Original subtitles

[calm music plays]

[rattling softly]

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.

[narrator] 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.

[Parker] So we just have to make hay while the sun shines

and run four plants.

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 into high gear.

[Tyson] This year is definitely the most I've ever taken on

in my career, and 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!

[mysterious music plays]

-[Tyson] How are you? -I'm good.

-How are you doing? -[Tyson] I'm pretty good.

[rumbling softly]

[Parker] A couple things.

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

I have two washplants set up there.

Big Red,

I think we should try to fire that thing up.

-[Tyson] Yeah? -[Parker] Like...

like, end of the week or something.

I've already talked to the mechanics.

They're starting to work on her.

Let's see what happens around here if we have

four plants running.

With the crew we got, running three plants

on Dominion is gonna be a stretch.

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 gonna have gray hair by the end of it.

[Tyson] Right?

To bring in 10,000 ounces, Parker wants to run

four washplants for the first time in his career.

At his leased ground on the Indian River,

Roxanne is pounding through paydirt.

Ten miles north, at Dominion, washplant 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 old plant, Big Red, and set it up

next to Sluicifer, doubling his Golden Mile firepower.

[Tyson] The mechanics are not gonna be happy.

Big Red screen deck,

the sluice runs,

and the prewash need a lot of work.

And that's pretty much what makes up a washplant.

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

[Bill] 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.

[Bill] Jordan, just hold it there for one second.

[Jordan] OK, holding.

First up, attach Big Red's refurbished hopper

where gold-rich paydirt is fed into the plant.

[Bill] OK, cable down a little bit more.

[creaking]

-Whoa, hold her right there. -OK, bolt one is in.

[Jordan] I would say Parker has gold fever.

Gold prices are huge. We had a [bleep] year last year.

We got thaw in these cuts. Get the payout.

Get gold while the price is through the [bleep] roof.

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

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

It's not a super heavy lift, but it's just super precarious

once we try to get these third and fourth pins set.

We're trying to move it,

you know, inches to get a pin in.

You know what, what's going to be the safest?

[Justin] Probably come along that to this.

Exactly. OK, let's do that, Just.

The issue we're having is that right now we have this prewash

hung on these pins right here,

and this arm, whole support arm,

is actually on two pins on the bottom,

so this 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.

There's 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 hopper in.

[rattling, whirring]

[Bill] OK, Jordan, let's go down a little bit.

[suspenseful music plays]

[creaking]

OK, hold her there. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

There we go. OK, it's in.

Went the best it could go, but we 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. -[Bill] If one thing goes wrong,

we're definitely not gonna make it.

[Tyson] Right now we're dealing with everyone running

at their maximum capacity.

I'd like to have the double washplant pad

for Sluicifer and Big Red done.

Sluicifer has a couple days of pay left.

Gonna be out here till nine, 10, 11 o'clock

at night tonight. Wake up at 5 AM.

and I'll do it all over again.

So, we have a lot of work to do and not much time

to get it done in.

[birds squawking]

Ten miles south.

[Tony speaking]

Like Parker,

King of the Klondike, Tony Beets is

also running at a fever pitch,

hoping to cash in on record-high gold prices.

Tony's already mined $10 million in gold and wants

a lot more, opening up his biggest cut ever,

the 46-acre Corner Cut.

[Tony speaking]

To get through all this ground, Tony's dropped

a million dollars on a new washplant.

[Tony speaking]

[intriguing music plays]

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

[machine revving]

Tony has spent a lot of money this year on new equipment

that is way more reliable and does a way better job

at catching the gold.

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 washplant is the same model as Tony's plant

Sluice-A-Lot, one of the biggest shaker decks

money can buy.

It can process 350 yards of pay an hour.

-[Tony speaking] -[Jeff] It's going good.

[Tony speaking]

Uh...

we got the conveyor next, then we got the side arms,

the supports for the sluice runs. -[Tony] Uh-huh.

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

Sounds good.

[Jeff] Check on me later.

[Jeff] Yeah, no worries.

This season, Tony has opened up more ground

on the Indian River than ever before.

In the 22-acre Early Bird Cut, his washplant Sluice-A-Lot 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 washplant

to sit side by side.

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

There's just one problem...

the River Cut is flooded.

[Tony speaking]

Now we can put this sideboom in place.

Foreman Cousin Mike brings in their submersible pump,

capable of shifting 1,000 gallons of water an hour.

Yeah, it'll take a day to drain this cut.

By that time, we hope to have the other washplant set up.

[Tony speaking]

[sloshing]

[dramatic music plays]

-[Tony speaking] -[Cousin Mike] Yep.

Yep.

[engine roaring]

[gushing softly]

[Cousin Mike] It's pumping, but the generator is surging.

Got to be at 60 hertz. But it's not quite making it.

So we don't like that.

[water gushing faintly]

-[crackling] -[bleep]!

