11x08 - Lost Gold of Paradise Hill

[bunniefuu]

Come on, let's go!

Whoa.

Narrator:
On this "gold rush"...

I might go try to find us
some ground in alaska.

We'll try
and keep her on track.

Narrator:
Parker hunts for new ground,

Leaving his crew in charge.

The bottom line here,
man, parker's not here

And we're gonna do it my way.

Whoa! Hey, hey, hang on!

If you're telling me
you're cool with that set up

Right there, you need to
[bleep] rethink your game, man.

Look at that hole.

Narrator:
On his road to redemption...

[bleep] god [bleep] damn it.

Narrator: Rick ness...

Oh, man.

Narrator:
...Faces a crisis...

It's a [bleep] disaster.

I don't know
what we're gonna do.

Narrator: ...And tony beets
pulls out all the stops

In his hunt for lost gold.

-Tony!
-What? No!

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♪♪

Things here are running good.

The biggest challenge
we face right now

Is that we are running
out of good ground.

Narrator: Halfway through
the shortest season ever,

25-year-old parker schnabel
is about to make a big move

To expand
his gold mining empire.

A good friend of mine
gave me a lead

On a pretty good piece of ground
just outside of fairbanks

That's for sale.

That's $3 million deal.

♪♪

Narrator: With gold prices
at a record high,

Parker's building
a w*r chest to buy

The new ground in alaska.

Despite the late start
to the season,

He's already banked as much gold
as this time last year.

We need to make some money
up here and a lot of that needs

To go towards
exploring new property

And finding more
and better ground.

♪♪

Narrator: But now,
for the first time,

Parker is leaving
his mine site

In the middle of the season.

It concerns me a little bit
because there's a lot

Of judgment calls that get made

And I like being involved
in making them.

♪♪

So I'm just about to hit
the road...

[ speaks indistinctly ]

I'm gonna go try to
find us some ground in alaska.

We definitely are gonna
need something here

Sooner than later.

And mitch, while I'm gone,
you'll be in charge.

I got it.

All right, while I'm gone,

My main concern

Is getting sluicifer moved
to right here.

Uh-huh.

Tyson should be able
to move their plant and deal

With all of their ditches
and whatnot.

But I'd like you to just keep
a finger on the pulse

If he starts getting
stretched too thin.

Okay.

We can't afford to have
sluicifer down

Or we are gonna
be in trouble.

We'll try
and keep her on track.

I know you will.

[ laughs ]

Sounds good, man.
Let's make this happen.

-All right.
-Thank you.

Okay.

♪♪

Wanna come with me?

Hopefully I come back
to a nice set up

And not a wash plant
upside down on the ground.

♪♪

♪♪

Parker's giving us
a lot of big tasks here,

Keep wash plants running,

We're gonna have to move
sluicifer,

And then just try
and keep opening ground.

So we've got a lot
on our plate.

But, you know,
I feel really good

That he's trusting us with
just run the operation here.

Narrator:
Co-foreman mitch blaschke,

And brennan ruault
a running wash plant, big red,

After a recent move,

They're now more than halfway
through the cut.

Things are running
really nice here at big red.

We've got a nice big cut.

Took us a little bit longer
to get it how we wanted it

And where we wanted it.

But it's certainly paying off.

It's pretty consistent.

It's always
clicking off nice clean ups

And got the end of the year,
it adds up to a lot of gold.

Parker's away and he's left
not only us in charge

Of taking care of big red here,

But also he wants me to go down
see what's going on sluicifer.

I really hope things
are looking as nice down there

As they are here,
but we're gonna go check it out.

♪♪

Narrator:
Over in parker's new claim,

The promised land,

Tyson lee
is running wash plant sluicifer.

He's off to a strong start
this season

Despite never having
run a plant before.

♪♪

That's crazy.

Look at how small this cut is,
just the shape of this cut.

How narrow it is.

Makes it really tough.

And you've got a wash plant
that low to the ground

And you've got to constantly
be babysitting it.

