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[opening theme music playing]

We're over halfway through the season right now.

Um, started off with a bang.

Rally Valley was amazing.

You know, we got over 900 ounces out of it,

but since then, things have kind of stalled out.

You know, we've got three cuts fail.

And we're kind of just having a tough time, uh, figuring things out.

[narrator] After a hot start to his season,

Rick Ness has hit a wall.

He's struggling to mine,

and he's burning through his profits.

[Rick] Scratching around, trying to make things work,

but, you know, 10 ounces a week,

we're... we're definitely not gonna get to our 1,500-ounce goal like that.

[narrator] Over the last six weeks,

Rick has struck out on multiple new cuts.

[Rick] 2.59.

That was the worst one by far I've ever had.

We need to find better ground fast.

We have to move forward.

You know, we have to find where the gold is,

and we have to go get it.

[narrator] With no other easy options,

Rick's turning to ground

he previously thought too risky to mine.

So, right in here where we're at...

with my drilling report, the channel from Rally Valley

comes all the way down the valley,

all the way down here.

There's a good drill hole here.

You might actually even be able to see

the edge of the wall here.

Yeah, right here.

This is an extension of Rally Valley.

Except we're a half mile away from it.

That's how long this channel is,

and we know it's there,

you know, we have the drill results.

We've got resistivity lines along it

that proves it's there.

It's right below my feet.

This is the kind of gold, you know,

that we're pulling out of Rally Valley.

This is where I wanna mine, but it's very deep.

I mean, it's 210 feet to bedrock.

Pay layer is probably 40, almost 60 feet thick.

But that still means that we're still 160 feet overburden away from it.

I did the calculations on it, it was gonna take us

seven to eight weeks to strip it.

And if we were lucky,

we're gonna get two weeks of sluicing right at the end.

If I spend a million dollars stripping it

and I don't get any gold out of it,

I... I can't absorb that cost, I just can't.

The risk's high. It's so deep.

[narrator] Over 150,000 years ago,

a huge glacier eroded gold from the mother lode.

When it melted, it left massive gold deposits

in an ancient riverbed,

which, over the years, was covered by nearly 200 feet of overburden

at Rally Valley.

Rick now wants to follow the same gold-rich pay channel

half a mile downstream and open up a new 3-acre cut.

The problem is, the pay layer here is even deeper.

To get to the gold,

Rick must move a mountain

and shift over 1 million yards of overburden

to dig 160 feet down to hit pay dirt.

Then sluice as much as possible

before winter shuts him down.

[Rick over radio] Guys.

We gotta have to talk.

Obviously, you guys have seen the last few gold weighs.

You've seen what we're going through right now,

and I don't think any of us are happy about it, right?

An idea that I kind of had shoved out of my mind,

um, which was going back to Rally Valley has now resurfaced.

And I think we should do it.

Not the original Rally Valley, but the end of the channel.

All right, where... another spot where we know that channel is.

And that's where we're sitting right now.

This is it, right here.

We don't have a whole lot of time left.

Um, it's deep.

But it's got the kind of gold that we're used to, right?

The problem is, is that there's real consequences of that, right?

And don't get mad at me, but I wanted to show you.

In actuality...

there's well over a million dollars' worth of gold right there.

Um, you guys' gold bonuses are in that jar with all that gold, right?

I mean, that's expenses and stuff.

We could blow that whole container of gold...

moving overburden, trying to get to the bottom of Rally Valley.

And if we don't get there by the end of the year,

then all that gold is gonna be gone, right?

There's been a lot of tough decisions this year

because of all this... this water license stuff,

but I don't think any of us are gonna settle

for what we've, uh, been getting the last few weeks.

That's what's at stake. I need you on board for this.

And I need you to understand that...

I mean, a lot of this risk is mine,

but you guys are in on it, too.

I know.

You're digging deeper, you're going in further, what's your plan?

