1 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:15,240 With gold prices high, there's a lot of new people 2 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:18,240 and new faces trying to go mining. 3 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:20,776 One of them is this guy 4 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:23,456 who's coming here today. He's flying in. 5 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:26,520 He was very successful in the hard-rock mining world. 6 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:31,120 I think he sold his company for a boatload of cash. 7 00:00:33,480 --> 00:00:35,040 Curious to see what he's doing up here. 8 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:42,000 Hello. 9 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:43,976 - Hey Parker, Greg Gibson. How you doing? - Nice to meet you. 10 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,136 Nice to meet you. I left a message. 11 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:47,616 You don't return your messages, 12 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:48,736 - but that's OK, you're busy. 13 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:51,160 There's a lot going on out here. 14 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:55,456 - How are you finding the Yukon? - The Yukon's fun. 15 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:57,640 Yeah, you got some ground on Bonanza? 16 00:00:57,760 --> 00:00:59,440 Yeah, I have the three hills... 17 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:01,816 Trail Hill, Cripple Hill and Ophir Hill. 18 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,896 And I bought another property farther up Bonanza. 19 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:05,920 Right. 20 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:09,936 - Your background is in hard-rock world, right? - Yeah, yeah. 21 00:01:09,960 --> 00:01:12,720 I'm curious, is part of the reason you're up here 22 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:14,800 that it looks simpler? 23 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:17,920 Yeah, it's just an earth-moving exercise. 24 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:21,536 Like, you put a bucket in the ground, you get gold. 25 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,200 You're not sinking a 7,000-foot shaft. 26 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:26,720 You're not doing what you have to do underground. 27 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:29,720 OK. 28 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:34,040 The reason I'm here, I bought a couple of loads 29 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:35,160 of 8-inch pipe. 30 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:38,560 And no idea where it is, somewhere between 31 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:40,680 - here and Alberta. - Got ya. 32 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:42,120 Could be another week and a half. 33 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:44,896 So, I was hoping you might have some pipe for sale 34 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:46,000 - laying around. - Right. 35 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,280 So my helicopter is gonna take off, so we got to roll. 36 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:55,056 OK, well, we can run up to the plant yard 37 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:56,640 and have a look at what we've got here. 38 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:01,320 You can just hop in with me. 39 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:07,440 - So, I think this is 8-inch. - Bob's your uncle. 40 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:12,760 There's a fair bit here. 41 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:14,936 You want to part with it? 42 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:17,920 Sure. 43 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:20,320 I don't know what it's worth, you know. 44 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:24,160 Yukon at $5,000-an-ounce gold, everything's worth a lot. 45 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:27,016 You know what I like about the Yukon? 46 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,416 Yesterday it was junk, today it's gold. 47 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:31,240 And if you don't, you know, I'll try to get 48 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:32,896 as much money for it, and if you don't take it, 49 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:34,856 I'll sit here for the next decade and then get buried 50 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:36,656 - in a hole. - Grow roots. 51 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:39,480 So what's your de-root price? 52 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:44,480 I would say probably like 500 bucks a stick. 53 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:48,296 - $500 a stick? - And 50-foot, yeah. 54 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:49,560 Are you on glue? 55 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:52,600 It moves water just as good as anything else. 56 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:54,936 25 bucks a stick, and it's out of your way. 57 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:56,200 You don't have to deal with it. 58 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:00,360 Oh, no, I, like... no. I don't... 59 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:03,176 I'm a poor miner, Parker. 60 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:05,616 You're wealthy, you're rich, you're successful. 61 00:03:05,640 --> 00:03:08,840 I'm starting out, man. Tripping over myself. 62 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:11,816 I've done enough research on you. 63 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:13,416 You're all right. 64 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:16,040 OK, how much did you say? 65 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:18,920 You said $50 a stick? 66 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:20,496 No, I said, $500, 67 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:22,480 - which would be 20 grand. - Oh, $500 a stick. 68 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:25,680 I'll do 10 grand for the whole batch. 69 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:30,000 Done. 70 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:32,400 - All right. - Cash. 71 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:34,776 - Perfect. - We done? 72 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:36,576 I'll bring you back to your ride. 73 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:37,600 You're a legend. 74 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:45,880 Thank you. Appreciate it. 75 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,000 No worries. Best of luck. 76 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:51,280 Greg seems good, yeah. 77 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:56,080 I don't know why somebody would want to start placer mining 78 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:57,720 when they were in the hard-rock world. 79 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,440 But yeah, see if he can go find some gold. 80 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:05,639 It's what we're all trying to do here. 81 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:11,280 This season... 82 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:16,280 It's gonna be a good year. I can feel it. 83 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:18,480 Gold goes galactic... 84 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:24,760 $5,000 an ounce. 85 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:26,760 - Whoo! - We're making money! 86 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:28,360 Yeah, buddy! 87 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:30,696 Bringing in new players... 88 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:32,920 Well, go! Start digging! 89 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:37,536 And sparking shootouts. 90 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,200 We just need to not get beat by Tony Beets again. 91 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,000 Let's just try to keep the peace. 92 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:49,240 The old guard... 93 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:55,240 fly dangerously close to the sun... 94 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:58,096 Risk is something that I'm addicted to. 95 00:04:58,120 --> 00:04:59,880 Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! 96 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:03,760 To bank. 97 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:04,896 Yeah! 98 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:06,159 Record hauls... 99 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:09,736 Gonna need a bigger pan. 100 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:12,440 That's wild. 101 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:13,840 In a season... 102 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:15,120 I'm just spitting dollars out 103 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:17,416 - my asshole. - No, no, no. 104 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:19,920 That sends everyone... 105 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:24,440 in new directions. 106 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:26,079 What the hell is he doing here? 107 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:30,296 Stop wasting time. Stop wasting money. 108 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:31,880 Just get the out of here. 109 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:37,120 - Man! - The ability for us to grow 110 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:39,096 depends on us finding more dirt to move. 111 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:40,520 This is awesome. 112 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:42,336 If we can't find it up here in the Yukon, 113 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:43,960 then we have to find that somewhere else. 114 00:06:14,280 --> 00:06:15,520 Let's go, let's go! 115 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:20,816 Get going, get going, let's go! 116 00:06:20,840 --> 00:06:22,936 We gotta get all the trucks out there to get the dirt. 117 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:24,576 If we don't get the dirt, we don't get the gold. 118 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:26,400 If we don't get the gold, we don't get paid. 119 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:01,480 King of the Klondike, Tony Beets, is determined to 120 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:04,880 take his family empire to new heights. 121 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:10,080 Last season, he pulled in a record 11,000 ounces, 122 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,320 $43 million in gold. 123 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:37,239 Tony's invested $20 million across his mining empire. 124 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:52,520 150 miles south of the Arctic Circle, 125 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:55,960 in the heart of the Klondike gold fields, 126 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:59,960 Tony's kingdom is split between two sites. 127 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:04,416 Paradise Hill, the home of the Beets operation for over 128 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:07,880 four decades, where Tony's mining two cuts. 129 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,880 40 miles south, Tony's most profitable ground, 130 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:19,120 Indian River, where the king is opening a massive 60-acre cut, 131 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:24,880 hoping to haul in a record $65 million in gold. 132 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:45,520 For his master plan to work, Tony needs a strong crew. 133 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:48,480 But in the off season, he lost one of 134 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:49,680 his best foremen. 135 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:19,120 Yeah. 136 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:31,680 Hey! 137 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:36,120 I want to be Nick. 138 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:50,256 Born 10 years apart, the Beets brothers grew up on 139 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:52,319 a dairy farm in the Netherlands. 140 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:59,480 In 1981, elder brother Tony and his wife Minnie left 141 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:03,999 their families behind to seek their fortune in the Yukon. 142 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,616 Working for over 40 years, 143 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:15,560 Tony built a multi-million-dollar family empire. 144 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:25,696 If my dad were to croak, 145 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:27,920 I'd be the one to take over. 146 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:32,256 For years, Tony's kids have been jockeying for a piece 147 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:33,336 of the operation. 148 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:34,640 I'm feeling a little shafted. 