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Previously on this season

of Gold Rush.

We're hunting for ground. We need grounds.

With the competition for Klondike gold

reaching a fever pitch,

27-year-old Parker Schnabel

took a massive risk

on a wild card claim.

We've never gone this deep.

Shut her down, shut her down.

This season, we put a lot of our eggs

in the Mud Mountain basket

and it needs to be making money.

Flush with ground,

Tony Beets spent five million dollars

on equipment...

...but lost his most productive claim.

We've got a bedrock hole here at 210 feet.

Rick Ness

doubled down on his decision

to leave the Klondike

with a one million dollar gamble...

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

I'm gonna to go broke.

...on the deepest claim he's ever mined.

Stop! Stop! Oh, *bleep*

*bleep* sakes!

The payoff at the bottom, it could be a life-changing.

And after a disastrous rookie season,

Fred and his band of combat veterans

headed to the Yukon,

determined to earn their mining stripes.

That's about the biggest pay we had last season times ten.

Come hell or high water,

the misfits are coming out on top.

Now,

the final push...

Kill the plant.

What did you do?

I just don't know how much more we can fight.

I'm in the pond.

The *bleep* walls caving in.

Are you *bleep* kidding me?

With just over 1600 ounces of gold,

we're still way off our 2000 ounce season goal.

We got...

..a bunch of *bleep* snow overnight.

I'm sure there's a lots of people

that would call this pretty, but...

...I call it the last *bleep* thing we need right now.

Rick Ness is running out of time.

He's 190 feet down

in his Rally Valley cut

on the best gold he's ever seen.

With winter breathing down his neck...

Kyle, come on.

...it's time to put the pedal

to the metal.

Obviously, you guys are standing in the same *bleep* storm that I am.

*bleep* quick winter snuck up man.

This is way earlier than I've seen it in a long time.

Of all the years for this to happen,

uh, give me a *bleep* break.

We dug this big *bleep* hole.

This is the best pay we've ever had.

With this weather like this

- we aren't-- - Gonna have time to run it all this year.

Is there any way we can push this plan

any harder than what we have been?

You gotta add another loader, right?

Wouldn't that work? Clear tailings.

Grab a bucket of pay every now and then.

Maybe crank her up 400 yards

and see if we can keep up with it?

Four hundred yards an hour?

It's a push but...

- Pretty *bleep* sweet to do that. - Yeah.

I mean, that feeder will do over 800 yards an hour.

The plant, you know, we're already 300 yards an hour.

There's room. There's room on that deck.

There's room in that sluice box.

It's worth a shot.

We're gonna have our work cut out, trying to keep that baby

*bleep* full of pay.

Yeah, well, that's how it is in the end of the season.

Wouldn't have it any other way, right?

Should we get after it?

I say we should.

Let's get after it then.

I want to crank up to 400 yards an hour.

The only way to keep that amount

fed through this plant

was to be having two loaders,

load and pay.

You know, one full-time, just dumping

scoop after scoop in the feeder

and then a second one

alternating between tailings

and dumping a scoop of pay in the hopper

as it goes by every time as well.

Doing a little dance like that it's actually,

it's working pretty good.

I'll come in from behind you

there with another scoop there, dad.

Okay, I'll run up there and take care of that

- then I'll go do the waste. - Perfect.

It's great having my dad here.

He started operating engineers

when he was like 18 years old.

He had experience before that,

working for his dad, my grandpa.

So, he's got

more experience

than most of the crew here combined.

I love coming up here helping him

for a few weeks, but I'll tell you what,

I don't think I can handle an entire season of gold mining.

It is brutal.

Give him credit. He has a great work ethic.

He busts his ass to try to

make things work.

You're at the end of the season.

We're stressed for time.

If my dad and I are hanging out,

it's hanging out at work,

stuffing dirt through a large plant.

What's going on over there?

Yeah, he, uh, this thing's

throwing, uh, low battery voltage code.

Voltage is dropping.

Sixteen volts right now and going down

and it's honking at me, um.

I'm gonna have to go and check this thing out.

*bleep*

All right, uh...

Maybe it's something simple. I hope it is.

Thanks, dad.

*bleep*

Hey, Kyle, we're having a problem with one of these loaders,

so we're gonna have to dial the plant back down

to 300 yards an hour.

Hopefully, uh, my dad figures it out.

Without these two machines,

it's gonna make it nearly impossible

to meet that goal.

Rick's gear

has been limping through the season.

Without a mechanic on the crew,

he needs his dad

to keep it running.

To get into the meat and bones of these machines, right,

that's, it's over my head.

I mean, you need a tech like Kyle

to do that kind of *bleep* thing.

Not having a mechanic up here sucks.

Just looking at the alternator here real quick.

Most times it's an alternator issue,

a charging system issue.

That's what the alternator does, charges the battery.

But, uh, everything looks good here.

It looks like it's running nice and cool.

Connections are all good on it.

I'm going to go and look at the other end of this thing

and see if maybe it's a bad ground or something,

maybe a battery issue.

If big Rick

can't fix the loader's electrics,

Rick will be leaving money

in the Rally Valley bank.

So, this strong wire is very, very loose

and somewhat corroded.

The dirt and the moisture

gets in between the clamp

from the cable and the post on the battery and

that'll sometimes make 'em lose contact.

So, what I'll do is

clean up this battery post, we'll tighten her back up

and hopefully, that'll be the,

the resolve for this issue.

Good, right there.

Hopefully all we need to do is just get a jumpstart on this thing,

get it up and running.

Okay, now, we'll give her...

I'm gonna look and see, uh,

what we're getting for a charge.

*bleep* yeah!

The system's charging,

uh, it looks like it's gonna hold voltage.

Let's get this done.

Rick, Rick, you got a copy?

Yeah, go ahead.

I found the problem on this loader.

*bleep* yeah, that's awesome news, dad.

Yeah, hey, Kyle.

Crank that *bleep* plant back up, buddy.

Yee-haw!

*bleep* bricks there for a minute,

I thought we were turned out for good for the rest of the season.

My dad and I are loading this plant

400 yards an hour

and snow, ice, whatever the *bleep* it is,

we're just gonna keep going.

So, weather's closing in on us here,

it's been snowing a little bit.

It's been cold.

You know, it's that end of season...

...push.

And everybody's doing a really good job.

With just days left in his season,

27-year-old Parker Schnabel

has mined over 7,000 ounces of gold

worth 12.8 million dollars.

The best thing we can do is,

you know, put as much gold in the box

right now as possible,

make as much money as we can

so that we can afford a second operation

next year.

To beat his previous record.

Parker needs to pull in over

350 ounces of gold

before

the brutal Yukon winter

freezes them out.

It's a really good team right now

and I've tried hard to

give everybody as much

autonomy as I can

and it's worked great.

