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[Parker] So, right now,
we're pretty slammed.

And that's the thing
with this season.

We started the year
really short on ground.

And that problem got
[chuckles softly]

massively over-solved.

[narrator] 29-year-old
Parker Schnabel's
mining empire

is spread
across two giant claims.

Dominion...

and Australia Creek.

[Parker] The big issues
right now are

keeping Dominion going.

It's paying a lot of the bills
so we gotta keep that rolling.

[narrator] Three-quarters
of the way through the season,

Parker has mined 4,000 ounces.

Now, he needs
to keep his foot on the gas

to fly past
his 5,000-ounce goal.

Well, as we get closer

to the end of the season here,

each day seems to get

a little bit more hectic.

Lots to do,
time's running out.

And you gotta stay productive.

So, it's gonna be busy.

[Parker] Mitch is busy
at Dominion.

Tyson's up at Australia Creek.

He's got the first, kind of,
small section almost done.

He needs to move the plant.

Because of the way we operate,
getting from one cut
to the other,

it's always tricky.

It's definitely a big...
a big week at Australia Creek.

[geese honking faintly]

[Tyson] First set of geese
flying over today,

which means we have
a couple weeks left

till it's gonna start
to get really cold.

You know, this morning I was
up at Dominion

talking to Mitch and Parker

and we came
to the conclusion that

having Slucifer done,

mining out the first section
of the cut at Australia Creek

we can move to the next.

We're pretty close
to being done

but we just gotta manage
to keep the wash plant going.

Hopefully get some time
to work on our wash plant pad.

The sooner we get this done,
the better chance we have

at hitting
our 5,000-ounce target.

Jarvis! Hey!

[narrator] Wash plant boss,
Tyson Lee,

needs to mine out
the first section

of Australia Creek's
Boomerang cut,

use the waste tailings
to build a new plant pad
in the second section,

then move Slucifer

and have it up and running
in its new location
by the end of the week.

[Tyson] It's pretty tough
with the amount of people
we're working with here.

But it's when we really
have to give her 110%.

Look at me, I'm running
around with my snack bag here.

Forget about it,
we're too busy today.

[narrator] To help move
the tailings
to the new plant pad,

Tyson's called in
mechanic Alec Kelly.

I showed up to Australia
Creek to, uh,

figure out a generator that
was shutting down randomly.

I seem to have squared
that away so I got

put in a rock truck/excavator
combo here,

self-loading tailings
in Slucifer.

Self-loading is
the Yukon CrossFit.

[Tyson] You know, it's nice
that Alec's here now.

'Cause now I can get
on with work
on our wash plant pad.

There's a lot of work
to be done in the next
couple of days

in order for Slucifer's
plant move to be seamless.

Now I'm thinking about how
to self-load tailings off
of the wash plant.

I've only really ever
played with a loader.

That's a bit
of a different game.

And I can definitely say that
I'm not very good at this.

I'm certainly not
an excavation artist

like the rest
of these guys out here.

[loud rattling]

[Alec] Oh, [bleep].

[loud rattling continues]

The [bleep] is that?

Shut her down!

I don't know what that
sound is. Shut her down!

[Alec] [bleep] sakes.

[loud rattling]

[machine stops]

[Tyson] This is the last
thing we need.

[Alec] Our shaker spring
is still intact.

These springs
look all right as well.

Yeah, that's a broken spring.

I think we'll change
the spring.

It's that left one
there in the spring pack.

Tyson's hopping
in the excavator

and lifting the shaker deck
up off its perch.

Now we're gonna throw
the spring in and hopefully
it's about as easy as that.

Downtime equals, uh,
no recovery of gold.

[narrator] Slucifer separates
gold from larger
waste material

with a shaker deck that
vibrates on eight springs.

One has broken,

triggering an imbalance
and putting Slucifer at risk
of causing terminal damage.

To fix it, Tyson will lift
the shaker deck
with a 480 Excavator,

replace the broken spring,

then lower it back into place,
and fire up.

[Tyson] Is it the top, Alec?

[Alec] Yeah, we'll try
to pick it on this side.

-Give her some down there.
-[excavator whirring]

Keep curling,
keep curling and stop.

