job of handling things at Dominion.

But we just have to kick it in high gear.

This year is definitely the most I've ever taken on in my career.

Definitely pushing me to my limits, seeing what I'm capable of.

Definitely keeping me busy. On average, I'm working from 15 to 16 hours a day.

But man, am I tired.

I'm good. How are you doing? I'm pretty good.

A couple things.

I want to get another plant running in the Golden Mile.

I have two wash plants set up there.

Big red?

I think we should try to fire that thing up.

Yeah? Like end of the week or something.

I've already talked to the mechanics. They're starting to work on her.

Let's see if it happens around here if we have four plants running.

With the crew we got, running three plants on Dominion is going to be a

Like I'm running like a chicken with my head cut off in between the two right

now.

With three, it's already... I know.

I know.

We're taking chaos to a new level.

You're going to have gray hair by the end of it. Right?

To bring in 10 ,000 ounces.

Parker wants to run four wash plants for the first time in his career.

At his least ground on the Indian River, Roxanne is pounding through pay dirt.

Ten miles north, at Dominion, wash plant Bob is sluicing the bridge cut.

Two miles away, Sluicifer is finishing off the first 11 acres of the Golden

Mile.

Now... Parker wants Tyson to move Sluicifer 800 feet to a new pad to

sluice the next 15 -acre section.

To get through the pay as fast as possible, Parker wants to resurrect his

plant, Big Red, and set it up next to Sluicifer, doubling his golden mile

firepower.

The mechanics are not going to be happy.

Big red screen deck.

The loose runs and the pre -wash need a lot of work.

And that's pretty much what makes up a wash plant.

And Parker wants it running by the end of the week.

Yeah, this plant was in really bad shape.

After last year and pieces flying off of it, the thought of even rebuilding it

surprised me.

Last season, after 13 years hard mining, Big Red suffered a catastrophic

breakdown.

Now, Parker's mechanics need to resurrect her in just three days.

Jordan, just hold it there for one second.

Okay, holding.

First up, attach Big Red's refurbished hopper where gold -rich pay dirt is fed

into the plant.

Okay, table down a little bit more.

Whoa, holder right there.

Okay, bolt one is in.

I would say Parker has gold fever. Gold prices are huge. We had a year last

year. We got saw in these cuts.

Get the payout.

Get gold while the price is through the roof.

Now, Jordan, we got to go ahead towards the screen deck.

You've got to be careful it doesn't come all at once.

It's not a super heavy lift, but it's super precarious once we try to get

third and fourth pin sets.

We're trying to move it, you know, inches to get a pin in.

You know what? What's going to be the safest? Probably come along that to

Exactly. Okay, let's do that just.

The issue we're having is that right now we have this pre -wash hung on these

pins right here.

And this arm, whole support arm, is actually on two pins on the bottom. So

whole thing moves back and forth.

So we're trying to move it ahead to drop the four pins in the front.

But when we do, this is floating free.

A lot of weight here.

So if we don't control it, the thing could just shoot off into there.

Bill secures the hopper's support arm and inches it forward to slide the

in.

Okay, Jordan, let's go down a little bit.

Hold her there.

There we go. Okay, it's in.

Went the best it could go, but...

We've still got to replace the screens, weld the plates in.

Impact rubber's got to be bolted in to finish off the structural.

And then reassembly, and one thing goes wrong, we're definitely not going to

make it.

Right now we're dealing with everyone running at their maximum capacity.

I'd like to have a double wash plant pad for Sluicifer and Big Red done.

Sluicifer has a couple days of pay left.

It's going to be out here until 9, 10, 11 o 'clock at night tonight.

Wake up at 5 a .m. and we'll do it all over again.

So we have a lot of work to do and not much time to get it done in.

Ten miles south.

Right now?

With a price of gold this great, it is a great time to be Tony Beats, I'll tell

you. Like Parker, King of the Klondike, Tony Beats, is also running at a

fever pitch, hoping to cash in on record high gold prices.

I can always get more gold. I may not always be able to get this price.

I suggest you get together.

and get as much velvet as you possibly can because you don't want to leave in a

moment.

Tony's already mined $10 million in gold and wants a lot more, opening

up his biggest cut ever, the 46 -acre corner cut.

The corner cut is so big that it's going to take us a while to get down to pay.

Not only that, a fair amount of it is frozen.

So we got the river cut down there that we cleaned up last year. So that's ready

to go. Start to buy this a little bit of time so that we can get the corner cut

ready. You got to have ground to head.

You cannot shut down for 14 days because you weren't ready. You got to be ready.

To get through all this ground, Tony's dropped a million dollars on a new wash

plan.

The new spruce boxes arriving today, so that'd be pretty exciting.

Because then we'll double production right there.

And I mean, with the way gold prices are, boy, what an opportunity it is.

Make some money, as they say.

Double the trouble, double the gold.

Right?

The faster we can get this thing going, the better it is.

Tony has spent a lot of money this year on new equipment that is way more

reliable and does a way better job of catching the gold.

So I think we should lift up the front.

It's a big investment, but hopefully that will pay for itself.

That's it. Perfect.

The new 45 -ton wash plant is the same model as Tony's plant, Slusalot.

One of the biggest shaker decks money can buy.

It can process 350 yards of pay an hour.

How's it going, Jeff?

Going good.

Good. How long do you think it's going to take to fill the whole thing?