♪♪

What's happening?

Just getting ready
to move sluicifer.

So what's your game plan here?

Parker said to me
before he left

That he wanted
to wash plant upstream

And he wants it set up low.

So we got to get this done
and get sluicing

By the end of the week.

That's never how we've mined
in the past.

You got to have some room
and these are big wash plants

That need big cuts, big area.

Put the wash plant up on a hill.
You got this spot over here.

Try and set your plant up on it.
Get some height.

It's gonna buy you
a lot of time

And give you a lot
more freedom down here.

Narrator: Before he left,
parker told tyson

To move sluicifer 150 yards
from its current location

To a low pad
in a small new cut

With easy access to pay dirt.

Mitch wants to move the plant
twice as far,

Put it on a high pad,
and open up a much bigger cut

That way,
they won't have to stop

And move the plant again.

Every time you're moving
a wash plant,

Well, it's not
making you money.

That's a lot of gold
at the end of the season,

You're not gonna see
on a table.

Yeah, well, I mean, man,
it's his sandbox

And I'm just playing in it.

I just don't want to get in
[bleep], you know,

When he gets back.

He's not gonna like it,

But parker's not here.

I'm running things now.

At the end of the day,

He's gonna appreciate
at the end of the season

When he sees a lot more gold
on the table, all right?

All right, thanks.

Tyson is trying
to do everything

That parker wants done.

I'm not out here
trying to piss him off

Or do things a different way
than he wants them done,

But I'm out here to make this
company work and make money.

And that's why we're gonna
change all this [bleep]

Running down here.

Come on, quit [bleep] around.

Let's go!

♪♪

Parker said to me
before he left,

He wants that wash plant
sitting over there

In that cut
before he gets back,

And if it's not, it'll probably
mean I'm packing my bags.

So, you know, that's just --
it's not an option.

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator: At paradise hill,

Yukon legend tony beets
is betting on three decades

Of mining experience
to cash in on high gold prices.

Halfway through the season,

Tony has mined
732 ounces of gold,

Most of it from the mega cut

Using son mike's
monster trommel.

Now, tony is taking a gamble
on a pile of tailings

Left behind by old timers

That could hold
millions in gold.

Tony spent the last two days
getting his 50-ton shaker deck

Down to the site.

Now he needs his crew
to rebuild the plant

And get it running
before the end of the week

So that he can stop spending
money and start banking gold.

But there's a problem,
the tailings pile

Is on a steep slope

And the only place
for the wash plant

Is a narrow ledge.

Runoff from the sluices
would quickly undermine the pad.

So tony will bring in
an old pearson box wash plant,

Weld it to the end
of the sluices, and extend it

With a 20-foot chute

To funnel water away
from the hillside.

♪♪

Good to go.

Narrator: With heavy load
specialist mike

Busy running the trommel,
it's down to len hoekstra

To operate the 50-ton crane.

Now, tony will use
two old dredge pontoons

And backfill them
to shore up the narrow pad

So he can bring
in the hopper feeder.

[ horn honking ]

Each pontoon
weighs three tons.

Ruby: Try to prevent it
from swinging into the crane.

[ speaks indistinctly ]
...To hit that thing.

Oh, [bleep].

-[ groans ]
-oh, my gosh.

Tony?

♪♪

Ruby: Oh, [bleep].

-[ groans ]
-oh, my gosh.

Tony?

♪♪

Yes.

Stick it...

Thank [bleep] [bleep].

♪♪

♪♪

And stop, stop,
stop, stop, stop.

Len: [ groans ]

Narrator: With the hopper feeder
and large conveyer in place,

Tony's taken a giant
step forward in his plan

To recover
a mountain of forgotten gold.

♪♪

♪♪

Rick: These last couple of years
have been rough,

Just breaking even.

This year was --
was not gonna be

A failure like last year.

Narrator: At duncan creek,

Rick ness is fighting
to catch up

After starting
his make or break season

Two weeks
behind parker and tony.

Rick:
I'm all business this year.

