[narrator] Every spring,
for over 125 years,
man has traveled north
to the Yukon Wilderness
determined to
find a fortune in gold.
But only the boldest...
[Rick] I've always been
all about the risks.
I just gotta take it.
...make it back...
...again...
Now is the time
when they separate the boys
from the men.
...and again.
Here we go.
[narrator] This year, when
gold hits all-time highs...
[Parker] With the gold prices
where they are,
it's hard for me to
not get greedy.
...gold fever strikes
like never before...
There ain't no stopping us.
Oh, man, this is money.
...sparking greed...
Sluice, sluice, sluice!
[Rick] This definitely doesn't
look like pay.
Parker's throwing curveballs.
...that threatens to collapse
an emerging empire...
This pit's [bleep].
I'm losing faith in you guys.
...unbridled ambition...
[Rick] I want to finally get
to the bottom of Rallye Valley
and get that
gold out of there.
[man] Look at that.
[Rick] That's a lot of gold.
...that could take one man...
Yeehaw!
...to the next level...
I love this place.
I love it.
...and family turmoil...
...that reshapes a dynasty.
You're the boss.
I'm putting my money
where my mouth is.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no!
Stop [bleep] around.
Do the job right.
Those are two
grown-a*s adults.
[Tony speaking]
[narrator] And...
[Rick speaking]
...record-breaking gold.
[crew member] You could hear
the scale creaking.
Yeah!
Worst cleanup ever.
[narrator] 150 miles south
of the Arctic Circle
lies the Klondike.
For over a century,
prospectors have poured
into these valleys,
hoping to strike it rich.
And today,
fortunes are still being made.
[Parker] I love it up here.
It's great.
There's a lot
of gold here to find.
We have no landlords.
We have no royalty.
It's really nice
that we are in control
of our own destiny
and path forward.
[narrator]
At only 29 years old,
Parker Schnabel's
already hauled in
over 63,000 ounces
of gold
worth more than $98 million.
And last year,
he made the biggest bet
of his life
when he leveraged
everything he had
to buy the massive
Dominion Creek claim.
There's only six years
left on the license,
and there's a lot of ground
to get through in that time.
[narrator] If the ground's
as good as he thinks it is,
he could bring in
If you work out the ounces
that we think are here
across the years
that are here,
we have to do, you know,
[narrator] But unearthing
the gold won't come easy.
Everything comes at a price.
Like, the purchase was
really expensive
and we have
more payments to make.
We've blown a hole
in every dollar we had,
and then some.
We have
millions of yards of dirt
that needs to get moved
every year,
or else it's going to just
load up the last few years,
and that makes me
really nervous
if something goes wrong.
Right?
Well, that's not in gear.
Grind it till you find it.
So have you rolled
this thing yet?
No, they're hard to roll,
I think.
Let's find out.
[narrator] After pouring
tens of millions
into his new claim,
Parker wants
to mine more ground
than he ever has in a season.
His plan of attack hinges on
getting gold coming in fast
from one spot,
the Long Cut.
Parker is out to see
if the ground
is ready to sluice
with crew member Tyson Lee.
[Parker]
This might get interesting.
Hold on.
Big drop.
[Tyson] Big, big drop.
[Parker]
Little high for the big drop.
[Tyson] Anybody need
to change their pants?
Oh, man, this is money.
Look at this.
It's like we never left.
Right?
[Parker] I'm excited.
With the gold prices
where they are,
it's hard for me
to not get greedy.
Dude, this looks good.
Yeah, it does.
[Tyson] Long cut, man.
It's 930,000 square feet.
That pit's big.
Yeah.
So we have
a pit that's ready to go.
The most critical thing
is getting through this
as fast as possible.
You never stop sluicing.
- Oh, joy. [laughs]
- Yeah.
[narrator]
Gold was first discovered
in the Klondike gold fields
in 1896,
just outside of Dawson City.
50 miles southeast
lies Parker's 7,500-acre
Dominion Creek claim.
Last season,
he found a 4,500-ounce gold
bonanza in the money pit.
Now he's banking on following
the same pay streak north
into the Long Cut,
his only stripped ground,
which Parker believes
could deliver
over $7 million in gold.
But to hit his
he needs to move in
wash plant Roxanne
and hit at least
for the next six months,
a Herculean task
never before attempted
by Parker and his crew.
[Parker] We've got
a lot of gold to find,
and it's not gonna come easy.
We're in a situation where
there's a [bleep] ton of work
and unrealistic expectations
from a boss that, um,
likes to have
unrealistic expectations.
It's okay. I'm used to it.
We've never tried to go
for this big of a season.
We've never gone through
this much ground
that we're supposed
to go through this year.
So Parker just really wants
seamless sluicing
through and through.
I'm just worried about
getting through these...
areas
that we have to get done.
Sluicing is the
number one priority.
[narrator]
King of the Klondike,
Tony Beets,
is on a mission to turn
his mining operation around
after last year's chaos.
It begins with getting gold
in his first week of
the season.
[narrator] Tony's built
a gold mining empire
that spans thousands of acres
of prime ground.
It's a family-run dynasty
that hauls in millions
every year.
[bleep] yeah.
[Tony speaking]
[narrator] But last season...
...his operation
collapsed into chaos.
[Minnie] We're 6-7 million
in the hole.
[Tony speaking]
[narrator]
The house of Beets...
Get out of my face! Leave.
...became a house divided.
It's just so disorganized,
and it's so frustrating.
He's kind of running it
into the [bleep] ground.
I'd rather you didn't
film me crying.
[narrator]
And the beets found themselves
a disastrous
of their season target.
[Tony speaking]
[narrator] Now Tony's trying
to save his business
and his family.
[narrator] To make up for
the problems of last year,
Tony is planning
an all-out blitz
on his Indian River claim,
known for delivering
consistent paydays.
[Tony speaking]
[narrator] Tony's identified
a piece of ground
he thinks will pay out big,
the Comeback Cut.
To sluice right away,
he gambled on using
an old miner's trick
and flooded the cut
last year.
[narrator]
To keep the ground thawed,
Tony covered the 10-acre
Comeback Cut with water.
As the water froze
over the winter,
it created a 2-foot-thick
blanket of ice,
which Tony Hopes has insulated
the pay layer beneath
and stopped it
from freezing solid.
[Tony speaking]
[narrator] If it doesn't work,
the entire 10 acres
could be frozen,
putting him
weeks behind schedule.
To test it,
he'll clear the ice
then use a ripper shank
to see if it's still thawed.
Last season was
a major comeback year
after having a year off,
and anything could happen, right?
But, uh, you know,
I'm here now,
and there's some
big opportunities for me
this year.