[Tony speaking]

[Cousin Mike] [bleep]

This is not good.

[intriguing music plays]

I'll fix this one.

[Tony speaking]

[engine roaring]

[Tony speaking]

[birds chirping]

[ambient music plays]

[clears throat]

[knocking on door]

[dog barking]

Yo!

Troy.

Good to see you.

[Troy] I wanted to check in with you.

It's been a while.

We're approaching mid-season.

We've got that 100-ounce deal.

I'm not a bank. I'm a businessman.

-I need the money. -Yep.

[suspenseful music plays]

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 was just wondered

what was going on there. -Yeah.

Lightning Creek started off kind of slow.

We got the license 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 kinda gotta,

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. -[Rick] No surprises.

Only surprise will be more gold.

-Yeah? -[Rick] Yeah.

Well, Troy wants his money. I get it.

You know, he says he's got a lot of money going out

and not a lot coming in. Same here.

Got a lot going out, not a lot coming in.

[mysterious music plays]

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

And we started the season off with no water license, nowhere to mine.

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

Lightning Creek, and going back in debt.

And for the work that we've done there,

there really hasn't been much gold.

And that's wearing 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.

[Rick] Yeah, we've got a pile of pay sitting there ready to run,

but our washplant'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... -[Rick] [bleep] waterline.

...Monster Red's main waterline sprung a massive leak.

You're not going to like what you see.

It's big. It's like half the pipe.

This obviously got [bleep] caught by the bucket.

The line should have never been there.

[Ryan] Waterline's in a [bleep] 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 clean to 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 [bleep] band-aid,

but we're out of time for this season,

so we just can't run the plant till it's done. -[Kyle] Yep.

[Ryan] So, yeah, well, I'll get the 460 over,

and let's hammer it out.

Just makes sense to come back here.

We got a monster pile of pay right there that would give us

a boost through the season.

Problem is, we're short on time.

Gold's still owed to Troy,

so it's going to be a patch job.

Honestly, we need to get running pay.

[Kai] Careful.

[Ryan] 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.

[Kai] I just need to get this rock out.

You feel good about cutting right there?

-[Kyle] Yeah, that's fine. -All right.

[chainsaw revving]

[Ryan] All right, make sure you yell "timber."

-[Kyle] Timber! -[laughing]

[chainsaw whirring]

-[Ryan] That's good. -[Kyle] That'll do.

[Ryan] I might be able to pull from right here.

-[Kai] Yeah, that's right. -[Ryan] 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.

[rumbling]

[Kyle] Should we try going this way?

-[loud thud] -[Ryan] Oh, [bleep]!

[Kai] Oh, why is it bent weird like that?

Oh, that definitely has a crack right there.

[Kyle] There's a big hole in there.

[Ryan] Oh, [bleep].

[Kyle] We got to un-dig 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.

[Ryan] We're only going down inches at a time here.

We've only got one clamp to make this work.

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.

[chainsaw whirring]

-[Rick] Ah, this mess. -[Ryan] This mess.

-[Rick] So that's how it was buried? -[Kyle] Yeah.

[Rick] So from the beginning, this was amateur hour

when it was put in.

-[Kyle] Yeah. -[Ryan] Yeah, it's bad.

At the end of the day, 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.

-[Kai] That was close, Rick. -[Kyle] We're touching.

Once it's close enough, clamp it,

and then it's good.

I'm not too happy about

leaving the waterline where it is.

That's why it got damaged in the first place.

But unfortunately, we just don't have the time

to 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 be able to save

a week's worth of sluicing.

-[Ryan] I think we're good. -[Kai] That's in.

Yeah, it closed right up, so.

I want everybody to take pictures of where it's at,

so they remember.

We got the waterline 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.

[adventurous music plays]

[Ayla] I think...

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 Pyramid Cut there.

The pay pile looks big, but she won't last that long.

We've really got to crack 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 going to 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 Beets 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.

[crow cawing]

[Kevin] The gold not being quite as good as we had hoped

is making me a little hesitant about a 2,000-ounce goal.

We're not hurting yet, but it's definitely not great.

So we're going to have to speed [bleep] 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 ride, I guess.

[ominous chord plays]

So we just have to figure out what is going to be

the quickest, easiest, fastest

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 some [bleep].

Kevin has identified a block of ground 500 feet north

of his washplant setup.

[Kevin] Hmm.

This spot would probably be it, honestly.

It's in the valley, relatively flat,

really accessible, because our plant

is just down the [bleep] way.

I did do some test holes last year, year before, and I got

15 feet down a thaw. That's pretty [bleep] good.

That -- that's something we can [bleep] work with.

This next cut is gonna be a big decision because I hope

it's gonna take us through the end of the season.

So, I really do hope that it's gonna [bleep] 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-acre 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's time.

