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For two years,

Klondike Kingpin, Tony Beets,

has been trying to unlock his gold rich ground

on Indian River.

His problems started with a gut punch in 2019.

We don't have a water license.

We have to leave.

Denied a water permit,

he tried again the next year.

After striking out twice,

he applied again this year

only to be crushed once more.

Now, at Paradise Hill,

Tony is running 350 yards an hour

of white channel pay through Mike's trommel,

hoping to hit 4,500 ounces.

We've had a relatively successful season,

but I'm disappointed

that we couldn't get into the Indian

and reach that 9,000-ounce gold.

But the king hasn't given up

on his prized Indian River yet.

Hi, Tony.

He's brought in a hired gun

to advise on a new application.

We took soil samples,

we did a small vegetation inventory.

I'm completely encouraged by what we saw.

I have 95% confidence

that this license should and will be issued.

After three years,

Tony now believes again

that a new license is imminent

and he doesn't want to waste any time.

To be ready to sluice the Indian River claims,

Tony's breaking out the 40 foot BC trommel.

Tony, do you copy?

I got stuck on the hill. *bleep*.

I heard a bang and it didn't had any traction anymore,

and then I had a look under it and the oil came out of it.

So, I noticed a crack one side to the other side of the gearbox.

The crane and Kenworth truck combined

weighed just shy of 100 tons.

The 20 degree hill

is the worst possible place to break down.

- Yeah.

The gold at Mud Mountain is definitely looking better,

but we already blown the budget out the window,

so we'll see.

Hopefully, the gold continues.

With just four weeks left of the season,

27-year-old Parker Schnabel

has finally found the gold at Mud Mountain.

Now, his team is running all out to cash in.

Trying to get this stuff ready.

As we've been working our way through the Mud Mountain,

the gold's been gettin' better.

And looks like this downstream end of it,

this is the last piece that we stripped,

seems to have the best gold.

I probably should know better than tryin' to rescue my season on one cut.

But who knows, maybe it's there, maybe it's not.

The other linchpin of Parker's season

rests in the hands of plant boss Tyson Lee,

who's running promised land ground,

four miles away.

This time of year, we're makin' a huge push

to just grab every ounce of gold that we can.

That kind of steers Tyson's still plugging away.

It's going fast, you know, the... the bad cut.

I think Ken's a little off on the naming of his cuts.

The good cut did not do so good,

the bad cut doing better than the good cut.

And the ugly cut,

I don't know. You never know until it's in a jar.

Sluice first is gonna be done in the bad cut

and looking to move to the ugly

and the ugly is far from ready.

So, there's a lot of work to do, a lot of dirt to move.

You know, this year we've been stretched

thinner than any other year,

and that's 'cause the Mud Mountain and it being 60 feet deep.

The ugly cut

is nearly double the size of the bad cut.

And with just four weeks left of the season,

Tyson will have to double his production rate

to mine it all.

He has a radical new plan

if Parker will agree.

Hey, man, how is it goin'?

- Good, how are you? - Pretty good, thanks.

What's goin' on?

In this next plant pad set up,

I was thinking of setting Sluicifer up.

So, you know, how normally we have the wash plant pad height

being the same height as the wash plant,

thinkin' of setting the wash plant up on a pedestal.

Let's say this is our wash plant pad, right?

And this is where the wash plant would normally sit.

I wanna kind of stick it out here,

so the fines can travel around.

The only comment I would have is,

if you were gonna have undermining issues,

but if you've got lots of nice big, coarse, um, bedrock,

then I trust your judgment.

- Right on. - And whatever you can do to stay

as self-sufficient as possible

is the best thing for us

'cause we're spread so thin as you well know.

I'm thinkin' if things work out the way,

I think it will, we should be able to get away with

three guys on days and two on nights down there,

and that'll free up another guy to be in the truck.

I'm not gonna say you're on your own down there,

but act like you are until you need... until you really need help.

Right on.

- Well, I'll go get to her. - Thanks, man.

In a normal setup,

tailings from the wash plant build up

and the crew has to clear them.

