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Gold Rush Season 16 Episode 23
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00:00:17Hi
00:00:24So hmm fists or knives
00:00:39So what's new?
00:00:41That's the end of the season. It seems like a long year, you know, it's a short season up there.
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.
00:00:52Yeah, I don't know what it's at today. What? $4,000? It's not even normal.
00:00:57I don't know.
00:00:59You'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.
00:01:17Okay. Well, so did we. Ten, too.
00:01:22Nice.
00:01:26Can'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.
00:01:37Yeah.
00:01:38Where you're at was your total?
00:01:39Ah, it's true for 1,800 and we're about 400 ounces short right now.
00:01:44Yeah, well.
00:01:46I could get a fair buck operation like yours if you could sell.
00:01:54Um, well, I mean, as of right now, I definitely want to see how this season ends, but I'm considering
00:02:00it.
00:02:00Let's give us a call.
00:02:03What, Tony trying to buy you out?
00:02:05We'll offer, yeah.
00:02:09Uh...
00:02:11He came and visited me.
00:02:13Oh.
00:02:13Oh, good one.
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.
00:02:22So, 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, sir-y.
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.
00:02:54Yeah, 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.
00:03:10But...
00:03:13We'll see what happens.
00:03:15Those guys are killing it on the gold.
00:03:17You know, on the offers.
00:03:19It's...
00:03:20It's good to know there's options there.
00:03:21I...
00:03:22I don't know what to do.
00:03:24I...
00:03:24You know, it's going to come down to my total.
00:03:26What...
00:03:26If I hit my gold this year...
00:03:28Man, 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...
00:03:34You never know.
00:03:36You know, money talks and results speak for themselves.
00:03:41That was your education post.
00:03:42Hold on, man.
00:03:42He can all mowain.
00:03:53It's very, very juicy.
00:04:10we've had a hell of a season gold-wise
00:04:14we've hit our goal the big priority now is just getting every last ounce we can while prices
00:04:20are like this yeah it's pretty cool 31 year old mining mogul parker schnabel is running through
00:04:30the finish line gold prices are at an absolute all-time high they have four thousand dollars
00:04:38an ounce today which is very very cool it's a good time to be gold miner and have a lot
00:04:46of
00:04:46wash plants running we've got four wash plants running parker is already breaking records this
00:04:52season with over 40 million dollars in gold banked but he's determined to catch former mentor tony
00:05:02beats who is leading by 120 ounces bit of a bummer that tony is a bit ahead of me we've
00:05:11been on top
00:05:12for a long time it's getting cold and who knows how much longer we've got frost will probably cut
00:05:18us off from being able to keep plants running but we're gonna finish strong we'll give her one
00:05:24last good push right now and see what we come up with hey guys how's it going thanks for um
00:05:33coming
00:05:34to join me no worries what's going on I just wanted to give you guys a little update on what
00:05:42needs to
00:05:42get done what up where where have you been I call a meeting and you're late I'm just kidding
00:05:59for the final push Parker's depending on his top lieutenants Mitch Blaschke Tyson Lee and Brennan
00:06:08the rule thank you for getting us to the end here hit our 10,000 right yeah like sick yeah
00:06:16pretty wild no
00:06:18doubt yeah what's the plan now I want to just make sure that we finish strong here like despite you
00:06:26know we hit the goal but um Tony this spring told me that his goal was like six or seven
00:06:31thousand and
00:06:32he's over 10,000 oh and you know me well enough to know how much I hate losing so I
00:06:40think you
00:06:41really have to turn your feet race up and all that jazz that's mandatory at Dominion I mean we need
00:06:49to
00:06:49get those pay piles hammered out yeah they're still pretty big Mitch keep Roxanne running and that
00:06:58stripping project is the main priority and Brennan just whatever these guys need yeah there's not a
00:07:05lot of tolerance for screw-ups or delays if there's ever a time to push extra late now's the time
00:07:14it would
00:07:15just go until either weather shuts us down or every plants out of pay one of the two let's go
00:07:23do some
00:07:23solution perfect yeah let's get it down you guys thank you at Parker's flagship Dominion claim Tyson
00:07:35must loose the last of the golden miles stockpiled pay through wash plants big red and golden goose
00:07:45and with Bob in the bridge cut mine as much of the remaining 30 acres as possible 10 miles south
00:07:54at
00:07:54Parker's least ground Kennan Stewart's Mitch must run the pay from the last two acres of pick two with
00:08:03wash plant Roxanne and remove the final four acres of worthless overburden from a new cut for next season
00:08:15all 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
00:08:45there'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 is going to
00:09:18really start freezing on us any day now and I know everyone wants to go home but can't go home
