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00:00Let's go for an adventure on this gold rush now putting my money where my mouth is
00:06It's the first-ever rookie mind boss showdown school hard knocks, baby
00:13Of course, it's my fault. I'm in charge hitting the three most successful
00:18Freshman bosses head-to-head we got a learning curve to get ahead of here. There's no doubt about that
00:23Judging their first-year wins nice and fails
00:27This is outrageous to reveal who
00:34Is the top rookie mind boss
00:48So what are you gonna do about gold this year
00:51I'm gonna find it in 15 years of gold rush now. I'm gonna start kicking some ass
00:57There have been five rookie mind bosses. Honestly, it's one of the most challenging things. I've ever done
01:02But the best of the first-year miners boils down to three
01:08Teenager Parker Schnabel. It's about making money. That's what matters air to Tony beats mining Empire
01:15Kevin beats it's time to show I have what it takes to be the boss and season foreman Rick Ness
01:21The opportunity is now I just got to take it
01:24Getting off to a fast start is essential for a first-year mind boss
01:29So the first round of competition is a showdown
01:34Over who hits their first gold the fastest
01:3816 year old Parker Schnabel leaves his junior year of high school and goes straight into his freshman mind boss season
01:50I have faith in your management that it will be successful
01:55Thanks, Jake
01:59Pretty big moment. I'm in charge now
02:02Parker is gifted the big nugget mind by his grandpa John
02:07Complete with a working wash plant iron and crude and needs 75 ounces by the end of his first season
02:15To keep the family operation afloat
02:17He has vision that he's going to make thousands of dollars every day and I hope he's right
02:25I've got a plan. I'm gonna execute my plan simple as that
02:29Parker's plan to see his first gold is to hit an easy score
02:35Tailings mined over two decades ago. My grandpa mined this bench up here
02:41This is all the tailings from that if their sluice box caught 50% of the gold and they got a hundred ounces then
02:48Then there would be another hundred ounces here. So we're gonna give a crack at it
02:58Hopefully there's a pile of gold sitting in there somewhere
03:07The first thing out of dirt that I've picked out I guess
03:11I think we're gonna have a good week after seeing gold on day one of being the boss
03:29Parker spends the rest of his first week running all the tailings
03:37It's working
03:39They're getting bigger
03:45It's Friday today, so we're gonna clean out the whole plant
03:51This is our first full week of running and we've gotten six or seven ounces
03:56Parker banks almost 10% of his season goal within a week of becoming boss. I must be doing something right
04:04Parker's tailings are a one-time hit he still needs to find more ground to keep sluicing
04:12So he earns four points out of five in the first round
04:18Next newbie mine boss Kevin beats also has an opportunity to hit first gold fast
04:25But he wants a lot more than 75 ounces in his first year
04:30I got big plans to set up a gold mine and run it my way
04:33We do have a thousand ounce gold. This is a big gamble. So me and faith have to make this work
04:39After 20 years working on the family mine
04:43Clashes with his dad Tony
04:45Hey, what can you do Kevin? Get a test fire aid. Yeah, I don't even want to go there led to him breaking away and leasing ground from his old man
04:54We'll give you scripner
04:55Borrowing equipment to start his own operation
04:59You're not getting the best that we have, but you shouldn't have much troubles getting started
05:04All you got to do down there is prove yourself
05:08Right now you open up a mid-sized cut to get going
05:13Based on what drill holes that Tony had and a little bit of poking around I did between 15 20 feet of muck on top
05:19Okay
05:21To get his 1,000 ounce season gold kevin needs to open a three acre cut in just four weeks
05:29I can keep all the machines going our current schedule has us
05:34Sleasing by the end of the month
05:36Angels crossed
05:40Opening the cut in a dozer borrowed from Tony
05:44Foreman Brennan rules
05:47Something's not feeling right
05:51That's strange
05:54Sick of this
05:56What is this?
06:00Bolts obviously fell off the inside
06:02Can't keep this old running for more than a day
06:05Four weeks into the season
06:08Disaster strikes
06:09So
06:11Yeah, this ain't great
06:13They need to take out the engine so it can get to the transmission
06:16So it essentially looking like it's going to be down for a while
06:21It's pretty frustrating
06:24I know Tony didn't want to give me like his best equipment, but this is a little ridiculous
06:29I'm definitely going to be talking to Tony
06:31Hey Tony
06:37Hey Galen, what's up, man?
