Gold Rush- Alaska - Season 16 Episode 00- Rookie Mine Boss Showdown
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00:00Putting my money where my mouth is.
00:01It's the first ever rookie mind boss showdown.
00:05School of hard knocks, baby.
00:06No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:08Of course it's my call. I'm in charge.
00:10Hitting the three most successful freshman bosses head to head.
00:15We got a learning curve to get ahead of here. There's no doubt about that.
00:18Judging their first year wins.
00:20Nice work.
00:21And fails.
00:22This is outrageous.
00:24To reveal who.
00:26We're gonna do it.
00:27Blow in the plank. Yeah, woo.
00:28Is the top rookie mind boss.
00:43So what are you gonna do about gold this year?
00:46I'm gonna find it.
00:47In 15 years of gold rush.
00:50Now I'm gonna start kicking some ass.
00:52There have been five rookie mind bosses.
00:55Honestly, it's one of the most challenging things I've ever done.
00:58But the best of the first year miners boils down to three.
01:03Teenager Parker Schnabel.
01:05It's about making money.
01:06That's what matters.
01:07Air to Tony Beetz mining empire, Kevin Beetz.
01:11It's time to show I have what it takes to be the boss.
01:13And seasoned foreman, Rick Ness.
01:16The opportunity is now.
01:17I just gotta take it.
01:19Getting off to a fast start is essential for a first-year mind boss.
01:25So, 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 mind boss season.
01:45I have faith in your management that it will be successful.
01:50Thanks.
01:51Shake.
01:54Pretty big moment.
01:55I'm in charge now.
01:57Parker is gifted the big nugget mine by his grandpa, John.
02:01Complete with a working wash plant, iron, and crude.
02:06And needs 75 ounces by the end of his first season to keep the family operation afloat.
02:13He has vision that he's going to make thousands of dollars every day, and I hope he's right.
02:19I've got a plan.
02:21I'm going to execute my plan.
02:23Simple as that.
02:23Parker's plan to see his first gold is to hit an easy score.
02:30Tailings mined over two decades ago.
02:33My grandpa mined this bench up here.
02:36This is all the tailings from that.
02:38If their sluice box caught 50% of the gold and they got 100 ounces then, then there would be another 100 ounces here.
02:45So, we're going to give a crack at it.
02:47Hopefully, there's a pile of gold sitting in there somewhere.
03:02It's the first clean out of dirt that I've picked out, I guess.
03:15Three-fifths of an ounce.
03:17We only ran four hours, so I think we're going to have a good week.
03:20After seeing gold on day one of being the boss, Parker spends the rest of his first week running all the tailings.
03:32It's working.
03:35They'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.
03:51Parker banks almost 10% of his season gold within a week of becoming boss.
03:57I must be doing something right.
04:01Parker's tailings are a one-time hit.
04:03He still needs to find more ground to keep sluicing.
04:07So, he earns four points out of five in the first round.
04:13Next, newbie mine boss Kevin Beetz also has an opportunity to hit first gold fast, but he wants a lot more than 75 ounces in his first year.
04:25I got big plans to set up a gold mine and run it my way.
04:29We do have a thousand-ounce gold.
04:31This is a big gamble, so me and Faith have to make this work.
04:35After 20 years working on the family mine, clashes with his dad, Tony...
04:41What can you do, Kevin?
04:42Get a test fire aid.
04:43Yeah, I don't even want to go there.
04:45...led to him breaking away and leasing ground from his old man.
04:49We'll give you Scribner.
04:50...borrowing equipment to start his own operation.
04:54You're not getting the best that we have, but you shouldn't have much troubles getting started.
04:59All you got to do down there is prove yourself.
05:01Right now, he opened up a mid-sized cut to get going.
05:08Based on what drill holes that Tony had and the little bit of poking around I did, between 15-20 feet of muck on top.
05:14Okay.
05:16To get his 1,000-ounce season gold, Kevin needs to open a three-acre cut in just four weeks.
