Original subtitles

Did you bring a gold pan?

I got mine, where's yours?

Can I use that one?

- Nope. - Okay.

So, this is the road that we never mined.

- Yeah. - Like, it starts back there.

It's built on top of tailings from like, the 90s.

It's virgin underneath.

- Do you wanna pan the road? - Yeah, why not?

My water license in the Yukon's expiring.

So, if we don't start working on it now, then we never will.

In the Yukon, with the clock ticking,

Parker Schnabel is determine to get every ounce of gold he can,

before the end of the season

Rule number one with panning, Tyler.

- Yeah? - What is it?

Um... clean water?

No. Make sure there's nothing in the pan already.

Oh, okay. Yep. Didn't know that.

You've panned before?

Everyone I've learned off has a different like, method of doing it.

There's no right or wrong.

I mean, there is.

I'm not comfortable.

- Maybe I'll walk into the water. - Yeah, go ahead.

- That's how the real miners used to do it. - Okay.

- Are you **** with me? - No!

Oh, that's actually much better.

You just gotta get aggressive with it.

- Like this? - Yeah.

How do I get all of them out?

When you want material to go out of the pan,

you like, angle it like this and wash it out.

You don't wanna really throw it out. You know what I mean?

- Oh! - And any gold starts to show up down at the bottom.

- Oh, is that a bit of gold? - Yeah.

Oh, cool! There's color.

- Okay. - That's good enough for me.

What are you doing, man? I saw your truck on the road.

I didn't know if you were broke down or something.

There's always a fair chance of that.

What are you finding?

We're just panning this road. Every year I've driven by it, I've been like,

"Should we mine that? No."

But now it's the last year that we can't say no anymore.

If we say no this year, then it's never gonna get mined.

This has been left because, well, it's the only section of road.

There's no other way around it right through here.

We got so many other things going on.

But the stripping crew has a little opening, don't it?

- I mean... - Let's just send them in here and see what happens.

This is not just mining the road, it's building a new road,

then, it's coming down here, stripping this.

I'm just looking at what we got going on down there.

Everything's froze up.

I feel like, everyday we are a little bit further behind.

I think it's gonna be thawed.

Like, the sides have been exposed.

Like, I don't even think that the pay's gonna be frozen.

If it's thawed, that's gonna be huge.

If it's not, then I'm gonna eat a big dose of crow, Mitch.

I'm not trying to mess up your schedule.

But I am.

Parker just added a huge amount of work to our already overloaded schedule.

There's already not enough hours in the day,

and days left in this season,

to get through what we've got going on.

And for Parker to wanna come down here

and pull out the only road, the only access we have

down to where we're currently working,

to start another cut, I think is crazy.

*GOLD RUSH* Season 13 Episode 09

Episode Title: "Cursed" Aired on: November 25, 2022.

Big thing for me is I really like to push ourselves

and find more gold each year

And we know this is our last season to mine this stuff.

Nine weeks into this season,

27-year old Parker Schnabel' master plan

is starting to come together

We're stretched really thin right now.

It's a good thing we've got a good group of people this year because

it's a lot going on, especially with Alaska firing up.

In three weeks, Parker will open a new operation in Alaska.

In the Yukon, his two wash plants are running side by side

in the Bear cut,

and have delivered more tha 1,800 ounces of gold.

We're more than halfway through the ground.

Nearly four million square feet.

Now, our whole season depend on keeping two plants runnin as long as possible.

His crew have already stripped 48 acres,

36 football fields, of the massive 90-acre airstrip.

Now, Parker has tasked foreman, Mitch Blaschke

with opening even more groun

There's a whole bunch of little pieces of ground here and there

that could probably make us a quick buck.

If we don't do it now, we'll never get to it.

Parker's decided tha he wants us to strip a new road,

which we're calling the Panama Canal cut.

Well, we've gotta move the mud and get down to some pay gravels.

Over a thousand yards downstream from the Bear cut,

and his wash plants,

Mitch must open up a new ten acre cut,

taking Parker's total to a hundred.

But to get to the pay,

Mitch must dig up the only road connecting the camp to the cuts.

To solve this problem,

Mitch must also build a new road at the same time

keeping vital access to the mine site open.

I got half the crew working on our new road.

Really important here to hav good roads. We're constantl moving around.

At the same time we're building the new road,

we're also stripping this new cut,

the Panama Canal.