Tyson's plan,

use 40,000 tons of material

to build a mega pad

and allow the fine tailings to fall away from the plant,

saving on time and crew.

So, right now, we're trying to build our wash plant pad.

My main concern is getting this wash plant pad done in time

before Sluicifer's done the bad cut.

It's gonna look like a different planet down here in a week.

Well, we're digging pay and what they call it the bad cut,

but really, it turns out to be a good cut.

I figure tomorrow will be a very close parking lot over here.

Normally it takes us about a week

to build the wash plant pad and we started yesterday.

Well, the pressure is on.

And now we're at the point where we can just... Holy *bleep*.

This *bleep* thing has some gremlins in it.

My other hoe's down 'cause it's doin' a parked region,

this one's on the fritz.

Holy *bleep*, this *bleep* piece of *bleep*.

ECU failure, communications failure.

Now it won't *bleep* move.

And now it just died.

Holy *bleep*, this *bleep* piece *bleep*.

And now it just died.

Yeah, she *bleep*.

Come on, Jarv, let's go.

At Indian River, Tyson Lee is racing

to build a 60-foot mega pad,

but his biggest available dirt mover,

the 700 excavator,

has been shut down for five hours.

Absolute mess on top of the batteries here.

How's it going, T?

Want me to get Dermet's canoe for you?

Yeah, we might need it.

Is there any chance of it running tonight, T?

- No way. No way. - No?

You'll have to probably use one of the...

- one of the other hoes. - Okay.

With the 700 out of action,

Tyson is forced to finish the pad using the 480.

Hey, you know, normally, we use the 750 or the 700

which is a lot bigger than a 480 but...

I guess, I gotta make do with the 480

for *bleep* sakes.

Final bucket.

Get ready to shut her down.

Hey, Tyson, you got a copy.

Go ahead, Laurie.

There's the last bucket here, buddy,

we're ready to shut her down.

Yes, I'll shut her down, now, Laurie.

Now, Sluicifer will be lying idle

until Tyson can finish the new mega pad.

So that's it, bad cuts done,

and I still, have go to build the pad.

So, the beginning of this season went really well.

I was thinkin' we were hittin' a stride.

The last couple of weeks have been nothing short of disastrous.

Sixty miles away

at California Creek,

Special Forces medic, Fred Lewis

has mined just over half his 100-ounce season goal.

We're not even coming close to hitting our low end goal at this point

if this continues and Sandro and Joerg

are definitely not happy with what we're pullin' in.

Fred needs to ramp up his gold production

before the winter shuts him down.

Right now, we're kinda *bleep*.

We gotta figure out how to get ourselves to where we're not.

As hard as we've been pushing this season,

it's been a struggle.

We've really outgrown our equipment.

We're pushing everything to the max every day,

including ourselves.

Now, Fred's landlords, Joerg Lotz and Sandro Frizzi

are here to find out if Fred is hitting the targets he signed up to.

- What's up, guys? - How's it going, Fred.

- How are you doing, sir? - Good.

So, let me show you guys the cut, we've just opened up

and what we're down to as far as pad.

Yeah, okay.

How many yards you have done at this point?

- Right now, we just crossed 6,000 yards as a team. - Total?

Total as a team from the day we started.

You remember what's in the contract?

It's 35,000 so...

- Yeah, that's... Yeah. - Wow! You're far away.

You don't wanna wait 20 years until this creek is mined.

A real miner to a good miner, an experienced miner,

would have done, probably in a week.

You know, you wanna be feasible

and you wanna earn some money.

- And with machinery this size, you won't earn much more. - Yeah.

This is not a sandbox.

You know, stripping is the key

for the success of this.

To come to the point,

in order to come back next year, you need bigger equipment

now this fall. Not next year.

Fred, uh, you're missing

a big dozer here, let's be honest.

Okay, I can do that. I can work on that.

We hope so.

With two small excavators,

Fred's been running just 1,000 yards a week.

He's banking on a dozer

to move dirt three times as fast

and hit his contracted minimum.

