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On this Gold Rush.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Shut down the plant. Fred, shut him down, bud.

With the season more than halfway over.

Babe, we have a huge problem.

The Lewis crew's morale plummets.

Shut up. Shut the fuck up. Shut your man up.

With free money in my pocket.

Tony Beach reaches the end of his honey hole.

This is punch power.

Brother Lewis will be lost.

Hold on.

I'm always nervous leaving, man. It just seems like that's when we have

problems.

And Rick Nance puts his crew in charge.

Carl, we've got a big hole in the conveyor here.

Stop! Stop!

Whoa!

Hurry up back there!

Let's go!

At Elkhorn Creek.

Rookie miner Fred Lewis is fighting to get his mining season back on track.

The goal is to get as much pay dirt through the plant and pull all that gold

of the ground.

The crew is running pay dirt from the Liberation Cup with the best gold he's

so far.

It's all coming together, finally.

We've got to keep working hard at this Liberation Cup and make sure we can find

as much pay as possible.

Fred sunk his last $20 ,000 into the Elkhorn claim with the hopes of paying

team in gold.

Babe, we have a huge problem. We're almost broke again.

But more than halfway through the season, he's banked just 1 .1 ounces of

worth only $2 ,100, and he's rapidly running up debts.

We need more gold.

We need more money. If we had the money, we can get more gold.

We have a laundry list of debts to pay right now. I know, babe. We don't have

enough in the account to cover the balance due.

Actually, I think the only way we're going to be able to do this is with an

outside investor.

But we need to sell gold to get an investor.

Or somebody I know that trusts me.

I've got a buddy, Carl.

If we can give him a good enough deal, it might be worth it.

Carl and I, along with Stefan, have been through probably one of the toughest

times in the military I've been through was a firefight in Afghanistan lasting

almost 48 hours.

Since he got out, he's been investing a lot in military drones that did really

well. So I know he's good with money.

I'm kind of hoping this can be his next investment.

Carl.

Hey, what's up?

I know you're busy. I know you got a lot of stuff going on, but I wanted to know

if you would maybe be interested in...

investing in my gold mine in oregon wow dude dude that's uh that's big dude

that's a big ass right there dude i think really the only way i'm going to

able to actually show you is to get you out here yeah i can make it out there i

would definitely want to see what you got going on we glad you're interested

i'll send you over all the information of where to travel into and then let's

from there bro that sounds great man well carl's agreed to come out to the

which is fantastic, but if he doesn't like what he sees and doesn't agree to

invest, it could be the end of the Elkhorn.

In the liberation cut, Special Forces Master Sergeant Stephan Gemerly digs pay

dirt with the 400 excavator.

And I know Carl. I've known him for years. We were on the same A -team

and I can tell you he's going to want to see a cohesive, well -oiled machine of

a team before he agrees to invest.

I can't blame him.

In the 225, Sergeant Stuart McKenzie feeds the plans.

The amount of problems that we have is astronomical.

Fred has just talked to an investor, which at this point in time is in dire

need. We need more money up here, and we need it quick.

Hey, guys, shut down the plant. Fred, shut it down, bud.

Greenback's out.

Holy.

We lost one, two, three, four, five of these bolts.

The lower screen deck is secured by 16 carriage bolts, held in place by half

-moon washers and knots.

The vibration of the deck has rattled the bolts loose.

Without them, the ancient wash plant could stake itself apart.

The vibrations are so violent, it's loosening itself, and the bolts and the

halfling washers are falling down into the sluice and going over into our

tailings, so they're lost forever.

I clearly see the problem here, but what's our fix?

Our fix is to get the correct carriage bolts, nuts, and washers. You're talking

all of them that are gone?

Yes, every single one of them. These washers were fabricated by Freddie and

We need to work with them in.

It means more downtime, but that means we're going to be able to run longer in

the long term.

Ordering all those parts is going to take two days.

It's getting to a point now where if we don't run now, there's no chance of this

season being salvaged. This thing is bouncing rocks all day. We've got to fix

long term. No, I get it, but the plan's never been 100%. I feel like we should

be running.

I think right now we've got to go for that long -term fix. Sui, I love your

enthusiasm, but I just want to make sure that we're doing things as solid as we

can.

I find so amazing that somebody is so keen and happy to shut down all the

goddamn time.

That's just the stupidest thing in the world not to run for.

