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Now we're losing money. On this gold rush, Tony Beach drains the swamp.

Wow, baby, that wasn't such a great idea.

In the hunt for gold.

Something needs to change.

This is our best shot right now.

Running out of time, Fred Lewis calls in the big gun.

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

Alaska? Yeah.

And Parker hits a major milestone.

What a nice feeling.

We got some pretty good numbers of gold out of this thing. It's never enough.

This season's been a hell of a season.

With the whole COVID thing, I had no idea where we were going to end up. But,

you know, we've had two wash plans.

pounding away all season. It's been really good.

26 -year -old Parker Knovel is running two wash plants 24 -7 to build a war

chest and buy new ground.

He's about to enter phase two of his plan.

We just got sluice fur moved over to the airstrip cut, and it looks like it's

going to produce some good gold.

Big Red's just finishing up in the last cut. We're going to move Big Red down to

the airstrip and having it join sluice fur.

We really need to get that ground mined out and show that we can produce the

ounces out of it.

Over the last four years, Parker has moved almost 3 million yards of dirt

the last cut and mined more than 12 ,000 ounces of gold, the richest ground he's

ever mined.

Now, he needs the last 25 ,000 yards sluiced in just seven days.

This is something that we need to do very efficiently if we're going to make

all work in time.

We've got a lot of work to do.

We're short on people as well. We're going to try and get everything we can

here by the end of the week.

It's going to be tough. It's going to be a challenge.

We're working as hard as we can to try and make this happen.

It's going to be a mad scramble here.

Cross my fingers, knock on wood, whatever I got to do just to try and

this top will get finished.

Trying to keep Big Red fed here with Paydirt as well as doing tailings.

Doing both in this one loader keeps you really busy.

That does not look good.

What in the f*** is on fire over here?

Cut to power!

Shut it down!

F***, it's burning up here.

Holy.

What the f*** is going on here?

No way.

Holy.

Mitch, you got a coffee? Mitch?

Yeah, go ahead.

Cloth plant is on fire.

All right, man, but I'm on my way.

What's going on? Holy.

This bull's going to have a heart attack.

Smoke bellowing out of there. You've got to be kidding.

Far side, it looks like it's puking out of there.

By the way, I was in the cut and I just ran up.

Oh, there it is.

We've got a return roller.

It's gone.

Black grease is probably catching on fire there. You can see all the bearings

out.

A roller bearing on the radial stacker, which feeds Big Red, has burned out.

Oh, this is great. This is a big job.

It's going to take three or four hours to change that out.

Man, the days are clicking away here.

We've got to get this cut done.

We've got a lot of work to do down there.

Yeah. We can't be both places at once. No, no.

I'm going to go grab Shane and see if he can come over. Okay, perfect.

Now it's down to mechanic Payne Smith to get them back up and running.

She's pretty gnarly, man.

There isn't a bearing left in here, so it's just running on a bear shaft,

bulking away.

And there's parts on the ground.

And we run everything right to the limit, so it's all part of the game.

It's basically up to me to try and keep this thing running.

I got a full cold motor on.

It's full of mud. That kind of maintenance that they got to keep their

You can get the collar off the shaft.

Yeah, it wants to be a little difficult today.

I love burning stuff up. It's my favorite thing.

Burning it up, blowing it up. It's got to have some kind of fun.

Laser precision cutting.

Getting closer.

Get the new bearing back in.

Nice lug fit.

Put this back on.

How's she looking, doctor?

I think they're ready to go. Oh, yeah.

Should be able to walk the rock.

Thanks, man. All right, man.

Good luck down there. Oh, yeah. We need it.

It cost Parker.

Four hours downtime and $15 ,000 in lost gold.

But Big Red is back in business.

Hit that button.

Hit it.

He always gets it done and he gets it done pretty done quick. And that's what

need right now.

All right. Well, I'll go ahead and start the shaker deck. Did you have the

bypass? Yeah.

Hopefully we can run full tilt here.

