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[mysterious music plays]

Troy's been, uh...

bugging me about his final payment there

on Lightning Creek,

and I got 100 ounces of gold in a jar,

so I'm going to go pay

it to him right now and kind of get him off my back.

[narrator] 44-year-old Rick Ness is betting on himself.

He's purchasing his second gold mine, Lightning Creek,

expanding his Keno empire to 3,600 acres of ground.

-How you doing, Troy? -[Troy] Good.

Good to see you.

What's going on?

Yeah, I brought you some gold.

You know, I wasn't trying to jerk you around or nothing,

so there's 100 ounces in there.

[Troy] Oh, right on.

Yeah.

I'm assuming there's 100 ounces in here.

-I'll go away as soon as you... -Oh, yeah, yeah, I know.

I know, I know, yeah.

But, yeah, no, there's 100 ounces in there, yeah,

and, you know, with today's gold prices, that's a chunk,

so, yeah, it's looking good.

Yeah, this is the final payment.

You're on your way, so you're off to the races, so good luck.

[Rick] All right, good doing business, as always.

[Troy] OK.

[Rick] It's good to have that off my back.

I always like paying off debts.

Lightning Creek, we haven't made it pay off yet,

but I know we will.

It's an asset for the future, and it's an option,

so it's a good day.

For now, Rick's new claim is an insurance policy.

For the foreseeable future, he's focusing his operation

on Vegas Valley,

a spot that paid out nearly 800 ounces

last year.

But his water license expires in just four months.

[Rick] I just really got to hope that we hit our $1,800 goal.

We're running what's left of last year's stockpile.

I know there's a lot of gold there,

because we need a lot after I spent all that money.

Good news, though, is that we got the Vegas Valley

water license extended this year.

It came out of nowhere, but I'll take it,

you know, right back where we want to be.

We know the gold's there.

But at the end of the day, it's only good till November.

So we really got to get as much gold out of Vegas Valley

as we can, 'cause we don't know if we'll be able to come back.

[rattling]

[suspenseful music plays]

[Kyle] Got this Vegas Valley stockpile.

It's probably 300 ounces in this pay pile,

but we're burning through it pretty quick.

Rick's crew are running a leftover pay pile from last

year and now have to get back on paydirt

at the bottom of the cut.

I don't really want to shut Monster Red down now that we're

getting the gold, so I'm going to go out and talk to Bailey.

We just need to get to the bottom of Vegas Valley

ASAP.

[tense music rises]

What's going on?

I don't know if you've seen the pay pile,

but it's going fast, and...

It always does.

A week max is what we've got to run through the plant.

And it might be only five or six days.

With the late start that we're getting, it's pretty important

that we keep that plant running.

Yeah, I know. I hear that.

In this spring, you did a good job at Lightning Creek.

You opened that up quick.

So I need you to do the same thing, right?

Get back into Vegas Valley, open her up,

and just do what you do.

Is it realistic to think that

you could get pay up there before that pile's gone?

I think we can do it, build a new road.

-[Rick] Yeah. -We should be able to, for sure.

That's what I want to hear.

If we need another road, you can work on that?

-[Bailey] Yep. -OK.

We've got a week.

All right, let's burn some teeth.

Good man.

Last year, Rick's crew moved a mountain

to open up Vegas Valley.

Digging down 160 feet, they removed

more than one million yards of dirt before they hit pay.

Over winter, Vegas Valley flooded.

Rick has drained the water, but the road into the cut

has washed away.

Now, to get back down to the pay layer, Bailey must

build a new 500-foot road down to the bottom of the cut

and start pulling pay before Monster Red

runs out of its stockpile.

To get the job done in a week, Bailey needs all three

of Rick's working rock trucks.

What the [bleep]!

Why the [bleep] won't this thing start?!

Hey, Ryan, you got a copy?

[Ryan speaking over radio]

You want to come over here and take a look at this

rock truck? It won't even turn over.

[Ryan speaking over radio]

[Kai] Sounds good, thanks.

All the lights turn on, everything, and you go

to start it and it doesn't even turn over.

All right, Kai. We'll do some tests on it.

We'll get it figured out.

Thank [bleep] Ryan's here.