[narrator] 100 miles away
in the mountains above Keno,
Rick Ness is back
in the Yukon.
I want to pay this ground off
and completely be on my own.
Be my own boss,
have my own ground
and not have to answer
to anybody.
I'm looking for the
best season I've ever had
and got the group of guys
to do it,
and we're ready to go.
[narrator] Five seasons ago,
Rick went on a hunt
for his own ground
in the Keno Mountains.
Wow. Finding that in
a sluice box,
like, that will
drive a guy nuts.
I got a place to mine
and I'm out of the Klondike.
[narrator] His first years
were a struggle.
[Rick] 32.27.
Really wanting these numbers
to start going up.
That's such [bleep].
[narrator] But Rick
stuck with it...
[Rick]
This is a dangerous game,
going that deep.
But the payoff at the bottom
could be life-changing.
...eventually
hitting Rally Valley
and a gold bonanza.
[Rick] This is the best pay
we've ever had.
Uh, and here it is.
Oh, yeah.
[narrator] But just when the
gold was beginning to flow,
Rick's life fell apart.
Why aren't you mining?
I don't know, man.
I lost my mom.
Just depression, and I...
I will be gold mining again.
I just don't know
when that is.
[narrator] After abandoning
his claim for a year,
Rick hit rock-bottom
and nearly lost everything.
But Rick rallied
and made a comeback.
There's gold there!
It's always been
all or nothing with me.
[narrator]
Now he's on the brink
of realizing his dream...
I do want to own this land.
All I need is a shot.
...to buy Duncan Creek.
[man]
I can't even count that fast.
[all cheering]
[exhales] I feel great.
I can look towards
the future now and like...
it's-- it's real.
[bleep]
Oh-h*!
Look who the [bleep] it is.
Hey, boys, look who decided
to come to work.
Look at this guy.
Oh, sorry. I thought I was
the top of the dude chain
over here.
[slow clapping]
[Rick] [bleep] you guys.
How the [bleep] have you been?
It was a long drive.
What's up, buddy?
[Rick chuckling]
- I'm all good.
- How are these guys?
What, you decided to
finally show up?
Oh, [bleep]! Come on, Bailey.
- [laughing]
- You're lucky you still
have a job.
- Hey, Ness.
- Buzz!
Kyle, what the [bleep]
you doing here?
- Oh, you know.
- Did I hire you again?
[laughs] Yeah, you sure did.
- Good to see ya.
- How you doin'?
[man] Oh, yeah, get in there.
[man 2] That was a good one.
[Rick]
So what's been going on?
Looks like you guys
been busy anyway.
We've made some pretty
good headway already.
We got the equipment
ready to rock and roll.
- Good.
- What do you want us to do?
So you want to attack
the Rally Valley first
or Bench Cut--
- 100%. 100% Rally Valley.
- ...or what?
I think we go [bleep]
right for it.
What's your thoughts
on the goal this year?
You know,
the biggest thing right now
is to not only pay you guys,
put a little money
in my pocket, hopefully,
but also pay Troy Taylor off
and own this ground outright.
And for that,
we're gonna need 1,500 ounces.
And to help us do that,
I have something to
show you guys.
There is a reason I am late.
So, uh, if you jump in
the side-by-side,
jump in a truck, whatever,
let's take a little ride.
[narrator]
To get to 1,500 ounces
and buy the claim,
Rick will need
to move a mountain of dirt.
And to do that,
he has a game-changing
surprise.
Holy [bleep].
What a beauty.
[man] Nice.
Holy [bleep].
What a beauty.
[man] Nice.
[narrator] At Duncan Creek,
Rick Ness is going all in
on his hunt for big gold
at Rally Valley.
Here it is. Brand-new,
brand-new 750E.
What we needed was
a production hole,
and this was the [bleep] hole.
[narrator] Rick's betting on
the 75-ton beast
to dig out the gold-rich pay
faster than ever.
[Rick]
We've got 1,500 ounces to get,
so that's why we're gonna
get this [bleep] done
at Rally Valley
and start scooping eight yards
of [bleep] gold out of there
at a time.
[Zee] It's great. Look at
the smile on his face.
It's ear to ear.
It's a good day down here.
It's a good way
to start the season.
[man speaking]
It's good to see him here.
Last season, it felt like
another family up here.
If we can continue
the beginning of this year
like we ended last year,
there's-- there's not a lot
that can defeat us.
[Rick] I mean, obviously
the main unit here,
And then there's, uh,
two drop-off loads.
Counterweight, stick boom,
big [bleep] bucket.
[narrator] It's the first time
Rick's crew has put together
a 750 excavator.
Rick's plan...
use his smaller 700 excavator
to lift up
and swing the 750's 8-ton boom
into its cradle
and secure it in place
with steel pins.
Next, attach
the 13-ton counterweight
at the back of the excavator.
Then install the stick
with its 1,000-gallon bucket.
And finally
pull out the excavator's
[Rick] All right, well,
hammer 'er together.
Yeah, man.
It's, uh,
pretty exciting moments.
keep it going.
Let off it.
[man] Well, we're c*ck.
[bleep] me.
Dude, it's just--
It's so pinched in back here.
[Rick] It's just dealing with
really tight tolerances.
We've got a boom here
that's got to fit, you know,
just perfectly
between two little slots.
You know, kind of like
threading a needle,
except the needle weighs,
you know, 25,000 pounds.
Well, right now, all we're
doing is damaging this.
So we just need to get it out.
Maybe we should go back out
and then come in higher.
[Rick] Just make him go slow.
[man] I don't care for this
at all.
He ain't moving nowhere.
[man laughs]
Oh! He started moving there.
[metal grinding]
There we go.
[man] Whoa!
[man 2] Oh, [bleep]!
[metal banging and grinding]
[exhales]
[bleep] me!
It's on the window.
[banging]
- [Rick] That was close.
- [man] Yeah, it was.
There shouldn't
be that much tension.
No.
Whatever he has to do
to get that thing
[bleep] going straight in...
which is probably
spin his cab that way,
and then move his tracks over
so that that [bleep]
goes straight in.
We won't let it defeat us.
We'll get it in.
We've got to reposition
the 700 here
so we can get things
lined up straight.
How does it look now?
The best it's looked.
Okay, Buzz, come in.
There we go. There we go.
[Rick] Give it some nuts.
Give it some nuts.
Just rock it.
Almost.
There we go.
- [man 1] There you go.
- [man 2] There you go.
[Rick] It's going in.
It's going in.
Might want to knock her in
with that 460 bucket.
It's so close.
We just need a little force.
Oh, yeah.
- Oh, yeah, keep her going.
- Oh, yeah!
- [Rick] [bleep] eh, buddy!
- We're almost there.
Send her home, Jerome.