That's right.

Crank it up.

Thanks again, Shainer. Appreciate it.

Well, now that plant's back up running smooth, I'm just going to hop back in

hole here and keep loading trucks.

We've got to stay on schedule and focus and try and get this cut done because

that's what our goal is.

We've got to get some pay, Doug.

Let's go!

Not only are the operations not going really well, morale is down. People want

to see gold. They're not seeing gold.

In Oregon's Elkhorn Mountain, Fred Lewis and his crew of combat veterans are

struggling. So far this season, He's mined just an ounce and a quarter of

Getting a little worried because we're more than halfway through the season now

and really not looking great.

One month ago, Fred opened the liberation cut. He believed it would

season, but it's produced just 0 .6 ounces of gold.

It's just a constant, you know, battle.

I think the longest run time we've had is like two hours, but eventually

something breaks down on this mine.

They've suffered constant breakdowns of the wash plant and water supply.

So far this mine has not been paying out for us. What are we here for? No gold.

Last week, to keep the operation running, Fred convinced Marine buddy

to pay his running costs for a share of the gold.

It's great that we have an investor, but that puts us under a lot more pressure.

You know, if we kept going the way we're going, I don't have another week, maybe

two weeks in me running like this without something coming back in.

With everything on the line and now going deeper into debt, Fred has asked

Kendall to call in another favor from his uncle.

Hey, Freddie and Water here.

Gold recovery expert, Freddie Dodge.

With him.

is master mechanic and tough fabricator Juan Ibarra.

How's it going, guys?

What's going on?

Good to see you, buddy.

How you doing, Fred?

Good, Fred. How you doing?

So how's everything going so far this year?

They are not going well. We're having a rough time. We're not seeing the goal we

were thinking we were going to see out of that cut.

Just every time that we get up, start running, something kicks us right in the

teeth. Pretty much on the brink of failure all the time.

I think we're right now, the whole team's kind of down. Our morale's a

low.

You know, they see the struggles and they're not seeing goals. So it's hard

us to keep them.

That'll break your spirit easy, you know, real quick. It's happening.

Good gold's a motivator. Lack of gold is a kick in the teeth.

We're getting kicked in the teeth quite a bit. We can't even get going, let

alone stay going.

Well, let's watch it run. Fire it up. All right. Sounds good.

At the start of the season, Freddie and Juan redesigned Fred's wash plant and

built new sluice runs.

Now, they need to find out why Fred's crew can't keep the plant running.

Do you think there's enough time in the rest of the season to be able to turn

this thing around?

I don't know. Fall's coming fast. The trees are yellowing.

I know.

That worries me.

First stop, the water supply.

They should have a valve and a two -inch pump ready to go at all times to prime

this thing.

This whole operation here doesn't seem very efficient at all.

Look how mudded up this is already.

Yeah.

That didn't take long at all.

Looks like the water here, Freddie, is our biggest issue, huh?

Without fresh water, Juan, looking at this, they're going to be done in an

and a half. Then they're going to be losing most of their fine gold.

Once your water turns to a milk taste, you know as well as I do what happens.

It steals that fine gold.

They're loosening out of a mud hole.

An actual mud hole.

I mean, look at how dirty it is.

When your water's that dirty, it's grabbing that fine gold, right?

That silt dam right here hits that silt dam, that silt bowl.

Yep.

Drops out.

And we got the logs to do it.

Yeah. Lay a log across this son of a gun. Once you get silt going downhill.

It stays going down. It wants to keep going down.

And it worked great. I bet we quadrupled their water run time.

Right now, it's a mess.

Yeah, it is.

Hey, Fred. Kendall.

They're out of water or it's too muddy?

All right, guys, let's shut it down. Shut it down.

Let's talk for a bit. Yes, sir.

Hey, Misfits, can I get you guys all by the loader? We need to have a meeting.

Nothing to say about this.

It's kind of like a monkey by footballs.

You got serious water issues is your biggest problem. You ran 35 minutes and

then you silt it up.