00:09:24until this
00:09:24pile is complete we're going to be sluicing to the bitter end
00:09:54all right are you ready I'm always ready good
00:09:58good good you're gonna move this plan yeah get it out of here we have what a week left in
00:10:03the season
00:10:04we were lucky yeah and we're going to need that down there to beat Parker okay let's go okay man
00:10:09bingo let's get the show on the road
00:10:25everybody wants to go home but you know what sucks to be there the job is a job and finish
00:10:32is finished
00:10:33we're not finished by a long shot the gold prize is absolutely just awesome I mean they're this guy
00:10:40of a chance of a lifetime Tony beats gold fever is relentless after blasting past his season target
00:10:54he now has a new goal locked in his sights secure his crown as king of the Klondike
00:11:05Parker he seems to be right down my heels so we'll just see on the end of the day who
00:11:10lands up on top this
00:11:12time we made one more move for the season mostly slot put it back into the early bird cut
00:11:22to stay ahead of Parker Tony is matching his former protégé's four plant final push
00:11:41at his paradise hill operation Tony has tasked son Mike with finishing stockpiles at his trommel
00:11:48and Harold wash plants 40 miles south at Indian River his twin shaker decks sluice a lot and find a
00:11:59lot
00:12:07the mammoth cut only has enough pay left to run one plan to keep both sluicing Tony needs to move
00:12:17sluice a lot
00:12:18upstream back to where he started the season at a new three acre extension of his early bird cut
00:12:30Everything is hooked up, everything is ready, and off we go.
00:12:50So far so good, the plant is following good.
00:12:54A couple of corners, a couple of hills, nothing we haven't done before, but we still got
00:13:01to get on it and make it work.
00:13:05Nice to keep this up, we'll be putting some rocks in there tonight, which will be good.
00:13:11The guys came to cut.
00:13:13They'd rather be ready.
00:13:17Stakes are extra high with the price of gold at the moment.
00:13:20At the new early bird extension, Tony's crew run full throttle to get the cut ready before
00:13:28Sluicealot arrives.
00:13:31There is a bit of a race this season between Tony and Parker to see who can get the most
00:13:37gold.
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.
00:13:50I'd say Parker's going to win that one.
00:13:52He's going to have it in the bag.
00:13:55Up here where we're dumping, it's super soft and we're almost getting stuck.
00:14:00But we've got to get it done and we've got to get Sluice and they're moving Sluicealot.
00:14:04We've got a truck over there, Tony.
00:14:23I'll go have a look.
00:14:26Tony.
00:14:26Oh, the .
00:14:27Who the was that smart?
00:14:29Yeah, 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's too late.
00:15:10Sluicealot is less than a mile away and coming in fast.
00:15:16Final stress here.
00:15:18So I just heard on the radio another rock truck clip.
00:15:21So Tony's there giving a hand.
00:15:24We can't afford any more downtime.
00:15:27Winter is coming and we want to get to that goal as soon as possible.
00:15:35Get 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.
00:15:45Okay, 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.
00:16:01Okay, let's grab the thing, flip it over.
00:16:15Yeah, there you go.
00:16:20So the new path is in sight.
00:16:22The road ahead looks pretty good.
00:16:27Okay, get 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, .
00:16:43Sluicealot is here.
00:16:44Get the out of the way.
00:16:45Get that other rock truck dad out of the way.
00:16:49Mike, do you copy?
00:16:50All 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 got to 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.
00:17:15Keep it around, keep it around, keep it around, keep it around, keep it around.
00:17:24Perfect.
00:17:25There we go.
00:17:27Tony gave me the sign that it's good.
00:17:32Now we get two, three guys coming in, drag that hose over, get the excavator over there,
00:17:38hook up the hose, drive the gen set beside it.
00:17:41Bingo, done.
00:17:47I'll fire the plant up, and we'll be back this losing.
00:17:56All right, we'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.
00:18:15And we have no doubt Tony is the king of the Klondike.
00:18:22I got to 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.
00:18:50We're trying to get into pay as quick as we can.
00:18:55This is one of the worst spots I've ever been in.
00:18:57You've got to get back on that goal.
00:18:58You've got to 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.
00:19:24That's a lot of ounces to get.
00:19:25And we don't have a whole lot of time to do it.
00:19:28In a chaotic season of uncertainty and major missteps,
00:19:33Rick gambled a million dollars mining a massive new cut,
00:19:38only to get no gold.
00:19:40That was a big debacle, a 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.
00:19:50Buyout offers from big shots Tony and Parker have come in.
00:19:56I've been offered a seven-figure amount for this, and it's a lot.
00:20:00And 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,
00:20:07and then the profits can continue to get better,
00:20:09why would I leave?
