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That's pretty *bleep* scary. I've never done anything like it.

There's so much dirt that has to be moved here.

If we move the wrong dirt

and go all the way down in the wrong spot, I'm gonna go broke.

Halfway through the mining season,

Rick Ness is pushing his operation to the edge.

It's gonna cost pretty much everything I have,

so the stakes here are massive,

but the payoff at the bottom of it could be life-changing.

The Deep Cut, it turned out to be a great piece of ground,

We did get 130 ounces out of there, which is great.

It's a good boost for mid-season.

It just didn't last as long as we hoped.

In the mountains above Keno,

Rick Ness is out to prove he's a heavy-weight gold miner.

In his fourth season,

he's chasing a mammoth 2,000 ounces,

more than he banked his first two seasons combined.

I'm looking at some other sections of my claims here,

hopefully with some great gold.

Tired of only being able to find small scores in Keno's patchy ground,

Rick's ready to swing for the fences

and wants to find one of Keno's infamous hot-spots.

- Hey, Troy. - Rick, how are you, man?

Rick's called on two of the men

with the most experience of the region,

Landlord Troy Taylor

and plaster geologist William Lebarge,

to help him locate a rich streak.

- Good to see ya. - Good to see you, Bill. Thanks for coming.

I've got the two most knowledgeable people in the valley

here with me right now.

I don't think I'd be able to do much better than that.

I'm looking to move to some different ground here, on-site, obviously.

But I just was wondering

where you guys have had some real good luck around here, you know?

I mean, what is really significant is,

this was a relative hot-spot.

We had clean-up after clean-up after clean-up.

It was kinda like our glory days.

But what kinda numbers were you looking at over here?

It was like a week, probably less than a week of sluicing

and one clean-up we had was like 450 ounces.

Oh, wow.

That's incredible.

You're talking about near a million dollars in less than a week.

- It really doesn't happen very often. - Yeah.

But I'm just worried about you going into this ground

because we had that good year, '98, right in here,

- I remember coming up in March '99... - Yeah.

...to move over 100 feet of over-burden.

Spent a ton of money in fuel and wages .

But when we got down to it,

we just didn't have enough volume of pay

to pay for all the costs of getting down there.

- Yeah. - And it was a disaster for us.

If we'd just been 10 yards over more

it would have been a world of difference.

To go down 100 feet and to have 10 yards

make that much of a difference, that's pretty scary.

- Mmm-hmm.

The streak of pay that Troy missed

could net Rick 3,000 ounces of gold,

worth over five million dollars,

if he can locate it precisely.

You just have to know exactly where that edge of bedrock is.

Yeah, everything you're saying kinda makes sense.

If we can nail that channel

and get down to it dead-knots on.

There's great potential there.

We can do some resistivity geophysics across that area.

That'll give us some information

that we can use to make some decisions

on where you might wanna open up.

Over 150,000 years ago,

a glacier eroded gold from the mother-lode.

When it melted,

gold settled into pockets.

The ancient river-bed, or paleo-channel,

lies somewhere over 100 feet beneath the surface.

To find it,

Bill will use electrodes

to pass current through the ground.

How quickly it bounces back

will reveal the location of the channel,

which could contain millions in gold.

I can't say enough how scary it is, you know,

having gone through it myself,

to go into that deep ground.

I admire your determination.

Well, I appreciate that.

And every now and then you just gotta kinda pick your balls up

and put 'em on the table and risk 'em, I guess.

- Mmm-hmm.

Help me get the minimum amount of risk on my balls here, guys.

Let's get up the first line.

This is a resistivity meter.

It's gonna be the instrument

that's actually taking the readings.

Rick's season now rides

on whether he can locate the paleo-channel

and the deep, rich, pay-layer that promises great gold.

Okay.

Map is starting to show the resistivity values.

This looks good so far.

We're able to see the silt layer

that turns up quite well.

We also see the bed-rock contact coming in here.

And, in between, I think is the paleo-channel.

Well, that's perfect.

What did you find out?