We got the conveyor neck.

Then we got the side arms, the supports for the loose runs.

I'd say by the end of the day, if everything goes well.

So you go do yours, I'll go do mine, and we'll get them together and we'll be in

business. You can call me later. All right.

Thanks, Jeff. Yeah, no worries.

Hopefully we get it together. I'm going to move a lot.

That would be awesome to see them run side to side.

This season, Tony has opened up more ground on the Indian River than ever

before.

In the 22 -acre early bird cut.

His wash plant, Sluicelot, has nearly finished chewing through its pay.

Once it's out, Tony wants to move it upstream to run his piggy bank, the 17

-acre river cut.

Then he'll bring in his brand -new wash plant to sit side by side.

Together, they could bring in upwards of $16 ,000 in gold per hour.

There's just one problem.

The river cut is flooded.

We're going to take a hole for the pump.

We'll get rid of all the dirt.

So we're going to put the pump in.

Then we'll pump the water down. And then it should be pretty much good until

we're completely finished with this cut.

I can put this side boom in place.

Foreman Cousin Mike.

brings in their submersible pump, capable of shifting 1 ,000 gallons of

hour. It'll take a day to drain this cut by that time.

We hope to have the auto watch plant set up.

So, we'll hook the cables to it.

Just fly the gen set up. Off we go.

See you guys are all in tight.

Yep. Yep.

Good. Well, let's see what happens. Yep.

All right. Pumping with a generator, Cersei.

Got to be at 60 yards, but it's not quite making it.

No, we don't like that.

You may not want to do that.

It is not good.

Nobody hurt.

No big deal.

Just pay attention next time, that's all.

Okay,

bye.

So I'll make sure that a couple of wires on the gen set was a bare spot on it.

He didn't know, I didn't know. So then when you touch the site, ka -pow, right?

But you know what? That can happen.

Since they're pumping, the cups will be dry in the morning.

This will be moving the box tomorrow, so it should just nicely match up.

By the time we get the box moved, the cup is dry, we'll have a drain in, and

we'll be ready to roll.

Yo.

Troy.

Kiss here.

Wanted to check you in with you. It's been a while.

We're approaching mid -season.

Got that 100 -ounce deal.

I'm not a bank.

I'm a businessman.

I need the money.

Yep.

Rick Ness is two weeks late paying landlord Troy Taylor.

a final $350 ,000 gold payment to buy ground on Lightning Creek.

I didn't see any activity there at Lightning, so I wonder what was going on

there.

Lightning Creek started off kind of slow.

We got the life's extension for the year to Vegas Valley.

I got to put my resources where I know I'm going to get the most gold.

With the gold sitting here that we know is here, we kind of got to jump on that.

You don't really care where the gold comes from, do you?

As long as we get that gold in my pocket.

I'll have it to you by the end of the week. No surprises.

No surprises.

Only surprise will be more gold.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, Troy wants his money. I get it. You know, he's got a lot of money going

out and not a lot coming in.

Same here. Got a lot going out and not a lot coming in.

It's been a roller coaster, if there ever was one, of a year. We started the

season off with no water license, no word of mine.

Ended up taking a huge gamble and a big chunk of ground, Lightning Creek, and

going back in debt.

For the work that we've done there, there really hasn't been much gold, and

that's a worry on everybody, especially me. But now, out of the blue, we get a

water license here at Vegas Valley, and we're not prepared for it, but hell

yeah, we're coming back to it.

We know the gold's there. We're going to go get it.

To get Troy 100 ounces by the end of the week, Rick plans to run a stockpile of

Vegas Valley pay left over from last season.

We've got a pile of pay sitting there ready to run.

But our wash plant's not ready.

Monster Red needs some work.

We just haven't gotten around to fixing it because we didn't know if we'd even

be able to use it this year.

There's water pouring out from the backside of the feeder.

Last season.

Water line.

Monster Red's main water line sprung a massive leaf.

You're not going to like what you see. It's big. It's like half the pipe.

It obviously got caught by the bucket. The line should have never been there.

The water line is in a spot right behind the feeder, right behind the grizzlies

where boulders the size of small cars are coming off of.

Rick's tasked mechanic Ryan Kent and his crew to cut out the damaged area of

pipe. pull both ends together, and clamp it back in place.

Kyle will get his chainsaw. He'll chop that up.

We'll be able to yank it, and we'll get it close enough to put those together.

I hate doing that band -aid, but we're out of time for this season, so we just

can't run the plant until it's done.

So, yeah, I'll get the 460 over and let's hammer it out.

It just makes sense to come back here.

We've got a monster pile of hay right there that would give us a boost through

the season.

The problem is we're short on time.

Gold's still owed to Troy, so it's going to be a pass job.

Honestly, if we needed to run and pay, be careful.

We are right on the edge of that feeder.

We don't want to take too much away from this edge right here and weaken the

bank. Otherwise, we're going to end up losing the feeder.

I just need to get this rack out.

You feel good about cutting right there? Yeah, that's fine.

All right.

Make sure you yell timber.

Timber!

That good?

That'll do.

I might be able to pull from right here. Yeah, that'll do. Right where I'm at.

We don't have to completely uncover it, just loosen it so we can pull it.

We are going to pull it.

About a foot closer so we can get our new connection put in.

Should we try going this way?

Why is it bent weird like that?

Oh, that definitely has a crack right there.