[Zee] Yeah!
You don't [bleep] with
this thing!
Whoo!
[bleep] yeah!
[Rick] Well,
time is getting tight.
That was hopefully
the biggest pain in the a*s.
We've got 1,500 ounces to get,
and this machine is...
I'm kind of betting
the farm on it.
I'm looking at this as like
a forever home right now,
this ground.
Let's get it.
[Tyson] Alec, you ready?
[Alec] All right.
Just making sure
I don't have
any tools in here,
but there's nothing in here,
so we're all good.
[narrator]
At Dominion Creek,
Parker Schnabel's crew
is gunning for a record
$25 million season.
All righty, Mitch,
all set when you are.
Let's do it.
Here we go.
[narrator]
Parker's entire season
hinges on the long cut,
his only stripped ground,
which he's counting on
to deliver first gold.
To get sluicing, he needs
a wash plant running ASAP.
These monster machines
sift out the flakes of gold
from the pay dirt.
Water jets blast the gold
and find dirt off the rocks.
A shaker deck vibrates
a series of screens
to separate out
the waste rocks,
allowing fine
gold-bearing material
to flow down
into the sluice boxes,
where the heavier gold
settles between the riffles
and into the mats.
Foreman Mitch Blaschke
and Tyson...
[Mitch] Looking nice!
...prepare to haul
wash plant Roxanne
and its sluice runs
three miles to the long cut.
[Mitch] Once we get
the sluice runs in place,
then we can pull
that shaker deck
in where it needs to go,
and start putting these parts
and pieces together.
But the clock
is ticking here.
Yeah.
You're looking good, buddy.
She's tight.
You want to, uh,
go out front there
and make sure
we don't meet anybody
on the road?
[Tyson] Yup. Sounds good.
[Mitch]
All right, let's do it.
Parker's got some huge plans
for this season
and where he wants to be
by the end of it.
And, you know,
this wash plant is key
to make all that happen.
And right now,
Parker is looking
at the price of gold,
and he's saying,
"Guys, start reeling it in."
Getting the sluice runs
out here is really important.
It's the first step
of setting up Roxanne,
so we are so close
to the cut right now.
Oh, [bleep].
That is not good.
Oh, [bleep], man.
What's going on?
Oh-h*-h*-h*-h*.
[Tyson] It looks like
the road's washed down on us.
[Mitch] She looks pretty deep.
- [Tyson] Yeah,
it definitely does.
- [Mitch] Whoo!
She's ripping.
Oh, yeah.
This trailer rides low.
There's no way it's gonna
make it through that.
Right now, we just need
to grab some material
from wherever we can.
Probably grab
the rock trucks.
Grab a loader
and start packing
this thing in.
[Tyson] We need to get
this road back opened up.
Hey, Tater Tot,
you got a copy?
What's going on?
I need you
down at the road here.
It washed down.
We have
the sluice runs loaded,
and we can't get
through with them.
So if you want
to meet me down there,
I'll load you up
with some coarse,
and we'll get
this road doctored up.
It's never straightforward
in this place.
[Mitch] Perfect.
Right there. Let it fly.
Oh, yeah,
keep 'em coming.
[narrator]
To dam the flow of water,
rock truck driver
Tatiana Costa
dumps 100 tons
of coarse tailings.
That ought to do it.
Thank you very much.
No problem.
[Mitch] Yeah!
This is looking really good.
There it is.
There's already water
flowing across this here.
Oh, yeah,
she's a little soft there,
but holding.
Come on.
Come on, come on.
There we go.
Now we're gonna take Roxanne
down to the long cut.
Whoo!
She's rocking and rolling
pretty good back there.
Come on.
Hang in there, Roxanne.
Yeah!
There it is.
One wash plant in the cut.
[Tyson]
Well, nice work, man.
What do you say we get
the rest of this set up?
Let's do it.
- Sluice, sluice,
sluice, sluice!
- [Tyson] Yeah!
[Kevin]
How do you feel about us
being on our own now?
[Faith] It feels good.
Well, you're
your own boss now.
[narrator] Forty miles
south of Paradise Hill...
- I really want us to push.
- Oh, yeah.
[Kevin] Our money, our show,
our [bleep], our wins.
[narrator] Tony Beets'
eldest son, Kevin,
is finally ready
to step out on his own.
I am glad to finally be
out of, like, the planning
and worrying stage.
We are playing serious ball.
It is on the table for us.
We're gonna
have to make this work.
[narrator] Kevin grew up
on the family goldmine
with younger siblings
Mike and Monica.
[Kevin] Off we go.
[narrator] After operating
heavy equipment,
Kevin became
Tony's chief mechanic
in 2019.
Are you going to give me
more responsibility
and let me make the call--
[sighs]
[narrator]
Over the years...
[Tony speaking]
- Get every [bleep]
pump on the property.
- [Tony] Mm-hm.
Open up the first pontoon,
pump it out.
- [Kevin sighs]
- ...father and son
have butted heads
on how to run the mine.
[Tony speaking]
What the [bleep]?
I know I don't need that.
[Tony speaking]
[Kevin] Tony is like
a natural disaster.
You don't tell
a hurricane to [bleep] off.
[narrator] Last year,
Kevin hit his breaking point.
[Kevin] That kind of sucks.
We gotta test fire it.
[Kevin] We're supposed
to have this thing
up and running,
but because of
[bleep] he's forgotten
or didn't [bleep]
put people on
or just didn't bother
[bleep] doing,
we've wasted so much time.
I don't think
we're gonna take
much more of this [bleep].
[narrator] Leading Kevin
to quit the family business.
It's just, uh,
too much fighting.
[narrator]
To keep his family
from ripping apart...
...Tony gave Kevin
the opportunity to lease
ground from him.
[Kevin] I want to show
that I can do gold mining
my way.
I did learn
a few things from Tony
as well as a lot of ways
to not do things.
Tony has a trust issue.
Yeah. Because, uh,
we know how Tony is.
He is a control freak,
to say the least.
Yeah. Micromanage.
I'm sure there'll be advice,
but at least now
we don't have to listen.
[narrator]
Before Kevin can start
on his new 44-acre claim,
he still has to negotiate
terms for royalties.
The percentage
of his gold haul
he'll pay to Tony.
[Kevin]
But I'm not expecting--
- [Faith] Handouts?
- [Kevin] Yeah.
[Kevin]
The average royalties
is around ten to 15.
[Faith] I don't imagine
Tony would screw us over.
Let's go see what it is.
- [Tony speaking]
- Hey.
[Kevin sighs]
We're here to sign the lease.
So, I'm getting
the royalties.
And you're actually
gonna pay me
instead of I'm paying you?
I thought
that was the whole point
of leasing the ground.