So, it probably
got a little hurt right there

where it was clapping
against the other part
of the spring there.

It hammers extra hard
and then just broke it
the rest of the way.

Hopefully it just slides
right in, eh, Tyson?

[Tyson] Hopefully.
If not I have more jam.

[Alec] I want peanut butter.

Well, hey!

That's actually like butter.

Let her down just till
it sits on the spring.

[creaking]

[Alec] That works really well.

New spring's in.

Let's try and get her
fired back up.

Hopefully it runs flawlessly
for the rest of this cut.

[Alec] Let's see
how far we get.

[machine running]

[narrator] After just
one hour of downtime...

[Tyson] Yeah,
we're back sluicing.

[narrator] ...Slucifer
is back up and running...

-Nice job, Alec.
-Oh, yeah.

On the gold trail.

[narrator] ...and Tyson is
on track to finish the first
section of the Boomerang cut

and get the plant moved
to its new pad.

[Tyson] You know,
when stuff goes wrong,

it only delays
moving Slucifer.

I'm hoping to be able to move
the plant in 12 hours.

We're working
with a very short
timeline here.

This transition really
has to be seamless.

It's gonna take a lot of work
and a lot of diligence to get
done what needs to get done.

Well, finally,
after a long wait,

we are back in Rally Valley.

Um, I've been
monitoring it all season
hoping to get in there.

We've got the pump in there
and the water's coming out.

So, I'm excited for it.

[narrator] 100 miles east,
in the mountains above Keno,

the end of the season
is approaching

and Rick Ness has mined
just 385 ounces

of his 1,000-ounce
season goal.

[Rick] What I wanna do is,

I'm gonna have to get a huge
stockpile out of Rally Valley,

pile up on the pad,

at the same time while
we're running Rocky,
keep the gold coming in there.

And then we're just gonna
switch right over.

We're gonna pull the pumps,
the generators,
get everything over here.

But I wanna wait till
the last second to do that.

I wanna wait till we're ready
because I don't wanna

have any days
where we're not getting gold.

[narrator] To hit his goal
and secure his future
at Duncan Creek,

Rick is piling up the pay
he hit last week

and draining the water
to reach the bottom of the pit
where the best gold lies.

Then, he plans to move
the pump from Rocky
and fire up Monster Red.

It's been a long season
waiting to get
into Rally Valley,

um, lot of ounces of gold
we need to get this year,
you know, going for 1,000.

That's what I need to be able
to get a good crew in here

and pay the final bill off
to be able to own this ground
at the end of the season.

If I can't afford to pay
Troy Taylor off, I default,

and, you know, everything
I've been working for on this
county goes away.

There's a whole [bleep] lot
riding on the end
of the season here.

Um, you know,
my future for sure.

I can't afford to not
have gold coming in

so our only choice here
is to try and keep Rocky going
for as long as we can.

[narrator] A mile upstream,

in the bench cut,

foreman Buzz Legault
is in charge of keeping
the gold coming in.

[Buzz speaking]

[narrator] The bench cut
is averaging 60 ounces a week,

the best gold
of Rick's season so far.

But the last time
he mined Rally Valley,

its weekly average
was over 200.

[Rick] I'm excited for it.

You know, Ryan and I did
a couple pans and we got
into some, you know,

some pretty good gravel.

Bunch of gold in it.

All right, now, I'm working
on this spot here that's kind
of like the worst...

the worst spot
of the high wall.

Yeah, I'm a little concerned
with some of these banks.

I'm not trying
to slope it down as we go.

Just to keep us, you know,
keep us safe and keeping
out the catastrophe from...

from knocking us out
of Rally Valley
before we're...

before we're ready.

[narrator] The gold-rich
Rally Valley pay layer

is at the foot of a 100-foot
cliff of overburden.

Rick must position
his 700 Excavator

on a narrow pad
at the base of the cliff,

dig out the pay, then load
the rock trucks to haul it out
on a steep, uneven road.

If Rick is not careful,

he could trigger a landslide
that would bury him
and his crew

under hundreds
of tons of dirt.

Obviously, the pressure
is on right now.

Um, everybody's feeling it.

Uh, you know, nobody--
nobody is immune to that.

I'm working with Big Rick now.
The Big Rick Ness.