There's a big hole in there.

Oh. We got to undig the whole thing.

This is going to be a pain in the ass.

Ryan's attempted quick fix has created a bigger hole.

Now, they need to dig up the entire 200 -foot -long pipe to make the repair.

It's only going down inches at a time here. We've only got one clamp to make

this work.

The last thing we want to do is put another hole in a piece of pipe.

See, once it's pulled out and exposed, we'll pull it so we can get our new

connection put in.

That's it right there.

Ah, this mess.

This mess.

That's how it was buried? Yeah.

So from the beginning, this was amateur hour when it was put in.

Yeah. Yeah, it's bad.

It's not exactly tricky. You just got to get it right.

I mean, the hardest part is getting the two ends to line up.

That was close, right?

We're touching.

Once it's close enough, clamp it, and it's good.

I'm not too happy about leaving the water line where it is. That's why it

damaged in the first place. But unfortunately, we just don't have the

move everything. So we're just going to cut some corners, unfortunately, and

have to be extra careful to make it work. And by doing that, we're going to

able to save a week's worth of flucid.

I think we're good.

That's mint. Yeah, it closed right up. I want everybody to take pictures of

where it's at so they remember.

We got the water line fixed. A bit of a pain in the ass, but we got it done.

The next step is to get the water pump down to Lightning Creek because we don't

know if it's going to hold until we put pressure on it. So we get that all

hooked up, and if it holds, we're in good shape. We can run Monster Red.

This might be the last load of pay from the pyramid cut.

Hey, Kevin, you got a copy? We just dumped the last load of pay from the

cut there.

The pay pile looks big, but she won't last that long. We've really got to

into that new ground and start hauling pay as soon as possible.

So we got the pyramid cut open, and we're running that pay, but that is

run out soon.

So right now I'm off to go look where we're going to start stripping next.

While his dad, Tony, expands his empire, Kevin Beetz is struggling to stay in

the game.

Nearly halfway through the season, the sophomore mine boss is short on crew,

short on gold, and short on time.

The gold not being quite as good as we had hoped.

Making me a little hesitant about a 2 ,000 -ounce gold.

We're not hurting yet, but it's definitely not great. So we're going to

speed up, be more efficient. And the new cut, once we get into there, we're

going to have to open it up pretty quick.

Otherwise, we're going to have no pay to run, which means no gold in the box,

which means no money coming in, which means no bills being paid.

So, better pick and write, I guess.

So we just have to figure out what is going to be the quickest, easiest,

options. There's only so many of those that we got to pick from, given what

claims we have.

Just over the years, I just kind of picked up from Tony what to look for.

Because doing it for a quarter of a century, you're just naturally going to

learn something.

Kevin has identified a block of ground 500 feet north of his wash plant setup.

Hmm. This spot would probably be it, honestly.

It's in the valley, relatively flat, really accessible because our plant is

down the way.

I did do some test holes last year, year before, and I got 15 feet down a saw.

That's pretty good.

That's something we can work with.

This next cut is going to be a big decision because I hope it's going to

to the end of the season.

So I really do hope that it's going to pay out.

I think we're going to call it the Sphinx Cut.

At Scribner Creek, Kevin has spent nearly 10 weeks mining out the three

Pyramid Cut and now has just a stockpile left to run.

500 feet up the valley is his new seven -acre Sphinx Cut.

He needs it ripped, stripped, and down to pay in the first section before his

stockpile runs out in a week time.

With no time to waste, Kevin sends in operator Tyler Potter and his biggest

mover, the D10 dozer.

Oh, that's not good.

Starting to overheat. I'm not even at the end of the driveway.

Yeah, this is... This isn't good.

This is not good.

Kevin, do you copy? Kevin, do you copy?

Go for Kevin.

Oh, he's made it past the gate, and this dozer is already overheating.

Well, all right. I will come. Have a quick look.

Yeah. On board. Thanks.

At Scribner Creek, Kevin Beetz is racing to open up new ground before his pay

runs out.

But his only dozer hasn't even made it out of the yard.

And it's getting warmer already.

All right, let me go have a look. All righty.

Okay.

Not the most scientific, but something's not pulling.

No. So it has to be something in the system. Something internal.

So basically, this thing is going to have to sit until we can fix that.

If you can't make it the fuck out of the driveway, it's not going to push the

cut.

Yeah. All right.

If I can get you to babysit it, let it cool down, try to limp it back to the

yard, I'll go talk to Faith about trying to find an alternate dozer, I guess.

Sounds good.

All right.

Hey, Faith.

The dozer is overheating, the D10.

I think we need to get one of our own, something a little newer.

Okay. All right.

There's a couple places we can shop for.

And we do need it here at ASAP.

Even just looking at our current options here.

Daily from the States is going to take weeks.

Ugh.

In Alberta, it's going to be at least two weeks at best.

Yeah.

I don't think we can wait the two weeks, honestly.

If we wanted it yesterday, I would suggest we start looking local.

Okay. We have possibly Parker.

Maybe. Maybe.

That we could ask.

Tony.

Having Tony give you something, it's always a load of dice.

Just time to roll the dice?

Well,

we're kind of stuck in a rough and hard place right now.

Yeah, we really need a large dozer real soon.

Yeah.

Okay, I'll see what I can do.

Lucifer's done.

Zone of pay.

We got our wash plant pad built.

Right now we're ready to drag Lucifer over to the Golden Mile.