[Rick] You can see this bank go straight up right behind it,

and we're gonna have to move some of that

if we wanna get down to this good gold.

The mountain of ground that we have to move,

or a whole lot of gold we can take with us, you know what I mean?

[Ryan] Yeah, it's not a joke, because, dude, if we don't hit [bleep],

we all just came up here for nothing.

I don't want any of us walking out of here

without, you know, something to show for it.

That's why it's a gamble, right?

You know, the fact that we could lose it all,

it's a fact that we could double it, too.

It could be really good, or it could turn into a big soup kitchen.

[laughs]

[bleep], I'm in.

We, you know, we have your back.

Good. I like that.

You guys wanna see this, right here? Look at this.

So, when we start here, we'll get the pump over here.

We'll drain this water out, and then we'll just follow

that bedrock right into our wall, right?

And then we'll start up top.

We'll start moving overburden, the drill holes are showing

between $200,000 and $250,000 a day.

If we get to the end and we get 10 days of sluicing out of it,

I think we're gonna be laughing.

So, we don't need too many

-of those days at the end to add up. -[crew member] Mm-hmm, no.

That's why I think it's a good gamble.

-Yeah, all right, -Yeah. All right, let's go.

All right. [bleep] yeah.

Well, Rick's taking this gamble on this cut,

and he believes it's a part of the Rally Valley vein,

and we got [bleep] tons of cubic yardage to move.

All that gold bonus right now is being spent

instead of going in our pockets,

so we all hope that there's gold in the bottom of that.

You know, we all didn't come up here to just be happy

with the bare minimum.

It's gonna be a battle to the end.

I know we're all hoping, not as much as me,

that this is, uh... The gold here

is as good as Rally Valley, but we're gonna find out.

Well, it's another day in the Long Cut here.

You know, last season, we had great results

with the gold that we saw coming off

the Dominion property.

This season, it's definitely been coming in a lot slower.

Parker's looking for some quick gold right now.

Unfortunately, on this property,

there's just not a lot of that to be found.

[narrator] Mistakes and setbacks have derailed

Parker Schnabel's massively ambitious plan

for a 10,000-ounce season at Dominion Creek.

Two-thirds of the way through the season,

he's banked less than 3,000 ounces.

[Mitch] Well, if we've got any shot of getting 10,000 ounces this season,

it all revolves around having ground open

that you can sluice.

And that's what we're trying to do right now.

We've got so many cuts, so there's so much going on.

And then on top of all that,

you know, he goes and buys another mining operation.

Doesn't matter how many we have,

Parker's always gonna wanna try and do a little bit more.

We just picked up a couple of new pieces of ground.

Kind of a bad time to be spending lots of money,

but gold price is good, and we need to just

keep wash plants fed and keep the monster alive.

[narrator] While continuing to churn through Dominion's Cuts,

last week, Parker took a huge gamble.

He bought a mining company for $2.5 million

that includes the Sulphur Creek claim, with ground ready to sluice.

[Parker] There's lots of work to do and...

not a lot of season left to do it in.

[narrator] It's a smash-and-grab play

to bring in a fast 1,000 ounces

and get his season back on track.

I felt like it needed to be done.

Unfortunately, it just means saddling up

on some more debt, and then pour money into the property.

I know some of the crew is very hesitant on Sulphur,

but there's a pit that's stripped there,

and then some other very shallow thawed ground.

It's a nice way of doing things.

When you have a big, you know, 200-plus-yard-an-hour plant going,

you would hope to be able

to get at least a couple ounces an hour.

Hopefully, that, like, calms everybody down, including myself,

and we get some gold coming in,

and, uh, things are okay.

[narrator] A 25-mile drive away at Sulphur Creek...

[Damien] We are gonna frickin' do everything we can to keep those plants fed.

[narrator] ...Damien Browne and his skeleton crew

are running wash plant, Bob.

Now, in their first full week of running,

the crew will find out if the gamble was worth it.

