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This year's all about proving to myself and to my crew that we can be successful

out here mining.

On this gold rush.

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

Rick Ness pays the price for a bad call.

Shut the pump off! Shut the pump off!

I think I'm done with this.

What the f*** are we going to do, though?

Tony B is on the hunt.

Let's get after it now.

Her new ground.

Did they go? What did they do? What did they know that I don't know yet?

And Parker's novel, ink for the top. Here we go.

We got a chance of breaking records this year.

Holy.

Look at how bad it's bleeding there. The whole cup's going to be underwater.

This time of the season, we can't afford to have anything slow us down.

At Paradise Hill, King of the Klondike Tony Beetz is three -quarters of the way

through the short Yukon season.

I would really like to hit 3 ,000 ounces this year.

We've got about six weeks or so left in the season, so we've got to keep

watching rocks 24 -7.

My stromal is running great.

Hopefully we don't have any stops and we'll be able to reach that goal.

With winter fast approaching, Tony gathers the family to plan out the rest

the season.

You know, you look like my side of the family, right?

She's the reason I look so funny.

Yeah, they all look funny.

How's it going, Mike?

Oh, not too bad. We've been drawing quite a bit of pay out of the mega cut

there. Good. There's lots coming out of that, huh? Oh, yeah. How many weeks do

you think you have left there?

Can we take three weeks?

Three weeks. That's not that great.

You're not at your target yet. What are you going to do about it?

Well, there's some other places we want to have a peek at, do some drilling, see

what we can find.

There's got to be something around.

Okay. If you don't take a chance, you'll never win it.

Mike's run the trommel hard all season.

Now he's down to the last two acres of the 18 -acre megacon, with just three

weeks' pay left to run.

Tony's on the hunt for new ground to get her to his season goal.

I mean, the curious part about this part of the hill is there's all kinds of

ditches and little ponds that people dug up by hand in the olden days.

In order for them to do that kind of work, there has to be a deposit

Say, there's going to have to follow them.

If they know, what did they do? What did they know that I don't know yet?

Since the 1890s, miners have left their mark across Paradise Hill.

The remains of their mine work could point to where the best gold was found.

Here's where we get all these fruit trees.

and you see a little patch of birch trees just in the middle of nowhere

that usually means that somebody had a shaft there or somebody's been digging

there, because birch trees don't grow on frozen ground.

There you go, you got a shaft there.

I don't know how deep he went.

Near one of the old -timers' mine shafts, Tony finds what could be a vital

You see that? There's quartz in there.

And those are what you call indicators.

Where there's quartz, there's often gold.

This one here, I can just see in the pile, he's bringing up the same stuff as

got in the mega -cut.

My thing is, did he go deep enough?

The old -timers dug these holes by hand, and Tony believes they may not have

reached the pay layer.

To find out if he's right, he brings in a 220 excavator to punch a test hole.

There's a couple of cats out there.

There you are. This little house, and there's nothing but hydraulic oil. So

we are, gone.

There goes your nice morning playing around in the boonies, I guess.

Great, Kevin. Do you copy? Kevin, do you copy?

Oh, that one doesn't look right.

Well, can't reattach it because he broke.

Not just broke, but...

Broke. This piece here is supposed to be over here.

While Kevin fixes the excavator, Tony carries on exploring.

I've been here 35 years, and I've never been in these places.

See all these gully pairs?

You can clearly see that they monitored a whole big trench through there.

In the 1890s, old -timers used powerful hoses called monitors to blast pay dirt

off the hills.

and into simple wooden sluice runs.

Tony believes the parts of the hill that they missed could still contain

thousands of ounces in gold.

You got the shaft here, we got the shaft over there. You can clearly see the

monitors over there.

What the f*** were they looking for?

120 yards east of the 50 -foot shaft, Tony has discovered the exposed edge of

old -timer's monitored cut.

The gold -rich pay should be much closer to the surface here, if they left any

behind.

I think we're mapping.

And that should be that.

That'll look good to me. No leaks. I'm happy.

I can take it and keep on digging.

If Tony can find enough of the light -colored gravel that is rich in gold,

could be the ground to save his season.

