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Gold Rush Season 16 Episode 100
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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
00:09Of course it's my fault. I'm in charge hitting the three most successful
00:14freshman bosses head-to-head first-year wins nice work and
00:18Fails this is outrageous to reveal who we're gonna do it mind boss
00:30So what are you gonna do about gold this year?
00:35I'm gonna find it in 15 years of gold rush now
00:40Honestly, it's one of the most challenging things I've ever done, but the best of the first-year miners
00:46Boils down to three what matters air to Tony beats mining Empire Kevin beats
00:52It's time to show I have what it takes to be the boss and seasoned foreman
00:56Getting off to a fast start is essential for a first-year mine boss
01:01So the first round of cutter first gold the fastest
01:1016 year old Parker straight into his freshman mine boss season. I have faith in your management that it will be
01:18successful
01:19Thank I'm in charge now
01:21Parker is gifted the big nugget mind by his grandpa John
01:27Complete with a 75 ounces by the end of his first season to keep the family operation afloat
01:36I've got a plan. I'm gonna execute my plan simple as that
01:41Parker's plan to see his first gold and over two decades ago my grandpa mine
01:47This bench up here. This is all the tailings from that if they're solution then there would be another hundred ounces here
01:54So we're gonna give a crack at it
02:07The first thing I
02:09I think we're gonna have a good week after seeing gold on day one of being the boss
02:21Parker spends the rest of his first week
02:25It's working
02:28They're getting bigger
02:32The whole plant
02:34This is our first full week of running and we've gotten six or seven ounces within a week of becoming boss
02:42I must be doing something right
02:45Parker's tailings are a one-time
02:48So he earns four points out of five in the first round
02:54Next newbie mine boss gold fast, but he wants a lot more than 75 ounces in his first year
03:02I got big plans. This is a big gamble. So me and faith have to make this work
03:07After 20 years working on the family mine
03:11Clash
03:13Led to him breaking away and leasing ground from his old man
03:17We'll give you scrivener or get the best that we have, but you shouldn't have much troubles getting started
03:23All you got to do down there is prove yourself
03:29Based on what drill holes that Tony had and a little bit of poking around I did between 15 20 feet of muck on top
03:35Okay, Kevin needs to open a three acre cut in just four weeks
03:40So I can keep all the machines going month
03:44Angles crossed
03:48Opening the cut in a dozer borrowed from Tony
03:51He's not feeling right
03:55That's green
03:58Sick of this
04:00Bolts obviously fell off the inside can't keep this old running for more than a day
04:05Four weeks into the season
04:07Did great
04:09I need to take out the engine so I can get to the transmission
04:13So it essentially looking like it's gonna be
04:16I know I tell you didn't want to give me like his best equipment, but this is a little ridiculous
04:21I'm definitely gonna be talking to Tony
04:24Hey Tony
04:25Hey gallon, sup man, I don't need to talk about that d10 ah
04:31She can't what good and ate it something in the transmission pretty much dead in the water
04:38But I ran when you got it
04:42There's no more TV we all gotta learn be your own boss
04:55Hey, we really need to get susing slows progress
05:01Coffee there Kev think we're on the paper a third of the way through his first season
05:07There is some yellow in here
05:09Before Kevin finally sees about a month behind where we'd want it to be we thought we'd already be sleucing by now, but
05:16Delays delays breakdowns breakdowns, so the faster we can get
05:20Kevin's problems delay him hitting gold, but he eventually can two points in the first round
05:33Delays or something our last rookie mind boss
05:35Hatch this year is different. I'm the boss. It's 100% my operation by the end of this year
05:41I'll either be broke or I'll have my own success came through the ranks at Parker Schnabel's operation
05:47And in 2018
05:50Decides to put his own much responsibility before I've never put you know my own money on the line like this
05:57And now you know my crew is going to be depending on me
06:01Let's do it
06:05Rick matches kevin's ambition of a wanting to open up a monster six acre cut
06:11hoping to hit gold in 10 days he goes biggest dozer in the klondike for a hundred thousand dollars
06:19I've got this 475 for 10 days max. That's all I can afford really to have it
06:28You know, I need to I need to know what's in the ground now. I need to know if it's worth it
06:32That's pay dirt right there right there for sure
06:37Oh, yeah, there we go
06:47Guys you're not gonna believe this, but I will so I'm gonna do a pan you guys should come check it out
06:50We're really going to see if we've got gold here or not
06:55I haven't seen anybody paying gold in my life
07:05There is gold in here whoa
07:06All right, I'd say there's probably a dozen colors in here if you think now
07:11The side that's all we need to see that's all we need to see it's real. It's real. It's real. It's real now, right?