Once we get Lucifer up and going, then we can put all our focus into moving Big

Red.

There's 24 hours in the day. Zero of them are meant for sleep.

After 10 weeks of mining, It's finally time for Parker's four -wash plant

plan to come to life.

You going to boom up and curl in? And for foreman Tyson Lee, that means it's

double plant move day.

Okay, you're good.

First up, sluice of them.

All righty, here we go.

Tyson uses the 480 excavator.

to drag the 45 -ton wash plant 800 feet to a new pad in the middle of the Golden

Mile.

It's a long drag over to the Golden Mile. We're just taking it nice and slow

steady here.

If we mess something up, we'll only have one running wash plant here at

Dominion.

This poor idiot's struggling to drag Lucifer.

I don't know what your thoughts are, Liam.

This thing is just struggling to get it up the hill.

Yeah, we don't have time to mess around.

Looks like the 950 just parked.

Hey, Eric, mind if we trade hoes for, like, 20 minutes here?

Oh, for sure.

To add extra muscle, Tyson brings in the big gun. Thanks, man. I'll get it back

to you.

Parker's 100 -ton 950 excavator.

This thing is an absolute monster.

This is the biggest excavator we have on site.

But it's the first time we've ever moved to wash plant with the 950 so see what

it's got

Oh

like nothing look at this

This is the reason Parker spent all this money on this heavy equipment, D11s,

950s, 750s.

Because it makes the job a hell of a lot easier and a hell of a lot faster.

Parker isn't messing around this year. He wants 10 ,000 ounces.

We're going to get it.

That's perfect, I think.

Okay. Looks good. I like it.

So there we go. We got Lucifer into play.

Now it's time to go get the super stacker in.

To make his four -plant setup possible, Parker has spent $175 ,000

on a second -hand super stacker.

We've never used it before, so hopefully it works because we're relying on it.

Have the best weekend here.

I would say keep going.

Pads too short?

Yeah. I don't have the brain capacity for anything these days.

You think we should pull it out?

I can mitt that dirt out of the way and then we can hook up to it and pull it

down. Might be the best thing, T, at this point.

This super stacker is longer than our old one.

Now that we have it on site, we know that.

We're having to modify the dirt here to make this pad work.

Days like yesterday go so fast, and then days like today, it's like putting in

one piece can take a whole day.

I almost feel sick. I'm so tired.

That looks good, and we're ready to pull. Sounds good.

Well, here we go. I thought we should be able to make her work.

Yeah, like six feet.

Good there.

That rock box looks pretty lined up.

Lift away.

Well, we're going up.

Keep it coming up.

Yeah, that's good there. Sweet. Right on the money.

At the end of the day shift, Sluicifer and its conveyors are finally in place.

But Tyson still needs to set up the water line and pump before firing up and

moving on to Big Red.

They've been pulling late nights and everything. Yeah, for sure.

It might be best to just, like, have everybody get a good night's sleep.

Yeah, yeah. Thank you.

Not my day. I don't want to bail.

Hopefully you've never been this tired before.

Hi, hi.

Oh, thanks.

Long week.

Tiring week.

Back at camp, Tyson meets up with girlfriend India Greenhouse.

Trying to keep up to Parker. It's killing me.

Like last year I was telling him, are we going to ever run four wash plants

here? And he said, never.

We'll never run four wash plants.

Now is the time. Gold prices are high.

He has the plants. He has the feeders. He has the conveyors.

Maybe you don't have your sanity.

Yeah, maybe. We'll find out.

Honestly, looking at you right now, I'm just like, how are you going to get to

October? Because you look like October Tyson, which is pretty homeless and

bagged.

Do you feel like you're going to be able to carry on the way that you have been

this year?

I don't know.

Go to sleep, wake up, do it again.

That should be good there, Tyson.

Okay. Parker's foreman, Tyson Lee, is back at work, setting up slucifer in the

Golden Mile before bringing in wash plant Big Red.

There's still a lot of work to be done here, but one day at a time, we'll get

her.

We've got to get the pipeline hooked up, just put it in the feeder, flip it

over.

Love it.

Fresh setup. Definitely ready to get this thing going.

There we go.

Here comes the water.

We got dirt, baby.

It's moving fast.

Oh, we're swimming.

We're back to making money.

We're one more step in the right direction here.

Lucifer's up and running in the Golden Mile, but I can't wait to have two wash

plants here running this tater because this is some good material we're running

here. And this is what we need to get 10 ,000 ounces.

Looks good. Yeah, nice work, man.

Good work.

I'll be back.

Feels good to have one wash plant up and running, but now it's on to Big Red.

Here comes Parker.

Hi.

Not much, you? Hello, just wanted to come check out how things are going.

How is all your people? Good, yeah.

They got an actual night's sleep yesterday?

Yeah. We were just trying to probably spend the last bit of the day with

Sluicifer here, and then hopefully tomorrow Big Red's running too.

Hopefully. But good job, man.

Thanks, man. Looks good.

Okay.

Tyson is definitely doing a really good job, but it's a lot for one guy to take

on.

The new plant is taking shape.

So we've got to go down loose a lot and get ready to move to the river cut.

We're going to get the first plant over there, and then it'll be time to pick up

number two.

Tony Beetz is also working on a two -plant blitz to boost his gold

So we should be on track to get them both going side by side, ready to wash

rocks.