Some of this definitely looks like pay dirt.

See, that is white -channel gravel.

So, have a look at that.

We'll test the fail of this.

And I'll bet you you're going to get gold out of it.

Now, Tony needs to know how far the pastry continues into the hill.

The thing is, what is behind this? What is underneath that nice grout?

At Indian River, 26 -year -old Parker Schnabel is racing to bank enough gold

buy new ground and expand his mining empire.

Yeah, buddy!

After four years, Parker has finally finished mining Tony Beat's ground, the

last cut.

Now he's firing up Big Red in the airstrip cut, just 300 yards away from

Lucifer.

I really never would have thought that Big Red would have gotten through that

much ground in a season.

Mitch and Brennan did a really good job getting through it. We definitely made

money on that cut.

Together for the first time this season, Lucifer and Big Red are running over 10

,000 yards of dirt per day.

They use 300 ,000 gallons of water.

every hour, which flows back into two massive ponds.

I'm out here with Day -M and the stripping crew is just trying to get

opened up.

Hopefully we shouldn't turn into too many problems because we've got a lot of

dirt to move.

There is almost two months worth of pay in the airstrip cut.

Parker is pushing his crew to mine it out in half that time before winter

Coal foreman Mitch Blaschke is in charge of making sure both plants keep

running.

Parker just decided that they wanted to add a little bit more to our agenda for

the year, and that's certainly a tough thing to do. We got into this cut very

late this season, and there's so much groundwater. We've got ponds on one

the river on the other.

On the other hand, well, it seems to have a lot of gold in it. The ground's

good. There's going to be a challenge, and there's certainly one down here at

the Earth Strip.

It's been a lot of gray, rainy days, and I mean, that makes you tired and

missing home a lot. I just hope everybody can stay positive and we can

off what park is put in place.

Co -foreman Brennan Rouault is responsible for managing the cuts.

It seems to look like a lot of water coming into the cut here right in front

the feeder.

Big peak of this.

Look at that.

This is a lake here.

There's a drop.

Funny,

I just see a whole big lake back there. Water's through this back here too.

Looks like it's coming out of the berm right over here.

Look at how bad it's bleeding there.

Water from Sucifer's tailings pond is leaking through the quickly built berm.

There's so much pressure in that pond pushing back this way.

This thing blows out and that whole pond's going to come this way. The whole

cut's going to be underwater.

Holy.

Sucifer's pond holds two million gallons of water.

The leaking berm could easily give way, flooding Parker's only cut.

That isn't looking too good.

So why don't you try and reinforce this thing? I'm going to go grab every pump

we've got, get them set up, you know, get some ditches in here.

Yeah, let's get after it. Okay, buddy.

Mitch's plan?

Dig ditches to drain the excess water into a sump.

Install a pump to empty the cut.

and use a D10 dozer to reinforce the berm with coarse tailings.

Look at that. That's five feet back from the bank.

Like, if I was to go in this bank slough and tip me over, it could be the end of

that dozer. With Lucifer still running, 3 ,300 gallons of water are being added

to the unstable pond every minute.

The pressure is on rookie plant boss Tyson Lee to dig over 500 feet of

to drain the water away.

It's definitely a fight trying to get this water under control. Right now,

Brennan and I are madly scrambling trying to get it under control to the

where we can keep mining this ground.

Mitch installs a pump capable of shifting over 4 ,000 gallons of water a

I've been able to pull RD water in the pump. This is it right here.

We're going to get it put in, start sucking all this water out, get this

out, so we can actually see what's going on here.

How much the water table's dropping? These ponds are starting to drain over

here.

You know what, you guys? I want you way back out of the way because if this berm

blows out, it'll wipe every one of you out and you guys could drown.

Brendan needs to widen the berm with coarse tailings, but he'll have to drive

the 63 -ton D -Pen Dozer onto the unstable 30 -foot berm.

I know as good as anyone here that if this... If the sperm blows out, our

could be over.

Between the three of us, I suppose those are experienced, but it still doesn't

mean that they can't go wrong in a second.

As you can see, my crocs are right on the edge of this.