Hey, Fred, Kendall doesn't care.

It doesn't feel like he cares if you fail or not or if you pay back your

do care.

There's plenty of other really broken down pieces of equipment around here.

We'll go find them. Maybe at least come look. I'll look at them. All right.

If Stuart can salvage the right washers from the boneyard, they can get their

plants back up and running.

We've got these ones right here, and then on the other side, I saw some too.

If we just take a stack of those, maybe even go look over around here, but

there's here that we can use.

I like this.

Okay. What a shot while we're sitting around twiddling our thumbs. I know, and

that's exactly what I'm saying. I like your way of thinking.

So right now we're washing the store.

The easy solution is to call somebody to have them make them and wait two days

to have it be made. Stuart was right.

We don't have time for that. We're going to be trying to prove ourselves to an

investor. We really have to be running.

I'm going to put these washers on and I'm going to try and bend it into place.

Push.

Just a kind of brute strength and bend it into the shape we need it.

Stuart bends the salvaged flat washers into a half moon.

We needed a half moon, so we made a half moon.

Yeah, you bent those washers in there. Yeah.

When Thor gets all fired up, it's all problems. So right now, it's looking

he may have done it.

We have so many down days and so many days where something breaks.

If we have water, we have a capability, a running plant, we have gas in the

excavator, we should be running.

All right, so are we ready to test this bad boy out?

Johnny, you ready?

Now to find out if you at least had worked.

All right, fire it up.

Fantastic.

It's been a goddamn day.

Basically tightening the bolts.

You know, when it comes down to the fact, like, if no one else wants to do

then I guess I got to fix it myself.

I don't think that's a permanent fix.

I don't.

But it's working.

It's working well right now, so I'm not going to want to put this.

Now, I like handle as warm excision, but if somebody comes to me with a better

one, we're going to go with that good call by Stuart.

More than halfway through the season, Rick Ness has banked over 500 ounces.

He needs around 70 ounces a week to hit his 1000 ounce season goal.

But now, he needs to pay an overdue fuel bill.

to carry on mining i gotta go and sell some gold so i can pay these bills i'm

always nervous leaving man it just seems like that's when we have problems

well

uh i just want you guys to know that i got to go sell some gold to keep the

truck coming in so it's going to be up to carl to keep things moving while i'm

away yeah like when he's asking you to do a certain thing which he has that

authority listen to carl

Perfect. And that being said, we're over 1 ,800 bucks an ounce. Wow.

Where that's really going to add up is when you guys get a bonus, right? The

more gold we get, the more gold you guys get.

Hopefully I can get back before any of it happens.

Okay. Yeah. I'll get up there. Let's do this. You good?

Yep. I'm always a little apprehensive of leaving the mine, but I don't really

have a choice. I've got a lot of big bills right now.

Pretty sure Carl's got it handled.

Mechanic Carl Rock met Rick when he joined Parker's crew in 2015.

He started mining with his late grandfather when he was 12 years old.

Carl's got big pews to fill here.

Let's think that no one's got a work ethic like him.

That guy will work every day for 90 days straight and not, you know, bad in

eyelash. Carl's high school buddy, Mark Doverspike, feeds the plant.

Basically, we're just trying to keep this working. We've had some long days.

But that's called life.

Ultimately, if Rick's conceived, we all have to be with him.

Oh, yeah.

Oh,

it doesn't look good.

Hey, Carl. Carl, you got a copy, bud?

This, uh, this hopper feeder's plugged.

Alright, buddy, I'll be right down.

What happened?

It's plugged.

The first couple loads were, uh, more or less mud.

And the hopper feeder's now jam -packed with clay.

Clay is a gold miner's worst nightmare.

Never is.

Things plug solid, man.

I have never seen a hopper this bad in years.

We got clay and rock together.

The rock is like the support and the clay binds it.

It's like building materials.

It's kind of a pain in the butt.

You know, Rick's been gone for not even half a day and we already miss him.

Every hour the plant is down makes it harder for Carl to hit Rick's 70 -ounce

weekly target.

Do you want to try to get the bucket in there and I'll be your eyes?

That would help, I think.

Faced with hours of digging, Carl comes up with a risky solution.

So we're just going to try to get the bucket in here. The bucket's bigger, but

we're going to try to move this dirt around just like that because it's hard

a rock in here. Try to do it the easy way, but without wrecking everything.