Perfect.

Flucelot is out of early bird cut pay and is ready to be moved to its new

one mile away to the now drained river cut.

How's it going, guy?

Yeah, good. We're ready.

Well, clean it up with the dozer, let's hook onto it, let's drag it down the

road, see if hopefully we'll make it around them corners all right. Yeah, I

at it, it should be all right.

I don't know.

We'll see.

Cousin Mike will haul the 45 -ton wash plant, but unlike at Parker's,

Tony wants him to use a D10 dozer instead of an excavator.

Its 63 -ton weight, 613 horsepower engine, and

low center of gravity should make the move easier.

It's moving.

Make the... Corner, off you go.

So we got a ramp here. I got to climb up.

It's going to be narrow.

And it's going to be a turn behind it. But we shouldn't get too far ahead of

ourselves.

Well, if you've got to make it up the hill.

I just got to pay attention here.

Tony gives me the sign to just go for it.

Let's go.

It's not happening.

Looks like there's some soft material underneath the ramp.

So the doors are sinking.

So that's all working again.

Pull it up with your ripper. Pull it up with your ripper.

Ripper down and then lift it up. Show the move.

I'll give it a go.

We're running out of paper.

Okay, good.

Yep, there she goes.

Oh, we made it.

Yeah, he made it up the hill.

He was struggling a little bit, I guess, but he got it up there.

Some day we may put a pair of wheels underneath it or something like it.

Yeah, the plan was successful.

It took a bit, but...

We got it in place. We got it in place at one piece. That's what matters by the

end of the day. We're still early in the day.

We'll bring in pipes, pumps, water, and then we will be sluicing by the end of

the day.

Well? Well, all ready to go. All ready to go? Yeah. Awesome.

Perfect. Let's fire the thing up and let's get some gold in the box. Let's do

it. What do you think? Yep.

We've got this one back up and running.

It'll be nice to see the other food trucks up and going.

Now we've got two on the go. This will be great.

Now we've got to go find a place for the other food trucks.

I want you to see them two watch plans together running.

You hear them rocks rattling away?

It's the sound of making money to me.

All right.

When you buy equipment that is used, you're rolling the dice.

But we need that dozer ASAP.

Under pressure to open up his new cut before his pay runs out, Kevin is

to the one man who might be able to save his season. We're off to Tony's. I hear

he's looking to sell one of his dozers, so I'm going to see what he's asking

for.

A good deal would be.

anywhere from half a mil to like one mil depending on how good it is but

i'm hoping it's closer to half a mil than anything else that's way more in

price range i can afford

Hey, Kevin, how's it going?

Not too bad.

Keeping busy over there?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

But those are all blown out. All right.

I'm going to have serious ripping real soon.

Yeah, well, I just bought another one.

Zero rebuild, zero hours.

So I thought, well, I'll buy it, but I don't need all these cats.

So you're going to have a first shot at it. If you want to, have a look at it.

Definitely could use one, I'll be honest.

D10R, that's much newer.

Do you know what the hours on it are or how old the machine is? Oh, I have no

clue. I think it is early 2000s. The only thing you got is a ground idler. I

mean, that'll do the season.

No, I've seen worse.

Maybe I'm going to give it a try after what you tell us.

Yeah, do it.

Doesn't sound pretty nice.

I'd probably be foolish not to buy this machine, though it's priced and

reasonable.

Yeah, I'll have to grab it.

What price are we thinking for it? I mean, what the f***? It makes me a

awful, right?

Well, it does have the thin track.

Like? Yeah, that's fine then. Well, yeah. Give me a price.

Hmm.

$450 ,000, give or take, $450 ,000.

I know. Would you drop it down to at least $4 ,000?

Well, if you're quick, let's split the difference.

Okay. That's $4 ,250.

Okay.

That would be very much appreciated.

Hey, don't be a goon. Sounds good.

Perfect, man.

It is nice.

Kevin is advancing that far that he can start buying decent equipment.

I mean, if he does that well, that is really nice to see.

I think that dozer is going to be just right.

Hopefully there's no surprises.

We didn't have the best of luck with Tony's gear last year, but I think it's

going to be a good buy, especially at that price.

Honestly, it feels pretty good to be buying equipment instead of just

it from Tony.

My problems, my successes, as I like to say.

Six hours after doing the deal, Kevin has his new D10 dozer back at his yard

ready to get to work.

Hey, Daller. Hey, Kevin. The dozer that we bought off of Tony, the D10R.

You should be good to go. Perfect.

Kevin's new dozer heads out to the claim to finally start opening up the Sphinx

cut.

It's definitely crunch time right now.

Our big pay pile is definitely dwindling down.

So I've got to get this thing in the cut, get her opened up, and start

some pay so we can start getting another mountain of money going.

$400 ,000. There's still a huge chunk of change for the dozer.

But...

If you need it, you need it.

Nice. Good to get this down to the cut.

This pumper right now is what's going to feed Monster Red. If we don't have a

pump on Monster Red, we won't get gold.

100 miles east, Rick Ness' crew are racing to get gold coming in from Vegas

Valley, where a pay pile could deliver over a million dollars.

First step, setting up wash plant Monster Red.

Obviously, the road is going to be slick. It's raining.

You know, you damage a pump on a haul, and then next thing you know, we're out

three months. So it's pretty important that we take care of this pump.