For them to make money on this operation,

we need to be putting a lot more material through our plant

and giving them a lot more gold in the end,

so they want better.

I mean, if we wanna stay here, we want this to be our home

for the next four or five seasons,

we're gonna have to perform, we're gonna have to find bigger equipment,

and we're gonna have to do what they want.

Hey, Tony, this is Fred, how are you doing?

So, my claim owners are kinda puttin' an ultimatum on me

to step up, uh, my... my production a little more.

That would entail me finding larger equipment

and I'm not finding anything locally.

We were looking for a D8 or a D9.

All right. I really appreciate it, Tony. Thank you.

Yep, bye.

Well, that was a strike out.

- Brandon! - Hey, Fred, what's goin' on?

Oh, just fixin', you know.

- How's it been? - Good, you?

Oh, man, we're actually not good.

Neighboring mine boss, 22 year-old Brandon Clayton

also leases ground from Joerg and Sandro.

Sandro and Joerg came over and kinda put an ultimatum on me.

They're like we need more from you

- if you're gonna stay here. - Oh, no.

We've got into a point up there

where our equipment is just scraping away.

We're putting like 250, 250 yards to the plant a day.

So if we had a dozer,

obviously a dozer would solve 99% of our problems.

Fred, I really wish I could help.

I'm stretched right now, as it is trying to run

just a day shift.

Like, I'm pulling 900 on one shift

with the trommel right now.

And we're at the point where we're struggling as well

to try and get it up fast enough

- to make a full day, right? So... - Right.

I'm short a hoe right now.

- Right. - Like I, I need one with the plant,

I need one stripping.

Maybe if I can use another hoe,

like one of yours and then I can give you my dozer.

Yeah, I think that's something we can work on.

- Um. - Hmm.

Maybe there's a way we can work together.

So, what are you trying to say?

That if we could somehow figure a way

where I could get used to some of your bigger equipment over here,

I think there may be a, kind of, a middle ground

we can come up with where we just consolidate our equipment

- where it helps us both. - Uh, like a partnership.

- Yeah. Yeah. - Okay.

- You know, I've got buzz. I can run on nights. - Yeah.

I think it's a good idea, actually, Fred, really if you think about it.

I mean, I'm only running 12 hours a day,

and we're gettin' to the time we're *bleep* starting to freeze.

So, I wanna run 24 hours,

basically, have to, to keep my plant going

- and not freezing overnight. - Freeze.

- Yeah. - Yeah. Mmm-hmm.

We can't run two plants at once,

that's the only issue.

I would be willing to pull that plant completely...

- Yeah. - ...put it on reserve up there

and run your plant.

And we'll pull from my area, your area, just

*bleep* get dirt around this season.

And, uh, we could just split the gold 50-50.

Split 50-50.

- I think we... I think we got a deal. - I'm down with it.

Give me the courtesy of running it by my guys,

see what they think and then we'll just move from there.

The partnership could allow them

to sluice three times as much pay dirt

by running the Clayton's massive trommel 24/7.

And get Fred one step closer

to hitting Sandro and Joerg's goal,

but only if Fred's crew agrees.

It boils down to numbers.

If we combine forces like,

really partnered with Brandon

and started pulling our pay over to his plant,

we're gonna be able to put

up to 18,000 yards a day through his plant.

- Yeah, right. - And we're putting 300 through ours.

The only downside that I see

their equipment is down like all the *bleep* time.

- Yeah. - That would be my concern.

'Cause they, you know, they break down too.

The other risk is we end up hating each other.

- You know. - I mean, what kind of season do we want?

That's the question. Do we wanna scrape by

and pull 100 ounces and hope that Sandro and Joerg

see that as our best,

or do we wanna prove to them

if we had bigger equipment...

- Brandon's... - Yeah.

...this is the difference?

I don't wanna go home saying,

"Yeah, we scraped it by."

I wanna go home with our heads held high

and a pocket full of freakin' gold.

You know, it's a little bit risky,

but I really think this could save our season, guys.

As long as we're running pay

and pulling gold, then we're good.

