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Let's just chain it down. You're good.

On this gold rush.

Badass.

Harker's navel is on the move.

It'll go from good to bad real fast when it's like this.

Whoa.

Whoa!

This is good to go.

Rick Nessie's road to redemption comes at a cost.

Stay around 100 grand versus expenses at least.

Let's fire this up.

And Tony Beats fires up his secret weapon.

Here's your hold up.

Right now we're in a good place this season. Fuel prices are low. Gold prices

are high.

And the airstrip cut, it looks like it should have some really good potential.

26 -year -old Parker Schnabel has been tearing through ground at a record pace.

And now he has his sights set on a new claim, the airstrip cut.

You know, really, I'd like to get as much of it mined up as we can.

Tony's an uncertain landowner, so we should get the gold out of the ground

we still can.

I think the best thing to do is going to be to just shut down Lucifer and move

to the Harris strip cut.

Parker took a chance having first -year club boss Tyson Lee run Lucifer all

season. But so far, he's exceeded all expectations and worked through the pay

dirt at the promised land in record time.

Hey, Nick. We're done.

I got that out of here.

Pretty much.

I'm like, oh, this is frozen.

I've been going over it every couple days, and there's not much more a guy

do than that.

Come on.

Parker's down here, and he's going to go see what he has to say.

Hi, Tyson.

Hey, Parker. How's it going? Good. How are you?

Pretty good, thanks.

Do you want to move this thing tomorrow?

Tear it apart, yeah, and hopefully get it up there. I was going to truck it.

Hopefully we can just put it together and pull it right up into its new home.

When are we going to be back, Slusan?

I think five days is reasonable from... Five days?

Well, I think we can have it torn apart in a good day. What do you need the

other four for?

It's not like we're moving it 500 feet.

And that's not going to happen today.

Well, no, what do you think, though, man?

I think it all looks good.

Thanks, guys.

Awesome. Thanks, man.

Overall, I'm pretty happy. Now it's just a matter of getting the plant moving

instead of in its new home.

Tyson's success has now earned him a Herculean task, moving Sluicifer five

to the airstrip.

Yeah, we're definitely in a rush to get to the airstrip. We're not just moving

at 500 feet.

When we brought the water plant down, they kind of threw us ground.

We drug it the whole way and it was painful and it took so damn long, so

year we're gonna haul it.

We've got, you know, one walk plant down right now and Big Red will be finishing

up here shortly, but we don't want two plants down, especially while the

still looks like this.

What's happening?

I'm not too mixed.

You ready?

Yeah.

The 90 ,000 -pound wash plant needs to be dragged onto the low buoy and then

rotated 90 degrees sideways to make it stable.

Come on, baby.

Looking good, Nick.

Hope it makes the trailer before it decides to dip.

Another six inches and you'll be at the trailer.

Probably start spinning her now, eh?

We'll drag her some more. We'll start spinning.

Radio.

Fallen sideways.

Yeah, Tyson, so let's just chain it down. You're good.

Is there a reason we shouldn't fall sideways?

To save time, Parker wants to haul his $600 ,000 plant as it is.

Fallen sideways.

It's just if you hook this into a bank, right, then it's going to get bad real

quick. You're the boss.

It's up to you, man. Oh, God, don't put that. You're the boss.

You're a watch player. We'll haul it out whenever you want.

This is not coming off the trailer.

If anything, the trailer is breaking in half.

Are you cool with that?

Oh, yeah.

As you can see here, we have several feet hanging off of both sides.

Got to be very careful here that we don't catch it into a bank, screw

up. Yeah.

It'll go from good to bad real fast when it's like this.

It's a little heavy on one side.

It's just four inches.

That's fine.

Stephen Salyas has been driving trucks for ten years.

He's Parker's most experienced heavy hauler.

Are you fine with that?

Yeah, I think it'll be okay. That's a good way to lean anyway because it gives

me more height on this side of the pond too.

As long as it's not rocking going into that, you'll be fine. Yeah.

Stephen must now navigate five miles of dirt road.