With no time to waste, Kevin sends in operator

Tyler Potter and his biggest dirt mover, the D10 dozer.

[dozer roaring]

[rattling]

[Tyler] Oh, [bleep]. That's not good.

Starting to overheat,

and I'm not even at the end of the driveway!

[dozer creaking]

Yeah, this is...

this isn't good.

This is not good.

[suspenseful music plays]

[Tyler] Kevin, do you copy? Kevin, do you copy?

[Kevin] Go for Kevin.

I just made it past the gate and this dozer

is already overheating.

[static crackles]

[Kevin] Well, [bleep].

All right, I will come have a quick look.

Yeah, 10-4, thanks.

At Scribner Creek, Kevin Beets 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.

[Tyler] It is getting warm already.

[Kevin] [bleep]

OK, I'm gonna go have a look.

All righty.

[dozer rattling softly]

OK.

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

[Tyler] No.

[Kevin] So it has to be something in the system.

[Tyler] Something internal.

So basically, this thing is going to have to sit

until we can fix that, because there's no...

Like, if you can't make it the [bleep] out of the driveway,

it's not going to push the cut worth a [bleep].

-Yeah. -[Kevin] All right.

If I can get you to just 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. -[Kevin] All right.

-Hey, Kev. -Hey, Faith. [groans]

The dozer is [bleep] overheating, the D10.

I think we need to get one of our own,

something a little newer.

OK, all right, uh...

there's a couple places we can shop for.

And we do need it here ASAP.

[Faith] Um...

even just looking at our current options here...

getting it from the States is gonna take weeks.

Ugh!

Alberta is gonna 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. -OK.

You have possibly Parker, maybe?

Maybe.

And we could ask...

Tony?

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

Is it time to roll the dice?

Ah, [bleep]...

Well...

we're kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place right now.

Yeah, we really [bleep] need a large dozer

real [bleep] soon.

Yeah.

Yeah.

[Kevin] OK, I'll see what I can do.

[dramatic music plays]

[motor winds down]

[Tyson] Sluicifer's done. It's down to pay.

We got our washplant pad built.

Right now, we're ready to drag Sluicifer

over to the Golden Mile.

Once we get Sluicifer up and going, then we can put all

our focus into moving Big Red.

There's 24 hours in a day.

Zero of them are meant for sleep.

After 10 weeks of mining, it's finally time

for Parker's four-washplant master plan to come to life.

[Liam] You got boom up and curl in.

And for foreman Tyson Lee,

that means it's double plant move day.

[Liam] OK, you're good.

First up, Sluicifer.

[Tyson] All righty. Here we go!

Tyson uses the 480 excavator to drag the 45-ton washplant

800 feet to a new pad

in the middle of the Golden Mile.

[Tyson] It's a long drag over to the Golden Mile.

We're just taking it nice and slow and steady here.

If we mess something up, we'll only have one running

washplant here at Dominion.

[loud thud]

[Liam] Holy [bleep] [bleep]!

[dozer clanking]

[Tyson] This 480, it's struggling to drag Sluicifer.

[engine roars, then stops]

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

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

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

It looks like 950 just parked.

Hey, Eric, mind if we trade hose for, like,

20 minutes here?

[Eric] Oh, for sure.

To add extra muscle, Tyson brings in the big gun...

[Tyson] Thanks, man. I'll get it back to you.

...Parker's 100-ton 950 excavator.

[epic music plays]

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 a washplant

with the 950, so...

let's see what it's got.

[creaking]

Oh, like nothing. Look at this!

[Liam] Making it look easy.

[Tyson] This is the reason Parker's 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.

[Liam] That's perfect, I think.

[Tyson] OK.

-[Liam] Looks good. -[Tyson] I like it.

So there we go. We got Sluicifer into place.

Now it's time to go get the SuperStacker in.

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

$175,000 on a second-hand SuperStacker.

[Tyson] We've never used it before, so hopefully it works,

because we're relying on it.

[yawns]

[creaking]

[Tyson] How we looking on the plant?

Try and line it up the best we can here.

[Jordan] I would say keep going.

[rattling]

[Jordan speaking over radio]

[heavy thud]

[Tyson] [bleep]

[Jordan] Pad's too short.

You [bleep] up.

[Tyson] I don't have the brain capacity for anything these days.

Do you think we should pull it out?

I can nip that dirt out of the way, and then we can

hook up to it and pull it down.

[Jordan] Might be the best thing, T, at this point.

[rumbling]

[Tyson] This SuperStacker 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 all [bleep] day.

I almost feel sick. I'm so tired.

[Liam] That looks good, and we're ready to pull.

[Tyson] Sounds good.

Well, here we go.

Now we should be able to make her work.

[Alec speaking over radio]

[Tyson] Good there.

[Alec speaking over radio]

[Tyson] Lift away.

Well, we're going up.