I mean, Parker has put a hell of a lot of pressure

on us down at Sulphur here.

And, like, with the people we have

and the resources we have, it's next to impossible.

What the [bleep]?

The feeder has stopped feeding, and it's plugging up.

I just wanna see what the hell is going on.

It just stopped right now with a full hopper of dirt. It is not a simple fix.

You can't have downtime like this.

[whirring stops]

Bill, have you got a copy? Bill?

Yeah, go ahead.

Would you or Justin be able to come out here to Sulphur?

Uh, the prewash on Bob is after... jamming up.

[Bill] Okay. 10-4.

Me and Justin will be on our way.

[Damien] Perfect. Thank you.

[narrator] Father and son mechanics, Bill and Justin,

cover all three of Parker's claims,

an area that now covers 100 square miles.

Right now, we got one down.

So, even though we have other projects on the go,

we gotta drop everything,

get to Bob, get it up and running

so Damien can get pay going here again.

So, I'll get to see the lay of the land here

and see exactly what's going on.

I don't see any water running,

so they must assume it's pretty serious.

Let's see what we got on the go here.

It's time for you to work your magic.

[Bill] Let's get to her.

If we were to grab a three-quarter ratchet, we can pull this apart.

We've got some play in our chain there,

which probably means the shaft has slid back.

That is our issue.

[narrator] Wash plant Bob's prewash

moves pay dirt along a conveyor belt,

powered from beneath by a drive shaft,

sprocket, and chain system.

Justin thinks that the shaft is no longer aligned,

bringing the belt to a standstill.

To fix it, he plans to cut the drive chain,

replace any broken parts,

then move the drive shaft back into position,

get the chain rotating again,

powering up the belt.

[Bill] Once we get the sprockets off

and the bearing off to try to get this shaft out of here,

hopefully, we don't have to pull the hopper all apart.

These are the old sprockets.

They're supposed to be the same shape on both sides.

This is the wore side.

You can see the hook that's in it.

And so that's how much it wore out.

You know, it's a little bit longer than we anticipated,

but now, finally, we're just getting to see the shaft here, so...

[Justin] Oh, for...

[Bill] What do you got, buddy?

-[Justin] There's pieces everywhere. -What?

[Justin] And, obviously, that shaft is destroyed.

But the ends are right out of it. Look.

[Justin] Yeah, oh, the races are gone.

Holy.

-[Bill] Yeah. -[Justin] Look at that.

The shaft is definitely toast.

I've never seen a bearing that, uh, that destroyed.

[Bill] Yeah, I don't even know how that this thing was still turning like that.

That is one wasted piece of steel.

Okay, I'll jump out here.

You can pass it to me.

We got some time to make up here, buddy.

We are way behind.

[Justin] That is an absolute disaster.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] King of the Klondike, Tony Beets' season

is stalling out,

with only one of his three wash plants sluicing for gold.

[narrator] Tony's already mined

nearly 3,500 of his 5,000-ounce season goal.

But with gold prices hitting $2,500 an ounce,

he wants even more.

[Monica over radio] Tony, do you copy, Tony?

Can you come down to the Hester and see me, please?

[Monica] Everybody else has a claim.

And Tony said this one was going to be mine.

I would like to get going on it.

Until I get T Beets to talk to me,

I can't really put a plan in place.

[Tony speaking]

[Monica] Been a hot minute since you've been down here.

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] Yeah, actually, quite a bit of water in there.

Yeah, it's a nice lake for that boat you've got.

I'd rather drain the water out and start sluicing.

[Monica] Yep.

You told me this cut was gonna be mine.

Mike's got his setup on the hill.

Kevin's got his own setup on Scribner.

You even gave Cousin Mike more responsibility,

-watching the plants out in the Indian River. -[Tony] Mm-hmm.

-But it would be nice... -[Tony speaking]

...if I could oversee this business

-and be in charge. -[Tony speaking]

[narrator] Four years ago...