The water pump Rick needs to feed water to Monster Red is at his Lightning Creek

claim. Now, his crew need to haul it eight miles down dirt mining roads to

Duncan Creek.

Ready to head back and start actually getting to work.

Good. Well, let's get to Vegas Valley.

All right.

Bailey, let Jesus take the wheel. Yeah. Oh, boy.

It's extremely over the moon that we can go back to Vegas Valley. We know the

gold's good there, so.

The pump is the last piece of the puzzle to get Monster Red running, and could

be sluiced in probably two, three hours.

It's like the worst section of road right here.

You gotta be joking.

It's always tough to flat tire.

Well, indeed.

Five miles from Duncan Creek, Bailey has blown a tire, delaying Rick from

getting on Vegas Valley Gold.

Oh, Bailey.

What a dip.

Now we're sitting on the side of the road instead of getting to Vegas Valley

getting the plant set up, so it just kind of sucks.

All right, pit stop.

Let's get this changed and get the show moving.

Let's go.

Got a gun?

Yeah, of course.

Teamwork makes dream work.

We're done.

Nice.

Let's get the f*** out of here.

Tire changed.

The crew continue on to Vegas Valley.

Unload this thing.

Finally, we're here in Vegas Valley. We've got a pile of dirt sitting,

This is the best dirt we've ever run.

Bring down the pump. That's the last thing we need to get busted right up and

running.

Get up, fire it up, and that's it.

We throw dirt at it, we get the gold.

Everything right now really is riding on that repair of the water line. If these

guys didn't get on there right, then, you know, it won't handle the pressure.

We'll spring a leak, and then we got to start over.

That hole, we'll be losing here in an hour.

It's all turned full circle here. We had a terrible start, but this is where it

turns around.

Put everything back together.

Fire up. If we got no leaks, we roll.

I like it.

Hey, Ryan, you got a copy?

We'll bump it up from there.

Okay, sounds good.

We

got

water.

Got water.

We also have no leak.

Yeah, clamp looks good. I think we all feel pretty good.

After months of struggles to get his water license, Rick is finally back

running Vegas Valley Pay, the best ground he's ever mined.

sitting here from last year, so it's pretty exciting to finally get this

the plant. Who knows, there might be more.

We're definitely behind.

We're starting a lot later than we should have on Vegas Valley. We know the

gold's good here, so we've got this pile to run, and hoping there's 400 ounces

in here is going to give us a good boost. And pay Troy off the 100 ounces I

him. Everybody's excited to be back, and so am I.

We had some heavy mods done to Big Red. It was resurrected from the dead.

So now Jordan's hauling Big Red up to the Golden Mile.

100 miles west, Tyson's on a hustle to get a fourth wash plant loosing.

On its way to join Sluicifer on the double wash plant pad is Parker's

Big Red.

He wants it running by night shift.

We need to be as fast as possible at setting stuff up.

We've gotten Lucifer up. Now we need to get Big Red set up. Then it'll really

start coming together here.

Yeah, man.

Hook these things up.

Get this off.

Sorry.

Take her away, T.

Yank this thing off.

Here goes nothing.

bit more good

now we can drag big red in place

just gotta get the plants in the food runs in and the radio stacker in the

complicated jigsaw puzzle here we're trying to make happen so make sure we're

putting all the right pieces into play when we need them let's call it wild

i found a lot of gold

There we go. I think Big Red's hungry.

Big Red has been bringing in the ounces for over a decade.

Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho.

That's it.

Yeah. In its glory days, it ran up to 180 yards an hour.

These loose runs have seen better days.

Walk forward just this way, Mr. Derrick.

Hello?

Careful now.

Nice work, Alex.

Okay, I think we got her. Big red sluice runs are set up.

Let's get sluicing.

Here comes the water.

Let's get her back in action.

First bucket.

There she goes.

Plant number four.

We're on a roll here.

Now we have a fighting chance of reaching 10 ,000 ounces.

Nearly halfway through his season, Parker's master plan for a $35 million

gold haul is finally going full throttle.

Four wash plants, sluicing an incredible 1 ,000 yards of pay dirt an hour.

The most.

Parker has ever run.

Feels really good to have Big Red going here for sure.

Pretty cool to see the double wash plant set up.

Put the gold in Parker's water chest for him here.

At the Golden Mile.

What happened, Cody?

Minutes after firing up, Big Red's main water line has ripped off.

Oh, no.

Why did this come off? It literally ran Big Red all last year.

Yeah,

Tyson, you're all good.

Nothing to do but to hook it back up and try again, I guess.

We'll put that in there.

I hope that doesn't happen again.

So if you want to be certain that water line does not come off anymore, some old

welding rods give me my little makeshift safety to hold this water line

together.

There. That little guy will keep our handle from coming off.

Our fancy welding rod here holding it in.

With Alex's pin keeping the water line in place, he can now clear out the

blocked pre -wash.

Everything's back running here, so get some more dirt in there and hopefully

keep her going.

Do you have any big concern?

No.

Sorry.

You have a lot more reason to be tired than I do.

Good job, man. Looks good.

Thanks to everybody.

Yeah.

So much work.

Like, you can take a few days.

Thanks, man.

See you later. See you, dude.

Nice little bulldog.

He's incredibly effective.

This has been a big move, and...

It's just hard to coordinate all of the moving parts.

I just have guys that can just get the job done.

There's four plants.

