🏘️ Gold Rush (2010) - Season 16 Episode 23
When the season winds down, every ounce counts. In Episode 23 "The Final Wash", the crews face their last major opportunity to hit their season goals before the weather shuts them down. With equipment pushed to its limits, crews working around the clock, and the pressure to deliver heavier than ever, one final push could mean the difference between profit and loss. Who will strike it rich in the final hours... and who will walk away empty-handed?
🔹 Episode Highlights:
• Season-end urgency: crews race against time and weather to maximize their yield
• Equipment intensity: machinery pushed to the limit in a final all-or-nothing effort
• Gold count drama: the moment of truth as crews weigh their final haul
• Personal stakes: miners reflect on the season's sacrifices, successes, and lessons learned
• Signature Gold Rush grit: determination, danger & unforgettable reality TV moments
🔹 Series Info:
• Format: Reality TV / Mining Documentary / Adventure Serial
• Original Network: Discovery Channel (US) / Discovery+ / International Syndication
• Series Launch: 2010 | Season: 16 | Episode: 23 | Title: "The Final Wash"
• Setting: Yukon, Alaska, & Other Mining Locations | Language: English
• Runtime: ~42-45 minutes (full) | Clip/Highlight version: ~10-15 min
🎧 Prefer audio? Listen to Gold Rush recaps & adventure podcasts on Spotify, Apple Podcasts.
👉 Enjoying the series? Hit LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and comment: "Which crew earned their gold this episode? 👇" Turn on notifications 🔔 for the Season Finale!
#ShowTVMovies #GoldRush #DiscoveryChannel #TheFinalWash #S16E23 #MiningReality #BingeWatch #GoldMining #AdventureTV #YukonLife
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When the season winds down, every ounce counts. In Episode 23 "The Final Wash", the crews face their last major opportunity to hit their season goals before the weather shuts them down. With equipment pushed to its limits, crews working around the clock, and the pressure to deliver heavier than ever, one final push could mean the difference between profit and loss. Who will strike it rich in the final hours... and who will walk away empty-handed?
🔹 Episode Highlights:
• Season-end urgency: crews race against time and weather to maximize their yield
• Equipment intensity: machinery pushed to the limit in a final all-or-nothing effort
• Gold count drama: the moment of truth as crews weigh their final haul
• Personal stakes: miners reflect on the season's sacrifices, successes, and lessons learned
• Signature Gold Rush grit: determination, danger & unforgettable reality TV moments
🔹 Series Info:
• Format: Reality TV / Mining Documentary / Adventure Serial
• Original Network: Discovery Channel (US) / Discovery+ / International Syndication
• Series Launch: 2010 | Season: 16 | Episode: 23 | Title: "The Final Wash"
• Setting: Yukon, Alaska, & Other Mining Locations | Language: English
• Runtime: ~42-45 minutes (full) | Clip/Highlight version: ~10-15 min
🎧 Prefer audio? Listen to Gold Rush recaps & adventure podcasts on Spotify, Apple Podcasts.
👉 Enjoying the series? Hit LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and comment: "Which crew earned their gold this episode? 👇" Turn on notifications 🔔 for the Season Finale!
#ShowTVMovies #GoldRush #DiscoveryChannel #TheFinalWash #S16E23 #MiningReality #BingeWatch #GoldMining #AdventureTV #YukonLife
⚠️ Copyright Disclaimer: This video is shared for promotional, review, and informational purposes only. All rights to "Gold Rush" belong to Discovery Communications, Raw TV, and associated producers. This upload complies with Fair Use guidelines (Section 107, U.S. Copyright Act). No copyright infringement intended.
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00:00:15I
00:00:17Hi
00:00:24So hmm fists or knives
00:00:39So what's new?
00:00:40That's the end of the season. It seems like a lot of airmen, you know, it's a short season up
00:00:44there.
00:00:45Yeah, but what an awesome year to be mining.
00:00:48What a time to be alive, pal. I mean, f*** almighty.
00:00:51Prices are good.
00:00:52I don't know where it's at today. What, $4,000? It's not even normal.
00:00:57I know.
00:01:00You're finding some gold?
00:01:01Yeah.
00:01:02That's good.
00:01:03Yeah.
00:01:04Well, how much have you got?
00:01:08Me?
00:01:10Well, I'm the oldest. I should go last.
00:01:14We just hit ten.
00:01:17Guy was so dead. We hit ten, too.
00:01:22Nice.
00:01:26I can't have you finding more than us.
00:01:29Oh, really?
00:01:31That's a lot of gold. That's a lot of gold.
00:01:34It's impressive.
00:01:37Where you're at, was your total?
00:01:39It's true for $1,800, and we're about $400 or short right now.
00:01:45Yeah, well...
00:01:45Guy could get a fair buck, an operation like yours, if you could sell.
00:01:55Um...
00:01:55Well, I mean, as of right now, I definitely want to see how the season ends, but...
00:01:59I'm considering it.
00:02:01Let's give us a call.
00:02:03What, Tony trying to buy you out?
00:02:05No, I'll offer, yeah.
00:02:10Uh...
00:02:10He came and visited me.
00:02:12Oh.
00:02:13Oh, good, wow.
00:02:17Well, see, the difference between Tony and I is Tony really likes to do good deals, and I love doing
00:02:21bad deals.
00:02:21So, if you are ever serious about selling, give me a call.
00:02:25Not to try to invade your guys' deal, but ground is hard to find, and it's worth a huge premium
00:02:30right now.
00:02:31Everybody's looking.
00:02:33There's a lot of people that say, oh, well, you know, the nice thing about this business is it's not
00:02:36competitive.
00:02:38The three of us know what it is.
00:02:40Yes, sirree.
00:02:45Anyway.
00:02:47Gentlemen, have a nice day.
00:02:49All right, Tony.
00:02:51It's good to see you, man.
00:02:52Absolutely.
00:02:53Have a good fall.
00:02:53Yeah, you too.
00:02:54Enjoy your winter if I don't see you again.
00:02:55Oh, yeah.
00:02:56You too.
00:03:01I figured Tony was having a good year, but I didn't think it was going to be that good.
00:03:07He's a bit ahead of me, but we'll see what happens.
00:03:15Those guys are killing it on the gold, you know, and the offers.
00:03:19It's good to know there's options there.
00:03:21I don't know what to do.
00:03:23I, you know, it's going to come down to my total.
00:03:26If I hit my gold this year, man, I want to go in on my own terms.
00:03:30I feel like just selling out is not the way I want to go, but you never know.
00:03:35You know, money talks and results speak for themselves.
00:03:38I don't know.