Parker's leaned heavily

on plant boss Tyson Lee

and superstar mechanic and foreman

- Mitch Blaschke... - Here we go!

...who's running point

on Mud Mountain.

You know, we definitely spent more money than we did last year.

I know that.

Those big dozers ripping all that mud this year was,

was very expensive.

So far,

he's dropped 5.4 million dollars,

getting to the bottom of Mud Mountain,

and he still hasn't broken even.

But he's finally on a hot pay streak.

If there's enough of it,

he could still win big.

And the piece that's left, though, is where the best drilling was.

So, there's still hope.

- Good morning. - 'sup, Postman?

Now, Mitch and operator Damien Browne

are ready to pull the last section

of gold rich paydirt.

All we got to do is get the last of this pay out of this road.

We'll pull the dewatering pump soon as this last pay Big Red.

- Mud Mountain cut's done. - Sweet.

We've been waiting a long time to say that.

Been waiting all season to say that to us.

Sluicifer should be finishing up

this week as well down at Ken's.

We'll get the trucks down here

hopefully, it's got a lot of gold in it.

- Sweet. - Have a good one.

Thank you, Damien.

Ever since I got here this season,

Parker told me about this project he wanted to take on,

and it's been a huge one.

You look at the equipment, it's tore up,

you look at the manpower we've invested into this.

And, you know, it's just a matter of, is there enough gold in here

to make it all worthwhile?

Ready to pull this pump?

- *bleep* ready for it. - Let's do it.

This dirt is where the best drilling was.

Now, what we're shooting for here

is a total of the season of over 7,500,

we wanna beat what we did last year.

That's a lot of gold to get out of this ground up here in one season.

We've been running Big Red at a nice pace here

to make all this happen,

but right now,

it's the last lap, we're gonna crank this baby up.

Oh, yeah, that'll do it.

If we got any chance of getting this dirt through there,

this is it.

Sluicifer in rough shape right now.

We've run it hard and

run a lot of paydirt through it this year

and caught a hell of a lot of gold with it.

Four miles west of Mud Mountain,

Tyson Lee is piling paydirt from the Ugly Cut

through Sluicifer as fast as he can.

We're a little short from where we were last year, gold wise.

Hopefully we can get the rest of this pay through Sluicifer

before Mother Nature freezes us down.

*bleep*

Hey, Tyson, you got a copy, Tyson?

Go ahead, clear to talk.

There's something wrong with my loader.

I think the, the tire's burst.

Alec's gonna come down.

Without Tatiana clearing tailings,

Tyson will soon be forced to shut down.

He's go, go, go, trying to get things fixed.

The pressure is on.

Well, well, well,

looks pretty *bleep*.

A lot of the bedrock that is in the cut

is very sharp,

jagged.

I wouldn't wanna be a tire running on this ground personally.

There we go.

Rims coming apart.

Oh, yeah, great success.

Things are looking good,

just swinging the new tire in place.

Here we go.

Just reassembled the other part of the two piece rim

and now we're about to throw some air at it.

And see a smile on Tatiana's face, I'd expect.

- You saved the day. - Yeah.

- Ooh! - Well.

- High five for talent. - Yeah.

I just finally got my loader back

with a brand-new tire,

can finally get going with tailings.

I got tons of work to catch up with.

I'm happy 'cause there's only so much time.

Let's get back to work and finish her off.

Everything around here is frozen.

The creek's starting to freeze.

Cold weather is our biggest enemy.

At California Creek.

Fred Lewis has a few days left in the season

to hit his goal.

Right now, we're sitting at 87 ounces.

Last week, we spent the entire week

fixing problems and we got zero gold for it.

If we wanna reach our 100 ounce gold,

we can't have any problems from this point on.

We've got to fire on all cylinders.

To maximize production,

he's teamed up with neighbor Brandon Clayton

and his monster trommel.

Purring like a kitten, baby.

Fred's part of the deal,

keep the dirt devil fed

with a steady flow of paydirt

from his cut half a mile upstream.

We're gonna do what we can do to hit that 100.

This is officially the last push.

Temperatures are dropping.

and, you know, nature is definitely knocking at our front door

saying, "Get the *bleep* out of here."

Scout sniper, Stuart McKenzie,

is in the cut.

Right now, I'm going through a frozen pay

that is unbelievably thick,

battling rock, battling ice,

battling mud

and run as much pay

through Brandon's plant

that we possibly can before we get kicked out of here.

Special Forces Sergeant Rick Douglas

runs pay to the plant.

We're all just hanging on by a thread

as far as trying to get this last big push in

before the cold weather sends us all home.

I'm trying to keep this thing running 24/7 right now.

As you can see,

your pay pile is pretty small.

I can probably make this last one hour.

If they don't pick up the pace, we're gonna have a problem here.

I don't wanna have to shut this plant down.

Hey, guys, what the *bleep* is the holdup back there?

Need more pay.

Yes, Stu's really fighting it over there.

I mean, every place he's digging is harder *bleep*

and every place we're driving now is soft and muck.

We're trying.

All right, 10-4, man, time is ticking.

If you would like to switch jobs,

- I'm more than happy to. - Yeah.

Whoa! *bleep*!

No!

Get over here!

I'm in the pond.

Somebody better get over here quick.

It's still sliding down.

*bleep*

I'm in the pond.

It's still sliding down.

*bleep*

And it's filling up with water.

Hey, Rick, what happened?

Driving back to get another load of pay,

and as I'm coming down, the slope just takes me in.

Even if we wanted to, we couldn't get the other rock truck by

to go over and pull pay on the other side.

Holy *bleep* man.

We're gonna try and hold it with the big hole

and the 250 will start to drag it out.

We don't want that Cat to roll over

or we're gonna ruin a half a million dollar machine.

The truck is blocking the road from the cut.

If they can't rescue it within the hour,

the plant will run out of pay.

It's in neutral?

It's in neutral.

Okay, Buzz let's see if it'll...

...come backwards.

Watch your eyeballs, kids.

*bleep*

Right now, we're unable to get pay to the plant.

We just can't keep up anymore.

We're shutting the plant off.

Until they salvage the waterlogged rock truck,

the California Creek operation

is at a standstill.

Well, cable has a lot more strength than a chain and...

if we're gonna pull her out of there,

cable's our best bet.

- Clear. - Clear.

You gotta be *bleep* kidding me.

Oh... *bleep*, man.

That cable actually hauled our wash plant up a hill

and it broke here because there's so much suction

and the silt on the front end of that truck.

So, we've gotta come up with another plan.

In my world, we call it *bleep* from hell.

I mean, it, it looks so close right here,

but it just won't come.

- Got an idea, though. - What's that?

What about using the old dozer?

Maybe it could probably pull it back, eh?