05:25If I can keep all the machines going, our current schedule has us losing by the end of the month.
05:31Thank you so much.
05:35Opening the cut in a dozer borrowed from Tony, foreman Brennan Ruehl.
05:41What's up?
05:42Something's not feeling right.
05:46That's strange.
05:49Sick of this s***.
05:52What is this?
05:55Bolts obviously fell off the inside.
05:57Can't keep this old s*** running for more than a day.
05:59Four weeks into the season, disaster strikes.
06:04So, yeah, this ain't f***ing great.
06:08They need to take out the engine so I can get to the transmission.
06:12So, it essentially looking like it's going to be down for a f***ing while.
06:16It's pretty f***ing frustrating.
06:19I know Tony didn't want to give me, like, his best equipment, but this is a little ridiculous.
06:23I am definitely going to be talking to Tony.
06:31Hey, Tony.
06:32Hey, Gavin.
06:33What's up, man?
06:34Uh, well, I don't need to talk about that D-10.
06:37Ah.
06:38She kind of, uh, grenaded.
06:40What grenaded?
06:44Uh, something in the transmission.
06:46Pretty much dead in the water.
06:49But I ran when you got it.
06:51What do you want?
06:52Uh, I need to have a spare from you.
06:57There's no more TV.
06:59We all gotta learn.
07:01Be your own boss.
07:02Okay.
07:03Uh, yeah.
07:04Gotta run.
07:04I got s*** to do.
07:05More equipment problems.
07:18We've had a lot of delays.
07:19We really need to get s***ing.
07:22Slows progress.
07:24Coffee there, Kev?
07:25I think we're on the, uh, pastry streak here.
07:28I'll be right down.
07:29It's two months.
07:30Over a third of the way through his first season.
07:33There is some yellow s*** in here.
07:37Before Kevin finally sees his first gold.
07:40It's nice to have some confirmation, ain't it?
07:42We're about a month behind where we'd want it to be.
07:45We thought we'd already be sleuzing by now, but delays, delays, breakdowns, breakdowns.
07:49So the faster we can get this pay out, the faster we can set the plant up and get right.
07:54Kevin's problems delay him hitting gold, but he eventually clocks a first gold weigh of 33 ounces, giving him two points in the first round.
08:11Delays are something our last rookie mine boss can't afford when he starts his new mine from scratch.
08:19This year is different.
08:20I'm the boss.
08:21It's 100% my operation.
08:24By the end of this year, I'll either be broke or I'll have my own successful gold mining operation and a pile of gold.
08:30Rick Ness came through the ranks at Parker Schnabel's operation and in 2018 decides to put his own money on the line and go it alone.
08:41I've never had this much responsibility before.
08:44I've never put, you know, my own money on the line like this.
08:48And now, you know, my crew is going to be depending on me.
08:51There's just a lot riding on my shoulders.
08:56Let's do it.
08:57Let's start moving some f***ing mud.
08:58Right.
08:59Ready!
09:00Rick matches Kevin's ambition of a 1,000-ounce season gold, but goes even bigger, planning to open up a monster six-acre cut.
09:10Woo!
09:11Hoping to hit gold in 10 days, he goes all in, hiring a 475, the biggest dozer in the Klondike, for $100,000.
09:23I've got this 475 for 10 days max.
09:25That's all I can afford, really, to have it running.
09:28Could be sunk before I even get started.
09:35You know, I need to know what's in the ground now.
09:38I need to know if it's worth it.
09:41That's pay dirt right there.
09:45Right there for sure.
09:48Oh, yeah.
09:49There we go.
09:50Guys, you're not going to believe this, but I actually got a thawed hole down here, down to bedrock, into the pay gravel, so I'm going to do a pan.
10:08You guys should come check it out.
10:09We're really going to see if we've got gold here or not.
10:12All right, man, this is it.
10:18I haven't even seen anybody pan gold in my life.
10:21There is gold in here.