00:20:13Now, as Rick's crew fight to dig out the final 10 feet to hit pay
00:20:18in the last chance cut,
00:20:20he's got a risky Hail Mary plan to get more gold fast.
00:20:27It's going to be a fight.
00:20:29But 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,
00:20:48but we're still way off 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.
00:21:01Well, I think we need to give a little more, and I think we need to get back to Lightning
00:21:04Creek.
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.
00:21:26That's the priority, but we need everything we can get.
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.
00:21:36We'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.
00:21:59Then, a six-month license extension to mine Duncan Creek came in.
00:22:04We got a water license.
00:22:06Yeah.
00:22:06Yeah.
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 is going to be worth it in Lightning, but, you know, we won't know until we
00:22:32start running some dirt.
00:22:33If we do reach that 1,800, my mind's going to be blown because with all the struggles we've had
00:22:38this year.
00:22:40Since I've joined Rick, it's always been a push, it's always been a gamble, and in Rick fashion, we are
00:22:47swinging 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.
00:23:34Here we go.
00:23:36We got water, we got power, and the shaker deck's moving, so time to throw some dirt at it and
00:23:44get some gold.
00:23:51There we go.
00:23:57Oh, hell yeah.
00:24:00Rocky sluicing.
00:24:01Rick is one step closer to pulling off his double plant plan and banking the 420 ounces he needs.
00:24:12Everything looks good.
00:24:26No way!
00:24:29Oh , you gotta be kidding me.
00:24:34What happened?
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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.
00:25:17That's the belt that drives the cooling system, that's why the thing's smokin',
00:25:21because it's overheatin'.
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 coolin', so then it overheated.
00:25:32This thing just shot to hell.
00:25:34She's toast.
00:25:37Rick'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.
00:25:49Now, 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 sad showing.
00:26:04The last chance cut, that'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.
00:26:27It's getting cold and people are wore out.
00:26:29It's just been a long season for everybody.
00:26:33The overarching theme for me is doing everything we can to find as much gold as we can.
00:26:40100 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'll do my best to get through as much as I can.
00:27:38What the f*** is going on up here?
00:27:44Oh, yeah, f***.
00:27:46My shaker deck shut off.
00:27:57Oh, you f***.
00:28:00I'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.
00:28:20Oh, 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 s***.
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 and that's why we're running this
00:29:00backup 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 brick 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.
00:29:35F*** sakes, man.
00:29:36I'll go and find Parker.
00:29:41We can't go home until the Golden Mile is sluice.
00:29:44Without Big Red, I don't think it's going to happen.
00:29:47Parker's not going to be happy.
00:29:54How's it going?
00:29:54What's going on?
00:29:57Big Red's contactor, essentially the starter for the shaker deck, just s*** the bed.
00:30:02F***.
00:30:04There'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.
00:30:27Okay.
00:30:28And 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.
00:30:37Good s***. It's a nightmare.
00:30:39Alright. Sounds good. Thanks.
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.
00:30:57So the plane is paying for 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, um, running an excavator.
00:31:13And 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.
00:31:29Okay. Perfect.
00:31:30Time is of the essence. Can you spin up there now?
00:31:32Sure.
00:31:32Perfect.
00:31:33Try 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.
00:31:51If we don't get it back here tonight, we're in trouble.
00:32:06Is that enough?
00:32:07Yeah.
00:32:09We 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 s***ed bet on us.
00:32:32Hopefully Jack can get us to park here in no time.
00:32:35Parker's crew are praying for a replacement part to be flown in from Whitehorse, 300 miles away.
00:32:44I guess we play the waiting game now.
00:32:53There we go.
00:32:54Is that an airplane right here?
00:32:55I think so.
00:32:56Is that Jack?
00:32:58Yeah, Jack?
00:32:59There we go.
00:33:02There we go.
00:33:03There we go.
00:33:09There we go.
00:33:38Oh, man.
00:33:39Woo!
00:33:40He's got it.
00:33:40Our saviour.
00:33:42That's awesome.
00:33:43Wicked.
00:33:43Thank you so much, kid.
00:33:44Thank you so much.
00:33:45No worries.
00:33:46Let me know when you get it back up and running.
00:33:48Yeah, buddy.
00:33:48Definitely.
00:33:49All 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.
00:34:05Sweet.
00:34:05Yeah, let's do it.
00:34:10Moment of truth here.
00:34:11See what happens.
00:34:19Okay.
00:34:20Yep.
00:34:27Nice work, fellas.
00:34:29Beautiful 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.
00:35:07So 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 f***ing 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 and steady to protect his
00:35:53equipment and only wash plant.
00:35:55But low risk has delivered low rewards, leaving Kevin nearly 800 ounces short of his 2,000 ounce gold.