In the airstrip cut, Brennan's 63 -ton D10 Dozer is hanging

off the edge of an unstable 30 -foot berm.

Feel that front end drop. Holy man.

That could have been bad.

Well, finally to the point where I'm starting to feel a little bit more

comfortable.

Bringing a bunch of this course sailings over, starting to get a lot more width

to it.

building strength up to this thing.

Whoo! I'm really happy that's over with.

I got this wider now and I feel a lot safer about it.

I'm glad this is over with.

With the berm fixed, Mitch, Brennan, and Tyson raced to meet Parker's goal,

mining out the airstrip cut.

before winter shuts them down.

So we have no more worries about having that thing blow out anymore, which I

think we're all a little bit more nervous of it than we were shown.

So I'm happy that's ready to roll. Now it's just time to get back, dig and pay.

We're well over. We're halfway through the season right now.

We've had some bumps along the way. You know, we had a major late start, and

don't even get me started on the deep cut, what a disaster that was.

With just over a month until the end of the season, Rick Ness' 1 ,000 -ounce

season goal is finally within his grasp.

I've got a great team behind me this year, and got to hope we don't hit any

major snags, and got to keep the momentum up.

There's no lunch break, no coffee break.

You literally just put your head down and get going to work every day.

This year's strategy for as far as spending is just not spending.

You know, I don't have the money to spend, so, you know, it's just keeping

simple.

That's going to be the key to getting back on track, you know, after a year

last year.

We're getting what we need and what we need only, and anything else is, you

know, we're going to have to do without.

Are you excited to have another trucker on board?

Am I excited to have another trucker on board?

Yeah, have you been lonely trucking by yourself?

Yeah, it's nice to be able to honk at somebody every once in a while when you

drive by.

Hey Carl, you gotta get down here.

The lathe flat hose that feeds water to the wash plant has slipped.

Shut the pump off! Shut the pump off!

Yeah, Rick, we got a hole in this lathe flat, dude. It's toast. We're gonna have

to do something different.

Until the hose is fixed, Rick's plant is shut down, losing him almost $2 ,000

every hour.

What's going on, Carl?

So this lay flat obviously isn't holding up, right? So what are we going to do

about it?

Eleven weeks ago, the lay flat burst, shutting down the plant.

Holy Lord!

Whoa!

Working with junk, man.

Rick ordered a quick fix.

Fire it up, see what it looks like.

A $2 fix that'll get us through another week, probably.

But now he's paying the price.

Yeah, I mean, that sucks.

I mean, the rigid pipe that we have is 10 -inch, and that lay flat's fixed.

I mean, we could put the lay flat through it. I mean, that should keep the

off it, keep it from getting punctured.

Rick's plan to feed the lay flat hose through sections of 10 -inch hard pipe

steep. And it should take just a couple of hours.

This is just a bandaid, right? Like, you know, it's a good chance that it's

going to do the same thing it just did, right? Yeah. You know what I mean? I

don't want to be picking it up again.

Carl wants to replace the lay -flat hose with all hard pipe.

But Rick will need to hire in a fusion machine.

And it'll take at least a day to fuse the pipe, costing over $20 ,000 in lost

gold. Are you sure you don't want to fix this property?

The best scenario is what you want, right? We fuse the pipe and we put a

line from pump to plant.

But, you know, we don't have a fusion machine.

And I can't afford to shut the wash plant down for that long.

So I guess we just take some of that hard pipe that we have and arm it away

with it and hope for the best.

Well, let's get out of here then. Right.

Looks pretty clean.

Oh, here's Champ. He's going to help.

We need a better flashlight.

Can you see anything?

No, you're nowhere near my end.

Okay, that ain't going to work then.

No. What do you recommend?

Well, if we stand on it, gravity should pull it down, right?

Maybe up on, I'll set the one end up on the plant maybe, huh?

Yeah, I'll come up there then, yeah.

Watch yourself.

Yeah.

You got it.

Don't let that go through.

Just keeps yanking on it.

Stop yanking on it. Okay.

That's perfect, buddy.

Okay, so crops?

After three hours down, Rick connects the hose to the water supply.

