Gold Rush- Alaska - Season 16 Episode 00- Rookie Mine Boss Showdown
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00:00putting my money where my mouth is it's the first ever rookie mind boss showdown school hard knocks
00:06baby of course it's my call i'm in charge hitting the three most successful freshman bosses head to
00:14head we got a learning curve to get ahead up here there's no doubt about that judging their first
00:19year wins and fails this is outrageous to reveal who we're gonna do it
00:27is the top rookie mind boss
00:32so what are you gonna do about gold this year i'm gonna find it in 15 years of gold rush
00:50now i'm gonna start kicking some ass there have been five rookie mind bosses honestly it's one of
00:56the most challenging things i've ever done but the best of the first year miners boils down to three
01:03teenager parker schnabel it's about making money that's what matters air to tony beats mining empire
01:10kevin beats it's time to show i have what it takes to be the boss and seasoned foreman rick ness
01:16the opportunity is now i just gotta take it getting off to a fast start is essential for a first year
01:24mind boss so the first round of competition is a showdown over who hits their first gold the fastest
01:3316 year old parker schnabel leaves his junior year of high school and goes straight into his freshman
01:44mind boss season i have faith in your management that it will be successful thanks shake
01:51pretty big moment i'm in charge now parker is gifted the big nugget mind by his grandpa john complete
02:02with a working wash plant iron and crude and needs 75 ounces by the end of his first season
02:10to keep the family operation afloat he has vision that he's going to make thousands of dollars every
02:17day and i hope he's right i've got a plan i'm going to execute my plan simple as that parker's plan to
02:25see his first gold is to hit an easy score tailings mined over two decades ago my grandpa mined this bench
02:35up here this is all the tailings from that if their sluice box caught 50 of the gold and they got 100
02:42ounces then then there would be another 100 ounces here so we're going to give a crack at it
02:53hopefully there's a pile of gold sitting in there somewhere
02:55it's the first clean out of dirt that i've picked out i guess
03:15three-fifths of an ounce we only ran four hours so i think we're gonna have a good week after seeing
03:21gold on day one of being the boss parker spends the rest of his first week running all the tailings
03:33it's working they're getting bigger
03:40it's friday today so we're going to clean out the whole plant
03:44this is our first full week of running and we've gotten six or seven ounces parker banks almost 10
03:53percent of his season goal within a week of becoming boss i must be doing something right
04:00parker's tailings are a one-time hit he still needs to find more ground to keep sluicing
04:08so he earns four points out of five in the first round next newbie mine boss kevin beats also has an
04:17opportunity to hit first gold fast but he wants a lot more than 75 ounces in his first year i got big
04:26plans to set up a gold mine and run it my way we do have a thousand ounce goal this is a big gamble so
04:32me and faith have to make this work after 20 years working on the family mine clashes with his
04:39dad tony hey what can you do kevin get a test fire aid yeah i don't even want to go there led to him
04:45breaking away and leasing ground from his old man we'll give you scrivener borrowing equipment
04:52to start his own operation you're not getting the best that we have but you shouldn't have much
04:57troubles getting started all you got to do down there is prove yourself right now he opened up
05:05a mid-sized cut to get going based on what drill holes that tony had and a little bit of poking
05:11around i did between 15 20 feet of muck on top okay to get his 1 000 ounce season goal kevin needs to
05:20open a three acre cut in just four weeks if i can keep all the machines going our current schedule
05:28has us uh just losing by the end of the month fingers crossed opening the cut in a dozer borrowed from tony
05:38foreman brennan rule something's not feeling right that's strange sick of this
05:52what is this bolts obviously fell off the inside can't keep this old running for morning day
05:59four weeks into the season disaster strikes so yeah this ain't great they need to take out the
06:09engine so i can get to the transmission so it essentially looking like it's going to be down
06:15for a while and it's pretty frustrating i know tony didn't want to give me like his best equipment but
06:22this is a little ridiculous i'm definitely going to be talking to tony hey tony hey galen what's up man
06:34uh well i don't need to talk about that d10 she kind of uh grenaded
06:43what grenaded uh something in the transmission pretty much dead in the water