Across a narrow culvert, along a series of sharp bends, and through an area

of trees, before arriving at the airstrip cut.

Oh, it's just not on even.

Weight wise, it's a little, it's leaning pretty hard to the left.

Basically home free.

Whoa!

Take it easy, man. It looks like it's about to flip.

Easy, easy, man.

We definitely should have put it on, like, center of gravity.

Yeah.

It made it here. A couple of those, I was like,

I can't look.

Just watch when it comes down.

Leave it there.

Marcus Gamble has saved Tyson valuable time and left him with four days to get

Lucifer up and running.

So we finally have everything at the airport cut. Now it's time just to

it all.

The more gold we get, the bigger the win.

King of the Condike Tony Beat has two watch plants running and he's about to

fire up his third, his seasoned game changer, the mobile trommel on wheels.

It's time to find out if Tony's $400 ,000 gamble has paid off.

Thing is, I would like to get more gold in the box than we got last year.

With a Moose Creek trommel, I could really cast in on the gold prices.

This unique 30 -year -old trommel drives itself on wheels and should be much

cheaper to run than a standard trommel.

Running it in the MegaCut could give Tony an extra 500 ounces of gold, worth

almost a million dollars.

But first, he needs to get it there.

What we're going to do is hook it onto the loader, tow the thing over there,

back it into place, hook the water to it, and let's see what it can actually

Okay, Monica, we're going to go right there to where the beam deck was.

The pipes are here. We're going to go in between the pipes. We're going to drag

it over there, okay?

Okay, just take it out of here.

If it was any uglier, I think I wouldn't have bought it.

You on the right?

You coming?

There you go.

Cromwell seems to pull on pretty hard.

Awfully heavy.

Watch it till it dies, right?

We got it.

Monica.

Swing in, and I'm back it in.

Whoa, whoa, Monica, what's the dating point?

Monica!

Good, now back it up. See it out, send it out of the way. Back it up.

Keep it coming, keep it coming.

Get out of the way, get out of the way. Hold it, hold it, hold it. Go forward,

go forward.

Try to keep it straight.

Try to keep it straight.

I'm just sliding.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

The mobile Cromwell is stuck in the mud.

Off we go.

Bring it in, go.

Tony's daughter Monica pushes from the front, while son Kevin pulls from the

rear. A bit more, bit more, bit more.

Good, good, good. Hold it right there.

Put it down, Kevin.

Okay, gentlemen, bring them holders out this way.

Okay, that'll be good for now.

After nearly three decades lying abandoned at Moose Creek, it's time to

out if the mobile trommel still works.

I mean, if it works, then it is worth every penny we spend on moving it.

You want it open now, Tony?

Yeah, open it up a bit, I will take it.

Boy, you got some water in the way. Hey, Len! Go out of the pump.

What was that?

You got to be kidding me.

Close the well, close the well.

Close the well, close the well.

Close.

Also, we got a leak.

If we don't fix it, it's going to wash out where the piston stands, make the

whole thing wobbly, and of course...

that the water is going to go through there the minute we put dirt in it's

going to that way cut the power decades

of sitting idle have taken that coal the discharge

hose has burst under pressure better go get a hose get some tools get it fixed

up

gold price the way it is, the profit margins are big right now. But we're

to struggle. We're low on manpower.

We're just going to have to work twice as hard as we did last year.

At Duncan Creek, Rick Ness is playing a desperate game of cat gum.

He started his season six weeks late due to the pandemic.

With 438 ounces, he's less than halfway to his 1 ,000 ounce goal.

with just two months of mining left.

That means he needs to average 70 ounces a week for the rest of the season.

We've got the creek cut opened up, but that ground's going to be a lot leaner

than the ground we were planning on running out of the deep cut.

In order for us to hit our 1 ,000 -ounce goal, we're going to have to up our

yardage.

The Troy's walkway can only do 100 yards an hour, and Monster Red can easily do

over 300 yards per hour.

So Monster Red is going to be key to getting us to 1 ,000 ounces.

Last season, Rick spent half a million dollars on wash plant Monster Red.

And even more modifying the plant to handle the rocky Duncan Creek pay dirt.