I get why Parker wan to mine this ground.

But it's just insane.

We need to get this done super quickly.

It's a huge project.

I think everyone's a little bit on edge at the moment.

Parker seems to thin that this chunk of ground he

is gonna be some easy pickings.

We'll find out when we get to the bottom of it.

It's feeling pretty hard here.

Put the ripper in and see what we got.

Hopefully, it's just compact from everybody driving on it.

****

I know what that is.

Well, so much for it being thawed.

It's big, frozen chunks.

Lots of ice in it.

All this rock is glued together, pretty much.

Parker thought with there being cuts on both sides of this,

that this section of the road would be all thawed out here.

But you see all this water,

you see all this ice here?

You know, if this was all thawed, all this would've just drained off

down on both sides here.

We've chopped off our access to the wash plants.

And we got pay dirt and it looks like it's all gonna be frozen.

Dirt Devil's fired up.

We're currently mining the Aspen.

Squeaking every little ounce out of it we can.

The Claytons are chasing gold hotspots along the creek

on their way to Golden Acres

We got a long way to go and a lot of dirt to move.

The gold's getting better, the plan is going great.

We're one step closer to Golden Acres.

That's where we wanna be.

That's the best shot on getting 500 ounces.

We're just hoping for the best.

The "best" is definitely kicking Fred's ass.

Across the creek veteran Green Beret, Fred Lewis,

is also chasing 500 ounces.

He's finally sluicing pay from last season's cut

and looking to deliver his first gold weigh at the end of the week.

It's been a hell of a season so far.

You know, we've been fight in and fighting.

We haven't got any gold yet

But I know we're almost ther

I heard form Tony that the road ban was lifted.

Finally gonna get that dozer in here.

Eight weeks ago,

Fred bought a dozer to dig his way to a gold bonanz

at the Freedom cut.

But winter road bans have made delivery of the 53 ton machine impossibl

Until today.

With that dozer, we're gonna be able to lift

move, push a hell of a lot more pay dirt.

And that 500 ounce goal wouldn't be possible without it.

Holy ****.

That is impressive.

You made it!

So, Mikey, I was hoping, since you got a lot more experience than we do,

you could pull this off the trailer for us

so we don't break it, pulling it off.

You just rub our bellies and tell us we're good boys and we'll...

It's awesome. It's just anything is better than what we got going right now. So...

You mean nothing?

Everybody clear? He's driving ahead.

Oh, ****.

Come on, baby.

I got the big haul. I'll take it off.

It's alive!

What do you think now?

I think it's **** sweet.

This is 1984's best made freaking dozer.

Damn!

Not gonna lie, she looks a lot better with the blade on.

Yeah, I bet.

To lift the ten t dozer blade off his trailer.

**** somebody's **** chart.

...Mike has to us the 250 excavator

rated to lift around 10 tons

All right, let's get the blade off.

Fingers crossed that the 250 can lift this.

I think it can.

It barely lifts it.

So, I'm gonna have to be a little bit ignorant to get the **** thing off.

****

- Mike? - I got it.

Watch out, watch out, watch out.

Just gotta be very **** carful where I **** go.

Barely lifting it.

You know what that blade's about to be doing.

- Pushing up the gold. - Pushing up some gold.

Yeah, that's it. Got everything off the trailer.

Mining starts the day this dozer's running.

- Safe trip! - Was nice meeting you all.

Stop for a second, Fred.

Stu, out just a little more.

We've got the beast all put back together in the front, plates attached,

hydraulics are going well.

Now, the last thing we gotta do is put this pin

into our ripper blade.

- Ready? - Yeah!

- Ready to go to work? - Let's get this beast working!

Bim, bam, boom, we're ready to roll.

Fred and his cre head straight to the claim,

eager to tear open the Freedom cut.

I can't believe we're actually gonna start working

on the Freedom cut,

which really is where we're gonna get our gold.

The past few seasons, we've kind of had to make do.

This is the first season that we have the right equipment.

This is what's gonna make us hit our freaking season goal.

Think how far we'v grown as a team,

coming together and getting over PTSD and all sort of the problems that come

with going to war.

And since I've been here, I don't think about an of that ****, dude.

Just don't have time for it I need to look forward.

We have to realize the opportunity we have.

I mean, we're freaking mining for gold in Yukon.

The adventure is something for the rest of our lives.

I mean, the story will be a hell of a lot better if we succeed.