06:47it but i ran when you got it what do you want i need to have a spare from you
06:57there's no more people we all gotta learn be your own boss okay uh yeah gotta run i got to do
07:13more equipment problems we've had a lot of delays we really need to get susing slows progress
07:24coffee there kev i think we're on the uh pastry here i'll be right down it's two months over a third
07:31of the way through his first season there is some yellow in here before kevin finally sees his first
07:39gold it's nice to have some confirmation ain't it we're about a month behind where we'd want it to
07:44be we thought we'd already be sluicing by now but delays delays breakdowns breakdowns so the faster we
07:50can get this pay out the faster we can set the plant up and get right kevin's problems delay him hitting
08:01gold but he eventually clocks a first gold way of 33 ounces giving him two points in the first round
08:12delays are something our last rookie mine boss can't afford when he starts his new mine from scratch
08:19this year is different i'm the boss it's 100 my operation by the end of this year i'll either be broke
08:25or i'll have my own successful gold mining operation and a pile of gold rick ness came through the ranks
08:32at parker schnabel's operation and in 2018 decides to put his own money on the line and go it alone
08:42i've never had this much responsibility before i've never put you know my own money on the line like
08:47this and now you know my crew is going to be depending on me there's just a lot riding on my shoulders
08:56let's do it let's start moving mud right ready rick matches kevin's ambition of a 1 000 ounce season
09:04goal but goes even bigger planning to open up a monster six acre cut hoping to hit gold in 10 days
09:14he goes all in hiring a 475 the biggest dozer in the klondike for a hundred thousand dollars i've got
09:23this 475 for 10 days max that's all i can afford really to have it running could be sunk before i even get started
09:35you know i need to i need to know what's in the ground now i need to know if it's worth it
09:39that's pay dirt right there right there for sure oh yeah there we go
09:51guys you're not gonna believe this but i actually got a thawed hole down here down to bedrock
10:05uh into the pay gravel so i'm gonna do a pan you guys should come check it out
10:09we're really going to see if we've got gold here or not
10:16all right man this is it i haven't even seen anybody pan gold in my life
10:23there is gold in here whoa all right i'd say there's probably a dozen colors in here if you
10:37think now the size of this pan how many pans there are in here that's all we need to see
10:45that's all we need to see it's real it's real it's real now right that's our freedom right in there but
10:51the only way we're going to get is if we get back to work let's go get it million dollars boys
10:59in 10 days rick's dozer gamble delivers his first flakes of gold later leading to a first goldway
11:07of 30 ounces yeah that's mine yeah rick's master plan gets him on gold fast and sets him up for the rest
11:19of the season giving him the full five points at the end of the first round kevin's bottom of the
11:28pile parker is second and rick bulldozers his way to the top coming up we've got water so i'll go feed
11:38the plant the rookies first wash plants are put to the test time in the rookie mind boss face off
11:54i must be doing something right three freshman mind bosses are going head to head could be sunk before
12:01i even get started after scoring points for hitting their first gold rick is in the lead
12:09next up we gotta get sluicing we got bills to pay the heart of their operations are put to the test
12:17how they set them up fire them up and keep sluicing in the wash plan round
12:23set up and fire up is no problem for parker schnabel whose inherited plant is ready to sluice straight
12:33off the bat we're definitely making money we're on a roll hopefully we can keep it up it's going pretty
12:39good i'm feeling positive but the young boss hits trouble when he strikes bad ground
12:46pretty poor we need more than a few flakes and decides to up the ante and push his old plant to
12:55its limits i'm going so fast because i need to feed the plant because we're running 10 hours today
13:01this is my fourth load in what 20 minutes just 30 minutes into his 10-hour shift
13:08the plant grinds to a halt
13:19his generators regularly has failed there's nothing i can do up here really could talk to my grandpa
13:29we shut down huh i guess we stopped
13:32we had this problem about 10 years ago okay with his grandpa's help parker gets a new regulator
13:44and is back on the goal
13:48in about 20 minutes we'll start getting a little more confident and about an hour after that we'll be
13:56pretty sure we fixed it but it's not long before the relic is down again
14:09hey