We're cranking through the dirt, so that's what matters.

And we'll see if we can keep up with them.

Well, what did you think of Jeff?

She's ready to go.

Tony's new wash plant is finally assembled, and he's a step closer to

wash plants catching gold on Indian River. The last thing is to hand you the

keys to your new sports car.

The name, have you seen it yet?

Pretty cool.

Find a lot?

Find a lot.

I like it. We've got one up top, too, for you. I see.

Good, good, good.

Nice. Thank you.

I can't wait to see this one going.

Like they say, double the gravel, double the gold.

We

don't

have to go far with this log plan, but the biggest challenge will be scanning

off that hill.

It has to be solid enough.

It's going to be steep, but as long as it's solid and I keep traction, then we

should be good on that one.

Cousin Mike needs to haul the new plant 650 feet onto a tight double plant

path, avoiding sluice a lot. Then turn it 180 degrees.

My job, Ed.

Get this plant in place in one piece, hook it up, start loosening.

And then piece loose.

I'm going to keep turning this watch plant without detaching it. It'll be a

perfect turn.

It'll end up straight.

Towards the edge, and then we'll push it as far to yet as we wanted

And then we can start hooking

up pipe Right

my way

what though?

We've got to be careful with that.

I almost swung my bucket into the conveyor belt because I didn't realize

close he was getting.

It's pretty chaotic down here.

Good.

Same place.

I think that went very well.

The final task to get Find -A -Lot on the goal is to connect water to the

How are you going to sneak it in, though?

No. It'll never work like that.

Sluice -A -Lot sits directly in the path.

of the new water pipe the way it's sitting right now we don't have enough

damn it

no

it'll never work like that at indian river tony is racing to get his second

plant fired up but he has a problem with connecting find -a -lot to the water

line

So what we're doing, we're going to lift it up a bit, and then we'll pull it

from the other side.

Yeah, that's okay.

We've got to lift up Flucelot.

We've got to shut Flucelot down for a couple minutes, lift it up, so we want

go through the frame of the watch plan, and then we can fire that plan up.

Sluicelot's built -in hydraulic jacks lift the wash plant,

giving Tony a tight gap to slide Find -A -Lot's new water

pipe through the frame.

This pipe is awesome.

Hook it up to the pump, and we'll shoot out water.

All right, so

pipes are hooked up. We got water. We have clay over here, excavator,

So we are ready to get some gold.

Fire it up. Let's make some money. Let's get some gold out of that thing. All

right.

Two on one side, one side. Let's do this.

Anyway, was it nice having both running?

I think so.

I think so. I think we should buy one more.

Sure. Right? Why not?

Why not?

Why don't you go talk to your auntie? Yeah, I want the wash plant too.

Well, it was nice seeing both run.

So the double production ought to be nice.

For the first time this season, Tony's running two wash plants.

at Indian River.

And with the gold his claim is delivering this year, it could be a

There's no nicer side than to have a couple of loose plants side by side,

banging away, washing your elbows.

Life is pretty damn good.

Well, Bea, this is where we get gold.

After a long week, mechanic Ryan has some welcome visitors, wife Rachel and

daughter Brindley.

What do you think?

I like it. You like it? You want one at home?

No. Too much work.

Well, let's go check it out.

This is where we get our smaller gold.

That little box right there is called the nugget box.

That's where we try to get big pieces of gold.

When the plant's shutting down, you'll see the sluice runs basically are just

packed full of gold.

We'll see if I can find a little bit in here.

Doesn't look like much, does it?

That's what pays our bills.

It's all a little gold in there.

Pretty cool, huh?

Let's put it back in there.

You guys want to go inside and get something to drink?

Yeah.

So, how are things at home?

Same old, same old. Every day I just feel like I'm a single woman back home.

We just do everything just without you, so it sucks.

I mean, there's no easy way to put it.

You know me. I need the vent to somebody, and I just don't have that. So

nice to get up here and see you.

You guys do a huge sacrifice for me. Yeah. I really appreciate it.

Yeah.

It's tough.

You're letting me live an opportunity, and hopefully I can repay that.

Yeah.

Yeah. So.

What's all this?

Hello. Hi.

How was your trip?

Long. Very long.

We are doing a Gold Wave. Are you guys going to come in and check it out? Sure.

Come on in.

Oh, hey, guys.

Hi. Nice to meet you. Hi. This is Rachel.

Hello, nice to meet you. We're excited to be here.

I don't think we ever invite anybody to our Goldways.

Aw, you're special, B.

Well, I don't know about you guys, but I'm happy to be back where we belong

here, Vegas Valley, right?

Can't wait to see what kind of gold we're going to get. Hopefully it's good.

You guys worked hard on it, and we got 40 hours of runtime on it. So this is

first Goldway from Vegas Valley. You want to come?

Hey, make sure you say it loud. Kyle, it can't even count.

Yeah.

Monster Red.

was running for three days at Vegas Valley.

Ready? Get it. To pay Troy Taylor off for Lightning Creek, Rick needs 100

ounces.

40, 60, 70, 80, 83,

84, 100, and 109 .94.

Worth over $380 ,000.

Nice job, B.

Now just go put that in the bedroom.

Dude,

that's starting to look more like a goal way. We've got more than what we've got

all season. Yeah.

Fortunately, it's going to all go to Troy.

I owe him 100 ounces out of that, and then we own that ground.