00:04:09we've had a hell of a season gold-wise we've hit our goal the big priority now is just getting
00:04:18every last ounce we can while prices are like this yeah it's pretty cool 31 year old mining
00:04:27mogul Parker Schnabel is running through the finish line gold prices are at an absolute
00:04:35all-time high they have $4,000 announced today which is very very cool it's a good time to be
00:04:44gold miner and have a lot of wash plants running we got four wash plants running Parker is already
00:04:51breaking records this season with over 40 million dollars in gold banked but he's determined to catch
00:05:00former mentor Tony beats who is leading by 120 ounces bit of a bummer that Tony is a bit ahead
00:05:10of me we've been on top for a long time it's getting cold and who knows how much longer we've
00:05:16got frost
00:05:17will probably cut us off from being able to keep plants running but we're gonna finish strong we'll
00:05:24give her one last good push right now and see what we come up with hey guys how's it going
00:05:31thanks for
00:05:33coming to join me no worries what's going on I just wanted to give you guys a little update on
00:05:41what
00:05:42needs to get done where where have you been I call a meeting and you're late for the final push
00:06:01Parker's depending on his top lieutenants Mitch Blaschke Tyson Lee and Brennan rule thank you for
00:06:09getting us to the end here hit our 10,000 right yeah like sick yeah pretty wild no doubt yeah
00:06:19what's
00:06:20the plan now I want to just make sure that we finish strong here like despite you know we hit
00:06:26the goal
00:06:26but um Tony this spring told me that his goal was like six or seven thousand and he's over ten
00:06:32thousand
00:06:33oh and you know me well enough to know how much I hate losing
00:06:39so I think you really have to turn your feet race up and all that jazz that's mandatory
00:06:47at Dominion I mean we need to get those pay piles hammered out yeah they're still pretty big
00:06:54Mitch keep Roxanne running and that stripping project is the main priority
00:07:00and Brennan just whatever these guys need yeah there's not a lot of tolerance for screw-ups or delays
00:07:10if there's ever a time to push extra late now's the time
00:07:14yeah it would just go until either weather shuts us down or every plant's out of pay
00:07:19one of the two
00:07:22let's go do some solution yeah perfect yeah let's get her done thank you guys
00:07:25thank you at Parker's flagship Dominion claim Tyson must loose the last of the golden miles stockpiled pay
00:07:40through wash plants big red and golden goose and with Bob in the bridge cut mine as much of the
00:07:49the remaining thirty acres as possible ten miles south at Parker's least ground Kennan Stewart's
00:07:58Mitch must run the pay from the last two acres of pit two with wash plant Roxanne and remove the
00:08:07final four acres of worthless overburden from a new cut for next season all before winter freezes them out
00:08:26right now we're at 26 on our adjuster here all of a sudden you put that at 40
00:08:34look at how fast that dirt's coming off that belt
00:08:39I've got the yardage cranked as fast as Roxanne can run trying to get it done as fast as possible
00:08:44there's so much to do here to finish off the sluicing we have to do plus get all that mud
00:08:51removed for next
00:08:52season I don't know if this is even remotely close to possible but I'm gonna try
00:09:02this year my workload has pretty much tripled it's been a struggle at times right now at golden goose we've
00:09:11increased the feed rate 250 yards an hour which only puts more pressure on us the weather's gonna
00:09:18really start freezing on us any day now and I know everyone wants to go home but you can't go
00:09:23home
00:09:24until this pile is complete we're gonna be sluicing to the bitter end
00:09:54I like are you ready I'm always ready good
00:09:58Good, good.
00:09:58You're going to move this plan?
00:10:00Yeah.
00:10:00Get it the out of here.
00:10:02We have, what, a week left in the season.
00:10:04We were lucky.
00:10:04Yeah.
00:10:05And we're going to need that down there to beat Parker.
00:10:07OK, let's go.
00:10:09OK, man.
00:10:09Bingo.
00:10:10Let's get the show on the road.
00:10:13Johnny, shut her down, Dylan.
00:10:25Everybody wants to go home.
00:10:26But you know what?
00:10:29Sucks to be there.
00:10:30A drop is a drop, and a finish is finished.
00:10:33If I'm not finished by a long shot,
00:10:35the gold prize is absolutely just awesome.
00:10:39I mean, they're this guy and have a chance of a life sign.
00:10:46Tony Beats' gold fever is relentless.
00:10:51After blasting past his season target,
00:10:53he now has a new goal locked in his sights.
00:10:58Secure his crown as king of the Klondike.
00:11:05Parker, he seems to be right on my heels.
00:11:08So we'll just see on the end of the day
00:11:10who lands up on top this time.
00:11:15We made one more move for the season.
00:11:18Most lose a lot.
00:11:20Put it back into the early bird cut.
00:11:23If I'm going to go beat Parker, we will be sluicing away at four boxes,
00:11:2824 hours a day.
00:11:31To stay ahead of Parker,
00:11:33Tony is matching his former protégé's four-plant final push.
00:11:41At his Paradise Hill operation,
00:11:43Tony has tasked son Mike with finishing stockpiles at his Trommel and Harold washplants.
00:11:5240 miles south at Indian River,
00:11:55his twin shaker decks,
00:11:57sluice-a-lot and find-a-lot,
00:11:59are in the 46-acre corner cut.
00:12:03But after two months of nonstop running,
00:12:07the mammoth cut only has enough pay left to run one plant.
00:12:13To keep both sluicing,
00:12:16Tony needs to move sluice-a-lot upstream,
00:12:19back to where he started the season,
00:12:21at a new three-acre extension of his early bird cut.
00:12:30Everything is hooked up. Everything is ready.
00:12:32And off we go.
00:12:50So far, so good.
00:12:51The plant is following good.
00:12:54A couple of corners,
00:12:56a couple of hills.
00:12:58Nothing we haven't done before,
00:13:00but we still got to get on it and make it work.
00:13:05It's nice to keep this up.
00:13:07We'll be putting some rocks in there tonight.
00:13:09This will be good.
00:13:11The guys are in the cut.
00:13:13They'd rather be f***ing ready.
00:13:17Stakes are extra high with the price of gold at the moment.
00:13:20At the new early bird extension,
00:13:23Tony's crew run full throttle
00:13:26to get the cut ready before sluice-a-lot arrives.
00:13:31There is a bit of a race this season
00:13:33between Tony and Parker
00:13:34to see who can get the most gold.
00:13:39Obviously, I'm rooting for the king of the Klondike.
00:13:41I'm team Tony all the way.
00:13:43I mean, of course.
00:13:46I wouldn't say that Tony's going to keep that title this year.
00:13:49I'd say Parker's going to win that one.
00:13:52He's going to have it in the bag.
00:13:54Up here where we're dumping, it's super soft,
00:13:57and we're almost getting stuck.
00:14:00But we've got to get it done.
00:14:01We've got to get sluicing.
00:14:03They're moving sluice-a-lot.
00:14:17That truck over there, Tony.
00:14:20Truck over there.
00:14:22On the dog's head.
00:14:23I'll go have a look.
00:14:26Where the f***?
00:14:27Who the f*** was that smart?
00:14:28Yeah, I hear you.
00:14:31Who was driving that truck?
00:14:34I was.
00:14:36Tony's going to be passed.
00:14:48You people are stupid.
00:14:51Rock truck driver Scott Easley has flipped his box at Tony's early bird cut extension.
00:14:59The bank gave way and then the thing just slowly went.
00:15:03I tried to put it in the drive and get going and it was too late.
00:15:10Slusalot is less than a mile away and coming in fast.
00:15:16Final stress here.
00:15:18So I get there on the radio, another rock truck clip.
00:15:21So Tony's there giving a hand. We can't afford any more downtime.
00:15:26Winter is coming and we want to get to that goal as soon as possible.
00:15:34Get over there Dalton.
00:15:40I'll whip the over.
00:15:42You'll take the hole over?
00:15:44I'll flip the truck over.
00:15:45OK, copy Tony.
00:15:55If these people pay attention, you wouldn't have this .
00:15:58Just when you think you've seen it all.
00:16:01OK, let's grab the thing, flip it over.
00:16:15There you go.
00:16:16Yeah, there you go.
00:16:20So the new path is in sight.
00:16:22The road ahead looks pretty good.
00:16:27There you go.
00:16:28Get that truck.
00:16:28Sorry, Tony.
00:16:30Now pay attention.
00:16:34Thank God I ain't tired.
00:16:36When Tony ran up, I thought I was a dead man.
00:16:41Oh, .
00:16:42It's loose a lot in here.
00:16:44Get the out of the way.
00:16:45Get that other rough truck dad out of the way.
00:16:49Mike D, copy.
00:16:51All trucks are gone.
00:16:52You should be good.
00:16:55Climb up this last little hill.
00:16:58We're on the path.
00:16:59I just gotta make sure to get as close to the end as possible.
00:17:09Hey, just turn around.
00:17:11Give it a half a turn.
00:17:14Keep it around.
00:17:15Keep it around.
00:17:16Keep it around.
00:17:16Keep it around.
00:17:17Keep it around.
00:17:17Keep it around.
00:17:24Perfect.
00:17:25There we go.
00:17:26Tony gave me the sign that it's good.
00:17:32Now we got two, three guys coming in.
00:17:34Drag that hose over.
00:17:36Get the excavator over there.
00:17:37Hook up the hose.
00:17:39Drive the gen set beside it.
00:17:41Bingo.
00:17:41Done.
00:17:47I'll fire the plant up.
00:17:49And we'll be back this losing.
00:17:56All right.
00:17:57We've got the thumbs up.
00:17:59Off we go.
00:18:01Tony is back to four plants running in his push for mining supremacy.
00:18:08I think it'd be hard for Parker to compete.
00:18:10I think everyone who works here has seen how much we've moved this season.
00:18:14And we have no doubt.