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.
00:36:12That gets us enough to get started next year.
00:36:13And if we don't have that, we're running on f***ing fumes.
00:36:21So we're going to fight and we're going to make it f***ing happen.
00:36:26Let's turn the f*** 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.
00:36:48In the hope he can get through his sphinx cut pay pile before winter freezes him out.
00:36:56Hopefully that'll put us on the fast track to 2,000 ounces.
00:37:00We got it turned up.
00:37:02So 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 end of
00:37:17the season, honestly.
00:37:17So, yeah, we just have to sluice as much as we possibly can and run through this bay.
00:37:33Looks like we've lost water to the plant.
00:37:36Hey, Tyler.
00:37:37There's no water at the plant.
00:37:39I'm going to shut it down.
00:37:40Okay, 10-4.
00:37:48Let's go.
00:37:50Let's go.
00:37:53Yeah, no, the pump's smoking.
00:37:55The pump's smoking.
00:37:56Holy .
00:37:59Copy, Kevin.
00:38:01Yeah, you gotta get down here.
00:38:02The pump's on fire.
00:38:03The pump is on fire.
00:38:06There's a lot of smoke coming out of there right now.
00:38:25Oh, oh, I shouldn't have touched that.
00:38:28Ah, ah.
00:38:29What the f**k?
00:38:34Don't touch that here.
00:38:35That's also hot.
00:38:37Okay.
00:38:42Well, so our f**king return fuel lines, and it looks like the f**king injectors, too.
00:38:49Kevin'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 dirt.
00:38:59The 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**king stop now, though.
00:39:16So, I will go bug-face 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**king done.
00:39:40Hey, face.
00:39:42Hey.
00:39:45How's it going?
00:39:47Uh, the pump has basically gone come f**king bluey.
00:39:50Uh.
00:39:51Oh, f**k.
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**king parts, there was at least a two-week f**king
00:40:03venture, so.
00:40:05And 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.
00:40:15Don't really like to go back to the old man.
00:40:18I'd rather we fail on our own than just keep getting help.
00:40:25It is close to the end of season.
00:40:27Chances are someone's selling him a pump.
00:40:30Yeah.
00:40:30Yeah.
00:40:31I'll reach out to a couple of 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**k.
00:40:43Okay.
00:40:43Best of luck, man.
00:40:44You as well.
00:40:49Oh, f**king sucks.
00:40:54I really hope she can pull something out of the f**king ether.
00:40:58If I don't get the pump, I don't know if we're going to be able to come back.
00:41:02I'm a bit worried.
00:41:04This 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.
00:41:21I 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.
00:41:39That'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?
00:41:46F**king hell.
00:41:47All right.
00:41:48Okay.
00:41:48I'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.
00:41:53Sounds good.
00:41:53Let's do that.
00:41:58New pump on site.
00:42:02Kevin tasks Buzz Legault.
00:42:04Kevin, let's hook that first.
00:42:06With lifting the old one out and new one into position.
00:42:13You know, everybody's been busting their asses off around here this season, trying to make
00:42:18things happen so you can hit that season goal.
00:42:22And then this big hit and pump 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.
00:42:48Listen to how nice that sounds.
00:42:53Very nice.
00:42:55Back to getting some gold.
00:42:57F**k yeah.
00:42:59Oh, beauty.
00:43:17Hello, hello.
00:43:19It's running again.
00:43:20Yay!
00:43:22Oh, my God.
00:43:24And with the pay file, we can at least get through it now.
00:43:27You saved the day, Faith.
00:43:32Faith, if you're finding that the bump is running lovely.
00:43:34We can finally get through our pay mountain.
00:43:37Plant's all turned up.
00:43:38I think it's a good f**king day.
00:44:01You're finally unpaid, boys.
00:44:04Start making that stockpile.
00:44:06Well, hot diggity dog.
00:44:08Oh, f**king time.
00:44:11In the last chance cut, the Ness crew have finally hit pay and now must sluice non-stop to have
00:44:19any hope of reaching their 1,800-ounce goal.
00:44:26We'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 to the last f**king day.
00:44:34Just go right on top.
00:44:36The crew hustled to build a stockpile in time to fire up for night shift.
00:44:43There 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.
00:45:18Yes.
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.
00:45:32Yeah, the carpets are hard.
00:45:34Ain't going to thaw until we get f**king fired up.
00:45:36Nope.
00:45:43Boy, she sounds cold.
00:45:49It'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.
00:46:06Everything's topped off.
00:46:07So 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 f**k 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 so 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 and run
00:46:38on a night shift.
00:46:39It's the way we've got to do it.
00:46:41Hey, Rick, you got a copy?