Though it's pretty cool to be
coming into Rally Valley,

this is some real rock truck,
uh, trucking [bleep],
I'll tell you that.

[narrator] Hauling the pay
to the stock pile,
operator Trey Charlie.

[Trey] If you're first
starting out on a rock truck,

this is definitely not
the road you wanna
be trained up on.

That's for sure.
She's a bit risky.

I got my seatbelt on,
just in case.

[Rick] There's still a chance
of rocks coming down
off the wall

but we said there's
no getting away from it.

Everybody's just
gotta pay attention.

[Trey] Uh, the road down
here is pretty slimy.

Holy [bleep].

-I'm sliding right now.
-[tires screeching]

Hey, hey! Hold on!

[bleep]

[Trey] Holy [bleep].

Hey, hey! Hold on!

[narrator] In Rally Valley...

[Trey] [bleep] I'm sliding.

-[bangs]
-[bleeping]

[Trey] No.

[narrator] ...Rick has stopped
Trey's rock truck from sliding
into his 700

using the excavator's arm.

[sighs] Oh, come on.
There we go.

[Trey] So, I got my boss,
Rick, pushing me out of here.

[Rick] Yeah. That'll get him.
All right.

Just don't look back.
Just keep looking up.

Basically maybe
30 degrees pointing up.

Well, you just try
to drive away on slime,

that's what's gonna happen.

[Rick] This is a giant [bleep]
pain in the ass right here.

Yeah, we had one whole
rock truck slipping on the...
on the mud here

so, I'm fixing the road.

Well, I'm just trying
to scrape some of this slop
on the road just to make sure

that the trucks are not gonna
have any problems getting
out of this pit, so...

-[loud clang]
-[bleep]

[Rick] Oh, [bleep].

[bleeping] man.

It's looking like
a pilot line.

It's the only big hole we have

and now with that parked
in the middle of [bleep] road
down into Rally Valley,

everything's [bleep]
blocked right now.

It ain't movable
with a blown hydraulic line.

[narrator] The blown
hydraulic hose has
disabled the 700,

halting his mission
to stockpile
Rally Valley pay dirt.

[bleep] Pilot line. It's gonna
be, like, 20 feet long.

I know we don't
have any pilot line stock.

It's gonna have
to come from Whitehorse.

And that ain't
happening today.

Probably not tomorrow either.

I'd imagine it's gonna
be two days, three.

Hey, Chelsea, how's it going?

What's up, butthole?
You want some more dirt?

[Megan] How're you
feeling about it? Are you
happy we're up and running?

[Chelsea] I think everyone
was kinda losing faith
there for a moment, so...

[Megan] Yeah.

It's good to be
sluicing again.

[narrator] After four months
battling to get their
Paradise Hill trommel running,

the Beets are finally sluicing
for gold 24 hours a day.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] Tony's mined
less than 600 ounces.

And his slim hopes of hitting
his 6,000-ounce target

and keeping the family's
finances in the black

now rest on the trommel.

[Minnie] Hey, Tony.

Hey, you wanna come here?
I wanna talk to you
about something.

[Tony speaking]

[Minnie] No.
I'm trying to save you money.

You know this is actually
quite serious, right?

-There's six, seven
million in the hole.
-[Tony] Mmm-hmm.

[Minnie] Hardly
any gold to show for.

[Tony speaking]

I know, but I can't pay
people with pay dirt, right?

[Tony speaking]

[Minnie] We have to do
something because this
is running out of hand, man.

So, I did find this program.

And they have the guy
that specializes
in more efficient ways

of getting your dirt
moved around.

He will come out to decide
and he will look things over.

I mean, like,
you will be saving on fuel,
stuff like that.

-[Tony speaking]
-He can tell you

whether you're efficient
yay or nay.

[Minnie] Yeah.

[Tony speaking]

[Minnie] That's--
I very much appreciate that.

[Tony speaking]

[Minnie] I guess you're
allowed to leave now.

I'm headed to Paradise Hill.
I've been, uh, called by
Ms. Minnie Beets

to have a little talk
with Tony Beets and to see if

uh, we can make some
improvements on the way
his operation is working.