It's kind of dangerous, right?

What do you do?

Carl's gambling that the 11 -foot, 3 -ton loader bucket will fit into the

hopper.

Slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down.

Okay, you're getting close.

Nice and easy, buddy. Nice and easy.

Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going.

That's about it. Now give it a curl up.

Stop!

Stop!

Whoa!

You alright?

I wasn't ready for it and I was like, oh!

Just a little nerve wracking, that's all right.

Three!

You got a hole!

Cut that hole in the top now.

Hopefully we can get it to fluff in on itself.

Just using the lid there. There's a little bit of weight on it trying to get

to take the hopper screen, right?

Look at that.

We're moving now, buddy.

Rick would definitely be fuming right now because the plants have been down

a while, right?

It's been an expensive morning.

The shutdown has cost two hours of downtime and nearly $4 ,000 in lost

Yeah, we've got to get this thing fired up. Just run in here. Get close.

Hopefully we keep this thing running for the rest of the day.

We got the plant running right before we lost some gold, but hopefully the rest

of my day is easy.

We only had a couple of months left in the season.

And it'd be nice to get as much gold out of the ground as we can.

With record high gold prices, king of the Klondike, Tony Beach, is all in for

3 ,000 -ounce seasoned gold.

More tree crumblers down, but Mike Trommel and the Shaker Deck are still

great.

Mike Trommel is eating through the 18 -acre mega cut, and the Shaker Deck is

running 50 ,000 yards of old -timers tailings, which have already produced

ounces of gold.

worth over $360 ,000.

We've been finding some very good gold in the tailings that the old -timers

behind for us, and they're basically free money in my pocket.

No dozer, no rock truck, just a loader and an excavator. So it's super steep to

run. And you're curious as to what the hell is going to come out of it.

This is the cheapest way of gold mining I have ever seen.

It's just me and Terrence down here running the whole stuff.

Three weeks into the tailings, the small operation of just two is down to the

last 12 ,000 yards.

Ruby Mahoney feeds the plants, while mechanic and rookie operator Taryn

runs the loader.

Hey, Taryn.

Do you want to show me how to do the cat?

I work better alone with that.

This is a little bit more interesting than others.

I have a different loader operator.

So right now we have Terrence, and that's my boyfriend.

So right now I just get to sit up here and judge all of his operating skills.

I'm going to hop down and show you a little trick with the eggs, okay?

Okay.

It's boyfriend Terrence's first day in a loader.

So you're making quite a burn for yourself. A really good thing to do is

time you go and jump, When your bucket is tilted like this, you can put it down

and scrape the firm back. All right. So that you're killing two jobs at once.

Okay.

Sounds good. Cool. Thank you. Good luck.

What happened?

I don't know. I think the plant is jammed.

Kevin, we have a major problem here. It's a six attack.

See that buoy?

Yeah. Okay, hang on.

Okay, fire.

Okay.

See that?

It's spinning because the groove is going out.

Might as well take this off.

We'll throw a new belt on. We're going to need a new buoy.

Welder and wash plant specialist Cody Hunter steps in.

When a belt has been loose and not gripping, the pulley spins inside the

instead of gripping to the pulley. So that makes the inside of the pulley

almost. When that happens, it's called a glazed belt. So you're losing traction

basically. So what is happening when you lose traction is this shaker.

is not shaking, so it's not separating all the material the way that it should.

So we're going to change this pulley and put a new belt on. 10, 15 minutes,

we'll be rolling.

Oh, wait, I might need the big one.

Terrence just brought the new pulley.

So all we got to do now is just slide it on.

Beautiful.

Oh.

So we're trying to change this pulley here.

And the way that these go together is just a shaft coming out of the motor,

then there's a taper lock that holds this pulley onto the shaft.

And the taper lock has now come apart in pieces.

So they're usually quite simple, but the taper lock has seen better days.

On Tony's data deck, a taper lock secures the pulley to the shaft.

Kevin has removed the grub screws.

But the taper has cracked and is now jammed inside the pulley.

It's kind of a shame I was just one thing after another with this plan.

He's out.

He's out.

This is what is supposed to be in there. This is what holds the pulley tight to

the shaft.

So when you go to take this apart, you use the bolts that are in it to push

lock away from the pulley.

This is what was in that one.