00:18:16Tony is the king of the Klondike.
00:18:21I gotta remember to get Parker a present.
00:18:25I'm number one, buddy.
00:18:43There's quite a bit of pressure right now.
00:18:46The plants ran out of pay.
00:18:49Still no burden.
00:18:50I'm trying to get him to pay as quick as we can.
00:18:54This is one of the worst spots I've ever been in.
00:18:57You gotta get back on that goal.
00:18:58You gotta do it quick.
00:18:59I know the guys are nervous.
00:19:01I'm nervous.
00:19:03Winter will soon freeze all the miners out.
00:19:06But unlike others, Rick Ness' future is on a knife's edge.
00:19:12It's been a tough year.
00:19:13There's no doubt about it.
00:19:14These guys have fought through a lot of s**t that we shouldn't have to fight through.
00:19:20We're 420 ounces shy of our goal yet.
00:19:22And that's a lot.
00:19:23That's a lot of ounces to get.
00:19:25And we don't have a whole lot of time to do it.
00:19:27In a chaotic season of uncertainty and major missteps, Rick gambled a million dollars mining a massive new cut, only
00:19:38to get no gold.
00:19:40And that was a big debacle.
00:19:42A huge waste of money and time.
00:19:44People are hoping that I'm panicking.
00:19:46The vultures are circling right now, but I'm not panicking yet.
00:19:49Buyout offers from big shots Tony and Parker have come in.
00:19:55I've been offered a seven-figure amount for this, and it's a lot.
00:20:00But it's tough to ignore.
00:20:02Maybe it's time to go.
00:20:05But if we hit our goal or get past it, and then the profits can continue to get better, why
00:20:10would I leave?
00:20:13Now, as Rick's crew fight to dig out the final ten feet to hit pay in the last chance cut,
00:20:21he's got a risky Hail Mary plan to get more gold fast.
00:20:27It's going to be a fight.
00:20:28But with these guys all in on it, I know we can get it.
00:20:36What's going on, guys?
00:20:37What's going on?
00:20:37What's up?
00:20:40I just want to thank you guys.
00:20:41You guys have been doing a hell of a job.
00:20:44That being said, I know you're all tired from it and giving it all you've got, but we're still way
00:20:48off from our target, and that would be devastating if we're short.
00:20:54The gold would be in that dirt for sure, but I think it's going to come right down to the
00:20:58bitter end.
00:21:00We're running out of time, so I think we need to give a little more, and I think we need
00:21:03to get back to Lightning Creek.
00:21:06One last push down there.
00:21:11Yeah, that gold wasn't that good to begin with.
00:21:14Yeah, but it was picking up at the end.
00:21:16What if we do another clean out here and we're short?
00:21:19If we pull another 50 ounces from there, I mean, that's big.
00:21:23I mean, you guys got to stay, get Monster Red running, that's the priority, but we need everything we can
00:21:28get.
00:21:30The way it's set up down there, you know, we get going right away.
00:21:33Yeah.
00:21:34We're almost at the end, and let's just push a little harder, we're going to be there, right?
00:21:37Yep.
00:21:38All right.
00:21:42Early in the season, Rick bought new ground at Lightning Creek.
00:21:47Let's do it.
00:21:48All right.
00:21:51After a shaky start, the gold improved.
00:21:5550.4.
00:21:56Yeah, that's way better than the last time.
00:21:58I got some news.
00:21:58Then, a six-month license extension to mine Duncan Creek came in.
00:22:04We got a water license.
00:22:05Yeah.
00:22:08Rick abandoned Lightning Creek.
00:22:10Shut down Lightning Creek.
00:22:11We're moving back to Vegas Valley.
00:22:13Sounds good to me, man.
00:22:17Now, he wants to squeeze another 50 ounces from Lightning Creek to help get him over the line.
00:22:27I hope this move's going to be worth it in Lightning, but, you know, we won't know until we start
00:22:32running some dirt.
00:22:33If we do reach that 1800, my mind's going to be blown because with all the struggles we've had this
00:22:38year.
00:22:40Since I've joined Rick, it's always been a push, it's always been a gamble.
00:22:43And in Rick fashion, we are swinging for the fence again at the end of the year.
00:22:51While the stripping crew battle on in the last chance cut, Rick and Kai head eight miles north to Lightning
00:22:59Creek to sluice a leftover pay pile with wash plant Rocky.
00:23:05Everything should be good to go.
00:23:07We got enough pay up there right now to start off the plant.
00:23:11All right.
00:23:12This hokey old thing.
00:23:14All right, let me give this thing a shot here.
00:23:17Come on, you old girl.
00:23:33Let's go.
00:23:34Here we go.
00:23:35Let's go.
00:23:40We got water, we got power, and the shaker deck's moving, so.
00:23:43Time to throw some dirt at it and get some gold.
00:23:48Water.
00:23:52There we go.
00:23:57Oh, hell yeah.
00:24:00Rocky sluicing, Rick is one step closer to pulling off his double plant plan and banking the 420 ounces he
00:24:10needs.
00:24:11Everything looks good.
00:24:26No way.
00:24:28Oh .
00:24:30You got to be kidding me.
00:24:33What happened?
00:24:38.
00:24:39.
00:24:39.
00:24:39.
00:24:40.
00:24:40.
00:24:40.
00:24:40.
00:24:41.
00:24:43.
00:24:44.
00:24:51Well, look at this.
00:24:52It's still smoking.
00:24:55.
00:24:58.
00:24:59.
00:25:04Well, I don't know.
00:25:06At Lightning Creek, the feed pump for Rick Ness' wash plant, Rocky, has failed.
00:25:14Pumping the belt.
00:25:18That's the belt that drives the cooling system.
00:25:19That's why the thing's smoking, because it's overheating.
00:25:22This tension should not be that loose.
00:25:24That's what holds tension on the belt, right?
00:25:26So when it's loose, it just hops, hops, hops, and that belt just rips.
00:25:29And then it stopped cooling, so then it overheated.
00:25:32This thing just shot to hell.
00:25:34She's toast.
00:25:36Rick's desperate push to get two plants running is over before it even started.
00:25:44Very quick, very catastrophic end to the day.
00:25:47Got half a bucket through that thing.
00:25:48I mean, that's something worth getting out of bed for.
00:25:50Now, his only hope for 420 ounces lies in the last chance cut and getting Monster Red sluicing.
00:26:00Well, that's pretty f***ing.
00:26:02Sad showing.
00:26:03The last chance cut.
00:26:04That's what we have to do.
00:26:06The goal will be there.
00:26:07It's just whether or not we can get at it.
00:26:09Well, hopefully it's enough.
00:26:26It's getting cold and people are wore out.
00:26:30It's just been a long season for everybody.
00:26:32The overarching theme for me is doing everything we can to find as much gold as we can.
00:26:39One hundred miles west, with four wash plants going full tilt, Parker is within striking distance of Tony's Gold Hall.
00:26:52It puts a huge amount of pressure on keeping wash plants running.
00:26:56It just consumes my thoughts now.
00:26:59In the Golden Mile, Golden Goose and Big Red power through the pay piles at a combined season max of
00:27:10500 yards an hour.
00:27:12I'm doing pretty good down here at Big Red.
00:27:17I'm doing my best to get through as much as I can.
00:27:38What the f*** is going on up here?
00:27:43Oh, yeah.
00:27:45My shaker deck shut off.
00:27:51Oh, you b***.
00:28:00Oh, I'm out of breath.
00:28:03The shaker deck stopped.
00:28:07Nothing's f***ing working.
00:28:10Alec, Liam, do you got a copy?
00:28:13Yeah, go ahead.
00:28:14Hey, man.
00:28:15My shaker deck shut off and I need you guys up here right now.
00:28:19Oh, okay.
00:28:20Yeah, we're on our way.
00:28:22Thanks, buddy.
00:28:24f*** me.
00:28:26Oh, I'm sick of this f***.
00:28:30Oh, the calvary's arrived.
00:28:38We replaced the motor a couple months ago, so that should still be good.
00:28:44Holy.
00:28:46When was the last time this was open?
00:28:49I think the feed conveyor is the shaker now because that's the motor wires there.
00:28:53Oh, what?