- She's deep, brother. - Yeah? How deep?

Ah, well, depending on where you going here,

we got a bed-rock hole here at 210 feet.

*bleep*

That's a lot.

I can say the deepest I did with Parker was about 40 feet

and I don't... I don't think anybody's done this much, have they?

No. We're looking at over a million yards

of over-burden that has to be moved.

- You know?

- Wow, that's a lot. - It really is.

Already half-way through this season,

Rick has to reach pay in less than three months

or it's game over.

This is a big undertaking.

The gold results *bleep* there.

- Yeah. - You know what I mean?

So what do you... You wanna get on it, or...?

You a little nervous?

This is, like, the biggest gamble I've ever taken in mining.

- Yeah. - It's just a fact.

Well, dude, I mean, if we can do this

and pull off our target,

that's a lot to say about what can be done in a short period of time

- with a small crew. - Yes, sir.

*bleep* steep.

But that channel looks clear as day.

I think it's do-able.

I think I'm ready to pull the trigger on this.

I can't wait.

This is a big undertaking.

- Yeah. - And I'm glad to have you here with me this year.

- Well, I appreciate it, buddy. - Yeah.

Glad you've done your homework.

There's a lot of gold down there

and if we're gonna get it this year

we better *bleep* hit it hard.

- Sounds good, man. Awesome. - All right.

This is one of the scariest things I've ever done in mining.

This is a dangerous game, going that deep,

but I think that I've got the right people here

to give me the best shot at doing this right.

Boy, does it feel good to finally get up here

and get started on the deepest cut

we've ever done, ever.

Brennan, in the 475 dozer,

pushes over-burden off the high wall

into previously mined ground.

Rick and his lean crew

normally move 60,000 yards of dirt a week

Now, they'll have to shift over 100,000 yards a week

to get down to pay-dirt in time to sluice it

before winter shuts them down.

There's so much dirt in here.

Oh, I'll have some fun here in the *bleep* 475.

Hopefully we'll put a huge dent in this

and we'll get down to pay

and we can run some before the end of the year.

We're doing it.

We're calling it Rally Valley.

We're calling it that because by the time we're done here,

it's gonna be one hell of a valley.

This is the deepest I've ever gone for gold by far

but the pay-off at the bottom could be life-changing.

At the start of this season,

Tony Beets made a major misstep

when he spent millions of dollars

on equipment to mine his Indian River claims

before he had a water license.

He's been struggling to catch up ever since.

Yeah, go ahead.

Okay, on my way.

Almost out of pay-dirt at the 80 Pup cut,

Tony's identified a 25-acre patch of ground

between it and the Nugget cut.

Deep within Paradise Hill,

the White Channel pay-layer was created

by an ancient river of glacial run-off.

It's given Tony the best pay-dirt he's ever mined.

If the pay-layer continues between the two cuts,

it could hold three million dollars in gold.

But before he can test it,

he needs to shift 100 feet of over-burden

and the black muck at the bottom

is too soft for a dozer or rock trucks.

Well, you ain't gonna be...

At this point, you ain't gonna be able

to get that *bleep* lemon up there.

Black muck, when water hits that *bleep*, flows.

So why don't we get water in there?

Eh, the old-timers did it for a reason now, didn't they?

'Cause whatever you throw in front of that monitor will just disappear.

Yep.

Tony's plan?

Bring in a powerful water cannon

known as a monitor

to blast away the muck

and then use an excavator to clear over-burden

from the top of the cut.

For 150 years,

miners have used water jets to excavate soft ground quickly and cheaply.

A monitor could throw 185,000 cubic feet of water in an hour,

with a velocity of 150 feet per second.

Tony sees it as his secret weapon,

the best way to open the new but inaccessible wall cut.

A 175-horsepower pump

will feed the monitor.

I'd rather not zap that wire.

Might be a very shocking experience for me.

Enlighten me to the future, it would.

Ah!

At Paradise Hill,

Mike Beets is attempting to maneuver a pump

under live cables.

Yeah.