- Right? - Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Fred and Stu get back to keeping the plant fed.

While Buzz rips into the three acre Freedom cut.

We are firing on all cylinders.

Everything couldn't be going any better.

Buzz is up in the Freedom cu getting that stripped and ready.

This dozer is mammoth.

We've named this "the Tank" and I think you can see why

It's old but it definitely does the job.

Really nice stripping with this machine.

I don't care if it's got rust on it, I don't car if it needs a paint job,

its heart is there, and its soul is there

and this thing is gonna mov a lot of dirt for us.

As long as that dozer's running,

we really do have a chance of hitting that 500 ounce goal.

You gotta love it when a plan comes together.

We are right where we need to be.

This dozer is an absolute game changer.

At California creek, Fred Lewis finally

has the dozer stripping the Freedom cut.

This dozer can definitely push dirt.

****

Fred, you have a copy on me?

I'm gonna need you to come down here. Dozer broke

I just heard that the dozer's down.

We could be seriously **** here.

Got a lot riding on this.

I've got my house on this. I've got all of our financials into it.

At this point, if the dozer's down, we're down.

Plain and simple.

All right.

Holy ****.

Come up here and look at this.

I backed up, I stopped,

set the blades down, that goes chunk.

****

The little bracket that holds the round that lifts the blade up and down

has been cracked for a long time and finally decided to let go.

So, this has been happening for a long time.

There was only about an inch of this piece holding them together.

****, dude.

The 53-ton dozer' hydraulic lift cylinder

is held in place by a bracke called a yoke.

It pivots, allowing the ten ton blade to rise and fall.

But it's cracked.

Fred needs to swap out the o broken part for a new one

before he can get back to stripping the Freedom cut

****

This is really gonna cost us.

I honestly don't know what the hell I'm going to do.

Meanwhile, this is gonna turn into more and more slop.

Not good. Not good at all.

Parts for a 1984 Komatsu

are not easy to come by out here.

There reaches a point where you can't bleed anymore.

Kind of reaching that point with the company.

Tony speaking...

Two months into his season,

King of the Klondike, Tony Beets,

has opened up two of the deepest cuts he's ever mined.

So far, they've delivered just over 900 ounces.

280 ounces less than this ti last season.

Tony speaking...

Tony speaking...

To get more gold Tony's got another trick up his sleeve.

Tony speaking...

First mined three seasons ago by daughter, Monica,

Tony's cut down on Hunker creek has been plagued...

What just happened?

...by breakdowns.

...frozen pay...

I seem to have hit some frost.

...and floods...

Should've named it the Cursed Cut, not the Hunker Cut.

...leading Monic to abandon the Cursed Cut.

Tony is leasing it to the Winchester boys.

Three new miners hoping to strike it rich in the Yukon

We're gold miners, so we like to have, you know

buckets of gold if we can get it in our hands.

Leading the crew is mine boss and constructio worker, Jason Fraser.

My buddy John there built the plant.

And said, "Well, we'll come up and give it a try."

Figured it might be a chance to at least get your boots wet here in Klondike.

We'll catch some gold here.

Retired business owner, John Van Thuyl

is the crew's mechanic.

I've never mined in the Yukon before.

I'm semi-retired.

I built the wash plant in my driveway up at home.

Five years from now, I hope to have a five gallon bucke of gold,

and I'm gonna totally retire

I got lots of friends that say that they would love to do mining

but I'm here doing it.

Running the heav equipment is ex-logger, Patrick "Butch" Bouchard.

It's an extremely expensive operation to be involved in.

It's definitely high risk, high reward.

If this doesn't work out,

I'm sure Butch will be processing logs again all next winter,

and John likely will be plowing snow from Ontario.

And myself, I'll be most likely digging basements in Vancouver Island.

Tony speaking...

Better than the Three Stooges.

- How've you been? - Fine.

- Nice to meet you. - I'm John.

The Hunker Cut it is.

- Is it cursed for you guys? - Don't say it!

Don't say it. Yeah.

For us, everything that could go wrong, went wrong.

I don't believe in curses.

Yeah. I hope so.

Think we can get somewheres around our goal of 200, 250.

Tony speaking...

Gotta walk your Kiwi plant out of the way.

If you can get that out, we'll get set up.

Tony speaking...

That sounds good.

Tony speaking...

