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[dramatic music playing]
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Parker, you got a copy?
Parker?
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Yeah. Go ahead.
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[Tyson] We mined out
the Unforgiven cut so fast,
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so we're gonna shut
the plant down.
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[bleep]
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All right.
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I'll let Chris know
and he can head down
for a cleanup.
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Copy that.
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[narrator]
Parker Schnabel is in a hole.
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Two months into the season,
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he's brought in
just 400 ounces,
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worth around $800,000.
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And now, his only
gold-producing wash plant
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is shut down.
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[bleep]
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So the pit Tyson's in
right now
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should've lasted
two to three weeks.
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What was it, a week?
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Like, just flew through it.
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So, yeah, we're back
to having no money coming in,
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which is not very good.
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[narrator] Parker has spent
nearly everything he has
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on his new $15 million
Dominion Creek claim.
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And he's spending more
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every day
to get down to gold.
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With no other cuts
ready to run,
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the chances of going bust
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are at an all-time high.
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We'll clear everything out.
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See if we have
any gold in here.
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[narrator] Gold recovery
expert, Chris Doumitt,
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pulls the gold-catching mats
from Sluicifer.
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Hi, Doumitt.
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[Chris] Hey, T.
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How is Parker doing?
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[Chris] Well, kid's
under a lot of stress.
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And he... He's just...
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It's a lot of mental stress.
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The kid's never had debt
like this, right?
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I doubt most people
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will ever have debt
like he has right now.
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[Chris] In the spring,
we're spending, what,
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a million dollars a week?
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And how much
have we brought in?
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-That's, uh...
-Yeah.
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You know, they gotta start
calling in those debts
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and we gotta get some gold
to fulfill those debts.
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If we don't pay the bills,
we lose what we've got,
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and what we got invested
into it.
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So, that's kind of riding
on his mind, too.
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Yeah, for sure.
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I have a dream of sluicing
a thawed cut one day.
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[laughter]
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Wow.
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I dream of a beach
in the Bahamas,
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but if you wanna sluice
thawed ground...
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You gotta raise
your standards, son.
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[laughs]
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-All righty. See ya.
-Good to see ya.
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[intense music playing]
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[narrator] Ten miles away,
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Parker rolls up
on foreman Mitch Blaschke,
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who's stripping
their first cut
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at Dominion Creek,
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the Money Pit.
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What's happening?
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[Parker] How's your levels?
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Oh, not too bad.
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[Parker] How do you feel
about this level
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you're cutting to
in that ditch?
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[Mitch]
I mean, it feels like pay.
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[Parker]
Okay, I have a thought.
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[Mitch] Let's hear it.
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[Parker] Because this is all
pretty well dried out,
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so you could probably sluice
your ditch, right?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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[narrator] Desperate to get
gold coming in,
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Parker now wants to sluice
the ditches.
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Over the last six weeks,
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Parker's crew has stripped
24 acres of the Money Pit
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down to frozen pay.
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Around the edge of the cut,
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they've dug ditches
from melt water
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from the thawing pay gravels
to drain into.
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Most of the cut
is still frozen.
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But there's a small amount
of thawed pay dirt
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deep in the ditches
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that's ready to run
through a wash plant.
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What plan are you thinking?
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[Parker] That one that's here.
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Probably.
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[Mitch] Little son
of the Sluicifer there?
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[Parker] Son of Sluicifer?
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[Mitch] We gotta
get a name for it.
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It's hard when it's
just like,
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"That... Which one?
That wash plant."
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[Parker] The Macon SD-600,
you mean?
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[Mitch] Yes, that one.
Exactly.
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[narrator]
The nearly-new wash plant
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was included in the deal
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when Parker bought Dominion.
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All that needs to happen
to that plant
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where it sits
is the water line hooked up.
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And the suction
thrown in the creek.
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And we could,
like, do it for a bit.
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All right.
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Sounds good.
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Well, we've decided
we need to fire up
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Sluicifer's twin here.
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Now, we're just making sure
that we've got it all ready
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to start running.
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We've gotta start pulling
the ditching out
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and we can start
making some money.
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It's gotta come
from somewhere
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and, well, hopefully,
this plant's gonna catch us
some gold.
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[intense music playing]
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[Mitch] Big day for us here.
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Finally sending some pay
to a wash plant.
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Emma, won't you come over here
to the 480?
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Copy that, Mitch.
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We're on our way
to start hauling some pay.
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[tense music playing]
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All right.
This is it right here.
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This scoop makes
the first truckload of pay
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heading to a wash plant
at Dominion.
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Let's do this.
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Woo-hoo!
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[Mitch] There's so much
riding on this here.
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This is gonna tell us
all about this ground
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that Parker bought,
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and what's really in it.
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[engine starts]
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We're just gonna fire this
plant up and see if it works.
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[water rushing]
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[Parker]
We got water, which is good.
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And we got a screen
that shakes, which is good.
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[water rushing]
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Now just see if we can
add some dirt to it.
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[narrator] Now...
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almost $18 million
in the hole,
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Parker's finally running
pay dirt at Dominion.
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[Parker] Hopefully, there's
lots of gold in it.
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[tense music playing]
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[Rick] Hey, Morgan,
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how's that stockpile
looking over there?
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[Morgan] Hey, man,
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the stockpile's
getting pretty small.
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[Rick] Uh-oh.
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[narrator] 100 miles east
of the Klondike gold fields,
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Rick Ness and his crew
are on the brink
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of running out of his only
source of money.
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With the stockpile
for the pay getting low,
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you know, we're gonna be
completely out.
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And if we run out
without a plan,
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that means the plant's off
and we're not running,
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and that means less gold.
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[narrator]
After taking a year off
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that left him nearly broke,
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Rick first sluiced easy
to hit stockpiled pay dirt.
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But now, it's nearly gone.
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He needs to figure out
his next move,
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or his dreams of a comeback
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are dead in the water.
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What we really need to do
is up production
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and find some new ground.
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So, right now, I'm heading
over to look at Rally Valley.
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Can't stare at it every day
as I go by,
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but, you know,
I'm getting a little anxious
to get back in there.
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[intense music playing]
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[narrator] Two seasons ago...
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[laughs]
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[Rick] This is one
of the scariest things
I've ever done.
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[narrator] Rick removed
over a million yards of dirt
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to hit a gold bonanza
in Rally Valley.
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[Rick] Oh, wow.
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[narrator] In just six weeks,
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it paid out
over 1,100 ounces.
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[laughter]
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Awesome.
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[narrator]
But the 190-foot deep pit...
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Ooh, [bleep].
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...became too dangerous
to mine.
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[Rick] [bleep] that [bleep]
wall's caving in.
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[bleep]
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[narrator] This season,
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Rick is determined
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to finish what he started.