[Faith] We might
as well pay family.
[Tony speaking]
[Kevin] I do hope
we'd get a slightly better
deal than Parker did.
a kick in the nads.
What is in it for me?
[Faith] Family's gotta
account for something.
[Tony speaking]
That sounds very, very nice.
I don't think
there's much room
for argument there.
So what's your
season goal this year, Kevin?
Our season the gold this year
is going to be 1,000 ounces.
I think that's reasonable.
Hopefully we get
more than that.
But don't count your chickens
until it's dried, and wait.
[Monica] Why are you
drying your chicken?
Should we go
look at all the equipment?
[narrator] Tony has agreed
to give Kevin and Faith
equipment
to get them started.
[Tony speaking]
[Kevin] We'll need
rock trucks.
- Oh.
- [Faith] Can we have this one?
[Tony speaking]
- [Faith] Why not?
- [Kevin] Why not?
That's a good one.
[Tony speaking]
Mm-hm.
Ideally, we would like
to have four rock trucks.
[Tony speaking]
[Kevin] What about loaders?
Oh, here's a loader.
Can we take this one?
[Kevin] Hm.
We'll have to find one then.
- Yeah.
- [Tony speaking]
[Kevin]
Uh, we'll need some dozers.
Excavators, obviously.
[Tony speaking]
[Kevin] Mm-hm.
That could work, yeah.
[Tony speaking]
[Faith] We definitely
appreciate the help, for sure.
[Tony speaking]
[Faith] Oh, yeah.
- Yeah.
- Sounds like a good deal.
[Tony speaking]
Something that's catching
my brother off guard,
which is funny.
The amount of things you need,
the amount of people you need
is a lot.
[Tony speaking]
[Mike] It's his life,
not mine.
Not what I would have done.
[narrator]
Now Kevin just needs to find
a wash plant and crew.
I'm excited for us
to get going.
I think it's a big gamble.
Time to strike out on my own.
But it's time to show
I have what it takes
to be the boss.
[narrator]
After getting Kevin started,
Tony turns
to the rest of the family.
This season, he's giving
youngest son, Mike,
and daughter, Monica,
responsibility for his
operation at Paradise Hill.
Now I get more freedom
to do it the way
I want to do it.
My dad's getting
a little less micromanaging,
which makes my job
a lot less stressful.
T. Beets is,
well, "really good,"
but also "really bad"
at driving up here.
Um, so it's...
[sighs]
Hopefully, this year,
he doesn't do that
and doesn't have to do that.
I think, you know,
he should have
enough confidence
in Michael and myself
to keep everything going here.
And I think Tony really
should be able to trust us
by now.
I've been working here
for almost 20 years.
[Mike] Okay,
this is gonna sound bad,
but it's [bleep]
honestly true for anyone.
You have to, uh,
get the job done,
even if you're family.
To my dad,
everyone's expendable.
You're never irreplaceable
at your job.
You can be
very hard to replace,
but you're
never irreplaceable.
[Mitch] There we go.
[narrator] At Dominion Creek,
Parker Schnabel
is chasing a massive
$25 million in gold,
and is counting
on his long cut,
the only cut
down to pay dirt,
to deliver over 400 ounces
by the end of the week.
[Mitch] Everything's
looking pretty good here.
We got Roxanne set up top.
We've got our conveyor systems
going in place here.
Parker's saying
this cut's all ready to go.
Next stop, sluicing.
[Parker] You guys
are way up here.
- [Mitch]
How's it going, buddy?
- [Parker] Good. How are you?
Not bad.
Dude, you guys are on a pile.
- [Mitch] Oh, yeah.
- [Tyson] Yeah.
- Hi, Liam. Hi, Justin.
- [Justin] Hey.
I'm just trying to put
the finishing touches on this
and see what she does.
[Parker] You still have
a lot of little [bleep] to do.
[Tyson] Yeah.
[Mitch]
It shouldn't take long.
Who's going
on nights tomorrow?
[Tyson] Are we 24ing it
right off the get go?
[Parker] Yeah.
[Mitch] So we just
got to get after it.
[Parker]
No, it'll be all right.
- [Tyson] All right, man.
- Yeah. Okay.
Sweet.
[narrator]
Eleven years ago...
- [Parker] Hey, Tony.
- Hello, Parker.
...Parker started out
with a small piece of ground
in the Klondike...
I'm looking for the best dirt,
not just any old dirt.
...and a crew of five.
I'm gonna crank it up.
- [machine rattles]
- [Parker] Oh, dear.
[Parker bleep] plant!
[Tony] Well, that's not
[bleep] good enough.
I've probably bitten off
a bit more than I can chew.
[narrator]
He barely turned a profit
in his first year.
If you don't take risks,
nothing will change.
[narrator] But the youngster
turned the ship around...
[horn blaring]
[Parker] Oh, yeah!
First brand-new
plant we've had,
and it's gonna find us
a lot of [bleep] gold.
...building
a stockpile of gold.
That's three million dollars
right there on the table.
[narrator] And growing
his operation each year...
$7.5 million.
[men cheering]
...to a crew of 40
and a huge fleet
of earth-moving machines,
pushing for bigger
gold hauls each season.
Get after it.
[narrator]
Parker believes
there could be
seven-and-a-half million
in gold
in this first cut alone.
All the crew needs to do
is dig out the pay dirt
and start sluicing.
We're, uh, running
pretty aggressive
this early in the season.
We are definitely
just coming out
swinging here.
[Tatiana] I see
Tyson and Mitch already
brought the plants.
In no time,
we're gonna start sluicing.
[Tyson] Parker
really wants some gold
early off
in the season this year,
especially with
high gold prices.
We're sure fighting,
trying to make it
happen for him.
But I'm not really happy
with what I'm seeing.
This definitely
doesn't look like pay.
It just looks like sand.
And if we've learned anything
over the years of mining
it's that
there's no gold in sand.
So I've got to go get
my gold pan.
Figure out what the [bleep]
is going on here.
It just looks like
he went to the beach
and tried panning for gold.
He went
to the beach anywhere.
It just looks like sand.
None of that pays the bills.
It doesn't look like
there's any gold in here.
We need to go deeper.
[narrator]
If Tyson is right,
the whole cut will need
to be re-stripped down
to pay,
costing hundreds
of thousands of dollars more
and weeks of precious time.
[Tyson] Well, I'm gonna
go show Senor Mitch.
[Mitch] How did
your panning go?
[Tyson] It's not
looking good, man.
Not even a fly [bleep].
[Mitch] Oh, boy.
Well, man,
this high spot back here,
I just hit it with the ripper,
and check this.
It's just all mud underneath
a little lens of gravel.