I'm going to hop in this truck,

and, uh, while he's fixing that one,

so that we can keep the trucks rolling.

Until Ryan can fix the problem,

Rick's down to just two rock trucks.

[truck revving]

[intriguing music plays]

You know, It's on me, but it's on the rock truck drivers, too.

They got to move the material

just as quick as I gotta, you know, load them.

[truck revving]

[suspenseful music plays]

[truck creaking]

[Ryan] Oh, for [bleep] sake.

Now what did you do?

Well, shut the truck off.

Your hydraulic tank just [bleep] fell off.

Not a good day to be a rock truck.

After a second rock truck craps out,

Bailey's left with just one truck to build the road.

I'm just sitting here burning fuel.

His hopes of finishing the Vegas Valley Road

before they run out of pay

are getting slimmer by the hour.

-[Rick] Dude, that's bad. -[Ryan] Yeah, it's bad.

He's lucky those six bolts up there are holding.

Otherwise, he would have just ran the tank over

and it would have been bad.

Here's your three bolts right here.

Somehow, every one of those

sheared off.

I don't think it's driver abuse by any means.

I just think

either these were coming loose,

and once one came loose, the other started moving loose.

These are the original trucks I started with.

about seven years ago.

I don't see any damage. Tank's fine.

But I don't recommend we run it.

[Rick[ It's just another hit. It's not good.

We've got rock trucks down and we've got a hell of a lot

of dirt to move out of Vegas Valley, so...

Hopefully, Ryan can get it fixed quick

and get back to business.

[calm music plays]

Midway through his season, the king of the Klondike

has already banked half his season target,

$11 million worth of gold.

[Tony speaking]

Tony's tearing through his Indian River claim,

which has delivered 1,000 ounces more gold

than this time last season.

To keep up momentum,

he's now opening the Corner Cut,

which he believes holds up to $20 million worth of gold.

[Tony speaking]

Tony's in a rush to get down to paydirt,

because at the River Cut, his double washplant setup

is churning through pay at record speed.

If the River Cut is done before he's pulling pay

from the Corner Cut, Tony will have to shut down.

[Tony speaking]

There's just one problem.

The 950 is currently at Paradise Hill

being used by son Mike's crew.

[Mike] Go ahead, go ahead.

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] [bleep] sakes.

That 950 is a beautiful piece of equipment.

I'm actually very angry about this, because the 950

is a bulk hauler.

I was hoping to get sluicing,

but that's not going to happen.

This is more wasted time.

[Tony speaking]

To hold the 950 40 miles

from Paradise Hill to the Indian River,

Tony's crew need to first remove

the boom and stick

then load them along with the body

onto two heavy-duty lowboys.

[rattling]

Now we're pulling the main stick pin out and then

all the weights off that,

we'll be able to flip the boom up,

swing it around and pull the next piece.

[revving]

Give her a good pull.

[whirring heavily]

Went out of alignment there a little bit.

Hey, no bucket.

Don't do that. Just back up.

Just ask you guys to get out of the way,

because it might break here.

[chain snaps]

Stand back,

[Colby] Holy [bleep]!

The excavator shifted a little bit,

and that pinched on the pin

So, I think the press might be the option for this.

So, I'll hang this thing from my crane,

and I can pressure

this up with the hydraulic pump,

and it's got quite a bit

of force to help pull that pin out.

I'm going to be irritated by it taking this long, but nothing

I can do to change that.

[rattling rapidly]

We've broken it loose there where it was pinched up,

so we're just going to give it

a try with the loader, speed things up.

[thrilling music plays]

[rattling]

-[pin snaps] -[thuds]

[Colby] Lift the boom out of its place,

set it down, lock the 950 on a trailer, and away it goes.

When Tony's around, it definitely

kicks everybody into gear.

You don't want to be standing around with your hands

in your pockets when Tony's around here...

As I'm standing around with my hands in my pockets.

After losing 16 tons removing the stick and boom,

the 950's body still weighs 84 tons.

Regular trailer, you just walk it on, chain it down,

and away it goes.

This one, you gotta block up underneath the excavator,

and then lift up the trailer, and then pray that it lifts up

the hull high enough to drive it.

[Tony speaking]

[revving deeply]

Tony sets off first,

transporting the boom and stick.