149 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:38,376 He's kind of running it into the ground. 150 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:42,296 With son Kevin now working ground leased from Tony... 151 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:44,920 We made the right call of getting away from Tony. 152 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:50,200 Mike and Monica are the only two kids working with him. 153 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:56,600 Eventually, I'd like to make it off the bottom of the list. 154 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:01,840 Now, Tony's brother joins the fray. 155 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:06,520 Hey! 156 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:13,080 What's up? 157 00:11:21,560 --> 00:11:22,800 Yeah. 158 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:27,440 Tony's Indian River cut is surrounded by water. 159 00:11:27,560 --> 00:11:31,720 To the south, melt water from thawing ice and snow 160 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:33,960 is pouring down from the mountains. 161 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:38,480 On the north side, the Indian River. 162 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:42,520 And to the east, a vast expanse of melting ice 163 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:44,040 in a frozen pond. 164 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:48,520 Yeah. 165 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:51,560 Yeah. 166 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:55,120 Yeah, yeah. 167 00:11:57,840 --> 00:11:58,880 Yeah. 168 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:02,280 I will. No problem. 169 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:03,400 Will do. 170 00:12:09,680 --> 00:12:13,720 To get rid of all the water and dry out the pay, 171 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:17,376 Tony and Nick need to place the pump's intake hoses 172 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:20,840 in a sump hole below the cut's water table. 173 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:41,896 Tony's first task for Nick is to start breaking through 174 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:45,520 the bedrock floor with the dozer's ripper blade. 175 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:54,320 I worked for Tony before, so I know what it is out here. 176 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:59,720 It's not totally new for me, but then I was an operator 177 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:03,480 and now I'm more of like a foreman. 178 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:09,440 I was up for a new challenge, so that's why I'm here. 179 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:14,016 I am Tony's brother, but that doesn't mean I get 180 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:17,760 away with everything. So, I have to prove myself. 181 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:22,120 But Tony is not always the easiest one to work for. 182 00:13:23,680 --> 00:13:25,720 You want to give this a try, Tony? 183 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:00,680 Yeah, that looks good. 184 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:22,160 Oh, is that right? Oh, well. 185 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:25,880 No, I didn't. No, but that's a good name. 186 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:27,400 Yeah, we'll go for it. 187 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:51,976 Ten miles north 188 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,640 of Tony Beets' Indian River claim... 189 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:57,320 , I've never seen mud like this. 190 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:02,160 The Schnabel crew wage their own war 191 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:03,896 against Mother Nature. 192 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:05,960 Holy. 193 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:07,320 It's treacherous. 194 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:11,120 As the spring thaw turns the gold fields to mud. 195 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:13,080 Muddy soup. 196 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:17,680 I thought last year was big. This year is just insane. 197 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:21,456 More trucks, more people. 198 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:23,920 It's gonna be absolute chaos, dude. 199 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:28,056 I'm excited about the year. 200 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:29,520 I think it's gonna be a good one. 201 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:33,296 Gold price is 5,000 bucks an ounce. 202 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:36,856 We've got a really good crew. We've got good equipment. 203 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:38,640 And we're on good ground. 204 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:44,120 Gold-mining powerhouse Parker Schnabel is staring down 205 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:47,176 the biggest season of his career. 206 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:50,616 Three years ago, he bought Dominion Creek 207 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:54,600 and has already pulled over 17,000 ounces from 208 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:58,640 the historic claim, but he's heading for a cliff. 209 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:03,696 He's got just four years to mine another 60,000 ounces, 210 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:06,880 $300 million worth, he believes, 211 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,160 is still in the ground. 212 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:13,696 To get it all, each year has to be bigger than the last. 213 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:16,760 Dominion, it obviously was a very good purchase, 214 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:19,800 and we still have a lot of mining to do there. 215 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:22,560 The next bite should be good. 216 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:27,040 You know, every bite further into the center of the valley, 217 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:30,216 it's a little bit more of the sort of, you know, 218 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:32,456 main pay, main channel. 219 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:34,440 And we dumped a lot of money into the ground. 220 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:38,440 And, this is the year we're gonna get a lot of it back, 221 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:40,040 and then some, I hope. 222 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:44,656 Last season was Parker's best ever, 223 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:49,376 but rival miner, Tony Beets, outdid him on gold. 224 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:53,576 I'd like to redeem ourselves 225 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:56,760 from last year's loss. 226 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:59,600 They found more gold than us, which is very irritating. 227 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:02,416 Bit of a pride and ego hit for me. 228 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:03,440 I don't like those. 229 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:10,056 To beat Tony and catch up on his seven-year mining plan, 230 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:13,720 Parker's invested over $14 million. 231 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:16,656 Got two brand-new D11s 232 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:18,680 and a bunch of guys that know what they're doing, 233 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:21,760 and we'll have all four wash plants up and going. 234 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:24,776 Because gold price is high, we're gonna sluice everything, 235 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:27,600 even low-grade gravel, because who knows 236 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:29,360 how long these gold prices are gonna last. 237 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:34,240 So, with that many plants running and being on hopefully 238 00:17:34,360 --> 00:17:36,600 a good ground should put us 239 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:39,160 up there in the 13,000-ounce range, I'm hoping, 240 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:41,880 that this year is gonna be good. 241 00:17:43,120 --> 00:17:45,680 Forty miles southeast of Dawson City 242 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:48,160 lies Parker's gold-mining empire. 243 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:52,856 At his main moneymaker, Dominion Creek, 244 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:55,920 he wants to run three wash plants non-stop. 245 00:17:56,920 --> 00:18:00,160 And ten miles south, he'll install another plant 246 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:03,936 at a new cut on leased ground at Ken and Stuart's 247 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:06,520 right next door to Tony Beets. 248 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:12,896 To work through all this ground and bring in 13,000 ounces, 249 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:16,416 for the first time ever, he'll fire up a wash plant 250 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:18,680 every week for the next four weeks. 251 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:24,560 Give her, Princess! 252 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:27,920 To get his first plant running, Parker turns to 253 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:30,400 his trusted lieutenant, Tyson Lee. 254 00:18:34,360 --> 00:18:36,336 - Hi! - What are you doing? 255 00:18:36,360 --> 00:18:37,840 Working on wash plants with Alec. 256 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:41,320 So overall, how is the fleet? 257 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:43,920 It took a beating last year. 258 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:45,816 Yeah, we sluiced a lot of hours. 259 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:48,240 As far as the first wash plant to set up, 260 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:51,040 I think the Airstrip is 261 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:54,280 - the best place to be, with the Golden Goose. - OK. 262 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:56,560 - There's a massive mountain of gravel there... - Yeah. 263 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:59,336 That we need to find out if it has any gold in it or not. 264 00:18:59,360 --> 00:19:01,320 Yeah. 265 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:06,096 Top gravels sit at the top of the pay layer and contain 266 00:19:06,120 --> 00:19:08,376 smaller amounts of gold. 267 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:12,840 Normally, the cost to sluice the material would be too high 268 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:14,440 to make it worth it. 269 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:18,176 But with gold at $5,000 an ounce, 270 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:22,480 just 100 ounces could net half a million dollars, 271 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,440 so Parker is rolling the dice. 272 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:28,200 When are you gonna have us making money? 273 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:31,720 Or losing less. 274 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:34,000 - When do you want to be? - End of the week. 275 00:19:34,120 --> 00:19:35,120 OK. 276 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:39,296 - All right, thanks guys. - Thank you. 277 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:40,560 - Take care. - Good to see ya. 278 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:42,136 - See ya man. - Yeah. 279 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:45,600 Tyson needs to get out of this yard and go set wash plants up. 280 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:47,720 We need to get the ATMs back in action. 281 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:55,456 Parker wants a wash plant running in a week's time, 282 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:57,856 so I've got to get out of this wash plant yard, 283 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:00,056 get to the Airstrip cut, and get Goose moved. 284 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:02,456 Tony beat us last year, and the way how he did that 285 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:04,160 is by firing up early, so 286 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:06,960 let's see if we can beat him this year. 287 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:08,840 We've definitely got our work cut out for us. 288 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:13,560 10 miles south... 289 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:17,440 - Welcome back. - Thanks, buddy. 290 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:19,240 Cold down here. 291 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:22,816 Parker's foreman, Mitch Blaschke, 292 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:25,800 runs his operation on Indian River. 