Well, one thing's for sure,
we don't need to sluice mud.
- [Tyson] Yeah, or sand.
- [Mitch] Yeah.
[Tyson]
We've got to go deeper.
This is not ready,
this is not pay.
Gotta go talk to Parker
and let him know the bad news.
- [Tyson] Hi.
- [Parker] This is
some lovely weather.
[narrator] In the long cut...
[Parker] Hi, Mitch.
How's it going?
...Mitch and Tyson
have made a discovery
with catastrophic
consequences
for Parker's operation.
Well, man, I know we thought
this cut was ready to go,
but, you know, it's not.
We're trying to get sluicing,
but we're finding
some, uh, material
we definitely want
to not be sluicing back there.
[Parker] Right.
[Tyson]
We found a lot of sand,
a lot of mud up there.
We just can't put that
through a wash plant.
We need to go deeper.
[bleep]
[Tyson] And that makes me
really nervous.
Oh, boy!
[narrator] Unable to mine
the Long Cut,
Parker's operation
is now at a standstill.
[Parker] We're [beep]
right now.
[Mitch] Last year,
we just weren't able
to spend the time up here
that I think
we really needed to.
Wow, I wouldn't say
that we did anything wrong.
Last year, we had to strip
last year's ground
and this year's ground.
We did what we had to do.
[Mitch] So what's our
game plan then?
Um...
There's gravel piles
down by the other pit,
but they're, like, old,
overburdened gravel piles.
[narrator] To get
some quick gold,
Parker wants to run
piles of dirt
from the money pit
left by the previous owner,
which he believes could still
have a significant
amount of gold.
I think there's 400 ounces
sitting in a bunch
of waste gravel.
I think they probably
would have sluiced it.
[Tyson] We'll be lucky
if there's two ounces, man.
[Parker] I'm losing faith
in you guys,
and it's time to
figure out another option
at the moment.
[Mitch] So do you just
want to set up a plant?
- Yeah.
- [Mitch] Or do you want to do
like the test trommel?
What wash plant
are you thinking?
- Big Red probably.
- Yeah.
So are you sick
of moving wash plants?
- No, no.
- Good.
You don't have any time.
Get sluicing.
[Mitch] Ten-four.
Those are just a bunch
of big, old waste piles.
It could just be
a bunch of [bleep].
Well, man, I'm in
wash-plant-moving mode,
so why don't I
go move this plant,
and you can stay here
and try get this dialed in,
and I'll be back
as soon as I can.
- Okay, let's get after.
- Yeah.
- [Mitch] Later.
- [Tyson] See ya.
Parker wants to start
another project.
It means Tyson has to leave
and go there,
and that leaves
a whole bunch of work here.
Stripping overburdened mud,
and less hands to do it.
When Parker and I
first came up here,
he said it was good to go.
That's not the case.
But, man,
I hope there's some gold
down in that gravel,
because if there's not,
we're screwed.
[sighs wearily]
[narrator] It's a huge gamble,
but with no other
stripped ground,
Parker has no other option.
[Parker] It's a mess.
And I don't like feeling
like a dumb piece of [bleep].
Having a plant running
is important right now.
Oh, yeah.
What do you say?
Let's go, boys.
[narrator] While Parker
struggles to find gold,
Rick Ness knows exactly
where to find it.
[Rick] Time to take
this beautiful machine
and get it dirty
down in Rally Valley.
[narrator] He's counting
on Rally Valley
for the biggest payday
of his mining career,
if it lives up to its promise.
[Rick] We found some
big gold on this ground,
but supposedly,
at the bottom of this
is three, four,
five-ounce nuggets.
I want that.
It's early in the season,
the sun's shining.
I'm sitting in a brand-new
I got my crew behind me,
we're heading to Rally Valley.
I mean, that all adds up
to a huge win for me.
[man] That thing's
[bleep] nice.
I love that bucket, man.
That's what I love.
[man] Hey! Ah!
[Buzz laughing]
[man]
Well, that's the last time
we're gonna see it clean.
Yep. [laughs]
[Buzz speaking]
[bleep]
[Rick] Well, everybody's
thinking long term,
and that's exciting.
It's a hell of an opportunity,
but there's also
a huge opportunity
to fail hard.
[narrator] To hit
a big payday of nuggets,
Rick will need to dig
dangerously deep.
He spent two years
digging down
into Rally Valley,
shifting over 90 feet
of overburden
to reach 100-foot deep
pay layer.
So far, it's delivered
over 1,800 ounces
worth more than $4 million.
Rick should still have
before he hits bedrock,
where he should find
his richest concentration
of gold ever.
[Rick] I want to get
the [bleep] in here.
I want to finally
get to the bottom of it,
get that gold out of there.
First day of digging pay
out of Rally Valley.
With ease.
Hell, yeah. There it is.
First scoop.
It's just a glorious sight.
Last year, I really
just felt grateful
to be here,
to have another shot.
And now I'm ready
to [bleep] go.
And now I'm ready to push it.
I haven't seen any gold
out of Rally Valley
since last fall,
so I think I'm
just gonna go ahead
and, you know,
do a little panning.
This looks good.
The spot where we're
at right now is all pay dirt.
That'll do it.
I don't really know
for certain,
you know, if there's hot spots
or if it's all, you know,
spread out in there.
That's really
dirty water, but...
Oh, well.
[bleep] Look at--
Oh, my [bleep].
Take a look at that.
Look at all the little specks.
I bet you there's
Easy.
And then the bigger
chunks up top.
That's [bleep] awesome to see.
That's just a healthy
little reminder
of what we got down here
in Rally Valley.
And it's a very good reminder
that I'm doing
the right thing.
This is where we need to be.
Rally Valley is the spot
where the best gold is.
That pan right there
proves it.
That's a hell of a pan.
I love this place. I love it.
Yeah, go ahead.
[Tony speaking]
Okay.
All right.
First bucket of the season.
[narrator] At Indian River,
Tony Beets is on a roll.
And is sluicing from
his gold-rich,
10-acre Comeback Cut...
using wash plant,
Sluice-A-Lot.
[Tony speaking]
[bleep]
[Ruby] I think, at this rate,
it's gonna be
a successful season.
I don't think we're
gonna run into a problem
of not having enough pay.
We've got the Comeback Cut.
I just hope that we
keep up this momentum
throughout the rest
of the season.
[narrator] Now Tony wants
to take it up a notch.
[Tony speaking]
No.
[Tony speaking]
[bleep]
[man] Yeah.
[bleep]
Make it work.
[bleep]
Yeah. I'll try and make
the best of it.
[narrator] Tony's nephew,
known as Cousin Mike,
joined the family business
three years ago.
Now Tony is giving him
a new opportunity.