[suspenseful music plays]

Darren follows behind with the body of the 950.

[suspenseful music builds]

-[tire pops] -[hisses]

[engine winds down]

[ominous music plays]

[dramatic music plays]

Tony Beets is hauling his 950 excavator from Paradise Hill

to Indian River.

But 20 miles out, he's lost contact with driver Darren.

[mysterious music plays]

[Darren] Hello, Tony. [Tony speaking over radio]

[Darren speaking over radio]

[Darren speaking]

[Tony speaking]

[Darren speaking]

[Tony speaking]

[Darren] I don't think so.

Still, like, probably 40,000 kgs on the back.

[Tony speaking]

Tony's only option?

Walk the excavator, which has a painfully slow top speed

of 2.7 miles an hour, the 20 miles to Indian River,

delaying his plans to get to pay in the Corner Cut.

[Tony speaking]

[birds squawking]

Tyson was going to pull a stripping crew out

of the Bridge Cut to come do fine tailings, and I was like,

"Man, just...

throw me in a hoe and I'll buy you a couple shifts."

Parker Schnabel is back in the saddle with his eyes

on a 10,000 ounce, 35 million dollar prize.

[Parker] I still enjoy getting in machinery, but I just don't

have the time to do it anymore.

My job has changed massively.

And, um...

It's important that I do what I think is the most critical

issue at hand, and it's just that the size the company is

now, it's that never is like,

"Oh, I need to be in that piece of equipment doing that job."

Midway through the season, Parker is closing in

on 5,000 ounces, half his season goal.

[Parker] The biggest issue that we're going to have, I think,

which is the only thing I'm really worried about,

is having enough sluicing capacity.

There's a lot of sluicing left to do.

For the first time ever, Parker is running four washplants --

Big Red, Sluicifer, and Bob at Dominion Creek,

while Roxanne works at Ken and Stuart's

on the Indian River,

where Parker needs to produce 2,000 ounces,

a fifth of his season goal.

[Parker] At the Indian River, there's definitely, you know,

a massive amount of dirt moving that needs to happen.

If we don't focus on that, we don't meet the target.

Foreman Mitch Blaschke is away for the next two days.

So it's all on acting foreman Brennan Ruault to keep

the gold rolling in at Indian River.

We're trying to get a massive pay pile, so that way we have

time to take care of other things.

So the work has never stopped.

So we got to keep everything rolling down here

as efficient as possible.

We just got to keep this plant running.

We've got a lot of pay to chew through here, and as long

as we keep it going, we'll all have nice, happy bonuses

at the end of the year.

[pouring heavily]

[rattling]

[rattling stops]

[Kayden] [bleep]!

Why isn't that shaker deck going?

[ominous music plays]

[whirring winds down]

[gushing stops]

[Kayden] [bleep]!

-Brennan got a copy? -Hey, buddy.

-What's going on? -[Kayden] Hey, man.

The shaker deck just stopped going.

You've got to be joking me!

[Kayden] Genny's on. Breaker's on.

-Nothing happens. -[Brennan] OK, buddy.

I'll get us some mechanics as quick as I can.

I do not want to see that plant down.

We have way too much ground to get through here.

They need to be down here making this paid pile.

Brennan calls in father and son mechanics Bill Horton

and Justin Driessen to investigate the breakdown.

The overload protection is shutting it down.

Why? We're not sure yet.

So we've got to just start testing wires and find out

if there's an overload on a certain wire,

a certain leg. Lots to check.

We went through all the wiring.

We pulled a lot of the connections apart,

put them back together.

OK, Jus, let's give her a whirl.

Maybe we'll put these covers back on and we'll try

some dirt through it.

-[Justin] OK. -[Bill] Ready?

-OK? -[Justin] Yep.

[rattling builds]

Bill tests the flow of electricity,

measured in amps,

driving the shaker motor.

Well, right now, she's shaking, so the amperage

is a little bit higher than we wanted.

We're at 42, 43 range.

We only really want to be at 35.

-[rattling] -[water gushing]

[Bill] Right now, everything is running.

Pretty happy right now,

so I'm just hoping this happiness

can last all day.

[motor winds down]

[Bill] [bleep]! Failed again.