293 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:27,416 So what's the plan for the year, buddy? 294 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:28,896 Gold prices are high? 295 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:31,920 Gold prices are high, and we just need to not get 296 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:34,280 - beat by Tony Beets again. - All right. 297 00:20:37,120 --> 00:20:39,120 There's a lot of ground. She's a big pit. 298 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:42,240 It's all pretty good looking gravel in there. 299 00:20:44,120 --> 00:20:46,840 You know, like I look at that and I'm like, "Oh yeah." 300 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,416 As far as the lay of the land, I think this is probably going 301 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:54,976 to be one of the toughest cuts we've ever done. 302 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:56,000 Yeah, it's a brutal one. 303 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:02,040 Last season, Mitch started stripping the largest cut. 304 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:04,680 Parker's ever mined at Ken and Stuart's. 305 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,880 The 30-acre cut has high benches 306 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:13,736 and deep troughs with overburden in some areas 307 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:17,696 20 feet deep, in others, 50, 308 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:20,216 making it hard to follow the pay layer 309 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:21,680 and find the gold. 310 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:26,456 To make matters worse, the big thaw has flooded 311 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:30,000 a large section of the cut, covering the pay dirt 312 00:21:30,120 --> 00:21:33,320 with six and a half million gallons of water. 313 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:37,440 We're just getting thrown literally right into 314 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:38,600 - the deep end. - Oh, yeah. 315 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,160 - Have you named it yet? - The Quagmire Cut. 316 00:21:47,120 --> 00:21:49,496 You know, identifying your problems is what, 317 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:52,896 the first stage of solving them or some bull? 318 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,376 Admitting you have a problem, right? 319 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:56,560 We definitely have a problem. 320 00:21:57,800 --> 00:21:58,800 All right, bye. 321 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:07,416 It's really nice to be back in the 550 here. 322 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:10,096 I had a great winter, spent a bunch of time 323 00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:13,680 with my wife and kids and, you know, now we're back at it. 324 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:18,120 I want to just focus on getting our ditches in, 325 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:19,280 getting rid of this water. 326 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,120 This is a huge cut. 327 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:25,960 Somehow it seems like I must have got the short straw here. 328 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:30,936 But I kind of take that as a compliment that Parker 329 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:32,456 wants me to come down here and be the one 330 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:34,520 to take on this challenge. 331 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:40,640 I'm gonna do everything I can to get this thing dried out 332 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:42,200 and get some gold cranked out of it. 333 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:03,016 100 miles east in the Keno Mountains, 334 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:06,960 mine boss Rick Ness is nowhere to be seen. 335 00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:12,856 It's a lot of stress and anxiety and what-ifs 336 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:13,960 and questions right now. 337 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,720 Mine managers Heather and Jason Folster 338 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:19,880 are the only ones on site. 339 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:25,680 We don't have a crew and haven't heard from Rick. 340 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:30,936 We definitely need Rick here with some sort of plan. 341 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,960 But in the meantime, Jason and I'll keep just doing 342 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:35,600 what we do every year in opening camp. 343 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,200 How are you guys doing? 344 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:43,880 Good. 345 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,696 Good. We've been here a week now. 346 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:50,080 - Camp is slightly opened. - Has anybody heard from Rick? 347 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:51,856 I mean, I've been trying to call him, and I haven't been 348 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,160 getting any answers or replies to text messages. 349 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:57,080 Just been a ghost town. 350 00:24:02,360 --> 00:24:04,136 - Same. - I mean, I... I... 351 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:06,616 We've been texting this week. 352 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,560 - OK. - So... 353 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:13,000 From what he said, he's full-on board for mining. 354 00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:16,176 He has all intentions of doing that 355 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,056 and intentions of being there, so... 356 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,120 So, who's coming? 357 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:27,520 That's very fair. 358 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:29,496 We look to Rick for leadership. 359 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:31,536 I need Rick to be present. 360 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:33,496 I don't want to go up there 361 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:35,360 until we know what the hell's going on. 362 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:39,000 I don't know, man. It's going to get going. 363 00:24:39,120 --> 00:24:40,416 I imagine it's gonna get going. 364 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:42,440 It's a little bit later this year, I get it. 365 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:50,840 I guess I won't count him out until, you know, can officially 366 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,080 count him out. You know what I mean? 367 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,920 - For this year. - I do care about Rick. 368 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:57,816 He's a good friend to all of us, and I would really do 369 00:24:57,840 --> 00:24:59,096 anything for him. 370 00:24:59,120 --> 00:25:01,760 But there's also a point to where it's tough for me to want 371 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,320 to come up there and see everything succeed 372 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:06,576 and fight for it when I don't see the guy 373 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,120 that owns it want to fight for it all the time. 374 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,600 Yeah. That's fair. 375 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,360 All right, well it was good to see you guys. 376 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:16,936 - Yes. - Sounds good. 377 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:18,680 And I do hope we get to see all you guys. 378 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:25,816 OK, OK. 379 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,056 Yeah, stay in touch, Jason. Let us know. 380 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:29,496 - All right, goodnight. - OK. 381 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:30,776 - Goodnight, everyone. - See you guys. 382 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:32,056 - Take care. - Good night. 383 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,480 - Good to hear from you guys. - It was good seeing everyone. 384 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,440 I'd like to think that we still have hope, 385 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:44,000 but at a certain point, we are gonna have to pull the pin 386 00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:46,360 and take some other offer. 387 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:47,936 We'll wait it out till the snow is gone, 388 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,976 and if he still hasn't shown up, I think we're gonna have to 389 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:52,560 probably hook up and pull out. 390 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:10,520 We're kicking this season off full steam here. 391 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:16,736 At Ken and Stuart's, Mitch Blaschke is on a mission 392 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:20,800 to drain six and a half million gallons of melt water from 393 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:22,560 the flooded Quagmire Cut. 394 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:27,816 So, we got to start somewhere, and step one is getting 395 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:28,840 this place dried out. 396 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:32,840 Brennan, how's it going over there, buddy? 397 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:36,480 Going good, my man. 398 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:40,816 To prep the cut for sluicing, Parker's top dirt mover, 399 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:45,960 Brennan Ruault, rips sections of exposed but frozen pay, 400 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,096 breaking it up so it thaws quickly. 401 00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:51,696 Buddy, it's nice to have you back down here at Ken's. 402 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:55,360 We got a lot to do this season. This cut's going to be tough. 403 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:56,760 Oh, man, I know, right? 404 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:58,840 Like, there's a million obstacles this year. 405 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,000 Yeah, I think that's why Parker wanted you down here. 406 00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:04,176 So, there was just, like, 407 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,280 make sure we have absolutely every obstacle. 408 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:09,656 Yeah. 409 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,560 Well, thank you. I try real hard at that. 410 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:22,160 What's up, dude? 411 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:25,976 Bosco! 412 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:27,776 Is he so pumped to be back up here? 413 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:29,320 He seems pretty excited. 414 00:27:30,360 --> 00:27:31,360 That's great. 415 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:34,640 How are things going? 416 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:37,640 It's been interesting. 417 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:39,880 We've got this cut dewatering. 418 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,336 Has it pulled that down a fair bit? 419 00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:42,816 Yeah, quite a bit. 420 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:45,040 It's definitely been a challenge here, 421 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,816 but my biggest concern right now is just our water situation 422 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:49,320 when it comes to sluicing. 423 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,656 And, you know, Tony's working on trying to mine over there. 424 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:53,896 The first thing everybody wants to do is get rid of water. 425 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,120 And, you know, our ponds are right against 426 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:57,400 his property line. 427 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:00,160 So hopefully he doesn't get rid of our water in the process. 428 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:04,600 Water in a cut makes digging pay difficult. 429 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,616 But when it's time to sluice, Mitch will need millions of 430 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,640 gallons of water from a holding pond. 431 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:13,000 Is he in there right now? 432 00:28:13,120 --> 00:28:14,840 They're working their way along that side. 433 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,240 - Got ya. - Yeah. 434 00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:19,360 We're gonna lose all our water if he's dewatering. 