00:46:43Yeah, go ahead.
00:46:45I'll tell you what.
00:46:45It's more stressful doing it at night.
00:46:48It's really f**king hard to see.
00:46:50I'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 and there's hours left in
00:47:13the day, you run the plan.
00:47:29Hey, Rick, you got a copy?
00:47:31Yeah, go for it.
00:47:32There's a clog on this hopper.
00:47:34Oh, f**k.
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 f**k got caught in there.
00:48:05There's two flat rocks just jammed in here on the side.
00:48:09It's loose now.
00:48:11You can see all the flat ones here, too.
00:48:13Look, that got through.
00:48:14I know.
00:48:14I think that's it.
00:48:18Let's f**k give her s**t.
00:48:27F**k.
00:48:29It ain't spinning.
00:48:31Oh, f**k.
00:48:47It ain't spinning.
00:48:50Yeah.
00:48:51The head drum's spinning, but it's not catching the belt.
00:48:55You can't get traction.
00:48:56At Duncan Creek, the feed conveyor on Rick's monster red wash plant has failed to fire up in the cold.
00:49:05Maybe I'll just heat that f**k 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.
00:49:21It's really cold, so when rubber gets cold, it gets hard, and 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 the killer.
00:49:49Well, that should do it.
00:49:51Should be f**king warm enough to get going.
00:49:52We'll see.
00:49:54Good.
00:49:55Here we go.
00:49:56Ready?
00:49:57Yeah, ready.
00:50:07She's moving.
00:50:09We're good.
00:50:11f**k yeah.
00:50:12Good to go, buddy.
00:50:16If you don't laugh, it's just going to make you crazy.
00:50:19f**king love 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 f**king stay that way.
00:50:30But we've got a long ways to go.
00:50:49Mike, do you have a copy, Mike?
00:50:52Is someone calling for me?
00:50:54Yeah, Mike.
00:50:54We're all done with the pay.
00:50:55We just put the last bucket through for the season.
00:51:01It all looks pretty good, Mike, huh?
00:51:02Yes.
00:51:03Shut the thing down, clean it up, it's all the quits.
00:51:06Yeah.
00:51:07Yeah, then I'll do that.
00:51:08Anyway, I'm pretty happy with this, and I'll go back to the Union River.
00:51:12It'd be nice if you could get rid of that paper aisle here, but it's horrible.
00:51:15By the end of the week.
00:51:16Sounds like a plan, Dad.
00:51:18Tony's Harold wash plant has run the last of its pay pile,
00:51:23putting the king a plant down in his battle to beat Parker.
00:51:29We're still going, sluicing away with three and a go.
00:51:33As long as the weather is holding up, we will be sluicing.
00:51:37If that means you're missing a night of sleep, we'll still be it.
00:51:41But we've got to go, we've got to go.
00:51:43Tony heads back to Indian River to keep his two shaker decks on the gold,
00:51:51leaving youngest son Mike at Paradise Hill
00:51:54to finish a stockpile at the beat's biggest gold producer, the Trump.
00:52:02The end is nigh.
00:52:04I am looking forward to being done for the year, because I am tired,
00:52:07but I'm going to have to run as 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 bank, 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.
00:52:26I'll be there in a second.
00:52:27Copy.
00:52:29And I really don't need no big problems today.
00:52:37What the kind of idiot?
00:52:42Look 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.
00:53:10The 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!
00:53:52Starter!
00:53:52Starter!
00:53:54Starter!
00:53:56Starter!
00:53:59Starter!
00:54:00Starter!
00:54:02Starter!
00:54:02There's a f**k ton of rocks.
00:54:04Big rocks.
00:54:05As you can see coming out.
00:54:09It's a long and painful process of just getting in there and pulling it out.
00:54:15As far as the trommel goes, it's the biggest s**t up I've ever seen.
00:54:24Watch out, gentlemen!
00:54:25on. Halfway through his day shift, Mike has enough cleared to open up the bypass and flush the rest
00:54:34of the rocks and the gold rich pay dirt. Love to hear that. That's the sound of money washing away.
00:54:43Turn on the distributor, please.
00:54:55It's . It's .
00:54:58He says it's . Huh?
00:55:02He went like this. He says it's .
00:55:10The motor's fried.
00:55:18Kill it.
00:55:24The motor's broken.
00:55:31Ah, get that one off. Get him to bring it up here.
00:55:40At Paradise Hill, after clearing a rock jam in the Trommels distributor, now it won't fire up.
00:55:47Leaving the beets with just two plants running.
00:55:51Ah, you .
00:55:52And only days of sluicing left.
00:55:54Whoa.
00:55:56It's a little out of the crispy side.