Clearly from a [bleep] dredge.

[narrator] ...Tony discovered a pocket of ground

missed by the old-timers.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] He drilled it...

That looks like virgin ground to me.

[narrator] ...and found good gold.

We found you some money.

[narrator] Tony opened up a 1.5-acre cut.

[narrator] But so far, has never mined it.

[Tony speaking]

[Monica] As long as we can make a plan,

you know, start working on these things.

We need to get that Moose Creek trommel to the welder,

get everything fixed up,

-get me a pump. -[Tony speaking]

In theory, we should be able to do it.

It'll just be a little bit tight.

[Monica] We gotta put a nugget trap on there.

[Mike] It's-- You're gonna need that [bleep] welded on.

I got my guy up there, so I'll-- I--

We'll pull it into place, get it there,

get him working on it.

[Tony speaking]

[Monica] Yeah.

[Monica] Okay.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] Monica plans to use Tony's 33-year-old

Moose Creek trommel to sluice the Hester Cut.

I appreciate everything you're doing to help me.

Anything for family, Monica.

-So, should we go take a look at the [bleep] thing? -[Mike] Yeah.

It's gonna be your headache soon.

[narrator] To get it running,

Mike will drag the 35-ton wash plant

that sat idle for two years over to the yard for repairs.

[Monica] No joy.

Well, it's a little, uh, sunk in there.

What's your plan? You wanna drag it out so they can pump it up?

I'm gonna pull it out.

Ready?

[Monica over radio] This tire is a little low,

but it should be fine.

[engine starts]

[Monica] It looks pretty good, Michael.

It's really nice to see the Moose Creek trommel start moving.

But now, hopefully, this gets fixed up, we drain that cut,

and then we can start getting some gold.

Looks like Mario Kart.

[laughs]

I like gold mining.

I like being a part of all these things.

So, I'm really excited to see

what kind of gold we get out of here.

Ha-ha!

[narrator] Monica's trommel reaches the yard

where Mike's welders will get to work repairing the plant.

[crew member speaking over radio]

[Mike] Yeah, I'll be there in a sec. Gotta go, Monica.

[Monica] He-he.

He the man with the plan,

and the employee has just took off to fix his own things.

[Mike speaking]

Okay, shut off the water, shut off the water.

Shut off the distributor, and shut off the sluice box

here in a second.

[crew member speaking over radio]

[Monica] I mean, it really sucks.

It's about right

that every time we start new projects...

that we have to stop it

to go fix or finish a different project.

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] Holier than the Roman Catholic Church.

-I got a bunch of holes in my distributor. -[Tony speaking]

[Mike] 'Cause it's leaking through over here.

On the other side, there's a massive chunk missing of the centerpiece.

[narrator] The trommel's distributor box

is losing water and gold

just before it hits the sluice runs.

[Mike] Unfortunately, Dad, it's gonna take a day or two.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] All of the Beets' welding crew

are now needed to get the trommel back on the gold...

leaving Monica's project on the back burner.

[Monica] It will never be top priority.

Tony Beets will only ever think what he is doing is important.

He is hyper-focused on what he is doing

and not focusing on anybody else.

Eventually, I'd like to make it off the bottom of the list.

Doesn't really matter what anybody else wants or anybody else thinks.

Tony likes to say...

"It's Tony Beets first,

then it's Tony Beets again,

then it's still not your [bleep] turn, so..."

[Buzz speaking]

[narrator] At Duncan Creek,

Rick Ness' crew are all in, putting their gold bonuses

on the line to move a mountain.

They need to remove 1 million yards of dirt to hit pay

all before winter freezes them out.

[Rick] Now, the guys got a good start on this already.

It's only been a couple days, they moved a lot of dirt.

When we get down to the bottom,

I... I don't know, but we're sure as hell gonna give it a try.

[Bailey] We're gonna start shelfing our way down

like a staircase,

working our way down to, uh, the level

that Rick wants to completely take out,

and, you know, down to the pay part, so...