When it broke in half, all the bits and pieces come out, and we had no threads

for the bolts to push it away.

So it just required some tender love.

Yeah. And now we've got to put it all back together.

Well, I should look at it. You got it?

Everything's together. About to fire up.

Oh, fire up. I want to have a look at it.

Well, let's make some money.

The feet step back on the cold.

I'm just hoping that it was just a hiccup because this is a hunch hour. We

to get through this material as fast as we possibly can.

Down two hours, $4 ,000, just like that. That all adds up, right?

So, now it's back up and running.

It'll be nice to finish off your tailings by the end of this week.

Rick Nass is in Dawson City, selling gold to pay his fuel bill and keep his

operation running.

Hey, Rick. Hey, Eric.

How's it going?

Good to see you, man. You too.

All right, let's see what you got.

All right.

Not bad for a clean up. That's pretty good.

So what is the gold price today?

We're just at just over $1 ,900.

Right on.

So you're at Duncan Creek, right? Yeah, Duncan Creek, obviously well -known for

its silver, too.

So you're going to have other metals in the gold there, and silver made a huge

jump this year. Yeah. It all helped, right?

Prices are up across the board. Yeah, I know. Price of silver's up, price of

gold's up. It's a good year.

It doesn't make it easier to find it, though, does it? No, it doesn't.

Thanks very much. Yeah. I'll pop it in the safe.

We'll send it down and give me some money tomorrow.

Awesome. Good luck for the rest of the season. We'll see you soon.

Yeah, thanks. All right.

Having a small crew is awesome, but it sure makes for a lot more work for

everybody, right?

At Duncan Creek, Carl is running the operation.

After losing half a day to a clogged hopper, he is working as both mechanic

loader operator to keep the plant on pay.

If there was no leadership or direction, we'd be...

I try to do even better when Rick's gone. You can't ride anybody else if

going to be lazy.

So I'm moving the fines right now, get them away from the plant.

We have to deal with it.

So I've worked my ass off, right?

In the creek cut, rock truck driver Chris Cruz is hauling pay.

The good thing is Rick's got people here he can trust.

Carl stepped up, taking the reins here in Rick's absence.

I think the last thing this car wants to do is let him down. I know that.

This material that we're digging in here is super saturated, so if you don't dig

it correctly and put it in the feed properly, it's going to shut down the

for the day.

Newest crew member Ben Belli feeds the plants.

There's no room up around here.

If you drop anything, all the gold goes off, so there's no point in being here

if that happens.

So Carl runs a very, very tight ship.

I don't know.

I don't know.

What's going on?

Hello,

Carl?

Yeah, buddy, you better get down here.

We got a big hole in the conveyor here.

It's not.

Good. That, dude, that's huge.

You'd fit your head through there.

Hey, man, what I need is a new belt.

Well, is there any possibility to get a belt right now? With the time frame we

got, I won't get a belt until the season's over, right?

Every hour, the wash plant is not running.

Carl is losing Rick $2 ,000.

What we'll do, we're going to cut this out, right?

Running the belt yesterday while the hopper was jammed with rocks has worn a

hole. We're going to cut that.

Some section out, put a few sections in. Found me a piece of rubber. There's not

the same thickness, so it's a little scabby, but it's what we got, right? So

going to roll up the punches here and get her up and running and get back to

loosening.

I'm going to cut that section out. I'm going to put it on here, trace it out,

put it back in there, and bog your uncle.

Yeah, it's going to be scabby.

And I don't want my name beside it, but it is what it is.

It's what you got to do in the Yukon, man.

I'm going to do one, two, one, two, and then we put this in here.

Since I've been with Rick, I've been his right -hand man. You know, I just try

to fill his boots the best I can, right, when he's not around.

Try to do an even better job when they're away, right, just as a peace of

for Rick.

Might not be the best mechanic out there, but I'm definitely a hard

one.

We've been down all of the day. We've lost $20 ,000 easily.

In the big picture, that's a lot of money, right?

Back to mining.

Good job, buddy.

Carl's lost the best parts of a day, but he's got them back on the gold.

Good job.

We're back to nursing now, so hopefully this thing will hold together. We need

to get gold in those runs if we want to get to our gold.

Really our point right now is to get our A -game on and to operate as smoothly

as we can so we can prove to the investor we're worth investing in.

At Elkhorn Creek in Oregon, rookie mine boss Fred Lewis is out of cash and needs

investment to keep his operation running.