00:28:54I'm imagining the shaker contactor malfunctioned or broke.
00:28:58And that's why we're running this backup feed conveyor one.
00:29:01It's been hours.
00:29:02Now this guy has probably failed.
00:29:08What's going on, guys?
00:29:11We're not able to get the shaker motor going.
00:29:13Seriously?
00:29:14Yeah.
00:29:15Something in our contact wreck here is malfunctioning.
00:29:18It's not letting power go from here to here.
00:29:23Can't sluice without it.
00:29:26Well, do you guys think we have one?
00:29:28No.
00:29:29We don't have any replacement parts or any contactors that look like this in stock.
00:29:34F*** sakes, man.
00:29:36I'll go and find Parker.
00:29:41We can't go home until the Golden Mile is sluiced.
00:29:44Without Big Red, I don't think it's going to happen.
00:29:47Parker's not going to be happy.
00:29:53How's it going?
00:29:54What's going on?
00:29:56Big Red's contactor, essentially the starter for the shaker deck, just s*** the bed.
00:30:02F***.
00:30:03There's no real solution for it.
00:30:08F***.
00:30:09We don't have one, huh?
00:30:11No.
00:30:14And with the weather the way it is, if we lose the night, we're screwed.
00:30:19I'll get one as quick as we can.
00:30:22I'm going to have to hunt down Jack, so I'll get him in the air.
00:30:26Okay.
00:30:27And we'll have one by the end of the day.
00:30:30Maybe.
00:30:31If it doesn't look like we can get one tonight, then...
00:30:35Frost Fighters on the sluice runs.
00:30:36Good s***.
00:30:37It's a nightmare.
00:30:39All right.
00:30:40Sounds good.
00:30:40Thanks.
00:30:48To Whitehorse, it's a seven, eight-hour drive each way.
00:30:53Jack's an hour and a half to Whitehorse and an hour and a half back, so the plane is paying
00:30:58for itself on runs like this.
00:31:00Parker owns a Cessna 172 and employs a pilot full-time.
00:31:07Jack fills his time when he's not flying with...
00:31:11running an excavator, and he is right here.
00:31:23Big Red's down for some electrical part.
00:31:25They have one in Whitehorse.
00:31:27Can you fly down and grab it?
00:31:28Yeah.
00:31:28Okay, perfect.
00:31:29Time is of the essence.
00:31:30Can you spin up there now?
00:31:31Sure.
00:31:32Perfect.
00:31:33I'll try to get down to Whitehorse, grab that part, and get back up as fast as I can.
00:31:47We'll get it slammed in and get the plant back up and running.
00:31:50If we don't get it back here tonight, we're in trouble.
00:32:05Is that enough?
00:32:07Yeah.
00:32:09We've got to run a little bit of water.
00:32:11The gold might shift a bit, but we can't let Big Red freeze right now.
00:32:17Parker Schnabel's wash plant, Big Red, is down with an electrical failure.
00:32:23If it doesn't fire up before nightfall, it will freeze.
00:32:28This is about the worst time Big Red could have bet on us.
00:32:32Hopefully, Jack can get us the part here in no time.
00:32:35Parker's crew are praying for a replacement part to be flown in from Whitehorse, 300 miles away.
00:32:44Guess we play the waiting game now.
00:32:53Is that an airplane right here?
00:32:55I think so.
00:32:56Is that Jack?
00:32:58Yeah, Jack?
00:33:00There we go!
00:33:18You got the goods?
00:33:19Got the goods.
00:33:21Hopefully, that's the right one.
00:33:23Sick.
00:33:24Thank you, Jack.
00:33:25I'll see you later.
00:33:26You're a lifesaver.
00:33:38Oh, man.
00:33:39Woo!
00:33:40He's got it.
00:33:40Our savior.
00:33:42That's awesome.
00:33:43Wicked.
00:33:44Thank you so much.
00:33:44No worries.
00:33:46Let me know when you get it back up and running.
00:33:48Yeah, buddy.
00:33:48All right.
00:33:49Thanks, guys.
00:33:50Let's get this new guy hung and see if we can get this plant shaken again.
00:33:53Perfect.
00:33:54This is so crusty.
00:33:56Oh.
00:33:57Don't break anything.
00:34:01Okay.
00:34:03That's our new part installed.
00:34:04Sweet.
00:34:05Yeah, let's do it.
00:34:10Moment of truth here.
00:34:11See what happens.
00:34:27Nice work, fellas.
00:34:29Nice work, fellas.
00:34:30Beautiful sight, isn't it?
00:34:32Thank God.
00:34:35Parker was able to pull it off.
00:34:37We got Big Red back up and running.
00:34:39So all we have to do is finish off the last bit of pay and go home.
00:34:57If everything does go belly up, I can actually hear Tony.
00:35:02Sucks to be you.
00:35:07Though I think deep down, even though they don't say it, they'd be pretty heartbroken that I
00:35:12wasn't able to make it happen.
00:35:15While dad Tony battles for mining supremacy, eldest son Kevin Beetz is in deep trouble.
00:35:27What separates me from Tony is just more planning and foresight, less smashy-smashy.
00:35:37But Tony did pull out 10,000 ounces this year, so he's doing something right.
00:35:43Unlike his swashbuckling old man, all season, the sophomore mine boss has been sluicing slow
00:35:51and steady to protect his equipment and only wash plan.
00:35:55But low risk has delivered low rewards, leaving Kevin nearly 800 ounces short of his 2,000-ounce
00:36:04goal.
00:36:07That's a big number for us because we need that to come back next year.
00:36:10That covers all our costs.
00:36:11That gets us enough to get started next year.
00:36:13And if we don't have that, we're running on fumes.
00:36:21So we're going to fight and we're going to make it happen.
00:36:26Turn the up.
00:36:35Look at it flying in there.
00:36:37Kevin's Hail Mary plan?
00:36:39Turn up his wash plant speed for the first time this season.
00:36:44From 100 to 150 yards per hour, in the hope he can get through his sphinx gut pay pile before
00:36:52winter freezes him out.
00:36:55Hopefully that'll put us on the fast track to 2,000 ounces.
00:37:00We got it turned up, so we're just slamming the pay in there.
00:37:05Chelsea March keeps pace with the turned up plant.
00:37:09We've got a pretty big pay pile to get through.
00:37:12I don't know if we're going to have enough time to run all this pay through before the
00:37:16end of the season, honestly.
00:37:18So, yeah, we just have to sluice as much as we possibly can and run through this pay.
00:37:33Looks like we've lost water to the plant.
00:37:36Hey, Tyler, there's no water at the plant.
00:37:39I'm going to shut it down.
00:37:40Okay, 10-4.
00:37:53Yeah, no, the pump's smoking.
00:37:54The pump's smoking.
00:37:56Holy s***.
00:37:59Copy, Kevin?
00:38:01Yeah, you got to get down here.
00:38:02The pump's on fire.
00:38:03The pump is on fire.
00:38:05That is a lot of smoke coming out of there right now.
00:38:25Oh, oh, I shouldn't have touched that.
00:38:27Ah, ah.
00:38:29What the f***?
00:38:34Don't touch that here.
00:38:35That's also hot.
00:38:36Okay.
00:38:39Well.
00:38:43So our f***ing return fuel lines, and it looks like the f***ing injectors, too.
00:38:48Kevin's last-ditch plant has backfired.
00:38:52When he turned up the plant, he increased his pump's water pressure to deal with the extra
00:38:58dirt.
00:38:58The added workload has blown the pump's fuel lines and injectors.
00:39:03This kind of puts us dead in the water until we can fix it, find a replacement or something.
00:39:10You know, so close to the end.
00:39:14Can't f***ing stop now, though.
00:39:16So, I will go bug Faith and see if she can do the magic that she do.
00:39:21Because, yeah, if not, well, that's it.
00:39:23We're f***ing done.
00:39:41Hey, Grace.
00:39:42Hey.
00:39:45How's it going?
00:39:47Uh, the pump has basically gone f***ing bluey.
00:39:51Uh.
00:39:51Oh, f***.
00:39:53Okay.
00:39:54Um.
00:39:56And you, I'm guessing you can't fix it.
00:39:59I know the last time we tried to get similar f***ing parts, there was at least a two-week
00:40:03f***ing venture, so.