07:18That's our freedom right in there
07:24In 10 days rick's dozer gamble delivers his first of 30 ounces
07:30Yeah, that's fine
07:32Rick's messed up for the rest of the season giving him the full five points
07:41At the end of the first round kevin rick bulldozers his way to the top
07:48Coming up we've got water so i'll go feed the plant
07:51The room
07:59Doing something right three freshman mind bosses are going head-to-head could be sunk before i even get started
08:08rick is in the lead
08:10next up
08:12We gotta get
08:13Sleucing we got bills to pay the heart of their operator them up and keeps losing in the wash plan round
08:21Set up and fire plant is ready to sluice straight off the bat. We're definitely making money. We're on a roll
08:29Hopefully, we can keep it up. It's got trouble when he strikes bad ground
08:37Pretty poor
08:39We need more than a few flip to its limits going so fast because i need to feed the plant because we're running 10 hours today
08:46This is my fourth load in 10-hour shift
08:51The plant his generators regularly has failed
09:01There's nothing i can do up here really could talk to my grandpa i just reached up
09:08We had this problem about 10 years ago
09:12Parker gets a new regulator and is back on the goal
09:15In about 20 minutes, we'll start getting a little after that we'll be
09:22Pretty sure we fixed it
09:24But it's not long before the relic is down
09:30Hey
09:33This whole bearing is gone this is
09:36We're gonna fix this as fast as we can
09:39As his crew get to work removing the broken bearing that spins the source or replacement
09:45The plant hasn't been running and we're losing money hand over fist
09:50All right good job
10:02At least there's still hope sometimes like my grandpa says all you have is hope
10:07Plant gets him sluicing early but his decision to push it to the limit sets him back more than once
10:15Kevin beats hatches a plan to make the perfect wash plant setup
10:21Yeah look at that
10:23Now we're almost at the actual
10:24And cold hard cash
10:27You want to do it once and do it right and just be done with it so
10:32New seven hundred thousand dollars shaker day
10:35And splashes another hundred grand on a gas powered generator ready
10:40Got to hit a thousand ounces to get some of those costs back
10:44Hopefully we can hit her
10:46Kevin takes two weeks
10:48Hey to see this on the pad
10:50Delightful
10:50And a further six days tinkering to dial in the plant
10:54He's always been a bit of a
10:56When it starts loosing
10:57Eventually nearly halfway through his first season as a mine boss
11:02The slide horizontally
11:03Fire up
11:05I really really really hope it goes well after all the nights and days running into this so
11:10My fingers are crossed my toes are crossed
11:13Oh that's violent
11:19All right I'm gonna
11:22Let there be gold
11:23Woo yeah
11:27Let's look at
11:28Yes finally
11:30I'm currently got relief
11:31Give me a hug for this one
11:34Nice work
11:34Keep it going
11:35Hey to the plant
11:37It's a lot more work
11:38But we are going to save time down the line
11:41Kevin's patience and big invest stop
11:45Giving him the full five points
11:48A perfect score that rick ness could match
11:51I've always had some input as far as how we set our wash plants up when I was with parker
11:58But ultimately he had the fun
12:01Now it's time to get some gold
12:03After spending big on opening up his first cut
12:07Rick drops his love of his dreams
12:08Oh yes
12:10Look at that beast
12:12I christened the dirt reynolds
12:13Genius plan to get it set up and fired up fast
12:20I'm unloading giant legos
12:23So for my plant sit on it should actually be a cleaner setup and less likely to undermine itself
12:29I need to get the wash plan up and running and every minute counts
12:32And hauls in the 20 ton wash plan talk about right on the edge
12:43Now we're getting somewhere
12:48Fire it up
12:52There it is
12:55We're feeding the plant this is a pretty big deal
12:58Whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop
13:01Yay people are smiling
13:03Where'd it come from?