We're kind of at the point where we need to bring somebody on board to help pay

the bills if we're going to make this fast, and I think Carl is the perfect

person to do that.

Make sure that valve by your knee is open.

Yeah, that one.

Just make sure it's open.

Fred Foreman Candle Matters is the only member of the team with mining

experience.

Teaching these guys is something I take a lot of pride in. And with Fred's

friend talking about investing, I hope what he sees is enough to keep him

interested so we can keep going.

I don't have to worry about what another guy's doing. I got to worry about this

machine and that machine.

Marine Staff Sergeant Johnny Stantz is in charge of getting water to the plant.

We're all new to mining.

We're really trying to figure it out instead of just telling us what we're

to be doing. Kendall still tries to give orders.

Johnny's job is to be working our water.

He's working two pumps and a couple hundred feet of hose.

Kind of got to make sure that he's doing everything step by step. You can tell

Johnny's struggling.

Don't want to have to baby him, but there's quite a few tasks where you got

hold his hand.

Hey, Kendall.

We got a hole that's spraying an awful lot.

Come down here and check it out. Yeah, I'll come down there and check it out.

Shut it down.

Looks like your topside dam is having a whole bunch of issues too.

And it's just gushing straight through.

Damn, we're all gushing.

I got to scoot back to the road.

Silty water from the sluices is flooding into the feeder pond.

The screen broke on the upper dam, and there's a hole in the hose down there.

Now we've got to fix them both.

Yeah, so Johnny Dam is working down there perfectly.

had enough people enough people this is your job could we just tape it like that

one dan you like half -assing your job are you kidding me i'm up there fixing

the filter fix the thing john shut the fuck up are you gonna do anything

right or is everyone gonna have to fix you through you all the goddamn time huh

just fix the whole shit maybe then give me the wrench

Sorry, who is in charge of this? Who is in charge of this? You ain't the boss.

Oh, I'm not the foreman? How much experience do you have at a fine?

Huh? None.

Why do you think you're the goddamn water boy? Just stay seated and shut

fat mouth.

You're not doing anything here anyway.

Go sit on your ass like you normally do. No pay attention.

Like normal.

I'm just getting tired of everyone else doing his job for him.

When two problems come up at once, we got to call another person. Who's the

guy who's always not doing something?

Freaking Kendall. He ain't the boss. He's a freaking fitness six by six

douchebag.

Johnny.

Fred. Fred.

What's up?

Freaking idiot.

What? Kendall. Yes.

So you just missed... John, what the... I'm like...

Freaky idiot. There's two of us. There's two prongs.

One person per prong, right?

All right, so let's deal with this as a group. Because some things he does are

rubbing other people wrong, too. Let's do it like we do in the military.

Let's have an axe -to -axe review.

I know your boss, he's probably got his story, too.

We'll hash it out, and if he has a problem with everybody's opinion, he's

to have to make some adjustments.

And I'll address it.

You know, with my investor's car coming in, I really want to nip all these

problems in the bud.

So I'm going to go ahead and do an after -action review.

Someone wise once told me, it's not how you handle conflict, it's how you

resolve it.

Can I get everybody to shut vehicles down and come to the colonel, please?

I kind of wanted to gather everybody together and do like a little after

review. We're all getting tired. We're all annoyed that we don't have gold yet.

It's wearing on us all, but... We got to come together as a team. If we're not a

team, what is this for?

I want us all to respect each other better than we're doing right now.

On the lines of respect, you guys have to understand that Kendall's been doing

this a lot longer than all of us.

So his opinions are valid.

I was just upset about how you presented the, because we had two problems going

on, two of us. I hopped on you a little rough.

I agree.

And I'm sorry I did. But Kendall, the problem is everybody feels a little bit

too managed.

The attack that you're taking is a little off.

I can agree with that. I think, is everyone else?

That's why I'm here. That's why I want everybody else to steward.

I don't know. I just feel that somebody does something, makes a call, and it

doesn't work out. Sometimes you get a little bit hot -headed. Agreed.

Agreed. I'm a little hot -headed. I guess that's why I keep trying to jump

is because I know when things are going to fail, and I can see it from a mile

away. But there's only a few of us on this mine site, so we have to stay as a

team. And if that means I've got to swallow my pride a little bit, I'm going

have to do it.