I don't want to have another season

where we go home with *bleep*.

- All right, guys, we're good with this? - Yeah, man.

This whole thing is a risk.

- Let's do it. - Yeah.

All right. Let's get it then,

let's get this work done and move forward.

Brandon's crew

and Fred's misfits get going on day one

as a united team.

I'm feeling really good about the collaboration

and, you know, things that we might not have

they bring to the table

and what they don't have, we bring to the table.

So, I think it's a really good relationship.

The only way I'm gonna prove to Sandro and Joerg

and to my investor

that we can do this on a larger scale

is to team with Brandon.

So, right now, we're gonna show what we're made of.

At Paradise Hill,

Tony Beets is loading the 10-ton BC trommel

to haul it 40 miles to Indian River.

There we go.

The massive load is so dangerous,

Tony turns to the only person he trusts to drive it.

Himself.

I just heard a large pop and I lost a lot of power.

Basically, with this cord not fastened securely,

it interferes with the air flow,

which means my turbo don't work right,

which means I'm not getting enough power.

So, until we get that clamp fixed

my truck's, basically, got no balls until I put this back on,

honestly.

The turbo uses pressure from the exhaust

to spin a pair of fans

which force air into the cylinders,

allowing more fuel to burn and increasing power.

The air inlet pipe is disconnected,

losing pressure to the engine

and stopping the turbo from working.

Hopefully.

- *bleep* no. - Watch your finger.

Seems to be right there. Yeah.

You know, with Sluicifer coming to an end in the bad cut,

it's my responsibility to get this pad set up.

At the ugly cut,

plant boss Tyson Lee's operation

has been down for 24 hours,

but that's about to change.

Well, there goes the last rock truckload of grizzly tailings,

the plant pad's done, we can drag Sluicifer over here

and start on the ugly.

Now, he's banking on the high pad

to make up for the downtime.

But first,

he has to get the plant up the steepest ramp he's ever built.

Right now, we're just hooking up the cables,

then we're gonna drag Sluicifer over

to the wash plant pad we've built.

It's looking pretty good over there.

Just gotta get her up there safely.

The 700 was having issues

and Alec figures it's electrical,

so we're gonna have to make it work with the 480.

You know, this is kind of like trying to move a dump truck

with a two-door sedan.

That's why it would be nice to have the 700 to move this thing,

'cause right now I'm struggling to pull it

and 700 would just move it like none other.

I think where we're gonna really struggle

is gonna be pulling it up the pad and getting it turned.

It'll be interesting to see how

Tyson gets the plant up here

and swings it around.

He'll definitely be

on the sides of it

and that's... that's a dirt slump,

so that's about as steep as it's gonna get.

Well, it's gonna be a foot at a time.

You know, as you can tell, the 480 is really struggling to pull this thing up.

Just gotta get her to the top of this hill

and spin it a little.

This 480 is not liking this kind of abuse.

I wonder how much you trust those cables.

Because if he's loaded up like that and they pop,

the excavator could even just go upside down, right over.

Yeah, yeah, that's quite a *bleep* drop there.

- Whoa! whoa! - Whoa! whoa!

- Oh! - Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

Have a look at that!

Is this one of those ornaments for Parker's table?

In the ugly cut,

Tyson is struggling,

to pull the 45-ton wash plant

onto the mega pad.

- That goes to show how heavy this wash plant is. - Oh, yeah!

I thought we *bleep* the wash plant.

The shackle, I can live with that.

Take two.

Hey! Your stick's almost full out,

curl your bucket.

You got her.

Keep her going.

Please don't come at me, wash plant.

Almost at the bottom.

Looks all good.

So, right now, we're just trying to spin Sluicifer

and make sure it ends lined up with the trough I've made,

because if it doesn't, it's gonna be a fight

trying to move it side to side.

Oh!

Perfect!

Thank you.

Well, guys, she's in place.

- Yeah. - Good work, guys.

Good work on the excavator,

that's some professional level of stuff right there.

That hill on that side, that was, uh...