So we want to put silt dams in.

Well, who's good with a chainsaw?

You're the chainsaw guy? So what we want to do is we want to put a log across

this upper pond and put a silt dam on it. That'll help stop that silt. As it

comes across, it'll hit that dam and it'll drop out.

So we need tarps, but first we need a log.

Cut to 35 feet.

We'll need a couple guys to help us string that two -inch line all the way

here to this top pond from the lower pond. The silt dam will not work when

pond's empty.

I'm going to lay the hose.

I'll help Johnny lay all the hose and everything, get everything squared away.

All right, cool. He does need some muscle.

Yeah, guys, ask all the questions you guys have while they're here. These guys

are the best at what they do.

Take advantage of it. Good work, guys.

Good, good, good.

Filthy water flows from the sluices into the settling pond.

Instead of settling, the silt is flowing through to the feeder pond, where it's

recirculated to the plant, clogging the riffles, causing gold to flow

out of the sluices.

Freddy's plan?

Build a dam to filter out the silt.

and provide clean water for the wash plant.

Today kind of feels more like the military for me. Everybody's got tasks,

they're all going to complete their tasks, and the operation is going to get

better. So having Freddie and Juan here is fantastic.

The crew start on the silt screen dance.

We got out an old tree pile where we cut all of our trees on our hillside,

stacked them all up. We're grabbing one 35 -footer, and we're going to yank her

off the hill.

and then get her set up down below so we have a little silt dam and help us

maintain some cleaner water for longer.

Give us more run time.

Kendall's plan?

Winch the two -ton log down the slope using the side -by -side.

You want it under or over?

That's fine. All right. All right, here it goes. Pull it in. All right.

Whoa, Kendall!

Kendall! Kendall!

Kendall! Kendall!

Whoa, whoa.

On Fred Lewis's claim, gold recovery expert Freddie Dodge calls a halt as

Kendall attempts to move a two -ton creature.

That log, if it comes at you, you can't get away from it, right?

Yeah, not quickly, that's for damn sure. No, you can't get away from it. Yeah. I

mean, end up smashing the machine and you.

Okay. All right? Get the traco.

Absolutely. All right? It's too dangerous, man. Good call. Love you,

want you dead.

Thank you.

That wasn't a very good idea.

Comes off there, he's smashed, dead, hurt, dead. I don't know, but they need

different piece of equipment for that.

Infantry. Oh, sniper.

Stuart McKenzie brings in the 30 -ton excavator.

Right there. Keep coming up.

Now bring your stick in.

Bring your stick in. Back, back.

Right there.

Use those foot pedals. I am. Because you've got to use two things. Oh, I've

you grab them again. Yeah, I know. You can't do two things. Roger that. I get

you. So come up with your stick.

Be ready, because if your hands are on there and you have to come down fast,

your hands are already there. Gotcha. They're not where they need to be.

Keep coming towards you. Keep coming. Now, curl your bucket.

Curl your bucket as your stick's going out.

See what happens. See how balanced we are.

Are we good to go?

Looking good, man.

Slowly drop it once.

Hey, just take it nice and slow, and you won't drop it. You're good. You're

good. Watch out for that rock right there. Steady.

He was nervous.

I would be too because he doesn't have very much time in the machine and he's

got people's lives in his hands, right?

He does something weird.

So, but he did good.

Next up, what we're going to do in this process is we've gotten a tree off the

hill, brought it down.

Kyle and Fred are going to finish delimiting it, make sure it's smooth

we have to put tarps on it so we don't want it to rip.

Right now we're getting the final steps here. We've got the log cleaned off so

it doesn't pop any of the tarps we're putting over it.

We've got Stuart digging out a splash box. We can go lay it across.

As soon as we get it in place, then we can start setting everything up for the

new desilching system that Freddie and Juan are kind of helping us with.

Okay, let's lock it in.

Okay, send it to your right a little. A little more.

What? What, have you done that before, Freddie?