[narrator] Dirt moving
efficiency expert
Doug Phillips

has been working
with Big Iron for 30 years.

[Doug] Hopefully we can help
them make some changes

that will result
in some money.

If you can get five or 10%
more during the season,

that's a lot of money
in your pocket.

[Doug] Hey. Hey, hey, Tony.

[Doug] Good. Doug Phillips.
Nice to meet you.

[Doug] Yeah.

Every miner gets
behind for some reason.

So, any time that
you can catch up,

make up some time, uh,
run less machines...

make more money.
It all makes sense.

So, [clears throat]
if you've got time,

I need a little bit
of information before I
can run this program,

so, I'd love to take a ride
and... and see what the mine
looks like now.

[Tony speaking]

[Doug] Oh, yes. We need to.

-[Tony speaking]
-[Doug] All right.

What I'm actually gonna do is
use a handheld GPS.

I'm gonna put an antenna
on top of the truck

so the satellites
are gonna lay out
the road for me on GPS.

[engine starts]

[Doug] I'll be able to see
every grade, every curve.

[narrator] Doug is using
a special site-simulation
software program

to analyze the route Tony's
rock trucks take
between the trommel

and the super pit on the other
side of Paradise Hill.

[Doug] That's pretty steep
right there, up and down.

It looks like if we could
utilize this area

and build a straight
short road,

we could take almost
all the grade out of this

which would greatly increase
the productivity than
this existing road.

I also notice that every truck
is backing into an excavator
and getting loaded.

It's quite a time savings
to just drive the truck

up the side of that excavator
and get loaded.

Time is money, no doubt,
for these guys.

They have to move as much
material as possible, so,

every load of pay dirt
needs to hit that trommel
as quickly as possible.

[narrator] Survey done,
Doug is ready
to deliver his verdict.

[Tony speaking]

[Minnie] Hey, Doug.

Hey, guys, how're you doing?

Well, I do have some results.

The first thing I can see
is when you come in to where
the excavators are

and every truck pulls up,
backs up.

If those trucks can pull up
beside that excavator,

and let them load
over the side,

that truck never
goes into reverse...

-[Tony speaking]
-[Doug] ...you will actually
produce 2% more material.

Uh, I'm gonna make
another suggestion.

If we limit the speed
of those trucks
to 20 miles per hour

you'll see some
more fuel savings.

My last suggestion
is gonna be this.

Make a new road that's
straight to that trommel.

That crooked road
is 5,517 feet long.

It's got some
pretty steep grades,

some of them were eight,
some of them were 12.

When you put in this new road,
it is 4,423 feet long

so that's 1,200 feet
shorter one way.

[Minnie] Mmm-hmm.

At 5.34 a gallon,
that's $80,000 savings.

-Oh.
-That's amazing.

[Tony speaking]

[Minnie] What are you
doing standing here?

-Go make the road.
-[chuckles softly]

[narrator] As well as
saving Tony $80,000,

a shorter road should also
allow him to haul more
pay dirt to the plant faster

and bring in millions
more in gold.

Now, he needs to complete
the mammoth task
of building the new road

and keep his trommel fed 24/7.

[Tony speaking]

[Emma] We're almost done.
We're getting ready
for another plant move.

Hopefully we can just
keep things rolling.

[narrator] At
Parker Schnabel's
Australia Creek operation,

plant boss Tyson Lee has mined
out the first section
of the Boomerang cut.

[Tyson] Shut her down.

[narrator] He's now
in a race to move Slucifer
to its new pad

and fire up by the time
night shift takes over.

[Tyson] So, right now we've
done the first pit
of Australia Creek.

We just start tearing
Slucifer down, get Slucifer
moved over here,

hoping this can
be a seamless--

[man over radio] Hey,
Tyson, do you have a copy?

I see Jarvis with blood
pissing out of his leg.

You gotta come over here.

[Tyson] Jarvis is hurt.
I gotta go.

I don't have
[bleep] time for this.

[on radio]

[narrator] Tyson's dog,
Jarvis, has cut his leg

and needs to be rushed
to Dawson City, 50 miles away.

[Damien] With Tyson not here,
it's down to us.

Time is definitely
of the essence.

I mean, I hope Tyson's dog
is okay but there's a [bleep]
ton of work here to be done.