Next, they run 200 feet of hose

to feed the monitor.

Yep.

The monitor blasts the overburden

with nine gallons of water a second,

sending the run-off one mile downstream,

and filtering it out through Tony's settling ponds.

We're just over halfway through the season,

and it's been an uphill battle.

There's a lot going on.

You know, it's definitely a lot busier

than we've ever been,

and bigger projects than we've ever taken on right now.

Alaska native, Parker Schnabel,

arrived in the Yukon eight years ago

with just $140,000.

He's now mined nearly $60 million worth of gold.

But he's running out of ground.

You can fight tooth and nail

to be more productive,

or you can go out and find ground that's twice as good.

Now we're onto a good piece of ground in Alaska,

and border restrictions look like they're easing.

So I'm heading over there now.

Parker calls in his right-hand man

and foreman, Mitch Blaschke.

- Hey, man. - What's happening?

What's on your mind?

Um, I'm pretty anxious about the reserves we've got,

and I'm going back over to Alaska

and figure out where the future for us is.

We're gonna need it,

'cause we've been motoring through ground here.

We're chopping through ground like crazy.

Hopefully you can just pound out

those 700 ounces from the strip,

and get Big Red up to Mud Mountain.

It's a real priority.

Go find us some ground,

and we'll keep everything motoring here.

That's my priority.

- Best ground we can find. - Perfect.

Everybody's got things here under control.

You know, for me it's much more urgent

to find some new targets in Alaska.

That means, you know,

Mitch and Tyson have to be on their game here.

And hopefully everybody can, you know,

work together and get the jobs done.

Oh, yeah. Welcome to the *bleep* show.

Plant boss, Tyson Lee,

digs good cut pay for wash-plant Sluicifer

at the Promised Land.

All I know is Parker's heading to Alaska,

and last year when Parker was gone,

you know, it was a struggle every day.

So definitely a lot more pressure on Mitch this year.

Two and a half miles upstream,

Mitch runs Big Red in the airstrip.

All the responsibilities

of this mine site get dumped on my shoulders.

And we got a lot going on right now,

it's a lot of pressure and a lot to deal with.

But right now, our focus is just

finishing things up here at the airstrip,

and obviously getting Big Red moved over to Mud Mountain.

Uh, Parker wants 700 ounces out of this cut.

Hopefully we got a lot of gold to show him when he gets back.

While Parker's away it's down to Mitch

to get 700 ounces out of the airstrip

to cover the stripping costs,

before he moves the wash-plant to Mud Mountain in two weeks.

Really looking forward to being done with this cut.

We're about out of pay-dirt,

last of the material going through the plant.

You know, whether there's 700 ounces in it or not,

we're gonna have to wait and see.

I'm hoping that there's, you know,

a lot of yellow showing in the mats.

You know, it really needs to pay off.

Shut her down, see what we got.

Well, there's some gold in it. You can see up here.

Little bit down there, but nothing amazing,

and for what I've been seeing, I mean,

uh, it's not looking like we're gonna hit

that 700-ounce target.

It's definitely a concern here.

Well, you can't add gold to it.

No, exactly.

Well, we'll just have to wait and see what we have.

How's it looking?

I'm halfway through it.

Until it's all done, I can't tell you.

But you're not gonna...

- There's no way. - No.

I don't know why Parker was thinking

that zone three would have 700 in it.

If we got any chance

of getting any more out of zone three,

it's just gonna have to be bigger.

But can you go any bigger?

The road's right there.

And we could probably go over another,

you know, over 100 feet down that whole side.

Oh, my.

Do you think you'd open that road up

before that pad's ready at Mud Mountain?

Yeah, I don't know, man.

It's gonna, I mean,

stretch us even thinner than we already are.

But one way to find out.

Mitch's plan - extend the airstrip cut

at the edge of zone three

by digging up the excess road,

a 110-foot long strip of virgin ground

under 15 feet of overburden,

where Mitch hopes to find the gold he needs.

The only way we got a fighting chance

of getting 700 ounces here

out of zone three at the airstrip

is to make it a little bigger.