06:39Well, I don't need to talk about that D10
06:42Ah
06:43She kind of
06:45Grenaded
06:48What grenaded?
06:49Something in the transmission pretty much dead in the water
06:52The other end when you got it
06:56What do you want?
06:57I need to have a spare from you
07:02There's no more TV
07:04We all gotta learn
07:06Be your own boss
07:07Okay, uh, yeah, gotta run
07:09I got to do
07:10More equipment problems
07:23We've had a lot of delays
07:24We really need to get slusing
07:26Slows progress
07:29Coffee there, Kev?
07:30I think we're on the pay streak here
07:32I'll be right down
07:34It's two months
07:35Over a third of the way through his first season
07:38There is some yellow in here
07:41Before kevin finally sees his first gold
07:45It's nice to have some confirmation, ain't it?
07:47We're about a month behind where we'd want it to be
07:50We thought we'd already be sluicing by now, but
07:52Delays, delays, breakdowns, breakdowns
07:54So the faster we can get this pay out
07:57The faster we can set the plant up and get right
08:03Kevin's problems delay him hitting gold
08:07But he eventually clocks a first gold weigh of 33 ounces
08:11Giving him two points in the first round
08:16Delays are something our last rookie mine boss can't afford
08:21When he starts his new mine from scratch
08:24This year is different
08:25I'm the boss
08:26It's 100% my operation
08:28By the end of this year, I'll either be broke
08:30Or I'll have my own successful gold mining operation
08:33And a pile of gold
08:34Rick Ness came through the ranks at Parker Schnabel's operation
08:39And in 2018 decides to put his own money on the line
08:44And go it alone
08:46I've never had this much responsibility before
08:49I've never put, you know, my own money on the line like this
08:52And now, you know, my crew is going to be depending on me
08:55There's just a lot riding on my shoulders
09:01Let's do it
09:02Let's go start moving this mud
09:03Right
09:04Ready
09:04Rick matches Kevin's ambition of a 1,000 ounce season goal
09:10But goes even bigger
09:11Planning to open up a monster six acre cut
09:14Hoping to hit gold in 10 days
09:19He goes all in hiring a 475
09:23The biggest dozer in the Klondike for $100,000
09:28I've got this 475 for 10 days max
09:30That's all I can afford really to have it running
09:33Could be sunk before I even get started
09:35You know, I need to, I need to know what's in the ground now
09:42I need to know if it's worth it
09:48That's pay dirt right there
09:50Right there for sure
09:53Oh yeah, there we go
10:05Guys, you're not going to believe this
10:07But I actually got a thawed hole down here
10:09Down to bedrock
10:11Into the pay gravel
10:12So I'm going to do a pan
10:12You guys should come check it out
10:14We're really going to see if we've got gold here or not
10:21All right, man, this is it
10:23I haven't even seen anybody pan gold in my life
10:35There is gold in here
10:38Whoa
10:39All right
10:39I'd say there's probably a dozen colors in here
10:41If you think now
10:43The size of this pan
10:45How many pans there are in here
10:48Huh?
10:49That's all we need to see
10:50That's all we need to see
10:52It's real
10:52It's real deal
10:53It's real now, right?
10:54That's our freedom right in there
10:56But the only way we're going to get it is if we get back to work
10:57Let's go get it
10:58Million dollars, boys
10:59Let's go, dad
11:00Let's go
11:04In 10 days
11:05Rick's dozer gamble delivers his first flakes of gold
11:09Later leading to a first gold wave of 30 ounces
11:14Yeah
11:14That's mine
11:19Rick's master plan gets him on gold fast
11:23And sets him up for the rest of the season
11:26Giving him the full five points
11:28At the end of the first round
11:31Kevin's bottom of the pile
11:34Parker is second
11:35And rick bulldozers his way to the top
11:40Coming up
11:40We've got water so
11:42I'll go feed the plant
11:43The rookie's first wash plants are put to the test
11:46About time
11:48Shut it off, shut it off, shut it off
11:50Hit the broadcast
11:50In the rookie mind boss face off
11:59I must be doing something right
12:01Three freshman mind bosses are going head to head
12:04Could be sunk before I even get started
12:08After scoring points for hitting their first gold
12:12Rick is in the lead
12:14Next up
12:15We gotta get sluicing, we got bills to pay
12:18The heart of their operations are put to the test
12:22How they set them up, fire them up, and keep sluicing
12:26In the wash plant round
12:30Set up and fire up is no problem for Parker Schnabel
12:34Whose inherited plant is ready to sluice straight off the bat
12:39We're definitely making money
12:40We're on a roll
12:41Hopefully we can keep it up
12:43It's going pretty good
12:45I'm feeling positive
12:46But the young boss hits trouble when he strikes bad ground
12:52Pretty poor
12:54We need more than a few flakes
12:56And decides to up the ante and pushes old plant to its limits
13:01I'm going so fast because I need to feed the plant
13:03Because we're running 10 hours today
13:06This is my fourth load in what, 20 minutes?