You got water coming out of the bearing?

I think we finally found the cause of the problem.

OK, you're good, you're good, you're good.

We have a hole right through.

Dirt's been in there quite a while,

so those bearings will be toast.

Pull up and pull this shaft out.

[Justin] Sick.

Roxanne's shaker deck gets its rocking motion

from a rotating shaft inside a metal cylinder

with counterweights at each end.

Bearings reduce friction as the shaft spins.

Over time, a rock has worked its way under a guard plate,

and after years of vibrating in the same spot, the rock has

worn a hole into the cylinder, letting in water and dirt,

partially seizing the bearings.

To fix the problem, the bearings have to be removed

the shaft pulled out,

the hole welded shut,

the shaft re-inserted

and new bearings fitted,

before it can be fired up

and start sluicing again.

Bill and Justin begin by removing the bearings.

[sludge splashes]

Glad my knee wasn't under that.

There's brass in the water.

[Bill] Oh, yeah, the bearings are done.

Wanna swing it out and I'll wind it down.

-[Justin] OK, ready? -[Bill] Mm-hm.

The process is repeated on the other side.

[Justin] We got it.

Next, they pull out the 2,000-pound shaft.

You're going to pick now,

so go ahead.

[whirring]

There we go, buddy.

We got a shaft out on the ground.

Every hour the plant is down

Parker is losing over $4,000 in gold production.

[Bill] We've got a lot of work ahead of us right now,

and we really don't have time for it.

[Brennan] Any downtime is going to kill us right now,

you know, and that's what's scaring me.

Hopefully we'll have it fixed

so when Mitch is back, we're running full tilt.

Downtime's the biggest killer this time of year.

[intriguing music plays]

We're running what's left of the stockpile

from last season.

It's nice that we had that, but it's going to run out soon.

Rick Ness is chasing a potential $1 million payout

from a stockpile, while his crew race to get

to pay at the bottom of Vegas Valley

before it runs out.

The linchpin in the plan?

Rebuilding the road that descends 50 feet into the pit.

I made a promise to Rick that I could do this road and try

to get down here as quick as we can.

I'm worried that we're not gonna make it down to pay,

and they're gonna run out of pay before I can get there.

With just one rock truck at his disposal,

Bailey's chances of getting the job done are slim.

Right now, with no trucks,

it's not helping us get down there.

Now it's crunch time,

and we need to get [bleep] moving.

And I don't want to fail Rick.

Kai just went to go start his truck and said

everything powers up, but when he turns the ignition,

he's got nothing.

Mechanic Ryan has been

struggling to get two downed trucks back up and running,

and has finally made a breakthrough.

Basically, what somebody's done here is they have

spliced the igniter wires on the relay together.

Basically, what that igniter wire does, it sends a signal

down to the relay on the starter

and tells the starter, "hey, it's time to engage."

It looks like somebody's put in a couple splices,

cut the wires off,

and decided that was gonna be an easy fix.

So...

What we'll do is fix their splice

and see if it starts.

No big deal.

[engine starts]

All good.

Halfway there.

We got the wire fixed.

This truck fires up.

Looks like we got our hands full with the next one, though.

This tank right here is hydraulic and then brake fluid.

The three mounting bolts right up top

have completely sheared off.

Years of abuse.

The bolts, you know, they'll sit there and wear

and wear and wear, and eventually you hit one

good bump, and there's plenty of them out here,

and now that tank is down, so...

I'm gonna need to lift this up and press it in.

Try to get my main spacers and bolts put in up here

that connect to the frame,

once we get this up and in position

with three bolts in.

All the other equipment is way up on the [bleep] hill,

so no need to bring more manpower down here.

I'll just try to wing her.

I'm the only mechanic on the crew.

It's a lot of stress.

What a brace.

I think it might work.

This one's it. Done.

That's good. All right, that's it.

Everything's bolted down.

This truck's ready to hit back on that monster cut.

-Bailey, you got a copy? -[Bailey] Yeah.

Hey, man, good news.

We got that hydraulic tank remounted up, so it's going

to be another truck in your rotation.

[bleep] yeah, Ryan, that's great, man.

I'll be able to finish this off a lot quicker now.