Mitch has made a big call

to open up more ground,

and keep Big Red on the airstrip.

If the road extension doesn't have enough gold,

he could be wasting vital weeks of sluicing

on Mud Mountain,

and putting them deeper in debt

before they even start.

Where our road is,

it appears that it's never been mined,

so right now we're digging out the roadway,

hoping we find some really good gold

underneath it.

Tony Beets is fighting to wash out

a layer of black muck at the wall cut,

hoping to uncover another streak

of elusive gold-rich, White Channel pay

at the top of Paradise Hill.

If I was, like, could bail it out, then I can get rid of it.

We move a lot more dirt

than we would have if we were running trucks.

Yeah, go ahead.

They just lost all pressure.

*bleep* knows.

Just lost all pressure, it just stopped.

Tony's chances of getting the wall cut stripped

before the 80 Pup runs out are slipping away.

down there.

Okay, I'll be over there in a second.

I got some zip ties.

Yeah, I think I am.

With two ten cent zip ties,

Tony's million dollar operation is back up and running.

This is the biggest risk I've ever taken.

Rick Ness is all-in on the gamble of his life. He's attempting to mine gold

from the 190 foot Rally Valley.

This is definitely a gamble, but it's a gamble in a different way.

The gold is there. The biggest part of the gamble

is if we can get down to it in time.

Rick and his crew need to move over one million yards of dirt

in just under three months to reach the gold-rich ground before the end of the season.

Rick's best shot at getting to the gold in time is the monster 475 dozer.

We've got a lot of dirt here to move, and a lot to move quick,

and that dozer is definitely the machine to do it.

The 475 has an eight by 20-foot-wide blade that moves twice as much dirt

in one push as a rock truck.

Thing's built to move mountains and, you know,

this thing's pretty sweet.

You know, Brennan's moving a ton of dirt. You know, 60 yards at a time

he's pushing with that dozer.

*bleep* moving dirt.

That's not good. *bleep*

- Hey, Rick. You up? Copy. - Yeah, go for it.

There's some *bleep* weird sensor going off on the dash here,

and the power, kind of, keeps going up and down,

like, it's almost degrading itself here.

*bleep* sake, that's the last thing we need right now,

trying to open up this much *bleep* ground.

I don't want to risk losing this motor. Nothing's cheap

- on something this size, so... - No, we definitely want to look after that thing.

I mean, I cannot afford to blow an engine in that thing.

We blow that motor, I mean, quarter-of-a-million bucks, minimum,

for a new motor for that thing.

So, without having a mechanic here, I mean, all we can *bleep* do

is shut it down and to try and get a tech here, and...

Yeah, you bet. Sounds good, buddy. Thanks. I'll get ahold of you shortly.

*bleep* aches.

All right.

It not fun not having a mechanic here. Very frustrating, you know?

We had someone here that's trained to do this *bleep*.

Bing, bang, boom, done. And we're back at the races, but that's not the case.

Rick's new cut and the future of his season has hit a massive road block.

The timing couldn't be worse.

I mean, we're just about to open the biggest, deepest cut, you know,

I've ever done in my life, you know?

We *bleep* need that machine.

Rick Ness is racing to get to pay-dirt

in the deepest cut he's ever mined.

We're gonna have just enough time to pull this off.

But his only dozer is down and work is at a standstill.

So, I've got a mechanic here and hopefully we lose as little time as possible

because, literally, time is precious right now.

He calls in local mechanic Rob Baillie in the hopes he can

get the monster machine up and running.

So, what do you think it is, buddy?

There's so many things that could be wrong with it, yeah.

There's a ton *bleep* dirt to move, and...

But we're going from trying to open up a huge payday to, you know,

possibly going bankrupt here.

If we don't have that machine I'm going to be *bleep* so...

It's becoming a big *bleep* problem.

If it's this wiring that's relatively cheaper to fix,

but there's about a million wires under there

and there's no way to remember which one is which.