I'm focused on profit.

Last year, I spent a whole bunch
of [bleep] money

I didn't have in a year
where I didn't make any money.

And this year is all about,
you know,

I wouldn't say being cheap,
but doing things smart.

Narrator: His crew is digging
pay dirt from the gold rich,

Cheap cut extension.

Last week, rick had his best
gold weigh so far this season,

More than 80 ounces.

Rick:
Last week was a great week.

Everybody's working
really hard.

I want to get everybody paid

And I want to do it
with the least amount of stress.

Just keeping it simple,
and that's -- that's gonna be

The key
to getting back on track,

You know,
after a year like last year.

Narrator: To make the most
of the good gold,

Rick brings in new operator
ben bellai.

This is benny.

-How you doing, buddy?
-Ben. Nice to meet you.

-Thanks for coming up.
-No worries, man.

I can't believe
carl has friends.

Yeah, nice.

I hate to break it to you
right off the bat,

But gonna kind of have to use
and abuse you.

[bleep] right.

We've all been doing it.

So that's where we're
at in the season.

-No problem.
-All right, let's go.

-[bleep] yeah.
-All right.

-Right on. Let's go.
-Let's go.

♪♪

These are nuggets,
it looks good.

However, they don't weigh much.

It's the fine gold
that adds up.

Narrator: In the gold room,

Karla ann washes concentrate
from two days

Of running
to separate out the fine gold.

We've been doing cleanups every
20 hours just to stay consistent

And try to read the ground
a little bit better,

But for whatever reason,

This cleanup
is not looking so hot.

I'm not sure why.

It's that fine gold
that usually is there.

It's just not here this time.

Rick, you copy?

Yeah, go for rick.

Hey, just wanted to let you know
some of our fine gold

Just isn't here.

[bleep] are you serious?

It's a bit bizarre just because
it's been so consistent.

Okay, I'll head over there.

Yeah, copy.

Hope he can find an answer.

I'm a little bit worried
that our number is gonna be

Off and ruin our our streak.

Rick: [ groans ]

Well, that's not good.

Hey, carl, you got a copy?

Hey, rick.

You're gonna have to
just drop what you're doing,

Get down to the wash plant,
gold is going down.

That scares me.

What the [bleep] going on?

♪♪

I see water coming out of runs.
There's got to be a hold.

It isn't good.
We're losing gold.

We'll shut her down.

[ machine whirring down ]

Look at that [bleep] hole.

It's worn right out.

[bleep] me.

We can't run like that.

We can't have dirt
coming out of there, right?

Because that dirt's
got gold in it.

Narrator: Gold rich pay dirt
enters the plant and travels

Across the upper sluice runs

Where the heavier gold
is caught in the middle riffles.

♪♪

Finer material passes
into the distribution box,

Which sends it evenly
to the lower sluice runs.

A hole in the box means
some of the gold is being lost.

♪♪

-Got some holes, my friend.
-Some holes?

Yeah.

[bleep] damn it.

It's [bleep] bad.

Got a couple there
and another one right there.

Holy [bleep].

It looks scabby as [bleep].

We're gonna have to rebuild
the whole floor, obviously.

Are you [bleep] serious?

It's a big job, we've got
to pull this distribution,

We're gonna pull both runs off

And I gotta drop the main box.

So it's quite a bit
of work here, eh?

You know, it could take me
a couple of days.

[ bleep ]

I don't want to do any more
than you want to do, right,

But I don't know
what other options are.

Narrator: Every hour the plant
is down costs rick

More than $1,500 in lost gold.

We're just gonna have to try
and throw a patch on it.

I don't think there's any way
I'm gonna be welding that.

It's still worn out, right?

It's a [bleep]
pain in the a*s,

But we're not gonna have
the time to do this right.

I'm not happy, but I'll give it
my best shot.

All right.

This steel in the plant's
just wearing out,

So we've got holes where all
the material's flowing.

It needs to be rebuilt,

But we don't have the time
to do it properly.