00:40:04And with the time we have left, I don't think that's going to work.
00:40:08Or we could try.
00:40:10Asking Tony, see what he says.
00:40:14Yeah, don't really like to go back to the old man.
00:40:18I'd rather if we fail on our own than just keep getting help.
00:40:24It is close to the end of season.
00:40:27Chances are someone's selling him a pump.
00:40:29Yeah.
00:40:30Yeah.
00:40:31I'll reach out to a couple miners that I know around the area.
00:40:36Yeah.
00:40:37Well, I'll go, yeah, redirect the troops if you want to get on that, and f***ing that.
00:40:43Best of luck, man.
00:40:44You as well.
00:40:49Oh, f***ing sucks.
00:40:54Really hopes you can pull something out of the f***ing ether.
00:40:58If I don't get the pump, I don't know if we're going to be able to come back.
00:41:01I'm a bit worried.
00:41:03This is Kevin's dream.
00:41:05This is our dream, to run the business ourselves.
00:41:10Hopefully we get to keep on with this dream.
00:41:20So, I got my fingers crossed.
00:41:23At Scribner Creek, Kevin's fight for survival relies on partner Faith finding a new pump for his wash plant.
00:41:33Got good news?
00:41:35The neighbor is shutting down.
00:41:36Yes.
00:41:37We have a pump right there.
00:41:38That's very nice.
00:41:40Yes.
00:41:40I assume we're first in line?
00:41:42Yes.
00:41:43Well, at least we have to run right now to go get it.
00:41:45What a f***ing hell.
00:41:47All right.
00:41:47Okay, I'm guessing you're going to go deal with the money part?
00:41:50Yes.
00:41:51I should go grab it?
00:41:52Yes.
00:41:53All right, sounds good.
00:41:53Let's do that.
00:41:59New pump on site.
00:42:02Kevin tasks Buzz Lago.
00:42:04Gavin, let's hook that first.
00:42:06With lifting the old one out and new one into position.
00:42:12You know, everybody's been busting their asses off around here this season, trying to make things happen so you can
00:42:19hit that season goal.
00:42:22And then this big head and pop goes.
00:42:25This is quite a heart wrench.
00:42:28Hopefully everything works out.
00:42:31All right.
00:42:32Let's fire it up.
00:42:41I can see it from here.
00:42:42We got water.
00:42:44Means pump is working.
00:42:46She's flowing all the way over there.
00:42:49Listen how nice that sounds.
00:42:53Very nice.
00:42:55Back to getting some gold.
00:42:56F*** yeah.
00:42:59Oh, beauty.
00:43:17Hello, hello.
00:43:19It's running again.
00:43:20Yay.
00:43:23Oh my God.
00:43:24And with the pay file, we can at least get through it now.
00:43:27You saved the day, Faith.
00:43:31Faith, if you're finding that bump is running lovely, we can finally get through our pay mountain.
00:43:36Plants all turned up.
00:43:38I think it's a good f***ing day.
00:44:01You're finally on pay, boys.
00:44:04Start making that stockpile.
00:44:06Well, hot diggity dog.
00:44:08Oh, f***ing time.
00:44:11In the last chance cut, the Ness crew have finally hit pay and now must sluice nonstop to have any
00:44:20hope of reaching their 1,800-ounce goal.
00:44:25We're way too close to the end of the season to be sitting at 400 and some ounces shy of
00:44:30our goal.
00:44:31It's going to come down right for the last f***ing day.
00:44:33Just go right on top.
00:44:35The crew hustled to build a stockpile in time to fire up for night shift.
00:44:42There it is.
00:44:44There's some good-sized boulders, which is a good sign.
00:44:48There's normally good gold.
00:44:51I just hope that there's going to be enough gold in it to reach our goal.
00:44:58This rock looks good.
00:44:59It does, actually.
00:45:03The weather's moving in, so it's going to be pretty important once this plant fires up that we don't stop
00:45:07running this plant.
00:45:16She's chilly.
00:45:17Yes.
00:45:18Six hours after hitting pay, as the temperatures drop to 28 degrees, there's finally enough stockpiled pay to fire up.
00:45:30She's frosty.
00:45:31Yeah, the carpets are hard.
00:45:34I ain't going to thaw until we get fired up.
00:45:36Nope.
00:45:42Boy, she sounds cold.
00:45:48It's time.
00:45:50Rick better get his night shift ready.
00:45:53That ain't shutting off.
00:46:00You ready for this, buddy?
00:46:02Yeah.
00:46:05Everything's fueled.
00:46:05Everything's topped off.
00:46:06So I think you guys are ready to rock and roll, man.
00:46:09Thanks again.
00:46:09All right, brother.
00:46:10Thanks, Kyle.
00:46:11Get the out of here for the night.
00:46:12All right, you ready?
00:46:13Let's do it, buddy.
00:46:17Rick and Zee step up to work through the night
00:46:21so the exhausted crew can get some sleep.
00:46:33We've got no choice right now.
00:46:34We've got to run the wheels off of everything if we want to get to 1,800 ounces
00:46:37and running a night shift the way we've got to do it.
00:46:41Hey, Rick, you got a copy?
00:46:43Yeah, go ahead.
00:46:44I'll tell you what.
00:46:45It's more stressful doing it at night.
00:46:48It's really hard to see.
00:46:49I've been told I do my best work in the dark, but, like, I don't know about this.
00:46:55This is Zee's last shift before he heads home for the season.
00:47:01It sucks going home this early.
00:47:04I'm just stressed at home.
00:47:06We haven't hit our goal yet, so if you have pay laying on the ground
00:47:11and there's hours left in the day, you run the plant.
00:47:29Hey, Rick, you got a copy?
00:47:31Yeah, I'll go for Rick.
00:47:32There's a clog on this hopper.
00:47:43Damn it.
00:47:48Dude, this whole feeder's piled up.
00:47:51I don't know why it stopped.
00:47:53Something got caught in there.
00:48:05There's two flat rocks just jammed in here on the side.
00:48:08It's loose now.
00:48:11You can see all the flat ones here, too.
00:48:13Look, that got through.
00:48:13I know.
00:48:14I think that's it.
00:48:18Let's give her .
00:48:29It ain't spinning.
00:48:31Oh, .
00:48:47It ain't spinning.
00:48:49Yeah.
00:48:51The head drum's spinning, but it's not catching the belt.
00:48:54You can't get traction.
00:48:56At Duncan Creek, the feed conveyor on Rick's monster red wash plant
00:49:02has failed to fire up in the cold.
00:49:05Maybe I'll just heat that up.
00:49:07Can you grab that tiger torch?
00:49:09Yeah.
00:49:14Thanks, buddy.
00:49:17This is the head drum.
00:49:18This is what turns.
00:49:20It's really cold, so when rubber gets cold, it gets hard,
00:49:24and it's just not catching.
00:49:26I should just be able to add some heat to it, warm it up.
00:49:29It should get some traction.
00:49:37Shutting it down like this is a killer.
00:49:49Well, that should do it.
00:49:51Should be warm enough to get going.
00:49:52We'll see.
00:49:54Good.
00:49:55Here we go.
00:49:55Ready?
00:49:57Yep, ready.
00:49:58Ready?
00:50:07She's moving.
00:50:09We're good.
00:50:11Yeah.
00:50:12Good to go, buddy.
00:50:16If you don't laugh, it's just going to make you crazy.
00:50:19Love it, buddy.
00:50:21Nice job.
00:50:23There's always something happening, especially this time of year.
00:50:26But we are still running, and we're going to stay that way.
00:50:29But we've got a long ways to go.
00:50:49Mike, do you have a copy, Mike?
00:50:51Is someone calling for me?
00:50:53Yeah, Mike, we're all done with the pay.
00:50:55We just put the last bucket through for the season.
00:51:18Tony's Harold wash plant.
00:51:20Tony's Harold wash plant has run the last of its pay pile, putting the king, a plant down, in his
00:51:26battle, to the end of the week.
00:51:27To beat Parker.
00:51:29We're still going, sluicing away with three and a go.
00:51:33How long as the weather is holding up, we will be sluicing.
00:51:37If that means you're missing a night to sleep, well, so be it.
00:51:41But if we've got to go, we've got to go.