435 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:22,136 What's Tony always say? 436 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:23,736 Like, "I come first, I come once more", 437 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:25,736 - "it's still not your turn?" - Yeah. 438 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,120 He's gonna dewater that and us. 439 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:34,776 Parker's Quagmire cut sits at the top of the valley where it 440 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:38,840 naturally drains into Tony's Indian River claims. 441 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:42,576 The problem is Parker's wash plant's holding ponds 442 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,456 sit directly alongside the boundary 443 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,480 of Tony's Midas cut that he's now draining. 444 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:54,240 If Tony drains his cut rapidly, water from Parker's ponds will 445 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:58,336 drain with it, leaving Mitch with no water to sluice with 446 00:28:58,360 --> 00:28:59,480 in the future. 447 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,136 OK, what do you think we need to do? 448 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:05,936 I don't know. 449 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,496 I can go talk to him about that. 450 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:10,720 I'll probably go do that right now, he's probably there. 451 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:13,600 - All right, I'll let you know what Tony says. - OK. 452 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:16,600 All righty. 453 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,320 This is like the perfect case 454 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:25,456 of what you don't want to happen. 455 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,216 You do not want to be in a circumstance where 456 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,480 you've mined right up to your property line, 457 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:33,056 left no virgin edge between you and your neighbor, 458 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:37,096 and then you're using their virgin wall 459 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,760 as a pond wall, and then they start 460 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:42,480 mining that ground and want to dewater 461 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,200 because they just take your pond out. 462 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,216 And they have every right to do so, and they should do it, 463 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:49,816 and every time I've been in that circumstance, 464 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:51,080 I've done it. 465 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,840 So I'm just gonna go have a coffee with Tony, 466 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:57,056 see what kind of mood he's in, see if I can get a slight idea 467 00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:58,360 of what's going on with... 468 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:03,640 our sort of shared claim lines. 469 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:09,696 Got gold underneath the ground. 470 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:14,160 When 18-year-old Parker set out to conquer the Klondike 471 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,336 more than a decade ago... 472 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:18,480 I'm looking for the best dirt not just any old dirt 473 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,600 under mentor Tony Beets... 474 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:29,200 he proved his mettle... 475 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,040 Thanks, Tony. 476 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,856 Built his operation from the ground up... 477 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:37,496 This isn't a little mom-and-pop show 478 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:38,736 anymore, you know? 479 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:40,400 And got a ton of gold. 480 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:45,920 I can't afford to pay 25%, 30% royalty. 481 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,600 I just can't keep mining under Tony. 482 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:52,616 I've got to keep looking for ground. 483 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,800 But as Parker stepped out from Tony's shadow... 484 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:57,040 You got a deal. 485 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,040 This maybe pick a big old battle with Tony Beets. 486 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,800 His old mentor became his rival. 487 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,736 I'm on a lease with Ken and Stuart on the ground 488 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:09,880 right next to you. 489 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,576 You've done a pretty good job of us over, 490 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:17,800 is what I'm saying. 491 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:40,240 Is this Tony's desk? 492 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:56,360 How are ya? 493 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:01,640 Nothing. 494 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,440 Figured I'd come check in, see how the neighbors doing. 495 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:11,560 How's he doing? 496 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:22,576 Yeah. 497 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:24,296 Big pit. 498 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:25,920 Yeah, it's a big pit. 499 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:28,736 We're not gonna do a repeat of last year. 500 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:30,200 You took the throne. 501 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,400 I think we've had the top gold total for like 502 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:33,680 12 years or something. 503 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:40,680 I was waiting to set a goal until 504 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:45,240 I heard what yours was, so, mine's 13,005 ounces. 505 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,056 Is this gonna work out with us being 506 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:51,120 that close to neighbors? 507 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,320 It's always worked out so well in the past, Tony. 508 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:05,040 The biggest problem I see is, you know, you have a pit 509 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,760 next to a pond that we need for sluicing. 510 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,016 Yeah, no, and I'd like to figure out a way to 511 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:19,600 make it work if we can. 512 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,200 Let's just try to keep the peace... 513 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:37,400 if possible. 514 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:06,720 It's a recipe for disaster. It's a nightmare. 515 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:38,920 Hi Mitch! 516 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:41,960 - Was it sketchy? - Yeah, we're screwed. 517 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:45,200 At the Quagmire Cut, Parker's dealing with 518 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:50,800 the fallout of being denied a favor from rival Tony Beets. 519 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:52,776 Sorry that this happened this way. 520 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:54,320 - It's a show. - It's what it is. 521 00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:57,200 What do you think we need to do? 522 00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,216 Your guess is as good as mine. Just figure it out. 523 00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:01,400 OK. 524 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:08,920 Pretty simple. 525 00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:12,800 No water, no sluicing, no sluicing, no gold. 526 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:14,120 We got to fix that in a hurry. 527 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:18,616 Hey, Brennan. Hey, park that thing, buddy. 528 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:19,640 OK. 529 00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,616 - Everything all right? - Not really. 530 00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:26,520 - We got to take a look at something here. - OK. 531 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,056 - We need a pond to sluice into, and this is it. - Gotcha. 532 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,680 And Tony's trying to get that cut opened up and dry that up 533 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:36,120 as fast as they can. 534 00:35:36,240 --> 00:35:40,256 But the issue is there's nothing separating our water 535 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:41,320 from Tony's property line. 536 00:35:42,720 --> 00:35:47,200 What I'm thinking here is there's been many great walls 537 00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:49,776 built to separate empires. 538 00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:53,360 We need something to separate our pond from Tony's side. 539 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:56,760 We need to build the Great Wall of Parker. 540 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,656 , that's a long stretch of build a wall? 541 00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:03,080 Yeah. We got to build something 542 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,280 there quick or we're not gonna have a pond to sluice. 543 00:36:07,240 --> 00:36:09,520 I'd say we best get at it cause he's not stopping 544 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:12,056 - over there. - Let's build a wall, man. 545 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:15,136 - Whoo! - Yeah! 546 00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:18,176 To build the Great Wall of Parker, 547 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,976 Mitch will truck 15,000 tons of overburden 548 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,176 from the Quagmire Cut, 549 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:28,760 half a mile to his side of the boundary line with Tony. 550 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:34,776 Then, dump load after load to build a 1,500-foot-long wall 551 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,056 to protect their ponds. 552 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,480 And do it all before Tony 553 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,640 drains their only water source for sluicing. 554 00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:47,080 - Go, go, go, go, go. - Tick tock, tick tock. 555 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:48,680 The clock is ticking here. 556 00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:52,696 Right now, it's a race. 557 00:36:52,720 --> 00:36:56,440 We are going up against an army of trucks over on Tony's side. 558 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:02,016 With Tony working right next to us, the chances of our pond 559 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:03,560 disappearing is very high. 560 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:12,040 Parker made it very clear that it's my responsibility here. 561 00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:13,936 And at the end of the day, if I don't have any water, 562 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,040 I'm gonna be the one down here with a big problem. 563 00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:39,856 Across the border from Parker's, 564 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:43,616 despite Tony's efforts to drain the massive Midas cut, 565 00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:48,080 water is still flooding in, threatening his plan to get on 566 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,040 the gold by the end of the week. 567 00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:02,296 The king is counting on brother Nick to get the cut 568 00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:04,816 dry enough to dig down to pay. 569 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,200 We want to start sluicing 570 00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:11,440 pretty soon, but there's too much water in there. 571 00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:15,880 I'm not sure where it comes from. 572 00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:19,456 We can't have any leakage water 573 00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:21,856 from outside into the cut. 574 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:27,456 If we do, then we might as well forget about sluicing in weeks. 575 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:30,720 We might as well tell Parker he won. 576 00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:32,880 Tony, he ain't gonna be happy. 