[Alec speaking over radio]

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 waterline and pump before firing up and moving on

to Big Red.

[Tyson] Hi.

[Tyson] Yeah, for sure.

[Parker speaking]

[Tyson] Yeah, for sure.

[Parker speaking]

No, yeah, for sure.

[Tyson] Yeah, for sure.

[Tyson] Call it and stuff.

[Tyson] OK.

Yeah, yeah.

Thank you.

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

Definitely have never been this tired before.

-Oh, hey. -Hi, hi.

[Tyson] Oh, thanks.

Long week, tiring week.

Back at camp, Tyson meets up with girlfriend

India Greenhalgh.

[Tyson] Trying to keep up to Parker.

-It's killing me [chuckles]. -[India] Hm.

Like, last year, I was telling him,

"Are we going to ever run four washplants?"

And he said, "Never.

We'll never run four washplants."

Now is the time. Gold prices are high.

He has the plants. He has the feeders.

He has the conveyors.

[India] Maybe you don't have your sanity?

[Tyson] Yeah, maybe. We'll find out.

Honestly, looking at you right now, I'm just like,

"How are you gonna get to October?"

Because you look like October Tyson...

-[Tyson] Yeah, -...which is pretty [bleep] homeless and bagged.

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

that you have been this year?

[Tyson] I don't know.

[geese squawking]

[Tyson] A little sleep, wake up, do it again.

-[Alex] That should be good there, Tyson. -[Tyson] OK.

Parker's foreman, Tyson Lee, is back at work,

setting up Sluicifer in the Golden Mile

before bringing in washplant Big Red.

[Tyson] There's still a lot of work to be done here,

but one day at a time, we'll get her.

[Liam] We got to get the pipeline hooked up, just putting in

the feeder, flip it over.

[Alec] Love it! Fresh setup.

[Liam] Definitely ready to get this thing going.

[Tyson] There we go.

[loud rattling]

[Alec] Here comes the water.

[Liam] We got dirt, baby. And it's moving fast.

[Tyson] Oh, we're sluicing! We're back to making money.

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

Sluicifer's up and running in the Golden Mile, and I can't

wait to have two washplants here running this paydirt,

because this is some good material we're running here.

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

-Looks good. -[Tyson] Yeah, nice work, man.

-[Liam] Good work. -I'll be back.

Feels good to have one washplant up and running,

but now it's on to Big Red.

Here comes Parker.

Hi.

-What's up? -[Tyson] How much, you?

[Parker] I just wanted to come check out how things are going.

-How is all your people? -[Tyson] Good, yeah.

[Parker] 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.

-[Parker] But good job, man. -[Tyson] Thanks, man.

-[Parker] Looks good. -[Tyson] OK.

[Parker] Tyson is definitely doing a really good job,

but it's a lot for one guy to take on.

[Tony speaking]

Tony Beets is also working on a two-plant blitz to boost

his gold production,

[Tony speaking]

Sluice-A-Lot is out of Early Bird Cut pay

and is ready to be moved to its new home,

one mile away to the now-drained River Cut.

[Tony speaking]

[Cousin Mike] Yeah, good. We're ready.

[Tony speaking]

Yeah, I had look at that. It should be all right.

Cousin Mike will haul the 45-ton washplant,

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.

[engine revving]

[dozer roaring]

[Cousin Mike] So we got a ramp here we gotta climb up.

It's gonna be narrow, and it's gonna be a turn behind it,

but we shouldn't get too far ahead of ourselves.

[rumbling]

[Tony speaking]

[Cousin Mike speaking]

[Tony speaking]

[dozer roaring]

[rattling]

[loud rumbling]

I'm loosing traction.

I'm spinning tracks.

She's not happy.

-[rattling heavily] -[creaking]

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

so the dozer's sinking.

So that's all working against me.

Uh...

[Tony speaking]

[engine winds down]

I'll give it a go.

[creaking]

[engine whirring]

[Tony speaking]

[dozer roaring]

[rumbling]

Yeah, there she goes.

[epic music plays]

[Cousin Mike] Oh, we made it.

[Tony speaking]

[rumbling]

[epic music builds]

Yeah, plant move was successful.

It was -- took a bit, but we got it in place.

We got it in place in 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.

[adventurous music plays]

-[Tony speaking] -Well, all ready to go.

-[Tony speaking] -Yeah.

Let's do it.

[Cousin Mike] Yep.

[rattling]

[adventurous music builds]

[Tony speaking]

[Cousin Mike] Perfect.

[Kevin] When you buy equipment that is used,

you're rolling the [bleep] dice.

But we need that dozer ASAP.

Under pressure to open up his new cut

before his pay runs out,

Kevin is turning 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 gonna

see what he's asking for it.

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 the price range I can [bleep] afford.

[grunts]

[Tony speaking]

[Kevin] Not too bad.