[narrator] Cousin Mike
must resurrect
Tony's 30-year-old
shaker deck,
which has sat idle
for six months.
[Mike] We came to look,
check it out.
See if everything's good.
There's a lot of shaking
going on here.
And we see that
there's bars missing
that hold the screens.
So, yeah,
we gotta do this ASP,
as Tony would say.
[narrator]
Mechanic Nolan Brown
screws the metal bars
back onto the screens.
[bleeping]
[sighs]
[narrator] They hold
the screens in place
when violently shaking
to separate gold
from pay dirt.
[Nolan] We're wasting time.
It's wasting money.
And you got to make
that dough. [grunts]
[bleep]
- Good?
- [Nolan] I think so.
[Mike] Ah, good enough.
We're ready
to fire the plant up.
Tony, the shaker deck
is ready to be fired up.
[bleep]
[Nolan] Yeah.
All right. I will.
The fire is going.
[bleep] grizzly bars
won't stay down.
[Mike] [bleep] thanks.
The grizzly bars
are keeping opening up,
and when I let it down,
it goes back up by itself.
[narrator] The grizzly bars
screen out large boulders
to protect the wash plant.
But an electrical fault
is sending it haywire.
[bleep]
[bleep]
[Mike] Is there a breaker
on that thing?
[Nolan] Yeah.
[Mike] Grizzly, oh.
[Nolan] Yeah, it's down.
[Mike] There we go. Awesome.
We just turned the breaker off
for the grizzly bars.
That's it.
[narrator] Cousin Mike's
quick fix
cut the power
to the grizzly bars,
keeping them shut.
To clear the boulders,
he'll have to manually
turn it back on again,
costing valuable time.
[Mike]
It's a temporary solution.
It's not ideal, but the plant
has to get going.
Feeder on.
Fire is going.
First bucket. [bleep] yeah.
[Mike on radio] New plans.
It's happening.
Let's get some gold.
[Tony speaking]
[bleep]
[Mike] That'd be good.
[narrator] Tony is sluicing
four month earlier
than last year,
and he's got two
wash plants on the gold,
a long way from
last season's chaos.
[Tony speaking]
[narrator] Three miles away,
Tony's eldest son,
Kevin Beets,
is also on a mission
to get on the gold.
Today we're off to pick up
the wash plant we bought.
This thing is only 20 minutes
from Scribner camp.
Tony and Mike
are on their way there
with a semi-truck.
Ah, it's a big day.
I am legit excited to get
the wash plant into the yard.
I paid half a million dollars
as a down payment
on the plant.
I still owe 200K.
There's still a large [bleep]
[indistinct] to process.
[bleeping]
[grunts]
[narrator]
Kevin's gone all-in,
investing most
of his life savings
to buy the best wash plant
on the market.
Ah!
This is a very nice
wash plant.
The folks who I bought it from
took very good care of it.
So I'm very excited
to see it run.
[narrator] This 35-ton beast
processes 250 yards an hour,
and only needs
one person to run it.
[Kevin]
It's definitely the same
as what Tony has.
I think Parker also
has a Macon as well.
He's even got a [bleep]
impact bed.
Oh, that's so nice.
[chuckles]
This is what I kind of
nerd out about.
I'm very keen to start getting
some [bleep] gold.
Yeah, I hear it.
A Tony and a semi approaching.
[Tony speaking]
[Kevin] Yo!
[bleep]
[Kevin] You gonna
crawl up here, too?
[Kevin] Oh, yeah, yeah.
But then tomorrow,
what you gonna [bleep] do?
[Kevin chuckles]
Well, I'm not in the best
[indistinct] right now, so...
Yes. The more I look,
the more nice things
I [bleep] see.
Oh, [bleep] yeah, like--
Ridiculous.
- [honking]
- [Tony] Ah...
[narrator]
Without his own crew
to haul the $700,000 plant
eight miles to Scribner Creek,
Kevin's called in
a family favor
from Dad, Tony,
and younger brother, Mike.
- Hello.
- Hello.
[Mike] Yeah, right?
I mean, my bill's
gonna be huge.
[Tony laughs]
[narrator]
Mike's first task...
hook up his truck
to Kevin's prized wash plant.
[Kevin] You might need
a loader.
[Tony speaking]
We're gonna need
some sort of lifting power
to get it high enough.
I'd be very careful
backing up.
[bleep]
And hopefully,
she squeezes under.
Ah...
[honks]
[Tony speaking]
[Kevin] Ah...
[Tony speaking]
[engine roaring]
[metal creaking]
[Kevin] Watch out!
[Tony speaking]
[honks]
[metal creaking]
[Kevin] No, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no.
[narrator] Kevin's bid
to haul his new wash plant
to his his claim
at Scribner Creek
is not going to plan.
[bleeping]
[Mike]
So remember when I said
we might need a loader?
[laughs]
[bleep]
[Kevin] The kind of [bleep]
I was hoping to avoid.
To the surprise of no one,
Tony doing it terribly,
and me going "[bleep]
I told you," afterwards.
[narrator] The impact
has knocked
Kevin's lowboyed wash plant
off its blocks,
making it harder for Mike
to hook up and tow it away.
[Mike] Feeling a little
annoyed that it fell off.
[Kevin] Yeah, should've known
it wouldn't go [bleep] easy.
Should know by now, you think.
Watch my [bleep] feet.
[Tony speaking]
Hopefully, we'll have
the angle
for it to pull everything up,
rather than
just into the trailer.
- [bleep]
- Yeah.
[Tony speaking]
[Kevin] All right.
Fingers crossed, folks.
[engine revving]
[Kevin] Oh, boy.
Let's not tip
my plant, please.
[Tony speaking]
[metal creaking]
Now [bleep].
[Tony speaking]
[Kevin sighs]
Well, currently, I'm feeling
a little bit flustered,
not terribly surprised.
Half the reason we left
was to get away
from that kind of
horse [bleep], so...
Hopefully, next time
we'll come
with a bit more power,
we can get it the [bleep] up.
So it's not gonna
have any choice
but to go on to
the [bleep] truck.
[bleep]
[humming]
- [Tyson] All righty, Jack?
- [Jack] Right on.
[narrator] A half mile East,
at Dominion Creek.
- [Tyson] Have you ever pulled
a wash plant before?
- [Jack] Nope.
[narrator] Desperate times,
call for desperate measures.
- [Tyson] Alrighty, good luck.
- Yeah, thank you.
[Tyson] Jump on in.
[narrator] After hitting
a major roadblock,
with his first cut,
Parker's made a snap decision,
to sluice waste gravel piles.
and drafted in his pilot,
Jack Frischkorn,
to help with the second
plant move of the season.