577 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:48,920 What the? 578 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:53,440 That doesn't look good at all. 579 00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:05,456 You know, there is a lot of water coming through here. 580 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:09,960 But as soon as this is melting, everything from there 581 00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:13,480 floods the cut. I'll better build the dike up. 582 00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:16,040 I'll fix this. 583 00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:22,016 Upstream of the Midas Cut, a giant frozen pond 584 00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:26,320 is melting fast, causing the banks to erode, 585 00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,480 allowing water to leak into the cut. 586 00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,120 Nick's plan? Build a dike 587 00:39:32,240 --> 00:39:35,936 reinforcing the pond wall before millions of gallons 588 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:40,400 of melting ice water completely drown the cut, 589 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:44,200 ending Tony's mission to sluice by the end of the week. 590 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,960 Let's go. 591 00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:53,256 First, Nick needs to haul a 50-ton excavator to the pond. 592 00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:55,656 Hi, Len. 593 00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,016 I'm going to load up this excavator. 594 00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:00,040 While I load it up, can you give me 595 00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:01,880 directions to put it on there? 596 00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:07,960 No, no, no, no. 597 00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:09,600 Living on the edge there, Len. 598 00:40:15,240 --> 00:40:17,720 So we'll drive it on there from the back. 599 00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:33,880 Hey-oh! 600 00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:40,360 Back 'em up a little bit. 601 00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:43,560 Yeah, there we go. 602 00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:46,040 All right, keep on going. 603 00:40:49,720 --> 00:40:50,760 There you go. 604 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,200 Yeah, keep on going, keep on going, it's good. 605 00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,360 Lift up a little, oh yeah. 606 00:41:06,720 --> 00:41:08,039 Whoa! 607 00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,120 Yeah, keep on going, keep on going, it's good. 608 00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:22,360 Whoa! 609 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:43,296 I thought it was OK, but it's a little bit too wide 610 00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:44,640 for this low bed, I guess. 611 00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:57,000 Nick needs to get the excavator upstream to build 612 00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:59,600 a dike before melting ice water 613 00:41:59,720 --> 00:42:03,800 completely drowns Tony's Midas cut. 614 00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:07,800 If you park that close to the bank, and I'll drive around 615 00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:09,400 - there crosswise. - Yeah. 616 00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:11,376 And then we'll drive over there, and we'll do the same 617 00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:13,440 thing over there. It might be a lot safer, right? 618 00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:23,480 So it was a little bit of a miscalculation, I guess. 619 00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:27,720 I'm a little bit in a hurry. Then you do like that. 620 00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:33,240 Good! 621 00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:54,696 Yeah, keep on coming, keep on going. 622 00:42:54,720 --> 00:42:56,080 Keep on going. 623 00:42:58,080 --> 00:42:59,896 - How's that? - Beautiful! 624 00:42:59,920 --> 00:43:01,320 - Better? Yeah. - Better, yeah! 625 00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:02,776 Safer. 626 00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:04,216 You should have done that right away! 627 00:43:04,240 --> 00:43:06,640 Yeah, well, yeah, I know, you're right! 628 00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:12,960 Well, we better get over there. 629 00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:15,520 Yeah. 630 00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,240 How does that look, Len? Is that OK? 631 00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:23,760 Perfect. 632 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:26,240 This was a lesson. 633 00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:30,736 I should have been smarter, so I have to smarten up so that 634 00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:32,800 this will not happen again. 635 00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:37,600 These kind of moments that makes you keep alive 636 00:43:37,720 --> 00:43:39,199 a little bit. 637 00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:06,480 Good, we got her! 638 00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:12,120 I better hurry up. 639 00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:20,080 Just get that ice out of here and build my dike. 640 00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,080 A couple more scoops of dirt in there. 641 00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:45,296 That looks good. 642 00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:48,760 That's to keep the ice and the water behind that dike. 643 00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:54,856 Very happy how this turned out. 644 00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:56,480 Could have been worse in many ways. 645 00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:02,800 Oh, there is my brother. 646 00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:10,856 Not too bad. Not too bad. 647 00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:13,520 I had a little bit of a drop. 648 00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:16,576 Yeah, there was a lot of water there at that glacier, 649 00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:19,496 so I had to fix up the dike, but otherwise it would have 650 00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:21,176 been go all towards the cut. 651 00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:24,800 And then I went for the 349, 652 00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,720 and I put it on a low boy and I slid off. 653 00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:35,880 Oh, that was OK. That was OK. 654 00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:37,856 Too much in a hurry and I up, I guess. 655 00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:40,160 So, but, no. Nobody hurt. 656 00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:44,880 There you go. 657 00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:09,960 250 miles away... 658 00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:15,880 659 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:17,280 Right on cue, there's the yawns. 660 00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:21,176 Eight-year mine boss Rick Ness 661 00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:23,120 and best friend Zee Zaremba 662 00:46:23,240 --> 00:46:26,576 are on the last leg of a 3,200-mile journey 663 00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:28,920 from Arizona to Dawson City. 664 00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:31,560 I'm just worried. 665 00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:33,296 This year you seemed a little bit more distant 666 00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:36,280 in the off-season, so it's kind of how I knew something was up. 667 00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:39,000 It was definitely worrisome. 668 00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:45,520 Rick finished his season with a mighty $7 million in gold. 669 00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:49,520 But over winter, he's not spoken to his crew, 670 00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:52,840 leaving his plans for this year up in the air. 671 00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:57,200 I mean, dude, it's obvious. 672 00:46:57,320 --> 00:47:00,296 I know this off-season was bad, but yeah. 673 00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:01,416 Dude, anything you need. 674 00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:03,216 It's not that hard to ask for help, man. 675 00:47:03,240 --> 00:47:05,680 - Like, honestly. - Yeah, it's just, 676 00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:08,576 I don't know what's so difficult for it... 677 00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:11,256 for me, you know? I just... 678 00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:12,480 I have no idea where to start. 679 00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:17,640 Oh, I love that sound. Love it! 680 00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:18,840 Rick Ness... 681 00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:21,896 - Oh, baby! - Is a force of nature... 682 00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:24,256 - How many loads are you at? - 70. 683 00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:25,536 A quick study. 684 00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:26,960 Nice job. 685 00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:28,376 Wow. Keep doing your thing. 686 00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:29,600 You got it. 687 00:47:29,720 --> 00:47:32,400 He worked with Parker for six years. 688 00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:35,400 - Whoo! Back in business. - Good job, man. 689 00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:39,536 Pulling in huge amounts of gold. 690 00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:41,720 Shooter! 691 00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:46,400 When he struck off on his own... 692 00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:48,080 So they call this Duncan Creek. 693 00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:51,096 I've been calling it the Rally Valley. 694 00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:54,280 Is roller coaster ride as a mine boss began. 695 00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:56,936 Holy! 696 00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:59,096 We are making money. 697 00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:00,520 With highs... 698 00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:02,080 That represents victory right there. 699 00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:04,136 - Yeah. - I don't know how to top it. 700 00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:05,760 I mean, I will. I'll top it next year. 701 00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:06,920 And lows. 702 00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:09,840 I can't guarantee you'll have the license next year. 703 00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,040 Without the water license, you can't mine. 704 00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:16,280 And a missed season. 705 00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:17,400 Why aren't you mining? 706 00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:20,800 I don't know, man. It's just depression, and I... 707 00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:25,256 That's tough for me to accept, 708 00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:26,376 because I didn't grow up like that. 709 00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:29,720 Last year, despite a good haul... 710 00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:32,336 We're just going to go big. We've got to blow it wide open. 711 00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:33,736 We've got a lot on the line here. 712 00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:36,976 The job weighed heavily on Rick. 713 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,720 This whole endeavor could be the thing that... 714 00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:44,136 makes my entire life great, 715 00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:45,760 or it could be the thing that ruins it. 716 00:48:47,240 --> 00:48:50,416 Leaving his crew doubting his leadership. 717 00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:51,976 I don't know what you guys think about it, 718 00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:53,000 but would you come back? 719 00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:56,480 I'm gonna be honest, man. I'm in limbo. 720 00:48:59,720 --> 00:49:02,496 Are you good this year? Like are you ready to do this? 721 00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:04,096 Like get into it? 722 00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:05,960 I can tell you I don't feel good. 723 00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:07,376 I can't concentrate. 724 00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:09,496 I can't pay attention to anything. 725 00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:11,240 I can't stay awake. 726 00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:15,440 This winter it got scary. It really did. 727 00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:17,336 I started, 728 00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:19,960 - you know, I started sleepwalking. - Yeah. 729 00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:21,936 I mean, like, I woke up, you know, on the floor of 730 00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:24,480 my bathroom three times, you know, 731 00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:26,680 bouncing my head off the toilet. 