[Tony speaking]

-[Kevin] Oh, yeah, yeah. -[Tony speaking]

[Kevin] But dozer's all blown out.

[Tony speaking]

I'm going to have serious ripping real soon.

[Kevin] I gotcha.

[Kevin] Definitely could use one, I'll be honest.

D10R, that's much newer [bleep].

Do you know what the hours on it are

or how old the machine is?

[Kevin] No, I've seen [bleep] worse.

Do you mind if I give her a [bleep] start, see what she sounds like?

[Tony speaking]

[Kevin] All right.

[creaking]

[engine revving]

I mean, she sounds pretty [bleep] nice.

I'd probably be foolish not to buy this [bleep] machine.

So, if the price is reasonable,

yeah, I'll have to grab it.

Heya!

What price we thinking for it?

[ominous chord strike]

Well, it does have the thin [bleep] tracks.

Like...

[bleep]

Hmm.

Well...

would you drop it down to at least four?

[Kevin] OK?

OK.

That would be very much appreciated.

[Tony speaking]

[Kevin] Sounds good.

[Tony speaking]

[Kevin] 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 [bleep] price.

Honestly, it feels pretty good to be buying equipment instead

of just borrowing it from Tony.

Like...

"my [bleep], 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 and ready to get to work.

[Kevin chuckles]

-Hey, Tyler. -Hey, Kevin.

[Kevin] The dozer that we bought off of Tony, the D10R.

-You should be good to go. -Perfect.

[thrilling music plays]

Whew!

[dozer revving]

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

opening up the Sphinx Cut.

[Tyler] It's definitely crunch time right now.

Our big pay pile is definitely dwindling down.

So I got to get this thing into the cut, get her opened up,

start ripping some pay, so we can start

getting another mountain of money going.

[Kevin] 400K is still a huge chunk of change for the dozer.

But if you need it, you [bleep] need it.

[bleep] nice.

Good to get this down to the cut.

[rain falling]

[suspenseful music plays]

This pump here 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 washplant Monster Red.

Obviously, the road's 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.

[Ryan] Ready to head back and start actually getting to work.

[Rick] Good.

Well, let's get to Vegas Valley.

-[Kai] Let's go. -[Ryan] All right.

Bailey, let Jesus take the wheel.

-[Bailey] Yeah, [bleep]. -[Rick] Oh, boy!

[adventurous music plays]

[Rick] 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 sluicing in probably two or three hours.

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

[rattling]

-[loud thud] -Ugh.

[bleep]

[Bailey] You gotta be joking.

[bleep]

[ominous chord strike]

[tire scraping]

[Rick] It's always something.

[bleep] flat tire.

One of them days.

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

delaying Rick from getting on Vegas Valley gold.

Oh, Bailey, [bleep] [bleep]

What a dip[bleep].

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

to Vegas Valley and getting the plant set up,

so it just kind of sucks.

All right, pit stop this [bleep].

Get this [bleep] changed and get the show moving.

Let's go!

-Got a gun? -[Kai] Uh, yeah, of course.

[Ryan] Teamwork makes dream work.

[tool whirring]

-We're done. -[Kai] Nice.

[Rick] Let's get the [bleep] out of here.

Tire changed,

the crew continue on to Vegas Valley.

[Ryan] Let's unload this thing.

[Rick] Finally, we're here in Vegas Valley.

We've got a pile of dirt sitting, waiting.

This is the best dirt we've ever run.

Bringing down the pump, that's the last thing we need

to get Monster Red up and running.

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

We throw dirt at it, we get the gold.

[Ryan] Perfect. That'll work.

[Rick] Everything right now really is riding on that repair

of the waterline.

If these guys didn't get on there right, then, you know,

it won't handle the pressure,

it will spring a leak, and then we got to start over.

If that holds, we'll be sluicing here in an hour.

It's all turned full circle here.

We had a terrible start,

but this is where it turns around.

[Ryan] Put everything back together. Fire up.

-If we got no leaks, we roll. -[Rick] I like it.

Hey, Ryan, you got a copy?

[Ryan] We are ready.

Just let it run at an idle, and then we'll bump it up

from there. -[Kyle] OK, sounds good.

[motor revving]

[Ryan] We got water.

[Kyle over radio] You got water?

[Ryan] We also have no leaks.

[victorious music plays]

Yeah, the clamp looks good.

I think we all feel pretty [bleep] good up here

that we got no leaks.

Let's go!

[Ryan] There goes Kyle, first bucket.

After months of struggles to get his water license,

Rick is finally back running Vegas Valley pay,

the best ground he's ever mined.

[Kyle] Rick figures we should have about 300 to 400 ounces

sitting here from last year, so,

[bleep], it's pretty, pretty exciting

to finally get this through the plant.

Who knows, there might be more.

[Rick] We're definitely behind, you know.

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 owe him.