Good thing we've got more left of that pile.

We should be able to do another one of those at least next week, and that's a

good start towards our goal.

We've got a lot of dirt to move, a lot of ground to make up.

You guys ready for it?

Okay.

Hell yeah. Cheers.

All right.

Hopefully the first of many.

Yeah.

Well, it's good to get the first goalie out of Vegas Valley, but we've got a

hell of a lot more to go. So I know everybody's excited. All we've got to do

work for it and we'll get it.

Hello. I come bearing gifts. It takes four people to do that.

I'm the only one carrying.

Anyways, how is it going in the Indian?

Yeah, we got a new plant down, right, Mike?

Yeah, it looks good, and it's nice. It's a nice setup.

So, I guess we only got gold from Slusselot and Findalot.

Slusselot and Findalot.

So far, Tony's one Indian river wash plant has been averaging 300 ounces

a week.

By adding a new wash plant, he's hoping to double his weekly score.

Okay. All right, let's pour it. Let's do it.

First up, Find -A -Lot's two -day run in the new River Cut.

All right.

5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 50, 70,

80, 84 .86.

Worth almost $300 ,000.

That's not bad.

Next, Sluicelot's gold from three days in the river cut.

Worth over

$435 ,000.

Finally, Sluicelot's gold from the last of the pay at the early bird cut.

Worth over $600

,000.

Not bad for an old guy, huh?

Yay! And that's three days, so that's not bad. That's not bad at all.

All right. So what about it? Does that put you on your season total?

30 to 80 is halfway his goal with just one planting. Pretty good, isn't it?

Might have to up your goal for the year. I can up my spending, too.

Tony's weekly total is worth over $1 .3 million, enough to cover the cost of his

new wash plant.

And now...

He's primed to double his gold.

I'll take that any time, any day.

Well, you keep saying you're taking it, but it's all mine.

Duh. But I'll spend it.

Need help?

No. But we can get rid of it together, Mike.

Hey guys, how's it going?

Not too bad.

Good, good, good.

It's good to see you guys. I haven't been here in a while.

Yeah, we just finished the pyramid cut.

So now Kev went to look for a new cut.

Named it the strings cut.

The what cut?

Oh.

That dozer that we bought for you worked very well?

Well, it's not a bad cat thing.

But anyways, it worked out for you, buying our cat.

It's right down in the cut right now. The thing's got clearing off the first

layer. You got some gold this time?

To pay off Tony's D10 dozer, Kevin and Faith need 120 ounces.

But so far, they've averaged just 21 ounces a week.

Sway it up.

20.

40.

60, 70, 90, 110, 130,

142, 142 .22.

Worth just under half a million dollars.

Biggest gold weight yet this year.

So where are you now with your gold weight?

So far we have roughly around 330 ounces.

Hopefully we can catch up so that we can get to our 2 ,000 in gold.

Better do some digging.

And washing.

Well, then we're off.

We're out of here.

Good luck, guys. See you guys later.

See you.

Still a long way to 2 ,000 ounces, but I'm feeling a lot better than I was.

Yeah. So we do have a long way to go, so we should probably get back to her.

I don't need you.

Find a hot spot for me. I will try.

No worries.

Hey, hey. Hi.

It's time for Parker's first ever four -plant gold way.

Dude, it sounds like you had a busy week. Two wash plant moves.

Yeah, it's a tiring week, man.

That's brutal.

Cool seeing both of them side by side again. It's nice to have the mayhem

contained to one place.

Yeah.

Hopefully it paid off.

We'll work our way to that one.

Well, Roxanne's performing well. That's good.

Take some big thermos. All right. Let's do it. First up, Roxanne, Foreman

Mitch's plant that ran for seven days at Ken and Stewart's. 80, 140,

180, 198 .3 there.

A whole bunch of nuggets. Chunky ground.

Just came out of that thing. No way. Wow.

Am I good at stripping cuts?

So that brings us to a total of 204 .2. Wow.

Worth over $700 ,000.

Nice. That's something.

Those are some nice nuggets, too, huh? Yeah. Yeah.

Because we got Bob here.

Big Bob.

Next, wash plant Bob, the first of three wash plants under Tyson's charge.

See how the bridge cut did.

20.

$40, $80, $120, $160, $180,

$200, $229 .65. Worth over

$800 ,000.

Solid.

We got slucifer. See how it did. Next up, slucifer.

Fired up in its new position in the Golden Mile three days ago.

100, 120,

140,

170, 174 .85.

Worth nearly $600 ,000.

Sweet.

Big Red's first gold of the season.

Seems a little light, doesn't it? Finally, Parker's fourth wash plant,

resurrected Big Red.

which ran pay from the Golden Mile for just over a day.

40, 60, 61 .15.

Worth $200 ,000.

That's not bad for the short amount of time it was running.

No, really not.

We've never ran four plants before, so that's cool.

Last week we had 710 .5 ounces.

This week, with four wash plants going, we have 669 .85.

We're halfway through the season, and right now we're at 4 ,921 .5 ounces.

Parker's four wash plants have produced $2 .3 million worth of gold in

one week.

Well, hopefully next week after they spend more time running and less time

getting moved, those numbers will increase.

Perfect. Thank you, guys.

Thank you. Yeah, buddy.

You know, four plants going here at Dominion, which is great, and we're

to our season goal, but, man, am I tired. I need some sleep.

Good to close up.