Now I have to test ohms which is a measure of the resistance,

which is basically how hard it is for the electricity

to flow through the wire.

So lower is better for wiring.

No. That's concerning.

And that's not beeping at all which is not a good sign,

which means there might be something in this connector, some dirt or something.

Okay, let's see where I can put this in.

I've just blown all the dust... as much dust as I can out.

And, hopefully, that'll fix our problem.

We'll test drive it and, hopefully, we don't get any bad pressure readings.

We'll know once we run it, for sure.

Okay, I'll jump in there and get it going.

There you go.

*bleep*

That's more like it. Seems to be working good. Nothings blinking or *bleep*.

Taken down by dust particles in a connector.

The $500,000 dozer is back in action.

That was a simple fix at the end of the day.

Get a bunch of this ground done so we can get down to pay,

and run a bit from here before the end of the season.

We got lucky on this one, man.

I think this is going just about as good as it can at the moment.

I mean, if we're going to hit our 200,000 ounce gold

we got to get to the bottom of this,

and this 475 is gonna get us there.

So, onward to the goal.

It's really important that we get this extension done here as fast as we can.

On the airstrip cut Big Red has been down

for three days, while Mitch searches for gold-rich pay under the old access road.

Well, the pressure is definitely on today

for us to get down to some pay-dirt, get it through a wash plant,

and see if we can't get to that 7,000 ounces.

Mitch. Mitch.

- What's happening? - My excavator went down.

Great, now we're screwed. Have you got anything else you can do down there

- in the meantime, or... - No.

- That's your next plan. Okay. - That's the only holed-out area.

Gotcha. Have to come down and take a look at it. Always something.

With Tyson's only excavator down at the Promised Land,

Mitch is forced to abandon opening the airstrip extension.

Lots to do and not enough hours in the day.

You know, this is a struggle. If I could spend the whole day down here at Big Red,

well, we could get that where it needs to be.

But that means things are going to stop over here at Ken's ground.

You know, that's part of being a foreman. You got to, you know,

go to where the biggest problem is,

and right now that seems to be everywhere.

Oh, with any of these problems you just have to work through 'em.

Just takes time. Just... all time that's lost.

Well, she ain't gonna go. That starter is done.

The starter's just probably started its last start here.

Which means we're going to have to pull this out and get a replacement in here.

This is gonna take me a bit, so...

For every hour Big Red is down Parker is losing over $3,500,

and Mitch's final push at the Airstrip cut falls further behind.

Meanwhile, Sluicifer is at risk of a shut-down if Tyson loses more than

a day of stockpiling pay.

Biggest thing that we ran into is just having enough time in the day.

You know, we're always trying to get every minute every hour we can

of sluice time because that's how you get good cleanups.

That's how you have a lot of gold at the end of the season.

But, in order to make that happen, you got to have machinery

that you can count on and you got to take care of it.

- We're spread pretty thin, hey, Mitch? - Exactly.

It all needs to be done, and we only have so many machines

and so many people.

We're good to go. So when I holler at ya just hold it,

and hopefully it'll start cranking and catch, and then just let off.

Go ahead.

Nailed it!

Now that I have the 480 back I can get back at her...

but, you know, right now at the Airstrip

Mitch is gonna be in a tough spot.

There's only so much one guy can do in a day.

After losing four hours to repairs,

Mitch gets back to clearing overburden.

I'm out here trying to get some more material up.

We're able to get it through the wash-plant quick,

you know, it could be the difference of hitting our mark here,

getting 700oz,

but we're not down to pay-dirt yet.

Working on Tyson's excavator has left Mitch behind,

with over 1,000 yards of overburden still left to go.

The biggest struggle is just machines and people.

We just don't have enough people

and it's really tough to move a lot of material,

so we're gonna cross our fingers and hope there's no more problems.

Hey, Mitch, you got a copy? Mitch?

Yeah, go ahead. What's up?

Hey, man... ...the 460... ...down here at Sluicifer...

My radio's breaking up. What was that?

Hey, man, I have things pretty well under control down here at Sluicifer.