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[sighs]
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[bleep]
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Honestly, I kind of thought
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that we'd be in better shape
by now this time of year.
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I thought it would be really
pretty much ready to go.
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There's rock coming down,
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that's not fully stable yet.
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I can't afford
to put people in here
right now
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because someone
will get hurt or worse.
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You know, and I'm not gonna
put anybody in my crew
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in that kind of position.
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And not all the gold
in the world's worth that.
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I mean, the water's
another story.
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I mean,
we were probably
about 50 feet
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below that water level.
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So, I've gotta pump
all that water out,
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but, you know, there's no
sense even doing that
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until it's safe
to get in there.
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And it's still not safe.
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It's unfinished business
in a way that, you know,
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I sunk a ton of money
into this
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and I want what's out of it.
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You know, I want the gold
at the bottom,
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you know,
that's what I want.
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I want that for myself
and I want that for my crew.
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We gotta keep gold
coming in somehow.
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[dramatic music playing]
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[narrator]
Rick desperately needs
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an alternative site to mine.
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[Rick] Heading upstream,
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this is where my little
wash plant's set up.
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Rocky's down here.
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We were running that
in the last year.
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I was up here
in the beginning
of the season,
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and we left the cut
to start on Rally Valley.
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And so,
I just wanna kind of...
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look it over
and see where we're at.
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We gotta cross the river
to get down here
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and with the spring,
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the way it was, there was
just way too much water,
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so I'm hoping
it's not too deep.
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We're gonna find out.
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[narrator] From Rally Valley,
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Rick's heading past
his wash plant, Monster Red,
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a mile north past
his second wash plant, Rocky,
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towards an old pre-stripped
cut called the Bacon Strip.
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But to reach it, he has to
drive through Duncan Creek
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which so far has been
too dangerous to cross.
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I have no idea
how deep it is.
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All right.
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[engine revving]
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[Rick] Uh-oh.
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[engine revving]
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Well, that [bleep] happening.
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Definitely will need a bigger
machine to get through here.
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[bleep]
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So, I am pulling
from the very last
of this stockpile.
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We've been working
on this pile for a long time.
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That's the last bucket.
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It is time to shut down
and do a cleanup.
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[narrator]
Stockpiled pay finished,
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Rick is under
even more pressure
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to find a new spot
to mine.
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[Morgan] Hopefully,
Rick has more pay.
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[intense music playing]
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[Morgan] That's it.
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[narrator] Rick Ness's crew
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are out of stockpiled
pay dirt,
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and his only potential gold
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lies on the other side
of a deep creek.
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[Rick] Now that I'm down here,
I'm [bleep] dying to see
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what that cut looks like.
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I'm just worried
about anything
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on the front of the truck.
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I don't wanna run the grille
under there or something.
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[truck engine revving]
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[narrator]
If Rick floods the engine,
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it could cost him hundreds
of thousands to replace.
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Yeah, [bleep].
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I feel that front end
setting down already.
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[truck engine revving]
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[Rick] Yeah, that's not
what I really want.
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[truck engine revving]
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[Rick] Well, that ain't
the smoothest, but...
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we made it.
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There's a lot more here than
I thought there was, actually.
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There's a lot here.
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[tense music playing]
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From this edge,
all the way here,
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and it goes clear up
all the way up
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and around the corner
where it crosses the creek.
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There's a lot here.
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I mean, it could pay
a few bills and more.
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Give me the money I need
to get back into Rally Valley
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and start tackling that.
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Making decisions out here,
mobilize all our equipment,
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it costs a lot of money,
287
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so we'll pull 500 yards
out of here, test it,
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get five ounces of gold
out of it,
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I'm gonna call it good enough.
We'll move everything down.
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[narrator] Before Rick commits
to running the Bacon Strip,
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he plans to truck pay dirt
back to Monster Red
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to do a 500-yard bulk test.
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If he doesn't get five ounces
from the test,
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Rick will be back
to square one.
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[Rick] I'm really hoping
this works out.
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[intense music playing]
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[narrator] 100 miles west,
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Klondike legend Tony Beets
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is in deep trouble.
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[bleep]
301
00:15:19,551 --> 00:15:21,896
[narrator]
His Paradise Hill operation
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00:15:21,931 --> 00:15:24,793
is down
with a broken trommel.
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00:15:24,827 --> 00:15:28,137
His Indian River claim
is at a standstill.
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And two months in,
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00:15:30,103 --> 00:15:32,413
he's still not mined
any gold.
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[Tony speaking]
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[narrator] Now, he's on a call
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that will make
or break his season.
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[Tony speaking]
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[narrator] Last week...
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[Tony speaking]
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[narrator] ...Indian River
was shut down
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by mining authorities...
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[Tony speaking]
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[narrator] ...stopping Tony
from getting on the gold.
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[Tony speaking]
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[narrator] Tony's mistake
318
00:16:12,896 --> 00:16:15,379
meant he can
only sluice one acre
319
00:16:15,413 --> 00:16:18,310
rather than the 15 acres
he planned,
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00:16:18,344 --> 00:16:21,310
putting his Indian River
dreams on hold.
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00:16:23,551 --> 00:16:25,862
[Tony speaking]
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[line ringing]
323
00:16:29,758 --> 00:16:30,827
[Minnie] Hello?
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00:16:38,793 --> 00:16:40,034
[Minnie] Wow, really?
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00:16:48,827 --> 00:16:49,689
[Minnie] I know.
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[Minnie]
That's bloody awesome.
327
00:16:58,965 --> 00:17:01,655
[narrator]
Tony's been given a lifeline.
328
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The authorities have decided
he can sluice
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the 15 acres
he'd previously opened,
330
00:17:08,034 --> 00:17:11,205
but he's not allowed
to strip any new ground.
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[Tony speaking]
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[Mike]
Go ahead. Go ahead, Tony.
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[Mike] [bleep] beautiful.
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[narrator] First step,
get his shaker deck plant
335
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up and running.
336
00:18:22,724 --> 00:18:24,827
[narrator]
Under his restricted license,
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Tony can only sluice
the 15 acres he's opened
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00:18:28,413 --> 00:18:30,310
by recycling his water.
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00:18:31,482 --> 00:18:34,103
His plan, draw a clean water
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00:18:34,137 --> 00:18:35,517
from his pumping pond
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00:18:35,551 --> 00:18:39,103
through a 600-foot pipe
to the shaker deck
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00:18:39,137 --> 00:18:41,793
and discharge
all the waste water
343
00:18:41,827 --> 00:18:44,724
from the plant
into his settling pond
344
00:18:44,758 --> 00:18:46,931
where the dirt
will sink to the bottom,
345
00:18:46,965 --> 00:18:49,034
leaving the water clean.