Now, he just has to hope that this fix will last him the rest of the season.

Well, we shouldn't have any more problems with this lay flat. I mean,

it armored now. It's hard pipe over it all.

It'll be buried under the road so nothing can burst it.

It'll be good.

Coming up.

We're barely keeping up. That'll be flooded in no time.

At Paradise Hill, Tony Beats is on the hunt for new ground.

So we're going to poke a couple of holes with a drill and see what we can come

up with.

He's found pay dirt left behind by the old -timers. All right.

And called in drilling expert Liam Ferguson to find out how far the pay

extends under the hillside.

If you can poke one here, anywhere in here, then I'll make another one over

there. Okay. That's good enough.

Well, we're all set up, ready to go, so we'll put a few holes in.

That will be awesome.

Like I say, the guy can find some resources on his own property these

That's a plus.

For sure.

Because there's no new growing out there, right? No. Okay.

Good enough.

All right. See you, Tony. Pull the hole, would you?

Drilling comes with a big price, $20 ,000 for just two test holes.

Liam will drill the holes 300 feet apart to find out how far the pastry extends.

Tony's just marked this spot for us. We're just getting set up here.

We'll drill this one down, take the samples and then head back to watch it

and we just figure out from that if it's worth finding or not.

Snow in September is a little bit strange but we're just going to have to

it up and deal with it I guess.

The sonic drill vibrates 150 times a second, allowing the hollow shaft to

collect a clean core sample.

Well, of course, it's going to be nice to see what's going to come out of it.

I mean, you can't be right all the time, so there's got to be at one point a

hole that you're going to get a lot of it.

If I can get out of one of these two holes a decent result, yeah, that is

of exciting.

because they got another whole year of mining.

Tony has high expectations for this ground. He has a lot riding on it, so I

really hope we can find him some good gold. We're going to get these satin

apples washed up here pretty soon, and then we'll know for sure.

At Indian River, Parker snobbles running two wash plants in the airstrip cut in

a bid to sluice the entire 26 acres before winter.

This year has been unseasonably wet.

We just had a nasty rainstorm all night, out in the morning.

You know, we're just trying to keep this cut dried out, and it seems like every

time you go check the pumps, the water table just keeps coming up and up

of dropping.

Look at that.

Water everywhere, man.

Operator J .M. Mercier is digging pay for Sousa. We need a pump as soon as

possible.

I can't continue digging that stuff right now. I can't even tell if I'm

in the pit.

Hermit, can you hear me?

Yeah, go ahead, Jim. What's up?

I'm a little bit concerned about the water here.

It's kind of a mess right now. We can't check the pump. I think it's not

running. As soon as you can, we'll be perfect.

All right, man. I'll come over and take a look at it.

Thank you, my friend.

We're barely keeping up. With this one down, this cut will be flooded in no

time. So I've got to figure something out here and get it back up and rolling.

The pump Mitch installed has failed, and the water level in the cut.

is rising.

He needs to make a quick fix before the pay becomes too wet to dig, forcing the

wash plant to suck down.

What's going on Mitch? That thing run out of fuel or what?

What's this alternator here?

And unfortunately it's not charging.

Without the alternator, the pump won't run because it won't stay charged,

We need this pump more than ever right now too.

Let's just go back to the yard and see what we got.

let's hope we have an alternator buddy you want to look in there i'll look in

here it looks too promising i

don't think there's anything in this he can i think you found one not the right

one so that's everything we got i mean what are we going to do

i think i got an idea yeah

all right well let's hear it i mean what's the alternate here do Power it

Charges the battery, right? Yep.

What's a battery charger do?

Charges the battery, right?

Man, this thing looks like a nightmare.

Using an old charger, Mitch is hoping he can bypass the alternator and charge

the pump's battery directly.

I don't know if it works, but it's definitely been around a while.

It's probably older than you and I combined.

Yeah, it looks like it's been through a few wars.

So we got half the puzzle here, but the next thing is we need a way to power

this.

A whole bunch of generators up here.

That's why we don't ever throw anything away.

Now the next step, is this thing gonna run?

See if it'll start, bro.

You good?