Okay. Yeah, let's do that.

- We'll get this fixed as soon as possible. - Sounds good.

All good.

Voila!

Oh, they broke the lead wire that we had,

so we're making the new one.

If this breaks,

that rock truck's probably staying there.

Fred's last ditch plan,

use the pulling power of two excavators

plus the D8 dozer.

Looks good.

Okay, everybody pull.

Three...

Two...

One, pull.

*bleep*

Whoo-hoo!

Yeah!

Oh, oh, she's great.

That is a faucet of water pouring out of the engine.

Everything electrical was underwater.

I, I believe this one's done for the season.

Yeah. We've gotta get this out of the way,

so we can get the road fixed

and get back to the pulling pay.

Probably lost about 20 grand today

in fuel costs, labor

and lost gold.

Right now, we've got one rock truck down.

That's a third of our fleet for hauling pay.

We don't have a lot of time here.

This one hurt.

At Paradise Hill,

Tony Beets has just days

left in his season

to get the 500 ounces he needs

to hit his season goal.

He's depending on son, Mike,

with his massive trommel

on the hill...

Trying to get as far in and grab as much pay as we can.

...and family friend, Ruby Mahoney,

running the Kiwi plant

down in the Hunker Cut.

At this point in the season,

you know, every single ounce counts.

It's just gonna push us closer to that,

you know, 4.5 thousand ounce gold,

all of our hard work

and all the *bleep* that we've been through here,

will actually, count for something.

Everything's looking all right.

*bleep* that should be spinning is spinning.

*bleep* that should be easy, so.

We're all good.

Hey, Tony. Hey, Tony.

Kiwi plant is running.

Everything is up and going.

It's getting really close at the end of the season.

And it could just be done like that,

but if we get hit by the snow

and just have to shut down.

So...

hopefully we can keep at it for as long as we can.

Everything that could have gone wrong

has gone wrong in this cut.

We've had engine problems.

The cut blew out on us.

Hopefully, we can, you know,

end this season on a high note.

Kevin, I don't have any water.

What the *bleep*!

Yeah, that ain't pumping right.

They can't mine any gold without water.

Oh, yeah.

Only last week,

Kevin cleared mud and debris

from this intake.

Now...

it's blocked again.

I'm really not surprised at this point.

This cut has been nothing but problems.

Without water we can't sluice, and...

we're down again.

This cut is cursed.

I don't know how we're ever gonna finish this place.

- Hey, Ruby. - Hey.

So, clearly we're not gonna get decent water from over here.

It's gonna get clogged again.

- Right. - So, we're gonna end up moving the pump.

- Really? - Since we haven't been down here in a while

where we've been pulling the pay from has flooded again.

- Right. - So, that water is...

as pretty well clear as we're gonna get.

We won't have all this... *bleep*

That's right. All right. Well,

I guess we're killing two birds with one stone.

We're gonna empty your pond, and

at least we have clean water.

Kevin's plan,

move the water intake for the plant

to the flooded section of the cut,

which should supply clean water

free of sediment.

This is exactly what I expected.

It's all river rock.

So, it's been pre-washed almost.

We should not have any sediment issues in here.

It's right there.

Now, next step.

Hook up the suction,

hook up the feed lines

and then...

from the *bleep* off we go.

Perfect.

Wanna drink?

Clean water.

Step one.

I figured. Yeah,

I heard you coming *bleep* like, just

All right.

Yeah.

Oh, nice.

Cool. Let's do it.

Please work, you piece of junk.

Firing up.

Whoo! Flood's up and running

We are paying here. Ready to sluice.

So, hopefully...

That's it. We can just...

finish this off.

Yeah, that looks a lot better.

I should be able to just *bleep*

come back when they need to clean up.

Excellent.

You know, this time of year,

the snow can start flying at any minute.

And that's why it's so important

to get the Mud Mountain done here.

Obviously, we had a big stockpile

of paydirt here at one point,

and now we've got,

you know, hardly anything left.

Just got to try and get it

through the wash plant before everything freezes up here.

24 weeks ago,

Parker staked his season

on Mud Mountain.

He's dug 60 feet down

to the deepest

and hopefully the best pay

he's ever mined.

So, this is the last few loads here in Mud Mountain.

Now, operator Damien Browne

is digging out the last of the cut,

in the hopes that it delivers

their biggest gold weigh ever.

So, it froze quite hard last night.

We came out this morning to find all the water,

is all frozen over.

So it's a good job. We're getting close to the end.

I'm really hoping that these...

coney holes here are gonna really pay off for us.

*bleep* I think, this is actually it.

Nothing, Mitch.

Yeah. Go ahead.

Yeah, man. I think we're done down here.

No way, man. That's the last of it, huh?

We've been waiting a long time to say that.

All right, awesome.

Well, let's just see

if we can get this stuff through wash plant now.

Better crank it up.

Yeah, buddy.

It has been a long...

season here up Mud Mountain.

I actually can't believe

that, that was the last scoop out of it.

I just hope there's a bucket full of gold.

Last bucket of Mud Mountain

and we've been out here since Chris got on the ground.

This season hasn't been what we thought,

it was going to be...

Finally, we can call it an end after this.

That's it, buddy, last one right there.

It's about time, I never thought this nightmare was gonna end.

Yeah! That's what I'm talking about.

This is such a good feeling. You think about that stockpile

we had here when we started.

Mud Mountain has been reduced to one hopper of pay dirt.

We conquered it.

Yeah, nice job, man.

Let's shut this thing off, man.

Woo! Yeah!

Right now, we're shutting off Big Red in Mud Mountain for the last time,

and it's a good feeling.

We won't know until Chris does a final clean up here for us.

We see just how much gold we were able to get out of this.

Every year we've...

...been able to climb higher

and higher with our gold numbers and, you know,

I'm really hoping this isn't the year

when we don't beat that record.

This last bit of pay in the Ugly Cut, and the last bit of pay

at Mud Mountain can...

...help us get to where we wanna be,

and that's above 7,500.

Just hours after Mitch shuts down Big Red,

Tyson is also reaching the end of the pay dirt

in the Ugly Cut.

So, here we go, this is the last scoop

of pay going into Sluicifer.

And that's a mining season wrapped up.

Things are starting to ice up around here.

Couldn't have stopped at a better time.

And it's the first day I've seen stuff like this on Sluicifer,

and it's a good thing we're done.

- Hey, Chris, how are you? - Hey, old dog.

- How are you doing, young fella? - Good.

- This is it, huh? - This is it.

- Last one, this is all you're gonna get. - Yeah.

Claim owner, Ken Tatlow,

and gold expert, Chris Doumitt,

arrive for the final mat pull of the season

on Sluicifer.

Get some of this mud and dirt out of here

- and see what we got, Ken. - Yeah.