Just gonna put some
band-A*DS on it.

Narrator: To get back running

As quickly
and cheaply as possible...

Hey, carl,
I got your plate here.

Okay, thanks, buddy.

Narrator: ...Mechanic carl rosk
will weld a steel plate

Onto the base of the box

To cover the holes and prevent
any more gold being lost.

Carl just needs to cover
the holes

In the distribution box
so we stop losing gold.

It's tricky to weld
in that position,

But if he covers them up,
it should be fine.

We'll be back to
washing rocks in no time.

Oh, man.

We don't have the luxury
of time that...

[ speaks indistinctly ]

...So we're gonna do
a complete scab job on it.

Oh, [bleep].

♪♪

♪♪

-How's it going, buddy?
-Oh, pretty good.

I'm gonna go spend
some time down at sluicifer.

If you need me
back here, just holler at me.

I'm gonna just see
if I can give those guys a hand

For a little bit, get things
straightened out.

All right.

Narrator: On indian river,
coforeman mitch blaschke

Is in charge
of parker's operation.

I guess this is what it means
to be the boss.

You got to go
where you're needed most.

You know,
with parker being away

And I want to take
the reins here

And run the show.

I'm gonna go down to sluicifer
just check on things,

See how they're going.

Hopefully they got a nice setup

And put sluicifer
where it needs to be.

Narrator: Mitch told rookie
plant boss tyson

To ignore parker's orders

And follow his plan for moving
and setting up the plant.

Mitch: You got to be
[bleep] kidding me.

God, it's just a joke.

What the [bleep] is going on?

Hey, hey, hang on!

Tyson: [ bleep ]

Narrator: But tyson is sticking
to parker's orders,

Hauling sluicifer to a nearby
low lying location in the cut.

What's the story with this?

I told you not to
do it that way.

What do you expect me to do?

Parker's in here
telling you to cut corners

And you know
what's gonna lead to this?

You got to straighten him out.

When he comes at you
with a stupid idea,

You got to tell him that.

You know how much of a hard head
he can have over stuff.

You can't just tell the boss
what he wants to hear.

You have to tell him
what needs to be done.

If you're telling me you're cool
with that set up right there,

You need to [bleep]
rethink your game, man.

♪♪

♪♪

Mitch: There's nothing worse
than the boss leaves,

Comes back to disaster.

That's not what we want
to happening here.

Narrator: Mitch blaschke is in
charge of parker's operation,

But rookie plant boss tyson lee
has ignored his instructions

And spent hours hauling
sluicifer away from the pad

He told him to put it on.

Tyson: Want to keep this train
on the rails here

While parker's gone.

I don't want to have to give him
a call here

Saying that [bleep]
hit the fan.

♪♪

Hey, tyson,
you got a second?

Sorry for losing it
on yesterday.

That's not the kind of boss
I want to be.

Yeah.

Was just heat of the moment
sort of thing, so.

Yeah.

Yeah, well, thanks, man,
I appreciate it.

You know what, mitch, you have
more seniority than I do,

So we'll move
the plant your way.

I think it'll work better
for everybody if we get

This thing set up right,
it should run pretty smooth.

Well, everybody knows
what they need to do.

-Yeah.
-Well, let's do it.

Okay, let's go!

Narrator: Now,
following mitch's plan,

Tyson must drag the massive
45-ton wash plant

More than 300 yards
along a narrow track

And onto a high path
above the cut.

Pull straight
and then turn 90. Yep.

Narrator: It's a longer,
steeper route

For the 80-foot long plant.

How's the other side
looking, nick?

Can you suck into you
a little bit more?

Just a little bit more, yes.

Whoa, damn.

Nick! [bleep].

Just track with it, ty!

Narrator: But if the move goes
to plan, they can run it here

For the rest of the season
and save on downtime.

It takes some time
and some effort

To set them
up on the mountain.

It's not easy,
but once you get it there

And you get it established,
the amount of time you get

Well, worth it.

Away from me, away from me.