Finito finale. We're done.

Well, Fred, we'll make you a silt curtain.

We'll unfold this.

Take it that way.

The tarp will force silt to settle. Hang on right there.

Fold it in half.

Allowing clean water to flow back to the intake pond.

We've got a chain for weight down in the bottom. It's going to be a little

tricky getting it in there.

Somebody may end up on their ear in the mud.

Johnny, cross the log.

Staff Sergeant Johnny Stans suffered severe brain injuries when his truck was

blown up by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.

Crossing the log!

Ever since, he's had trouble with his balance.

My hand.

Thank you. Thank you kindly. Your Highness. Chivalry is not dead.

Chivalry is not dead?

Keep your chain out of the water. Lower it down.

So put a screw in your end, and then take your chain so it's sunk in the

but then screw it to the log so we don't lose it underwater.

Got her.

Touching, Fred?

Yes, it's touching.

That's probably close enough, huh?

Well, there it is, Fred.

Is that if I just hit that and dropped?

Yep, so picture you're a piece of silt, right?

You're coming across your pond, right? You're floating in the water.

So it's going to do the same thing that sand does and then fall and keep

sinking. So basically, this is going to allow us to run more.

We're looking at more pay and more gold, so that's the key.

Ready to fire up, Fred? I sure am. We've done a lot.

I can't wait to see how it turns out.

Right now, we've got this top pond full.

It's filling up the bottom pond, so we're going to be able to run a lot

I think. Yeah, let's do it. Let's fire it up.

Now, it's time to find out if clean water means more gold.

Water coming out the other end right now after our sump dam is way cleaner than

it was before.

You can almost see through it, so it's definitely working.

Once again, you guys came through big. You've done stuff that's changed the way

we're going to work around here, and I think we'll get a lot more pay through

the kernel because of it. We're doing the right things. If the gold's there,

we'll catch it.

No matter how much gold is in the ground, every minute the plant's

you're catching it.

So run, run, run.

Everything's looking really good.

Got to keep going.

Keep going.

We're going to float as much as we can this year.

At Paradise Hill, King of the Klondike, Tony Beach, is running 350 yards

of mega -cut pay dirt through his trommel every hour.

Ruby Mahoney clears tailings in the loader.

You know,

after everything that happened last year, I think all of us really wanted to

have a really good season, kind of like a resurrection season.

If we can get 3 ,000 ounces out of the ground, be better than last year, that

would be good.

Anyway, first things first, I'm going to have breakfast.

Can't run around all day on an empty stomach.

Morning, Egan.

Morning. How are you today?

Good. Are you ready to go to work?

Sure. This morning, Tony's grandson, Egan, son of his daughter, Bianca, who

isn't part of the gold mining business, is here to learn the ropes.

Since this is a family operation, it is good to have a third generation like you

show up. In the future, maybe your brothers all show up.

We'll have a whole crew of grandkids, for Christ's sake. That'd be cool.

Anyway, you want to go and drive around and have a look? Yeah. Okay, let's do

it.

Welcome to the family business, young fella.

Let's go to where we're making the money. Let's go to the trauma league and

all the tailings. Well, you've seen them before, of course. Yeah.

If you like this kind of stuff, someday you might be a gold miner too.

Yeah.

So basically a general inspection first thing in the morning, what kind of

things they screwed up.

And what they did right too. Yeah, right.

Tailings are pretty dirty.

Give me a break.

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

Don't forget. Don't forget.

You have a look at them tailings lately?

I am on my way there now.

Hey, Egan, I got to talk to your uncle.

Can't get away with this?

No, that's terrible.

Not to watch at all.

The trommel uses water jets to blast hay dirt off rocks, sending gold -rich

material down to the sluices.

The dirty tailings indicate that the trommel isn't washing the rocks properly

and is discarding them, still covered in gold.

I can't afford to run that wash plant and lose all the gold in the tailing.

They head down the hill to check the pump that supplies the trommel.