Yeah, you got some gold there, Chris.

- Yeah, a little bit in there, huh? - Yeah.

It is pretty fine, isn't it?

- It is. - That looks good,

if you've got enough of it.

- Hey, Ken. - Hey, Tyson.

- How are you? - Good, thank you very much.

- No worries. - Good job, well done.

- Thank you, sir. - Yeah, yeah, good.

I'm glad you were looking after down here.

It's done. It's in the bag, so...

Well, the good cut was all right.

- The bad cut was better than the good cut. - Yeah.

And the Ugly Cut seemed to hold to its name.

Now, all we have to do is watch the movies

- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. - Yeah, yeah.

I guess I'll catch you at the gold weigh.

- Sounds good. I'll see you there. - Okay. Yep.

- Take care. - Thanks, Tyson.

This was final cleanup

for, uh, the Ugly Cut.

That's a final cleanup for Sluicifer for the season.

The last two clean-ups weren't all that great,

but with this one, we're doing the wings also,

which we haven't done during the whole cut, so...

...that might be...

...the saving grace for the final cleanup.

Last chance to change its name

from the Ugly Cut to the

not so good-looking cut.

What's happening?

I wanna let you guys know where we're at with everything.

Hours after the sluices stopped,

Parker has some bad news for his crew.

We're going to come up short on the gold front

on a season where we've got a huge amount of bills.

*bleep*

So, what do you wanna do to try and...

fix the problem?

I think that we should

try to get something else opened up.

Still shy of last year's 7,500 ounce total,

Parker wants to push for another quick score

before winter hits.

When we finished up at the Airstrip in zone three,

you know, we did that addition there

where the road was,

and that was all thawed underneath there.

That was good ground too you when you tore up that road, Mitch.

That showed, that showed some real potential there.

Earlier in the season...

Hey, man. I got the first scoop

of the Airstrip the road extension piled up here

if you want to start sending it through that wash plant.

Mitch mined out ground under a road at the Airstrip...

Twenty, keep it going to 281.55.

...and his gamble paid off.

I'll get down to that section of road

right along the river there, move a wash plant down there.

So, we'll start getting things in place

for the reclamation,

and your crew

can start doing that kind of stuff, right?

- Yep, for sure. - Okay.

I think I'll go back to cleaning gold.

It's a lot easier.

Make sure the bills are paid.

I tell you what, I'll get the gold to pay

- for the fuel for the guy who's running the dozer. - Perfect.

- There we go. - Thanks, Chris.

The end of the year here, we're going to need the biggest *bleep*

gold weigh we've had all year.

A hundred and ninety feet down in the cut,

Rick's crew are racing against the clock,

and the deeper they go,

the better the pay gets.

I wish somebody would turn the heat dial up to help us out

just to finish this season off.

You just don't know what this weather's gonna do up here.

It might turn *bleep* minus-45 overnight.

Wake up one morning and it's over and we're not up to our gold.

I mean, I've been trying to go as hard as I can

all season being the first year with Rick.

I wanna prove myself.

I want to smash the goal.

We've been giving off season and

and we're down to that good pay layer.

Now, it's just basically come down to

how much we can get pumped through that wash plant.

Everybody's out here

putting in a 100% effort.

You need to push a lot of yardage through here at the end.

We know that the gold's in the ground here...

but we still have to run it.

No. *bleep*

*bleep* buddy, that *bleep* wall's caving in.

*bleep*!

You better get the *bleep* out of the way, man.

*bleep* damn it.

You better get the *bleep* out of the way, man.

*bleep* damn it.

Rick, you got a copy, Rick?

*bleep* man, inner wall just caved in on us.

Are you *bleep* kidding me?

This is not good.

All right, just. Just stay out of there.

Hang tight, I'll be right there.

Get the *bleep* out of the way.

Let's just take off.

Water, that's formed a pond on a bench

above the cut

has caused the bank beneath to collapse.

There are high walls on all sides.

Any further collapse could bury the pay,

Rick's equipment, and worse,

any crew operating them.

Get the pump out of there.

If it gets sketchy, just *bleep* leave.

- Get the pump out of there. Leave the way flat. - Yeah, yeah.

- Okay? - Good.

Yeah, go quick.

Brennan, Kruse,

and Nathan rushed to rescue the pump

before the collapsing wall buries the bottom of the cut.

*bleep* pissed off.

Better make this fast.

We got all of our *bleep* out of there.

But for this year,

you know, we're gonna have to call it, it's just getting too, too dangerous.

We've got a stockpile of pay up at the plant.

Hopefully, with what we've got up there right now,

it's gonna be all we need to hit our 2,000 ounces

because this cut right here is done for the year.

Winter has arrived.

This is hell of a lot more cold than I was expecting.

I just don't know how much more we can fight.

We've had a rock truck stuck in a moat,

that's still down.

So, we're down to 60% of our hauling capacity.

But this is a group of soldiers.

We aren't quitters.

We aren't gonna slow down.

At California Creek,

the temperature has hit eight below.

But Fred Lewis and his crew

are still 13 ounces short

of their 100 ounce season goal.

You've gotta adapt and overcome.

Winter is gonna make us

do a lot of crazy things to keep going.

Well, that doesn't look right.

*bleep* trommel is wobbling.

Hey, Warren, this is Fred. You copy?

The trommel itself is wobbling.

It looks like it's off balance.

Oh, *bleep* do you have a look at the guider wheels?

The last wheel on the end of the trommel

doesn't look like it's doing the right thing.

If we let that run,

it's gonna put more stress on the other side,

and we're gonna blow the other side too.

I'm gonna have to shut the plant down.

Curl out.

Fred uses the excavator

to remove the broken guide wheel.

I got it.

Hell, *bleep*.

Hey, I got it.

We're gonna take this cap off

and see what's behind door number one here.

Oh, can you hear that?

It should be like,

like whisper quiet.

This is a bearing that's...

It's a roller bearing that's supposed to be in that cage there

to keep the rest of the bearing together

and, so... *bleep*

Yeah, we're just gonna pound that seal at the back end,

go look for another one.

We're gonna play Robin Hood today.

- You know? - All right.

We're gonna rob from the good bearings

and give it to the bad bearings.

You know, when you're out here in these secluded environments,

you've gotta use what you got.

This small bearing

could be the part that ends their season,

if they can't find

an identical replacement.

You got her, you busted her.

We want to get that plant up and goin'

'cause we've got a pile of pay dirt around here yet.

So, we don't actually know if this is the right size here

but we're taking a gamble and,

and hoping that it's gonna be the one that we're looking for.

That's it, eh?

This is what it should look like.

Just like this.

All together, one piece.

Not like that other one that was in several

and very unhealthy.

So, we'll take this piece over,

looks like it should be a pretty close match.