14:12this whole bearing is gone this is really not something that we need right now
14:17so that's a pain in the ass we're gonna fix this as fast as we can
14:21as his crew get to work removing the broken bearing that spins the trommel
14:28parker has an eight-hour round trip to source a replacement the plant hasn't been running and we're
14:35losing money hand over fist
14:39she's there if it's straight that's perfect all right good job
14:51it looks good at least there's still hope sometimes like my grandpa says all you have is hope
15:05parker's ancient plant gets him sluicing early but his decision to push it to the limit
15:12sets him back more than once giving him three points
15:16the next boss kevin beats hatches a plan to make the perfect wash plant setup yeah look at that
15:25now we're almost at the actual getting gold part of gold mining time by spending time and cold hard cash
15:34we want to do it once and do it right and just be done with it so that's how we're gonna run it kevin
15:40blows his life savings on a new seven hundred thousand dollar shaker deck and splashes another
15:48hundred grand on a gas powered generator to run the plant spent a lot of money already got ahead a
15:56thousand ounces to get some of those costs back hopefully we can hit it kevin takes two weeks to
16:03build a 400 foot long mega pad what a good day to see this on the pad delightful and a further six
16:11days tinkering to dial in the plant he's always been a bit of a procrastinator he's got to get his
16:16together and hurry to up a little bit and starts losing eventually nearly halfway through his first
16:23season as a mind boss the slide horizontally a little bit little bit he's finally ready to fire up i really
16:32really really hope it goes well after all the nights and days running into this so my fingers are
16:37crossed my toes across if i could i cross my tongue oh that's violent all right i'm gonna open her up
16:53there we go
16:56that's a big old
16:57that's looking really nice kev so excited bud yes finally i'm currently got relief
17:11give you a hug for this one nice work keep it going
17:15spending so much time making sure that everything's gonna run before we put actual pay through the plant
17:20it's a lot of more work but we are going to save time down the line kevin's patience and big investment
17:27pays off setting him up to sluice almost non-stop giving him the full five points
17:35a perfect score that rick ness could match with his own wash plant master plan
17:45i've always had some input as far as how we set our wash plants up when i was with parker but ultimately
17:50he had the final say and now this year it's it's 100 percent by call whoo now it's time to get some gold
17:58after spending big on opening up his first cut rick drops his last 180 000
18:05dollars on the wash plant of his dreams oh yes look at that beast i christen the dirt reynolds
18:16but unlike kevin rick has an ingenious plan to get it set up and fired up fast i'm unloading giant legos
18:26so i've ordered up a bunch of uh concrete blocks i'm going to build a bit of a retaining wall for my
18:31plant sit on it should actually be a cleaner setup and less likely to undermine itself i need to get
18:37the wash plan up and running and every minute counts rick takes just four hours to complete the pad
18:43and hauls in the 20-ton wash plant talk about right on the edge
18:52does it worry you that it's hanging off the edge no
18:58now we're getting somewhere
19:04all right i'm going to start this thing fire it up
19:07there it is
19:15all right i'm going to put a bucket of dirt in
19:18yeah we're feeding the plant this is a pretty big deal
19:24yay people are smiling
19:28completely what where's all that water come from carla hit the bypass
19:35shut the
19:38shut the pump up hit the bypass shut it off shut it off shut it off shut it off
19:51it's okay
20:03turnbuckles gave way where's rick oh i'm gonna need a minute
20:09loose boxes fell off
20:11water almost took out the pad enough to dump the plant off the
20:16pad you know i expected growing pains but this is outrageous
20:20After his disastrous first-ever fire-up as a mind boss,
20:24Rick calls the only man who can save his setup.
20:28How's it going, Rick?
20:29Freddie, man, I'm glad to see you, buddy.
20:31Holy s***, it's been too long.
20:34Man, I don't mind telling you, right off the bat, I'm in a f***ing bad way here.
20:38What do you think?
20:39I think you bought somebody else's nightmare, Rick.
20:43Freddie Dodge replaces the 10-foot sluice box that fell off Rick's plant
20:49with fabricated 30-foot-long gold catchers.
20:54Easy, Rick.
20:56Easy.
21:01Perfect right there, Rick.
21:03That's all I need, man. That's huge relief for me.
21:07And mounts them on an extended pad to secure them in place.
21:16Yeehaw!
21:17Feed the beast.
21:24Sluice box fell in place. That's a good sign.
21:26It's running.