- Yeah. - ...impressive.

- Thanks, man. - Oh, yeah.

Let's get back at her.

- Yeah. - Oh, yeah.

Two hours later,

the crew are ready to start running ugly cut pay.

You know, we got Sluicifer in place level,

banks in places you can tell,

there's a lot of drop for fine tailings to go and...

...yeah.

It's definitely high up there.

Here we go, here starts the ugly cut.

That was the first scoop right there.

You know, I'm actually really, really excited this is happening...

whereas right now we'd be able to eke out 100 ounces,

we're gonna probably triple that and come out with like 300.

So, hopefully, we'll be able to...

...you know, make us all

a little bit of money, a little bit of gold.

At California Creek,

Fred Lewis has shut down his wash plant

and teamed up with neighbor Brandon Clayton.

All right, now I am decommissioning

Mount Vesuvius.

We are moving our pay pile, what's left of it

over to Brandon's plant.

He's put the D9 Dozer to work, ripping pay

in the hopes of running at least 9,000 yards a week

through Clayton's wash plant.

Most of the team is still pretty green at morning,

so, I'm just double checking our cuts,

making sure that we're not too deep.

Uh, we're taking enough

and we're not leaving anything behind.

- Fred! - Hey, Fred!

- Good morning, man. - Hey! How's it going?

Not too bad, what's happening?

You guys asked us to kinda step it up,

uh, as far as production goes.

- To get bigger equipment, right? - Yeah.

So, I met with Brandon and just talked about...

what issues we are having and it kinda dawned on us.

I've got two smaller equipment

right now, he's got two bigger equipment,

so we decided to go at it together.

Well, I hope this work out,

you know, before we had two mining operations,

and now it's one mining operation.

It's a little risky, I mean, for both of us,

- but I think if we work together and communicate... - Yeah.

...I think you guys will see a huge production increase from this

'cause obviously he's got the bigger capacity.

But with our small equipment and with our extra guys,

we can help his plant run 24 hours a day

and get that high yardage, and shoot for 1,800 yards a day.

We will see when is the time.

- You've to prove yourself in a... - Yeah.

- a few days, so... - Yep.

...we will be here soon and check out what you're doing.

I felt like Brandon and I made a great decision,

and I thought that it was, uh,

the best possible choice for us going forward, but now...

...it, it just seems a lot more high risk.

Uh, it seems like Sandro and Joerg are really gonna expect big numbers.

Teaming up with Brandon, it's kind of a last resort...

if we're going to be able,

you know, to really push... pull the season off.

We'll finish the season,

but I don't wanna limp through the finish line,

you know, I want to come out victorious with a gold medal.

You know, .

- Warren, what's up? - JB.

Oh, I got a problem, man.

Blew a tire, uh, I got a puncture in the right side.

Holy *bleep*!

Clayton crew operator Warren Binnie...

has blown a tire on the loader,

he was using to feed the plant.

- Yeah, that's it there, yeah. - It's right there.

That's a pretty big hole.

Uh, it's either with the, the shale rock

that split it or maybe a piece of metal

in the tailings or something like that?

So, that's our only loader. You know what I mean, that's, uh,

a key piece of equipment that we need...

to make sure that the plant is running,

so, it's stoppin' us from processing the pay.

If this keeps happening, then...

we're not gonna meet our quota, it's gonna be a *bleep* mess.

Yeah, at this point, any accident we have is gonna result

in us shutting down the plant because we have such...

- limited equipment, we lose one... - Right, right.

That's what I was saying earlier,

you know, one piece of equipment goes down...

it's catastrophic to the whole operation, you know?

We're shutting them down.

They ain't looking good right now.

So, what do you got? Let's see.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - They're huge man.

Good deal, that looks great.

JB and his new comrades

must now patch the punctured tire.

And there it is.

Push the tire down again, so he can get that ring on.

Got you. Got you.

It's going now.

Yeah, she's going now.

Trying to expand the tire, so...

...it actually forms a seal, which we got it now.

Let's get her back on our loader and...

you can start washing rocks again and get a holiday today.