Sheldon's hunch pays off.

The bearing is a perfect fit.

Yeah, it's pretty tight, that'll be good.

That's a wrap.

We got this guide wheel

back together now.

We're gonna get this welded back up into place

and let's get back to washing some rocks.

Stick up, stick out. Yeah.

Is that good there?

No, that'll work.

Dirt Devil is back in business.

And Fred could still

hit his 100 ounce goal.

Trommel's spinnin'.

We're hoping it's gonna last the rest of the season.

We're stockpiled. We know we got lots,

very good pay, so, uh...

The Devil's hungry, let's feed her.

At Paradise Hill,

temperatures have dropped

to ten below freezing

and the snow is falling fast.

Winter has hit.

Call it a *bleep* day?

So, let's turn the *bleep* plant up.

There we go *bleep* turning up.

The more we turn up the feeder, the more yardage

we're gonna run through the trommel.

Hopefully that'll help us get

to the season goal of 4,500 ounces.

Hope *bleep*.

Kevin increases the feed rate

to finish the last of the pay pile

before the plant starts to freeze.

We're trying to get this all done as soon as possible.

We started the season, clearing the snow.

Now, we're gonna end the season running from it.

Winter has officially arrived here on Paradise Hill.

We've shut the Kiwi plant down.

Hopefully, we can finish the season on a high note

and then get the *bleep* out of here.

Ruby is sitting on a pile of pay.

With the plant at full speed,

she should be through it in two hours.

Hey, Ruby, how is it goin'?

It's going well. We're pushing through the last little bit here.

Hell yeah.

Yep, huh.

Yep.

Yep.

Sounds good.

It's bittersweet, you know, we're at the end of the season.

We've worked hard

and I hope our work has paid off.

And this last scoop will get us

to that 4.5 thousand ounce gold.

Here we go.

It's been one hell of a season.

Last bit of pay through the trommel.

End of the season.

*bleep* final cleanup.

Hey, Nick.

Huh, it's a nice one.

Oh, you know, we tore this wash plant apart.

It was beautiful out.

We got it over here on the new pad,

and we started putting it together.

And this morning we came out to a dusting of snow on everything.

Completely changed overnight.

Temperatures have plummeted,

but Mitch still has to sluice

Parker's final pay of the season

from the new cut, Redemption Road.

We'll see what she does,

but check out those sluice runs

we're gonna need to run some water

on them just getting 'em to thaw out.

Ready to go?

Throw some dirt at it. What do you think?

Yeah, let's do it. Let's see what happens.

Here we go. Let's fire this up.

Here we go.

Oh, yeah, there we go.

She's shaking. Took a little bit

to get her goin'.

Everything's looking good here, Justin.

Give us some dirt, man.

All right, go time.

Oh-ho-ho, there we go.

Here it is. We got the first pay dirt

of our winter wonderland here going through Big Red.

Nice.

So, we're here on Redemption Road

trying to get as much pay out of here as quick as we can,

before it freezes us out.

It's Big Red's last chance to pay out

before the end of the season.

We're not going home without a fight.

With the cold weather, there's lots of different variables.

And if for any reason we gotta shut down,

the pipeline could freeze up

and we're gonna have no water to wash the rocks

and get that gold.

So, we got to do everything we can possible

to keep the plant running steady.

Are you having any major problems?

Depends what you consider major.

When there's dirt getting washed...

Right now, we're doing all right.

If it's minus ten or so, you've only got,

what, two hours?

If you're broke down for more than two hours

then the sluice runs are gonna be frozen solid.

Oh, yeah.

Well, that's what we're gonna focus on is just keeping it running.

We got all four trucks bringing paydirt up.

Hopefully we can get all the dirt through before that happens.

All right.

Paydirt's coming out of the cut right now.

We got lots of material up here on the deck.

So, all we have to do is just try and keep Big Red running.

Overnight, the temperature at Redemption Road

has dropped to 15 below.

The snow continues to be falling here on the mine site.

And everything's starting to get a little packed here.

So, it's getting slick.

You got the trucks bringing pay up here.

We got to be very careful now.

You look at all the icicles already starting to form up here on Big Red.

We shut this wash plant off,

it's not gonna take much time at all

for everything to freeze up here.

So, we gotta keep it running.

Yeah, I figured we're on ice in this loader, right now.

With these icy conditions and going up and down the ramp,

it's definitely dangerous.

So, I just gotta be definitely on its heels

and paying attention.

Whoa!

Justin, go kill the plant, go kill the plant.

Right now, we're just gonna shut down Big Red.

Hopefully, there's nothing too major

and we're gonna fire back up.

Well, it look like we got a jam up in the pre-wash,

but we'll take a quick look here.

What did you do?

At Redemption Road,

a blockage in the pre-wash

has forced the crew to shut down.

How the *bleep* did that get through?

- Big rock in there? - Oh, yeah.

You want to get that big bar from the feeder?

We had a close call.

I thought I could break it in half, like,

some sort of superhero.

- This ain't working, Mitch. - Lollygagging.

If they can't clear the pre-wash fast,

the plant will freeze and their season will be over.

Yeah!

I saw we had material spilling out in the pre-wash here,

you can see all this dirt that's built up

it was sloughing off the side here.

Watch out.

The risk with any downtime this time of year

is you only have a couple of hours to be down

before everything starts freezing up...

which is just kind of cool, like, it's kind of fun.

It keeps you, keeps you on your toes.

An hour in

and the pre-wash is still blocked.

You know, I think this is one of the first rock jams we've had this season

- in the pre-wash. - It's the first one we've had.

Yeah, so, that's not bad.

Oh, just the boot. What?

Right, I see Parker's technique.

But I've never seen your technique there, Justin.

You know, you see this foot action here.

Watch Justin, now the toes.

Not bad, eh?

You look like a crab up there,

- just using your toes. - I know.

- Oh, yeah, there you go. - Some gold in that stuff.

That's better than what we saw at Mud Mountain.

We couldn't just pick up a rock and find a piece of gold there.

Did you see that?

You know, this ground up here might not be the best,

but it's been pretty reliable.

- All right, you're all good? - Yeah.

We just need this to fire back up.

Big Red lives to fight another day.

Few rocks, jam, jammed up ain't going to hurt us.

Whoa!

There it is.

We're very fortunate, we caught it as quick as we did.

We got it cleared out, Big Red's back running.

But if this would have happened at night,

with the temps like this,

plant would have been down for a while,

probably wouldn't got it back going.

We're almost there,

but we still got a ways to go.

Come on, Big Red. Hang in there.

That right there...

is ice.

Fred Lewis is still 13 ounces short of his season goal,

but with his 50-50 split

with Brandon Clayton's crew,

they still need twice that.

We're basically chasing our thawed pay,

there isn't much of it left.