732 00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:29,040 Somehow I walked in there and just fell and, 733 00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:30,840 you know, split my nose open, 734 00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:32,600 split my head open one time and just... 735 00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:36,160 - , what's next? - What are you thinking? 736 00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:38,136 Just all the pressure in the off-season? 737 00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:40,056 It was just getting to you? 738 00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:43,200 Yeah, stress, stuff like that. Sorry. 739 00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:45,000 Can't just... 740 00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,416 Now I'm not... I can't stay awake. 741 00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:02,240 I fell asleep standing up a couple times this morning. 742 00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:06,240 Man, ain't no joke anymore. 743 00:50:26,240 --> 00:50:27,400 We've gotten lucky so far, 744 00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:29,136 like, eventually that luck's gonna run out. 745 00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:31,640 You're gonna hit your head on something that might do 746 00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:33,840 something major, major. 747 00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:40,320 Honestly, I think you should go get checked out. 748 00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:44,480 I haven't been to a doctor in over a decade. 749 00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:47,056 I avoid it at all costs. 750 00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:49,696 But I know I can't be like this. 751 00:50:49,720 --> 00:50:50,936 No, no. 752 00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:53,120 It's just I don't understand what the hell is going on. 753 00:50:53,240 --> 00:50:54,600 I ain't the same person anymore. 754 00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:58,800 I just can't piece it together. 755 00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:29,040 It's been a long time since I've been to a doctor. 756 00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:30,416 I don't really enjoy it. 757 00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:31,800 My blood pressure always goes up. 758 00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:33,160 I start sweating. 759 00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:35,560 - It's a natural thing, I think, actually. - Yeah. 760 00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:37,816 Worried about Rick's health, 761 00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:41,400 Zee has persuaded him to seek medical help. 762 00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:44,336 I'm a little nervous today, though. 763 00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:45,376 What if there is something wrong? 764 00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:47,256 I've got to deal with it right away. 765 00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:48,560 That's another thing, you know? 766 00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:52,680 Yeah, but it's better to find out earlier than later, so... 767 00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:54,080 See what they say. 768 00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:59,160 All right. No use talking about it. Might as well do it. 769 00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:00,536 All right. Sounds good. 770 00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:01,560 Thanks, buddy. 771 00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:04,536 It's tough. 772 00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:06,776 With him having his whole life invested in this, 773 00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:08,336 this is kind of one of those years 774 00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:09,640 where if it doesn't work out, 775 00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:11,200 it might take everything from him. 776 00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:25,360 You look taller. What'd they do in there? 777 00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:29,856 I tell you, I feel a lot better now that I went in there. 778 00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:30,920 - Yeah? - Surprising. 779 00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:32,736 Yeah, just unloaded everything that was wrong with me. 780 00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:33,880 I've never really done that. 781 00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:37,480 Is he in shock in there right now? 782 00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:38,976 Is he in shock in there? 783 00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:40,576 Yeah, he's in there shaking in the corner. 784 00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:43,200 - He's going to talk to a doctor himself now. - Yeah. 785 00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:44,320 Oh, man. 786 00:52:45,720 --> 00:52:47,416 So my heart's good, my lungs are good, 787 00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:49,656 blood pressure's good, all that kind of stuff, 788 00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:51,120 so that's a good sign. 789 00:52:51,240 --> 00:52:54,496 But he thinks it might be sleep apnea. 790 00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:56,416 The sleep apnea's 791 00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:57,600 - kicking my ass. - OK. 792 00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:01,936 I think he's pretty convinced that the sleep apnea's causing 793 00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:03,256 a lot of these problems. 794 00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:05,920 Seems weird to me, but I guess that's why. 795 00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:07,696 If you don't get good sleep, you... 796 00:53:07,720 --> 00:53:10,440 everything up. But I'm not unfixable. 797 00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:14,160 Well, that's good. Not unfixable. 798 00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:20,000 Rick's given me permission to chat about his condition. 799 00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:22,576 Rick's not sleeping very well at all. 800 00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:27,656 He struggles most nights and he's tired through the day. 801 00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:30,736 You know, there's lots of things that could cause that, 802 00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:33,960 but given the assessment that we've done for Rick, 803 00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:36,960 it seems like this might be sleep apnea. 804 00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:42,800 Sleep apnea is a condition that affects your ability to breathe 805 00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:44,360 while you're sleeping. 806 00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:45,480 Throughout the night, 807 00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:47,176 you have periods where you stop breathing. 808 00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:49,336 So you don't sleep well, you don't rest. 809 00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:53,680 It can cause longer-term health problems, increased risk of 810 00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:59,616 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, dementia. 811 00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:01,520 So, I'm recommending that Rick 812 00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:03,360 goes for an overnight sleep study. 813 00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:07,320 I should have taken care of this a long time ago, 814 00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:10,600 but instead, I was stubborn and I fought it and it just, 815 00:54:10,720 --> 00:54:12,160 it did me no good. 816 00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:15,160 And I'm sitting here feeling pretty stupid, 817 00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:18,536 if I'm being honest. I gotta get my ass going. 818 00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:20,936 No matter when I was supposed to take care of this, I take care of it now. 819 00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:21,976 And now I can only move forward 820 00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:23,640 and try to make something of it. 821 00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:25,656 I'd say we're ready to go mining. 822 00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:27,656 - Let's get in the truck and get going. - All right. 823 00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:29,416 Dani, you gotta give me some room here. 824 00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:31,320 - Come on, let's go, man. - Dani, you driving? 825 00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:34,160 She's like, "I just want to get to camp." 826 00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:57,016 Well, you know what? 827 00:54:57,040 --> 00:54:58,880 There's different degrees of success. 828 00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:00,800 I've had some success to a degree, 829 00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:03,600 but you can always be more successful. 830 00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:11,720 Hard-rock gold miner Greg Gibson 831 00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:14,936 is buying up claims all over the Klondike, 832 00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:17,936 driven by the rocketing gold price. 833 00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:20,760 Gold's at an all-time high, and I can certainly see it 834 00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:22,960 going past 7,000 bucks. 835 00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:28,536 It's not my first barbecue in mining, but I burnt a few 836 00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:29,600 steaks along the way. 837 00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:33,200 I started underground drilling. 838 00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:35,776 That's pretty much how you used to start in hard rock. 839 00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:38,696 You just got thrown into a hole and away you went. 840 00:55:38,720 --> 00:55:42,816 From underground driller, Greg worked his way up in 841 00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:47,760 the hard-rock business, spending 43 years mining gold 842 00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:52,000 all around the world, becoming CEO of a company that 843 00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:56,160 sold in 2012 for over half a billion dollars. 844 00:55:57,760 --> 00:55:58,976 You know what? 845 00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:02,176 I let the players play. I don't micromanage. 846 00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:06,016 When I ask for something, I want it to be done. 847 00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:07,776 You know, I just got a grizzly. 848 00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:09,280 You skin it, and I'll go get another. 849 00:56:11,240 --> 00:56:15,040 Now he's moving into the placer mining business, 850 00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,536 looking to make another fortune. 851 00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:20,880 The Yukon, last frontier, bit of an adventure. 852 00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:23,760 You just look at this, you look at the history in 853 00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:27,720 the area, and you go, wow, you know, the thousands of 854 00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:29,736 ounces that have been pulled out of here, 855 00:56:29,760 --> 00:56:31,560 and it's the wild, wild west. 856 00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:35,976 And my guys and myself, we tend to work better in 857 00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:37,200 a wild-west environment. 858 00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:43,576 Greg has bought the historic Trail Hill claim 859 00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:46,640 on Bonanza Creek, the epicenter of the original 860 00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:49,680 1896 Klondike Gold Rush. 861 00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:54,560 Mined for over a century, Bonanza has delivered half of 862 00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:56,520 all the gold found in the Klondike. 863 00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:02,480 At today's prices, worth a staggering $35 billion. 864 00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:07,040 And Greg's gambling the old-timers 865 00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:08,720 didn't find it all. 866 00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:21,440 Trail Hill. 867 00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:27,400 Wow. 868 00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:32,936 There's an awful pile of yards in there that could be 869 00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:34,240 big scale. We'll see. 870 00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:37,776 To help bring in the gold, 871 00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:39,960 he's counting on some local knowledge. 