Do you need a hand up at Big Red at all?

Yeah, we got lots going on over here.

Definitely head on over this way.

Okay, sounds good, man. I'm on my way.

You know, Mitch and I, we're running two separate plants,

we're running two separate cuts, but at the end of the day

it's one company, one team, one crew, one goal,

and the goal is to get as much gold out of the ground as we can,

and, you know, I thought I'd come and give him a hand

and see if we can get him caught up.

It's so awesome to see Tyson came up.

That's nice, seeing those trucks rolling that quick.

Happy as a pig in *bleep*.

Now it's just such a great feeling.

We've got everything swinging away down here.

You know, we're getting something done, man.

We can literally move a mountain of dirt in one day, in one shift.

Hey, Justin, you got a copy?

Oh, yah.

Hey, man, I got the first scoop of the Airstrip Road Extension

piled up here, if you want to start sending it through that wash-plant.

Right on. Let's get that gold, baby.

You scoop her, I dump her. Keep it coming.

Fire it up!

I can't believe how much dirt we've moved.

You know, it's just crazy to think that at the start of the day here

we had a road right next to where that cut was,

and you look over there now and, man, we've moved a mountain of dirt here.

You know, it's just so good for morale.

Everybody in the crew, you know, just...

Just see how much you can get done when everything's rolling real smooth.

We're definitely fighting the clock,

so that means running this little plant just as fast and hard as we can.

I've been up here long enough to know

that, you know, this is all about the yardage game for us.

The more dirt you can get through that wash-plant,

the better week you're going to have.

Oh, yeah.

That'll get us out of here a little quicker.

So, right now I just cranked up Big Red to 240 yards an hour.

You know, Parker wants to get to Mud Mountain as quick as we can.

That's the only way we can get there any sooner.

Hi, baby. Hi, little girl.

Are you not impressed with life?

Ah, yes, there you go.

That's half a smile, at least. Yes, there is.

Hi.

After being denied a licence on the Indian River two months ago,

the "King of the Klondike," Tony Beets,

has been jumping from cut to cut at Paradise Hill,

hoping to find a rich honey-hole.

Now it's time to see how the last of the pay from the Eighty Pup measures up.

So, how did it go this week?

Why don't you weigh it up, see how much we got this week?

- Okay. Everybody ready? - Yes, we are.

Three, two, one, boom.

Ten... twenty...

thirty...

So far, the Eighty Pup cut has paid out 180oz a week.

...90... 100...

110, 120,

130, 140, 150.

- 154.76oz.

...worth $278,000,

bringing Tony's total to 1,815oz.

- Not amazing, not terrible. - It's not amazing.

- Not really, no. - Well, we're sitting a little over 1,800 now.

- That's still a long ways away from where we want to be. - Yeah.

Words of wisdom from Tony Beets.

At Scribner Creek, it's time to find out

if Mitch's hunch about the access road has paid off.

- Oh, you're the new guy. - Yeah.

- Well, we have to play catch-up. New guy? - Yeah, you're the new guy.

- What's up? - Hey, how you doing, buddy?

Oh, you know. Another day, another dollar.

- There you go. - Pretty good, man.

- But things are going good, yeah? - Yeah...

I mean, well, that all depends on what you tell us here.

I don't want to jinx us or anything, but, yeah...

You know, we just need to hit that 700oz target

and, you know, move Big Red over to Mud Mountain.

And you're doing good down there, huh, T?

I'm glad I could help Mitch out for a couple of days.

Glad you were able to come down and help us out. Thanks for coming out, man.

Well, you want to see how we did

- with your first week without Parker? - Let's see it.

Okay. Tyson, we're going to do you.

So far this season

Parker and his crew have reached 2,800oz...

...80, 100...

...just half of their total this time last year.

152.1oz.

Worth $273,000.

- That's not bad. - No.

Okay, Mitchell.

- Hopefully there's a lot of gold in that pan. - Well, hopefully, yeah.