That's as far in as I can go.

These pieces of equipment are getting beat up by all this frozen ground.

The end is near.

We lit a fire inside the hopper just to heat it up,

get the frost out of it so it will spin.

Over at the wash plant,

Brandon's trying to get the wash plant running

after another freezing night.

See, you can hear that, eh?

That little ice crystals smashing in there.

Solid as a *bleep* rock, dude.

Probably 8,000 pounds of ice in there.

8,000 pounds of solid ice.

We should get a fire torch on it, but...

...it'll take us six-seven hours to thaw this thing out.

When this eight inch waterline freezes solid,

then it's way too cold and we need to get back home.

Freddy, you got a copy?

This is Fred.

Hey, Fred, we need you down here as soon as possible.

We got an issue down here.

Roger that. I'll be right there.

- What's going on? - My eight inch water line froze.

That *bleep* froze solid.

Oh, that's not good.

It looks pretty frozen.

When eight inch water line freezes, it's game over.

So, so, what do you, what do you want to do?

- I'm not seeing any way we could keep going. - Right.

I think, we were lucky to be here this long.

I think you're right. It's just time to pack up, go home.

- Yeah. - Take what we got in our box, and...

All right, I'm gonna call the guys

and we'll get those mats pulled.

- and... - 10-4.

- Get everything out of here. Good job, bro. - Fred.

- Okay, I'll see you later. - Yup, later.

Hey, Misfits, I wanna have you guys meet up at camp.

We're gonna have a meeting. Everybody, Lottie dottie.

What's up? What is up?

- Ah, there you go. - Howdie, howdie.

- Hey... - What's up, man?

All right, so I talked to Brandon.

His... his pipes are freezing.

His water pump has very little left.

If it gets any colder than it is.

It's supposed to snow a foot tonight.

There is no pay left, right now

that's economically viable to pull.

Basically, what I'm saying is we're *bleep* done.

This season's been, you know, first of all man,

I don't think that there's anybody who could say

that we did not put...

- the time in. - Yeah.

When's the last time you had to put that much

focus and energy into one flippin' task?

- One goal, one objective. - 2009.

Fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Yep. 2009, 2010.

I was thinking the other day when we were talking about therapy,

I was just like, "Yeah, I used to work so *bleep* damn hard

You can't even think about, where all your *bleep* problems are."

Dude, cognitive reboot, man.

Yeah.

Fred's crew of military veterans

still needs to clean all the concentrate they've produced

to find out if they've hit their 100 ounce season goal.

Got to pull mats, all full mat pull.

We'll do that today.

We get our final go away

and we go *bleep* home.

- You guys good with that? - Yeah, cool.

- Misfits. - Misfits.

It's always got to be so *bleep* close, man.

Rick's Rally Valley mission

to double his gold haul to 2,000 ounces

is in the balance

as the Yukon winter slams the door on his season.

We, uh, did everything we could, man.

Frozen sluices aren't doing us any favors, right now.

I don't think we could go on any longer this year, even if we had more dirt.

Well, it's the last scoop.

Time to shut her down.

If it wasn't in the pay pile, there's nothing we can do this year.

All right, boys, that's the last one.

Let's, uh, shut her down and see what we got.

Well, I see some gold in here, eh.

- Hey. Yeah. - There's some gold in here...

That other one looked good.

When you see runs like this,

it's usually time to get the *bleep* out of here

and go home for the winter.

Well, this is the last cleanup of the season, minus ten...

That's cold, do you know what I mean?

We usually try and get done and get out of here,

but the weather's set in, a lot earlier this year.

So, hopefully, this will take us to our 2000 ounce of goal

and that's what matters, right?

Rick's crew dug 190 feet down to pay dirt

that should be three times as rich

as the pay he normally runs.

It doesn't look too bad, but I hate guessing

and you're never gonna know until you run it across the scales.

Hopefully, it's all in the box, man.

That's all we got for this year.

Well, here we are. We finally made it.

This is the last scoop

heading towards the Harper

and this road cut is gonna be finished.

At the airstrip,

Mitch taps out Redemption Road.

Yeah, buddy, go ahead and throw her in there.

That's the last one. How's that feel?

Oh, I don't know. After Mother Nature

and everything else against us,

I wasn't sure we were gonna get here.

It feels pretty good.

Whoo!

- How does it feel? - There it is.

Whoo! We're done.

That's it.

- Shut her down, pack up-- - Shut her down, boys. Yeah.

Good work, Justin.

Yeah.

It's definitely been a struggle here,

but we got Chris down ready to do the cleanup.

And it's time to call it a season.

Worst part is, I got to wash his mats

with my bare hands.

- Little frosty this morning. - Little bit.

It was a good call digging up this road, Mitch.

It really was. I think,

if you get a good clean-up here,

it could put us over the top

from last year.

When you look back, we've done a lot of cuts.

We did zones one and two

at the airstrip.

Then we did zone three, we did the road extension in zone three.

Then we sent Sluicifer down,

did the good, the bad, the ugly.

We took Big Red up, did Mud Mountain,

now, we brought it back down here and did the road.

- Nine cuts. - Whole bunch, man.

It is.

It's all the thawed dirt we have right here.

So, if it's in there, it's in there.

If it's not, we gave it a hell of a try.

To beat last season's

7,500 ounce gold total,

they still need

over 350 ounces.

You know, we're really close.

We've been gaining on last season's numbers

little by little, but...

just not enough to have a season breaker.

But...

you never know what this ground holds.

As he worked towards the river,

it got better and better.

And the roads right alongside the river.

So,

this should be

a good final cleanup.

All right, well, we're gonna start breaking things down,

start winterizing stuff,

- and, uh, we'll see down at the gold weigh room. - Okay.

Sounds like a plan. We'll be out of here

- in just a couple minutes. - Thanks.

Another season over, eh,

hard to believe.

Whoo! Chris.

Final cleanup.

- Final cleanup. - Final cleanup.

Been watching the geese fly by,

thinking, you know, that they're going in the same direction

I wanna go.

High-fives, ladies.

Well done.

- Real terrific. - We did it, we did it.

We did it.

As you can see, it's getting really cold out.

I mean, the timing was impeccable.

We're about

a 360 ounces short

from the last year.

It's gonna be close.

It is, it's gonna be

very, very, close.

- Hola. - - Hi, guys.

Hola.

After six hard months of mining,

the Beets family gathers

for their final gold weigh of the season...

I know it's a lot, isn't it? It's more than you.

...to find out

if they've hit their 4,500 ounce goal.

Thing is this is our last week,

we're all shut down now. How'd the last week go?

We did do some sluicing,

so I hope we have something in one of those jars.

Just hope that we have something to show

for all the headache that we were down there for.

It's snowing, I could see Santa Claus waving

as he was driving by--

Yeah.