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

[rattling, creaking]

[Tyson] 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 washplant sluicing.

On its way to join Sluicifer on the double washplant pad

is Parker's workhorse, Big Red.

And he wants it running by night shift.

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

We've gotten Sluicifer up.

Now we need to get Big Red set up.

Then it'll really start coming together here.

[bleep] yeah, man.

[Jordan] Let's [bleep] hook these things up.

Get this [bleep] off.

-Sorry. -[Tyson] All good.

[Jordan] Take her away, T. Yank this [bleep] thing off.

Here goes nothing.

[creaking]

[rattling]

[Jordan] Bit more.

[rumbling]

Good!

[Tyson] Now we can drag Big Red in place.

Just got to get the plant in, the sluice runs in,

and the radial stacker in.

It's a 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.

This old washplant has found us 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.

[Alec] Oh, ho ho ho ho! That's it?

[Tyson] Yeah.

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

[Tyson] These sluice runs have seen better days.

[Alec] Walk forward just the lightest bit, Eric.

[Tyson] Whoa.

Careful now.

-[Alec] Perfect! -[Tyson] Nice work, Alec.

[Tyson] 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.

[rattling]

[Kody] First bucket.

There she goes.

[Alec] Plant number four!

[Tyson] Whoo! 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 washplants, sluicing an incredible 1,000 yards

of paydirt an hour, the most Parker has ever run.

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

Pretty cool to see the double washplant set up.

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

[water gushing]

[gushing stops]

[rumbling]

[loud bang]

[gushing rapidly]

[dirt cascades]

[Kody] Oh, we blew a line.

Oh, [bleep]!

[water gushing rapidly]

[Kody] Oh, [bleep]. We blew a line.

[suspenseful music plays]

Ah!

[motor winds down]

At the Golden Mile...

[Alec] What happened, Kody?

...minutes after firing up, Big Red's main waterline

has ripped off.

[Alec] Oh, no!

Why did this come off?

It literally ran Big Red all last year.

[Tyson speaking over radio]

Yeah, Tyson, you're all good.

[Tyson speaking over radio]

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

I'll get a rod, we'll put that in there.

I hope that doesn't happen again.

So if you wanna be certain that waterline does not come off

anymore, some old welding rods, it's gonna be my little

makeshift safety to hold this waterline together.

There, that little guy will keep our handle

from coming off.

Our fancy welding rod here holding it in.

With Alec's pin keeping the waterline in place,

he can now clear out the blocked prewash.

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

and hopefully keep her going.

[epic music plays]

[Parker] It's a nice setup.

-Do you have any big concerns? -[Tyson] No.

Sweet. [yawns]

Sorry, you have a lot more reason to be tired than I do.

[Tyson chuckles]

[Parker] Good job, man. Looks good.

[Tyson] Well, thanks to everybody.

-A lot of work. -[Tyson] Yeah.

So much work.

-Like, you can take a few days. -Thanks, man.

-See you later. -[Parker] See you, dude.

Tyson's a bulldog. He's incredibly effective.

This has been a big move, and it's just hard

to coordinate all of the moving parts.

It's nice to have guys that can just get the job done.

With four plants,

we're cranking through the dirt,

so that's what matters.

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

[water rushing]

[Tony speaking]

[Jeff] She's ready to go.

Tony's new washplant is finally assembled,

and he's a step closer to having two washplants

catching gold on Indian River.

[Jeff] The last thing is to hand you the keys to your new sports car.

[Tony laughs]

[Jeff] The name. Have you seen it yet?

[Tony speaking]

[Jeff] Find-A-Lot.

[Jeff] We've got one up top, too, for you.

[engine revving]

[Cousin Mike] We don't have to go far with this washplant,

but the biggest challenge will be getting up that hill.

It has to be solid enough.

It's gonna 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 pad, avoiding Sluice-A-Lot,

then turn it 180 degrees.

[machines rumbling]

[rattling]

[creaking]

My job is to get this plant in place,

in one piece, hook it up,

start sluicing, and then keep sluicing.

[whirring]

I'm going to keep...

turning the washplant without detaching it.

It'll be a perfect turn and I'll end up straight

towards the edge and then we'll push it as far to the edge

as we want it.

And then we can start hooking up pipes.

[Melody] Whoa!

Holy [bleep]!

Right in my [bleep] way. What the [bleep]!

[Cousin Mike] [bleep] sake.

You got to be careful with that.

I almost swung my bucket into the conveyor belt because

I didn't realize how [bleep] close he was getting.

It's pretty chaotic down here.

[Cousin Mike] You never wanna hit anything doing plant moves.

That would be the biggest [bleep] up ever.

[Tony speaking]

[thrilling music plays]

The final task to get Find-A-Lot on the gold

is to connect water to the plant.

[ominous music plays]

[Tony speaking]

Sluice-A-Lot sits directly in the path of the new water pipe.