13:05Carla hit the bypass
13:08hell
13:11Shut the bypass
13:11Shut the bypass
13:12Hit the bypass
13:28Oh I'm going to need a minute
13:30Sluice boxes fell off
13:32Water almost took out the pad enough to dump the plant off the outrageous
13:37After his disastrous first ever fire up as a mind boss
13:41Rick calls the only man who can save
13:44Holy
13:45It's been too long
13:47Man I don't mind telling you right off the bat I'm in a bad way here
13:51What do you think?
13:51Rick
13:53Freddy Dodge replaces the 10 foot sluice box
13:56That fell off rick's plant with fabricated
14:03Easy
14:06Perfect right there rick
14:08And mounts them on an extended pad to secure them in place
14:16Easy
14:16Sluice box is in place that's a good sign
14:22Let's run it
14:23Plant finally gets running
14:26But he's weeks behind schedule
14:29And he's nearly ruined his season
14:31Rookie mind boss face off
14:34Rick drops to last
14:36And kevin's perfect setup draws in neck and neck with
14:39I'm going to go home at the end of the season broke with no friends
14:43Coming up
14:43I don't care if you guys hate my guts
14:46I need a little respect
14:47Can rick
14:49And final gold ways
14:52We haven't had that much gold in the pan all summer
14:56In the freshman mind boss head to head
14:58Now the race is really on
15:00Now it's time to get serious
15:02The rookies have raced to bank and banked points on the rookie mind boss leaderboard
15:07At the halfway stage kevin and parker top
15:13One of the biggest challenges for any rookie mind boss is stepping up to lead their crew
15:19Let's go
15:19Round three
15:21Is a test of leadership
15:25Kevin beats decides to divide
15:27Roger that boss
15:29He delegates running the cut to his new foreman master dirt mover brennan
15:35Brennan is going to hold as possible by the time the snow starts flying
15:38While kevin
15:40Oh you mother trucker
15:42Focuses on keeping the operation
15:44That thing so we can run
15:46After four months of working together
15:49The plant chews through the last of their floor ground
15:52It needs to happen super fast
15:55Because that pile is getting chewed down so quickly it's actually getting scary
16:00Oh
16:02Hey buddy i'm uh i'm stuck down here in the cut
16:08Is flooding brennan's new cut
16:11I think i might try and nudge you backwards
16:17Thanks brennan you're the man
16:21I'm gonna need to get another pump in here immediately
16:23For a solution
16:29Hey brennan
16:30I can't
16:32I know
16:34We just gotta do a clean up with you to pay for the thing
16:38Can we get another pump from tony
16:41I'm just really struggling down here man
16:43I'm just getting frustrated as
16:44Like if that paypal runs out that shuts off
16:47We don't have any money to want me to do here
16:49I need a pump
16:50I don't want to say like
16:52We don't have the cash right now
16:54You don't got a pump
16:57Yeah i don't know what else to say here
17:00I got a face for a while
17:09Need a pump
17:12Gone
17:13With kevin failing to deliver
17:16Brennan takes matters into his own hands
17:19And hopefully she just starts pumping immediately.
17:28In 12 hours, Brennan's $11,000 pump drains the cut and bails...
17:36Hopefully you can kind of find his footing here and gets into that mind boss role a little bit more.
17:44Leadership almost brings his whole operation to a standstill.
17:47Scoring him just one point.
17:52I don't care if you guys hate my guts. I need a little respect.
17:56But the teenager has leadership problems of his own.
18:00His grandpa's veteran crew, some triple his age and struggles to gain their respect.
18:06I guess that's a no.
18:08Prove when the teenager tries to stamp his authority.
18:12What are you doing?
18:13I'm coming back. I want to coordinate for your grandpa.
18:16Stop a minute.
18:16No, I ain't stopping. You don't give me orders.
18:20Why not?
18:20Because you don't. You ask. You don't order somebody.
18:24You need to go haul dirt. Is that how you treat somebody?
18:26You don't tell me how to do mine.
18:28I did not. I have not told you how to do your job one time.
18:32Not once!
18:34You are approaching the money. And we're up here to run the plan.