21:30Rick's wash plant finally gets running,
21:32but he's weeks behind schedule,
21:35and he's nearly ruined his season,
21:38earning him just one point.
21:40Halfway through the rookie mind-boss face-off,
21:45Rick drops to last,
21:47and Kevin's perfect setup draws him neck-and-neck with Parker in first place.
21:54My dad was right.
21:55I'm going to go home at the end of the season, broke with no friends.
21:58Coming up...
21:59I don't care if you guys hate my guts.
22:01Right.
22:01I need a little respect.
22:02Can Rick stage a comeback, competing in leadership skills?
22:06Ready!
22:08And final gold ways.
22:11We haven't had that much gold in the pan all summer.
22:13Ha, ha, ha, ha.
22:18In the freshman mind-boss head-to-head...
22:21Now the race is really on.
22:23Now it's time to get serious.
22:25The rookies have raced to bank their first gold,
22:28fired up their first wash plants,
22:30and banked points on the rookie mind-boss leaderboard.
22:35At the halfway stage,
22:37Kevin and Parker tie for pole position
22:40as we head into the third round.
22:44One of the biggest challenges for any rookie mind-boss
22:48is stepping up to lead their crew.
22:50Let's go.
22:50And dealing with any problems they hit.
22:53Ready!
22:55Round three is a test of leadership.
23:00Kevin Beetz decides to divide responsibilities on his claim.
23:05Go move some dirt, bro.
23:06Roger that, boss.
23:08He delegates running the cut to his new foreman,
23:12master dirt mover Brennan.
23:14Brennan is going to be a great asset to the operation.
23:17You know, I want to get as much gold as possible
23:19by the time the snow starts flying.
23:22While Kevin...
23:22Oh, you mother trucker.
23:25...focuses on keeping the operation and machinery running.
23:29Fix this thing so we can run.
23:30Fix that thing so we can run.
23:33After four months of working together,
23:36the plant chews through the last of their first three-acre cut,
23:40and Brennan gets to work opening up more ground.
23:43It needs to happen super fast because that pile is getting chewed down so quickly.
23:49It's actually getting scary.
23:50Oh, f***.
23:52F***.
23:53F***.
23:54F***.
23:55F***.
23:56F***.
23:57F***.
23:58F***.
23:59F***.
24:00Hey, buddy, I'm stuck down here in the cut.
24:01F***.
24:02F***.
24:03F***.
24:04Water from Kevin's sluice pond next door is flooding Brennan's new cut.
24:09I think I might try and nudge you backwards.
24:20Thanks, Brennan.
24:21You're the man.
24:24I'm going to need to get another pump in here immediately.
24:26We have no extra pumps.
24:29Brennan looks to Kevin for a solution.
24:36Hey, Brennan.
24:37I can't dig pay down here, dude.
24:40I've been needing another pump for like a week now.
24:42I know.
24:45We just got to do a clean-up with you to pay for the f*** thing.
24:49Can we get another pump from Tony?
24:51I'm not going to ask Tony until I have to.
24:53I fixed enough of Tony f***.
24:56I'm just really struggling down here, man.
24:57I'm just getting frustrated as f***.
24:59If that PayPal runs out, that shuts off.
25:01We don't have any money coming in, and I feel like that's on my shoulders.
25:04Like, what do you want me to do here?
25:07I need a f***ing pump.
25:09I know what to say.
25:10Like, we don't have the cash right now.
25:12You don't got a f***ing pump.
25:13F***ing tough.
25:17Okay, well, I'm going to...
25:19I don't know what else to say here.
25:21Hey, Brennan.
25:22Get that out of my face for a while.
25:25I need a f***ing pump, f***ing f***ing f***ing f***ing.
25:29Weird.
25:30Where the f***ing he's going?
25:31With Kevin failing to deliver, Brennan takes matters into his own hands.
25:36We need a pump.
25:41Weird.
25:42Where the he's going?
25:44With Kevin failing to deliver, Brennan takes matters into his own hands.
25:50What we have here is a pump that I went and purchased.
25:55And hopefully she just starts pumping immediately.
26:04Oh, there we go.
26:07Yay!
26:08In 12 hours, Brennan's $11,000 pump drains the cut and bails Kevin out of trouble.
26:17It's a very nice little pump.