He then ran it hard to the end of the season.

Now it's sitting eight miles away at his old claim on Upper Duncan Creek.

What's up, bud? Yo.

Rick needs chief mechanic Carl Ross to get Monster Red back up and sleuthing as

soon as possible.

First things first here. We're going to need another full set of top deck,

right? Oh, yeah.

Okay. So let's do one full set.

So we need a whole bunch of locks as well. This thing's seen a lot of yardage

here, and there's really not much wear. It's well built. I like it. It is.

Sweet, dude. That's not so bad.

Really, all we've got to do is order some more blockout pads, but this is

to go. The big job with this is going to be the distribution out there.

It's because of how high this plant is. That's what it does. That is a long ways

down, though, you're right. I know we could probably run it like that, but

going to destroy our conveyor it feeds into.

Yeah, I know.

We might think about designing something that...

Takes that top layer, this top deck.

Monster Red's Shaker Deck separates gold -rich pay dirt from worthless tailings.

The tailings are sent through a distribution chute onto the tailings

But last season, the rocky Duncan Creek pay dirt damaged the chute beyond

repair.

Unless it's fixed.

The tailings will fall 15 feet onto the conveyor, tearing the belt and

destroying the rollers.

Karl Aran and Chris Cruz take the sluices down to their new site on Lower

Creek.

That dovetail's like stuck right in there. You don't say.

Yeah. So, let's see what we've got for rigging.

Yeah, grab the accelerator.

Our only option.

Help you out, give you a little boost.

Walk her up here. Okay.

I'll wait here for you. I'm not going anywhere.

Are you going around in peace?

We've got a strapper on the back of the trailer with an excavator.

We're going to take some weight off the back of the trailer where it's dug into

the ground and drag this thing up here.

Does that look centered?

Your tooth?

Whoa. You all right?

I hope somebody got hit with that strap.

I broke the strap.

That one was pretty ratty looking.

We're just trying to get ahead. We're just really lucky nobody got hurt.

Well, they're, uh, everything's pretty much seized here.

We need some work after here.

Back at the pump, Carl assesses how long the fix will take.

What's up, man?

I already got some things on the list here, so we just got, like I said, just

the reason we had to be completely rebuilt from scratch.

Yeah, obviously, I knew we were going to have to put some money into it, but

what are you thinking?

So, like, upper, bottom deck, all the steel, you know, you're looking at, you

know, I'd say around $100 ,000 for the expenses, at least.

$100 ,000?

Yeah. And how long?

I'd say give me a month.

Yeah, that's me just working on this too, right? And that's the problem,

I mean, and that's my problem. We're spread so thin.

I can't lose you for a month. You're my only mechanic.

Rick was depending on Monster Red to more than double his goal take and help

hit his season goal.

Man, I think I just underestimated the amount of time and work this was going

take.

We're going to have to come up with something else.

On Indian River, it's day two of Tyson Lee's five -day plant move.

I'm going to go take a look at the plant pad and see what's going on.

He's hauled slucifer to the airstrip cut in record time.

Now he needs to get the plant onto the pad.

This is the starting of a pad, but by no means is it ready for a wash plant.

We were hoping this would be a seamless transition, but it's not ready.

The pad has been prepped with loose tailings, but Tyson needs to finish

it and put in a ramp before Sluicifer can run pay dirt.

Every day the plant is down costs Parker Snable over $91 ,000.

You know, Parker doesn't want Sluicifer down any longer than it has to be. I

told him five days and he wasn't too happy about that, so time to get to

building this pad because it's not going to build itself.

A lot of jumping from machine to machine today.

Round and around 30 more times than we should ever.

Day three, and it's time to get the work plant onto the pad.

It's going to get boosted for a new home.

We got her here, King.

Good job, man. Yeah. Put her back together. Yeah.

We're ready to get the conveyor in place.

Hey, Alex, I'm going to have to back up a little more here. That's as much lift

as I got.

Okay, the swing are in place.

Nice and easy.

All right, we're all free.

Ah!

Yip -yap!

In just three days.