Look at that.

No water.

You got nothing but air in it.

The valve is sucking so much air the pump can't deliver enough water.

The valve used to control water supply from the pond into the system is cracked

and sucking in air, causing the pressure in the pump to drop.

By the time it gets up to the wash plant, the water pressure is too low,

can't wash the gold -rich dirt from the rocks, so gold is lost in the tailing.

Now we're losing money.

To fix it, Tony heads to his boneyard, the largest in the Klondike, to search

for a replacement valve.

Dumb dick.

One of these days, too. Yeah.

Let's go. Let's make this happening.

Come on, Doyle.

Good boy.

All right, Kevin. Let's find a new well and let's get that wasp plant up and

running again. Every second we lose, we lose more gold.

There's got to be something around here.

All right, Kevin.

Here we go, son.

Yeah, 10 .6.

What would that be? Just hacking or what?

That one is not going to work. It'll be even worse than the one we got on there

right now.

We got this whole barnyard and we can't find a valve.

There's got to be one somewhere in all this stuff.

Kevin, what about this one here?

That one looks all right too.

Nice heavy duty too.

This bulb is the best we got right now, so let's make it work.

You see that, Egan? If you need something, the barnyard delivers.

Okay, got to go.

Every hour the plant is down, Tony is losing $2 ,500 in gold.

So right now the water's still a little high. If we take the valve off now, all

the water in the pond is going to come straight out. It's going to make a giant

mess. So we're going to have to drain the pond first.

The leaking valve is set below the water level of the pond.

If the pond is full when they take it off, nearly half a million gallons of

water will flood the yard.

Before he can change the valve, Kevin must pump enough water out of the pond

bring the level down.

Once the water's down, we're going to come down, rip the valve off, put the

one in, hook everything back up, open up the water, and recluse it again.

But for now, we've just got to wait for it to get low enough.

Until then, Tony's whole operation.

is down.

What do you think?

How much lower is it?

Well, it's not going to go for a while yet. I think so, yeah.

In the Klondike, a cracked valve has shut down Tony B's operations.

To replace the valve, he must drain the pond.

But that could take all day.

And every hour, he's losing over $2 ,500 in gold.

We need another four or five feet. So I think what we should do is, I think

we'll just shut the pump off.

And open both valves.

And guess what?

Go.

All right. We'll fix the yard later.

All right. We're going to wash everything.

I don't want to wait all day. We want to get going, right?

We do.

Impatient to get sprucing, Tony decides to take a gamble and open the valve

while the pond is still cold.

Getting out of the way.

Egan, watch out.

Yeah, that's dangerous.

Wow, maybe it wasn't such a great idea.

See that?

Yeah.

After an hour draining the pond, the yard is flooded.

But the pressure is low enough to replace the broken valve.

I think that was all good.

Egan, don't stand underneath the load, okay?

Yeah, drive it in there.

It almost looked like a botch, Egan.

Egan, grab that toolbox and put it over where Len is. Same as with a

screwdriver. Okay,

put the clamp in the nut, gentlemen.

There you go, next one.

Put it on top.

Go, go, go, go. There you go. You got two nuts.

I got four here.

Okay, slowly down a little bit.

There you go.

Rubber clamping. Let's do it. Smart.

Quit talking about it. Put the rubber on.

I got the four after currents that came out. Which one?

There's a hammer right over here.

Yep. Nailed it. Right up in the center, up on top. There we go.

All right.

Okay, Egan, keep an eye on it. Well, I'm going to fire the pump.

If the thing don't leak, what am I going to do?

That's it.

Good enough.

Okay, Egan, let's go.

Okay.

Well, that went pretty quick, Egan.

I think so. You lost enough time over it already.

Yeah, let's go!

After a day's downtime, the trommel is back, washing pay.

Right? That cleans it up pretty good, isn't it?

Looks like it was worth the effort, or what? Oh, yeah. You know?

Maybe add a bit more water?

With the whirlwind, low RPM, made all the difference, don't you think so?