It's absolutely crazy.

[narrator] It's now down
to operator Damien Browne
and mechanic Alec Kelly

to move Slucifer.

[Alec] [bleep] You're just
excreting body odor
there, Damien.

-You're working so hard.
-Gotta get this
done for night shift!

[Alec] That's right!

[narrator] They need to drag
the 45 ton wash plant
off its pad,

then 300 feet across the cut
with the 750 Excavator.

[Alec on radio] All right,
give her some drag.

[engine starting]

[Alec] Get this
wash plant moved.

[narrator] Damien's worked
for Parker for three seasons.

But this is his first ever
plant move.

[Damien] Are we all good
on the left-hand side?

Alec, ...right hand side
along that bank.

[Alec] Yeah, you're
just brushing up
under the soft material.

We got the washplant
down the hill

and it didn't come
sliding at me,
which was a massive bonus.

Damien,
it's the 100-meter sprint.

[narrator] Next step,
pull Sluicifer up a sharp
30-degree ramp

to the top
of a 40-foot-high pad.

Yeah, this hill
is quite steep.

Um, it's a lot of work
to be trying to drag up.

It's really going
to be slipping a lot.

So this is gonna tell a lot

and if we get half way up
and we get stranded,

uh, it's gonna be a mission.

[Alec] When you start hitting
that incline up there, Damien,

we got one shot to make it up.

I'll go up top
and I'll give
you instructions.

[Damien] Well, here we go!

If we don't get it up here,

I mean, man,
Tyson is gonna be pissed.

[Alec] Use
the hydraulic assist to pull.

What was that?

[Alec] Hey, Damien,
what the [bleep]. Whoa!

Well, the plant's
sliding away. [bleep]

[bleeping]

[Alec] Boy, easy!

[bleeping]

Um, man, this is sketchy.

Good job.
I have the seat belt on.

Leave your bucket behind
and just walk away from it.

You think Tyson would cry
if he'd seen this?

[Alec] Oh, yeah.

Come this way, girl.

More throttle, more throttle.
Get her, get her, get her.

All right, keep her pulling.
Steady. Steady.

Moment of truth.

All right, hold it there.

I like what I see, Damien.

[narrator] Just six hours
after shutting down,

Damien has Sluicifer
safely in position.

[Damien] I wasn't
actually sure if we
were gonna get it up,

so I'm just happy.
I'm super happy
that it's on top of the hill.

So we just gotta
get our stacker in

and our feeder in,
water pump

and waterline set up.

And fire it up.

[Tyson] So this morning,
I left Jarvis in the truck.

I had the windows up
as I do now.

He must have
lowered the window

with his paws,
smashed this mirror

and cut himself pretty bad.

So the injury is very... here,
where the stitches are.

Luckily, we have
an amazing vet in Dawson.

Last time I was
that scared was...

when I lost my old dog, Link.

That's why I'm so careful
with Jarvis.

Can't lose him.

You stay, Jarv, you stay.

You're okay. Lie down.

Hey, guys. How is it going?

-[Damien] Tyson,
how is Jarvis?
-He was a hurting unit.

-Yeah, he had to get stitches,
had a torn tendon.
-[Alec] That's unfortunate.

-Just glad he's okay, man.
-Yeah.

Looks like you guys
have... pretty well here.

-Oh, yeah.
-[Tyson] Well thanks
for doing this, guys.

-Sorry to leave you
high and dry.
-No problem.

-May be we sluicing
by the end of the day.
-Oh, yeah.

-Nice shift.
-Yeah.

-Great shift.
-Nice work, guys.

-Yep. Right on.
-Good to see you
back here, Tyson.

[Tyson] Thanks, man.

These guys have done
really good without me

and, you know, it's nice to...

know that everything's still
going on here when...

I've got some personal issues
to deal with.

[Alec] Keep it going.

Keep it going.

And stop.

[Tyson] And we're trying
to line our
Super Stacker up square

with the center
of Sluciifer's prewalk.

Okay, it's straight enough
for our purposes.

[Tyson] We're just working
on the final piece
of the puzzle.

We're just about
to back the feeder in.

[Alec] Little more on the turn
in there. Yeah.