[narrator] Operator Bailey Carten

is using the 750 excavator

to load dirt into three rock trucks.

It's gonna be a lot of trucking of overburden out of here

to even get down to it.

Up until now, it's just been kind of clearing sections.

But now we can actually start hauling stuff, which is nice.

[narrator] The rock trucks then haul the 43-ton loads down a 400-yard road...

to dump in a waste pile.

[Heather] How many truckloads is this gonna take?

It's gonna take all the truckloads.

[Ryan] And now we're all kind of stretched out.

You know, we've got, uh, both the 700 and the 750

up on the cut right now, loading trucks.

And these trucks are bringing overburden.

We're dumping it over the edge

exactly like Rally Valley.

You know, we're putting all the cards on the table

to hope that what happens here

is exactly what we pulled out of Rally Valley.

Because, if not, we just lost our asses.

[loud bang]

Yeah, there's something on the road there.

It looks like one of the hinge pins out of the...

out of the rock truck.

[Rick over radio] Hey, Heather, you got a copy?

Looks like you lost your back hinge pin there.

[Rick over radio] Just tell her to stop.

[narrator] The hinge pins connect the dump box to the truck,

allowing it to tip backwards.

[Heather] Good thing we noticed before I tried to dump.

Yeah.

I mean, uh, that road's pretty rough, so...

rattled that nut-- or that bolt out of there.

-[Heather] All right. -I think Ryan's down in the yard there.

-He'll, uh... -I'll take this down to him.

[Kyle] There are two hinge pins in the back of these trucks.

That one fell out.

She possibly could have dumped and that whole box

would have went all cockeyed, probably rolled that truck.

So at least, uh, we seen it here on the road.

Ryan, I have a heavy gift for you.

[Ryan] Sweet.

[Heather] Well, I thought we were running too efficiently.

Thank you. I appreciate that.

I try. I try.

[Rick] I've never seen that happen before.

There's a keeper that holds the pin in place.

That probably fell out,

and that's what allowed the pin to come out.

It's just it had to walk out a long [bleep] ways.

What would have happened?

-What? -If she would've dumped that?

All your pressure is gonna be on that cylinder,

which is 14 grand.

[chuckles]

We got lucky.

All we did is we lost two bolts,

lost a retainer plate,

lost our pin,

and almost lost our driver.

Yeah. You're gonna have to lift.

She must have hit the-- it bounced just right.

We need to lift it,

beat out the [bleep] out of 'em,

and put the new ones in.

[narrator] To slot the pin back into the hinge,

Rick uses an excavator

to precision lift the truck's box.

Let it down a hair.

Let me give it a tap.

-Ready? -Yep.

Good?

Oh.

Easy. Anything's easy with a 20-pound sledge.

It's always good to have a quick fix.

Especially...

when we're this late in the season

and trying to do such a big cut.

Perfect.

That's it. You're done.

[Heather] Ooh! She's back in business?

Go make Bailey happy.

Yeah!

Great. I'll get it back to work now.

And, honestly, it's a good thing Kyle was paying attention

because you go dumping that without a pin

when we've got 25, 28 yards of sand or dirt

or rock on that thing and, I mean,

screw the money, at least Heather didn't go over.

[chuckles]

[Heather] Realistically, it could have been really bad.

I'm definitely relieved Kyle found the pin.

[Rick] You know, it's hammer time right now.

We're gonna be pushing these machines every day.

If we can keep on top of it and fix things like that

before it gets too severe, we'll be all right.

Now that Bob's broke down, it's a real pain in the ass

because everything's so far away.

It's definitely a pain with how spread out we are.

Everybody just lives in their vehicle,

trying to get to where the broke-down junk is.

[Damien] Parker is expecting a hell of a lot.

Just the thought of Bob being down right now

is pretty bloody frustrating.

And I'm just waiting for a good ass-chewing.