26:19Brennan went off and bumped.
26:21Hopefully, if Kevin kind of finds his footing here and gets into that mind boss role a little bit more.
26:30Kevin's lack of leadership almost brings his whole operation to a standstill,
26:34scoring him just one point.
26:38A low score that could give Parker the chance to pull ahead.
26:43I don't care if you guys hate my guts.
26:45Right.
26:45I need a little respect.
26:47But the teenager has leadership problems of his own.
26:50You can run the excavator and Gary, you can run the truck.
26:54Parker has taken on his grandpa's veteran crew.
26:57Some triple his age and struggles to gain their respect.
27:01I guess that's a no.
27:03It makes me not feel like the boss.
27:06Things don't improve when the teenager tries to stamp his authority.
27:10What are you doing?
27:12I'm coming back.
27:13I'm on a court next for your grandfather.
27:15My grandpa's not in charge here.
27:17I don't care.
27:19Stop a minute.
27:20No, I ain't stopping.
27:21You don't give me orders.
27:23Why not?
27:23Because you don't.
27:24You ask.
27:25You don't order somebody.
27:26You ask.
27:27Have some respect for people.
27:29I think you should show me a little respect.
27:30You told me to go haul dirt.
27:32Is that how you treat somebody?
27:33You don't.
27:34Hey, you don't tell me how to do mine.
27:35I did not.
27:36I have not told you how to do your job one time this whole year.
27:40I have not told you one time.
27:43Parker.
27:44Not once.
27:48You are approaching this man in the wrong way.
27:54We're up here to make money.
27:55And we're up here to run the plan.
27:57You won't make money if you change the hellhole.
27:59Parker is still battling to gain the crew's respect when disaster strikes.
28:09This isn't going to do me any good.
28:12Oh, this is going to be fun.
28:15Mining authorities threaten to shut him down for good.
28:19The mine needed to be regulated by the federal government.
28:23And it had been operating without that regulation for the 23 years.
28:29Of course it's my fault.
28:31I'm in charge.
28:33The crew look to Parker to save their season.
28:37So this should have a knee board.
28:38Parker hires a specialist to train him in mine safety, brings his sight up to code,
28:45and within just 24 hours has the inspector back for a make-or-break verdict.
28:52Will you be able to terminate the stop work order today?
28:58We're good to go.
28:59Yes.
28:59Okay.
29:00Thank you for your time.
29:01We made it.
29:05It's over.
29:06All right.
29:09Let's go, boys.
29:12I was going to wait until later to run the plant, but I figured we just needed to start
29:16getting some dirt moved.
29:17Parker's leadership takes his crew from shutdown.
29:21We haven't had that much gold in the pan in all summer.
29:23To one of the most productive days of their season.
29:26It is addictive.
29:27After you see the results of the gold come out of the material, it makes it all worth it.
29:32I think it makes us a good team.
29:34After his rough start, the teenager's hard work, with gold to show for it, finally proves to
29:43his crew he can be a leader, scoring him four points.
29:48Rick has years of experience leading crews as a foreman before stepping up to be a mine
29:55boss.
29:56Terry, I'm going to put you in the excavator loading the trucks.
29:59I'm going to put you guys all in trucks.
30:00We'll get you in those machines, get you comfortable, and no pressure, but in about an hour, let's
30:04be cranking full tilt.
30:05And he gambles on hiring a crew of loyal, but inexperienced friends.
30:10Hey, water all over.
30:13And he aims to turn into a first-rate mining team.
30:17School of hard knocks, baby.
30:18Oh, we've got to learn a curve to get ahead of here.
30:20There's no doubt about that.
30:22I've been instructed we want to get the load as far over as we can.
30:27You're good.
30:28Go ahead and dump.
30:29Ryan, you all right?
30:44As soon as I pulled away, it caved in.
30:49He's just going to put this thing over.
30:51You're clear.
30:52Keep going.
30:59All right, pull her out of there, Ryan.
31:02Don't want to get that tailgate.
31:05Hey, can you guys all come over here real quick?
31:06Let's have a quick talk.
31:11Yo.
31:13What's up?
31:15Look, I love you guys.
31:16You've always had my back.
31:17I don't want to bitch at you, but man, we've got to tighten up, man.