And stop.

[machine whirring]

Yeah, that looks good there.

Well, shall we fire her up
and see

what cut to up
Australia holds for us?

[Damien] Sure.

There she goes.

[Damien] Hell yeah.

Nice work, man.
Thanks for coming back.

[Buzz speaking]

[narrator] Rick Ness's crew
has been running
Bench Cut pay all week

and has also managed
to stockpile

some pay from Rally Valley.

But his mission to reach
the bottom of the pit

where the biggest gold lies

has been at a standstill
for three days.

[Ryan] Finally,
it's got the hoses
we need to replace...

on the 700,

so basically get these put on.

Hopefully, uh, get this thing
back to work.

Machines got to work non-stop.
You only got a limited
amount of time out here.

Hey, Rick, I got that hose
installed that came in
this morning.

Wanna come down here
and give it a test?

Got it all bunned up?

-[Ryan] Yep, all done.
-[bleep], buddy.

[Ryan] It's good, man.

-Hell yeah, man.
-[Ryan] Cool.

Get the [bleep]
trucks in here.
Start [bleep] hauling, man.

[Ryan] Sounds good, dude.

-[Rick] Thanks again, buddy.
-Yep, no problem, man.

[Rick] Fist bump.

[laughing]

[narrator] This 700,
up and running,

Rick can get back
to stockpiling pay

and digging deeper
to the bottom of Rally Valley.

[Trey] We're making headway
on Rally Valley

and there's no better feeling
than getting a lot of gold.

And Rick says there's a lot
of gold down here,

so... I'm happy to help out.

Tapping to this'll take you
a lot longer to get down to
the bottom of this than I...

you know, than I'd hope,
but, uh, you know, we are able
to load this out.

Right now, it's what
I'm trying to do.

I'm trying to create
as much space as I can,

so that we can get
this pump dropped again,
get this water down.

Hey, Ryan, come on down here
with the tools

to move this pump, please.
See you in a bit.

[narrator] To drain the cut
and expose
the deeper pay layer,

Rick needs to swing
the two-ton pump

over the water
to a lower path.

[Rick] The pump's gotta
go down in steps.

And as we do, we've gotta
provide new access to it

'cause it's getting
deeper and deeper.

We'll just hook
out of the thing.

We'll swing that over,
and then...

when you guys kinda see
where it's going again,
we can kinda...

get that lay flat and going
on general direction.

-All right, cool.
-All right, let's do this...
carefully.

Every time, we [bleep]
move this pump, we run
the danger of damaging it.

As I said, it's probably
a $150,000 pump

and, uh, it's the only one
we've got for draining
this cut,

so if I [bleep] this thing up,
we're pretty much
screwed here.

The last [bleep] thing
I need this year
is to lose a pump.

Yo, why is that [bleep] thing
leaning so high?

[Ryan] Holy...
Rick... [bleeping].

Holy [bleep].

Yo, why is that [bleep] thing
leaning so high?

-[Ryan] Rick... [bleeping].
-Holy [bleep].

Yeah, I don't like that.
I don't like that at all.

[narrator] At Duncan Creek...

[Ryan] Come down a little bit.
Let me get it unhooked.

[narrator] ...Rick Ness
is lowering a pump

to drain Rally Valley

and expose the nugget rich pay

at the bottom of the pit.

Ah, it looks like the cable
got twisted up on them.

This, uh, this plate
right here has got
a hell of a bending,

and whenever you swung it,
luckily, it didn't break

the welds and lose
the pump in the water.

[Rick] We got lucky
with that one.

That was pretty close.

I hope I don't gotta
move the pump
too many more times.

[engine starts]

[narrator] It will take a day
to pump out enough water

to allow Rick to keep digging.

While he waits,
he inspects the stockpile.

I definitely like
what I'm seeing here.

Uh, we got a good-sized
pile of dirt going.

There should be plenty
of gold.

Probably about 9,000,
10,000 yards is what
we got sitting here.

I'd really like... I'd really
like to have about
30,000 yards up here.

[narrator] Until Rick
fires up Monster Red,

he won't know
if Rally Valley holds
the gold he needs

to save his season.

[Rick] I really think
we're running out of time and,

um, I don't know if we'll have
time to run that much,

but I'd rather have too much
than not enough.