10:33Whoa!
10:34All right.
10:34I'd say there's probably a dozen colors in here.
10:36If you think 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.
10:47It's real.
10:47It's real, dude.
10:48It's real now, right?
10:49That's our freedom right in there.
10:51But the only way we're going to get it is if we get back to work.
10:52Let's go get it.
10:53A million dollars, boys.
10:55Let's go, Dan.
10:55Let's go.
10:58In 10 days, Rick's dozer gamble delivers his first flakes of gold, later leading to a first gold wave of 30 ounces.
11:09Yeah.
11:09That's mine.
11:11Yeah.
11:11Yeah.
11:14Rick's master plan gets him on gold fast and sets him up for the rest of the season,
11:20giving him the full five points.
11:24At the end of the first round, Kevin's bottom of the pile.
11:29Parker is second.
11:30And Rick bulldozers his way to the top.
11:35Coming up.
11:36We've got water, so I'll go feed the plant.
11:38The rookie's first wash plants are put to the test.
11:42About time.
11:43Shut up, shut up, shut up.
11:45It's a broadcast.
11:50In the rookie mind boss face-off.
11:54I must be doing something right.
11:56Three freshman mind bosses are going head to head.
12:00Could be sunk before I even get started.
12:03After scoring points for hitting their first gold, Rick is in the lead.
12:09Next up.
12:11We've got to get a **** loose and we've got bills to pay.
12:13The heart of their operations are put to the test.
12:17How they set them up, fire them up, and keep sluicing in the wash plant round.
12:25Set up and fire up is no problem for Parker Schnabel,
12:30whose inherited plant is ready to sluice straight off the bat.
12:34We're definitely making money.
12:35We're on a roll.
12:37Hopefully we can keep it up.
12:38It's going pretty good.
12:40I'm feeling positive.
12:41But the young boss hits trouble when he strikes bad ground.
12:47Pretty poor.
12:49We need more than a few flakes.
12:51And decides to up the ante and push his old plant to its limits.
12:56I'm going so fast because I need to feed the plant.
12:59Because we're running 10 hours today.
13:01This is my fourth load in what, 20 minutes?
13:05Just 30 minutes into his 10-hour shift.
13:08Oh!
13:11The plant grinds to a halt.
13:19His generators regularly has failed.
13:24There's nothing I can do up here, really.
13:26I could talk to my grandpa.
13:29We shut down, huh?
13:31I guess we stopped.
13:32We had this problem about 10 years ago.
13:38Parker gets a new regulator and is back on the gold.
13:46In about 20 minutes, we'll start getting a little more confident.
13:53And in about an hour after that, we'll be pretty sure we fixed it.
13:58But it's not long before the relic is down again.
14:09Hey!
14:12This whole bearing is gone.
14:14This is really not something that we need right now.
14:17So that's a pain in the ass.
14:19We're going to fix this as fast as we can.
14:22As 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.
14:32The plant hasn't been running, and we're losing money hand over fist.
14:39She's there.
14:40If it's straight, that's perfect.
14:43All right.
14:44Good job.
14:53Looks good.
14:57At least there's still hope.
14:59Sometimes, like my grandpa says, all you have is hope.
15:05Parker's ancient plant gets him sluicing early.
15:09But his decision to push it to the limit sets him back more than once,
15:15giving him three points.
15:17The next boss, Kevin Beetz, hatches a plan to make the perfect wash plant setup.
15:24Yeah, look at that.
15:26Now we're almost at the actual getting gold part of gold mining.
15:28About time.
15:29By spending time and cold, hard cash.
15:34We want to do it once and do it right and just be done with it.
15:37So, that's how we're going to f***ing run it.
15:40Kevin blows his life savings on a new $700,000 shaker deck
15:46and splashes another $100,000 on a gas-powered generator to run the plant.
15:53Spent a lot of money already.
15:55Got ahead of 1,000 ounces to get some of those costs back.