346
00:18:49,068 --> 00:18:51,000
At the far end of the pond,
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00:18:51,034 --> 00:18:54,241
another pump will then
recycle the clean water
348
00:18:54,275 --> 00:18:56,275
back into the pumping pond
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00:18:56,310 --> 00:18:59,000
where the whole process
will start again.
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[tense music playing]
351
00:19:07,758 --> 00:19:09,344
So, we wanna be
as fast as possible
352
00:19:09,379 --> 00:19:12,551
as this is one of the last
things required
353
00:19:12,586 --> 00:19:13,862
before we can
start sluicing,
354
00:19:13,896 --> 00:19:16,000
is getting the pipeline
in place
355
00:19:16,034 --> 00:19:18,275
so we have water
at the plant.
356
00:19:18,310 --> 00:19:21,448
So, the faster Mike is,
357
00:19:21,482 --> 00:19:23,000
the faster we'll be sluicing.
358
00:19:27,034 --> 00:19:28,689
It's a [bleep]
scorcher today.
359
00:19:28,724 --> 00:19:30,137
It's sluicing season.
360
00:19:31,310 --> 00:19:32,931
If you have sweat
running down your[bleep],
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00:19:32,965 --> 00:19:34,517
you should be sluicing.
If you're not,
362
00:19:34,551 --> 00:19:36,862
you really are
just[bleep] late.
363
00:19:36,896 --> 00:19:38,448
We should have been sluicing
two months ago.
364
00:19:43,413 --> 00:19:44,517
[Tony speaking]
365
00:19:54,275 --> 00:19:57,206
[machinery whirring]
366
00:19:57,241 --> 00:19:59,586
[Tony speaking]
367
00:20:03,724 --> 00:20:05,172
[engine starts]
368
00:20:25,517 --> 00:20:28,241
[Monica] Here we go.
First bucket of the season.
369
00:20:28,275 --> 00:20:30,034
[narrator] Eight weeks
into the season...
370
00:20:31,379 --> 00:20:32,724
[Tony speaking]
371
00:20:32,758 --> 00:20:35,482
[narrator]
...and for the first
time in four years,
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00:20:35,517 --> 00:20:37,586
the Beets
are finally sluicing
373
00:20:37,620 --> 00:20:39,034
Indian River pay dirt.
374
00:20:59,931 --> 00:21:01,896
[thudding]
375
00:21:03,482 --> 00:21:06,275
[rocks crashing]
376
00:21:06,310 --> 00:21:09,482
[Tony speaking]
377
00:21:16,068 --> 00:21:17,448
[Monica] For [bleep] sakes!
378
00:21:36,206 --> 00:21:38,758
[narrator] The tailings
diverter has broken off
379
00:21:38,793 --> 00:21:40,758
and landed
in the sluice box,
380
00:21:40,793 --> 00:21:44,000
stopping the riffles
from catching gold.
381
00:21:44,034 --> 00:21:46,965
Just minutes into his first
run of the season,
382
00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:48,586
Tony is shut down
383
00:21:48,620 --> 00:21:51,379
and still making no money.
384
00:22:03,931 --> 00:22:06,551
[tense music playing]
385
00:22:06,586 --> 00:22:08,000
Well, right now,
we're working our way
386
00:22:08,034 --> 00:22:09,965
around the edge
of the Money Pit cut
387
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:11,793
and that's allowing us
to send some pay dirt
388
00:22:11,827 --> 00:22:13,068
to a wash plant
389
00:22:13,103 --> 00:22:15,379
and get some
ditches in here,
390
00:22:15,413 --> 00:22:19,241
which is definitely a good
thing on both accounts.
391
00:22:19,275 --> 00:22:22,379
[narrator] In a desperate move
to keep money coming in,
392
00:22:22,413 --> 00:22:25,793
and find out how rich
his new Dominion claim is,
393
00:22:25,827 --> 00:22:27,896
Parker has tasked Mitch
394
00:22:27,931 --> 00:22:31,275
with sluicing thawed pay dirt
from the Money Pit's ditches.
395
00:22:33,620 --> 00:22:35,655
We've washed a lot of rocks
in the Yukon
396
00:22:35,689 --> 00:22:38,482
and, you know,
seen a lot of cleanups,
397
00:22:38,517 --> 00:22:42,137
but probably none as important
as this one here.
398
00:22:42,172 --> 00:22:43,965
This is gonna let us know
what this ground
399
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,344
that Parker bought
is all about.
400
00:22:46,379 --> 00:22:47,827
And I gotta say,
401
00:22:47,862 --> 00:22:50,413
I think everybody around here
is holding their breath
402
00:22:50,448 --> 00:22:52,586
to see what this first one
is here.
403
00:22:54,724 --> 00:22:56,206
[narrator]
Parker's new wash plant
404
00:22:56,241 --> 00:22:57,793
has been running
for two days.
405
00:23:01,517 --> 00:23:04,827
I'm feeding it
with an excavator.
406
00:23:05,793 --> 00:23:08,000
Sandy's bringing the pay
407
00:23:08,034 --> 00:23:11,137
from the cuts in Dominion,
408
00:23:11,172 --> 00:23:12,931
and this comes
all from the ditches.
409
00:23:13,931 --> 00:23:16,137
And we have Emma
doing tailings.
410
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,379
So, basically,
girl power today.
411
00:23:19,413 --> 00:23:22,482
[dramatic music playing]
412
00:23:25,137 --> 00:23:28,517
I think we got ourselves here
the dream team, ladies.
413
00:23:28,551 --> 00:23:30,413
Yeah, we're definitely
the dream team.
414
00:23:30,448 --> 00:23:31,517
You know what's up.
415
00:23:41,758 --> 00:23:42,793
[Tatiana] Oh, [bleep].
416
00:23:42,827 --> 00:23:44,517
It looks like we're losing
a lot of water.
417
00:23:46,241 --> 00:23:48,551
It looks really bad.
We might have to shut it off.
418
00:23:49,655 --> 00:23:51,034
[Sandy] Let's shut her down.
419
00:23:52,862 --> 00:23:54,172
[Tatiana] Might go find help.
420
00:24:00,448 --> 00:24:01,896
So, we had to shut down
the plant
421
00:24:01,931 --> 00:24:04,793
because the pump
lost water pressure.
422
00:24:04,827 --> 00:24:06,137
[Sandy]
That's not a good scenario.
423
00:24:08,310 --> 00:24:09,655
[narrator] Low water pressure
424
00:24:09,689 --> 00:24:13,137
means the plant can't wash
gold from the pay dirt.
425
00:24:14,241 --> 00:24:18,206
No gold means no money
coming in for Parker.