300,000-ounce goal.

We... we need to get
this plant started up.

[Tony speaking]

[groans]

[narrator] After having
his Paradise Hill
mine site analyzed,

Tony has spent three days
and over $20,000

building a new road
in the hope it saves him money

and helps get him
more gold faster.

From the trommel,
Tony's old haulage road
is a mile long

winding up and down
steep terrain
to his super pit.

His new road is shorter,
flatter and straighter.

To see how much time
and money it will save,

Tony plans to race
one rock truck

on the old road at full speed,

and another on the new road
limited to just
20 miles per hour.

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] Yep.

Old road, new road?

You have to take...
the safety's still on.

Yeah.

-Ugh.
-[Tony speaking]

Do you even know
how to drive that thing,
Michael?

[narrator] Out of the gate,
Monica takes the lead

and heads for the old road.

I'm stuck at 20,
but Monica's got full range.

[laughs]

Well, I'm going 40.

[Mike] This is a hell
of a lot more gradual
than the other one.

I lose speed every time
I have to go up a hill.

[Monica] Get the [bleep]
out of my way,
Michael Beets.

[Mike] And just beautiful
gradual road.

Literally cuts our...
[chuckling] our distance
in half.

[Mike] Give or take, four.

Five and a half, six.

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] Yep.

[narrator]
Even with the rock trucks
limited to 20 miles per hour,

the new road shaves off
two minutes per round trip,

saving Tony hundreds
of thousands of dollars

and allowing him
to run more paydirt

in his race to 6,000 ounces.

[Tony speaking]

[bleeping]

Oh, [bleep] it's coming.
[laughs]

Somebody called
for a life guard?

[Rick laughing]

Is this what
I've been waiting on?

[laughs] Goons.

[Ryan] Be free.

[all laughing]

[Ryan] That is the new
state-of-the-art

-water-measuring device
-[Rick] Yeah.

Unicorns have special devices
in their horns

that are good at telling
the depth of water.

-[Ryan] It's like a Sonar.
-[Rick]Yeah.

[Ryan] Look at that rainbow
on the [bleep] unicorn.

[camera shutter clicks]

[Ryan] Dude, come on!

Nice fire.

-Yeah.
-Toasty.

Oh, yeah.

How you feeling, Buzz?

-[laughs]
-How do you feel?

-I know--
-How do you feel?
That's the question.

Well, I mean,...
of course, you know.

It's... It's getting to be
close to the end here.

We need to focus
all our resources
on Rally Valley.

You know, that's a [bleeping]
deep cut and we've got
limited amount of space

to get rolled in there
and so it's steep

and... you know,
the trucks are struggling.

And, Trey, I know
you slid back a bit, but...

-That was interesting,
but, um...
-[Rick] Yeah.

...maybe keep me
out of the rock truck.

-[laughs]
-Leave it up to the pros.

-[laughs]
-[Rick laughing]

[all laughing]

[Rick] We're not getting gold
out of Rally Valley.

But luckily, we're still
getting gold

because the Bench Cut
is still running.

[narrator] Rick has mined
385 ounces

and needs
over 70 ounces a week

to hit his 1,000-ounce goal.

But so far, the Bench Cut
is averaging just over 60.

All right, let's see
what we got there.

[bleep] these
are getting heavy man.

We got...

five, ten,
twenty... five, thirty...

five, forty... five...

fifty... five, sixty...

five, seventy...

-seventy-five
point four six ounces.
-[Morgan] Yes!

[bleep] yeah. [bleep] yeah.

[Ryan] Whoo!

-[Rick] Yeah.
-[Trey] That looks awesome.

[narrator] Worth
over a $150,000,

Rick's biggest gold weigh
of this season.

That's a pile
of gold, guys. Nice.

-Yeah, the pile
just keeps growing.
-[Rick] Mmm-hmm.

That puts us at...
461.21 ounces.

-[Trey] Nice.
-[Rick] That's a good
amount of gold.

That's a good
amount of gold.

Bench Cut just gets better
and better and better
and better.

[Rick] It really does.