[Cousin Mike] The way it's sitting right now,

we don't have enough room.

[Tony speaking]

[suspenseful music plays]

[Tony speaking]

At Indian River, Tony is racing to get his second

washplant fired up, but he has a problem

with connecting Find-A-Lot to the waterline.

[Cousin Mike] Yeah, that's OK.

We got to lift up Sluice-A-Lot.

We got to shut Sluice-A-Lot down for a couple of minutes,

lift it up.

So we want to go through the frame of the washplant,

and then we can fire that plant up.

[motor winds down]

Sluice-A-Lot's built-in hydraulic jacks

lift the washplant,

giving Tony a tight gap

to slide Find-A-Lot's new water pipe through the frame.

[Cousin Mike] Watch that cable!

Get that cable out of there.

[rattling]

[rattling, rumbling]

[whirring]

[Cousin Mike] All right, so, pipes are hooked up.

We got water.

We have pay over here, excavator, operator.

So we are ready to get some gold.

[Cousin Mike] All right, two washplants side by side.

Let's do this!

[epic music plays]

♪♪

[rattling]

[water gushing]

I think so.

[Cousin Mike] Sure.

[Cousin Mike] Why not?

[Cousin Mike] Yeah, I want a washplant too!

[both laughing]

For the first time this season,

Tony's running two washplants

at Indian River.

And with the gold his claim is delivering this year,

it could be a record haul.

[Tony speaking]

[calm music plays]

[Ryan] Ready? Check it out.

Well, B, this is where we get gold.

After a long week, mechanic Ryan has some

welcome visitors, wife Rachel and daughter Brinley.

-[Ryan] What do you think? -[Brinley] I like it.

-[Ryan] You do? -[Rachel laughs] You like it?

[Ryan] You want one at home?

-[Brinley] No. -[Ryan] Yeah, OK.

[Rachel laughs] Too much work.

[Ryan] 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.

[all laugh]

[Ryan] It's all little gold in there. Pretty cool, huh?

Mm-hmm.

[Ryan] Let's put it back in there.

You guys wanna go inside and get something to drink?

[Rachel] Yeah!

So, how are things at home?

[Rachel] 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, like, easy way to put it.

You know me. I need to vent to somebody,

and I just don't have that.

So it's nice to get up here and see you.

You guys do a huge sacrifice for me.

-[Rachel] Yeah. -I really appreciate it.

Yeah...

[Ryan] It's tough.

You're letting me live an opportunity and hopefully

I can repay that. -[Rachel] Yeah.

-Yeah. -[Ryan] So.

-[Rick] What's all this? -[Ryan chuckles]

Hello!

[Rick] Hi! How was your trip?

-[Rachel] Long, very long. -[Rick] This is for you.

-[Rick] Ooh! -[all laugh]

[Rick] We are doing a gold weigh.

Are you guys going to come in and check it out?

-[Rachel] Sure. -[Rick] Come on in.

-[Rick] Oh, hey, guys. -Hi!

-[Kai] Nice to meet you. -[Rachel] Hi.

This is Rachel.

[woman] Hello, nice to meet you.

[Rachel] We're excited to be here.

[Rick] I don't think we ever invited anybody to our gold weighs.

-[Ryan] This was new. -Aw, we're special, B.

[laughs]

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 run time on it.

So, this is the first gold weigh from Vegas Valley.

You want to count?

Hey, make sure you say it loud.

-Kyle can't even count. -Yeah.

Monster Red was running for three days at Vegas Valley.

[Rick] Ready? Get it.

To pay Troy Taylor off for Lightning Creek,

Rick needs 100 ounces.

[gold pattering]

40...

60...

70...

80, 83, 84...

-100, and... -[tapping]

109.94.

Worth over $380,000.

Nice job, B!

Now just go put that in the bedroom.

[all laughing]

Dude, that's starting to look more like a gold weigh.

[Ryan] We've got more than what we've got all season.

[Rick] Yeah.

Unfortunately, it's gotta all go to Troy.

I owe him 100 ounces out of that,

and then we own that ground.

Good thing we 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,

you know what I mean?

We've got a lot of dirt to move,

a lot of ground to make up.

You guys ready for it?

-OK. -Yep.

-Hell yeah. -We're all here.

-[Rick] Cheers! -All right.

[Ryan] Hopefully the first of many.

[Rick] Yeah.

Well, it's, uh...

good to get the first gold weigh out of Vegas Valley,

but we've got a hell of a lot more to go,

so I know everybody's excited.

All we gotta do is work for it and we'll get it.

[intriguing music plays]

Hello, I come bearing gifts.

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] I'm the only one carrying [bleep].

Anyways, how is it going on the -- in the Indian?

Yeah, it looks good, and it's nice.

It's a nice setup.