13:10Just 30 minutes into his 10 hour shift
13:18The plant grinds to a halt
13:24His generators regularly has failed
13:27There's nothing I can do up here really
13:30I could talk to my grandpa
13:34We shut down, huh?
13:36I guess we stopped
13:40We had this problem about 10 years ago
13:44Okay
13:46With his grandpa's help
13:48Parker gets a new regulator and is back on the gold
13:53In about 20 minutes we'll start getting a little
13:57More confident and about
13:59An hour after that we'll be
14:02Pretty sure we fixed it
14:04But it's not long before the relic is down again
14:14Hey
14:17This hole bearing is gone
14:19This is really not something that we need right now
14:22So that's a pain in the ass
14:24We're going to fix this as fast as we can
14:27As his crew get to work removing the broken bearing that spins the trommel
14:33Parker has an eight hour round trip to source a replacement
14:37The plant hasn't been running and we're losing money hand over fist
14:44She's there
14:45If it's straight that's perfect
14:48All right, good job
14:49Looks good
15:02At least there's still hope
15:04Sometimes like my grandpa says all you have is hope
15:10Parker's ancient plant gets him sluicing early
15:14But his decision to push it to the limit sets him back more than once
15:19Giving him three points
15:23The next boss kevin beats hatches a plan to make the perfect wash plant setup
15:29Yeah, look at that
15:30Now we're almost at the actual getting gold part of gold mining
15:34Time by spending time and cold hard cash
15:39You want to do it once and do it right and just be done with it
15:43So that's how we're going to run it kevin blows his life savings on a new
15:48$700,000 shaker deck and splashes another hundred grand on a gas powered generator to run the plant
15:58Spent a lot of money already got ahead a thousand ounces to get some of those costs back
16:04Hopefully we can hit her kevin takes two weeks to build a 400 foot long mega pad
16:10What a good day to see this on the pad
16:14Delightful and a further six days tinkering to dial in the plant
16:18He's always been a bit of a procrastinator
16:21He's got to get it together and hurry to up a little bit and starts losing
16:25Eventually nearly halfway through his first season as a mind boss the slide horizontally
16:32little bit little bit
16:34He's finally ready to fire up
16:37I really really really hope it goes well after all the nights and days running into this so my fingers are crossed my toes are crossed
16:44If I could I cross my tongue
16:51All right, I'm gonna open her up
16:58There we go
17:01Let there be gold
17:07That's looking really nice kev so excited bud
17:12Yes finally
17:14I'm currently got relief
17:16Give you a hug for this one nice work keep her going
17:20Spending so much time making sure that everything's gonna run before we put actual pay through the plant
17:24It's a lot of more work, but we are going to save time down the line
17:28Kevin's patience and big investment pays off
17:33Setting him up to sluice almost non-stop
17:36Giving him the full five points
17:40A perfect score that rick ness could match with his own wash plant master plan
17:46Ruby we got a wash plant
17:50I've always had some input as far as how we set our wash plants up when I was with parker
17:54But ultimately he had the final say and now this year it's it's 100 my call
17:59Whoo now it's time to get some gold after spending big on opening up his first cut rick drops his last
18:08One hundred and eighty thousand dollars on the wash plant of his dreams
18:13yes
18:14Look at that beast i christened the dirt reynolds
18:17But unlike kevin rick has an ingenious plan to get it set up and fired up fast i'm unloading giant legos
18:31So i've ordered up a bunch of uh concrete blocks i'm going to build a bit of a retaining wall for my plant sit on it should
18:37Actually be a cleaner setup and less likely to undermine itself i need to get the wash plant up and running and every minute counts
18:44Rick takes just four hours to complete the pad and hauls in the 20 ton wash plant talk about right on the edge
18:57Does it worry you that it's hanging off the edge no
19:03Now we're getting somewhere
19:09All right i'm going to start this thing
19:14There it is
19:20All right i'm going to put a bucket of dirt in
19:23Yeah we're feeding the plant this is a pretty big deal
19:29Yay people are smiling
19:33Completely what where's all that water come from
19:37Carla hit the bypass
19:40hell
19:41Shut the pipe shut the pump off hit the bypass shut it off shut it off shut it off
19:47Shut it off
19:49turnbuckles gave way where's rick oh i'm gonna need a minute
20:13The loose boxes fell off the water almost took out the pad enough to dump the plant off the
20:21Pad