00:55:59Rock got caught, and if jam the stopped and the motor couldn't turn.
00:56:05Unable to turn the distributor, the motor burnt itself out and needs replacing.
00:56:13I 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.
00:56:24If I could be sluicing tonight, that's if everything goes right.
00:56:28But 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 locks on.
00:56:58Come on.
00:57:08Ah, there it is.
00:57:15Hey, you.
00:57:15Got it working again.
00:57:17Awesome.
00:57:31After eight hours shut down, Mike has the Beats family empire back to running three plants for the final push.
00:57:44It was quite a disaster today.
00:57:46Yeah.
00:57:47Good job, man.
00:57:48That's all I can say.
00:57:49Unfortunately, I'm experienced in it.
00:57:52I know.
00:58:14The temperatures are well below freezing.
00:58:18Was hoping to be in a better place than we are right now.
00:58:21But it is what it is.
00:58:23We still got pay dirt here.
00:58:24And we've got a cut that needs to be down to gravel.
00:58:27We'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.
00:58:38And Mitch wants to finish ahead 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.
00:58:52Got quite a bit of pay here to get through.
00:58:55I'm not a real big fan of the night shifts, but the 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.
00:59:22Then 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, gonna 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.
01:00:06Seeing 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.
01:00:39I know.
01:00:40Come on, baby.
01:00:41Come on.
01:00:45Come on.
01:00:46Come on.
01:00:47Come on.
01:00:47Come on.
01:00:47Come on.
01:00:47Come on.
01:00:48Come on.
01:00:48Come on.
01:00:51Come on.
01:00:52Yeah, buddy.
01:00:52We're rolling it now.
01:00:54The horse power side by side here, Mitch.
01:00:57Buddy, there it is.
01:00:58Look at that pile of dirt.
01:01:08I'm starting to see some gravel here kicking up.
01:01:11How are you looking?
01:01:12Yeah, I think I'm starting to see you the same here.
01:01:15Hell yeah.
01:01:17Let'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
01:01:29to 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, but that tooth is not going to make it through the rest
01:02:03of this.
01:02:04At Kennan Stewart's, Mitch Blaschke's mission to rip a frozen cut by morning has ground to a halt.
01:02:14You can see here, this is our ripper tooth.
01:02:15When you're ripping in this gravel, it's so abrasive that this last little bit that's left here,
01:02:21like that'll be gone in a couple of 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, the ripper shank will be damaged.
01:02:38Sun'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!
01:02:55Is it heavy?
01:02:58We're going to rip down, throw it on that dozer.
01:03:01Get back out there.
01:03:06Found one, buddy!
01:03:10You ready?
01:03:16Perfect.
01:03:17All right, let's get back out there.
01:03:19We're about out of time.
01:03:19Sounds good.
01:03:26Yeah, buddy, here we go.
01:03:29Back in action.
01:03:37We just got to get this last little bit ripped.
01:03:39We're going to have this thing done.
01:03:51Well, Brennan, I'm seeing lots of rock in this. I 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.
01:04:13Man, what a project, dude. What 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.
01:04:36It'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.
01:04:46Well, here comes the boss now.
01:04:55What's happening?
01:04:56Well, you know.
01:05:00It's a beautiful day.
01:05:01Yeah.
01:05:04We knew it was coming.
01:05:06Yeah.
01:05:08Hopefully it doesn't hang out for too long, get it to burn off.
01:05:11It'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. Appreciate it.
01:05:41It's just so awesome to see what we've accomplished this season, but the best boat is now.
01:05:47It's time to go home and I need to spend some time with my family.
01:05:50He's done an incredible job, but regardless of that, we've got a lot of ground still to mine.
01:06:09There's just some sweet stuff.
