15x17 - Rick vs. Buzz

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[Rick] Everyone has been
working nonstop here
busting their asses,

trying to move
this overburden.

I mean, we've made
a lot of progress,

but we've got a long way
to go here in Vegas Valley.

And that is, uh,
no small project
to try and do,

especially this late
in the year.

[narrator]
It's the start of fall.

And in what could be
Rick Ness's last ever season
at Duncan Creek,

he's on a do-or-die mission
to hit a potential
$2 million payday.

[Rick] We gotta make
this place work
like clockwork.

We gotta be as efficient
as we can.

We'll get down to this pay
as fast as we can

if we're gonna have any chance
of sluicing again this year.

[narrator]
But to get the gold,

Rick's had to spend
the entire crew's profits.

[Ryan] All that gold bonus
right now is being spent

instead of going
in our pockets.

So If we don't hit that goal
at the end of the season,

that doesn't just ruin Rick,
I mean, that ruins us all.

[Bailey] We've just been,
you know, pretty much
spending money,

and we're going to be
spending money

until we get finally down
to the pay.

So it's definitely
a big gamble over here.

[narrator]
Earlier this season...

Make sure you get
every last bit.

[narrator] ...Rick hit
a 900-ounce jackpot

mining out
the Rally Valley pit.

Three hundred and ninety
two point one three.

-Awesome.
-Jeez, Louise, man.

[narrator] Three weeks ago,
he went on a high-stake
treasure hunt...

[Rick] The channel
from Rally Valley comes all
the way down the valley.

[narrator] ...chasing the same
nugget-rich pay channel

at the bottom of the 210-foot
deep Vegas Valley.

The drill holes are showing
between 200 and $250,000
a day.

[narrator] To get to the gold,

Rick's crew has dug down
nearly 100 feet,

but they've still got
more than 60 feet to go
before they hit pay dirt.

With no gold coming in,
the pressure is on
to ramp it up.

[Rick] It's a big project.
There's a lot of dirt to move,

but you know, there's only
so much time left,
only so many hours of the day.

And we're running
three trucks right now.

I do have a fourth truck,
and that's what we need
to get this done.

I'm kind of maxed out
with people right now.

Ryan, my mechanic's
running the truck.

Jason and Heather
from the office,
they're all running trucks.

So really, I'm gonna have
to get another person.

-Yo.
-Yo.

Uh, I think it's time
to park this thing and, uh,

maybe get a truck
and help those guys out.

I mean, Bailey's sitting
in that 750.

You know, there's three trucks
running right now.

That 750 is more than
capable of loading
four trucks.

So if you can get
in that fourth truck,

keep that one excavator going,
I think that's the best bet.

I know you don't like it,
but that's the game
now, right?

You know, get in the truck.

Thanks, bud. Get in the truck.

[Buzz speaking]

[Rick] Everybody wants
that job on the top,
the excavator,

because it's the most,
you know, it's prestigious,

and that's kind of where
Buzz is at right now.

Buzz doesn't feel like
he should be,

you know, in a truck
or you know what I mean?

But that's just not how
it works here.

Everybody's gonna wear
a lot of hats.

[narrator] Buzz
in the fourth Rock truck

allows Rick to shift an extra


And he should now be on track
to hit pay in less
than two weeks.

-Hey, Buzz.
-[Buzz speaking]

[Bailey] How's the new truck
working out for you?
Doing good?

[singing]

You're doing such a great job
over there, man.

Hopefully it gets a little bit
faster here,

but, you know,
right now it's all on me.

I like the responsibility
and the pressure.

You know, it's... it's nice.

Hey, Buzz, you got a copy?
You got a bleep] ton

of black smoke.
you better get that looked at.

-[Ryan] That's pretty
[bleep] black.
-[Buzz speaking]

[Ryan] Sounds like [bleep].

All right.
Let's get it shut off.

Don't get a load
or don't do any
of that [bleep].

-We'll end up [bleep]
melting this engine down.
-[Buzz speaking]

[Ryan] My biggest fear
is that we've got
a locked-up turbo.

The turbo should be able
to spin freely by hand.

And I can't even
get it to spin.

So, yeah, that's...
that's what I was afraid of.

When it's not feeding air
to the engine,

the engine's running
on pure fuel only,

and that's why we had
black smoke coming out.

Buzz probably stuck a rock
in here and sabotaged it.

I don't blame him.
Rock trucks suck.

[narrator] To get Buzz
back on the road,

mechanic Ryan Kent replaces
the broken turbo

with a $4,500 spare.

[Ryan] Everything right there
looks good.

Done, clean, fluids changed.

It's unfortunate for you.