Once Tony's old Kiwi wash plant is moved from the middle of the cut,

the new crew will haul in their homemade 60-yard an hour wash plant,

the Winchester.

980 hours to build the wash plant.

I was only gonna do one drum,

and then my wife says, "Well, why don't you do two?"

That's why we called it "Winchester".

It's a double barrel shotgun.

They plan to run ground already stripped by Tony,

chasing gold left behind by the old timer's dredges.

John to Jason, you got a copy?

Mike Beets is coming down the hill.

How you gentlemen this morning?

We good, buddy. You?

**** I hate rain.

Well, once we get the eyes exposed, then we can attach it to the D10,

so that we can pull the **** thing.

So, your eye will be around over here.

Butch speaking

Scrape it clean until we can see the eyes.

It's really sticking out quite decently.

So now I'm trying to wonder where the **** it is,

just might be lower and sitting more further back.

Could you get it a little deeper?

If they can't fin the eye hooks,

the stranded Kiwi plant wil block the Winchester's acces

stopping them from mining gold.

- Do we have a shovel? - Eh?

That's so weird.

- Well, there's an eye. - Kind of looks like a rock.

No, that is the eye.

So the other one will be right here.

- Ouch. - Oh, there you go.

- If you can start hooking those up. - Yeah.

I'll hop in the dozer and we can back her up, and we should be all good.

Timber.

Whatever it takes to move it.

It's good to go now.

Kiwi plant out of the way...

Good luck, gentlemen.

...the Wincheste boys are one step closer to catching gold

and delivering Tony's royalties.

Butch speaking

One more piece, boys.

We can get back to work and make some real gold.

We've invested a ton of money, a ton of tim

into the Panama Canal cut.

If we can't get a sluice this year, it's gonna be nothing but a loss.

At Indian River..

What's happening, man?

...Parker has tasked Mitch with using all their resources

to open up and mine an access road.

The Panama Canal cut.

As well as building a new access road

and keeping the rest of the operation on track.

Well, we got all the mud off, but all the gravel's frozen.

It gets tons of sun and...

- Yeah. - ...high and dry, it makes no sense to me.

Well, and the one we needed to be thawed more than any of them is this one.

Right?

What do you think we should do?

Well, man I hate walking away from something after we've poured a bunch of money in it,

but it's a matter of what has more gold, I guess.

If we have to walk away from something, it should be this one,

not the ones downstream.

Don't you think?

We have to get out of here.

I think that's the only thing we can do.

Yeah, I think it's gonna be this way all year.

- All right. Thanks, Mitch. - Yep.

This isn't an ideal scenario but...

we've gotta go get all the mud off the areas that have mud,

and then figure out what we' gonna do with frozen gravel

Ripping frozen mud is not too expensive.

Ripping frozen gravel is intense.

And we're gonna have to rip a whole pile of frozen grave this fall,

because of how much we've taken on.

Panama Canal,

is a project we really didn't have the time to start,

but now, Parker doesn't want us to finish it.

And that's just a huge waste of time and a huge waste of money.

Right now, we really need to get this new road done.

Before Mitch's cr can go back to work in the airstrip,

they need to finish the new road to restore acce across the claim.

We're working on this end here which is through one of our tailings pile,

so this is pretty good material off the other side.

It's real nasty stuff.

And the trucks are having a hard time getting through there.

I've got no access for anybody to get back and forth here.

So, it's really put a time crunch on this.

Mitch has got me running tailings to finish this road.

Just so much mud.

It makes driving these things hard as well.

I can feel my truck going to get bogged every time nearly.

I don't feel very confident in the mud.

Parker definitel likes to throw you in the deep end

and you just have to hope that you swim.

Hey, Mitch You got a copy, Mitch?

- Go ahead. - Yeah, hey man, there's not enough pay up

at Big Red or Sluicifer for them to run tonight.

Right now I'm looking at 3000-4000 yards of material

and we need double that.

So, we need to steal some resources and move some iron up here.

Ah, man, This road's gonna take a little bit here.

It's got a pretty good section that's real snotty.

But as soon as we get this road done,

I'll be sending everybody back to you, bud.

Just gonna have to make do for right now, buddy.

I don't know about y but I don't wanna see

either of these plants go down tonight.

Until the road is finished,

the crew can't get back to stockpiling pay dirt at the plant,

risking a double shutdown.

Tyson just hit me up 'cause it doesn't look like

we've got enough dirt for night shift.