- Say hello to my little friend. - What? No way!

That, I don't think we've ever gotten that much off of Kiwi.

Is that a season total?

Okay, everybody ready?

Let's do this thing, chicken wing.

Twenty, thirty,

forty, eighty,

ninety,

hundred,

one hundred and forty, one hundred and fifty,

158.34. Yee!

That's super awesome. I did not expect that at all.

Neither did I.

Worth $285,000,

battling the cursed cut

has finally delivered.

So now, that I've contributed a little something

to, uh, the end of the year gold weigh,

how much more do we need to get to that 4,500?

Another 354 ounces.

I hope it's in those jars.

They look, they look, pretty promising.

Three, two, one, go.

Ten,

20, 30, 40, 50,

110, 120, 130,

200, 210,

220, 300,

310, 20,

- 30, 340, 350, 360, - Well, you hit your goal.

...370, 380, 390,

400.

410, 420, 430, 450,

460,

463.94.

Both cuts, bringing in a total

of 1.1 million dollars.

That's our biggest gold weigh this far.

And the season total for this year

is 4,620.9 ounces.

Okay, that means we're over by 120.9 ounces.

The Beets have mined well over eight million dollars

and beaten their goal for Paradise Hill.

I would just like to say that this year

has been pretty great seeing as you have a granddaughter.

That's the best thing about this year.

You know, it is...

- That's priceless. - Far more precious

from all that metal you have on the table.

Yeah.

You guys all done a good job.

And I guess we have to get ready for winter.

So, you guys wanna get on that so we can all leave?

- She's the boss. - She is the boss.

- She is the boss. - Whatever makes you feel better.

- We'll see you in Holland. - Yes.

- Give me a hug. - I love you. I love you.

Bye, okay.

See you in The Netherlands.

Yeah, that turned out pretty good.

I have to say so myself.

And we got another grandchild.

So, life is pretty good.

Yeah.

- Yeah. - There you go.

- Hey, hey, hey. - What's up?

- Let's see. - That sounded heavy.

- Oh, yeah. - All right, guys.

It's the last one.

I'm a little nervous about this one.

We had a tough week.

At the start of the season,

Fred struggled to find ground to mine.

He didn't start sluicing until over two months

into the five month season.

Now, he's going to find out

if he has made it as a Yukon miner

and hit his 100 ounce goal.

Regardless of what this is, though, I'm proud of you, guys.

Right now, we're sitting at 87 ounces.

Remember, we give half of it away.

So, we need 26 ounces

- to hit 100. - All right.

The crew needs 13 ounces

to hit their goal.

But, half of the final gold

belongs to Fred's partner, Brandon Clayton.

Kind of delaying the inevitable here, guys.

How about you start pouring?

Oh, I've never been this nervous.

Twenty-six, come on.

One, two, four, five, six, seven, eight, ten,

eleven, fifteen, seventeen,

Twenty.

Twenty one, twenty two, twenty three...

...twenty four, twenty five, twenty six...

twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine, thirty...

Oh, look at this.

- ...thirty eight... - Oh, come on.

...thirty nine...

Come on.

...forty two, forty three, forty four...

45.585.

Whoo!

- Oh, my God! - That's a weight.

We get half of that, so we get 22.8 ounces.

Nearly twice what they needed.

- Good. - We did it.

- Not only did we do it, we beat it. - I can't believe it.

We came here under

- impossible frickin' odds, late in the season... - Mm-hmm.

- ...found ground... - Yeah.

...and we pulled over 110 ounces.

Worth almost $200,000,

over 15 times what they produced last year.

I'm proud to be part of this team.

You come here to the Yukon, green as *bleep*.

Now, I don't care what anybody says.

- You guys are *bleep*. - Right on.

- Thank you. - You guys are.

Thank you.

We appreciate you.

- Thanks-- - This was not given to any of us.

Nobody was handed anything here.

We earned *bleep* with blood, sweat and some tears.

- Mm-hmm. - This was a fight, man.

- This was a fight and I don't think... - Yeah, the whole time.

...I would have had it any other way.

Thank you for being part of this team because now we're all family.

I needed this, this helped me focus,

and you guys stuck with me,

and I said, "*bleep*, I'm all in for the win, man."

'Cause when people telling you,

you couldn't do it, it's like, "No."

You bring in a bunch of green berets,

- we're gonna make it happen. - Mm-hmm.

All of us can say we've gold mined in the frickin' Yukon.

It's like legendary epic *bleep*.

You talk about obstacles we've all overcome them in our lives,

this is probably, for me,

one of my biggest achievements ever.

Let's pack our *bleep* and get outta here, let's go see our families.

I'd call this an A-team, gold mining A-Team.

You're surrounded by guys, you trust them with your life

and it feels like that with these guys here.

Kudos to Fred,

he had a number of hurdles that he had to clear,

you know, to make this happen.

He's a great leader and he's a great guy.

I can't wait to start it up for next year.

I started this company to help veterans

to give some people purposes that needed a purpose.

And right now, we've done that.

Every single person that came up here

has a purpose now.

And now, I couldn't feel any more proud of my team.

I just can't wait to kick more ass.

How are you doing, buddy?

Two days ago,

Kruse was rushed to the hospital with stomach pains.

I've got, uh, diverticulitis,

it's an infection in my intestine and colon.

We've all busted our asses all season long and come up short.

Literally, gut-wrenching.

Just feel helpless laying here in a hospital room.

Well yeah, I mean it's *bleep*,

bummer that you're sitting in the hospital,

but that's probably exactly where you need to be right now.

There's one gold weigh left,

that's the big one, so...

keep me posted.

It's gonna be close, man.

They're cleaning it up now, we'll know, and as soon as I know, you'll know.

- All right, man. - All right, buddy, take care.

You too, man.

Oh, for sure.

Man, this weather's beautiful, we should start sluicing again.

I think so.

Not everybody has made it

to Rick's final gold weigh of the season.

How's old Kruse boy doing?

He's in the hospital, he's got diverticulitis

and possible perforation.

He is in some pain, but you know, he'll recover.

At the start of the season,

Rick shocked everyone by doubling his gold

to 2,000 ounces.

To achieve the impossible,

he moved over a million yards of dirt

from a cut over three times

as deep as any he's mined before.

And he did it all with a bare-bones crew.

Well, man, it's been quite the season, eh.

I couldn't be more happy to be a part of my first year here,

and look at what we conquered as a team, man, it's crazy.

Kind of nice to be that small family feel again

- just get back to the roots of mining. - Yeah.

We're small team, right?

But we do, we're doing big things.

You look at what we did this year, like, you leave for home with...

- your head *bleep* high, you know what I mean, like? - Yeah.

This deep ground's where it's at.