15:59Hopefully, we can hit it.
16:00Kevin takes two weeks to build a 400-foot-long mega pad.
16:06What a good f***ing day to see this on the pad.
16:09Delightful.
16:09And a further six days tinkering to dial in the plant.
16:13Kevin, he's always been a bit of a procrastinator.
16:16He's got to get his f*** together and hurry the f*** up a little bit.
16:19Then it starts loosing.
16:20Eventually, nearly halfway through his first season as a mine boss.
16:25The slide horizontally, a little bit, little bit.
16:29He's finally ready to fire up.
16:32I really, really, really hope it goes well after all the nights and days running into this.
16:36So, my fingers are crossed, my toes are crossed.
16:39If I could, I'd cross my tongue.
16:44Oh, f***, that's violent.
16:45All right, I'm going to open her up.
16:53There we go.
16:56That's a big old.
16:58Woo!
16:59Yeah!
17:02That's looking really nice, Kev.
17:04So excited, bud.
17:07Yes, finally!
17:09I'm currently got a f***ing relief.
17:11Give you a hug for this one.
17:13Nice work.
17:13Keep it going.
17:15I'm spending so much time making sure that everything's going to run
17:18before we put actual pay through the plant.
17:20It's a lot more work, but we are going to save time down the line.
17:24Kevin's patience and big investment pays off,
17:28setting him up to sluice almost nonstop,
17:32giving him the full five points.
17:35A perfect score that Rick Ness could match with his own wash plant master plan.
17:42Ruby, we got a wash plant.
17:42I've always had some input as far as how we set our wash plants up when I was with Parker,
17:49but ultimately he had the final say, and now this year it's 100% my call.
17:55Woo!
17:55Now it's time to get some gold.
17:58After spending big on opening up his first cut, Rick drops his last $180,000 on the wash plant of his dreams.
18:08Oh, yes!
18:09Look at that f***ing beast.
18:11I christen thee Dirt Reynolds.
18:14Ha-ha!
18:14Yeah!
18:15But unlike Kevin, Rick has an ingenious plan to get it set up and fired up fast.
18:23I'm unloading giant Legos.
18:26So I've ordered up a bunch of concrete blocks.
18:29I'm going to build a bit of a retaining wall for my plant to sit on.
18:32It should actually be a cleaner setup and less likely to undermine itself.
18:36I need to get the wash plant up and running, and every minute counts.
18:40Rick takes just four hours to complete the path and hauls in the 20-ton wash plant.
18:46Talk about right on the f***ing edge.
18:52Does it worry you that it's hanging off the edge?
18:54No.
18:58Now we're getting somewhere!
19:04All right, I'm going to start this thing.
19:07Fire it up!
19:11There it is.
19:11All right, now I'm going to put a bucket of dirt in.
19:1710 more.
19:18Yeah, we're feeding the plant.
19:20This is a pretty big deal.
19:22Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo!
19:24Yay, people are smiling!
19:29Completely what?
19:30Where's all that water come from?
19:32Carla, hit the bypass!
19:35f***ing hell.
19:38Shut the b-
19:38Shut the f*** off!
19:39Hit the bypass!
19:40Shut it off, shut it off, shut it off, shut it off!
19:43Hit the bypass!
20:04Turnbuckles gave way.
20:05Where's Rick?
20:07Oh, I'm going to need a minute.
20:08F***ing sloose boxes fell off.
20:11Water almost took out the pad enough to dump the plant off the pad.
20:17I expected growing pains, but this is f***ing 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 f***ing deal.
20:32It's been too long.
20:33Man, 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 with fabricated 30-foot-long gold catchers.
20:54Easy, Rick.
20:56Go!
20:56Easy.
21:01Perfect right there, Rick.
21:03Woo!
21:03That's all I need, man.
21:05That's huge relief for me.
21:07And mounts them on an extended pad to secure them in place.
21:16Yeehaw!
21:18Feed the beast.