20:22And i expected growing pains but this is outrageous after his disastrous first ever fire up as a mind boss
20:29Rick calls the only man who can save his setup
20:33How's it going rick freddie man i'm glad to see you buddy
20:36Holy
20:37See you too long
20:39Man i don't mind telling you right off the bat i'm in a bad way here what do you think
20:44i think you bought somebody else's nightmare rick
20:48Freddy dodge replaces the 10-foot sluice box that fell off rick's plant
20:54with fabricated 30-foot long gold catchers
20:59easy rick
21:03easy
21:06perfect right there rick
21:07That's all i need man that that's huge relief for me
21:12And mounts them on an extended pad to secure them in place
21:23Feed the beast
21:29Sleuth box is still in place that's a good sign it's running
21:31rick's wash plant finally gets running but he's weeks behind schedule and he's nearly ruined his season
21:43earning him just one point
21:46Halfway through the rookie mind boss faceoff rick drops to last and kevin's perfect setup draws in neck and neck with parker in first place
21:57My dad was right i'm going to go home at the end of the season broke with no friends
22:03Coming up i don't care if you guys hate my guts right i need a little respect
22:07Can rick stage a comeback competing in leadership skills
22:13And final gold ways
22:16We haven't had that much gold in the pan all summer
22:18In the freshman mind boss head to head now the race is really on now it's time to get serious
22:30The rookies have raced to bank their first gold fired up their first wash plants and banked points on the rookie mind boss leaderboard
22:40At the halfway stage kevin and parker tie for pole position as we head into the third round
22:49One of the biggest challenges for any rookie mind boss is stepping up to lead their crew
22:56And dealing with any problems they hit
23:00Round three
23:02Is a test of leadership
23:05Kevin beats decides to divide responsibilities on his claim go move some dirt brooks
23:11Roger that boss he delegates running the cut to his new foreman
23:16Master dirt mover brennan brennan is going to be a great asset to the operation
23:22You know i want to get as much cold as possible by the time the snow starts flying
23:27While kevin
23:28Oh you mother trucker
23:29Focus is on keeping the operation and machinery running
23:34Fix this thing so we can run fix that thing so we can run
23:38After four months of working together the plant chews through the last of their first three acre cut
23:45And brennan gets to work opening up more ground
23:48It needs to happen super fast because that pile is getting chewed down so quickly it's actually getting scary
23:55Oh
24:04Hey buddy i'm uh i'm stuck down here in the cut
24:08Water from kevin's sluice pond next door is flooding brennan's new cut
24:14I think i might try and nudge you backwards
24:25Thanks brennan you're the man
24:29I'm going to need to get another pump in here immediately we have no extra pumps
24:34Brennan looks to kevin for a solution
24:36Hey brennan i can't dig pay down here dude i've been needing another pump for like a week now
24:48I know
24:50We just got to do a cleanup with you to pay for the thing
24:54Can we get another pump from tony
24:57I'm not gonna ask tony until i have to i fixed enough of tony
25:01I'm just really struggling down here man i'm just getting frustrated
25:04Like if that paypal runs out that shuts off we don't have any money coming in and i feel like that's on my shoulders
25:11Like what do you want me to do here i need a pump
25:14I don't want to say like we don't have the cash right now you don't got a pump
25:23Okay well i'm gonna yeah i don't know what else to say here
25:27Uh hey brennan get that out of my face for a while
25:41Need a pump
25:46Weird he's going with kevin failing to deliver
25:50Brennan takes matters into his own hands what we have here is a pump that i went and purchased
26:00And uh hopefully she just starts pumping immediately
26:02Oh there we go
26:12Yay
26:13In 12 hours brennan's 11 000 pump drains the cut and bails kevin out of trouble
26:22That's a very nice little bump uh brennan went off and bumped
26:26Hopefully kevin kind of finds his footing here and gets into that mind boss roll a little bit more
26:32You
26:35Kevin's lack of leadership almost brings his whole operation to a standstill
26:40scoring him just one point
26:44A low score that could give parker the chance to pull ahead
26:48i don't care if you guys hate my guts right i need a little respect but the teenager has leadership problems of his own
26:55you can run the excavator and gary you can run the truck
26:58Parker has taken on his grandpa's veteran crew some triple his age and struggles to gain their respect
27:06i guess that's a no