That's what happens when we got so many projects.

You don't do anything well.

This road is something you'd normally like to have well ahead of time done.

But Parker sprung this on us.

He's bouncing back and fort between lots of ideas.

As a mine boss, you need to make a **** decision and stick with it.

Mitch has his whole crew finishing up

the last 350 feet of the new road.

You wanna try and get me a spot here where I can get

this new road connected.

Let the trucks know we'll have them start dumping there.

It ain't gonna be pretty but it'll work.

- Pretty? It never pretty. - As long as it works.

We're lucky that we got everybody on deck and working

to build this road right here, right now.

Parker's lucky he's got guys that are good at more than one thing.

Hey, Mitch. You got a copy?

When are you hoping to finish off with your crew over there?

Hurrying to try and get this done.

**** We just don' have enough pay.

So, we don't have much time to do this.

Time is not on our side.

Truck's hauling coarse tailings.

This is where I want you to drop it.

We're gonna tie it back into that other material you've been putting down.

Okay, thank you.

Just machinery going everywhere, it's so intense

Parker just has such a all or nothing personality.

If he's gonna do something, he's does it a 100 percent.

If this was my mine site, I'd probably make the same decision as Parker did.

I know it sounds risky and it's full on and there' lots going on.

But as a gold miner,

you just can't leave gold in the ground.

Yeah, keep coming back. Keep coming back.

We're gonna go right off the edge here.

There you go, right there.

This will be our road.

We got little bit of mud on top of the gravel.

So, truck that are sinking could get moving.

And we got this road done.

12 hours since they began the build,

Mitch and crew have finished the new access road

We got ourselves a road here.

It's come along real good.

It's been a lot of work. It should definitely do the job.

Mitch is sending me back to the wash plant.

Moving the old road and building a new one,

that's just, like, insane.

I'm actually stoked I actually helped such a huge project.

Hey, Tyson, you got a copy?

The road is finished and the trucks are heading back over to you right now.

Yeah, sounds good. I'll meet you at the wash plants.

Just in time, buddy

You know, pretty happy with how this road turned out.

We just had to do it quick and fast.

But we've got good access back down to the wash plants.

One more thing that Parker' added to our already busy schedule,

but somehow we were able to make it all happen.

It's been a hell of a day.

But, you know, I'm really happy with how things turned out here.

Had this freaking dozer for two days and now it's stuck in the slop.

At California Creek,

Fred Lewis's crew are busy sluicing pay.

But his new dozer has a broken yoke bracket.

It's a 1984 dozer. Honestly, I don't know where the **** I'm gonna find a part for it.

I think Troy did mention he had some spare parts.

So, I'm gonna call him.

Hail Mary. Hopefully, he's got what I'm looking for.

But if we can't get this dozer going, we are ****.

Hey, Troy. How's it going?

Um, we're having a little bit of a problem.

It's the lift cylinder.

I was hoping to see if maybe you might have

parts laying around that we could come and scavenge from?

Okay, so would you mind me sending Buzz out there to come and check it out?

I appreciate it. I'll let you get back to work.

**** yeah.

We got the part. So I can send Buzz out right now.

Without it, we'd be probabl down two or three weeks.

Now, we can get that dozer back up and running.

At Fred Lewis's claim,

Buzz returns from his 300 mi round trip to Keno

with the part to fix the broken dozer.

It took me about 13 hours.

Had to be done.

Cut my sleep time rather short,

but sacrifices a guy has gotta make to be a successful miner.

Starting to get pretty damn sloppy out here.

Broken going out.

Get the new one in.

Pretty heavy. ****

It's kind of **** to do this by yourself.

She's ready to rock and roll again.

Talk about timing.

- How's it going? - Whoo! Holy ****, Buzz.

Can't believe you did this by yourself.

- What a pain in the ass. Great work, dude. - Yeah.

While you're here, just put those parts in the back.

- Yes. - I'll let you carry the big piece.

Oh, jeez, what is that?

Oh my ****.

I see why you wanted me to carry this one.

Oh, my ****.

Fire this puppy up. Let's push some muck.

Just 24 hours after the dozer went down..

Everything seems right and tight.

Ready to rip and strip.

...Buzz has it ba stripping in the Freedom cut

Buzz is busting his balls to get that dozer back up and running.

We'll fix every single probl and eventually,

we're gonna pull the gold out of this ground.