31:21Ryan, I know you flipped a rock truck.
31:23If we keep making those mistakes, I mean, it's going to kill us.
31:27Right?
31:27You got it.
31:29All right.
31:29All right, let's get back to it, buddy.
31:31All right.
31:33After his near miss in a rock truck...
31:35It's going to take me a while to get the hang of doing this.
31:38Rick moves greenhorn Ryan to operating a loader, clearing the tailings at the plant.
31:44He's wandering out into the fine tailings in front of the plant.
31:48It's been way too long.
31:52Not even making a dip.
31:54Really getting sick of dealing with this.
31:55It's too much right now.
31:59I just hit the sluice box.
32:03F*** this, man.
32:04F***.
32:14F***.
32:15I just hit the sluice box.
32:17F*** this, man.
32:19In the clash of the rookie mind bosses, Rick Ness needs to step up and prove himself in the leadership round.
32:31What's up, Ryan?
32:37I'm just getting a little overwhelmed here.
32:39Greenhorn Ryan is struggling to keep up with the plant's mounting tailings.
32:44Maybe I'll swap out with you for a minute, see if I can find anything different to do or find a rhythm or something.
32:49Hopefully Rick can give me an idea of how to keep ahead of everything, figure something out to make this work.
32:59I mean, this is about as important as it gets.
33:01All of our gold's coming out of that wash plant.
33:03So, you've got to take care of it.
33:05You've got to run it right.
33:07Rick shows Ryan a new method.
33:10Driving into the tailings, grabbing a scoop, and backing straight out instead of turning around.
33:18Cutting in half the time Ryan took.
33:21I think that's the trick.
33:23And I think that's probably where I'll make up my time.
33:26Woo!
33:26Loan to plant!
33:27Yeah, woo!
33:29Woo!
33:35Sounds to me like you're having the time of your life up in here.
33:39Well, and you're moving them differently than I was.
33:42Yeah.
33:42And I can see where that's going to save time.
33:44You know what?
33:45I got us a little bit ahead here.
33:46I think I'll be okay.
33:48Yeah.
33:49I know you will, Ryan.
33:51Good luck, buddy.
33:54Rick leads his inexperienced crew by example.
33:57And begins to mold them into a working team, giving him the full five points.
34:05At the end of the leadership round, Kevin drops down the leaderboard while Rick claws his way back to first alongside Parker.
34:14Heading into the final round, it's anyone's game as the rookie bosses battle to the end of the season and try to hit their first-year gold targets.
34:28We're on our final big push to get to 1,000 ounces.
34:31With just days of sluicing left, Kevin is desperate to hit his 1,000-ounce goal.
34:39He hires new crew and pushes his plant to the limit.
34:43The push is on.
34:44So after everything that we've faced this year, I'd be pretty bummed out if we don't hit our 1,000-ounce target, you know?
34:58Oh, f***!
35:03Bloody belt's broke.
35:05The feeder belt.
35:06F***!
35:06The belt that transports dirt from the upper feeder to the main conveyor belt has ripped in two.
35:16A potential season-ender.
35:19Oh, no.
35:20She's f***!
35:20My rough battle plan is that we'll hook up with the 220, use that to yard it out, then pick it up with the 480 to pull it all the way out, and then we can swing and set it down on that side.
35:35Refusing to give up, Kevin races to replace the entire belt before winter strikes.
35:42I'm going to hook up our 4-point sling to the frame of this conveyor, and then hopefully he can take the weight.
35:51Brennan, you can see what you're doing to pull it out.
35:59Yeah, I barely touched the joysticks.
36:03I let them go and it kept sliding, so sorry about that.
36:07Yay!
36:09Beautiful!
36:11There we go.
36:12We're just sliding the belt up.
36:27Golden pony boy.
36:30Say, that's the success right there.
36:31I'm going to give it a push.
36:36Woo!
36:39Ooh, like butter.
36:40Atta boy, boss!
36:44All right.
36:45Eat some cake.
36:48That went really well, so we'll get back running.
36:51I'll run f***ing hard until we get snowed out.
36:55Got a thousand ounces somehow.
36:58Four days later...
37:00Hi, guys.
37:02So everybody's bringing in gold.