All three trucks now back in the field,

Bailey has a fighting chance of finishing the road

before the stockpiled pay runs out.

[intriguing music plays]

[rattling]

[Kyle] Hey, Rick, you got a copy?

[Rick] Copy, Kyle.

Yeah, we're almost out of pay here.

Is that all the pay that's left right there,

that little pile?

Probably five more buckets, not even.

I was kinda hoping you were hiding

some somewhere else or something.

[Kyle] You got to make a decision here

and figure out what the hell we're going to do.

We need some pay up here pretty soon, or we're going

to be shutting down the plant.

Bailey, give us an update on what's going on down there.

Well, this is going to take a lot longer than expected.

And the trucks being broken down,

there's way too much work down here.

[bleep]! That's great. That's it.

Didn't make it.

We didn't want to have to shut it down,

but that's where we're at.

We're out of pay right now.

With only 190 ounces so far this year,

Rick's forced to shut down

while the crew continue to build the road...

Hit the bypass.

And pray the stockpile pays out big enough

to keep him in business.

Yeah, it's not a good feeling shutting down Monster Red

this time of year, especially when we don't know

when the next round of pay is coming.

We've got a lot of work to do to get the 1,800 ounces,

I'll tell you that.

[suspenseful music rises]

[machine whirring]

So when do you think that 950 will come in?

-Have you heard yet? -We need it today.

We need it yesterday.

At Indian River, Tony Beets crew

are in desperate need

of the monster 950

to help strip the Corner Cut.

It's been a long and slow journey to get this

to the Indian River.

Into his eighth hour driving the 950 to Indian River,

after the lowboy carrying it broke down,

Tony's his grandson, 18-year-old Eagan.

[Eagan] It's nice to be getting involved with it all.

It's my fifth year running equipment.

I can run a little bit of everything,

mostly excavator, though.

-[Tony speaking] -[Eagan] Morning.

[Tony speaking]

Good.

[Tony speaking]

Sure.

Since the age of 13, Eagan has learned the ropes,

running machinery under Tony's watch.

-[Tony speaking] -[Eagan] Yeah.

[Tony speaking]

Before he can deliver the 950 to Indian River,

Eagan has one final obstacle.

[Tony speaking]

[Eagan] Yeah.

Yep.

[dramatic music plays]

[Tony speaking]

[Tony speaking]

Tony Beets's grandson, Eagan, is almost done

with his epic 10 hour journey

to deliver the family's 950 excavator

to the Corner Cut on the Indian River.

[Tony speaking]

[victorious chord strikes]

We'll get it there eventually.

Slow and steady.

[calm, emotive music plays]

[excavator rattling]

[Eagan] Yeah.

Yeah.

Now, two days behind schedule,

Tony needs the 950 reassembled

and in the Corner Cut fast.

[Tony speaking]

[Len] Finally, the 950 arrived from Paradise Hill.

Tony said to put it together as fast as possible because we had

a lot of trouble to get it over here.

[thrilling music plays]

[chain rattling]

This piece is just shy of 21,000 pounds.

[rattling, whirring]

[Trevor] It's going in.

Whoa!

Just a tiny bit more. Whoa!

That's good there.

She is all the way home.

[Len] Someday everybody gets lucky, huh?

[Len laughs]

The boom is connected.

So, now we're going to connect this thing.

OK, just...

Yeah, it's ready.

Oh, yeah! Oh, yeah!

-[Trevor] Yeah, that's right. -[Len] There we go.

[Tony speaking]

For the last step, Tony and Eagan attach

the 10-yard bucket.

[Len] I'm 6'6", so you can see how big it is.

Not really, but that's what the girls like, isn't it?

Yeah.

[Tony speaking]

[horn blares]

Tony's race to open the Corner Cut

is now in overdrive.

[Tony speaking]

[mysterious music plays]

[Mitch] Things have been going really good down here

-at Ken and Stuart's. You know, Parker has...

big goals for this season.

There's just a lot of sluicing that's gotta happen

if we're gonna get all this done in time.

At Parker Schnabel's Indian River claim,

foreman Mitch Blaschke is back from a couple of days away...

Why aren't we sluicing?

...to discover Roxanne isn't sluicing,

thanks to its bearings failing.