18:42You won't make money if you chase the hellhole.
18:47Expect when disaster strikes.
18:50This isn't going to do me any good.
18:53Oh, this is going to be fun.
18:55The mine needed to be regulated by the federal government, and it had been operating without that regulation for the 23 years.
19:04I'm in charge.
19:06The crew look to Parker to save their season.
19:10So this should have a knee board.
19:11Parker brings his site up to code, and within just 24 hours, has the inspector back for a maker.
19:20Stop work order?
19:22Yeah.
19:22Today?
19:23Mm-hmm.
19:23We're good to go?
19:24Yes.
19:24Okay.
19:25Thank you for your time.
19:26We made it.
19:30Let's go, boys.
19:33I was going to wait until later to run the plan, but I figured...
19:36...his crew from shutdown...
19:38We haven't had that much gold in the pan in all summer.
19:40...to one of the most productive days of their season.
19:43It is a day.
19:44It makes it all worth it.
19:45I think it makes us a good team.
19:47After his rough start, the teenage proves to his crew he can be a leader, scoring him four points.
19:58Rick has years to be a mine boss.
20:01Terry, I'm going to put you in the excavator loading the trucks.
20:04I'm going to put you guys all in trucks.
20:05We'll get you in those machines, get you comfortable, and no problem.
20:08Hiring a crew of loyal but inexperienced friends.
20:12Hey, water all over.
20:14And he aims to turn into a...
20:16...learning curve to get ahead of here.
20:17There's no doubt about that.
20:19I've been instructed we want to get the load as far over as we can.
20:28Oh, boy.
20:30Holy f***ing crazy.
20:32Ryan, you all right?
20:33As soon as I pulled away, it caved in.
20:38She's just going to f***ing whip this thing.
20:45All right, pull her out of there, Ryan.
20:47Don't get that f***ed up.
20:48Let's have a quick talk.
20:52Yo.
20:54What's up?
20:55And we got to tighten up, man.
20:58Ryan, I know you flipped a rock truck.
21:00If we keep doing, making those mistakes, I mean, it's going to kill us.
21:03After his near miss in a rock truck.
21:08It's going to take me a while to get the hang of doing this.
21:11Rick moves at the plant.
21:13And he's wandering out into the fine tailings in front of a plant.
21:17It's been way too long.
21:20I'm not dealing with this.
21:21It's too f***ing much right now.
21:25f***ing f***ing f***ing.
21:26You just hit the sluice box.
21:36F***ing f***ing.
21:36In the clash of the rookie mind bosses, Rick Ness crowns.
21:48What's up, Ryan?
21:50I'm just getting a little overwhelmed here.
21:52Mounting tailings.
21:54Maybe I'll swap out with you for a minute.
21:55See if I can find anything different to do or find a rhythm or something.
22:00Everything.
22:01Figure something out to make this work.
22:04I mean, this is about as important as it gets.
22:06All of our gold's coming out of that one.
22:08Rick shows Ryan a new method.
22:11Driving into the tailings, grabbing a scoop,
22:14and backing staff the time Ryan took.
22:18I think that's the trick.
22:20And I think that's probably where I'll make up my time.
22:23Woo!
22:28Sounds to me like you're having the time of your life up in here.
22:31I can see where that's going to save time.
22:33You know what?
22:34I got us a little bit ahead here.
22:35I think I'll be okay.
22:37F***ing yeah.
22:38I know you will, Ryan.
22:40This inexperienced crew by example
22:42and begins to mold them into a working team,
22:46giving him a chip round.
22:49Kevin drops down the leaderboard
22:51while Rick claws his way back to first
22:54alongside Parker in one's game
22:56as the rookie bosses battle to the end of the season
23:00and try to hit their first-year gold.
23:04With just days of sluicing left,
23:08Kevin is desperate to hit his 1,000-ounce goal.
23:12The push is on.
23:13So after everything that we've faced this year,
23:15I'd be pretty bummed out
23:16if we don't hit our 1,000-ounce target, you know?
23:23Oh, f***!
23:26F***!
23:28Okay, come on my way.
23:30The belt that transports dirt
23:32from the upper feeder
23:34to the main conveyor belt.
23:36I don't know.
23:37She's f***ing.