Mitch needs Big Red to produce 350oz a week

to keep up with the costs of stripping Mud Mountain

and to hit Parker's 700oz target.

220. Keep her going.

All I got, right there.

281.55oz.

...worth half a million dollars.

Oh, that's it.

You know, if we didn't do the road extension,

man, I think we'd come up way short.

But your next clean-up's going to be critical.

Yeah.

But I think you made a really good call

on opening up that road.

I think Parker'd be proud of the ways you guys handled these things, right?

- Well done, young man. - All right. Nice job.

- Good job. Good job. - Yeah.

- We'll see you next week. - All right.

You know, by doing that road extension,

it got us a lot closer to where we need to be.

You know, I mean, we're definitely a team around here,

but we got a long ways to go.

- Oh.

- The big man. -*bleep* Your side-by-side break down?

No. What are you guys laughing about?

That's the farthest I've seen him back in a month or so.

- Can I get a beer?

Oh. Thank you.

So, were you excited to finally get that 475 running?

Oh, *bleep*, man, to be on top of that high wall,

it was something I've never got to do before. That was pretty sweet.

That thing can move a mountain in a hurry.

- Holy *bleep*. - I'm glad you didn't blow her up out there, man.

I would have just *bleep* shut my phone off and went into hiding.

When you know that something's that much money,

it scares the *bleep* out of you.

Like, that could cripple a guy's season, right there,

and that's not what I would want to have on my shoulders.

Well, I appreciate that, and I too am glad it was just a sensor.

I don't need to be having a heart attack over here, so...

Here goes the piggy bank, like this,

until you find that gold, and then you get to balance it out, eh?

Yeah. The piggy bank will be *bleep* pawned after it's empty

before we start filling it back up again.

- You gonna count the numbers there? - Yes, let's do it.

After today's final pay-out from the Deep Cut...

- Brennan, if you can read the numbers... - Yep.

Okay.

...over halfway through the season,

Rick sits just shy of 700oz.

Ten...

25, 35, 45...

60...

70...

80...

82.8oz?

*bleep*, that's not a bad number.

...worth nearly $150,000,

bringing Rick's season total to 770oz.

-*bleep*, yeah.

- Nice. - I'll take one of those.

82.80oz.

Little high-five? High-five.

- High-five? -*bleep* guys are sweet.

I mean, 82.8oz, another good number,

especially to look at the people we've got here, not much.

But we are still going for 2,000oz.

All bets are on Rally Valley

and whether they will hit pay-dirt and see gold again this season.

It's time to... It's time to stop *bleep* around, you know?

- I think we're done with the small potatoes here. - Yeah.

We're going on to bigger things.

Time to start swinging for the fences with Rally Valley,

because we're gonna have some big *bleep* numbers to put up at the end of the year.

And I'm *bleep* excited about it.

It's a big undertaking for me and the rest of us,

and I can't wait to see the reward.

- We got a lot of dirt to move. Shall we get it? - Yeah, let's get to work.

You know, I came here to find a ton of gold on big equipment,

and can't wait to see what's at the bottom of Rally Valley.

Well, that's it. Rally Valley's open for business.

There's no looking back now.

We're either going to smash it out of the park or...

having to go home bankrupt.

Still to come on this season of Gold Rush...

This was the stuff we'd been waiting on.

We're going to find out if my mountain pays off.

I just don't want to say we didn't try.

Shut her down! Shut her down!

Let's get *bleep* rich!

Monster Red's coming to its new home.

Over a million yards of overburden.

This is the biggest risk I've ever taken,

but the pay-off underneath is going to be worth it.

Probably the best pan I've ever done in my life.

That changes everything.

We could be looking at striking it rich.

The most important goal I have is to give my team a future.

Whoa!

- Remember what's in the contract. - You're far away.

Everything that could go wrong went wrong.

Hell, I'm an emotional wreck.

Who doesn't like a good fight?

You guys are killing it. Be proud of that.

- Okay, feed the kid.

Oh, that's a good sound.

That there, fellas, is pure gold.

Of course, I always want more.