37:04Kevin's final gold is cleaned and ready to weigh.
37:08Let's see what we got.
37:09I'm very curious to see what you guys got out of there.
37:11We ain't pretty f***ing high.
37:13That's why we needed to break even.
37:16Kevin has three weeks worth of sluicing to weigh.
37:20He needs 320 ounces to hit his 1,000-ounce goal.
37:26That's four, guys.
37:2810, 20, 40, 50, 80, 90, 180, 190, 200, 250, 260, 360, 370, 375.80.
37:41Oh, my f***, it's such a relief.
37:44I can finally pay everyone off.
37:46All right.
37:46How much does that make, Faith?
37:481,056.57.
37:51So that's pretty damn nice.
37:53For your first year, Kevin, it's a f***ing lot better than most of them do.
37:58And it didn't come just by ourselves.
38:00Like, you guys have helped us out.
38:01That's a great deal.
38:02You know, everybody needs a little bit of boost.
38:05Everybody needs a little bit of help here and there.
38:07Thanks to his final push, Kevin passes his make-or-break rookie mind-boss goal,
38:17giving him five points in the final round, pushing him into a late lead.
38:23But the rookie mind-boss race is far from over.
38:28Parker and Rick still have to battle to the end
38:31and weigh their gold to lock in their final points.
38:35That's not over yet.
38:37Can a guy risk it all in America anymore?
38:43On the hunt for gold rush's best-ever rookie mind-boss,
38:47some new bosses...
38:49Whoa.
38:49Whoa.
38:50That's bold.
38:51It's a rock, okay?
38:52False alarm.
38:53Just didn't make the cut.
38:55Here it is.
38:56There's 14.64 ounces here.
38:59My guys are like, they think I've been gold mining my whole life or something.
39:03Todd Hoffman is only beaten to rock bottom by Fred Lewis.
39:09That puts our total at 6.39, which is honestly embarrassing.
39:14I think we kind of take it as a challenge to beat each other.
39:24It's crunch time in the rookie mind-boss competition.
39:28Right now, the name of the game is gold.
39:30With points up for grabs, the bosses are making a final push to hit their first-year gold targets.
39:36After success, at his final gold wave, Kevin is in the lead.
39:44Next up, Parker.
39:47His first-year goal is to keep the family mine afloat by banking 75 ounces.
39:53Thirty-three ounces.
39:59It looks like a lot of gold, but we spent a lot of money to get it.
40:06Parker's flunked his freshman year as a mine boss.
40:10Pretty sad.
40:11Pretty sad day.
40:11But isn't giving up on his goal of keeping the family mine in business.
40:18What we'll do is knock this hill out.
40:21Take that slope, at this slope, all the way on down to the bank.
40:26Smith Creek, it's kind of an all-or-nothing deal for the whole mine.
40:31Parker decides to run tests on Smith Creek, the only virgin ground at Big Nugget,
40:37in the hope it will deliver enough gold to convince his dad and grandpa
40:42to fund his dream of another season mining.
40:47I'm nervous.
40:48This is the last test.
40:50This afternoon, I'm going to talk to my dad and grandpa about Smith Creek.
40:54And, you know, if there's nothing in this dirt, I don't know what the mine will do.
40:59I'm scared.
41:07Done.
41:22Beautiful.
41:23We don't see a thing yet.
41:27It doesn't look like there's anything in it.
41:33Here's a little bit.
41:34Oh, there's quite a bit in here.
41:37What the ?
41:38What the ?
41:39Actually, something in here.
41:41That's weird.
41:43This is the little seuss that's fed out of the jig.
41:50Wow.
41:57There's quite a bit in here.
41:59Gary.
42:00That's...
42:01Wow.
42:03See, that's, like, not bad at all.
42:05That's not bad at all.
42:07This is what we got off the pan this morning.
42:14Hmm.
42:15And not much, was it?
42:17And then I went down below the jig, and that's what we got out of the little sluice.
42:23That's pretty nice.
42:24That's what you dug out of the hole?
42:27Yeah, a 45-minute test out of Smith Creek.
42:30That's really encouraging.
42:31Smith Creek will have bigger gold than that.
42:35Are you saying you want to fund the mine next year?
42:38Uh, I'm, uh, willing to give it a try.