00:51:44Tony heads back to Indian River to keep his two shaker decks on the gold, leaving youngest son, Mike, at
00:51:53Paradise Hill to finish a stockpile at the beat's biggest gold producer, the Trump.
00:52:01The end is nigh.
00:52:03I am looking forward to being done for the year, because I am tired, but you're going to have to
00:52:08run us 24 hours a day to get through all the pay I got.
00:52:12I want to go out with lots of gold, you know, go out in a bang, as it were.
00:52:18Copy, Mike?
00:52:20Yeah, go ahead.
00:52:21Yeah, their distributor tip is spinning.
00:52:23I need you over here now.
00:52:25You shut her down.
00:52:25I'll be there in a second.
00:52:27Copy.
00:52:28I mean, I really don't need no big problems today.
00:52:37What the f**k kind of idiot?
00:52:41Look at this.
00:52:44Just look at this.
00:52:51Holy f**k.
00:52:55The whole thing is full of big rocks that completely jammed up my distributor.
00:53:02Oh, man.
00:53:04This is a serious f**k up.
00:53:09The trommel filters gold from worthless dirt, throwing the waste tailings out the back of its barrel.
00:53:19Overnight, these tailings have built up, spilling into a chute that feeds the plant's distributor box.
00:53:26The spinning pipes, that should evenly spread the gold-rich slurry into the sluice runs below, have clogged up, eventually
00:53:35blocking the whole distributor.
00:53:38To clear the system, Mike needs to remove the rock gem and flush out the box, including half a night's
00:53:46worth of gold-rich pay dirt.
00:53:51Starter, zapper!
00:54:02There's a f**k ton of rocks, big rocks, as you can see coming out.
00:54:08It's a long and painful process of just getting in there and pulling it out.
00:54:14As far as the trommel goes, it's the biggest f**k up I've ever seen.
00:54:24Watch out, gentlemen!
00:54:26Halfway through his day shift, Mike has enough cleared to open up the bypass and flush the rest of the
00:54:34rocks and the gold-rich pay dirt.
00:54:37Love to hear that.
00:54:39That's the sound of money washing away.
00:54:43Turn on the distributor, please!
00:54:55It's f**k!
00:54:57It's f**k!
00:54:59He says it's f**k!
00:55:01Huh?
00:55:02He went like this.
00:55:03He says it's f**k!
00:55:11The motor's fried!
00:55:23The motor's broken.
00:55:26F**k!
00:55:37Ah, get that one off, get him to bring it up here.
00:55:39At Paradise Hill, after clearing a rock jam in the trommel's distributor, now it won't fire up, leaving the beets
00:55:49with just two plants running.
00:55:51Ah, you f**k!
00:55:52And only days of sluicing left.
00:55:54Whoa!
00:55:56It's a little on the crispy side.
00:55:59A rock got caught, and if jam the f**k stopped and the f**k motor couldn't turn.
00:56:05Unable to turn the distributor, the motor burnt itself out, and needs replacing.
00:56:12I got a motor here.
00:56:14Hopefully we don't have any problems with this one.
00:56:17Okay, gentlemen, we're going to start putting it back together.
00:56:20Everybody in the hole.
00:56:23If I could be sluicing tonight, that's if everything goes right.
00:56:27But considering how my luck's been going with this plant, I'm probably going to find about eight little problems.
00:56:35Okay, you're good to go.
00:56:38Once it warms, fire it up and just turn on the distributor.
00:56:51It works good.
00:56:56Turn the sluice box on.
00:56:58Turn the sluice box on.
00:57:08Ah, there it's good.
00:57:14Hey, you got it working again.
00:57:31After eight hours shut down, Mike has the Beetz family empire back to running three plants for the final push.
00:57:44It was quite a disaster today.
00:57:46Yeah.
00:57:46Good job, man.
00:57:48That's all I can say.
00:57:49Unfortunately, I'm experienced in it.
00:57:51I know.
00:58:13The temperatures are well below freezing.
00:58:18I was hoping to be in a better place than we are right now, but it is what it is.
00:58:22We still got paid dirt here and we've got a cut that needs to be down to gravel.
00:58:26We're going to get it sluice next season.
00:58:30At Kennan Stewart's, Parker has foreman Mitch running night shift to help him beat Tony, and Mitch wants to finish
00:58:39ahead of schedule.
00:58:42I'm trying to make it home in time for my daughter's birthday and for that to happen.
00:58:46I've got to have everything here finished tonight and be on the road first thing in the morning.
00:58:52I've got quite a bit of pay here to get through.
00:58:55I'm not a real big fan of the night shifts, but it's stuff we all got to do, you know.
00:59:01By the end of the shift, Sean must sluice 2,000 yards of the pay pile through wash plant Roxanne.
00:59:10And in the cut, Mitch and Brennan and two D11 dozers must remove the final acre of a four-foot
00:59:18-deep layer of mud.
00:59:21Then rip through the frozen pay layer beneath to allow it to thaw.
00:59:29We're just going to have to push through and get it all done as fast as we can here.
00:59:34This is it. We've got to make her happen tonight.
00:59:41I appreciate you putting in the extra hours out here to help me get all this done.
00:59:46Aw, man, I couldn't be happier to help you, my friend.
00:59:48I'm hoping to be able to get home for my daughter's birthday in time.
00:59:52How old is she turning this year?
00:59:55Dude, going to be six already.
00:59:58Feels like two years ago when I was racing home to be there when she was born.
01:00:05Yeah, man, seeing how old Pistol is now, dude.
01:00:09It's hard not to get sad and look back on all the days that I missed him being a young
01:00:13kid, you know.
01:00:15But I've always been able to block it out of my mind pretty good while I'm up here.
01:00:26You know, you don't need to lie saying that you blocked things out of your mind there.
01:00:30I know there's not much up there anyway.
01:00:40Come on, baby, come on.
01:00:45Come on, come on, come on.
01:00:47Come on, baby, come on, come on.
01:00:51Yeah, buddy, we're rolling it now.
01:00:54Ah, the worst power side by side here, Mitch.
01:00:57Buddy, there it is. Look at that pile of dirt.
01:01:08I'm starting to see some gravel here kicking up.
01:01:11How are you looking?
01:01:12Guys, I think I'm starting to see you the same here.
01:01:15Hell yeah.
01:01:16Let's get this stuff ripped up and out of here on time.
01:01:20Right on, buddy.
01:01:22Mud removed, Mitch and Brennan used the D11's powerful rippers
01:01:28to tear up the frozen gravel layer.
01:01:34Oh, you got to be kidding me.
01:01:36Come on, man.
01:01:44Oh, man.
01:01:46She's ground right down.
01:01:48There is no way that's going to make it.
01:01:59We are so close to having this done,
01:02:01but that tooth is not going to make it through the rest of this.
01:02:04At Kennan Stewart's, Mitch Blaschke's mission
01:02:08to rip a frozen cut by morning has ground to a halt.
01:02:13You can see here, this is our ripper tooth.
01:02:16When you're ripping in this gravel, it's so abrasive
01:02:18that this last little bit that's left here,
01:02:21that'll be gone in a couple pushes.
01:02:23We're going to rip down, grab a new tooth.
01:02:25We'll be able to finish this out with one more.
01:02:28If the tooth is left to wear down any further,
01:02:32the ripper shank will be damaged.
01:02:37Sun's starting to come up.
01:02:39We don't got a lot of time left.
01:02:40We got some spare parts up top.
01:02:42Let's go have a look.
01:02:45Let's get this thing done, man.
01:02:46We're so close.
01:02:54Oh, is it heavy?
01:02:58We're going to go rip down, throw it on that dozer,
01:03:01and get back out there.
01:03:06Found one, buddy.
01:03:10You ready?
01:03:14You ready?
01:03:16Perfect.
01:03:17All right, let's get back out there.
01:03:18We're about out of time.
01:03:19Sounds good.
01:03:26Yeah, buddy.
01:03:27Here we go.
01:03:29Back in action.
01:03:37Just got to get this last little bit ripped.
01:03:39We're going to have this thing done.
01:03:50Well, Brennan, I'm seeing lots of rock in this.
01:03:53I think this is exactly where we need to be.