Whoa!

[ bleep ]

It is soft.

There we go, there we go.

Good.

Two feet to edge.

Hold it right there.

-Hey, hey!
-Whoa!

♪♪

-A little short?
-Yeah.

The back of the pontoon's
got to be here

For a sh**t
over the back brake.

We've moved sluicifer.

We got it up in the air here,

But tyson doesn't
have enough room.

That's a big drop.

Once you go over the edge,
no coming back.

Looking like I'm gonna
have to go over.

Oh, man.

We'll drag it over.

♪♪

You're on your own now, bud.
Sink or swim.

Just go nice and slow
so it doesn't ski off.

♪♪

All right, all right.

♪♪

That starts off down into
this mud, we could be screwed.

-Keep her going.
-Keep going?

♪♪

♪♪

Whoa!

I'm calling it good.

Awesome.

-Nice job, buddy.
-Thanks, man.

-Beautiful work.
-Thanks, man.

It's looking nice!

Yeah.

Narrator: This super stack
is the last part of the plant

To be brought over and connected
before they can fire back up.

That's awesome.

-Whoo!
-Good job.

-All right, buddy.
-Here we go.

♪♪

Time to make some money!

All right, alec, let's go!

♪♪

Here she comes.

♪♪

You know, this certainly
wasn't easy,

But we got sluicifer down here
on the best wash plant pad

It's probably ever had
and everything's running smooth.

Everybody's gonna get
to do their job

And not have to k*ll themselves
to make all this work.

♪♪

-Well, we found a new home.
-Yeah, for now.

Better late than never.

Let's get as much gold out
of the ground as possible.

Nice job.

-Right on.
-Looks good.

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator: At paradise hill,

Tony beets
is rebuilding his shaker deck

To run an old timer tailings

And cash in
on high gold prices.

[ horn honks ]

Narrator:
Before he can start running,

He needs to connect the plant
to a water intake pond

More than half a mile away.

So he's building
a massive plastic pipeline.

Beautiful!

Well, the machines
are fusing machines

So we're fusing
the pipe together.

So that's all gonna
be one pipe.

♪♪

Okay, swing this way.

♪♪

Gonna put on the heat pad
and melt it.

♪♪

Fuel pipes become one.

We're gonna make the pipeline
go from the pump

All the way to the shaker deck
about 3,100 feet.

♪♪

It's probably gonna take
two days to get this all done.

Narrator:
Sinking this much time,

Money, and manpower
into the shaker deck is a risk,

But it could pay off big time.

♪♪

♪♪

-Whoa!
-Yeah!

Narrator: At paradise hill,
tony beets

Is determined to fire up
his shaker deck

And run old timer tailings
before the end of the week.

♪♪

In just two days,

Kevin's put together
a half-mile long pipeline.

Yep.

Copy, kevin.

Yep.

Cool.

♪♪

We have water, we have power,
we're good to go.

♪♪

[ machine starts ]

Kevin: Shaker's turning on,
everyone clear.

♪♪

Shaker's on.

Yep, open it.

♪♪

Ruby: Here we go.

This is the first bucket...
[ speaks indistinctly ]

♪♪

That's beautiful.

Narrator: After three days,
the plant is up and running.

If it catches an ounce of gold
every hour,

Tony will quickly start
to turn a profit.

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator: At duncan creek,

Rick's operation
is at a standstill.

Carl has discovered holes

In the wash plant's
distribution box

Where gold is escaping

And rick is losing thousands
of dollars in gold.

This steel in the plant's
just wearing out

So we've got holes.

The gold's gonna go
right out that hole first

Before it ever goes back into
our secondary sluice boxes.

Narrator: Rick has ordered carl
to quickly patch the holes

And get the plant running.

The steel distribution box
has worn so thin,

Carl's welding rods are burning
straight through the metal.

We don't have the time to
[bleep] disassemble

This whole thing.

Narrator: To remove
the distribution box

From the plant and rebuild it

Would take three days,
costing rick upwards

Of $55,000 in lost gold.