I've never gotten anywhere close to that deep.

- Oh! - None of us here had.

- No. - And that wall to collapse,

it sucks that happened but,

I, I think there's huge potential in this channel,

and I'm looking forward to mapping out

where it goes and *bleep* chase *bleep*.

Yeah.

We were at just over 1,650 from the last gold weigh,

we're just shy of 350 ounces to hit 2,000.

And it's gonna be really close, I'm not going to lie.

This, this is 250 ounces right here.

- Holy *bleep*. - Right here, and I don't know what's in here,

as I want to do it with you guys, so...

There's 250 in there, we need like 96 ounces.

To hit his season goal,

Rick needs the biggest gold weigh

he's ever had.

Man, this is gonna be close. It's absurd.

We've got ten, 20,

30, 40, 50, 60,

70, 80...

...still going, 90, 100.

- Shut the *bleep* up. - 100 and...

- 103.47. - No way.

*bleep* yeah.

I got something else though,

we didn't get to the bottom of that cut,

but we got close, we got some nuggets.

- No way. Wow. - Nice.

So, yeah.

Well, this would be a big *bleep*

- in the Indian River, right? Yeah. - Yeah.

See what it is. Oh, that's a good sound.

- That is.

Yeah, there we go, that's another

- 27 ounces, boys. - Yeah.

- Awesome. - Got one more little jar here.

This will sound really good.

- No! - Wow!

That's another 13.5 ounces.

Doesn't that look cool though? Look at that.

Oh, man.

That is by far our biggest gold total for a week.

Uh, It's almost 400 ounces, 393.

That's 2,047 ounces.

That's awesome, man.

After gambling everything,

on hitting a gold rich pay layer

at the bottom of the Rally Valley,

it's finally paid off,

delivering $700,000 worth of gold

in the last week.

and taking his season gold haul

to almost $3.7 million.

- I love you, man. - Love you too, dad.

- Good job. - And it's awesome that you're here for this.

- Appreciate it. - This is a big step.

- That represents victory right there. - Yeah.

The goal we needed was at the bottom of Rally Valley *bleep*

we all went after it and we got it.

The amount of people that we had and to pull off what we pulled off,

I'm gonna have a nice little jar of gold for all you guys, so...

What about that?

- Check's in the mail, dad.

I'm trying to think back what you used to pay me when I was growing up.

- Was paying you a kick in the ass. - There it is.

That's, that's what it was, it was a kick in the ass, there it is.

- All right, let's get out of the snow *bleep*. - Time to go home, boys.

Is it nice to go home knowing that we hit 2000 ounces?

I don't know how to top it.

I mean, I will, I'll top it next year, but...

there's more than a lifetime of mining here and...

I'd put the down payment to secure it.

That's a hell of a good feeling 'cause by the end of next year,

I got no royalties to pay.

Unbelievable.

Rick has entered the major leagues,

doubled his gold total,

bought his own ground

and produced his best season ever.

To say that I'm proud right now is an understatement.

Man, it's a, it's a good feeling.

Final gold weigh for the season.

Traditionally, we get a campfire going and get the whole crew down here.

Let them see the fruits of their labors.

All the gold we're gonna get, we got.

After starting this season on the back foot,

facing competition for Klondike ground,

and struggling to mine the deepest cut of his career,

It's time for Parker's final gold weigh.

Parker, Parker, Parker.

What? Does that make sense?

Thank you all for coming to this little pow-wow,

our final gold weigh.

It is your guys' work that

got us through the season.

You know, this season started out,

I was a little bit nervous.

We lost Superman Shane

and Brennan,

and it was a little bit of a concern for me,

but, um, you guys all rose to the challenges.

And thank you.

Do you wanna throw some gold on the scale?

So, we've got...

...Sluicifer that was running down

on Ken and Stuart's ground,

- and Joan, of course. - Yeah.

I hate to pick on you, old timer,

but I know we get excited

when we find a tusk.

What it must have been like,

when you found, like, the whole animal walking?

No, Chris,

- I'm old, but I'm not that damn old. - I'm gonna get my...

abuse when you leave,

so you just sit back and take it.

So, Ken, this is... your Ugly Cut.

And this is from like half a week.

To hit his biggest season total ever,

Parker needs 7,500 ounces,

but he's over 350 ounces short.

Sixty ounces.

Ken, for your ground this year,

the good, the bad the ugly is 2,076 ounces.

- That's good. - That's good.

Yeah, that's not bad.

Ken's ground this year

has delivered over 3.5 million dollars.

Ken, thank you for helping getting that strip down there.

And thank you

for just being here all season,

like nobody has...

...nobody has a landlord that comes and, like...

does all the work.

- You guys left nothing for us. - Yes.

This is the end of all the Airstrip Cuts.

This is where Big Red just finished up.

Let's see what we got here, Doumitt.

Fifty, hundred,

- and we're still going. - Wow!

- Keep it going, keep it going. - Yeah!

299.6.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

So all in all, we got 3,000

- combined with both wash plants. - Yes.

- That's pretty awesome. - Yeah, it's...

Yeah, you guys answered the challenge, man.

The bonus 300 ounces

from Redemption Road

puts the season total

at 7,501.

So here's Mud Mountain.

What do you got? What do you got?

This is 350 ounces, right there.

And in this one...

is another 350 ounces.

Yeah.

We need 3,000 ounces

to break even at Mud Mountain,

we're at 2,950 ounces,

we're 50 ounces short.

But...

we have one more thermos.

It's a one-hander, it's not that heavy.

- It's 80... - It's gotta be 100.

- ...100 and... - Got it.

108.45.

So, for Mud Mountain, we got

3,058 ounces.

Far less than the drill tests indicated

and barely enough to cover the costs.

Parker. Hey, man,

you almost made 100 grand on the deal, almost.

- Well, all that worry, all that wear and tear... - No, I mean.

It's not... It's just like the sad part

- is how much effort went into it. - Yeah.

Like, 'cause, like, you guys busted your balls

- to make that work. - Oh, we pulled it through.

- I know. - Yeah.

- They won't. - Neither will you.

I'll throw some fun facts at ya.

Last year we had 7,504 ounces,

this year, we have

8,309.75 ounces.

- Whoa! - Yeah.

We beat last year by 800 ounces, you guys.

Despite Mud Mountain not living up to its promise,

Parker's mined over a million dollars more than ever before,

grossing a record-breaking

fifteen million dollars

in Klondike gold.

I wouldn't want to have had any different crew.

Like, really enjoyed working with you guys.

You all had, even you, Justin

and then losing the fuel caps...

Yes, even you.

But, like, we had some really good

greenhorns this year.

And, and I hope that we can do it again.

Team, Parker, yeah.

- Cheers, guys. - Cheers.

- Yeah. - I'll drink to that.