872 00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:43,776 I don't know where the this placer guy is. 873 00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:46,120 I come from Ontario and I'm here before him. 874 00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:49,200 Really? 875 00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:54,400 I can see where he and I just might not get along already. 876 00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:14,360 Buzz Legault, you're late on the first day. 877 00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:34,880 Buzz Legault, you're late on the first day. 878 00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:38,520 Good to meet you. How are you doing? 879 00:58:40,040 --> 00:58:41,040 Good, good. 880 00:58:42,320 --> 00:58:45,760 In search of a foreman, Greg Gibson has turned to 881 00:58:45,880 --> 00:58:48,040 journeyman Buzz Legault. 882 00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:49,560 What do you figure it's gonna take? 883 00:58:55,320 --> 00:58:59,256 Buzz has mined with many mine bosses in the Yukon, 884 00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:02,256 and Greg is banking on him having the knowledge 885 00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:03,520 to make him millions. 886 00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:08,480 You seem to be a bit overwhelmed looking at that. 887 00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:23,576 Within the 150-foot cliffs of Trail Hill lies some of 888 00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:26,640 the richest white channel pay dirt in the Klondike. 889 00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:30,280 You're gonna have a task ahead of you. 890 00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:36,056 We got you two 470s, two 350s, we got you a D8, 891 00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:37,616 couple of loaders. 892 00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:40,200 We got a brand-new Macon 400 coming. 893 00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:44,960 I think once you meet Tyler and Neil, 894 00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:49,176 Neil is very strong mechanically, 895 00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:50,960 Tyler's more technical. 896 00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:53,160 They've been with me a long time. 897 00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:56,736 I just want a real systematical approach as to how we go in 898 00:59:56,760 --> 00:59:58,176 here because we're relying on you. 899 00:59:58,200 --> 01:00:00,976 We haven't dug in this before. 900 01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:02,976 You know we're dealing with rocks falling on our heads 901 01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:04,520 here, we're dealing with sand sloughs. 902 01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:18,136 Just a sec, you say, so it's new to you, like, 903 01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:19,160 what's new to you? 904 01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:24,520 OK, the claim, not the material. 905 01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:27,360 OK. 906 01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:28,720 I want to be... 907 01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:32,800 full on sluicing, flat out like a lizard drinking 908 01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:33,920 by the 1st of June. 909 01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:37,800 But I'm in the gold mining business, and I want to see 910 01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:39,920 gold, and I want to see lots of it. 911 01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:41,240 All right? 912 01:00:41,360 --> 01:00:43,816 Because at the end of the day, money does have to come back. 913 01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:45,056 Right? 914 01:00:45,080 --> 01:00:47,136 I want to come out of here with as many bags of cash 915 01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:49,320 as I can come out of here with. Right? 916 01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:52,520 And if I'm making it, you're making it. 917 01:00:54,120 --> 01:00:58,576 I've given you an opportunity, man, so make gold. 918 01:00:58,600 --> 01:01:00,520 Right? It's all about the gold. 919 01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:07,680 Let's go get her, boy. 920 01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:14,280 Buzz seems pretty laid-back. 921 01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:18,920 I think he's going to be scratching his head driving 922 01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:20,880 down the road how he's going to make this work. 923 01:01:22,080 --> 01:01:24,560 You know what? It's up to Buzz to it up 924 01:01:24,680 --> 01:01:25,896 or hit the jackpot. 925 01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:27,920 And I really hope he hits the jackpot. 926 01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:33,040 Later, Buzz. 927 01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:18,920 All righty, let's do this. 928 01:02:22,040 --> 01:02:27,136 At Parker's Airstrip cut, Tyson Lee is under pressure. 929 01:02:27,160 --> 01:02:28,720 Gold we can't control, 930 01:02:28,840 --> 01:02:31,120 but the yards sluiced we sure as can. 931 01:02:31,240 --> 01:02:33,920 It's just a matter of how fast can we get sluicing. 932 01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:37,160 He's on a sprint to get Golden Goose sluicing 933 01:02:37,280 --> 01:02:40,600 by the end of the day and washing rocks 934 01:02:40,720 --> 01:02:44,216 before Parker's rival, Tony Beets. 935 01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:46,216 How's that look? Start pivoting? 936 01:02:46,240 --> 01:02:47,240 Yeah, I give it a pivot. 937 01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:51,560 A little more rotation there, chief. 938 01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:54,320 And right there. 939 01:02:58,720 --> 01:03:00,480 We're getting our feed bin in place here. 940 01:03:01,920 --> 01:03:03,120 Keep coming, keep coming. 941 01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:06,320 Keep coming, chase it hard. 942 01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:10,176 10 feet, 5 feet, 943 01:03:10,200 --> 01:03:13,160 3, 2, 1, stop. 944 01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:16,960 The pad looks big enough until you start doing like this. 945 01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:20,960 Well, shall we stretch her out and see? 946 01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:27,720 And stop there. 947 01:03:27,840 --> 01:03:30,080 Ready for the water line and the troughs, 948 01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:32,496 and after that, we'll be firing up. 949 01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:34,856 - One more of those. - OK. 950 01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:37,336 One more of those. Yeah. 951 01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:38,360 Beauty. 952 01:03:40,920 --> 01:03:44,176 All right, let's get Goose fired up here and hopefully 953 01:03:44,200 --> 01:03:45,200 we beat Tony. 954 01:03:46,600 --> 01:03:47,600 Here we go! 955 01:03:57,160 --> 01:03:59,200 I'm praying to there's no leaks. 956 01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:05,936 So far so good. 957 01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:09,080 These troughs look so nice. All that fresh steel. 958 01:04:25,560 --> 01:04:27,240 959 01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:28,976 The bank. 960 01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:30,560 Shut her down! 961 01:04:34,680 --> 01:04:35,840 Shut the pump off, Alec. 962 01:04:37,240 --> 01:04:38,240 Oh, for sakes. 963 01:04:39,920 --> 01:04:43,656 Water from the sluices is eroding the pad, 964 01:04:43,680 --> 01:04:47,920 putting wash plant Goose at risk of falling down the bank. 965 01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:50,280 Oh man. 966 01:04:55,480 --> 01:04:58,200 If the whole bank washes away, then we're dragging 967 01:04:58,320 --> 01:04:59,680 a wash plant out of the hole. 968 01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:05,399 We're gonna be around here for a bit. 969 01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:28,760 10 miles south, Tony Beets still has a chance of beating 970 01:05:28,880 --> 01:05:30,840 Parker to the punch and being 971 01:05:30,960 --> 01:05:33,640 the first miner sluicing in the Klondike. 972 01:05:54,760 --> 01:05:59,736 Tony set a new goal for this season, 13,000 ounces. 973 01:05:59,760 --> 01:06:03,376 So that makes it more important to get sluicing. 974 01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:08,600 Would be nice to beat Parker in the second year in a row. 975 01:06:08,720 --> 01:06:11,776 I do believe that Tony is going to kick Parker's ass 976 01:06:11,800 --> 01:06:14,680 again this year. Always for Team Beets. 977 01:06:18,080 --> 01:06:20,280 I'm gonna fire the generator up and then we're sluicing. 978 01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:31,520 Come on, come on! 979 01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:34,960 Come on! 980 01:06:37,640 --> 01:06:39,600 Whoo! 981 01:06:44,080 --> 01:06:45,720 Whoa! 982 01:06:47,200 --> 01:06:49,416 The engine is fired up now, so I'm just going to let 983 01:06:49,440 --> 01:06:52,120 it heat up a little bit, put on the power to the plant 984 01:06:52,240 --> 01:06:54,256 and get the riffles lifted up, and then we should be 985 01:06:54,280 --> 01:06:55,440 sluicing soon enough. 986 01:07:45,600 --> 01:07:48,400 Our trough's just got to be skirted in a bit 987 01:07:48,520 --> 01:07:50,200 because the water is not landing in it. 988 01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:55,256 At Parker's Airstrip cut, Tyson and Alec are racing to 989 01:07:55,280 --> 01:07:59,896 shift Golden Goose's runoff troughs and get sluicing before 990 01:07:59,920 --> 01:08:01,320 the end of the day. 991 01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:04,920 We have to push the trough towards the wash plant. 992 01:08:05,040 --> 01:08:07,920 We don't have a lot of play because it's chained up to 993 01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:09,360 the other troughs down the line. 994 01:08:11,720 --> 01:08:15,176 We'll probably use the chain on it and try and drag it over. 995 01:08:15,200 --> 01:08:16,400 See if it'll move any. 996 01:08:23,600 --> 01:08:24,856 It might be pretty heavy. 997 01:08:24,880 --> 01:08:26,296 I don't know if you'd be able to lift it. 998 01:08:26,320 --> 01:08:28,656 - We'll see. - Yeah, I will. 999 01:08:28,680 --> 01:08:30,560 Either it'll lift or your chains will break. 1000 01:08:36,480 --> 01:08:37,480 It's moving. 1001 01:08:45,680 --> 01:08:47,360 OK, hold it there. 1002 01:08:47,480 --> 01:08:50,336 I'm tempted to try that right where it sits. 1003 01:08:50,360 --> 01:08:51,416 Well, let's do it. 1004 01:08:51,440 --> 01:08:53,880 Let's give in to the temptation. 1005 01:08:55,600 --> 01:08:57,256 If the water lands where it's supposed to 1006 01:08:57,280 --> 01:08:59,000 we're gonna add dirt, but if not, 1007 01:08:59,120 --> 01:09:01,120 we'll be going back to step one here. 1008 01:09:12,320 --> 01:09:14,720 This water is hitting the trough just perfectly. 1009 01:09:14,840 --> 01:09:17,120 - I think we can fire up here. - Roger. 1010 01:09:18,480 --> 01:09:20,040 Now it's time for the real deal. 1011 01:09:25,280 --> 01:09:26,656 All right, first scoop of the season 1012 01:09:26,680 --> 01:09:27,800 going into the Golden Goose. 1013 01:09:29,800 --> 01:09:30,840 Here we go. 1014 01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:36,640 Top gravel pay dirt from the Airstrip cut runs up 1015 01:09:36,760 --> 01:09:41,656 the conveyor to the wash plant, where water jets blast the gold 1016 01:09:41,680 --> 01:09:44,336 and fine dirt off the rocks. 1017 01:09:44,360 --> 01:09:47,080 A shaker deck vibrates a set of screens 1018 01:09:47,200 --> 01:09:49,120 to separate the larger rocks 1019 01:09:49,240 --> 01:09:53,200 from the smaller gold-bearing material, which washes 1020 01:09:53,320 --> 01:09:57,360 into the sluice boxes, where riffles and mats catch 1021 01:09:57,480 --> 01:10:02,176 the gold, while the water runs off into the troughs below. 1022 01:10:02,200 --> 01:10:03,416 Perfect. 1023 01:10:03,440 --> 01:10:04,880 Keep the material coming, my man. 1024 01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:06,080 We need every drop of it. 1025 01:10:07,720 --> 01:10:09,120 Hey Mitch, you got a copy? Mitch? 1026 01:10:10,240 --> 01:10:11,840 Yo, Tyson, what's up man? 1027 01:10:11,960 --> 01:10:13,920 Can you see if Tony's sluicing yet down there? 1028 01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:18,136 - No, they're not sluicing yet. - Well, we are. 1029 01:10:18,160 --> 01:10:20,120 Yeah, we beat 'em, man! 1030 01:10:20,240 --> 01:10:22,120 Right on, man. That's awesome! 1031 01:10:22,240 --> 01:10:23,280 Right on! 1032 01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:33,736 Yo, yo. How are you? 1033 01:10:33,760 --> 01:10:35,600 - We're sluicing. - Oh, yeah. 1034 01:10:37,680 --> 01:10:39,080 Hey, we beat Tony. 1035 01:10:39,200 --> 01:10:40,600 - Good job, dude. - Thanks, man. 1036 01:10:42,240 --> 01:10:43,840 See if there's some gold in this. 1037 01:10:43,960 --> 01:10:44,960 Off to the next. 1038 01:10:46,440 --> 01:10:48,616 After a long cold winter, everything's getting rolling 1039 01:10:48,640 --> 01:10:50,656 again and we've got a wash plant washing 1040 01:10:50,680 --> 01:10:52,360 and clock starts now. 1041 01:10:53,880 --> 01:10:55,520 Yeah, hopefully it's gonna be a good year. 1042 01:11:14,840 --> 01:11:20,560 In the Midas cut, Tony's war on water is far from over. 1043 01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:29,176 After battling mountain runoff and a fast melting frozen pond, 1044 01:11:29,200 --> 01:11:33,360 now the sun has thawed Tony's frozen pay dirt, 1045 01:11:33,480 --> 01:11:36,776 flooding the cut, making the pay too sloppy to 1046 01:11:36,800 --> 01:11:38,160 send through a wash plant. 