Yeah, we just need this wash plant up and running.

[narrator] Parker is looking for his new Sulphur Creek operation

to deliver 1,000 ounces.

But in its first full week of running,

wash plant Bob is down

with a broken prewash conveyor.

[Damien] I mean, everything was running so smooth,

and then just something simple

shuts the whole operation down.

We're way behind schedule, so we got to really make it up

here in this back half of this course.

[narrator] To get it back running,

father-and-son mechanics, Bill and Justin,

must first replace the conveyor's broken driveshaft.

Finally got this thing out.

Okay. In.

[Justin] The shaft that we got is way too long.

The keyway is not the same here, either.

[Bill] Oh, man.

[Justin] The keys are not lined up for the keyways here.

[Bill] Yeah, that keyway's too short.

[narrator] A driveshaft's keyway grooves

slot into the conveyor's bearings and sprockets.

If they don't line up,

the replacement driveshaft is useless.

[Bill] I don't know what my next step is.

I really don't.

We cannot go back to the yard

and tell Parker we don't have the right stuff.

I don't know how we ended up in this situation,

but all we can do is fix it.

You know, wait a second here.

Can you pick that one out and turn it around?

If we can get that set back in the truck...

So that lines up with that keyway.

[Bill] Yes, it does.

[Justin] And this keyway lines up with this keyway.

[Bill] So if we were to chop this off right here...

[Justin] Yeah, we would have our proper keyways.

[narrator] The replacement driveshaft is 1.5 feet too long,

and its keyway too short at one end.

Bill and Justin's improvised fix,

flip the driveshaft, cut it to length,

then grind out the keyway to match the broken shaft.

Next, fit the bearings and mount into the prewash

before adding the sprockets that slot onto the chain

and turn the conveyor.

If the keyway doesn't fit the driveshaft precisely,

the chain will quickly track out of line,

shutting down the conveyor once again.

[Justin] So there's our mark.

All right, you young little pup,

fire that up there and put it in place.

[Justin] Up, up and away.

-[Bill] Yeah. Okay? -I got it.

[Bill] This is a trust moment.

[Justin chuckles] Yeah. I--

[Bill] Wanna try that bearing on there now?

[Justin] Yeah.

All right, guys, let's get this mounted in here.

This keyway's lined up.

Like, how much longer are you thinking?

Like, Parker is breathing down my throat.

All right, let's get some sprockets on this thing.

Okay.

We are spot-on.

Moment of truth here, boys.

[Bill] Time to fire it up?

-Time to fire it up? -[Justin] Time to fire it up.

[narrator] At Sulphur Creek, it's time to see

if Bill and Justin's prewash conveyor makeshift fix

will get wash plant Bob back on the gold.

It's about time!

[Bill] Yeah! [bleep] yeah!

[Justin] There we go, boys.

-Thank you. -Thank you!

Thanks for your help, Jacob.

-Thanks, guys. -Thanks, buddy.

Now let's feed some dirt through it.

[narrator] Wash plant Bob up and running,

Parker's crew get back to washing Sulphur's paydirt

and are one step closer to finding out

if his $2.5 million gamble will pay off.

[Damien] Try and make a dent in this pile

before the end of the week.

We'll do everything we can to keep Bob sluicing.

So far...

it's lookin' bloody good.

[Mike] My boys here are doing a good fabrication.

There ain't no quick fix here

because it was too [bleep] worn for that.

This is done.

[narrator] After two days of nonstop welding...

[crew member] Yeah. Fire it up.

...the Beets' only working wash plant

is back sluicing for gold.

[Mike] This area's now patched.

Hopefully it lasts a while,

but knowing how this [bleep] works,

it won't.

But, for now, it's got me sluicing again,

and that's good enough.

[narrator] Mike's welding crew can now get back

to fixing the Moose Creek trommel.

But to get the Hester Cut operational,

Monica must first drain it.