Tyson has Lucifer ready to rock.

Well, it sounds like Lucifer is just about ready to fire up down here at the

airstrip. Let's go check it out, man. Let's see her fire up.

You ready, Tyson?

Let her rip.

All right, let's go.

Firing up the pump.

Ready to see it roll some coal?

Here it comes!

It's the first of the material!

We get to get the moose feet trommel going because we're all curious to see

exactly how well she works.

On Paradise Hill, Tony Beat's $400 ,000 mobile trommel is down with

a burst hose.

Got the old hose off, got the end off, got it on some much more durable hose.

Can run the heat gun, get this hose nice and toasty before we jam it on the

other end. You want to get the hose warm.

because one thing expands makes it easy to get it on

now we're going to heat it up we're going to

apply some lubrication via soap to the uh hose barb and then we're gonna

attempt to get it on ready and

go

Oh, that is excellent.

Well, that's all done. We got the hose on.

I can see it in front of it. Yeah. Fire it up. See what we can get out of the

trommel. I'm kind of curious.

All right. Let's fire this up.

Good. Gavin, turn the valves open a little bit, would you please?

Tony is counting on the mobile trommel to run 150 yards of pay dirt an hour.

It could increase his gold haul by 50%. Tony, the water comes in,

there's a pump on. All right, yeah.

Okay, the water's on the way, see it?

It doesn't look too bad, actually.

Tony, Kevin, am I good to put dirt in?

I think so.

The water pressure is too high in the sluice runs, causing any gold there to

washed out.

Well isn't the water a hair?

You got a bit much up there?

Having too much water will affect your goals recovery.

Same with having not enough.

That's it.

The thing clogs up and then the water can't go nowhere.

We have inch and a half square holes in the screen in the trommel. We could

have a fine screen in there. We couldn't have any bigger gravel than half inch.

We could run that kind of gravel to the trommel, not that.

The mobile trommel uses a discharge pipe to shoot fine tailings out the back of

the plants.

But the connecting pipe is blocked with stones, causing water to back up and

flood the sluices.

So number one, we'll have to put in new screen.

I'm just going to take it a month or two.

Tony's big gamble has failed to deliver.

There ain't having it.

I'm a little bit disappointed, more than a little disappointed actually.

Back to the drawing board.

At Duncan Creek, Rick Ness has abandoned his half a million dollar, 300 yard per

hour watch plant, Monster Red.

After the beating it took last season, it would take a month and $100 ,000 to

repair.

With only two months left of his season, Rick desperately needs to increase

production if he's going to hit his 1 ,000 -ounce season goal.

I think that's it for fuel.

Rick's going to take over feeding the wash plant.

He wants to give her a go.

I've just done it for 12 and a half hours and I think I'm done.

See ya bud!

Wow, this is what we asked for, Carl. Yeah, we're really paying the price now,

right? If you're gonna be in the loader, I'm gonna go move some of these

tailings really quick, alright? K, 10 -4 buddy. Thanks, Carl.

You got me?

Yeehaw!

We just made the decision that Montserrat is not going to come out of

this year. It's just going to cost too much and be too much of a hassle to get

it running.

Not having Montserrat up and running this year is actually going to be a big

problem because we're not going to be able to run the yardage that I planned

The only thing we can do, I think, is just up our hours, and that means

a clean shift.

Rich and mechanic Carl Rock take their first night shift.

We'll probably be doing 16, 18 -hour days.

Whatever we got to do here to get more gold, we're going to do it.

Our season goal is 1 ,000 ounces, right? So we're trying to push as much dirt

through this plant as we possibly can. And, yeah, I know Rick's working his ass

off, and everybody wants to follow behind him, and that's why I'm here,

Because, you know, I want to do as good as he's doing, right? He can really put

the time in, so I'm going to put the time in, right?

So far, so good, right?

We got a pearl in there.

Jesus.

Oh, we got no bell going through there.

The bell's tripping apart. I can't see her.

Something's caught the bell.

ripping pieces of belt off here and stuff.

I'm going to have to get up there and take a look.