27:08Makes me not feel like the boss
27:11Things don't improve when the teenager tries to stamp his authority
27:15What are you doing i'm coming back i want to coordinate for your grandfather
27:20My grandpa's not in charge here i don't care
27:24Stop a minute
27:25No i ain't stopping you don't you don't give me orders
27:27Why not because you don't you ask you don't order somebody you ask have some respect for people
27:34I think you should show me a little respect you told me to go haul dirt is that how you treat somebody
27:38You don't hey you don't tell me how to do mine
27:40I did not i have not told you how to do your job one time this whole year
27:46I have not told you one time
27:49Not once
27:50You are approaching this man in the wrong way we're up here to make money and we're up here to run the plan
28:02You won't make money if you change the hillfall
28:09Parker is still battling to gain the crew's respect when disaster strikes this isn't going to do me any good
28:16Oh this is going to be fun
28:20Mining authorities threatened to shut him down for good the mine needed to be regulated by the federal government and it had been operating without that regulation for the 23 years
28:34Of course it's my fault i'm in charge
28:38The crew look to parker to save their season so this should have a knee board yeah parker hires a specialist
28:46To train him in mine safety brings his sight up to code and within just 24 hours
28:53Has the inspector back for a make or break verdict will you be able to terminate the stop work order
29:02yeah today we're good to go yes okay thank you for your time we made it
29:10it's over all right
29:11let's go boys
29:17i was going to wait until later to run the plant but i figured we just needed to start getting some dirt move
29:22parker's leadership takes his crew from shutdown we haven't had that much gold in the pan in
29:27all summer to one of the most productive days of their season it is addictive after you see the
29:33the results of the gold come out of the material it makes it all worth it i think it makes us a good team
29:41after his rough start the teenager's hard work with gold to show for it finally proves to his crew
29:49he can be a leader scoring him four points rick has years of experience leading crews as a foreman
29:58before stepping up to be a mine boss terry trying to put you in the excavator loading the trucks and
30:04put you guys all in trucks we'll get in those machines get you comfortable and uh no pressure
30:08but in about an hour let's be cranking full tilt and he gambles on hiring a crew of loyal but
30:14inexperienced friends hey water all over that he aims to turn into a first-rate mining team
30:22school hard knocks baby oh we got a learning curve to get ahead of here there's no doubt about that
30:27i've been instructed we want to get the load as far over as we can you're good go ahead and dump
30:33oh boy holy
30:48ryan you all right as soon as i pulled away it caved in
30:54she's just gonna whip this thing over you're clear keep her keep going
31:03all right pull her out of there ryan don't get that tailgate hey can you guys all come over here
31:11real quick let's have a let's have a quick talk
31:16yo what's up
31:20look i love you guys you've always had my back i don't want to
31:23at you but man we got to tighten up man um ryan i know you you flip the rock truck if we keep doing
31:29making those mistakes i mean it's going to kill us right you got it all right let's get back to it
31:35buddy all right after his near miss in a rock truck it's going to take me a while to get the hang of
31:42doing this rick moves greenhorn ryan to operating a loader clearing the tailings at the plant he's
31:49wandering out into the fine tailings in front of the plant it's been way too long
31:54not even making a dip really getting sick of dealing with this it's too much right now
32:06just hit the sluice box this man
32:09in the clash of the rookie mind bosses rick ness needs to step up and prove himself in the leadership
32:35round what's up ryan i'm just getting a little overwhelmed here greenhorn ryan is struggling
32:46to keep up with the plants mounting tailings maybe i'll swap out with you for a minute see if i can
32:52find anything different to do or find a rhythm or something hopefully rick can give me an idea how to
32:59keep ahead of everything figure something out to make this work i mean this is about as important
33:06as it gets all of our gold's coming out of that wash plant so you got to take care of it you got to
33:10run it right rick shows ryan a new method driving into the tailings grabbing a scoop and backing straight
33:20out instead of turning around cutting in half the time ryan took i think that's the trick