1047 01:11:47,440 --> 01:11:49,119 Go ahead, Tony, go ahead. 1048 01:12:02,440 --> 01:12:03,440 Copy. 1049 01:12:11,480 --> 01:12:13,000 And just like that, the fun is over. 1050 01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:35,440 It could be days before Tony's cut is dry enough to sluice. 1051 01:13:06,320 --> 01:13:08,720 - On our way to Keno. - Yeah buddy. 1052 01:13:10,080 --> 01:13:11,800 Yep, this is good. We're on our way. 1053 01:13:13,760 --> 01:13:17,336 In the Keno Mountains, Rick is finally en route 1054 01:13:17,360 --> 01:13:18,960 to his Duncan Creek claim. 1055 01:13:22,040 --> 01:13:24,400 Who's gonna be there? 1056 01:13:24,520 --> 01:13:26,176 Heather and Jason. 1057 01:13:26,200 --> 01:13:28,456 They're probably wondering what the hell's going on. 1058 01:13:28,480 --> 01:13:29,616 Yeah. 1059 01:13:29,640 --> 01:13:32,000 Good people walk and that's where we're at, right? 1060 01:13:35,920 --> 01:13:38,880 I've had plenty of chances, but like, this is it. 1061 01:13:40,200 --> 01:13:41,200 Last chance. 1062 01:13:55,680 --> 01:13:56,720 That was a trip. 1063 01:13:58,120 --> 01:13:59,120 Get it over with. 1064 01:14:01,320 --> 01:14:05,696 Rick's mined this nugget-rich claim for five years, 1065 01:14:05,720 --> 01:14:08,680 scoring $20 million in gold 1066 01:14:08,800 --> 01:14:12,000 from deep, high-walled cuts along the valley. 1067 01:14:16,240 --> 01:14:17,320 Look who it is! 1068 01:14:25,880 --> 01:14:27,616 How are you? We haven't heard from you. 1069 01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:30,176 - You kind of ghosted us. - Yeah. 1070 01:14:30,200 --> 01:14:31,456 What's going on? 1071 01:14:31,480 --> 01:14:32,800 I know. I apologize for that. 1072 01:14:35,320 --> 01:14:37,840 I appreciate you getting here and getting things opened up, 1073 01:14:37,960 --> 01:14:38,960 getting things started. 1074 01:14:41,240 --> 01:14:44,120 I'll be honest, it come very close 1075 01:14:44,240 --> 01:14:45,480 to us pulling out. 1076 01:14:48,080 --> 01:14:50,400 If it's something you don't want to do anymore, 1077 01:14:50,520 --> 01:14:53,136 then let's do it right and shut it down properly, 1078 01:14:53,160 --> 01:14:54,680 rather than just walking away from it. 1079 01:14:58,440 --> 01:14:59,840 I apologize. 1080 01:15:01,800 --> 01:15:04,000 It's just, I don't know. It's so dumb. 1081 01:15:04,120 --> 01:15:05,656 We've been with you for so long. 1082 01:15:05,680 --> 01:15:06,840 I know. You guys are so good. 1083 01:15:06,920 --> 01:15:08,640 I love you. You're such a good friend. 1084 01:15:08,760 --> 01:15:11,296 - Yeah. - And we worry. 1085 01:15:11,320 --> 01:15:12,760 - We don't hear from you. - I know. 1086 01:15:14,120 --> 01:15:16,680 I just want to know that you're OK. 1087 01:15:16,800 --> 01:15:18,936 I appreciate that. 1088 01:15:18,960 --> 01:15:22,576 I feel it's so to put people through that. 1089 01:15:22,600 --> 01:15:26,096 But a lot of things progressed this winter to kind of some 1090 01:15:26,120 --> 01:15:27,320 scary levels that are just 1091 01:15:28,400 --> 01:15:30,176 can't ignore things anymore. 1092 01:15:30,200 --> 01:15:31,320 I started sleepwalking, 1093 01:15:32,760 --> 01:15:34,536 waking up, bouncing my head off. 1094 01:15:34,560 --> 01:15:36,576 And it's basically just dismantled 1095 01:15:36,600 --> 01:15:38,040 everything in my life. 1096 01:15:38,160 --> 01:15:40,440 It has just gotten so bad that... 1097 01:15:40,560 --> 01:15:42,496 I'm borderline narcoleptic. 1098 01:15:42,520 --> 01:15:44,856 I mean, I am baby proofing my own house 1099 01:15:44,880 --> 01:15:46,416 so I didn't kill myself. 1100 01:15:46,440 --> 01:15:47,856 It's gonna change. 1101 01:15:47,880 --> 01:15:49,680 It has to, you know, I don't want to die. 1102 01:15:51,320 --> 01:15:53,136 Obviously, we're concerned 1103 01:15:53,160 --> 01:15:55,680 - to make sure that you're OK coming back. - Yeah. 1104 01:15:57,440 --> 01:15:59,680 I do have some bad news, though. 1105 01:16:01,280 --> 01:16:04,760 We cannot mine until we employ an engineer 1106 01:16:05,960 --> 01:16:08,200 on this site. 1107 01:16:08,320 --> 01:16:10,440 That's no matter what we want to do? 1108 01:16:10,560 --> 01:16:12,576 We can't do anything, nothing. 1109 01:16:12,600 --> 01:16:14,896 We cannot move any dirt until 1110 01:16:14,920 --> 01:16:17,240 the engineer has given us a mining plot. 1111 01:16:18,640 --> 01:16:20,000 1112 01:16:27,000 --> 01:16:30,520 We cannot mine until we employ an engineer 1113 01:16:31,720 --> 01:16:34,280 - on this site. - She said, "Zero dirt moving." 1114 01:16:36,640 --> 01:16:38,080 That's bad. That's really bad. 1115 01:16:40,520 --> 01:16:42,736 At Duncan Creek, 1116 01:16:42,760 --> 01:16:47,600 Rick has just learned that due to his deep high-walled cuts, 1117 01:16:47,720 --> 01:16:50,680 his operation is shut down. 1118 01:16:50,800 --> 01:16:55,480 A safety inspector has stopped all mining until he employs 1119 01:16:55,600 --> 01:16:59,496 an engineer to make his high-wall cuts safer. 1120 01:16:59,520 --> 01:17:01,856 She wants us to focus on 1121 01:17:01,880 --> 01:17:04,896 the report that needs to be prepared for the engineer, 1122 01:17:04,920 --> 01:17:07,960 the mining plan, and we need to stick to that. 1123 01:17:08,080 --> 01:17:11,640 And until that's in place, we cannot move any dirt. 1124 01:17:11,760 --> 01:17:13,536 So, yeah, that's where we're at. 1125 01:17:13,560 --> 01:17:16,560 We have no people and we can't mine. 1126 01:17:22,000 --> 01:17:24,896 - We need to figure out how we're gonna survive. - Yeah. 1127 01:17:24,920 --> 01:17:26,840 We've got a lot to do 1128 01:17:26,960 --> 01:17:29,496 to make this work this year, but I know we can do it. 1129 01:17:29,520 --> 01:17:33,056 And I know that I've got a lot to fix. 1130 01:17:33,080 --> 01:17:34,720 I'll go get my health checked out. 1131 01:17:34,840 --> 01:17:36,240 It's time to do something about it. 1132 01:17:37,560 --> 01:17:39,400 Honestly, the first step is 1133 01:17:39,520 --> 01:17:41,200 - having you here and you're here. - Yes. 1134 01:17:41,320 --> 01:17:42,696 So let's move on to the next one. 1135 01:17:42,720 --> 01:17:43,776 Yeah, check one. 1136 01:17:43,800 --> 01:17:46,040 Let's keep going. 1137 01:17:46,160 --> 01:17:47,696 The sun's a-shining and the snow's a-melting. 1138 01:17:47,720 --> 01:17:49,080 - Yeah. - Yes. 1139 01:17:52,400 --> 01:17:54,480 I love the guy and he's very good at saying sorry, 1140 01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:57,496 but you need the actions to back it up. 1141 01:17:57,520 --> 01:18:00,216 He needs to be responsive, not just to Jason and I, 1142 01:18:00,240 --> 01:18:02,320 but to the government officials, 1143 01:18:02,440 --> 01:18:04,056 the inspector of safety. 1144 01:18:04,080 --> 01:18:06,680 Once we have the engineer on board and a plan, 1145 01:18:08,760 --> 01:18:10,920 I'll feel much less apprehensive... 1146 01:18:13,080 --> 01:18:15,936 that this isn't, you know, a closing chapter. 1147 01:18:15,960 --> 01:18:19,400 We've got a long ways to go, but we are here. 1148 01:18:19,520 --> 01:18:22,640 We've got to face and... 1149 01:18:22,760 --> 01:18:25,816 If I die taking a header into a toilet in my own house 1150 01:18:25,840 --> 01:18:29,600 because I sleepwalk, that's not the way I'm gonna go. 1151 01:18:29,720 --> 01:18:31,920 So it's time to tackle all this. 1152 01:18:56,360 --> 01:18:59,000 That's the last bucket and the last truck 1153 01:18:59,120 --> 01:19:00,760 going to finish the Great Wall of Parker. 1154 01:19:04,800 --> 01:19:08,280 After a three-day, earth-shifting blitz, 1155 01:19:08,400 --> 01:19:10,936 on the border of Tony's Midas Cut, 1156 01:19:10,960 --> 01:19:15,136 Brennan has completed the 1,500-foot-long. 1157 01:19:15,160 --> 01:19:18,840 Great Wall of Parker to preserve their holding pond. 1158 01:19:20,200 --> 01:19:21,240 Hey Mitch, you got a copy? 1159 01:19:22,720 --> 01:19:24,496 Hey buddy, I don't know if you want to roll down here 1160 01:19:24,520 --> 01:19:26,200 and check it out, but we're done the wall. 1161 01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:35,680 This is a very nice wall here. 1162 01:19:35,800 --> 01:19:38,056 Sure would have been nice if we wouldn't have to do all this, 1163 01:19:38,080 --> 01:19:41,216 - but that's not the case, so... - I know. 1164 01:19:41,240 --> 01:19:43,616 Well, buddy, you know, I was thinking all those, 1165 01:19:43,640 --> 01:19:44,880 you know, great walls. 1166 01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:47,320 They all got the flags flying on the top of the castles 1167 01:19:47,440 --> 01:19:48,520 and everything else, right? 1168 01:19:49,640 --> 01:19:51,520 I don't have a flag, but I got something better. 1169 01:19:55,280 --> 01:19:56,400 Right here, buddy. 1170 01:19:59,520 --> 01:20:01,200 - For sake. - There he is. 1171 01:20:01,320 --> 01:20:02,976 And there's no better way to complete it 1172 01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:04,760 than with Parker himself. 1173 01:20:06,240 --> 01:20:08,200 They're gonna be like," dude, Parker's watching." 1174 01:20:13,200 --> 01:20:14,200 Get back to work! 1175 01:20:16,040 --> 01:20:17,280 Beat it, punk! 1176 01:20:19,680 --> 01:20:21,120 - All right, buddy! - Awesome, buddy! 1177 01:20:21,960 --> 01:20:24,320 - There it is! - That's wicked! 1178 01:20:35,400 --> 01:20:36,976 - Hi Doumitt. - Hey, T. 1179 01:20:37,000 --> 01:20:38,640 - How's it going? - Help yourself. 1180 01:20:38,760 --> 01:20:40,320 Fully stocked, look at that. 1181 01:20:43,280 --> 01:20:47,656 In the race with Tony Beets to 13,000 ounces, 1182 01:20:47,680 --> 01:20:50,240 Parker is first to weigh his gold. 1183 01:20:51,680 --> 01:20:53,656 How do you guys feel being back? 1184 01:20:53,680 --> 01:20:55,296 Good, man. Yeah. 1185 01:20:55,320 --> 01:20:57,720 We built ourselves a big wall. 1186 01:20:59,320 --> 01:21:01,536 This could be interesting summer down there, isn't it? 1187 01:21:01,560 --> 01:21:02,720 100%. 1188 01:21:02,840 --> 01:21:04,640 We definitely got a lot ahead of us down there 1189 01:21:04,680 --> 01:21:06,576 in the old Quagmire cut. 1190 01:21:06,600 --> 01:21:08,576 There's a lot of ground everywhere to get through. 1191 01:21:08,600 --> 01:21:11,040 The sooner you guys can get going and just get that done, 1192 01:21:11,160 --> 01:21:13,856 - then the better off we'll be. - Absolutely. 1193 01:21:13,880 --> 01:21:15,440 We'll see what we can do. 1194 01:21:15,560 --> 01:21:18,496 But we got a wash plant running in the Airstrip. 1195 01:21:18,520 --> 01:21:20,456 We're just running top gravel, though. 1196 01:21:20,480 --> 01:21:23,016 I wouldn't imagine that we came up with much. 1197 01:21:23,040 --> 01:21:25,160 But anyways, let's see how the old Airstrip did. 1198 01:21:25,280 --> 01:21:26,560 Yeah. 1199 01:21:26,680 --> 01:21:28,280 - Tyson? - Yes, sir. 1200 01:21:29,720 --> 01:21:30,720 Here we go, ready? 1201 01:21:32,120 --> 01:21:36,400 Golden Goose ran top gravels from the Airstrip cut. 1202 01:21:36,520 --> 01:21:40,600 Parker's hoping it will deliver at least 100 ounces. 1203 01:21:40,720 --> 01:21:43,720 40, 80... 1204 01:21:44,960 --> 01:21:48,840 100, 130... 1205 01:21:55,040 --> 01:21:57,680 145.5. 1206 01:21:57,800 --> 01:22:02,280 Worth over $720,000. 1207 01:22:02,400 --> 01:22:04,360 - Hell yeah. - Yeah. 1208 01:22:04,480 --> 01:22:07,160 - For top gravel, that's sick. - I was shocked. 1209 01:22:07,280 --> 01:22:10,736 I was surprised to get that much gold out of top gravel. 1210 01:22:10,760 --> 01:22:12,616 I mean, that's really relieving for that pile 1211 01:22:12,640 --> 01:22:13,760 we put up. 1212 01:22:13,880 --> 01:22:16,176 But, you know, if Goose is producing these kind of numbers 1213 01:22:16,200 --> 01:22:18,456 on top gravel and you guys got a pile of it, 1214 01:22:18,480 --> 01:22:20,416 they'll start to add up. 1215 01:22:20,440 --> 01:22:23,256 Whatever you guys got, if it looks like it has gold in it, 1216 01:22:23,280 --> 01:22:25,480 - run it. - Sluice it all. 1217 01:22:25,600 --> 01:22:27,240 Yeah... 1218 01:22:27,360 --> 01:22:28,640 There's a lot of sluicing to do. 1219 01:22:29,960 --> 01:22:34,280 So this week is 145 and a half ounces, and for the season, 1220 01:22:34,400 --> 01:22:38,176 - it's 145 and a half ounces. - Easy, easy. 1221 01:22:38,200 --> 01:22:40,920 - Yep. - And I think it's gonna be a good year. 1222 01:22:42,120 --> 01:22:43,120 It's a good start. 1223 01:22:44,600 --> 01:22:46,336 All right, well, guys, 1224 01:22:46,360 --> 01:22:47,976 thanks for coming back for another season. 1225 01:22:48,000 --> 01:22:49,536 For sure, thanks for having us. 1226 01:22:49,560 --> 01:22:51,040 We're one percent of the way there. 1227 01:22:52,880 --> 01:22:55,376 Do this every day and we'll be done in four years. 1228 01:22:55,400 --> 01:22:57,176 100 more times. 1229 01:22:57,200 --> 01:22:58,616 This was a shocker. 1230 01:22:58,640 --> 01:23:01,456 I think it surprised everybody how much gold is in that ground 1231 01:23:01,480 --> 01:23:03,440 that would have gone to waste. 1232 01:23:03,560 --> 01:23:05,720 But with the price of gold the way it is, 1233 01:23:05,840 --> 01:23:07,520 every flake counts. 1234 01:23:07,640 --> 01:23:09,160 And this early year is going to 1235 01:23:09,280 --> 01:23:11,080 give us a little bit of a jump start on Tony. 1236 01:23:12,320 --> 01:23:13,976 It's good to be on the board, but then you're like, 1237 01:23:14,000 --> 01:23:17,776 "Oh, we're 140 ounces into a 13,000-ounce season," 1238 01:23:17,800 --> 01:23:19,560 and it's just like so much 1239 01:23:20,600 --> 01:23:23,560 work to do and so much dirt to move, and... 1240 01:23:25,840 --> 01:23:28,680 So much chaos is gonna be had, but we're on the board.