A corn conveyor belt now would shut down the whole operation for days.

Carl, what's going on? Looks like the belt walked its way over to one way and

sliced the back of the belt off, man. I got a strip of belt here about half inch

to an inch here. Oh.

You know, I don't even know what's happened, Rick.

it's pretty good tear obviously we can't afford to be down we got a lot of

ground to get through if we're going to get to that thousand ounces so i know

dude just figure out what caused that thing to tear and and try and try and

rectify it i'm gonna i gotta keep that moving i know dude

yeah my wiper

up here my wiper that wipes the belt off is twisted and it's cut my belt so

The wiper is a blade attached to a steel bar, which runs across the belt to

scrape off wet debris.

You got my wiper straight?

I'm going to tighten it up right now. I'm going to give it one click. There

go.

Back in business.

You got it figured out?

Yeah, buddy. You've seen me in the big bucks, right?

You got about a half inch off that belt, maybe an inch in section. Yeah, yeah.

We're ready to rock. I'm good to go. Yeah, buddy.

You're the man, buddy.

With Carl's quick fix, the 950's back in business.

Yeah, I'm ready to fire up.

It's running, man.

Well, that right there just goes to show you that I got the right guy doing a

nice trick with me. You know, a good mechanic is worth his weight in gold,

now here we are. We're here, we're back running, and we're going to keep on

running into the night.

So how was it for you guys this week?

We went and tried the muscular trauma, and that wasn't very successful, was it?

I'm still going to try to make it work the way I intended to, and I see no

reason why that wouldn't work. It has potential.

But in the meantime, we've got to keep the other food boxes going.

Hey, you guys, how are you? I'm tired.

So,

I guess the muscular trauma. I mean, it sucks, right? You put all that time and

effort in, and right now it's a long arm. So, what the...

After, what, 10 minutes?

No,

that was a letdown.

Pretty much. We did okay with cake. It ran seven days.

Seven days, so 65, 70 hours.

So maybe we should wait it to stop, huh? Yeah, let's wait it up. She will be

good.

So far, the old -timers' tailings have produced 121 ounces, an average of

60 .5 ounces a week.

Tony's decision to keep sluicing the old -timers'

tailings has resulted in another $146 ,000 worth of gold.

Pretty money, that's not bad.

I'm glad they left some behind for us. Holy crap, did they ever. So with the

price of gold today, let's round some more.

So the trommel did very well this week. Didn't have any breakdowns. Pretty

reliable. How many hours you figured? I got 160.

Well, that's not too bad. Okay, well, let's see what we got.

Here we go.

Tony needs at least 215 ounces each week to hit his 3 ,000 ounce target.

80, 90, 100, 120, 140,

150, 160, 170, 180, 190, 197

.56. Well, that's good, right? So how much did we have total?

274 .64.

500 grams? About half a million.

Yeah, that's not bad.

At least the safety deck is going strong and the trommel seems to be plugging

along just well.

So what's our season total right now?

$1 ,566 .48.

So halfway there.

Worth almost $3 million.

But with only two months to go, Tony is still only halfway to his season goal.

Too bad the moose pig didn't work out a bit better. It would have helped.

I mean, look on the bright side. We've still got two running flat out.

We've got all the ground ready for them.

So, it'll be a lot of work. All right.

That'll be all good.

Okay. Good night.

Cheers, gentlemen.

Cheers, T.

Hey there, youngster.

Hi, Chris.

Yeah, I guess Mitch and Brennan are still working at Big Red's Cut, hey?

Yeah, they're down there dealing with tailings.

Hey, Tyson.

Hey, Ken, how's it going? Hey, old timer.

Come sit next to the stove. Okay, you know I like to eat.

So, how'd the move with Sluicifer go? A lot of parts we had to take off it and

put it on the low boy sideways this time. Parker showed up last minute there

filled that route.

Always screwing up everybody's plans. Yeah.

I had a lot of fun down there, though, this year, Ken.

Thank you very much.

You had the right man on the job.

Thank you. From the ground standpoint, I thought things went pretty well down

there, really.

Yeah, it did. I think it did.