[Minnie] So I guess we only got gold from Sluice-A-Lot

and Find-A-Lot.

So far, Tony's one Indian River washplant

has been averaging 300 ounces a week.

By adding a new washplant, he's hoping to double

his weekly score.

OK.

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

[Monica] All right.

5, 10, 15, 20,

30, 40, 50,

60, 70, 80...

Ooh!

84.86.

Worth almost $300,000.

That's not bad.

Next, Sluice-A-lot's gold from three days in the River Cut.

10, 20...

30, 40, 50, 60, 70...

80, 90, 100, 110...

124.82.

Worth over $435,000.

Finally, Sluice-A-Lot's gold from the last of the pay

at the Early Bird Cut.

[Tony] 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70,

80, 90, 120, 140, 150, 160...

172.44.

Worth over $600,000.

[Tony speaking]

Yay!

[Minnie] And that's three days, so that's not bad.

3280,

is halfway his goal, with just one plant.

Might have to up your goal for the year.

[all laughing]

Tony's weekly total is worth over $1.3 million,

enough to cover the cost of his new washplant.

And now he's primed to double his gold.

[Tony speaking]

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

[Mike] Need help?

[all laughing]

-[Kevin] Hey, guys. -[Minnie] How you doing?

[Kevin] Not too bad.

[Tony speaking]

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

[Faith] Yeah, we just finished the Pyramid Cut.

[Tony speaking]

So now Kev went to look for a new cut,

named it the "Sphinx Cut."

[Minnie] The what cut?

[Faith and Kevin] Sphinx.

Oh...

[Faith] That dozer that we bought off you worked very well.

But anyways, it worked out for you, buying our Cat, so.

It's right down, actually in the cut right now,

the Sphinx Cut, clearing out the first top layer.

You got some gold this time?

[Kevin] Gah!

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

120 ounces, but so far,

they've averaged just 21 ounces a week.

[Minnie] Let's weigh it up.

[Kevin] 20...

40...

60, 70...

90, 110, 130...

-142... -[tapping]

142.22!

Worth just under half a million dollars.

Biggest gold weigh yet this year.

[Minnie] So where are you now with your gold weighs?

So far we have roughly around 330 ounces.

Hopefully we can catch up

so that we can get to our 2,000 end goal.

[Minnie] And washing.

Well, then we're off.

[Minnie] See you guys later.

[Faith] See you.

[Kevin] Still a long way to 2,000 ounces,

but I'm feeling a lot better...

than I was. -[Yeah] Yeah.

Though we do have a long way to go,

so we should probably get back to her.

Allons-y!

-Go find a hot spot for me. -I will try.

-[Tyson] Oh, yeah. -No worries.

-[Chris] Hey, hey. -[Tyson] Hi.

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

[Mitch] Dude, it sounds like you had a busy week.

Two washplant moves?

Yeah, it's a tiring week, man.

[Mitch] That's brutal.

[Tyson] Cool seeing both of them side by side again.

It's nice to have the mayhem contained to one place.

-[Tyson] Yeah. -[laughing]

Hopefully it paid off.

We'll work our way to that one, yeah.

Well, Roxanne's performing well.

That's good. Takes a big thermos.

[Mitch] All right, let's do it.

First up, Roxanne, foreman Mitch's plant that ran

for seven days at Ken and Stuart's.

[Mitch] 80...

140...

180... -[tapping]

...198.3 there.

-A whole bunch of nuggets. -[Chris] Chunky ground.

-This came out of that thing. -[Brennan] No way!

[Parker] Wow!

[bleep] am I good at stripping cuts?

[Brennan laughs]

[Mitch] So that brings us to a total of 204.2.

-[Brennan] Wow. - Worth over $700,000.

-Nice. -That's sick.

[Chris] Ain't that something.

[Parker] Those are some nice nuggets too.

[Chris and Brennan] Yeah.

We got Bob here.

Big Bob.

Next, washplant Bob,

the first of three washplants under Tyson's charge.

[Tyson] See how the Bridge Cut did.

20...

40...

80...

120, 160, 180...

200...

229.65.

Worth over $800,000.

-[Brennan] Nice. -Solid.

Yeah.

[Chris] We got Sluicifer. See how it did.

Next up, Sluicifer, 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, Doumitt.

Finally, Parker's fourth washplant,

resurrected Big Red,

which ran pay from the Golden Mile

for just over a day.

[Tyson] 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 washplants going,

we have 669.85.

We're halfway through the season, and right now

we're at 4,921.5 ounces.

Parker's four washplants 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... -[Chris] Yeah.

-...those numbers will increase. -[Parker] Perfect.

-Thank you, guys. -[Brennan] Thank you.

[Mitch] Yeah, buddy.

You know, four plants going here at Dominion,

which is great, and we're halfway to our season goal,

but, man, am I tired. I need some sleep.

[Chris] Good to close up.