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 hopefully it's going to deliver us close to 420 ounces
01:06:28you know i'm pretty confident that we'll get a good clean out on this but will it be enough
01:06:33i'm not sure if we can get our 1800 ounce gold rick will give us a gold bonus so
01:06:39i'm going to cross my fingers we're out of pay we got to shut down that's it
01:06:48shut it down with the last chance pay done rick calls time on the season that's it
01:06:59now we just got to hope that the gold's in the box
01:07:02we gotta 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
01:07:13for the make or break final gold way of this season
01:07:18what a year a little stressful yeah this year was around first all year
01:07:25hello you guys are all here waiting on me all right i got a present for you
01:07:31oh
01:07:34oh here's my drink yeah
01:07:36oh look at that thank you sir yeah in the season we made it through another one though
01:07:41yeah yeah time to find out if they've banked enough gold to make their bonus and secure
01:07:48their future or if it's time for rick to sell up i don't i don't ever want to start a
01:07:56season
01:07:56like we did this year it's just this water licensing it's just so tough we were lucky to
01:08:00find some ground this spring and you know we got some gold out of it i think there's gold
01:08:04there it's a it's it's definitely good for the future i don't know what you guys think
01:08:08about it but would you come back for lightning creek that's uh i hate to be in that dude but
01:08:14that's a tough one for me to come back to if we don't have a water license for duncan creek
01:08:19i'm gonna be honest man i'm in limbo yeah for sure um i don't know what it looks like yeah
01:08:24i'll be
01:08:24honest with you we're just trying to survive this season at the moment well maybe we should see what
01:08:30we got it let's do it let's do it i'm sure you're dying to know right we are to hit
01:08:36his 1800 ounce
01:08:38goal rick needs the last chance cut to deliver 420 ounces all right moment of truth
01:08:5010 20 30 50 60 70 80 90 100
01:09:14131.91
01:09:21oh but we got more all right there's 100
01:09:30there's no 100 that means 431.91
01:09:41that's it on that last one week cleanup worth over one million seven hundred and twenty seven
01:09:50thousand dollars 1811.56 that's so close it's ridiculous yeah yeah nice job guys great that last
01:10:01chance paid off it paid off it paid off 100 rick's final total is worth over seven million two hundred
01:10:12and forty six thousand dollars that's awesome isn't it yeah right like it looked bad this season for a
01:10:20while but we're set we got everything we need and you guys get the bonus you deserve so there's a
01:10:27bonus
01:10:27in every one of these jars for you guys nice you guys earned it you guys earned it no you
01:10:32earned it
01:10:32thank you thank you you worked damn hard for it there's not a season that we haven't been with you
01:10:38that we have not hit our total now if there's a team to do it it's us jerry jerry thanks
01:10:45much
01:10:47it was not an easy one it was hard fought a lot of bull there's some uncertainty but for now
01:10:54we hit
01:10:55eighteen hundred ounces and we get our gold bonus it was a hard season i did not think we were
01:11:01going
01:11:01to do it but we did it i'm ready to keep getting gold and i can't wait till next year
01:11:05this was a close
01:11:06one uh we hit our goal we beat it by 11 ounces that's insanely close this season was a fight
01:11:13there's no doubt about that right from the get-go it just had disaster written all over it this industry
01:11:18man it beats it out of you tony and parker offered me a lot of money for this ground um
01:11:22i'm going to
01:11:23leave on my own terms and if parker and tony are still offering when that time comes well then there
01:11:27we
01:11:27go but we get through this year we can get through any year
01:11:44well what do you think guys i think it's getting cold tony our balls are almost freezing off
01:11:49so we like to keep on going anyway it's time to shut it down anyway i think so
01:11:59it's closing time across the beats family empire last bucket eh yep last bucket of pay we're finally
01:12:07done yeah so let's shut her down and then we got a full cleanup yep and as tony shuts down
01:12:18big red dead for the season parker's crew also called time on the season we're done
01:12:30good job we did it that's a hell of a pit to get done yeah when we started it i
01:12:35didn't think we'd
01:12:36get through it all i mean the golden mile was literally a mile let's get a cleanup done and see
01:12:42what's in it whatever tony's gone i want to get more it's time for a final gold way shootout to
01:12:59see
01:12:59who is the yukon's top dog mining mogul parker schnabel or klondike kingpin tony beats
01:13:09both have four plants to weigh with tony just 120 ounces in the lead
01:13:22hi guys all right hi monica guys this is our last gold way then kevin and faith just pulled up
01:13:31perfect
01:13:31it's good that we get the show on the road before tony's gold hits the scales he wants to see
01:13:40where
01:13:40his young pup has ended up kevin owes his dad and landlord 10 percent royalties on all his gold
01:13:49how are you like paying bills oh not very well is that a surprise yeah i never worry about that
01:13:57stuff that's the thing i know that's the problem i think we're the same in that manner you're actually
01:14:01admitting you're a little bit the same as your father oh that's definitely where we're alike
01:14:06anyway are you gonna hit your goal don't know that's why we brought our jars here fingers crossed