We're gonna keep fighting.

Tony speaking...

So, today, we're gonn get her hooked up.

We back Winchester down into the corner.

The Winchester bo are racing to get their wash plant up and running

to prove to Tony that they can catch gold

and deliver his 30 percent royalties.

Butch speaking

I'm not using a chain on Winchester.

I don't wanna mark the paint up.

Try to keep her as nice as we can for now.

Okay, Butch.

I want it another foot and a half this way.

Okay.

Butch, tighten the strap. Oh, no.

Butch!

Holy ****.

Butch speaking

He caught it before it went over.

We're good. Little stressful. But we're good.

Now that the plan is placed safely on the pad

all they need to do is conne the sluice boxes.

And they're ready to run pay

Is that gonna go under there?

I hope so.

Um...

Hm.

- Leg is in the way 'cause of the angle. - I see.

In my driveway, I set everything to fit on the other side.

I thought it was the same.

Okay, well that's not gonna work.

Ah, ****. It's always something.

John's homemade plant is a unique dual-barrel trommel.

Pay from the feed conveyer is split evenly between both

High pressure jets clean the rocks as they spin in the trommels.

Gold-rich slurry then runs o the two chutes into the sluice boxes.

When it was built, the sluice boxes were attach

to the right side of the plant.

Now, the tailings conveyer setup

means they need to be on the left.

But a supporting leg makes that impossible.

To fix, John needs to build an extension to the diversion chute,

allowing it to get around the leg,

and direct pay dirt to the sluice boxes.

You know, we're a tiny crew. We're three people.

Time is money, like everybody.

But maybe more so when you're small.

You look at the Beets' operation,

they can call in a service truck or a mechanic.

And for us, it stops until we fix it.

Hook that little eyelet on.

Looks like it's gonna work okay.

Well, now we gotta get dirt into the plant and get gold out of the sluice box.

After a 12-hour delay,

the Winchesters are finally ready to run pay.

Tony speaking...

That's Winchester.

Tony speaking...

Butch speaking

Power her up.

They call this the Cursed Cut.

But if you believe in curses then you're beat already.

Butch speaking

Looks like all of the calculations kind of worked out.

The water's flowing, beautiful, the boxes are behaving properly.

Today is a good day. I'm going to pick up Khara.

And I haven't seen her in probably about two and a half months.

Oh, baby!

Well, that's her plane.

- Hi! - Hey, baby! Mm.

I'm gonna crush you.

Are you ready to see the mine? You gotta meet The Tank.

I knew you were gonna jump right into that.

We should probably talk about finances.

- You can't have any more money. - With the finances...

- No more money. - Yeah, for three months.

Maybe you don't look at the finances and just kind of trust me on it?

'Cause it's getting kind of scary.

But I got it.

- Just trust me. - You say this every year.

- "Just trust me." We barely squeak by. - Shouldn't have trusted me

in Oregon, by the way.

I didn't trust you in Oregon.

- Tough love. Tough love. - I need it.

- Ow. - Sorry.

Tony speaking...

Two days after firing up,

it's time to see if the Winchester boys have broken the curse,

and delivered gold.

- Hello, guys. - Ha ha!

I got the loot.

Tony speaking...

We ran for 25 hours straight and...

Tony speaking...

Yeah.

- Gives you some faith in the box. - Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Tony's hoping the 25 hour run will delive seven ounces of gold.

So, somebody wanna do some counting?

- Tear away. - Tear it off.

That's zero.

One ounce, two ounce,

two and a half, three,

three and a half, four,

four and a half, five,

five and a half, 6.125 ounces.

Tony speaking...

Worth more than $11,000,

a strong start to the Winchesters' first sea so in the Yukon.

Butch speaking

Tony speaking...

Portioned just about half an ounce an hour.

Really?

Those top gravels would've been lean anyway

because they've been washed out for the last few years.

We can do a little better on the yardage recovery then

we're definitely in the game.

Tony speaking...

Well, you did.

"Hm". He says, "Hm."

Now he perks up.

Nice to see you again.

Butch speaking

Each cut that we tak should progress to

more and more gold, the deeper we go.

And hopefully, Winchester's up for the task.

We are.

That's just the tip of the iceberg for us.

We still have a full 100 day ahead of us.

We're not gonna really discuss the curse bit.

But I think we beat it.

I'd like to think we beat it.