So how's this all going to work, Mitch? What's your whole plan of attack here?

So this is creating power for this, and this is creating power for the pump.

Great. Come on, baby.

One full orbit.

Oh, yeah.

Well, that's a good sign.

That's right. That's what we got.

We'll see if it comes on here.

Yeah, buddy.

Yeah. Let's get this water table down.

Might not be pretty. Might not be the best way to do it. But hey, it's simple.

It's what we had laying around here and it works.

With the pump up and running.

and operators digging pay, the crew still has a chance to mine out the

in record time.

timeframe for the rest of the season and we got to scratch every last bit of hay

out of the cut.

At lower Duncan Creek, the nest crew races to make up for downtime caused by

burst lay flat hoe.

Honestly, you have to expect things to go wrong.

So it's how you act when things do go wrong and how quickly you can adapt to

change them.

This is absolute dog shit, man. The lay flat's leaking inside the case.

You got a coffee, right?

Yeah, you better get down here.

Only three days after making the fix, the lay flat hose inside the hard pipe

burst again.

Look, I'm done with this shit, man. We gotta get it fixed. Coffee here, right?

agree. What the fuck are we gonna do, though?

I say we hardline it.

Yeah. Well, I mean, how long is that gonna take, Carl?

You're looking at a day to put this in, right?

I don't think we have a choice.

Yeah, f*** it, I'm in.

You're in? Okay. I can do that. Let's do it. All right.

This time, Rick agrees to Carl's lasting fix, but the downtime will cost him

over $20 ,000 in lost gold.

We're doing really what we should have done right off the bat, is we're going

replace all this lay plot.

opposed to our pump with a hard HVPE pipe.

We just got to get it done quick.

Oh, it's the real deal, man.

To fuse together sections of hard pipe, new crew member Ben Belli brings in the

fusion machine.

So this thing is a 618 fuser. So basically what we're going to do is take

tenant pipe and basically just farm it together, fuse it all together.

Face it, heat it up, put a ton of pressure to it, and then fuse a bunch of

lengths of pipe.

With the watch plant shut down, Ben must now create 230 feet of hard -lying pipe

in just one day.

At the end of the day, we're going to have more downtime if we do stuff not

properly here, right?

This is going to pay off in the end.

Yeah, this time of year when the plant's down, it's never good, man. It's crunch

time, so we've got to get this done as quick as we can.

Get back up and running.

The fusion machine heats the two ends of the pipe at 400 degrees Fahrenheit,

fusing them together with pressure.

Here's the final piece of this guy.

Let's take a look at it, everybody.

Looks good, eh?

Oh, yeah, real cool.

Carl and Ben must now transport the fused sections of pipeline across the

and through the creek.

The reason why we're going this slow is I do not want to damage any equipment.

We're doing good right now, so let's not jinx it.

Coming up to the creek right now.

At this time of year, the creek runs fast with rainwater.

The force could be enough to drag the pipe downstream.

Well, we're in the river now.

That was up to the doors.

We won't get these.

We've got clean tires now.

We've got to get this pipe in here right away because every moment that we are

not running water, we're not getting gold.

That's why we're hustling our ass right now.

You guys get out of the way. I'm just going to swing this.

Right there, buddy.

Down, down, down.

Perfect.

Carl clamps the sections of pipe together.

We're so close right now. Yeah, we're so close.

This is our last sponge here. We get this tightened up. We're going to run

We'll see how we got any leaks.

And then we can bury this thing, so we're close.

We're actually going to put in a bigger pump, too. It's going to give us a lot

more pressure.

This is going to improve the arctic that we can run through the plant, and

that's the whole point.

With the new hard pipe, Rick can now run a more powerful pump, allowing him to

run 20 % more dirt every hour.

the pump into position right now.

We just got to get it done and get back running. That's all that matters.

Perfect.

Time to stop.

around and start this thing up.

That's a lot of water!

So we ought to pitch properly now. We're not going to have to deal with this

again this year.

Awesome. The downtime has cost Rick $22 ,000 in lost gold.

But the new pump allows him to run the plant faster, and he should make it back

in under a week.