21:19Sluice box fell in place.
21:25That's a good sign.
21:26It's running.
21:30Rick's wash plant finally gets running, but he's weeks behind schedule, and he's nearly ruined his season, earning him just one point.
21:40Halfway through the rookie mind-boss face-off, Rick drops to last, and 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...
21:58I 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.
22:14Ha ha ha ha.
22:18In the freshman mind-boss head-to-head...
22:22Now the race is really on.
22:23Now it's time to get serious.
22:25The rookies have raced to bank their first gold, fired up their first wash plants, and banked points on the rookie mind-boss leaderboard.
22:35At the halfway stage, Kevin 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 is stepping up to lead their crew.
22:50Let's go.
22:51And dealing with any problems they hit.
22:53Ready!
22:54Round 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, master 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 by the time the snow starts flying.
23:21While Kevin focuses on keeping the operation and machinery running.
23:29Fix this thing so we can run.
23:31Fix that thing so we can run.
23:33After four months of working together, the 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.
23:55Oh, f***.
23:57F*** sakes.
23:59Hey, buddy, I'm stuck down here in the cut.
24:02F*** sakes.
24:03Water from Kevin's sluice pond next door is flooding Brennan's new cut.
24:09I think I might try and nudge you backwards.
24:13I'm going to need to get another pump in here immediately.
24:27We have no extra pumps.
24:29Brennan looks to Kevin for a solution.
24:36Hey, Brennan.
24:38I can't dig pay down here, dude.
24:41I've been needing another pump for like a week now.
24:42I know.
24:45We just got to do a cleanup with you to pay for the f*** thing.
24:49Can we get another pump from Tony?
24:52I'm not going to ask Tony until I have to.
24:54I fixed enough of Tony.
24:56I'm just really struggling down here, man.
24:58I'm just getting frustrated as f***.
25:00If that PayPal runs out, that shuts off.
25:02We don't have any money coming in.
25:03And I feel like that's on my shoulders.
25:06Like, what do you want me to do here?
25:07I need a f***ing pump.
25:09I don't want to say, like, we don't have the cash right now.
25:13You don't got a f***ing pump.
25:14F***ing tough.
25:18Okay, well, I'm going to.
25:20I don't know what else to say here.
25:22Get that out of my face for a while.
25:36I need a f***ing pump.
25:37Weird.
25:42He's going.
25:44With Kevin failing to deliver,
25:47Brennan 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.
26:05Oh, there we go.
26:07Yay!
26:08In 12 hours, Brennan's $11,000 pump drains the cut
26:13and bails Kevin out of trouble.
26:17That's a very nice little pump.
26:19Brennan went off and bumped.
26:21Hopefully, if Kevin kind of finds his footing here
26:24and gets into that mind boss role a little bit more.
26:30Kevin's lack of leadership
26:31almost 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.
26:53Parker has taken on his grandpa's veteran crew.
26:56Some triple his age and struggles to gain their respect.
27:01I guess that's a no.
27:03Makes 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, and 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, and it had been operating without
28:24that 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, and
28:46within 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 shutdowns.
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.
30:34Oh, boy.
30:37Holy f***ing.
30:41Ryan, you all right?
30:44As soon as I pulled away, it caved in.
30:46F***ing.
30:49She's just going to f***ing whip this thing over.
30:51You're clear.
30:52Keep her.
30:53Keep going.
31:00All right, pull her out of there, Ryan.
31:02Don't get that f***ing 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 f***ing back.
31:17I don't want to b***h at you, but, man, we've got to tighten up, man.
31:21Ryan, I know you flipped a rock truck.
31:23If we keep doing, 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.
31:30All right.
31:31After 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 a plant.
31:48It's been way too long.
31:49I'm not even making a dip.
31:54I'm really getting sick of dealing with this.
31:55It's too f***ing much right now.
32:00F***.
32:01I just hit the sluice box.
32:03F*** this, man.
32:05F***.
32:05F***.