[Buzz speaking]

-You get to haul [bleep] slop.
-[chuckles]

Fire it up.

[engine revs]

All right.
Well, good enough for me.

[narrator]
After just four hours
downtime,

Ryan's quick fix
has Buzz back in the race
to hit Vegas Valley pay.

[Bailey] And you're back.

It's nice, man.
We've got four trucks going.

Hopefully, it's working good.

[Buzz speaking]

[Parker] Time is really
not our friend this season.

It's been a rough one
as far as gold goes.

But it could be a lot worse.

Record-high gold prices
are saving our a*s.

[narrator]
One hundred miles east,

Parker Schnabel is battling
to save his season
from disaster.

His ambitious plan
to hit big gold
at Dominion Creek

severely misfired,

and Parker's been pivoting
ever since.

[Parker] We really need
three plants running.

You know, we've got Big Red
and Roxanne running right now
on Dominion,

but you know, like just gold
total wise,

our only hope
of getting ahead this fall

is going to be
to keep three plants
running as long as we can.

[narrator] To turn
his fortunes around,

Parker gambled $2.5 million
on pre-stripped ground
at Sulphur Creek,

hoping for a quick


So far, it's delivered
nearly 400,

but had to be shut down
for two weeks

while the crew stockpiled
more pay.

[Parker] Bob hasn't been able
to stay running,

mainly because
it's just hungry.

Two hundred and thirty yard
an hour wash plant.

But they got the pay pile
stacked back up

and we can fire
the plant back up
and get running again.

And hopefully Damien
can make that happen.

[narrator] To help
bail him out,

Parker needs Sulphur Creek's
plant boss, Damien Browne
to deliver 600 more ounces

by the end of the season.

[Parker] So how
are things going?

[Damien] Uh, pretty good.

[Parker] You have
a hoe operator
and two truck drivers.

It's just like smaller crew.
It's spread so thin already.

-[Damien] Yep.
-You know.

That plant is very hungry.

But if you can keep
the pay pile built up,

you might be able
to keep it going, right?

-[Damien] Yeah.
-[Parker] You'll be fine.

And just try to keep
the wash plant running.

-[Damien] It's that easy.
-Yeah.

We have pay up,
and get Bob fired up
and get some pay into him.

Well, let's fire it up.

Just gonna have to go down
and pump.

I just gotta get
loads of water jetting out.

You can't exactly expect us
to bloody run that [bleep]
through a wash plant.

Sean, do you copy, Sean?

Yeah, go ahead.

[Damien] Can you come over
and meet me by the pond?

-Yeah, 10-4, buddy.
I'll be over in a couple.
-[Damien] Cheers, mate.

[Sean] What's going on, buddy?

Oh, [bleep].

[Damien] So, as you can see,
we're fighting here
with this [bleep]

flowing in from our ditch.

The previous owners
used this pond
as a waste dump,

and now we're paying
the consequences.

We're going to have to come up
with some sort of a solution
to stop this.

[Damien]
It's just absolute dirt.

You can't exactly expect us
to bloody run that [bleep]
through a wash plant.

[narrator] At Sulphur Creek,
the intake pond feeding
wash plant Bob

is filled with junk.

Damien can't fire up
until he has a clean
water source.

[Sean] What do we think
about a culvert?

Put it below the water level
and then sticks stay on top

and everything just goes
underneath through it.

[Damien] It's a day's work
just to get that done.

I was kind of thinking build
some sort of a beaver dam.

Stop all this [bleep]
floating on top,

and the water should flow in
underneath it.

[Sean] We've got quite a few
nice spruce trees up there.

Look like they'd float
pretty good.

That should slow it down
quite a bit, I would think.

[Damien] That's a bloody
good idea. I like it.

[narrator] To stop junk
from floating
into the plant's water supply,

Damien's creating
a makeshift dam of trees,

then will clear the debris
from the smaller pond.

[Damien] This is a real
bush fix.

We'll find out pretty
damn soon
if it's gonna work.

And, uh, hopefully,
I'm not the laughing stock
of the Yukon.

[narrator]
If his bush fix works,

Damien will have saved hours
of downtime and lost gold.

[Damien] I'm just crossing
my fingers right now

we can fire Bob back up again.

Let's hope now that
that's the last of our issues.

I think
if this doesn't work...

...Parker's gonna be
pissed with me.

Whoa! Far out.

The water is looking
pretty good right now.

Whoo!

I'm damn happy with that.

[narrator]
King of the Klondike,
Tony Beets,

is looking to finish
the season strong.

He's mined over 3,800 ounces,

but has hobbled
with just one wash plant
sluicing for gold.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator]
To get back on track,

Tony wants a second
wash plant
up and running fast.