Can't get any better than that.

No, any better than that. I think so.

We're done, buddy.

Good job.

After just five days, Mitch and Brennan have finished running pay in the last

cut, two days ahead of Parker's one -week deadline.

Nice work. Yeah, you too, man. That is a good feeling to have that cut down. I

can't believe how fast we got through it.

What a nice feeling.

We can break Big Red down, haul it down to the airstrip, get it set up and back

running. There's no reason we can't have this watch plant running here in a day

or so. Yeah, you bet. Okay.

Mitch prepares Big Red for the move.

Pull these pins out of here and lower this thing down.

Get it on the road.

There's no more gold here, so we got to take it where there's some ground to

run.

That looks good right there.

Get it on the road.

Gonna head down to the airstrip. Hopefully, Brennan's ready with a watch

hat, because we're coming.

Four hours later, Mick sets off on the three -mile journey to the airstrip.

I'm glad we don't have to go too far here, because you watch that thing in

mirror over there, and it's rocking side to side.

Come on, old girl. Nice and easy.

Oh, we're in the trees. Put it again over there.

Well,

here we are.

We're good.

That is perfect.

That looks great. You look at how the shaker ducts leveled up.

Sluice runs right where we want them.

It's coming together nicely.

Good job.

With Big Red finally on its pad at the airstrip, Parker heads to the last cut

with his crew to look back on four years mining over 12

,000 ounces of gold.

Well, I don't know whether to be happy or sad that we got through it already.

I mean, I'm proud.

Can't complain about the cleanups either. They seem all right, eh?

No, I still can't complain about any cleanup. Yeah.

It's never enough. No.

This is one of the biggest cuts you guys have made, isn't it?

There's a lot of rocks that came out of there.

If you put everything you removed back, except for what we wanted, what we took

out of here would fit in a bucket.

Yep. They've moved over 3 million yards of dirt, enough to fill the Dallas

Cowboys stadium, to get a 4 -gallon bucket of gold worth...

over $20 million.

With the final 25 ,000 yards they cleared this week, this could be

biggest gold -producing cut ever.

Everybody did a good job with it, you know? I didn't hear any horror stories.

It was like two years ago when Sluicifer caught on fire, we're like, okay, we're

done, we're out of here.

Then we ended up coming back the following year.

I think the funniest thing was you bringing the wash plant in backwards.

I'm going to never try to forget.

I'm just happy we got it all done.

For the most part, it did go pretty smooth.

I think you did good.

We got some pretty good numbers of gold out of this thing. Your cleanups were

just consistently good over and over again. Even when you hit that sand spot,

you just thought things were going to drop off and push right through it.

You guys did a heck of a job here, that's for sure.

Well, I tell you what, I feel old after this.

Off to the airstrip.

Fred, this doesn't look good to me.

I don't like hearing that.

In Oregon, gold guru Freddie Dodge is on a mission to save rookie mind boss...

Fred Lewis' operation.

After he cleaned the water supply, wash plant Colonel Nugget has been running

non -stop.

Now, Freddy's focused on the most important thing of all,

pay dirt.

So this is your pay?

Yeah, we've been pulling off this pay, but it's so full of rock, it's hard to

move. I'm having a hard time thinking it's not getting diluted with the

It seems like it's just...

If this is pay, it doesn't look like very good pay to me.

Not in this situation, not in an alluvial deposit.

It looks more like slip that's come off the hill with maybe some glacier

boulders mixed in it is what it looks like to me.

Master Sergeant Stephan General has been digging this pay from the liberation

cut for four weeks.

You know, we need to find gold because right now we're just... I mean, he's

hemorrhaging money to keep this operation going.

All I know is I'm just about to the end of my rope.

Something needs to change.

Stefan! Yo!

It's the first time I've came up to really look at the cut, and I'm not

the look of the dirt I see.

Well, all this right here is all overburdened.

from what I pulled off before and I dropped it there.