Well, I'm glad we finally took the time to put in the new water system.

The great thing is that it's going to allow us to run an extra 20 yards an

That's an extra two ounces of gold a day, another four grand in our pocket.

That adds up.

At lunchtime at Duncan Creek, Rick has a new use for the fusion machine's heater

element. Ooh, casa de mama! Yeah!

Yeah. Now we're talking, boys. Hot lunch? Yeah, cook it.

We turned it up to about 480. Yeah. 480.

Now we're talking.

Does that smell good, buddy?

That's not for you, that's for us.

Ah!

She's taking the best parts, too.

Can we cut it right on it? Yeah, cut it right on it.

It's okay, we can still eat it.

Yeah, two second rule. It's hot!

Oh, I'll get this.

I forgot this wasn't an actual table.

This is actually a pretty good idea, boys.

This is a really good idea.

Here, Tim, you can have that.

Better drop it on a big piece right here.

Ow.

Good.

The king of the Klondike, Tony Beeth, needs to find new ground.

After prospecting a piece of land on the other side of the megacut, he's meeting

with drilling expert Liam Ferguson to find out if it holds big gold.

Oh, keeping busy?

Yep, always busy.

So how did we make out?

We found some pretty interesting stuff.

I've got your map here.

Okay.

That's the two holes of the top I see, huh? Yep. How did it turn out?

First hole, not so good.

It looks like some false bedrock in there.

Whoa.

That threw us off a bit.

But in the second hole, we saw some pretty good grade.

Really? Yeah.

That's good. What kind of value is overlooking at the end?

If it does an ounce for every hundred, I'll be pretty happy with it. We're

looking about ounce per hundred yards, getting a little better near the bottom,

upwards to ounce and a quarter, ounce and a half.

I'm very happy with it.

At that rate, the ground would be even richer than the mega -cut.

One week of mining here could earn Tony nearly a million dollars.

Perfect. Thank you, sir.

We'll catch you later.

All right. See you, Tony. Oh, you bet.

That is an awesome piece of ground. So in the near future, we're going to take

that up. Pretty fast -sized reserve that we came up with. So that makes it very

exciting, makes it very good.

After getting the good news, Tony heads back to camp for the weekly Gold Way.

Hi. Hey.

How's things?

Oh, non -stop like usual.

Oh, that's good.

So, how was everybody's week?

It was pretty good. I had no complaints.

Some were around, right?

So that was a good thing. Gold coming out was good, so it's all good, I'd say.

We did some poking around in the boonies.

I had so much fun walking the trees with that thing until, of course, I had to

hit the post.

Yeah, that is the most fun of the spring, so there you are.

So did you find anything when you went exploring?

Had Leanne drill some holes down there. We had some decent numbers, and I think

we were going after at some point. So something good came out of that, I

That's good.

It's getting harder and harder these days. As the price goes up, there's less

and less available.

You've got to find your next best ground.

That's right, because otherwise at some point you're going to run out.

Are you going to weigh some gold then?

Let's find out what we've got.

So far this season.

The trommel has averaged 200 ounces every week.

40, 60, 65, 70, 80, 100, 150, 160,

170, 200, 240, 270, 280, 290, 300,

308 .16.

The biggest gold weigh the Beats have had this season.

Worth close to $600 ,000.

That's not a bad haul for this.

No, that's pretty good.

That's about 600 ,000, huh? Yeah.

I'll take that. For one thermal, that's a good amount.

Yeah. So what's our season total at now?

2 ,317 .68.

So we're only 700 ounces away from Tony's goal.

So you get two more gold ways you're in business.

Like I keep saying, we're very lucky to have this hill while we're waiting for a

license in the Indian.

Done pretty good, I think so.

Life's good.

Having found new ground and had their biggest way of the season, the tide is

finally turning for the King of the Klondike. I mean, we're not quite where

want to be yet.

I think it'll all work out.

Like I always said, don't count your chickens till they're past us. Yeah,

all be there.

Well, you better check up on everybody.

Why don't you go to your office and I'll take care of the house? So if I go to

work... So if I go to work, you're going to go to work?

No, I'm going to cook supper for you.