426
00:24:20,655 --> 00:24:22,000
[Liam] We're not
sluicing gold
427
00:24:23,275 --> 00:24:26,137
and that's a big issue
for us right now.
428
00:24:26,172 --> 00:24:29,206
[narrator] It's down
to mechanics, Liam Pukila
429
00:24:29,241 --> 00:24:31,000
and Tyler Jankowski,
430
00:24:31,034 --> 00:24:33,689
to get the pump
up and running.
431
00:24:33,724 --> 00:24:35,724
-Even on like that angle
where the pipe is...
-Yeah.
432
00:24:35,758 --> 00:24:37,655
...that looks
like a crack right there.
433
00:24:39,034 --> 00:24:40,000
-I don't know.
-Yeah.
434
00:24:41,517 --> 00:24:45,655
I need a canoe to get out
there to get my hand over it.
435
00:24:45,689 --> 00:24:47,965
So, we got no way of picking
up the suction line.
436
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:49,896
You gotta crawl
down the pipe
437
00:24:49,931 --> 00:24:52,448
to feed the crack
where the air's coming in
438
00:24:52,482 --> 00:24:53,413
with silicone.
439
00:24:55,517 --> 00:24:57,000
I don't know
if it's gonna work or not.
440
00:24:59,551 --> 00:25:01,827
[narrator]
A crack in the intake hose
441
00:25:01,862 --> 00:25:04,034
is sucking air into the pump
442
00:25:04,068 --> 00:25:06,827
causing an air lock
and a loss of pressure.
443
00:25:08,137 --> 00:25:09,275
To fix it,
444
00:25:09,310 --> 00:25:12,068
Liam will seal the crack
with silicone
445
00:25:12,103 --> 00:25:13,931
and hope it will do the job.
446
00:25:13,965 --> 00:25:15,551
[Liam] That's
definitely a crack.
447
00:25:15,586 --> 00:25:16,758
[Tyler]
You want your silicone?
448
00:25:17,862 --> 00:25:19,551
Yeah, pass me
some right stuff, I guess.
449
00:25:19,586 --> 00:25:20,620
You ready?
450
00:25:22,206 --> 00:25:23,655
Whoo.
451
00:25:23,689 --> 00:25:24,793
There's a crack
452
00:25:25,896 --> 00:25:29,379
right there
that's pulling air in as well.
453
00:25:36,206 --> 00:25:37,965
This isn't even bush fix.
454
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:39,103
[laughs]
455
00:25:40,413 --> 00:25:41,482
This is a pipe dream.
456
00:25:42,482 --> 00:25:44,068
[Liam speaking]
457
00:25:49,103 --> 00:25:50,241
[Tyler] Is that enough water?
458
00:25:52,137 --> 00:25:54,000
[Liam]
That looks like enough water.
459
00:25:54,862 --> 00:25:56,000
Hey, Tatiana...
460
00:25:57,275 --> 00:25:59,068
pump's back
and sealed together.
461
00:25:59,103 --> 00:26:00,620
We got water flowing.
462
00:26:00,655 --> 00:26:03,379
Awesome. Roger that.
That's great news.
463
00:26:03,413 --> 00:26:05,827
I'm glad to see
the pump's working again.
464
00:26:05,862 --> 00:26:09,206
Let's just get sluicing
and try to catch up.
465
00:26:09,241 --> 00:26:11,137
[engine starting]
466
00:26:11,172 --> 00:26:13,827
Never a dull moment
when you're sluicing.
467
00:26:15,137 --> 00:26:17,655
[narrator] Parker's only
working wash plant
468
00:26:17,689 --> 00:26:19,275
back up and running.
469
00:26:19,310 --> 00:26:20,862
He'll soon find out
470
00:26:20,896 --> 00:26:23,724
if his $15 million
Dominion gamble
471
00:26:23,758 --> 00:26:27,551
will pay out the big gold
he desperately needs.
472
00:26:30,827 --> 00:26:34,551
[Tatiana] It's nice to finally
be back running again.
473
00:26:34,586 --> 00:26:36,034
We've been having
a lot of problems
474
00:26:36,068 --> 00:26:37,482
with the pump
and the water,
475
00:26:37,517 --> 00:26:41,034
so hopefully,
this is... This is it.
476
00:26:41,068 --> 00:26:44,758
And no more
pump breaks
477
00:26:44,793 --> 00:26:46,034
or water breaks.
478
00:26:46,068 --> 00:26:48,206
So, fingers crossed.
479
00:26:56,275 --> 00:26:59,241
[tense music playing]
480
00:27:08,586 --> 00:27:11,689
[Tony speaking]
481
00:27:20,517 --> 00:27:23,000
[narrator] Tony Beets'
Indian River operation
482
00:27:23,034 --> 00:27:26,137
is shut down
after the tailings diverter
483
00:27:26,172 --> 00:27:29,137
on Monica's wash plant
broke off.
484
00:27:31,793 --> 00:27:34,413
[Tony speaking]
485
00:27:40,862 --> 00:27:42,448
[narrator] Now, in the race
486
00:27:42,482 --> 00:27:44,482
to get his first gold
of the season,
487
00:27:44,517 --> 00:27:48,448
the king is taking matters
into his own hands.
488
00:27:53,241 --> 00:27:54,793
It sucks when somebody
doesn't do the one job
489
00:27:54,827 --> 00:27:56,310
that they had properly.
490
00:27:56,344 --> 00:27:58,724
And then,
we have [bleep] up like this.
491
00:27:58,758 --> 00:28:01,103
We don't have
that many welders on-site
492
00:28:01,137 --> 00:28:02,758
and none in the Indian
right now.
493
00:28:02,793 --> 00:28:06,758
So, it's Tony who's gotta fix
the [bleep] up
494
00:28:06,793 --> 00:28:08,551
and that probably makes him
more pissed off
495
00:28:08,586 --> 00:28:09,827
than the [bleep]
in the first place.
496
00:28:11,068 --> 00:28:13,413
As of right now,
we have no plants running.
497
00:28:13,448 --> 00:28:15,896
This late in the game,
it's kind of [bleep].
498
00:28:22,896 --> 00:28:26,448
[Tony speaking]
499
00:28:32,551 --> 00:28:34,551
[thunder rumbling]
500
00:28:41,448 --> 00:28:44,586
In classic Yukon fashion,
501
00:28:44,620 --> 00:28:47,482
we have blistering heat
502
00:28:47,517 --> 00:28:49,310
and rainstorms
503
00:28:50,724 --> 00:28:53,310
pretty much
back to back nonstop.
504
00:28:53,344 --> 00:28:56,068
So, aces.
505
00:28:56,103 --> 00:28:57,413
[Tony speaking]
506
00:29:08,517 --> 00:29:09,517
[Monica] Yeah.