42:41I'll fund it for 50% of the gold we get out of it.
42:45Parker banks just half of his gold, but convinces his grandpa to give him another shot, earning
43:05him three points, enough to edge him to the top of the leaderboard.
43:11Parker's dropped points give Rick Ness a chance to snatch victory.
43:16We're so close to our target.
43:18I just don't know what to do anymore.
43:20I mean, we've exhausted all the fog ground.
43:23But with just days of sluicing left, Rick faces catastrophe.
43:28He's run out of pay dirt and is shut down, 27 ounces short of his 1,000-ounce gold.
43:37To find a solution, Rick calls in his dad, Rick Sr.
43:42Where that pile of overburden is, that's where the bedrock came up, and that's where all the
43:46best drill holes were, and it is where we did our best gold.
43:50You're up against time, so I guess, what's the best option for what we got left in time?
43:56Yeah, f*** it.
43:57Let's do it.
43:57I'll jump on that D9 and give it my best shot.
44:00Rick's last gasp gamble is to open a small extension to his mind-out cut.
44:07But it's frozen and needs to be ripped to get to the pay dirt.
44:12All he's got is a small D9 dozer.
44:15We don't have enough time left here to do much, but we got to give it.
44:20Rick promised me he was going to do the 1,000 ounces.
44:22Oh, that ain't good.
44:32It's overheating really bad.
44:36The radiator's got a hole in it somewhere.
44:37F*** the bed or what?
44:40You see where it pissed it all out on the blade right there?
44:42Yeah.
44:43The D9's radiator has blown, putting it down for the season.
44:47What I was thinking was, you know, I don't know.
44:49I mean, we use Seamus' 475 for the small area we're trying to get here.
44:53I think that machine would do it.
44:55We got to make the decision, I guess.
44:57I mean, that's up to you what you want to do.
44:59I don't really want to pay $6,000 for that 475.
45:03You got to spend money to make money.
45:04Rick's only option is to up the ante and rent the monster 475 dozer he used at the start of the season.
45:13Well, that's really obvious, the difference.
45:16Just the sheer power of it.
45:18So I'm going to lay down some rips here.
45:19It's going to take me probably about an hour to get this thing ripped up,
45:22and then we'll push it all off again.
45:27Terry, you want to get yourself and the trucks down here?
45:30All right, buddy.
45:31Within three hours, the cut is ripped.
45:34This is it, guys.
45:36This is our roll of the dice.
45:40Peter pulled to the plan.
45:42Let's fire up dirt rentals.
45:44And desperate for gold, Rick starts sluicing.
45:49I want to make sure we get all the dirt run through the plant.
45:52Peter's still frozen and full of chunks, but I don't even give a .
45:55We're going to run it anyways.
45:57Three days later, Rick's managed to sluice his Hail Mary cut and is ready for his final gold way.
46:04Oh, yeah.
46:07About time, Rick.
46:08Can you believe it's been six months?
46:10So, Carla, where did we end up with on the last gold weight?
46:13We're at 973.
46:15Rick needs 27 ounces to hit his 1,000-ounce gold.
46:20It might be in that jar.
46:22I think it's time to find out.
46:23That's 20.
46:30Looking good.
46:31Yeah.
46:32Those are 27 ounces.
46:34This is another 100-year-old.
46:40Oh, yeah.
46:42Oh, yeah.
46:44The final gold weigh 132.49 ounces.
46:47Oh, no.
46:48You know what that means?
46:49Oh, we're over 1,100.
46:50Nice.
46:511,105.
46:53Blue by it.
46:53Yeah!
46:55That's awesome!
46:58Are you glad we stuck around now?
46:59Yeah!
47:00Yeah!
47:01That's awesome!
47:02Yeah!
47:02That's a football huddle!
47:04Yeah!
47:10Rick blasts past his season goal by over 100 ounces, giving him the max five points.
47:19At the end of the Rookie Mind Boss Showdown,
47:25there's only one winner.
47:28Rick Ness is crowned the best first-year mind boss.
47:32Yeah, Rick!
47:38You guys are lunatics.
47:40There were so many reasons for that first season to cause me to lose everything,
47:45but that didn't happen.
47:47I'm on such a high, like, you know, the first season on my own was a success.
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