And that's on there.

Hey! NASCAR does it a whole lot faster.

After three hours downtime,

Fred has a lot of catching up to do...

before his claim owners return.

Hey, all this took way longer than we wanted it to,

but the best thing I took out today is,

I'm seeing my guys work with Brandon's guys,

I'm seeing fist bumps,

everyone's stressed,

and this is not what we wanna be doing,

we're doin' it together, and that's what keeps me happy.

In charge of bringing in the gold at Mud Mountain,

foreman Mitch Blaschke.

Whoa!

Hey, Chris, you got a copy?

Yes, Chris, what's up?

Yeah, I'm gonna need you down here at Big Red.

Yeah, we need to clean up.

So, normally, we go four days, uh, between cleanups,

this has only been two days here

and you see the gold already piling up in all the riffles,

so, it's time to do a cleanup.

This is a good problem to have.

So, this is just, a, what, two-day run?

Yeah, this is just two days.

It's sluicing out here. Look at that.

That's just one handful.

You just picked the chunks up up off the carpet like that.

And this is the stuff we've been waiting on

- and, uh, it looks like the wait was worth it. - Yeah.

Hi, family.

- Hey, guys. - Hi, guys.

- Hola! - Hola!

Buenos dias!

There's a baby.

There's a baby on the table,

we have lots of babies on the table it seems like.

It's like every time.

So...

...this week went pretty good, huh?

Oh, yeah! .

Which truck are we talking about?

Oh, Lord!

Yeah, no.

Oh, yeah!

Old faithful never stops.

To reach his 4,500 ounce season goal,

Tony needs 370 ounces a week.

You're ready, Mike?

- Oh, yeah. - Are you ready?

Let's do this thing, chicken wings.

Three, two, one, go!

Five, ten,

40, 50,

70, 100,

120, 160, 170.

200, 210,

250, 260, 300.

Keep going.

306.98.

Worth over $550,000.

It wasn't a bad week, though.

Yeah, over 300 again, so that's nice.

But like a wise man always says,

"Don't count it until it's dried and wet."

- Oh. - But on that note,

- we need to GTFO. - Yeah, well.

- *bleep*. - I got to go.

Well, guys...

- ...you're ready for this one? - Oh, yeah.

At California Creek...

I think it was a big gamble.

...a little nervous 'cause Sandro and Joerg,

they didn't necessarily say, I want you to team up with

my other operation.

It's Fred's first gold way,

since partnering up with Brendan's crew.

- Hey, Joerg, how's it going? - Oh, yeah, good.

- Good. How are you? - Good. Sandro.

How are you doing?

And his claim owners are back

to find out if the deal paid off.

So how's it going here?

- I'm really glad you guys came today. - Yeah.

This is our first real gold way together.

So Fred in the contract, there were 35,000 yards?

How many did you run at this point?

- We ran 6,200 yards. - 6,200, yeah. Yeah.

And I guess it's an improvement

of the yard that you did before, right?

We're doing 90 yards an hour still

we're just running day and night now.

- Yeah, yeah. So, more hours per day. - Yeah.

- That's right. - And it's good.

- Yeah. - But for sure,

we are very curious, what's the result?

- So. - Yeah.

Can we see some numbers?

- Yeah. - Do you have some number to show, yeah?

Oh, we got some numbers are you ready?

- Yes. - Scales over here.

Before they joined forces

Fred and Brendan combined

were averaging just over 19 ounces.

All right, guys, Sandro, you want to call it out?

- Go ahead. - Now, remember, guys,

this is only half of ours,

so don't get too excited.

Okay, two, three.

- Oh, there's the big gold nugget. - Four, five.

Nine, ten.

13, 14, 15, 16,

- 17, 18, 19, 20, 23. - Wow!

25,

30.

- So more. - 33.

37.

- Holy cow! - 38.66.

Worth just under $70,000.

More than double,

what the two crews were getting before.

Fred's half share of 19.33 ounces,

is his biggest ever gold haul.

- That's pretty good for you as well. - Yeah.