507
00:29:17,448 --> 00:29:18,551
We'll have to start
sometime.
508
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,482
[Monica]
Better late than never.
509
00:29:29,310 --> 00:29:30,413
[Tony speaking]
510
00:29:32,896 --> 00:29:34,275
[Monica] Okay. Let's go.
511
00:30:01,275 --> 00:30:03,000
[narrator] Two months in,
512
00:30:03,034 --> 00:30:05,103
Tony's finally on track
513
00:30:05,137 --> 00:30:07,896
to see his first gold
of the season.
514
00:30:07,931 --> 00:30:11,000
The king of the Klondike
is back in business.
515
00:30:18,517 --> 00:30:21,379
[dramatic music playing]
516
00:30:36,034 --> 00:30:37,172
Oh.
517
00:30:49,551 --> 00:30:52,448
[narrator] It's crunch time
for Rick Ness.
518
00:30:52,482 --> 00:30:56,620
He's getting ready
to run a 500-yard bulk test
519
00:30:56,655 --> 00:31:00,034
to see if the Bacon Strip
holds enough gold
520
00:31:00,068 --> 00:31:03,482
to keep his comeback
season alive.
521
00:31:03,517 --> 00:31:06,586
[dramatic music playing]
522
00:31:12,517 --> 00:31:14,551
[Rick]
What the [bleep] is that?
523
00:31:14,586 --> 00:31:16,758
Hey, Buzz, you got copy?
524
00:31:16,793 --> 00:31:17,689
[Buzz] Yeah. Go ahead.
525
00:31:17,724 --> 00:31:18,793
[Rick] Hey, man.
I got some...
526
00:31:18,827 --> 00:31:20,724
I got some oil
on the track in the 700.
527
00:31:20,758 --> 00:31:22,862
So, there must be a leak
underneath it somewhere.
528
00:31:22,896 --> 00:31:24,517
[Buzz] I'll be right there.
529
00:31:24,551 --> 00:31:26,862
[bleep]
530
00:31:26,896 --> 00:31:29,413
This thing's leaking somewhere
underneath, hydraulic oil.
531
00:31:29,448 --> 00:31:30,931
[bleep]
532
00:31:32,551 --> 00:31:34,689
-What's going on, Buzz?
-Hey, Rick, man.
533
00:31:41,827 --> 00:31:43,241
[Rick]
It's not an easy one to spot.
534
00:31:45,344 --> 00:31:46,793
[Buzz] I got it.
535
00:31:46,827 --> 00:31:47,931
-Got it?
-[Buzz] Yeah.
536
00:31:47,965 --> 00:31:49,689
It's this guy right here.
537
00:31:49,724 --> 00:31:52,344
-[Rick] It's on the stick.
-On the stick.
538
00:31:52,379 --> 00:31:54,275
We don't have any lines
hooked that got raised.
539
00:31:54,310 --> 00:31:55,862
[Rick] [bleep], and that needs
to be fixed
540
00:31:55,896 --> 00:31:57,000
before we can even use it
on anything.
541
00:31:58,965 --> 00:32:01,655
[Buzz] You'll just cut
the broken part
of the hose out,
542
00:32:01,689 --> 00:32:03,793
then we're gonna use this
543
00:32:03,827 --> 00:32:05,827
to hook the hose
back together.
544
00:32:07,103 --> 00:32:09,551
[narrator]
The 700 excavator's arm
545
00:32:09,586 --> 00:32:11,620
has three main parts,
546
00:32:11,655 --> 00:32:16,379
the boom, the stick,
and the bucket.
547
00:32:16,413 --> 00:32:19,551
The hydraulic hose that
supplies the stick cylinder
548
00:32:19,586 --> 00:32:22,034
with hydraulic fluid
is leaking
549
00:32:22,068 --> 00:32:24,413
and the stick
is unable to move.
550
00:32:26,275 --> 00:32:27,793
Without a replacement,
551
00:32:27,827 --> 00:32:29,344
Buzz plans to cut out
552
00:32:29,379 --> 00:32:31,241
the part of the hose
with the leak,
553
00:32:32,517 --> 00:32:34,896
then use a metal hose link
554
00:32:34,931 --> 00:32:37,965
to join the two ends
back together,
555
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,655
removing the leak
and allowing the stick
556
00:32:40,689 --> 00:32:42,551
to move again.
557
00:32:42,586 --> 00:32:45,206
[machinery whirring]
558
00:32:46,517 --> 00:32:49,241
Here's gotta hold 1,450 PSI.
559
00:32:50,655 --> 00:32:52,413
So, let's hope this holds.
560
00:32:58,241 --> 00:33:00,000
[Rick] Buzz,
you got it fixed?
561
00:33:00,034 --> 00:33:01,655
-I believe so.
-Yeah?
562
00:33:02,827 --> 00:33:05,551
I'll let you fire it up
and try it out.
563
00:33:05,586 --> 00:33:07,793
Well, it looks good to me.
I mean, that'll be...
564
00:33:07,827 --> 00:33:09,344
It's kind of
a temporary fix, but--
565
00:33:09,379 --> 00:33:10,379
[Buzz] Yeah.
566
00:33:11,517 --> 00:33:12,379
I love it.
567
00:33:12,413 --> 00:33:13,689
[bleep],
I'll start it up, bud.
568
00:33:13,724 --> 00:33:15,758
-I'm not scared.
-[Buzz laughs]
569
00:33:15,793 --> 00:33:17,000
You trust in your work?
570
00:33:19,068 --> 00:33:20,965
[engine revving]
571
00:33:22,551 --> 00:33:24,034
Any leaks?
572
00:33:24,068 --> 00:33:25,241
Not yet.
573
00:33:45,620 --> 00:33:46,724
-[Buzz] Yeah.
-She'll hold.
574
00:33:47,931 --> 00:33:49,137
Nice [bleep] job.
575
00:33:51,482 --> 00:33:53,206
[both laughing]
576
00:33:53,241 --> 00:33:54,931
-Thanks, Buzz.
-[Buzz] Yeah.
577
00:33:58,620 --> 00:34:01,068
[dramatic music playing]
578
00:34:07,862 --> 00:34:09,447
[narrator]
Rick sends the first load
579
00:34:09,482 --> 00:34:11,447
of the Bacon Strip
test pay
580
00:34:11,482 --> 00:34:12,688
to Monster Red.
581
00:34:16,585 --> 00:34:18,827
[Buzz speaking]
582
00:34:21,172 --> 00:34:23,206
[narrator]
And with the creek's
water level down,
583
00:34:23,241 --> 00:34:26,172
it's smooth running
back to the plant.
584
00:34:26,206 --> 00:34:28,206
[Rick] We're hoping
for five ounces of gold,
585
00:34:28,241 --> 00:34:29,793
which would mean
we can get about an ounce
per hundred yards.