Well, I can show you the results if you want to see. Sure.

There's not a whole great deal of hours on Lucifer, but Red's been down here

just chugging away.

So Tyson, this is Big Red. You want to read this one out? Sure thing.

First up, a week of running at the last cut.

10, 40, 60, 100,

114 .75.

Worth $218 ,000.

This will rest yours here, Ken.

Oh, okay.

Forty -two even.

Forty -two even.

Worth nearly $80 ,000 for three days of sleuthing.

Counts an hour.

Yeah.

Parker's time -saving decision helped Tyson move sleuther for in under five

days. You know, it was a good run. It really was. So for the week, we wound up

with 156 and three -quarter ounces.

Season total, though, the 5 ,168 half -houses.

We're salvaging a good season. That's good.

That's good.

Ken's been holding onto that ground for 35 years.

Yeah, we owe them some money.

Oh, yeah.

Ken has now earned $455 ,000 in royalties on the claim he staked

back in 1985.

If you were to do it all over again, would you do it?

Oh, yeah.

With the promised land over for the season, it's time for Ken to head home.

Boy, you're going to be missed, that's for sure.

Thank you. Well, not by me, but... I can tell somebody it's going to be

kind of a happy, sad day.

Yeah. When you go, because these all are like family to us.

Yeah. But I have really enjoyed it.

Yeah. Thanks, old dog.

Hey, Tyson.

Thank you kindly for everything.

Thank you. Parker, we'll see you later.

After

hitting

a dead end with Monster Red.

Rick's crew gathers to see if the added night shift has paid off.

Oh, hello.

What's up, man?

How you doing, buddy? Good.

It's a heavy pan. I think it's a two -hander. Oh, no way.

That's a two -hander.

At the beginning of the week, I thought we were going to be spending on Monster

Red, right, and starting to run some big yardage.

But upon further inspection by Carl here, it needed a little bit more time

money than I kind of had hoped.

Neither of which we have in here.

Exactly. So the only way to overcome that is to punish ourselves by working

more. Yeah.

Putting in more time and running more yardage through our plant than we have,

right? Well, what do you say we see if it pays off then, buddy? Let's do it,

buddy.

Oh, man. Look at those hands, dude.

I get used to seeing that guy. Yeah, no kidding, man. To reach his 1 ,000 -ounce

season goal, Rick needs at least 70 ounces of gold every week.

Here we go.

Here it comes.

All right.

It's going to take a while here. We got 10. We got 20, 30, 40, 50, 60,

70. Are we going to beat 80?

Oh, yes, we are. What? No way. No way.

85 .65.

Oh, my God, dude. We're getting better at this.

Dude, that's over $180 ,000 for one week's worth of work. That's pretty bad.

That's good.

It covers most of my wages anyway.

It's the second largest goal boy of the season and means he's now halfway to his

season goal.

This just goes to show the power of teamwork.

As corny as it is.

And it is corny.

Oh, I should say so.

That was a reaction, my friend. Ow.

Chase, after more of that, sign me up. All right.

Yeah, whatever you guys need, I'll jump on board and we'll get some extra

trucking in, put some extra hours in. I mean, that's what I signed up for. Thank

you. That's what it's going to take.

And, I mean, I love everything about tonight. I mean, I love you guys'

enthusiasm. I love that pile of gold.

I love you guys.

I love you too, Rick.

I instantly regret it.

All right, let's go.

Get out of here.

Well,

it feels good to get a reminder that my team definitely has my back, and our 1

,000 -ounce goal is within our sights. I know it.

Rick's volunteering for night shift. Carl stepped up right after him.

It's only fitting that me and Carl would jump right in there too, so that's what

we're going to do, make it happen.

Next time on Gold Rush.

Oh, no.

Bad things usually happen when I leave the mine.

Stop. Stop. Whoa.

You ain't the boss. How much experience do you have in a mine?

Huh? None.

Take it and shut your friend up.

It's not how you handle conflict. It's how you resolve it.

The last piece of the old -timer tail end is going in.

The loose can be locked.

Well, then, that looks pretty good.