23:38My rough battle plan
23:40is that we'll hook up with the 220,
23:44hook up with the 480
23:45to pull it all the way out,
23:46and then we can swing and set it down on that side.
23:49Refusing to give up,
23:50Kevin races to replace...
23:52I'm going to hook up our four-point sling
23:53to the frame of this conveyor,
23:56and then hopefully he can take the weight and...
24:01F***!
24:04Sure?
24:06Yeah, I barely touched the joysticks.
24:08Yay!
24:10Beautiful!
24:12There we go.
24:19Oh!
24:20Oh, no!
24:23It's right there.
24:24I'm going to give it a push.
24:29Ah!
24:31Push!
24:33All right.
24:34Need some cake.
24:37That went really well,
24:38so we'll get back from running.
24:40Got 1,000 ounces somehow.
24:43Four days later...
24:45Hi, guys.
24:47So heavy?
24:48And ready to weigh.
24:49Let's see what we got.
24:50I'm very curious to see what you guys got on.
24:52We ain't pretty f***ing high.
24:54That's why we need it to break even.
24:56...using to weigh.
24:57He needs 320 ounces
24:59to hit his 1,000-ounce goal.
25:03That's big.
25:05180, 190, 200, 250, 260,
25:09360, 370.
25:12Oh, my f***.
25:12Such a relief.
25:13I can finally pay everyone off.
25:15Right.
25:15How much does that make, Faith?
25:171,056.57.
25:20He's a f***ing lot better than most of them do.
25:23And it didn't come just by ourselves.
25:25Like, you guys have helped us out.
25:26That's a great deal.
25:27You know.
25:28Getting down.
25:28Thanks to his final push,
25:34Kevin passes his make or break
25:36in the final round,
25:37pushing him into a late lead.
25:41But the rookie mind boss race
25:43is fun
25:44and weigh their gold
25:46to lock in their final points.
25:48That's not over yet.
25:49On the hunt for gold rush's
25:53best-ever rookie mind boss,
25:56some new bosses.
25:58Whoa.
25:58Whoa.
25:59That's full.
26:00Here it is.
26:01There's 14.64 ounces here.
26:05My guys are like,
26:06they think I've been gold mining
26:07my whole life.
26:08Bottom by Fred Lewis.
26:10That puts our total at 6.39,
26:13which is honestly embarrassing.
26:15I think we kind of take it
26:19as a challenge to beat each other.
26:21It's crunch time.
26:23In the rookie mind grabs,
26:24the bosses are making a final push
26:27to hit their first-year gold targets.
26:31After succeed,
26:32next up, Parker.
26:36His first-year goal
26:38is to keep the family mine of...
26:4033 ounces.
26:42It looks like a lot of gold,
26:46but we spent a lot of money to get...
26:48...flunked his freshman year
26:50as a mind boss.
26:51Pretty sad.
26:52Pretty sad day.
26:54...but isn't giving up.
26:55We'll do this.
26:56Knock this hill out.
26:58Take that slope,
26:59at this slope,
27:00all the way on down
27:01to the bank.
27:03Smith...
27:04Parker decides to run tests
27:05on Smith Creek,
27:07the only virgin ground
27:09at Big Nugget,
27:10in the hope it will deliver...
27:12fund his dream
27:13of another season mining.
27:16I'm nervous.
27:17This is the last test.
27:19This afternoon,
27:20there's nothing in this dirt.
27:21I don't know what the mine will do.
27:24I'm scared.
27:25I'm scared.
27:38Done.
27:39Beautiful.
27:40We don't see a thing yet.
27:46Here's a little bit.
27:47Oh, there's quite a bit in here.
27:50What the ?
27:51This is the little sluice
27:54that's fed out of the jig.
28:00Wow.
28:02There's quite a bit in here.
28:04Gary.
28:05That's...
28:06Wow.
28:13This is what we got off
28:14the pan this morning.
28:16Jig.
28:16And that's what we got
28:18out of the little sluice.
28:20That's pretty nice.
28:21That's what you dug out of the...
28:24Really encouraging.
28:25Smith Creek will have
28:26bigger gold than that.
28:28Are you saying you want
28:30to fund the mine next year?
28:31I fund it for 50% of the gold.