33:28and i think that's probably where i'll make up my time
33:40sounds to me like you're having the time of your life up in here
33:44well and you're you're moving them differently than i was yeah and uh i can see where that's going to
33:49save time you know what i got us a little bit ahead here i think uh i think i'll be okay yeah i know
33:54you well ryan good luck buddy rick leads his inexperienced crew by example and begins to mold them
34:04into a working team giving him the full five points at the end of the leadership round kevin drops down
34:14the leaderboard while rick claws his way back to first alongside parker heading into the final round
34:23it's anyone's game as the rookie bosses battle to the end of the season and try to hit their first
34:31year gold targets we're on our final big push to get to a thousand ounces with just days of sluicing left
34:39kevin is desperate to hit his one thousand ounce goal he hires new crew and pushes his plant to the
34:47limit the push is on so after everything that we've faced this year i'd be pretty bummed out if we
34:53don't hit our thousand ounce target you know oh bloody bell's broke the feeder belt okay come on
35:12away the belt that transports dirt from the upper feeder to the main conveyor belt has ripped in two
35:21a potential season ender i don't know she's my rough battle plan is that we'll hook up with the 220
35:32use that to yard it out okay then pick it up with the 480 to pull it all the way out and then we can
35:39swing and set it down on that side refusing to give up kevin races to replace the entire belt
35:45before winter strikes i'm gonna hook up our four point sling to the frame of this conveyor and then
35:53hopefully he can take the weight and brand you can see what you're doing to pull it out
35:58yeah i barely touched the joysticks i let them go and it kept sliding so sorry about that
36:12yay beautiful there we go
36:16we're just sliding the belt up
36:32golden pony boy say that's the success right there i'm gonna give it a push
36:37a drop
36:47atta boy boss all right eat some cake
36:53that went really well so we'll get back running i run hard till uh we get snowed out
36:59get a thousand ounces somehow four days later hi guys so everybody's bringing in gold kevin's final
37:10gold is cleaned and ready to weigh let's see what we got i'm very curious to see what you guys got on
37:16it we ain't pretty high that's why we needed to break even kevin has three weeks worth of sluicing to
37:24weigh he needs 320 ounces to hit his 1000 ounce goal let's pull it guys 10 20 40 50 80 90 180 190 200 250
37:39260 360 360 370 375.80 oh my such a relief i can finally pay everyone off right how much does that make
37:52fight 10 56.57 so that's pretty damn nice for your first year kevin is a lot better than the most of them do
38:02thank you and then come just by ourselves like you guys have helped us out that's a great deal you
38:07know everybody needs a little bit of boost everybody needs a little bit of help getting down
38:15thanks to his final push kevin passes his make or break rookie mind boss goal
38:22giving him five points in the final round pushing him into a late lead
38:29but the rookie mind boss race is far from over parker and rick still have to battle to the end
38:36and weigh their gold to lock in their final points that's not over yet
38:41can a guy risk it all in america anymore on the hunt for gold rushes best ever rookie mind boss
38:52some new bosses whoa whoa that's full it's a rock okay false alarm just didn't make the cut
38:59here it is there's 14.64 talents here my guys are like they think i've been gold mining my whole life
39:08or something todd hoffman is only beaten to rock bottom by fred lewis that puts our total at 6.39 which is
39:18honestly embarrassing
39:25i think we kind of take it as a challenge to beat each other it's crunch time in the rookie
39:31mind boss competition right now the name of the game is gold with points up for grabs the bosses are
39:37making a final push to hit their first year gold targets after success at his final gold way kevin is
39:47in the lead next up parker his first year goal is to keep the family mine afloat by banking 75 ounces
39:5833 ounces it looks like a lot of gold but we spent a lot of money to get it
40:11parker's flunked his freshman year as a mine boss pretty sad pretty sad day
40:18but isn't giving up on his goal of keeping the family mine in business what we'll do is knock this
40:24hill out take that slope at this slope all the way on down to the bank smith creek it's kind of an
40:33all-or-nothing deal for the whole mine parker decides to run tests on smith creek the only virgin
40:40ground at big nugget in the hope it will deliver enough gold to convince his dad and grandpa to fund