32:05F***.
32:06F***.
32:07I just hit the sluice box.
32:18F*** this, man.
32:19F***.
32:22In 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 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, so 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.
33:17Cutting 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!
33:27Loading the plant!
33:28Yeah!
33:28Woo!
33:29Woo!
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, uh, I think I'll be okay.
33:48F*** yeah.
33:49I know you will, Ryan.
33:51Good luck, buddy!
33:54Rick leads his inexperienced crew by example and begins to mold them into a working team,
34:01giving 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.
34:27We'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?
34:49Oh, F***!
34:59F***!
35:00F***!
35:01F***!
35:02The belt that transports dirt from the upper feeder to the main conveyor belt has ripped in two, a potential season-ender.
35:18My 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 it 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, and...
35:51Brennan, you can see what you're doing to pull it out.
35:56F***!
35:58F***!
36:00Yeah, I barely touched the joysticks, I let them go and it kept sliding, so sorry about that.
36:07Yay!
36:08Beautiful!
36:10There we go.
36:11There we go.
36:14We're just sliding the belt up.
36:27Golden pony boy!
36:29Say, that's the success right there.
36:31I'm going to give it a push.
36:36Woo!
36:38Woo!
36:39Smooth like butter.
36:42Atta boy, boss!
36:44All right.
36:45Eat some cake.
36:48That went really well, so we'll get back running.
36:52I'll run f***ing hard until we get snowed out.
36:55Got a thousand ounces somehow.
36:57Four 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.
37:14Kevin 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.
37:2710, 20, 40, 50, 80, 90, 180, 190, 200, 250, 260, 360, 370, 375.80.
37:42Oh, my d***.
37:43It's such a relief.
37:44I can finally pay everyone off.
37:45All 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.
37:57Thank you.
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.
38:10Thanks 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.
38:27Parker and Rick still have to battle to the end and weigh their gold to lock in their final points.
38:35That's not over yet.
38:40Can a guy risk it all in America anymore?
38:42On the hunt for gold rushes, best ever rookie mind boss.
38:47Some new bosses.
38:48Whoa.
38:49Whoa.
38:50That's full.
38:51It's a rock.
38:52Okay.
38:53False alarm.
38:54Just didn't make the cut.
38:55Here it is.
38:5614.64 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.
39:13I think we kind of take it as a challenge to beat each other.
39:23It's crunch time in the rookie mind boss competition.
39:27Right now the game of the game is gold.
39:28With points up for grabs, the bosses are making a final push to hit their first year gold targets.
39:38After success at his final gold way, Kevin is in the lead.
39:43Next up, Parker.
39:44His first year gold is to keep the family mine afloat by banking 75 ounces.
39:5433 ounces.
39:56It looks like a lot of gold, but we spent a lot of money to get it.
40:02Parker's flunked his freshman year as a mine boss.
40:09Pretty sad.
40:10Pretty sad day.
40:11But isn't giving up on his goal of keeping the family mine in business.
40:17What we'll do is knock this hill out.
40:20Take 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.
40:30Parker 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.
40:46I'm nervous.
40:48This is last test.
40:49This afternoon, I'm going to talk to my dad and grandpa about Smith Creek.
40:53And you know, if there's nothing in this dirt, I don't know what the mine will do.
40:58I'm scared.
40:59I'm scared.
41:00Done.
41:01Beautiful.
41:02We don't see a thing yet.
41:03It doesn't look like there's anything in it.
41:07There's a little bit.
41:08Oh, there's quite a bit in here.
41:10What the ?
41:11Actually, something in here.
41:12Oh, here's a little bit.
41:13Oh, there's quite a bit in here.
41:14What the ?
41:15¡Gracias!
41:21¡Done!
41:22¡Beautiful!
41:23We don't see a thing yet.
41:27It doesn't look like there's anything in it.
41:33There's a little bit.
41:34Oh, there's quite a bit in here.
41:37What the ?