586
00:34:29,827 --> 00:34:31,379
That means it'll be worth
our time to mine it.
587
00:34:32,827 --> 00:34:35,827
[Buzz speaking]
588
00:34:45,931 --> 00:34:48,757
[suspenseful music playing]
589
00:34:57,413 --> 00:34:59,931
We're gonna see how rich
this ground actually is.
590
00:34:59,965 --> 00:35:02,620
The rest of the season
depends on this test.
591
00:35:02,655 --> 00:35:05,034
[machinery whirring]
592
00:35:05,068 --> 00:35:06,275
[Rick] There's a lot
riding on this.
593
00:35:06,310 --> 00:35:09,275
[dramatic music playing]
594
00:35:20,172 --> 00:35:22,689
[laughter]
595
00:35:22,724 --> 00:35:23,827
[Monica] Come on,
baby girl.
596
00:35:31,241 --> 00:35:33,034
[Tony speaking]
597
00:35:33,068 --> 00:35:34,655
-You wanna pour it
into this?
-[Tony] Yeah.
598
00:35:34,689 --> 00:35:36,137
-Okay.
-[Tony] Why not?
599
00:35:36,172 --> 00:35:38,206
Don't touch nothing.
600
00:35:38,241 --> 00:35:41,827
[narrator] It's the moment of
truth for the Beets family.
601
00:35:41,862 --> 00:35:44,103
Later than ever before,
602
00:35:44,137 --> 00:35:47,034
they're about to see their
first gold of the season
603
00:35:47,068 --> 00:35:49,827
and the first
from Indian River
604
00:35:49,862 --> 00:35:51,241
in four years.
605
00:35:52,172 --> 00:35:53,275
[Tony speaking]
606
00:35:55,137 --> 00:35:57,517
[Minnie] Well, then I'll be
in the summit all day.
607
00:35:57,551 --> 00:35:59,689
[Tony speaking]
608
00:35:59,724 --> 00:36:02,068
It's nice to be back
in the Indian River
and sluicing
609
00:36:02,103 --> 00:36:03,172
'cause that's, what,
610
00:36:03,206 --> 00:36:04,965
five years we've been
waiting for that?
611
00:36:18,379 --> 00:36:20,965
[Minnie]
So, this is,
say, 22 hours?
612
00:36:23,172 --> 00:36:26,275
[suspenseful music playing]
613
00:36:26,310 --> 00:36:27,137
[Monica] 5.
614
00:36:27,172 --> 00:36:28,379
[Mike] 6.
615
00:36:28,413 --> 00:36:29,413
[Monica] 10.
616
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,206
[narrator] Running Monica's
200-yard-an-hour wash plant
617
00:36:34,241 --> 00:36:36,000
for 22 hours
618
00:36:36,034 --> 00:36:38,379
should deliver
around 60 ounces.
619
00:36:38,413 --> 00:36:39,724
[Monica] 40...
620
00:36:42,793 --> 00:36:43,758
50...
621
00:36:45,620 --> 00:36:46,551
60...
622
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,103
61.88.
623
00:36:51,413 --> 00:36:54,344
[narrator]
Worth over $120,000.
624
00:36:55,034 --> 00:36:56,137
[Monica] Not bad.
625
00:36:56,172 --> 00:36:57,310
It's chunky.
626
00:36:58,448 --> 00:37:01,862
[narrator] The Beets
are finally on the gold.
627
00:37:01,896 --> 00:37:03,620
[Minnie] It's a drop
in the bucket, but--
628
00:37:05,965 --> 00:37:08,034
[Minnie] Well, let it be more,
many more drops.
629
00:37:13,517 --> 00:37:14,931
[narrator] Coming up,
630
00:37:14,965 --> 00:37:18,379
Parker gets his first taste
of Dominion gold.
631
00:37:18,413 --> 00:37:20,413
Did the Money Pit
hold up to its name?
632
00:37:20,448 --> 00:37:21,724
Here we go.
633
00:37:21,758 --> 00:37:23,862
10, 20, 40.
634
00:37:24,896 --> 00:37:26,931
[narrator]
And has Rick got enough gold
635
00:37:26,965 --> 00:37:29,103
to keep his season alive?
636
00:37:31,172 --> 00:37:33,034
[Morgan] Are you ready?
637
00:37:38,103 --> 00:37:40,172
[dramatic music playing]
638
00:37:44,689 --> 00:37:47,724
[Buzz] We're just,
uh, setting the box in here
639
00:37:47,758 --> 00:37:49,379
so we could get this
sluice box cleaned up.
640
00:37:51,448 --> 00:37:52,724
[narrator] At Duncan Creek,
641
00:37:52,758 --> 00:37:54,689
Rick's crew pulled
the mats
642
00:37:54,724 --> 00:37:57,655
on the 500-yard
Bacon Strip test.
643
00:37:59,724 --> 00:38:01,448
So, in such a big box
like this,
644
00:38:01,482 --> 00:38:02,931
it sure
is [bleep] hard to tell
645
00:38:02,965 --> 00:38:04,241
if there's gonna be
five ounces or not.
646
00:38:04,275 --> 00:38:05,482
Yeah.
647
00:38:05,517 --> 00:38:08,068
And what happens
if it's not five ounces?
648
00:38:08,103 --> 00:38:09,517
Don't [bleep] say that.
649
00:38:09,551 --> 00:38:10,758
[Morgan] Well...
650
00:38:10,793 --> 00:38:12,827
No. I... Honestly,
651
00:38:12,862 --> 00:38:14,137
I don't really wanna think
about that.
652
00:38:14,172 --> 00:38:16,724
I'm really hoping that it is.
653
00:38:16,758 --> 00:38:18,379
If it's under that, it's gonna
be a tough decision.
654
00:38:18,413 --> 00:38:20,379
If it's close, it's gonna be
a tough decision.
655
00:38:20,413 --> 00:38:22,655
If it's not even... If it's
not even in the ballpark,
656
00:38:22,689 --> 00:38:23,862
well then
we can't go down there.
657
00:38:23,896 --> 00:38:24,896
Right.
658
00:38:27,310 --> 00:38:28,896
So, I'm really hoping
this works out.
659
00:38:28,931 --> 00:38:30,275
[Morgan] Yeah. Me too.
660
00:38:40,068 --> 00:38:44,068
[dramatic music playing]
661
00:38:52,551 --> 00:38:54,000
-Hello.
-[Morgan] Hey.
662
00:38:54,827 --> 00:38:56,310
Perfect timing.
663
00:38:56,344 --> 00:38:57,448
They're all done?
664
00:38:57,482 --> 00:38:59,655
Found the last little bits.