Oh, okay, that's deal.

We can do that.

I can live without you.

Bye.

Bye.

After

a

week of breakdown...

Rick and the crew sit down to weigh their gold.

Well, it's going to be a light week, I can tell you that.

Well,

you think about what we dealt with, right? I mean, we had to make some major

improvements to the plant.

yeah well and it also comes down to you finally let me fix that thing properly

shut the wash button down right so you know how stubborn i get right like if

that thing's not running we ain't making any gold so and i see how fragile you

were when we were putting it in it was taking too long you could see the smoke

coming out yours there's a string of expletives but he's good to go and most

importantly um it also upped our yard yeah right so you know the end result

is that we probably got it pumped up to 120 yards an hour now Pretty impressive

for that little screen deck. Yeah, it is. I mean, we can make up that lost

You bet. No.

We'll take the hit this week, but overall we're going to see the benefits

it. Hell yeah.

Well, let's weigh it up.

To hit his 1 ,000 -ounce goal, Rick needs at least 67 ounces of gold per

We're going for it.

5, 10, 20, 30.

Well, it's going to be over 40 anyways. There we go.

44 .55.

Only two -thirds of what he needs.

For the time we lost, that's not bad at all. I don't mind saying 44 is kind of

disappointing.

I know it's not one of our best gold ways, and I hate to admit it, but if I

to listen to you, Carl, maybe there'd be more gold in the pan.

With the gold total at 642 ounces, Rick now has just five weeks to hit his

season gold.

and save his mining career.

I just want to thank all you guys for busting ass.

Yeah. And Ben for getting that fusion machine up here.

Awesome. You guys are all the reason right here again why we have gold.

And it's not going to stop. I think with the improvements we made, it's only

going to go up from here. Yeah. Pump it out. Right? Yeah. Well, let's go get

after it. Let's go make a living. Let's get after it. Yep. Do it.

100 miles west at Scribner Creek, the Schnabel crew is ready to weigh up.

Junior! Woo!

Woo! That almost looked like we were going to kiss. Yeah, that was bad.

How'd it go this week? I hear there's a little bit of excitement down there.

Yeah, we found a little leak in the berm there. Well, it wasn't so small,

actually, so...

I was pretty busy trying to get that buttoned up so the berm wall didn't blow

out and lose all our water in the pond, right, for sluice free?

That would have, what, fed back into the cut?

Yeah, all over all of our pay, everything.

It's insane the amount of water in there. Like, it's just puking out of

sides. Well, there's the pond on one side and the river on the other, so...

stuff. Yeah, man.

Meanwhile, trying to find somewhere to dig dry pay to keep the wash plants

going. Yeah, trying to keep two plants going at the same time, right? Did you

lose much solution time?

No. You know, we kept them going, but it was... Touch and go?

Your stomach was turning watching the water levels come up. But, yeah, we got

fixed, so it's just crazy the hell that it makes.

Well, I'm asking if you lost any solution time, because this is a very

interesting week. Two plants, both on the same cut, basically side by side.

We have two pans of gold here.

Well, why don't you bust them out and show us?

First up, Lucifer's second week.

of airstrip gold.

I'm not doing your little counting up thing. No, no, you're good.

We're looking at 172 .15.

We're $327 ,000.

That's pretty decent.

Red, on the other hand,

Red, we're looking at 145 .3.

Worth $276 ,000.

It's a good week.

Yeah, it's a really good week.

317 ounces. 317?

Lucifer and Big Red have pulled in over $600 ,000 worth of gold.

So season total, we just broke 6 ,000 ounces.

6 ,002 ounces. Good.

All right.

That's sweet.

Nearly 2 ,000 ounces more than Parker mined this time last year.

Next time on Gold Rush.

Fred Lewis is out of luck. Hold on, I'm going to get Alex Capel. And out of pay.

Is that everything we got? Right now we are dead in the water. Rick Ness calls

on an old friend.

They sit in their sideways.

If I don't get to our goal this year, I don't see continuing on.

And Parker Schnabel faces his biggest loss of the season.

Grab what you can and get out of there. I don't want you to even consider not

going.