01:03:55Oh, that's the best news I've heard all night, man.
01:03:59We've got this cut down on gravel for next season here at Ken's.
01:04:09Well, buddy, we did it.
01:04:11Yeah, nice work, brother.
01:04:12Man, what a project, dude.
01:04:14What a season.
01:04:15It's been a hell of a year working with you, man.
01:04:18Yeah, man, it's been a fun year.
01:04:21I've got to get down and check on Roxanne.
01:04:32You never know what the weather's going to do up here in the Yukon.
01:04:35It's our first snowfall for the season.
01:04:38Hopefully, this doesn't hang around for long.
01:04:41It's such a good feeling here to be at the finish line.
01:04:46Here comes the boss now.
01:04:55What's happening?
01:04:56Oh, you know.
01:05:00Beautiful day.
01:05:01Yeah.
01:05:04We knew it was coming.
01:05:06Yeah.
01:05:07Hopefully, it doesn't hang out for too long, get it to burn off.
01:05:10It's going to be a nice day.
01:05:12Yeah.
01:05:14Well, it looks like you're about done.
01:05:16You don't have much of a pile left.
01:05:18Yeah, I was shrinking pretty quick.
01:05:20Stripping is done, so we made it.
01:05:23Sweet.
01:05:24You've done your tour of duty.
01:05:25You've had a hell of a season, Mitch.
01:05:28Good job, man.
01:05:29Thanks, dude.
01:05:30Appreciate it.
01:05:41This is so awesome to see what we've accomplished this season.
01:05:45But the best part is now.
01:05:47It's time to go home.
01:05:48I need to spend some time with my family.
01:05:50He's done an incredible job.
01:05:52But regardless of that, we've got a lot of ground still to mine.
01:06:09There's just a few sweets left.
01:06:12The Ness crew have been running last chance pay through Monster Red flat out for four days.
01:06:21The material looks really good.
01:06:24Hopefully, it's going to deliver us close to 420 ounces.
01:06:28I'm pretty confident that we'll get a good clean out on this, but will it be enough?
01:06:33I'm not sure.
01:06:35If we can get our 1,800-ounce gold, Rick will give us a gold bonus, so it's going to
01:06:40cross my fingers.
01:06:42We're out of pay.
01:06:43We've got to shut down.
01:06:45That's it.
01:06:48Shut it down.
01:06:50With the last chance pay done, Rick calls time on the season.
01:06:57That's it.
01:06:59Now we've just got to hope that the gold's in the box.
01:07:02We've got to weigh it up and see where we end up.
01:07:08After cleaning up the gold, Rick's crew gather in the only bar in Keno for the make-or-break final
01:07:16gold way of the season.
01:07:18What a year.
01:07:19A little stressful.
01:07:21Yeah, this year was going to be around first all year.
01:07:25Hello.
01:07:25Hello, Rick.
01:07:27You guys are all here waiting on me.
01:07:29All right.
01:07:29I've got a present for you.
01:07:31Oh.
01:07:34Oh.
01:07:34Here's my drink, yeah.
01:07:36Oh, look at that.
01:07:37Thank you, sir.
01:07:39Yeah, any season.
01:07:40We made it through another one, though.
01:07:42Yeah.
01:07:43Time to find out if they've banked enough gold to make their bonus and secure their future.
01:07:50Or if it's time for Rick to sell up.
01:07:54I don't ever want to start a season like we did this year.
01:07:57It's just this water license thing.
01:07:58It's just so tough.
01:07:59We were lucky to find some ground this spring.
01:08:02You know, we got some gold out of it.
01:08:04I think there's gold there.
01:08:05It's definitely good for the future.
01:08:06I mean, I don't know what you guys think about it, but would you come back for Lightning Creek?
01:08:11That's, uh, I hate to be in that, dude, but that's a tough one for me to come back to
01:08:16if we don't have a water license for Duncan Creek.
01:08:19I'm going to be honest, man.
01:08:20I'm in limbo.
01:08:22Yeah, for sure.
01:08:23I don't know what it looks like yet.
01:08:24I'll be honest with you.
01:08:25We're just trying to survive this season at the moment.
01:08:29Well, maybe we should see what we got, eh?
01:08:30Let's do it.
01:08:31Let's do it.
01:08:32I'm sure you're dying to know.
01:08:33Right we are.
01:08:34To hit his 1,800-ounce goal, Rick needs the last chance cut to deliver 420 ounces.
01:08:46All right, moment of truth.
01:08:4910, 20, 30, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100.
01:09:14131.91.
01:09:20Oh, but we got more.
01:09:26All right, there's 100.
01:09:30There's no 100.
01:09:36That means 431.91.
01:09:41That's it.
01:09:43On that last one-week cleanup.
01:09:45Worth over $1,727,000.
01:09:51$1,811.56.
01:09:53That's so close, it's ridiculous.
01:09:55Yeah.
01:09:56Yeah.
01:09:58Nice job, guys.
01:10:00That last chance paid off.
01:10:03It paid off.
01:10:04It paid off.
01:10:05100%.
01:10:06Rick's final total is worth over $7,246,000.
01:10:15That's awesome, isn't it?
01:10:16Yeah.
01:10:17Right.
01:10:18It looked bad this season for a while, but we're set.
01:10:22We got everything we need, and you guys get the bonus you deserve.
01:10:26So, there's a bonus in every one of these jars for you guys.
01:10:29Nice.
01:10:29You guys earned it.
01:10:30You guys earned it.
01:10:31You guys earned it.
01:10:32No, you earned it.
01:10:33You worked damn hard for it.
01:10:35There's not a season that we haven't been with you that we have not hit our total now.
01:10:39If there's a team to do it, it's us.
01:10:42Jerry.
01:10:42Jerry.
01:10:44Thanks so much.
01:10:46It was not an easy one.
01:10:49It was hard fought.
01:10:50A lot of bull****.
01:10:52There's some uncertainty, but for now, we hit 1,800 ounces, and we get our gold bonus.
01:10:58It was a hard season.
01:10:59I did not think we were going to do it, but we **** did it.
01:11:02I'm ready to keep getting gold, and I can't wait until next year.
01:11:06This was a close one.
01:11:07We hit our goal.
01:11:08We beat it by 11 ounces.
01:11:10That's insanely close.
01:11:12This season was a fight.
01:11:13There's no doubt about that.
01:11:14Right from the get-go, it just had disaster written all over it.
01:11:17This industry, man, it beats it out of you.
01:11:20Tony and Parker offered me a lot of money for this ground.
01:11:22I'm going to leave on my own terms, and if Parker and Tony are still offering when that
01:11:26time comes, well, then there we go.
01:11:28But we get through this year.
01:11:30We can get through any year.
01:11:44Well, what do you think, guys?
01:11:46I think it's getting cold, Tony.
01:11:47Our balls are almost freezing off.
01:11:49Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:11:50Do we like to keep on going now?
01:11:52Sure, sure, sure.
01:11:53Anyway, I think it's time to shut it down, everyone.
01:11:55I think so.
01:11:59It's closing time.
01:12:01Across the Beats family empire.
01:12:04Last bucket, eh?
01:12:05Yep, last bucket of pay.
01:12:07We're finally done.
01:12:08Yeah, so let's shut her down, and then we've got a full cleanup.
01:12:10Yep.
01:12:13And as Tony shuts down...
01:12:18Big red.
01:12:19Dead for the season.
01:12:22Parker's crew also called time on the season.
01:12:26We're done!
01:12:30Good job.
01:12:31We did it.
01:12:32That's a hell of a pit to get done.
01:12:33Yeah.
01:12:34When we started it, I didn't think we'd get through it all.
01:12:36I mean, the Golden Mile was literally a mile.
01:12:40Let's get a cleanup done and see what's in it.
01:12:43Whatever Tony's got.
01:12:44I want to get more.
01:12:54It's time for a final Gold Ways shootout
01:12:58to see who is the Yukon's top dog.
01:13:02Mining mogul Parker Schnabel
01:13:05or Klondike kingpin Tony Beats
01:13:08both have four plants to weigh,
01:13:12with Tony just 120 ounces in the lead.
01:13:21Hi, guys.
01:13:23Hi.
01:13:25Hi, Monica.
01:13:27Guys, this is our last Gold Ways.