It would be nice to see what comes out of that cut,

and we cannot do that until...

the pump is down there drying out that cut

and the trommel's down there.

[narrator] To dewater the cut, Tony and Mike will pull a pump

from a mined-out corner of the Super Pit.

[bleep]

[Mike] Yes.

Yes.

[Tony speaking]

What's up with me? What's up with you?

I thought I was getting a pump today.

That's always been this [bleep] place.

Careful, Dad. She will kick.

So how do you know that my cut down there

isn't just as nice as this cut up here?

Feeling a little shafted.

Yeah.

[narrator] Once again,

Monica's plan for the Hester Cut is put on hold.

[Monica] Sure as [bleep] shouldn't talk to me that way.

And it sucks, kind of being pushed back

to the bottom of the list.

I get it. [bleep] happens.

You can't leave the gold in the cut,

but, uh, it still kind of sucks.

[Tony speaking]

So I try really hard to have Tony be Tony at work.

And, you know, like if we're in Mexico

or we're traveling, or Dad, or whatever.

But at work, he's Tony Beets. He's my boss.

I think Tony Beets wakes up in the morning

and goes, "Hmm,

whose life can I disrupt today by making the most chaos?"

He [bleep] up our day,

but usually with a plan in action that he's changed

at least a dozen times

between waking up in the morning

and going out the door.

That I get to see progress happening,

you get to have a plan,

that you move forward with something,

if my mental health was deteriorating because of work,

I would go somewhere else.

Hello, sir.

I'm talking nothing but bad things about you.

Yeah.

-[Rick] Yo. -[Ryan] What's going on?

[narrator] At Duncan Creek,

the Ness Crew have finished their first week

digging out the new cut.

This is impressive for a week.

Bailey delivers some big loads with this thing.

We're averaging 90 loads a day per truck.

We are weeks away, though.

I mean, we've got a little dirt to move, uh,

a lot of infrastructure to build down there.

-It's gonna take some time. -Here we are,

gambling a ton of money,

hoping we hit it big at the bottom of this pile.

I mean, we're all affected by that.

But you guys are all in.

I like to gamble.

I mean, worst case.

I'm gonna need a fuel card to get home.

We're gotta name this heap of dirt.

Holly-- Hollywood Hill?

That's a good one.

Hollywood Hill is a good-- I do like Hollywood Hill.

That's good.

Hollywood Boulevard.

[Ryan] I like that.

I'll even cut out some letters.

It's definitely a gamble doing it this time of year.

We're rolling the dice.

Vegas Valley?

-That's great. -It's a gamble.

Vegas Valley.

-Yep. -Keep it up

and it might pay off.

You like to gamble.

I mean, we're definitely gambling here.

We're gambling your bonuses,

all the gold we've got already.

So, you guys are doing a great job.

I mean, this is impressive, you know,

for the few people we have. Just keep it up, man.

We'll get there.

[Ryan] Yep.

[Monica] Hello.

[Minnie] How are you guys?

[Monica] How are you?

Yeah... Well, no, actually,

because Mike's distributor went down

and you guys found all that gold.

The story of my life.

It does kind of suck being put on the back burner.

I mean, I could just put all of your guys' [bleep]

on the back burner.

Yeah, well, get somebody else

to do this part of the [bleep] job.

No, it's not. Who are you gonna get to do it?

Yeah? Are you gonna go bring it to town?

Then he's gonna sit there.

-[Monica laughs] Yeah, exactly. -Not me. Not me.

Yeah, right.

I think we should weigh what we have.

[Mike] Give or take.

[Minnie] Okay.

[narrator] To hit his 5,000 ounce season goal,

Tony needs 170 ounces a week.

10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80...

90, 100...

140, 160...

180, 190, 203.32.

[narrator] Worth half a million dollars,

taking their season total to 3,695 ounces.

[Monica] Beautiful stuff, Michael.

[Minnie] Actually nice-looking gold, by the way.

Uh, you're welcome.