Don't mess with that side hill anymore. That's all garbage.

That's all mainly slip that's slipped off this hill. It hasn't been reworked

river gravel from what I see. Okay. But look for those rounded river gravels.

We've got a lot of them. No, this is just dirt. It's got a few rounded rocks

it. This is... Well, yeah, that's overburdened.

Yeah. If you start getting a lot of round rocks, just radio me. I'll come

and check it out. So picture a stream bed, right, where all the rocks are

right? Tumbling, tumbling. That's exactly right. So we'll look for that.

What I would do is probably back up here about 15 feet and punch a hole as deep

as you can.

The gold on the Elkhorn claim was washed down from the mother load by two

rivers. The heavy gold sits at the bottom with the big river rock.

grounded by years of water erosion.

We need to make some money. We need to find some gold.

I'd say about ten feet down now.

See if I can take a look at this stuff here, see what it

looks like.

Yeah, that looks pretty damn good.

Hold on.

I'm seeing a lot of brownstone.

I think I need to take a look at this.

a lot of this, a lot of rounded stones in here.

Hey Fred, where you at, bro?

What you got?

This is pretty much down there about, I don't know, maybe 10, 12 feet stuck in

the wall.

I was looking at the bucket as I brought it in and I'm like, number of rounded

rocks versus crack, the bedrock. This is rounded rocks. That's what I thought. I

like it.

You know, the only way we're going to find out is to run some of it, right?

Right. This is our best shot right now. I'd say every ounce of this dirt.

Everything below three feet.

Directly to the colonel. Hey, colonel's hungry, man. It's time to feed her.

Let's do it. Let's get to work. Got it. Good job, Stefan.

Cool.

We've got enough hay, so we'll just give it a go and see what happens.

I feel like we're on the brink of failure all the time, every day.

My fingers are crossed, but pretty much make or break. If this doesn't produce,

I don't know how this is going to pan out.

When the miners close out a cut, they always reclaim the land,

putting it back to how it was before they worked it.

You know, it's just kind of weird. You look at all this and, you know, you get

used to driving out to the same spot, seeing Big Red set up here.

And, yeah, it's going to be a little bit different driving by it every day and

not stopping.

You know, all these old cots, they'll end up flooding out over the winter.

That'd be nice ponds.

Wildlife really likes it.

And, you know, in 100 years, nobody will ever even know we were here.

Go do a gold play, Egan. Let's go, man. Show you how that all works.

Three generations of beef.

Gather for the weekly gold weigh.

Yeah, it's nice that you fixed that valve up. Those tailings look a lot

eh? I mean, yeah, you know, we got it back together, and it seems we were

working pretty good.

Well, I got a little bit more water.

Put your RPMs up a little bit, too.

And, yeah, no, in between, I think I made a difference.

You know what, Kevin?

If you can't be handsome, you might as well be handy.

Wow.

To reach his 3 ,000 -ounce season goal.

Tony needs 195 ounces every week.

Are you ready, Egan? Yep. Let's count it up.

What do you got? 3, 4.

10. 20.

30. 40.

50. 5.

60. 5.

70. 4.

80.

90.

100.

110.

20.

What do you guess? 140.

150. Good.

160.

70.

181 .76.

Taking their season total to 2 ,009 ounces, worth over $3

.6 million, but still short of their weekly target.

To hit his goal, Tony now needs to run 24 -7 with no delay.

There you go.

Done deal.

Hey, Egan, I'll be like Bruce McDuck.

Now they have to swim in it. Oh, they have to swim in it. Oh, I better get

more of that.

Well, guys, I don't know what the gold way is going to be, but these guys were

able to run a full day.

Fred Lewis' crew gathers for a gold haul they hope will turn the season around.

Thanks to Freddy and Juan, they have clean water, a working wash plant, and

better pay.

It's been a hard season for you guys already. I'm just hoping with what we've

done, you guys will be able to finish the season strong and run. At least get

some gold. Yeah.