I thought this was gonna be
an easy fix, but carl can't weld

A patch over that
because the [bleep] steel

In the distribution box
is so thin,

You just keep
blowing holes through it.

It's gonna take [bleep]
days to try

And replace that whole box.

And with such a short season,

I can't afford to be down
for days.

It's a [bleep] disaster.

I don't know
what we're gonna do.

♪♪

Wait.
-What?

Take a conveyor belt.

Yeah.

And bolt
a conveyor belt through.

Dude, that might not be
a bad idea, let's do that.

Okay.

I know it's hillbilly,
but that's way easier, rick.

Narrator: Rick's fix --

Attach a piece of conveyor belt
along the length

Of the distribution box,

Protecting the box
from wearing out

And preventing gold
from falling through the holes.

♪♪

We're cutting this to go
in our distribution box,

See how we can hillbilly fix
this and get her running again,

Get back on the gold.

♪♪

There you go.

-That's covering the holes.
-This'll work.

Hammer some [bleep]
bolts through it.

We'll be in business.

-That's a good idea.
-Mark!

Yo!

-Here you go, buddy.
-Thanks, buddy.

[ tool whirring ]

[ laughs ]

There you go.

♪♪

Good.

Dude, that looked good, man.

Narrator: After five hours,

The rubber belt is in place.

Oh, I can barely move.

[ laughs ]

Well, all in all, though,
it turned out pretty good,

Yeah, I'm pretty happy with it.

[bleep] yeah, the rubber was
a good idea, my friend.

Crisis averted.

It's not something to really
look at and be proud of.

The main thing is
there's no hole there for gold

To escape through,
so no matter what it looks like,

As long as it does its job.

Let's go! Fire it up.

Narrator: If rick's bush
fix has worked,

It will have saved
three days of downtime.

Man: Bingo. Just add water.

♪♪

Well, we're back sluicing.

Hopefully,
those patches hold up,

But we're gonna have to wait
until we do a cleanup up,

We get a good one
then we know they work.

♪♪

♪♪

Oh, [bleep]. The truck.

Narrator: At paradise hill,

Len is trucking urgent supplies
to the shaker deck.

♪♪

I drove from the hill then
it died on me.

Tony's waiting for me.

They're going to try to fix it.

I know there is some juice.

I got to try.

[ engine stalls ]

I think that's a battery
for a flashlight.

I need that big battery.
So close, but so far.

Narrator: Len is forced
to admit defeat.

Len: Hopefully with a little
bit more power,

I could start it up again.

♪♪

Try that.

[ engine starts ]

♪♪

-Hey.
-Hey, mitch.

-Hey, hey.
-What's going on?

Narrator:
Coforeman mitch blaschke

Is running parker's whole
indian river operation

While parker's off
prospecting in alaska.

How are you holding up, mitch?

Oh, man, there's just a lot on
the plate these days, for sure.

Just to make sure wash plants
are running and make sure

That parker gets back,
he's happy with what he sees.

Me and tyson, we're about
throwing rocks

At one another.

[ laughter ]

But it all worked out.
-Yeah.

Think you handled it great.

I think parker just can be
thrilled to death

When he gets back
and you got his back,

You know, you got him covered.

It's great.

You guys are washing rocks
and I'm cleaning

Gold down there.

It's a steady flow.
-It's good to hear.

Like a well-oiled machine.

I don't know about that.

[ laughter ]

It's been kind of a test drive
for me here, you know,

For parker
to give me the reins here

And say, hey, go ahead
and run this operation.

You know,
it's one of those things.

I don't know what
the future holds.

I never thought nine years ago
I'd still be mining, you know,

And who knows where
I'll be in another nine

Or 10 years, you know?

♪♪

♪♪

We'll start it out.

Narrator: At duncan creek,

Rick's crew has run pay dirt
for two days

Since repairing the hole

In the wash plant's
distribution box.

-Anything?
-I haven't seen any.

They look like brown water.