41:39Actually, something in here.
41:41It's weird.
41:43This is the little sluice that's fed out of the jig.
41:50Wow.
41:56There's quite a bit in here.
41:58Gary.
42:00That's...
42:01Wow.
42:02See, that's, like, not bad at all.
42:04That's not bad at all.
42:06This is what we got off the pan this morning.
42:13Hmm.
42:14Not much, was it?
42:16And then I went down below the jig, and that's what we got out of the little sluice.
42:22That's pretty nice.
42:23That's what you dug out of the hole?
42:26Yeah, a 45-minute test out of Smith Creek.
42:29That's really encouraging.
42:31Smith Creek will have bigger gold than that.
42:34Are you saying you want to fund the mine next year?
42:37Uh, I'm, uh, willing to give it a try.
42:42I'll fund it for 50% of the gold we get out of it.
42:47I'll take it.
42:49I come out here and give it everything I've got.
42:53I feel like I've done my job.
42:56Parker banks just half of his gold, but convinces his grandpa to give him another shot, earning him 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.
43:17We're so close to our target, I just don't know what to do anymore.
43:20I mean, we've exhausted all the fog ground.
43:22But 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.
43:36To 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 best drill holes were, and it is where we did our best gold.
43:49You're up against time, so I guess, what's the best option for what we've got left in time?
43:55Yeah, f*** it, let'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.
44:06But it's frozen and needs to be ripped to get to the pay dirt.
44:12All he's got is a small D9 dozer.
44:16We don't have enough time left here to do much, but we've got to give it.
44:19Rick promised me he was going to do the 1,000 ounces.
44:21Oh, that ain't good.
44:32It's overheating really bad.
44:35The radiator's got a hole in it somewhere.
44:38f*** 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 used Seamus' 475 for the small area we're trying to get here.
44:52I think that machine would do it.
44:55We've got to make the decision, I guess.
44:56I mean, that's up to you what you want to do.
44:59I don't really want to pay $6,000 for that 475.
45:02You've 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 plant.
45:41Let's fire up dirt Reynolds.
45:44And desperate for gold, Rick starts sluicing.
45:49I want to make sure we get all the dirt run through the plant.
45:51Peter's still frozen and full of chunks, but we don't even give a .
45:54We're going to run it anyways.
45:57Three days later, Rick's managed to sluice his Hail Mary cut
46:01and is ready for his final gold weigh.
46:04Oh.
46:05Oh, 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 weigh?
46:13We're at 973.
46:15Rick needs 27 ounces to hit his 1,000-ounce gold.
46:19Might be in that jar.
46:20I think it's time to find out.
46:29That's 20.
46:30Looking good.
46:31Yeah.
46:32Those are 27 ounces.
46:33There's another .
46:34Yeah!
46:35The final gold weigh 132.49 ounces.
46:36You know what that means?
46:37Oh, we're over 1,100.
46:38Nice.
46:391,105.
46:40Blue by it.
46:41Yeah!
46:42That's awesome!
46:43Yeah!
46:44Are you glad we stuck around now?
46:46Yeah!
46:47That's awesome!
46:48That's a football huddle!
46:53Yeah!
46:54Yeah!
46:55That's awesome!
46:56Yeah!
46:57Are you glad we stuck around now?
46:58Yeah!
46:59Woo!
47:00That's awesome!
47:01Look at our football huddle!
47:04Yeah!
47:06Woo!
47:07Woo!
47:09Rick Blasts passed his season goal by over 100 ounces, giving him the max five points.
47:14100 oz, giving him the max 5 points.
47:19At the end of the rookie mindboss showdown,
47:23there's only one winner.
47:28Rick Ness is crowned the best first year mindboss.
47:33Yeah, Rick!
47:37You guys are lunatics.
47:40There were so many reasons for that first season
47:43to cause me to lose everything,
47:45but that didn't happen.
47:47I'm on such a high,
47:48like, you know, the first season on my own was a success.
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