[Mitch] Well, buddy, that's not the way we want

to see a washplant.

[Brennan] That's not the way I wanted you to come back either.

And I leave for two days to go see the family and come back,

and you got a broken washplant, buddy. -[Brennan] I know.

[Mitch] We just need to try and get everything set up the best

we can so once we start this thing, we can just get rolling.

-Why did you break it? -It wasn't me, buddy.

-Ah! -How do you like it?

[Brennan laughs]

We got our bearing housings all ready,

and hopefully they're going to drop right in.

Having removed the shaft from Roxanne,

mechanics Bill and Justin turn to fitting the new bearings

into the housing.

When they stick, it is a major catastrophe.

But there's an issue...

The bearings are about 1,000th of an inch larger

than the housing, and won't slide into place.

[Justin] Let's do this.

[torch blowing]

[Bill] That's gonna be hot.

To make them fit, Bill and Justin first freeze

the bearings, shrinking them in size, before heating

the housing to 450 degrees.

You heat up your housing, which will make it expand,

and then you cool your bearing, which will make it contract.

In doing that, you can buy yourself enough space

to drop this in.

You've got about 15 to 20 seconds

to try and get that bearing in

before it starts to warm up and expand.

It is a one-shot deal.

There's always stress because a one wrong move

will cost us a $5,000 bearing.

If this doesn't work, Roxanne could be out of action

for weeks and cost Parker millions in lost gold.

[Justin] Yeah, we're almost there.

[Bill] OK, I'll shut this one off.

You can keep that one going.

[dramatic music plays]

[rustling]

[hissing softly]

[torch blowing]

[hissing heavily]

[Justin] There we go.

There's one, little buddy.

This one is successful.

And that's how we like to do them.

[Justin] Now you can see it thawing.

[Bill] One more.

[thrilling music plays]

-[hissing heavily] -[clanking]

Whew.

Well, little buddy, it's a happy day.

[laughing]

-You can have your freezer back. -Thank you.

Yeah, groceries are coming tomorrow.

[both laugh]

[adventurous music plays]

[Justin] Hell yeah!

You know, out of all the years we've been doing this,

this is probably one of the biggest breakdowns we've ever had

on a washplant.

And, you know, it's taken a lot of time here to pull this thing

apart, fix it, get it all back together.

[Bill] The bearing is seated safely.

Tarp's coming off.

[Mitch] The big question is, how's she going to shake?

-She's all you. -Can I get to do the honors?

[Bill] You can.

[Mitch] Here we go!

[motor winds up]

-Sounds good. -[Bill] Sounds good.

Sounds nice and quiet.

[Mitch] This washplant is ready to go!

[water gushing]

[rattling]

[epic music rises]

The shaker deck looks great.

The sluice runs are running really nice here.

So I think Roxanne is back as good as new.

And we got ourselves a mound of paydirt.

Time to get through it, turn it into some gold,

make up for some lost time.

After two days down

and losing over $200,000 in production,

Roxanne's back in the game

and can keep delivering for this week's gold weigh.

[Mitch] Nice job, man!

[Mitch] How's four washplants treating you, Chris?

Oh, it's a little bit hectic.

I'm curious to what it's going to be like when you get

a full week's run with no breakdowns?

Dude, yeah.

I can't leave you alone for five minutes, man.

My toes still black from that rock you threw at it.

[laughing]

[Parker] Surprisingly, that's the first time

we've had any sort of problem like that...

in 13 years.

[Mitch] That was definitely one of the biggest.

We are very fortunate to have really good mechanics here.

[Tyson] Yeah.

Well, it sounds like you guys had all the fun we needed

for the week, because things up here

went just fine. Nothing to report.

[all cackle]

[Mitch] Roxanne has a few hours on it down at Indian River.

In their first week of running four plants,

the crew hauled in 669 ounces.

20, 30, 40...

Ooh, 49.6.

Got to run to make gold, man.

[Chris] Yeah.

At least there's something.

Now, the gold from Dominion Creek.

Bridge Cut. Bob, let's see how it did.

20, 40, 60...

100...

130, 140...

147.05.

That's not bad.

[Chris] Yeah, then we got the Golden Mile.