28:34We get all of it.
28:36I'll take it.
28:38I come out here,
28:40and I've done my job.
28:43Parker banks just half
28:44of his gold,
28:46but convinces his grandpa
28:47enough to edge him
28:49to the top of the leaderboard.
28:52Parker's dropped points
28:54give Rick Ness...
28:56I just don't know
28:57what to do anymore.
28:57I mean, we've exhausted
28:58all the fog ground.
29:00But with just days
29:01of sluicing left,
29:03Rick face shut down,
29:0527 ounces short
29:07of his 1,000-ounce gold.
29:10To find a solution,
29:12Rick...
29:12Overburden is.
29:12That's where the bedrock came up,
29:14and that's where
29:15all the best drill holes were,
29:16and it is where
29:17we did our best gold.
29:19You're up against time.
29:21Yeah, it.
29:22Let's do it.
29:23I'll jump on that D9
29:24and give it my best shot.
29:26Rick's last gasp gamble,
29:28but it's frozen
29:29and needs to be ripped
29:31to get to the pay dirt.
29:33All he's got
29:34is a small D9...
29:36...much, but we've got to give it.
29:37Rick promised me
29:38it was going to do
29:38the 1,000 ounces.
29:44Oh, that ain't good.
29:46It's overheating really bad.
29:49The radiator's got a hole
29:50in it somewhere.
29:52Yeah.
29:52The D9's radiator
29:54has blown,
29:55putting it down
29:56for the season.
29:57What I was thinking was,
29:58you know, I don't know,
29:58I mean, we use Seamus' 475.
30:00We've got to make
30:01the decision, I guess.
30:02I mean, that's up to you
30:03what you want to do.
30:04But I don't really want
30:05to pay $6,000
30:06for that 475.
30:08Fianti,
30:09and rent the monster
30:10475 dozer
30:12he used
30:13at the start of the season.
30:14Oh, that's really obvious.
30:16The drip share
30:16is going to take me
30:17probably about an hour
30:18to get this thing ripped up,
30:19and then we'll push
30:20it all off again.
30:24Within three hours,
30:25the cut is ripped.
30:27This is it, guys.
30:29This is our, uh,
30:30roll of the dice.
30:31We're at Reynolds.
30:32And desperate for gold,
30:35Rick starts sluicing.
30:38I want to make sure
30:39we get all the dirt.
30:40We're going to run it anyways.
30:42Three days later,
30:44Rick's managed to sluice
30:45his Hail Mary cut
30:47and is ready.
30:48Oh, yeah!
30:49About time, Rick.
30:50Can you believe
30:50it's been six months?
30:51So, Carla,
30:52where did we end up with
30:53on the last gold wave?
30:55We're at 973.
30:561,000-ounce gold.
30:57Might be in that jar.
30:59I think it's time
30:59to find out.
31:02Looking good.
31:04Yeah.
31:06Those are 27 ounces.
31:11The final gold
31:14weigh 132.49 ounces.
31:17You know what that means?
31:18Oh, we're over 1,100.
31:22Are you glad
31:24we stuck around now?
31:26That's awesome!
31:31Rick blasts
31:33past his season goal
31:34by over 100
31:36at the end
31:37of the rookie
31:38Mindboss showdown.
31:42There's only one winner.
31:44First-year Mindboss.
31:46Yeah, Rick!
31:46Yeah!
31:47Yeah!
31:47You guys are
31:52to cause me
31:53to lose everything,
31:54but that didn't happen.
31:56I'm on such a high,
31:57like, you know,
31:58the first season
31:59on my own
31:59was a success.
32:00I know.
32:00I know.
32:01You guys are
32:03out
32:04and maybe
32:07here's
32:09what else?
32:10Yeah.
32:11Okay.
32:11You're
32:12right.
32:13Oh!
32:14Yeah!
32:15Right.
32:16Bye.
32:16Bye.
32:17Bye.
32:18Bye.
32:18Bye.
32:18Bye.
32:19Bye.
32:19Bye.
32:20Bye.
32:20Bye.
32:21Bye.
32:22Bye.
32:22Bye.
32:24Bye.
32:25Bye.
32:27Bye.
32:28Bye.
32:29Bye.
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