[Tyson] So boom up
a little more, Jack,
just to give it
a little bit of lift
in the front end.
And now, stick in a bit.
- [Tyson] Yeah. There she goes.
- [engine revving]
[Tyson]
Now just start walking it.
[Tyson] The heat's on now.
[narrator]
The gravel piles left behind,
by Dominion's previous owner
were dug, from the lucrative
Money Pit cut.
And based on the gold
they pulled from the pit
last year.
Parker believes,
there's gold still in them.
So, we're gonna set
Big Red up, right there.
Tyson and Jack um,
are moving it,
and it's pieces up here.
We have spent so much
[bleep] money,
in the last year.
So, I don't know what to say.
But gold price is up,
so that's good.
I mean, it's only good
if you have gold,
which, we don't have any
but...
[Tyson] Yeah,
that's good there Jack.
[Tyson] Perfect.
Right on.
[narrator]
A mile and a half, upstream,
in the Lung cut.
[Mitch] Oh man.
[narrator] Mitch, is removing
overburden, to get down
to pay.
Parker said, this season's
gonna be all about
sluice, sluice, sluice.
and it's definitely not going
the way we thought.
This is about the future
of the company.
[Mitch] If there is gold in it
yeah, it's a great idea.
There's those piles
down there.
But, it takes us
away from this.
[Tyson]
Things are happening fast.
Definitely didn't think
we'd be doing this today.
[metal clanking]
[Tyson] Ready?
[Jack] Tyson, come up
just a little bit.
[Jack] That's good.
[Jack] Try swinging it in.
[Jack] Stop there.
[Tyson over radio]
We've got the plant in.
Next is the feeder.
Are you ready, Jack?
[Jack] Bring her home.
[engine whirring]
[Jack] Come back another foot.
[Jack over radio] Little more.
[Jack] Stop! Stop, Stop,
Stop, Stop, Stop!
Behold, my feeder.
[Jack] Well,
it all came together.
So, I think the next step
is, we start loading dirt
and see how it goes, huh?
[Tyson] Here we go.
[Tyson] You guys ready?
[metal squeaking]
[water splashing]
Give her [bleep] Jack!
- All right, Todd. Here we go.
First bucket for Big Red.
- [whooping]
- [woman] Yay.
- [Jack] First bucket
of the season.
[Parker] How's it going?
Is this thing fine?
[Tyson] Clean rocks
coming out.
- [Parker]
That's nice looking rock.
- [Tyson] Yeah.
- [Jack laughs]
- [Tyson] You haven't seen rock
since last year.
[Parker] I know.
[Parker] There might be
some gold in this.
I would like to prevent
anything else from possibly
going sideways.
If at all possible.
[narrator] First season
mine boss, Kevin Beets'
new $700,000 wash plant,
is stranded eight miles,
from his Scribner Creek claim.
And his dad, Tony
is now back to help.
[Tony speaking]
[honks horn]
[Tony over radio]
[narrator]
After brute force didn't work.
Tony has a new plan,
and is bringing in
the big g*ns.
Expert operator Len Hoekstra,
and a pipe layer crane.
Capable of lifting 51 tons.
[Tony speaking]
[Tony speaking]
[Tony speaking]
[Tony speaking]
[Kevin]
I only have one head, too.
That doesn't stop me
from whacking it.
[Tony speaking]
[Tony speaking]
[Tony speaking]
[Tony speaking]
[Tony speaking]
- [chain clanks]
- [tony speaking]
[Kevin] Much [bleep] better.
[Kevin]
Everything, is in one piece.
[Kevin] Next step.
Chain everything down,
and then we get driving.
Len will be driving the truck,
so, should be in good hands.
She's a wide [bleep] load.
[Kevin] So, fingers crossed.
[narrator] Len must now
carefully haul the 45 ton,
32-foot wide load,
down eight miles
of treacherous, narrow road
to Scribner Creek.
Well.
[Kevin] If the plant does fall
on its side,
that does kind of [bleep] me.
That would be
pretty [bleep] horrible.
[narrator] Kevin scouts ahead,
to guide his prized
wash plant.
The issue we have right now,
is that, it is so wide.
[Kevin] Uh...
Right ahead of us.
The road narrows up
quite considerably.
as well as having trees
on either side
that are fairly high.
[branches snapping]
[Kevin over radio]
Hey, Len. How is it looking?
How's it looking?
[Len speaking]
Yeah. [Kevin chuckles]
[bleep]
Hey, Len, you got a copy? Len?
Yes, I do.
[Kevin] I got to
the creek crossing
and she's a little deep.
[Len] Alright.
If it nosedives in,
and we never see it again.
[Kevin] [bleep] Yeah.
At this point,
he should be very safe.
[Kevin] I'm very excited
to have this thing,
here in one piece.
Let's get it parked,
and get it [bleep] ready.
[grunts]
All right. Looks good.
Thank you, Len.
[Len] Yeah.
[Len] Uh, Kevin,
a couple of branches.
In the sluice, around it,
a little bit of dirt.
[Len] Hopefully,
there's some gold in it.
- [Kevin] Jeez.
- [Len laughs]
[Kevin]
Well, that went pretty well.
Gonna count it as a win.
[Kevin] I spent a lot
of money already.
Gotta hit 1000 ounces,
to get some
of those costs back.
Hopefully, we can [bleep]
hit her.
[Rick] Things are going good.
[narrator] Rick Ness,
is one payment away,
from buying his own claim.
I'm more excited,
than pretty much any season
I've been up here.
[narrator] Which he believes,
has one of the richest,
untapped gold pay streaks,
left in the Yukon.
[man speaking]
[Rick] I've got one hell
of a crew here.
I've got a brand new 750 here.
we've got down
in Rally Valley.
That's where we got
the best gold.
That's where
we're starting this year.
And right on top of all of it,
I'm gonna be a landowner.
And I've got one more
payment left on my contract
with Troy Taylor.
And I'm gonna own
all this ground.
Start building my empire.
And this,
is setting up my future.
With one more payment
comes a hell of a lot
of freedom,
and I'm excited about it.
So, I'm going
to Troy's house right now.
Have a little chat
with him about it,
and hammer out the details.
[narrator] Rick secured
his deal, to buy Duncan Creek
with landowner Troy Taylor
two years ago.
He's already put down
and owes one final
- [Rick] Hey, Troy.
- [Troy] Hey, Rick.
- [Rick] How you doing, buddy?
- [Troy] Good. How are you?
What's going on?
[Rick] Oh, lots of stuff.
A big year for me.
- Yeah. Yes. Yeah.
- [chuckles]
I'm glad you could
come down here
because,
I got to get something
off my chest.
I've got some bad news.
[Troy] We've got a big problem
with the water license
being approved
for next season.