And he's looking
to his daughter
to take on the challenge.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] Three weeks ago,

daughter Monica tried to
kick start her own operation
at Paradise.

You told me this cut
was going to be mine.

[narrator] And mine
the three-acre Hester Cut,

a pocket of virgin ground
Tony believed was missed
by the old timer's dredges.

[narrator] But an unexpected
discovery in the Super Pit...

[Tony speaking]

[narrator]
...diverted Tony's resources
and torpedoed her dreams.

[Tony speaking]

But I'm feeling
a little shafted.

[Tony speaking]

Hey, I've been expecting you.

[Monica] It's been like
a nonstop issue.

Everything to do
with this Hester Cut

being just sort of pushed
down the list.

[Monica] [bleep] yeah.

[Tony speaking]

-Done deal.
-[Tony speaking]

Sounds like a plan.
I'm happy to get it going.

[Tony speaking]

I'm really glad to see
it's finally happening.

It took long enough.

Nice to see
that the guys showed up.

[narrator] Without a crew
of her own,

Monica needs her brother Mike
and his crew
to get her pump into position.

[Monica] See, we've got
a ramp down here.

We'll put the pump down
right in there.

[Mike] I'll drive it in myself
'cause that's a little bit
tricky ground.

[Monica] And if you're willing
to do it, be my guest.
Thank you very much.

You are a good brother.

I'm always happy to give
my sister a helping hand
whenever I can.

She wants to have a look
at what's in this cut.

So, first step,
a long time coming,
but it's finally happening.

[narrator] To drain
the Hester Cut,

Mike is bringing in one
of Tony's famous
Frankenstein machines.

This monster has been
brought to life,

fusing the body
of a 65-year-old pipe layer
with a 30-year-old pump.

Mike will drive it down
to the cut,

use its 20-foot-long boom
to extend out,

lower its six-inch
submersible pump
into the deep water

and directly suck out


revealing the Hester Cut's.
gold-rich pay,

The guys are getting
things going.

We can just lay the hoses out.

Hopefully, very soon
we'll be pumping water

water and it'll be all
hunky dory.

[narrator]
To remove the water,

Monica needs to pump it
into an old settling pond

on the other side
of the access road.

Stick it in.

There you go.

Hey. Hey. We did it.

They'll have that hooked up
in no time.

And then we'll start it up.

-So...
-We are going to start it up.

We're gonna start it up, yeah.

[narrator] Last step,
attach the lay flat
to the pump.

[bleep]

Oh, you are gonna be the bane
of my [bleep] existence.

This [bleep] ain't gonna
line up the way I want.

Because [bleep]
me, apparently.

[narrator] The final clasp
that holds the pipe
onto the pump isn't closing.

So if you look,
it's stuck like so.

So they're just trying to use
brute force to push it closed
so it holds.

Sometimes it's just
a pain in the a*s
and it doesn't want to go.

More push out, yeah.

[Monica] That's what they're
just arguing with.

She's not budging.

[Mike] Yeah,
we have to get it.

-Eventually, she'll catch.
-There we go.

It's never coming off.

That was a pain in the a*s.
I'm finally done.

[Monica] Next step is to put
the submersible pump in.

-You ready?
-[Monica] Yep.

[engine stuttering]

That doesn't sound very happy.

[engine revving]

[Monica] Whoo!

Good to start the engine.

Now we'll let it warm up
for a second.

And we can hopefully
start drying this cut.

Pull the lever.

-[Monica] Whoo.
-[narrator] With the Hester
Cut draining,

Monica is one step closer

to getting her own piece
of the Beets family empire.

It's really nice to see
the pump up and running.

Hopefully only be
a couple of days
before that hole's pumped out.

So we can start
moving some dirt.

I'm excited to see
what's gonna come out of this
Hester Cut.

[Rick] It's only been
a couple of days

since we've had
the fourth truck.

And they moved a lot of dirt.

There's a payoff here
if we can get to it.

[narrator] Rick Ness's crew
is running four trucks
to get down to a gold bonanza

at the bottom of the 210-foot
deep Vegas Valley.

We've got a small crew.
But we've got to work hard.

And we got to work
tight together
to make this happen.

Hey, you know, it's definitely
a little bit busier now
with four trucks going here.

But this is what
we've got to do

to get to the pay
and get that gold.

[Buzz singing]

[narrator] His small crew
stretched to the limit,

Rick's asked foreman Buzz
to drive truck
and haul 90 loads every day.

[Buzz speaking]

[Ryan] Buzz is in a rock truck
right now, and he's not
happy about it.

But if a small team's
gonna work,

everybody's got to be willing
to sacrifice

doing [bleep] that they don't
want to do.