Johnny, get over here. Exactly. Let's get a group hug.

I'm sorry.

It's all water under the bridge.

Me and Kendall definitely had our scuffle.

But you've got to get over it. You've got to accomplish the mission.

We've apologized.

We're friends again.

RPM for good.

Everything's looking good.

So I think the AAR did its purpose. A lot of the tension that we're having is

because we aren't pulling in gold.

Right now we need to move forward as a team so we can prove to the investor

we're worth investing in.

I'm very curious to see what the masks are going to look like.

after all of these old -timer's tailings have been sluiced.

At the shaker deck, operator Ruby Mahoney is feeding the plant with the

the old -timer's tailings, one of Tony's biggest gambles of the season.

This year with the fuel prices being so high, we were able to take risks that I

don't think Tony would have taken before. With fuel prices being so low,

going to get a good payout for a very minimal investment.

This is the last few going in.

We can pull the mat, do a cleanup, and we will see what these old timers have

left behind for us.

And just like that, we're done.

Good job, parents.

No, no operation ever runs completely smooth.

And I'm just really hoping that all of the downtime, the headache that these

-timer tailings put me and this plant through are worth it.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see what's in here.

The rest of the Beats family joins Ruby for the final clean -out.

We had a bit of issues with the plant, but anytime you set up a plant again,

there's always teething issues.

Hopefully this time we get another good payout and we get that much closer to a

$3 an ounce goal.

Free money, it's cheap meat, so excited to see what we've got.

Kind of curious as to what the hell is going to come out of this gut.

Well, there looks to be lots of gold in it, so it's all the way

through. As far as I'm concerned, that looks pretty good.

That's a lot for the old -timers tailings and there wasn't more but it

so let's see what we get

I've

invested every penny I have into this and I don't have a lot left at Elkhorn

Creek Fred Lewis urgently needs a cash injection to save him from shutting down

the mine

So he's called on his military buddy, Carl Smith, to see if he wants to

Carl is a really good friend, but he's such a good friend, I know he's going to

be honest, and that's a little nerve -wracking.

What's up, man?

Dude, it's good to see you, brother.

You bet.

What you got for me up here, man? This looks pretty awesome.

Beautiful area. Little place of America.

You ready to go check it out? Hell yeah.

All right, dude.

Pretty much right here, you can see the whole thing. That's all we got.

Okay. So what's the gold like?

You know, I'm not going to lie. The gold is coming out of the ground a lot

harder than I thought it was going to.

I know the guys are new.

It's not that.

80 % of the time we're down is because of equipment.

And it's just costing me more money than I thought.

If we can just invest a little bit more, we've got a really good shot here.

All right. You want to go see what Steffen's up to?

Oh, yeah.

Steffen. Hey, I got somebody up here I want to talk to. You got a minute?

It's been like eight years since I've seen Stefan. Yeah.

Carl spent three years in the military with Fred and Stefan, serving in the

special forces team in northern Africa and Afghanistan.

I'm impressed.

Let you get back in the hole, man. This is Chandler Stewart.

First impressions always mean a lot.

First impression of the team is real good.

You want to see a good operation, but from the business side, we've got to sit

down and talk some numbers.

So if it's nowhere near a done deal yet.

So what do you think, dude?

It looks good. I like the guys, absolutely.

I mean, obviously with Stephan being out here, that really adds to it. So what's

your estimate right now?

What disclaim can give you?

Well, give us, right? Yeah.

We're going to partner on this. No, you're right. You're right. I think

a possibility to pull 50 ounces of gold out of this one acre.

And that's pretty ambitious, obviously, because you're starting out. What are

the numbers here to get you through the season?

We have about eight to ten weeks left, depending on the weather. We have lease

costs, fuel costs, and maintenance costs.

On average, you can run the mine for about five grand a week.

And I'm confident that if we have that capital.

We can minus the end of the season, no problem.

Compared to my other investments, there's a lot of risk here for it. Yeah,

I'm telling you right now, Carl, it's a gamble.

But I feel like the biggest investment you could make is not in the gold that

we're going to get distributed in the team.

We're going to pull every ounce of pay dirt out of this claim that we can.

And if the gold's there that it's supposed to be there, we're going to do

well. But that's the risk of taking gold mines.

So must be in teammates, man.

I know that you can solve most any problem put in front of you. I like the

They're vets. You know, that gives me a higher degree of confidence that you

guys can make this happen.