-[Tony speaking] -[Monica] I have.

It's crazy, isn't it?

Sayonara.

[Minnie] Okay, we'll see you guys in a little bit.

She was a bit disappointed, but you got--

but you kind of got to go with the thing

that you know for sure than the unsure thing.

Because you do--

It costs money every time you do stuff.

Yeah, I know.

[Parker] Well, where's that damn dog?

Oh.

[Parker] Bosco!

Bosco, come here.

[Chris] Oh, hi.

[bleep]

I swear it's like a 13-year-old kid.

Like, "Come here," like dragging his feet.

"I'll come, but it's gonna take me ten minutes."

[crew laughing]

Clean up your room.

[Chris] Oh, do I have to?

So how was your guys' week?

Damien had a fun one down there.

[Tupper] Yeah, it definitely sounds like it.

Ol' Bob had some problems there.

Yeah, the good old feeder system on that.

Prewash was not, uh, wanting to wash there.

They got her back going.

Justin and Bill did an awesome job.

When you got wash plants all over the place,

and you know how that goes.

Spread out.

Absolutely, yeah.

But I think Damien was supposed to be here,

but I'm guessing there's probably more problems.

So we'll do it without him.

Do we want to see how Big Red did?

[Tupper] Let's check it out.

[Parker] Old trusty top-gravel Big Red.

-[Tupper] Yeah, ol' reliable. -[Chris] Yeah, your top-- your top guy.

Big Red.

[narrator] Big Red has been running top gravels in the Bridge Cut.

Last week, it delivered 77 ounces.

[Tupper] 40, 60...

75, 90...

95...

98.5. Better than last week.

[Parker] That might be Big Red's best cleanup of the year.

[narrator] Worth around $250,000.

[Tupper] It's getting better.

[Parker] It's like approaching an ounce an hour.

[Chris] Okay, Mitchell.

Roxanne put in some work this week.

-[Chris] Yep. -What have we got here?

[narrator] Roxanne has been mining the second half of the Long Cut all week,

which, so far, has been averaging 220 ounces.

10, 30, 40, 60, 70...

90, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140...

-Keep it going. 160... -[Chris] 50, there we go.

168.2.

[narrator] Worth over $420,000.

I mean, that's a little less than what we had last week,

but it still, uh...

[Chris] There's triple-digit.

[Parker] Better than a kick in the ass, I suppose.

-[Mitch] How'd ol' Bob do here? -[Chris] The big Bob there.

[narrator] Time to find out if the first full week

of running at Sulphur has paid off.

Parker is looking for it to deliver 300 ounces.

[Chris] Bob on Sulphur.

60, 70, 80, 100, 120,

140, 160, 170, 200, 220,

240, 270, 280, 290...

299.0.

[narrator] Worth nearly three-quarters of a million dollars.

[Mitch] There you go. You almost had a 300-ouncer.

-[Chris] Yeah. -You're not gonna get no closer than that

without breaking it.

Yeah, it's nice-looking gold over there, too.

So what is that, like 550 for the week?

That's going to put us in the neighborhood of, uh...

565.7 ounces for the week.

[narrator] Worth $1.4 million.

The season now is 3,446.2.

A little over a third of the way there.

[crew laughing]

[Parker] With well over half the season behind us.

[Mitch] Started out slow, but we're warmed up now.

Just got to keep her going.

-[Chris] Yeah. -All right.

We've got [bleep] to do.

All right.

-Thank-- Thank you. -[Mitch] All right, catch you later.

-Thank you, Chris. -Catch you, guys.

[Chris] You betcha.

[Parker] Nice-looking gold.

Parker pulled another Parkerism.

I love the way he approaches problems.

He took a chance.

It looks like Sulphur is gonna possibly save our season.

[Parker] It was another pretty good week.

At least good numbers are coming in

and everybody's putting a lot of heart into it.

So that's good.

Bosco, come!

Hey, Bosco!