Sometimes you see it,
sometimes you don't.

I really need this to be good.

Narrator: It's time
to clean out the plant

And see if rick's bush fix
has worked.

Fingers crossed.

Just gotta rinse it good.
-Yeah.

Oh, yeah!

-Can I get one, too, or what?
-Here, buddy.

On a week
that could've been a disaster

If not for carl finding a hole
in the sluice box.

You and your fix there, buddy.

I was thinking we were gonna
be down for a bit,

But that rubber
sure fixed it, man.

Like, that's a kick a*s fix,
man.

It's less kick a*s and it's more
cheap and slap it together.

So it [bleep] works.
-But it worked, dude.

It worked.

It works good, man.
Give me a lot of work.

[ laughs ]

Should we check the damage
from this week?

Yeah.

Yeah, let him feel that, rick.

Yeah, check that out, buddy.

Narrator: To stay on track
for his 1,000 ounce season goal,

Rick needs at least
67 ounces.

We got 10...

♪♪

20...

30...

40...

♪♪

56.34.

-Yeah!
-Oh, yeah.

Narrator:
Worth more than $95,000.

Bringing his season total
so far to 300 ounces.

It's not the best gold day
we've had, pretty average,

But, you know,
we had some downtime.

Narrator: The fix worked,

But because
of a day not running,

Rick is now 10 ounces behind
where he needs to be.

Rick: So we keep moving forward
with this.

We're in pretty damn
good spot, right?

Cheers, yeah, cheers. Yeah!

Oh, yeah.

We're building momentum
and the gold's coming in,

I mean, we're all
in good spirits.

Well, this week could've been
a bit of a disaster,

But luckily, carl's
on top of things as always.

So we've got another 56 ounces

Towards our 1,000-ounce goal
and I'm pumped.

♪♪

♪♪

Hi, guys, how are you guys?

Tired.

Narrator: At paradise hill,

Tony beets
has run old timer tailings

Through the shaker deck
for three days.

So you guys started sluicing
with the shaker deck.

How did that all go?

Yeah, that thing runs
really nice, actually.

Yeah, oh, yeah.

Narrator: Tony needs
to get at least an ounce of gold

For every hour of runtime
to make it all worth it.

It's definitely not
pretty stuff.

Kind of grayish in color.

10...

20...

30...

♪♪

72.12.

-That's not bad.
-Yeah. [ laughs ]

Narrator:
Worth more than $126,000...

♪♪

That's a little bit over
an ounce a mound.

Narrator: ...Tony has already
turned a profit

On the old timer tailings.

So now, we've done
the shaker deck,

What's coming out of
the trommel for this week?

Well, yeah, it had to
happen eventually.

No, I think I'm...

It went smooth,
but I got the good crew.

So since we had
such a nice week,

Let's find out
how much we got.

20, 30, 40, 50, 60,
70, 80, 90, 100,

120, 140, 150, 160,
170, 180, 190, 200,

230, 240...

242.34.

-Wow.
-[ laughs ]

Narrator: With mike's trommel
pulling in another 242 ounces,

It's the best gold haul
of the season.

And tony's new season total

Is 1,046 ounces of gold.

Bye, guys.

That went pretty good.

66 hours on the shaker deck,
70 ounces.

That's not too [bleep] bad

And I'm sure we can get
even more going on that.

Well, it's nice of those
old timers to leave us some, eh?

You can't b*tch about that.

I mean, why are you
sitting here, then?

Well, go work already, you can
get some more of that.

Eh, you would be so lost
without me.

-[ laughs ]
-yeah.

♪♪

Narrator: On the next
"gold rush"...

If the gold's not good,
it'll break it.

♪♪

Oh! Stop!

Sometimes you've got
to bite the b*llet,

Just do it.

Attaboy.

That's one day? Oh, buddy.

Whoo!

All right, we're ready to roll.
Let's do this.

Ha ha!

Hey, turn off that water.

Johnny!

Turn it off!

This water's public
enemy number one.