Putting myself out there quite a bit for you, but that says a lot about my faith

in you.

But for that, I need 10%. And the repayment of the loan. And then I'll

your expenses to get you through this season.

You know, 10 % is quite a bit. I've still got to give the claim owners 15.

The guys still have to get a cut.

But you need to have some skin in this. I think 10 % is pretty good.

All right. We've got a deal. Let's do it.

With the deal secured and investments until the end of the season, the team's

hopes of striking it rich are still alive.

Hey, everybody.

Carl is officially on board. We have an investor.

Let's get that goal.

Back in business.

Yeah, man.

Sitting car on board and then investing.

That's awesome. That's exactly what we needed.

That means we can keep going the rest of the season and hopefully we can find

all that gold.

Fred's done a phenomenal job telling me on the vision. But at the end of the

day, this is business.

And I'm investing my money and I expect to get the full return.

It's not just my money now. It's one of my best friend's money. So from here on,

it's going to be a lot more focused on what we're doing and where we're

money and why.

But it gives us the financial freedom to keep mining and to keep that dream

alive.

Hi, guys.

Good night.

At Paradise Hill, the Beats family assemble for their weekly Goldway.

How did you travel tonight?

Slow, consistent.

So, how was the shaker deck?

So we cleaned up that last bit of tailings there.

It probably comes to the end for a while. For now, I think we'll just drag

down for a bit.

Concentrate on it.

Can we wait for something?

Yeah, we could do the shaker deck first.

Let's do this.

The old -timers' tailings have averaged 66 ounces a week.

20, 30, 40, 51, 48.

Not bad.

Yeah, right?

Worth close to $100 ,000.

Tony's gamble on the old -timers' tailings has

delivered half a million dollars.

That was a pretty nice little piggy bank down there, I'd say.

Mike's trommel has been running mega -cut pay.

That's a nice job.

Yeah, poor him. Let's see what we got.

To hit their 3 ,000 -ounce season goal.

The beets need to average 205 ounces a week.

So Mike Cromwell needs to deliver at least 154 ounces.

180, 90, 200, 209

.8. Worth $400 ,000.

So that's an ounce and a half an hour.

There you go, so that's okay too.

Figure we'll have a million dollars a week or better, what's the matter with

that? So what's our use in total?

Her season total is $1 ,827 .76.

Worth $3 .3 million.

Keep her coming in, keep her coming. That's the big thing. Because it's a

volume, volume deal.

You guys should go and do some more.

Get the next bath ready, ladies and gentlemen.

Nice seeing you all.

I think you should as well. Right.

How you doing, man? What's up, guys?

Rick Nass is back at Duncan Creek to find out how well mechanic Carl ran the

mine while he was away.

That always does give me anxiety.

It just never seems like a good time, right?

It's like leaving a bunch of teenagers at the house for the weekend, right?

Yeehaw!

Thanks for stepping up, Carl. Appreciate it.

Pretty big boots to fill, my friend. Oh, well, I don't know about that. You

know, we had a struggle, but, you know, we still did some sluicing at least. You

guys did what was right. You know, you solved the problem and you got it going.

Well, should we weigh up what we got?

Let's see, man.

To hit his season -long goal of 1 ,000 ounces.

All right, here we go.

Rick needs to hit 70 a week. We got 30, 40, 50, 60,

over 70.

Wow.

73 .46.

Worth over $130 ,000.

Amen to that, guys. That's the real deal there.

And pushing his total to 597 ounces, more than he got in the whole of last

season. Better than last year, buddy. Better than last year.

Awesome.

Awesome.

Let's just put it this way. I think we're at about a quarter of the cost.

Gold prices way up a third of the time, and we're ahead of where we were last

season. That's worth a cheers, right? Yeah, man.

Cheers, guys.

Cheers. Yeah.

Woo.

On the next Gold Rush.

Welcome to the family business, young fella. Come on, Doyle.

It's time, Pac.

A new generation joins the crew.

You almost look like a boss, Egan.

They're sluicing out of a mud hole, an actual mud hole.

Fred needs a hero.

Let's see if we can winter down. To save his season. This is our best shot right

now. Whoa.

And it's the end of an era.

What a nice feeling.

For Parker and his crew. We got some pretty good numbers of gold out of this

thing. Never enough.