40:48his dream of another season mining i'm nervous this is last test this afternoon i'm going to talk to my
40:57dad and grandpa about smith creek and you know if there's nothing in this dirt i don't know what
41:02the mine will do i'm scared
41:26done beautiful we don't see a thing yet
41:32it doesn't look like there's anything in it
41:38there's a little bit oh there's quite a bit in here
41:42what the actually something in here
41:48this is the this is the little seuss that's fed out of the jig
41:55wow
42:02there's quite a bit in here
42:04gary
42:06that's wow
42:08see that's like not bad at all that's not bad at all
42:17this is what we got off the pan this morning
42:19hmm it's not much worth it and then i went down below the jig and that's what we got out of the
42:26little sluice that's pretty nice that's what you dug out of the hole yeah a 45 minute test out of
42:34smith creek that's really encouraging smith creek will have bigger goals than that
42:39are you saying you want to fund the mine next year uh i'm uh willing to give it a try i'll fund it for
42:4850 percent of the gold we get out of it i'll take it i come out here and give it everything i've got
42:57i feel like i've done my job parker banks just half of his goal but convinces his grandpa to give him
43:08another shot earning him three points enough to edge him to the top of the leaderboard
43:16parker's dropped points give rick ness a chance to snatch victory we're so close to our target i just
43:24don't know what to do anymore i mean we've exhausted all the fog ground but with just days of sluicing
43:30left rick faces catastrophe he's run out of pay dirt and is shut down 27 ounces short of his 1 000
43:40ounce gold to find a solution rick calls in his dad rick senior where that pile over burden is that's
43:48where the bedrock came up and that's where all the best drill holes were and it is where we did our best
43:54gold you're up against time so i guess what's the best option for what we got left in time
44:01yeah it let's do it i'll jump on that d9 and give it my best shot rick's last gasp gamble is to open a
44:09small extension to his mind out cut but it's frozen and needs to be ripped to get to the pay dirt all he's
44:18got is a small d9 dozer we don't have enough time left here to do much but we got to give it rick promised
44:26me he's going to do the thousand ounces
44:31oh that ain't good it's overheating really bad radiators got a hole in it somewhere the batter
44:44what you see where it pissed it all out on the blade right there yeah the d9's radiator has blown
44:51putting it down for the season what i was thinking was you know i don't know i mean we use seamus's 475
44:56for the small area we're trying to get here i think that machine would do it we got to make the
45:01decision i guess i mean that's up to you what you want to do but i don't really want to pay six
45:05thousand dollars for that 475. you got to spend money to make money rick's only option is to up the
45:12ante and rent the monster 475 dozer he used at the start of the season oh that's really obvious the
45:20difference just the sheer power of it so i'm going to lay down some rips here it's going to take me probably
45:25about an hour to get this thing ripped up and then we'll push it all off again
45:32terry you want to get uh yourself and the trucks down here all right buddy within three hours
45:37the cut is ripped this is it guys this is our uh roll of the dice pay dirt hold to the plan let's fire up
45:47dirt rentals and desperate for gold rick starts sluicing i want to make sure we get all the dirt
45:56run through the plant peter's still frozen and full of chunks but i don't even give a we're gonna run it
46:00anyways three days later rick's managed to sluice his hail mary cut and is ready for his final gold way
46:09oh oh yeah about time rick can you believe it's been six months so carla where did we end up with
46:17on the last gold wave we're at 973 rick needs 27 ounces to hit his 1 000 ounce gold might be in that jar
46:26i think it's time to find out that's 20. looking good yeah those are 27 ounces
46:43there's another
46:44the final gold weigh 132.49 ounces you know what that means oh we're over 1100 nice 1105 blue by
47:03are you glad we stuck around now
47:14rick blasts past his season goal by over 100 ounces giving him the max five points
47:24at the end of the rookie mind boss showdown
47:30there's only one winner rick ness is crowned the best first year mind boss
47:37yeah you guys are lunatics there was so many reasons for that first season to cause me to lose
47:49everything but that didn't happen i'm on such a high like you know the first season on my own was a
47:55success
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