Tony speaking...

All right, guys. First gold weigh.

- You guys excited? - Yeah.

**** Yeah.

We need a fire going here.

It's a momentous day for Fred Lewis and his crew.

After battling for ten week to get on the gold,

it's time for their first gold weigh of the season.

It's really awesome to have Khara here.

Mama's in town, it just completes the mine site.

Well, I'm excited. We're gonna make it happen this season.

Yeah.

Buzz, you saved us this week

and we really appreciate that.

Look at Buzz go, man.

We're just getting started.

Well, seeing getting started...

- You wanna see gold. - I'm ready. I'm ready.

- I know. - I wanna see what we've got.

- Last season... - Okay, here we go.

...Fred's first gold weigh delivered 8.4 ounces.

One, two...

- three, four... - Oh?

- ...five. - Come on, come on, come on, come on.

Uh, six.

- Six point oh. - Six point oh.

Six point oh, on the dot.

Six ounces falls far short of where the crew need to be

in order to hit their 500 ounce season goal.

You know, this is still more than we mined the entire first **** season we mined.

Even though it's been miserable hard work

and we haven't got a lot of gold to show for it,

we're paying the bills.

- We need to get better at it to get rich. - Yeah.

This is the worst run we're gonna have all season.

We've now got a dozer.

Like, we're in the position we wanted to be.

So, now we need to put serios yardage to the plant, and keep it going.

Now, get back to work.

Six ounces in a week.

Not even close to cutting it. We need that everyday.

'Cause I feel like that was a bunch of ****.

But I just gotta figure out a way to keep the guys' hope up.

That we're still...

We're still here mining, we're still pulling in gold.

But to put all the work that we put in

to this point of the season, and to walk out with six freaking ounces,

it's not where I wanna be, but we gotta get better.

- What's shaking, buddy? - How's it going, man?

Good. Good.

- How's it going, Doumitt? - Good, how're you doing, buddy?

Good, thanks. How are you feeling?

Yeah, it's been a fight, man, keeping both wash plants going side by side.

- They make you work. - Oh, the two together,

they do, they grind through the pay.

I was a little worried about that for a while. It's getting pretty skinny down there.

But yeah, not long after we had that road built,

started pushing the overburden

and everything was frozen.

I was wrong.

I freely admit that.

- And... - I totally thought that would be thawed.

It's very frozen.

Now, what do we do with Panama Canal?

Yeah, we'll have to just let it thaw and see

if it's ready by the end of the year,

and if we have time to sluice it.

It's gonna be tough to get that worked into everything else we got going on, man.

Yeah, at the beginning of the season when we started, it was little overwhelming

in the amount we have to do.

Yeah. It's one of those things I think it's gonna get worse before it gets better.

- It's all mind game. It's all head game. - Is that what it is?

- Yeah. - We're a third way through the season already.

Yeah, well, how much gold do we got there?

We a third of weight of where we want to be?

Let's take a look see.

- We'll do Big Red first, yeah? - All right.

Get in there!

Last week,

Big Red delivered a 124.3 ounces of bare cut gold.

Let's see what she did this week, buddy.

All right. 20, 40, 60,

100, 120, 140,

160, 180, 190...

Oh! 200.220.

230, 240, 250...

257.9. **** yeah.

It's about time we started having some big numbers.

What's the other one?

Sluicifer's haul from the Bear cut last week

was a 174.9 ounces.

80, 110,

140, 170,

- over 200. - Yeah.

- Come on. Come on. - 230, 240,

250, 260, 270...

- Yeah! - 289.05.

- There we go! - Yeah!

- Whoo! - Chest bump.

No.

Oh!

Not a bad week, fellas.

Parker's crew have pulled in mor than

$980,000 worth of gold this week,

bringing their season total to over 2,300 ounces.

Man, that's pretty cool to see, even after everything,

fighting with that road...

It's encouragement when you put in that much work and effort

- that you get good numbers. - Yeah.

- Doesn't always go that way. - No, but it did this time.

- And hopefully will next time. - That's cool, man.

- I'll bag this stuff up. We'll get out of here. - All right, man. Thanks!

You betcha. Thank you, you guys.

- Thanks, Chris. - Thanks, guys.

You know, I really feel like we wasted a lot of time this week building that new road

and stripping the Panama Canal.

Pretty tough, but when you s that much gold at the end of it all,

definitely worth it.