What? But, I mean,
we're getting it?
Well, I thought so.
I thought we were progressing.
[Troy] And as you know,
we've been working
on this water license
for two years.
But we're not moving forward
on this application.
We're stopped.
And, the way it's going
right now, with what
I've just heard.
I can't guarantee
you'll have the license,
next year.
[bleep]
[Troy] I can't sugarcoat it.
Without the water license,
you can't mine.
Oh.
[bleep]
[Troy] All I can say is that--
I don't know what to say.
I mean, I've got millions
of dollars invested in this
[Rick] I got a quarter,
over a quarter
of my lifetime into this,
and I... to look at
walking away
with this, with nothing.
It's not looking good.
You can't mind it.
[Rick] You can't sell it.
You can't...
- Live on it.
- [Troy] Mm-hmm.
[Rick] Then, what the [bleep]
am I paying for?
I know it's not your fault,
but honestly,
the way things are looking,
why would I make
another payment?
Why would I just not take
what's left,
of the water license
get what I can, [bleep] leave
at the end of the year
without paying
one last payment?
Well, I'd probably feel
the same way,
but we have this agreement.
And if you walk away now,
you walk away from everything.
There's no refunds.
There's nothing.
But I mean,
I'm kind of looking
like I'm [bleep]
either way here, and um...
I just, I just did not
[bleep] see this coming.
[Rick sighs] I don't know.
I've got a lot to think about.
My entire [bleep] future
is hanging in the balance
right now, and I don't know.
I just can't even [bleep] deal
with it, at the moment, so.
Look, man, I just--
I don't even know
what to say anymore.
I can't...
Everything-- every time,
I think I can get
a step ahead,
it's like two [bleep]
steps back and I just,
I don't know,
how to deal with it.
I just-- I've had enough.
I don't know
what I'm going to do anymore.
[Troy] I feel for him.
I like Rick.
I want him to succeed here.
But if he bails out now,
it's over.
[Rick] I'm just getting tired
of this [bleep].
This, is probably
the dirtiest, worst job
in gold mining.
[narrator] Gold cleaning guru,
Chris Doumitt is back,
and doing what he does best.
[Chris] Cleaning gold.
This is like,
the earliest cleanup
we've ever done.
We're running gravel.
I'm kind of excited, really,
to see what's in here.
Hopefully, we've got piles
and piles of gold.
[Chris] Thank you, my dear.
Now we're gonna take
a quick look.
See what's in the gravel.
[Mitch] Look at that, Doumitt.
[Chris] Yeah,
a real fine gold.
[Mitch] Well, you know,
if there's gold in it,
Big Red's gonna catch it.
[Chris laughs] Yeah.
It's exciting, just to have
the plant fired up.
And be out here running dirt
and, you know,
seeing some gold in it.
[Chris] I'll have some numbers
tomorrow.
[Monica] Hello. Hello.
[Minnie] Hi, guys.
[Tony speaking]
[Mike] So why the [bleep]
did you come back?
[Tony speaking]
First of all, first of all,
back it up.
I cleaned all this.
[Tony speaking]
[Monica] It would never
look so nice.
[Tony laughs]
[Monica chuckles]
[narrator] The Beets family
have gathered to see
if Tony's fast start,
has paid off.
You win at the end,
even for a bit, so it's...
- [Tony speaking]
- [Minnie] Kinda nice
to see you.
[Tony speaking]
From the sounds of it,
he's turning into quite
the Beets eh?
All he needs is experience,
and he's getting that
every day, right?
[Tony speaking]
You guys went and helped
Kevin move his plant?
- [Tony speaking]
- [Mike] Grab the truck.
If people listened to me
the first time, we'd have
had it the [bleep] time.
[Tony speaking]
[all laughing]
well, but after a good start,
I would like not to have
another year like last year.
No sir, frozen assets.
I think, maybe we should see
what else is there.
[Tony speaking]
[narrator] At Indian River,
Sluice-a-lot ran, for a week.
And the shaker deck,
for two days.
[Mike] Sixty, 90, 100 and 150.
Two hundred, 260, 300, 310.
[Mike] 312.16
Yes.
[narrator] With gold prices,
hitting an all-time high,
of 2500 an ounce.
Tony's haul
is worth over $750,000.
Breaking his record
for most gold in the first
week of the season.
That's not bad for a week.
[Tony speaking]
This is the biggest cleanup
we've ever had in April.
- [laughs]
- [Minnie] All right, children,
you guys put the stuff away, please?
- Uh-huh.
- See ya.
[Tony speaking]
[growls]
[Chris] Oh, yeah.
[narrator] Parker's hoping,
his fast start will help break
gold records of his own.
[Parker] Anybody need a drink?
[narrator] To cash in,
on the highest
gold prices ever.
And hit his $25,000,000,
10000-ounce goal.
[Mitch] Well, back sluicing.
- [Chris] Yeah.
- Look at how long
it took us last year
to get actually sluicing
at the Money Pit.
And now,
we're rolling back in here.
But it is interesting
to think about
this time last year.
- [Tyson] Right?
- [bleep] mayhem.
- [Tyson] Oh, yeah.
- Yeah.
The amount of [bleep]
we were doing
last year, is crazy.
- [Mitch] Oh, yeah.
- Moving camp,
moving the yard,
It's just like...
It's nice to have everything
in one place.
Yeah.
[Tyson]
Big Red went pretty good,
though, for your setup there.
It looks nice.
It's set up, it's running.
We have dirt.
[Mitch] What do we got, Chris?
[narrator]
Parker's about to find out,
if his gamble
on the Money Pit's
old gravel piles.
will pay off.
[narrator] Worth,
just $14,000.
Thirty-four hour run.
gives us a season total of...
- That's uh... yeah.
- [Parker] [bleep] man.
Is that the worst cleanup
we've ever done?
[Chris] Broke another record,
you guys.
Worst cleanup ever.
- [Chris] Worst cleanup ever.
- Nailed it.
I'm sorry, to make you guys
do that for that.
Now we know.
That's not the way
we want to start off the year.
No, it's a bit problematic,
isn't it?
Especially considering,
how far we have to go.
All that time that we spent
setting up Big Red
could have been spent
elsewhere.
It's definitely a problem,
especially with
just how much ground
we have to get through.
We don't have
much leeway for mistakes.
[Parker sighs]
Only 9994.4 ounces,
left to go.
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15x01 - Greed is Good
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Reality based series follows the placer gold mining efforts of various family-run mining companies, mostly in the Klondike region of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, as well as in the U.S. state of Alaska.
Reality based series follows the placer gold mining efforts of various family-run mining companies, mostly in the Klondike region of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, as well as in the U.S. state of Alaska.