The bench has been good gold,
but, um...

you know, I know
there's better stuff
in Rally Valley

and we need to...
we need to get...

we need to get
on our [bleep] horses
and get it out of there.

-We need solid run out
of Monster Red end of season.
-Hmm.

And to do that, I think,
we need to just put

everything we got into it.
Otherwise, we're gonna
run out of time.

Let's just [bleep] get on it.

We had the gold weigh
over 75 ounces
I'm happy with that.

You know, ultimately,
I know where we're going,

uh, that's Rally Valley
and um...

how we get there?
I guess that's
to be determined,

but that's where we're
gonna get the gold
for the rest of our season.

-Hello, guys.
-[Minnie] Hi, guys.

[Tony speaking]

[Minnie] You brought us
some goodies?

You might as well
do the honors.

[narrator] It's Tony's
first full week

running Paradise Hill's
trommel 24-7

with his new road saving him
time and money.

We had dug out here... I mean,

that sure was a hell
because that cut down
on our...

on everything.
On time, consumption...

[Minnie] But that has stopped
considerable, right?

Yeah, about a minute
and a half. Mike was faster.

That [bleep] adds up fast.

[Minnie] It does make
a difference and...
with fuel and everything.

[narrator] Last season,
the trommel averaged
over 280 ounces a week.

[Minnie] Ruby, you can count.

[Ruby] Oh... 10, 20...

30, 40, 50...

60, 70, 80...

90, 100 and 20, 30,
[chuckling] 40, 50, 60...

70, 80...

90... 200.

Ooh.

222 ounces point nine eight.

[narrator] Worth $440,000.

Tony's best haul
of the season.

But still way short
of what he needs

to hit his 6,000-ounce goal.

So you guys better go back
to work I guess, eh?

[Tony speaking]

-How are you?
-Good.

-You feeling better?
-Yeah.

-You sound better.
-Yeah.

I knocked off a little bit...
a little bit early yesterday

-and just laid down
and crashed...
-Nice.

...just to catch up
on some sleep.

[narrator] Two-thirds
of the weigh
through the season,

Parker has mined 4,000 ounces

of his 5,000-ounce goal.

-Yeah, it's Australia Creek.
-[Parker] Bring it on.

[narrator] Australia Creek's
weekly average

is 130 ounces.

[Chris] We got 30...

60...

80...90...

98.2.

[Tyson] What else you got
hiding over there?

[Chris] Oh, all kinds
of fun stuff.

This came out of that cleanup.

Plus the super fines
that I melted into a disk.

[Tyson] That's another
5.65 ounces.

So we wind up
with 103.85 ounces.

[narrator] Worth $207,000.

The three types of gold

that I call
the super fine stuff
that I have to melt,

nuggets and...
the regular stuff.

[Mitch] Little bit
of everything.

We're almost at the drilling
estimate already

and we still have
a lot of sluicing to do.

-So that's good.
-[Chris] Oh, yeah.

This is the Money Pit.

[Mitch] Here we go Big Red.

[narrator] For the last
three weeks,

the Money Pit has averaged
480 ounces a week.

What do we got? 30, 40.

There's a 100. 140, 150...

200, 220... 250

270, 280, 290, 300...

320... keep going, keep going,
keep going.

-350.
-[Chris] That's good.

[Mitch] 361.35

[narrator] Also down
on last week,

but still worth over $720,000.

Uh, I mean, it's not
always gonna be
500 ounces a week...

-[laughs]
-...or whatever
we've been doing.

[Chris] So,
with Australia Creek at 103

and the Pit at 361,

our weekly total
is 465.2 ounces.

Our season total

is 440,084.15 ounces.

If things keep rolling
the way they are...

...any disasters
and everything else

and the ground
stays consistent,

we have a real good shot
at hitting 5,000 next week.

That is crazy 'cause
at the start of the year,

man, when you said,
"Uh, we really need

try 5,000 ounces." I was like,

"That is gonna be about
next to impossible."

I mean, since when
can Big Red do 2,000 ounces

in like... less than...
uh, what? A month?

-Not hardly much more
than a month.
-[Chris] Yeah.

Crazy. Yeah.
Of all the ground we've mined,

I'm glad it's this stuff
that's doing that...

those kind of numbers.

[Chris] Pretty sweet, man.