It was a good run. We ran a hell of a lot longer. Yeah. That's for sure.

We're not looking to make bricks, but it would be nice to put a little something

in our pockets. A little something for the effort, huh? Yeah.

I'm hoping it's a good way.

Yeah. Even if there's not a lot of gold, the only way you're going to get what

is there is run, run, run.

Here we go.

Here we go. So far, in four weeks, the liberation cut has only produced 0 .6

ounces.

Well, let's see what you got.

There's a quarter of an ounce. There you go. Half ounce. Half ounce.

Here we go. Nearly three quarters of an ounce.

Oh!

That's over half what you've done the entire season at this point. In one day.

In one day.

.74 is really good, I think, compared to what we've found the entire season.

Dude, is this from one day?

Yeah. Thanks to Freddie and Juan, they've got more gold in just one day

whole of the last month.

But they're totally...

is still less than two ounces. And this is the starting point, I think, with the

stuff they've done here, showing us that we can improve on our operation.

Now you can run, run, run, run. And that's what you're going to have to do.

At this rate, they could get over 35 ounces by the end of the season.

We're turning a corner.

I want to tell more, but I'm ecstatic that we're improving.

A little bit of hope and a lot of hard work goes a long way, boys.

You're on your way, though, for sure.

Well,

I don't know if there's going to be enough gold in the ground here, but at

they're running now and they'll find out. You know, can't thank him and Juan

enough for helping us so much. And now it's time to get some gold.

I am stoked now to keep going over this season.

Still not a ton of gold, Fred, but you know what?

It's a start.

Better than Swift kicking the ass.

That's for sure.

Well, at least they ran a full day. They haven't done that before.

You know, three -quarters of an ounce is not that huge of a cleanup, but

honestly, it's a start.

Hopefully with these repairs, they'll be able to keep on running and get more

gold.

Ready one.

Yep, let's go, buddy.

Let's go to work, man.

Let's go get some gold.

Parker's crew gathers to find out if the new airstrip cut will pay out and weigh

the final gold from the last cut.

That doesn't look too bad.

20, 40, 60, 100, 130,

138 .65. Worth over $260

,000.

I guess having a down day for the bearing and then prepping up for the

guess that's okay.

I wouldn't say it's acceptable.

Yeah, we'll take it. I'll take it. Better than nothing.

Next up, the new airstrip cut.

Yes, Lucifer's been running good, hey? There hasn't really been any issues and

there's good potential in that ground.

It's looking pretty good. Do you want to see?

Yeah, let's see here.

All set, Dumit? All set.

Let's see what the cleanup looks like.

Ten.

20, 40, 80, 100, 130, 144 .25.

That's not bad. No, for first cleanups, they're just historically bad.

Almost $275 ,000 from their first week in the new airstrip cut,

taking their season total to 5 ,450 ounces, worth almost

$10 million.

If the airstrip cut days like that, we could have a record year.

Let's hope so. These big reds are going to be coming down pretty shortly.

Yeah. Yeah, once we get both lamps tandem like that.

That's going to be sweet.

Yeah. And thank you guys for dealing with the amount of jumping around we're

doing. I just, I really appreciate it. No worries. Yeah. And Shane, thanks for

keeping this stuff rolling.

No worries.

I appreciate it. All good.

Come on, Mitch. Let's go grab a beer, buddy. All righty. All right. Thanks,

guys. See you guys later.

The gold's good and that's all that matters. And the best thing is both

are in the airstrip cut right across from each other and it's pretty cool.

plants side by side, everybody there to help out when needed.

On the next...

Gold Rush.

When the plant's down, it's never good, man.

Rick Ness battles to keep his white plant running.

Shut the pump off! Shut the pump off!

Tony Beats is on the hunt for more land.

The risk of getting the trees through your windows.

If one comes through the cap, you know, you gotta have your eyes open.

And Parker Schnabel doubles down on new ground.

Here we go!

Yeah!

The whole cut's gonna be underwater.

Get out of the way!