665
00:38:59,689 --> 00:39:03,206
[narrator] Rick Ness
has two critical gold weighs.
666
00:39:04,862 --> 00:39:08,896
One from the leftover pay
pile he's finally finished,
667
00:39:08,931 --> 00:39:10,482
and the other,
668
00:39:10,517 --> 00:39:12,724
the results
of the Bacon Strip test.
669
00:39:13,689 --> 00:39:15,551
[Morgan]
This is from the pay piles.
670
00:39:15,586 --> 00:39:16,551
[Rick] Okay.
671
00:39:16,586 --> 00:39:19,482
[Morgan] And then,
this one is our test run.
672
00:39:19,517 --> 00:39:21,206
-Ooh.
-[Morgan] Mmm-hmm.
673
00:39:21,241 --> 00:39:23,551
It feels right.
674
00:39:23,586 --> 00:39:24,965
It's gonna be close, eh.
675
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:26,620
Let's see what the last
of the stockpiles
676
00:39:26,655 --> 00:39:27,793
had to offer there.
677
00:39:28,724 --> 00:39:30,793
[narrator]
To cover his running costs,
678
00:39:30,827 --> 00:39:33,586
Rick needs
at least ten ounces.
679
00:39:33,620 --> 00:39:34,827
Let's see what we get.
680
00:39:37,068 --> 00:39:39,586
2, 5, 6, 8, 9...
681
00:39:39,620 --> 00:39:40,896
Ooh, 11...
682
00:39:42,034 --> 00:39:44,724
12.43 ounces
683
00:39:45,448 --> 00:39:46,620
for a partial week.
684
00:39:47,517 --> 00:39:48,931
I'll take it.
685
00:39:48,965 --> 00:39:52,137
[narrator]
Worth almost $25,000.
686
00:39:53,482 --> 00:39:57,758
That puts us at like 123.6?
687
00:39:57,793 --> 00:39:59,068
Sounds about right.
688
00:39:59,103 --> 00:40:00,000
Let's pay the bills.
689
00:40:00,034 --> 00:40:02,310
I'm just happy
to be moving on, you know.
690
00:40:02,344 --> 00:40:04,758
So, I'm more concerned
about that 500-yard test.
691
00:40:05,827 --> 00:40:06,793
I'm hoping for five ounces.
692
00:40:07,620 --> 00:40:09,482
You know,
if it's close even,
693
00:40:09,517 --> 00:40:10,620
you know,
that'll get us there.
694
00:40:10,655 --> 00:40:12,379
If it's not, you know,
I don't really know what to do
695
00:40:12,413 --> 00:40:14,689
'cause Rally Valley's
not ready to go to yet.
696
00:40:14,724 --> 00:40:16,655
So, where we go next
rests on this.
697
00:40:16,689 --> 00:40:19,827
[narrator] If the Bacon Strip
test fails to deliver,
698
00:40:19,862 --> 00:40:22,275
Rick will be back
to square one.
699
00:40:23,448 --> 00:40:24,620
[Morgan] Are you ready?
700
00:40:27,689 --> 00:40:31,137
1, 2,
701
00:40:31,172 --> 00:40:32,275
3...
702
00:40:33,310 --> 00:40:36,137
4...
703
00:40:36,172 --> 00:40:37,793
4.66.
704
00:40:37,827 --> 00:40:39,379
[Morgan] Are you gonna call
that close enough?
705
00:40:41,241 --> 00:40:43,034
-That's really close.
-Yeah.
706
00:40:44,068 --> 00:40:45,206
[Rick]
Actually, I'm... I was...
707
00:40:45,241 --> 00:40:47,413
I was pretty nervous about it.
I didn't... I didn't...
708
00:40:47,448 --> 00:40:49,206
That's close to what
I thought it was gonna be.
709
00:40:49,241 --> 00:40:50,793
I mean, five...
710
00:40:50,827 --> 00:40:52,655
Almost five ounces
out of 500 yards,
711
00:40:52,689 --> 00:40:54,827
I could pull
the trigger out of that.
712
00:40:54,862 --> 00:40:57,482
[narrator] Rick lives
to fight another day.
713
00:40:57,517 --> 00:41:00,655
He now needs to move
his entire operation
714
00:41:00,689 --> 00:41:02,413
down to the Bacon Strip
715
00:41:02,448 --> 00:41:06,103
and bring in the gold to keep
his comeback on track.
716
00:41:06,137 --> 00:41:07,896
-Well, I'm happy. I'm--
-[Rick] Yeah.
717
00:41:07,931 --> 00:41:10,379
I mean, I'm ready
to start moving stuff.
718
00:41:10,413 --> 00:41:11,896
I am too.
719
00:41:11,931 --> 00:41:13,551
Excellent job
cleaning the gold.
720
00:41:13,586 --> 00:41:15,137
Oh, why,
thank you, sir.
721
00:41:15,172 --> 00:41:16,379
I'll probably see you
up there for dinner.
722
00:41:16,413 --> 00:41:17,862
We'll tell everybody else
we're going mining
723
00:41:17,896 --> 00:41:19,000
on the Bacon Strip.
724
00:41:20,206 --> 00:41:21,379
-Good news.
-[Rick] All right.
725
00:41:21,413 --> 00:41:23,103
-Bye.
-[Rick] See ya.
726
00:41:23,137 --> 00:41:24,793
Well, I have my thoughts
on the Bacon Strip
727
00:41:24,827 --> 00:41:26,034
whether or not
it'd be good enough,
728
00:41:26,068 --> 00:41:26,965
but I don't need
thoughts anymore.
729
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:28,000
I know what's in there,
you know.
730
00:41:28,034 --> 00:41:29,137
We got almost
five ounces
731
00:41:29,172 --> 00:41:30,413
out of 500 yards.
732
00:41:30,448 --> 00:41:31,413
That tells me
it's good enough to mine.
733
00:41:32,172 --> 00:41:33,482
We picked up
another 12 ounces
734
00:41:33,517 --> 00:41:34,931
out of the last
in the stockpile.
735
00:41:34,965 --> 00:41:36,724
So, you know,
one represents an end.
736
00:41:36,758 --> 00:41:38,275
One represents
the beginning
737
00:41:38,310 --> 00:41:41,758
and we're off
towards 1,000 ounces.
738
00:41:45,137 --> 00:41:48,413
[engine revving]
739
00:41:48,448 --> 00:41:51,413
[dramatic music playing]
740
00:41:55,689 --> 00:41:59,793
[narrator] Parker's crew
also have two gold weighs
this week.
741
00:42:01,034 --> 00:42:03,655
The last gold
from the Unforgiven cut
742
00:42:03,689 --> 00:42:07,103
and his first gold
from Dominion Creek.