- Right? - I'm happy with that, yeah.

What about you guys?

If you keep going like that? Yeah, every five days.

Yeah, and I believe if we get everything dialed in,

- we'll be doing better than this. - I think this is the...

- this is just the beginning, I think. - Yep.

- I mean, if-- - Already you doubled your production,

- I can't say that is bad. - Right.

Now, if you double again, it's even better, right?

So yeah, it looks, your idea was okay,

sharing and getting together with Brandon.

We were a little bit skeptical, but yeah.

If you do it like in this way, it's good.

All right, guys. Well,

I think we should get back to work, huh?

Yeah, I think we go back, start hauling

- keep washing. - Keep going.

Sounds good.

At the beginning, I was kind of skeptical

about this merging the two company

between Brandon and Fred.

But what I saw today, I really like it.

I mean, it looks like the guy,

they work together, they collaborate very well.

And the production is not bad at all.

Actually, there is an increase,

so I would say I'm pretty happy, definitely.

I feel like they saw the potential.

They see that this is just the beginning, right?

And we're going to get better.

We doubled our yardage in five days of running,

which is freaking amazing if you ask me.

But these gold weighs will get bigger,

and that's really all that freaking matters.

What's going on, Chris?

- Hey, Mitch, how's it going, man? - Oh, not too bad.

- Good to see you buddy. - You too.

Hey, , how you doing, man?

- Not much, you? - Cleaning gold.

- Yeah. - Non-stop.

So you've been busy this week,

you got Slucifer moved over to the

new wash plant pad, she's tall.

Yeah, man, it's up there, it was difficult getting it in place.

Nice to see it up there and hopefully

don't have to mess with tailings too much.

That should be one solid wash plant pad.

Oh, yeah, man, it was nuts.

I'm looking forward to the cleanup you're doing.

Hopefully, there's some gold in it.

Well, you want to see what we got?

Time to find out

if the last of the bad cut

lived up to its name.

- Take your guess, Parker. - What you got?

192,

based on how he's holding it.

Ten, twenty, forty, sixty.

130.

- 160. - It's over.

- 200. - Ah, *bleep*.

220,

240, 250.

277.05.

- I was way off. - Oh, yeah.

Worth just under $0.5 million...

- That's a good cleanup. - Yeah, no kidding.

It's your last, from the bad cut, so.

Now we got to see what the ugly cut's going to do, right?

Yeah, hopefully not hold up to its name.

All right, here's to first of Big Red.

Parker spent over $4 million

getting down to pay in Mud Mountain.

After drill results showed

it was four times richer

than any other Indian River ground.

I see you got two pans, damn it.

So what are you trying to tell me?

My scale goes up to 400 ounces

with the way, Mud Mountain has been going

right here you guys is 400 ounces.

Well, that's a good way to start.

That's the first thermos.

400 on the dot.

This is plus the 400.

Let's see what we got on top of 400.

20, 40,

100, 130,

180...

196.6.

For a total of 596.6 ounces in one week.

- That's incredible. - Wow!

Worth over $1 million.

We've been busy down here.

- Let's put it that way. - Yeah, buddy.

I mean, just last week, Big Red had its best

week ever and it just topped it.

This is the best week

of Red's history from day one.

It's just wild how much

like effort and stripping went into it

and how fast you're getting through it.

Every hour of sluicing probably represents

$1,000 worth of stripping or something,

right, or $2,000 worth of stripping.

For the week, you guys, believe it or not,

it's 873.65 ounces. Jeez!

Worth over $1.5 million,

Parker's biggest gold weigh of this season.

I never thought after last week we topped

what we just did, but it's a matter of if it'll hold out

for long enough to make it worthwhile.

Let's... Let's do this again next week.

- Yeah, let's do it again a few more times. - And again.

- Few more times, yep? - Yeah.

- We'll try. - Good job, guys, all three of you.

- Hell of a week. - Yeah.

So how many...

...how many rounds of golf did you miss?

- Yeah exactly. - Yeah.

I didn't know I was gonna have to work every day.