01:13:30Then Kevin and Faith just pulled up.
01:13:31Perfect.
01:13:31Good.
01:13:32Then we get the show on the road.
01:13:35Before Tony's gold hits the scales,
01:13:38he wants to see where his young pup has ended up.
01:13:42Kevin owes his dad and landlord 10% royalties
01:13:47on all his gold.
01:13:55I think we're the same in that manner.
01:14:01You're actually admitting you're a little bit the same as your father?
01:14:04Oh, there's definitely parts where we're alike.
01:14:06Anyway, are you going to hit me a goal?
01:14:07Don't know.
01:14:09That's why we brought our jars here.
01:14:11Fingers crossed.
01:14:12Kevin has three weeks of running to weigh.
01:14:16He needs nearly 800 ounces,
01:14:19over double his best-ever gold haul,
01:14:22to hit his 2,000-ounce goal.
01:14:27So let's see what we've got.
01:14:29There you go.
01:14:30Shut up.
01:14:3210, 20, 40, 60, 70, 90, 100, 120, 150, 180,
01:14:40180, 180, 9, 200, 220, 230, 50, 260, 270, 300, 330, 350,
01:14:55376, 376.16.
01:14:58So how much was your total now?
01:15:00That's 1,591.
01:15:02Are you going to be able to mine next year?
01:15:05I mean, it's a good thing the gold price is this high.
01:15:08The start of next season will be a little stressful.
01:15:12For, uh, yeah, we get to come back next year.
01:15:15Yay!
01:15:16Wait, are you sure you're happy about that?
01:15:18Some more suffering, Faith.
01:15:21Kevin finishes over 400 ounces below target.
01:15:26But with record gold prices,
01:15:29his 1,591-ounce haul is still worth over $6.3 million.
01:15:38I'm personally happy to hear that you guys are coming back next year.
01:15:43We should probably weigh up some stuff.
01:15:46Now, for the main event.
01:15:48So Parker had a good season.
01:15:50I think I can beat Parker.
01:15:55Let's find a lot you're putting in.
01:15:57Okay, do it.
01:15:58First up, find-a-lot's gold from the corner cut,
01:16:02where it's averaging 250 ounces a week.
01:16:06That's 140, 170, 200.
01:16:11202.18.
01:16:12That's it?
01:16:14Yeah, well, that's okay.
01:16:16Done.
01:16:16On to the next one.
01:16:17Bye.
01:16:18Sluice-a-lot?
01:16:19Okay, Sluice-a-lot.
01:16:20Here we go.
01:16:21Sluice-a-lot ran Tony's new early bird cut extension
01:16:25that earlier in the season delivered 300 ounces a week.
01:16:30210, 230, 240, 250, to 66.96.
01:16:36That's pretty damn good.
01:16:38I mean, that cut did very good this spring.
01:16:40That early bird did very good on the end.
01:16:44Good start, good finish.
01:16:45That's right.
01:16:46Absolutely.
01:16:46That works.
01:16:47So that was all the Indian River stuff?
01:16:50Tony's Indian River haul brings his total to 10,681 ounces,
01:16:58stretching his lead over Parker by nearly 600 ounces.
01:17:02You should do the hill stuff now?
01:17:03Yes, may as well.
01:17:04As the king prepares his next gold pour.
01:17:09Ten miles away...
01:17:11Yo, yo.
01:17:13...the mining mogul is getting ready to fight back.
01:17:17Do you realize, collectively, we have sluiced over 10,000 hours this year?
01:17:24Yeah, we were busy.
01:17:25I was just doing the numbers.
01:17:27We sluiced 2 million yards.
01:17:29Oh, f**k.
01:17:31I'd be surprised if Tony beats us.
01:17:33Yep.
01:17:34Okay, should we weigh some gold?
01:17:36All right, let's do it.
01:17:38This is Roxanne.
01:17:40First up, wash plant Roxanne, with the last of the gold from Ken and Stewart's,
01:17:47which last week delivered 134 ounces.
01:17:5260, 80, and 94.90.
01:18:04Not bad, eh?
01:18:08It's not bad.
01:18:10Next, wash plant Bob, with the final bridge-cut gold.
01:18:16Averaging 140 ounces a week.
01:18:1940.
01:18:2270.
01:18:2490.
01:18:29103.75.
01:18:33Yeah.
01:18:34Not bad, eh?
01:18:35It's not bad.
01:18:36Triple digits.
01:18:37Yeah.
01:18:38Parker's total is up to 10,288, clawing Tony's lead down to less than 400 ounces,
01:18:47with the golden mile still to weigh.
01:18:51But the king is now ready to tally up his final two plants.
01:18:57Start with Harold, Michael?
01:18:58Yep.
01:19:00Harold has been running Hester Cut Pay.
01:19:04Last week, it brought in 130 ounces.
01:19:08Let's go.
01:19:0920, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130, 132.12.
01:19:22Nice to see, Mike.
01:19:23It is a nice little haul.
01:19:24All right, so we've got our last one.
01:19:27Are you ready to be jealous?
01:19:29I'm going to be annoyed, aren't I?
01:19:31One.
01:19:32Last up, Mike's trommel.
01:19:34Two.
01:19:34The monster plant's been running Paradise Hills White Channel Pay, averaging 320 ounces a week.
01:19:42Ready?
01:19:4420, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110.
01:19:51Oh, f***.
01:19:54120, 130, 140, 150, 170, 180, 190, 200, 210, 240, 250, 260, 270, 270, 250, 350, 370, 380, 390, 410,
01:20:09417.36.
01:20:12Oh, damn.
01:20:14Two million bucks.
01:20:15Not best for the last little haul.
01:20:17That's amazing.
01:20:18Our biggest season ever.
01:20:21The Beats finish with a colossal season total of 11,231 ounces, worth a massive $45 million.
01:20:35It was a great season, guys.
01:20:37Let's wrap her up, and let's get on and off.
01:20:39Let's get ready for the next one.
01:20:41All right.
01:20:42All right, man.
01:20:42There you go.
01:20:44That was a good season, my friend.
01:20:45It was a damn good season.
01:20:46Things fell in place.
01:20:47Yep.
01:20:48It's just nice to see at our age to come all this together that way.
01:20:51Yeah.
01:20:52But really, I'm ready to go start next spring.
01:20:55Not me.
01:20:55I want to have a holiday first.
01:20:57I almost guarantee I'll be the first one back in the Yukon.
01:21:02Tony walks away with a record-shattering season total, more than 940 ounces ahead of Parker.
01:21:12Now, the young buck needs a monster score from his last two plants.
01:21:17All righty.
01:21:18Let's see how the Golden Mile finished off.
01:21:19Parker is combining his Golden Goose and Big Red Wash plants into one final double pour.
01:21:27Together, they ran the end of the Golden Mile, the richest cut Parker's mined this season.
01:21:33130, 180, 220, 240.
01:21:41Keeps coming, eh?
01:21:43260, 300.
01:21:51307.95.
01:21:56So where'd we end up?
01:21:58This week, 506.6.
01:22:03Our season total, 10,596.45 ounces.
01:22:12I'm just going to say 10,600.
01:22:14I'm sure there's three extra ounces in that safe somewhere.
01:22:17Well done, gentlemen.
01:22:19Well done.
01:22:20That's awesome.
01:22:2010,600.
01:22:21Sweet.
01:22:22Parker finishes 630 ounces behind Tony, the now undisputed king of the Klondike.
01:22:31But his 10,600 ounces is still Parker's biggest ever season haul, worth $42 million.
01:22:43We had a really good season.
01:22:44You know, this last week, I think, probably could have pulled a little more gold out if
01:22:49we didn't have as many problems as we did.
01:22:50But overall, you know, super solid year.
01:22:55Parker's such a smart miner.
01:22:58As I look back through the years, from a snot-nosed kid at 38 ounces for his first season to
01:23:0410,000
01:23:05ounces now, it's amazing.
01:23:08Just totally amazing.
01:23:11We'll be back next year, and we'll hopefully do even more.
01:23:15And I'm ready to hunt for the next big project, right?
01:23:19Like, the elephant gun is loaded, and we need to find where to go next.
01:23:30We'll be back next year, and we'll be back next year.
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