743
00:42:07,137 --> 00:42:09,724
Your truck door sounds
like something's dying.
744
00:42:09,758 --> 00:42:10,896
[Tyson] Right.
745
00:42:10,931 --> 00:42:12,379
-What up?
-Hey, Mitchell.
746
00:42:12,413 --> 00:42:13,965
-How you doin'?
-How's it going? Good.
747
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:15,896
[Mitch] Got some gold
out of that new wash plant.
748
00:42:15,931 --> 00:42:17,758
[Chris] Yeah.
How about that?
749
00:42:17,793 --> 00:42:19,310
Just gotta come up
with a name for it.
750
00:42:19,344 --> 00:42:20,241
Yeah.
751
00:42:20,275 --> 00:42:21,344
Hey, Parker.
752
00:42:21,379 --> 00:42:22,793
-Hey, man.
-Hi.
753
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,137
[Tyson]
Talking about the new plant.
754
00:42:26,172 --> 00:42:28,379
[Mitch] We've been
trying to come up
with a good name
755
00:42:28,413 --> 00:42:29,689
for Sluicifer's twin there.
756
00:42:29,724 --> 00:42:31,068
So, we were thinking like,
757
00:42:31,103 --> 00:42:32,206
do you just give it
a person's name?
758
00:42:32,862 --> 00:42:33,793
And so, we came up with...
759
00:42:33,827 --> 00:42:35,482
Doumitt and I came up
with Bob, right?
760
00:42:35,517 --> 00:42:36,482
Call it Bob.
761
00:42:37,137 --> 00:42:38,655
I like Bob.
762
00:42:38,689 --> 00:42:39,724
I haven't been
too worried about it
763
00:42:39,758 --> 00:42:41,931
'cause I think
we might sell it.
764
00:42:41,965 --> 00:42:44,896
Part of the whole idea
of buying this place
765
00:42:44,931 --> 00:42:48,379
was we'd be able to recoup
some of the purchase price
766
00:42:48,413 --> 00:42:51,379
by selling stuff
and we have yet to do that.
767
00:42:51,413 --> 00:42:53,620
That plant's actually worth
like a million bucks.
768
00:42:54,620 --> 00:42:57,344
-At one time?
-No, right now.
769
00:42:57,379 --> 00:42:58,827
-Really?
-[Parker] Yeah.
770
00:42:58,862 --> 00:43:00,137
It has 1,000 hours on it.
771
00:43:00,172 --> 00:43:01,344
[Chris] Sell it.
772
00:43:01,379 --> 00:43:03,034
Yeah. That's what I'm saying.
That's what I just said.
773
00:43:03,068 --> 00:43:04,586
[laughter]
774
00:43:04,620 --> 00:43:05,655
[Mitch] Good idea, Chris.
775
00:43:05,689 --> 00:43:07,034
[laughter]
776
00:43:08,275 --> 00:43:09,655
So, with that, Tyson,
777
00:43:09,689 --> 00:43:13,068
you ground to this
Unforgiven cut really fast.
778
00:43:13,103 --> 00:43:14,827
Definitely caught
everyone off guard
779
00:43:14,862 --> 00:43:16,206
how fast we sluiced
that out.
780
00:43:16,241 --> 00:43:18,206
[Chris] Wanna see how we did?
781
00:43:18,241 --> 00:43:20,758
[narrator] Parker wants
at least 500 ounces
782
00:43:20,793 --> 00:43:24,206
from the now mined out
Unforgiven cut.
783
00:43:24,241 --> 00:43:25,310
To hit that target,
784
00:43:25,344 --> 00:43:27,344
he needs 120 ounces.
785
00:43:27,379 --> 00:43:29,068
[Chris] 10...
786
00:43:29,103 --> 00:43:30,068
20...
787
00:43:31,206 --> 00:43:32,448
30...
788
00:43:32,482 --> 00:43:34,034
30 ounces right on the dot.
789
00:43:35,034 --> 00:43:38,172
[narrator] Worth $60,000.
790
00:43:38,206 --> 00:43:40,241
The grand total
out of that cut
791
00:43:40,275 --> 00:43:43,413
was 408.95 ounces.
792
00:43:43,448 --> 00:43:44,724
[Parker] That ain't good.
793
00:43:47,551 --> 00:43:50,655
[Chris] So, we finally got
some Dominion gold going.
794
00:43:51,827 --> 00:43:53,310
[Tyson]
How about those ditches do?
795
00:43:54,172 --> 00:43:55,965
Did the Money Pit
hold up to its name?
796
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:57,689
I think we ran 100 hours.
797
00:43:57,724 --> 00:43:59,827
On the Indian River,
if we ran 100 hours
798
00:43:59,862 --> 00:44:02,482
of ditching, we'd get, what,
50 ounces if that?
799
00:44:02,517 --> 00:44:03,482
[Chris] Yeah.
800
00:44:04,793 --> 00:44:06,551
Here we go.
801
00:44:06,586 --> 00:44:08,413
10, 20,
802
00:44:08,448 --> 00:44:12,103
40, 60,
803
00:44:12,137 --> 00:44:15,275
90, 110, 120,
804
00:44:15,310 --> 00:44:16,896
130...
805
00:44:19,344 --> 00:44:22,482
132.45 ounces.
806
00:44:22,517 --> 00:44:23,931
Nice.
807
00:44:23,965 --> 00:44:26,965
[narrator] Worth over a
quarter of a million dollars.
808
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:28,068
Not bad out of the ditches.
809
00:44:28,103 --> 00:44:30,241
Yeah, a lot better
than I thought it'd be.
810
00:44:30,275 --> 00:44:32,413
-First gold
from Dominion there.
-[Chris] Yeah.
811
00:44:32,448 --> 00:44:34,793
[Mitch] That's not bad
for the time
that the plant had
812
00:44:34,827 --> 00:44:36,172
-the issues with the water.
-[Chris] Yeah.
813
00:44:37,517 --> 00:44:40,758
On ditch dirt, it's some
of the best we've had.
814
00:44:40,793 --> 00:44:43,482
Just think what happens when
we get into real pay dirt.
815
00:44:43,517 --> 00:44:45,655
-Thanks, guys.
-[Mitch] Yup, later.
816
00:44:48,206 --> 00:44:51,034
[Parker] To get like
1.3 ounces an hour,
817
00:44:51,068 --> 00:44:52,482
it's actually really good.
818
00:44:52,517 --> 00:44:54,448
Yeah. So,
hopefully, that means
819
00:44:54,482 --> 00:44:57,068
the ground's gonna keep up
like that and, um...
820
00:44:58,551 --> 00:44:59,931
it should...
821
00:45:01,620 --> 00:45:04,931
only get better in theory.
822
00:45:04,965 --> 00:45:07,965
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