Those are the two plants, right?

Well, here we go.

Next, the combined gold from Sluicifer and Big Red.

[Tyson] 60...

100, 130, 160...

230, 232.05.

[bleep] yeah!

This week, we have 428.7 ounces.

Worth just over $1.5 million,

but over 200 ounces less than last week's haul.

Last week, we had 669.85 ounces.

-Significant drop. -Yeah.

But season total, though...

is 5,350.25.

[Brennan] Wow!

[Chris] So we broke the halfway mark.

That's good.

-[Chris] We're up and running. -Yeah.

It's just going to be nice to get four plants

going full-time.

Which is going to be hard to do.

You know.

We won't leave Brennan home alone anymore.

-[all laugh] -[Chris] Yeah.

All right, thanks, guys.

Good job, you guys.

Let's double this next week, eh?

-[Brennan laughs] -[Mitch] Sounds good.

[Parker] How we're going to manage to have as much uptime as we can

with this many washplants running,

um...

you know, that's going to determine our gold total

at the end of the year because we have tons of ground open.

So the whole name of the game is keeping washplants running.

And this week is a pretty...

poor example of that.

But I don't think it's,

you know, I don't think it's, like,

a systematic issue on our part.

I think we'll be able to keep things running.

We'll see.

Hello.

Ready?

Yeah, we're ready. How are you guys ready?

[Mike grunting]

The 950 finally got here.

My dream is to see all my kids operate on one big line.

[laughs]

OK, Monica, did you bring any gold?

[Tony speaking]

[Ruby] Ten...

Tony's two plant blitz on the River Cut churned

through pay without stopping.

And last week, Sluice-A-Lot delivered 297 ounces alone.

290, 300, 319.06.

[Minnie] That's not bad.

Now, should we see if Find-A-Lot,

found a lot more gold?

Brand-new plant Find-A-Lot produced 84 ounces of gold

from two days running last week.

[Ruby]...30, 40, 50, 60, 70,

80, 90, 100, 120...

160, 180, 200...

h240, 280...

300, 330...

339.68!

With just two plants,

Tony's hauled in 658 ounces,

worth over two and a quarter million dollars.

It's his biggest gold weigh of the season,

and brings his total to 3939 ounces.

When's the last time you got a new shirt?

[Tony speaking]

I think everybody should go back to work.

[Minnie] You go for it.

[calm music plays]

-[Ryan] That pay pile was huge. -[Bailey] Yeah, it was.

Rick thought 400 ounces was going to come out

of that pay pile.

Even though we only got 110 ounces last week,

but maybe we'll get a little bit more this week.

So, Bailey, how'd you do with getting pay this week?

There is no pay this week because someone had to keep

breaking trucks, so I couldn't reach my goal.

You have one job.

It's to drive trucks, not break them.

It was a task that I thought I could accomplish,

but at the end of the day, there was a lot more material

there than I expected. -[Ryan] That you could see.

-Oh, you guys are cozy. -What's going on, Rick?

-I snuggled right in. -What's up, dudes?

After pivoting back to Vegas Valley,

Rick's eager to find out

how much gold was left

in the pay pile from last season.

So, the nice thing is that

it didn't quite fit into one flask.

So, there's 100 ounces there, and we got a bunch in here.

Here we go.

[pouring softly]

10, 20, 30, 40...

50, 60, 70, 80, 90...

110, 120...

135, 140...147.4.

-Ooh. -[Ryan] Nice.

Rick's weekly total is 247,

worth $866,000,

his biggest gold weigh of the season.

-[Ryan] That's way better. -One week, that's good.

That's, it's shy of 400, but not by much.

[Bailey] No.

Rick's season total is now 437 ounces.

You've obviously proven that there's gold in the bottom

of that hole.

Bailey just needs to dig that [bleep] out.

We got to get to pay, get to it quick, get to it safely.

We've been there before, but...

-We've always finished strong. -Yeah.

You guys know what it's going to take, a lot of work,

but I know you're up for it.

[Ryan] Thanks for trusting us.

[Rick] Absolutely. Thanks for trusting me.

-Cheers. -[al] Cheers.

-[bleep] -[bleep]

-Man down! -Man down!

-Cheers. -[laughing]