01:14:12kevin has three weeks of running to weigh he needs nearly 800 ounces over double his best
01:14:21ever gold haul to hit his 2 000 ounce goal so let's see what we've got here you go shut
01:14:31up 10 20 40 60 70
01:14:3690 100 120 150 180 189 200 220 230 50 260 270 300 330 350 376 376.16
01:14:58so how much was your total now there's 1591. well you're gonna be able to mine next year
01:15:05i mean it's a good thing the gold price is this high starting next season be a little stressful
01:15:12for uh yeah we get to come back next year wait are you sure you're happy about that some more
01:15:19suffering
01:15:22kevin finishes over 400 ounces below target but with record gold prices his 1591 ounce haul
01:15:33is still worth over 6.3 million dollars i'm personally happy to hear that you guys are coming back next
01:15:42year thank you thank you we should probably weigh up some stuff now for the main event so parker had
01:15:49a
01:15:50good season i think i can beat parker let's find a lot you're putting in okay do it first up
01:15:59find a
01:16:00lot's gold from the corner cut where it's averaging 250 ounces a week 140 170 200 202.18 that's it
01:16:13yeah well
01:16:15that's what that's what that's okay done on to the next one sluice a lot okay sluice a lot here
01:16:20we go
01:16:21sluice a lot ran tony's new early bird cut extension that earlier in the season delivered 300 ounces a
01:16:29week 210 to 30 to 40 to 50 to 66.96 that's pretty damn good i mean that cut did
01:16:39very good this spring
01:16:40that the early bird did very good on the end good start good finish that's right absolutely that works
01:16:48so that was all the indian river stuff tony's indian river haul brings his total to 10 681
01:16:57ounces stretching his lead over parker by nearly 600 ounces you should do the hill stuff now yes as the
01:17:05king
01:17:05prepares his next gold pour 10 miles away yo yo the mining mogul is getting ready to fight back
01:17:17do you realize collectively we have sluiced over 10 000 hours this year yeah we were busy
01:17:25i was just doing the numbers we sluiced 2 million yards oh i'd be surprised if tony beats us yep
01:17:33okay
01:17:34should we weigh some gold all right let's do it this is roxanne first up wash plant roxanne with the
01:17:44last
01:17:44of the gold from cannon stewart's which last week delivered 134 ounces 60 80 and
01:18:0294.90 not bad
01:18:05it's not bad it yeah
01:18:08the lone soul bob next wash plant bob with the final bridge cut gold
01:18:16averaging 140 ounces a week 40 70 90
01:18:29103.75
01:18:34yeah not bad it's not bad triple digits yeah parker's total is up to 10 288 clawing tony's lead down
01:18:46to less
01:18:46than 400 ounces with the golden mile still to weigh
01:18:51but the king is now ready to tally up his final two plants start with harold michael yep
01:19:00harold has been running hester cut pay last week it brought in 130 ounces let's go 20 30 40 50
01:19:1160 70
01:19:1380 90 100 110 110 120 130 132.12 nice to see mike it is a nice little hole all
01:19:25right so we've got our last one
01:19:27are you ready to be jealous i'm gonna be annoyed aren't i one last up mike's trommel two the monster
01:19:35plant's
01:19:36been running paradise hills white channel pay
01:19:39averaging 320 ounces a week ready
01:19:4420 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110
01:19:54120 130 140 150 170 180 190 200 210 240 250 260 270
01:20:03280 280 3 3 30 350 350 370 380 390 410 417.36 hot damn two million bucks
01:20:16not best for the last little haul that's amazing our biggest season ever the beats finish with a colossal
01:20:24season total of eleven thousand two hundred and thirty one ounces worth a massive 45 million dollars
01:20:35it was a great season guys let's wrap her up and let's get on and off let's get ready for
01:20:40the next one
01:20:41that was a good season my friend it was a damn good season things fell in place
01:20:47yep it's just nice to see at our age to come all this together that way yeah but really i'm
01:20:53ready
01:20:53to go start next spring not me i want to have a holiday first i almost guarantee i'll be the
01:20:58first one
01:20:59back in the yukon
01:21:03tony 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 all righty let's see how the golden
01:21:19mile finished off parker is combining his golden goose and big red wash plants into one final double
01:21:26pour together they ran the end of the golden mile the richest cut parker's mind this season 130 180
01:21:36220 240 keeps coming eh 260 300
01:21:50307.95
01:21:56so where'd we end up this week 506.6
01:22:03our season total 10 596.45 ounces
01:22:12i'm just gonna say 10 600 i'm sure there's three extra ounces in that safe somewhere
01:22:17well done gentlemen well done that's awesome six three parker finishes 630 ounces behind tony the now
01:22:28undisputed king of the klondike but his 10 600 ounces is still parker's biggest ever season haul
01:22:39worth 42 million dollars we had a really good season you know this last week i think probably could
01:22:48have pulled a little more gold out if we didn't have as many problems as we did but overall you
01:22:52know
01:22:53super solid gear parker's such a smart miner as i look back through the years from a snot-nosed
01:23:01kid at 38 ounces for his first season to 10 000 ounces now it's amazing just totally amazing
01:23:11we'll be back next year and we'll hopefully do even more and i'm ready to hunt for the next big
01:23:18project
01:23:18right like the elephant gun is loaded and we need to find where to go next
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