And that's just how
it's gonna be.

If you b*tch about it,
you might as well
just go home.

[Heather] I feel like Buzz
would prefer
not being in a truck,

but being in an excavator
or working on it.

Getting the plant ready
to move.

But he's got to be
in a truck right now.

I mean, the goal
is 1,500 ounces,

and we're not going
to get there if no one wants
to get into a rock truck.

[bleep]

Really missing that loader
grading this road
down a little bit.

It's rough on me.
I can only imagine
it's rough on the truck.

Yeah, rough roads, not fun.

[bleep]

I just ripped a hole
in my pants.

That's how rough
the roads are.

[narrator]
The four rock trucks
constantly hauling waste

have beaten up
the 2,000-foot-long loop road.

[Heather] Rick,
do you have a copy?

[Rick] Yep, go for Rick.

This road is so bumpy.
My phone is like,
"Are you in an emergency?

Why are you shaking so hard?"

Copy that. Rick for Buzz.

[Buzz speaking]

[Rick speaking]

[narrator] To fix the uneven
section of road,

Buzz gets back
into an excavator
and lays down course rocks,

but is still not happy.

[Buzz speaking]

[sighs]

[snoring]

Hey, Buzz, you got a copy?

[snoring continues]

[Rick] Buzz must have
fell asleep.

Used to be last year
it was just like,

"Oh, well, he goes out to work
every morning,"

So I guess it's okay
if he takes a nap during
the middle of the day.

But let me find out he's just
sleeping out there anyways

and now he's not
even going out early.

So now he's been sleeping
during the day.

I don't really know
what to [bleep] do about it.

I just keep sitting around
hoping that he's gonna
shape [bleep] up, but,

it kind of isn't happening.

[snoring continues]

[horn blaring]

Why the [bleep]
does he not know

that he can't sleep
on the job?

Hey, Buzz!

[Buzz speaking]

For the love of [bleep],
hey, stop sleeping
in the [bleep].

You know,
everybody else is tired,

but everybody else is,
you know,

out here in a machine
doing their [bleep] jobs,

and we got you sleeping
[bleep] machine
right in everybody's face.

Like, what kind of message
does that send?

They're [bleep] gonna listen
to a guy that sleeps
on a machine all day.

[Buzz speaking]

I think every ounce of gold
Parker can get this year
he needs it.

I think the wash plants
are going to be shaking
right up

until they can't shake
no more.

[narrator] Damien and his crew

have been sluicing
for three days

and are hopeful
it will deliver big gold
by the end of the week.

Bob is so bloody hungry.

Like, I didn't think
we were going

to get through this ground
as quick as we are.

We just really need
to keep hammering hard at it.

[narrator]
Operator Jacob McClure
is feeding the wash plant,

while Damien is in the only
excavator on site

loading pay dirt for his crew
to haul to the pay pile.

[Brandon] Yeah,
it's nice having
the plant back going,

getting sluicing again
to keep the money coming in.

There is good gold here.

[Jacob] The truck should have
six-wheel drive,

but she's only down
to two-wheel.

There's been so much mud
in the wet time of the season,
it makes it real difficult.

But for now,
it's just a matter of us

getting that pay stockpiled
so we can keep
this thing running.

[bleep] Piece of [bleep].
Come on, man.

Let's go. Come on.

We're gonna have
to get a pull out.

Damien, you got a copy, buddy?

[Damien] Yeah, go ahead.

[Jacob] I've got
a little issue here.

Kind of buried the back end
of this truck.

Gonna need a little tug.

[Damien] Oh, [bleep] hang on.
Okay, I'll run over.

Yeah, he's just gonna
have to grab me
right by the front of the box.

He's just gonna
have to give me
a little pull here,

and I'm just gonna have
to put my foot into her
and work on my way out.

All right. [bleep]

Come on. Come on. There we go.

Oh, [bleep] me.

Like, that's a big a*s crack.

I can get my knife
straight through it.

I mean, man,
we cannot run it like this,

otherwise, this whole copper
is gonna rip clean off
the bucket.

[narrator]
Pulling the 45-ton truck
out of the mud

has cracked the top plate
of the bucket.

We have to shut this 480 down.
We can't run it like this.

I mean, Parker's gonna
be [bleep] pissed.

[Damien] It's just after 4:00
in the morning now.

We cannot justify having
an excavator down
for any time at all

because it's hard keeping up
with that wash plant.

[narrator] Damien Browne's
only excavator
at Sulphur Creek

is down with a broken bucket.

He's driven 25 miles
to Parker's Dominion
lay-down yard

on the hunt for a replacement.

[Damien] Because there's
so many buckets around here,

I'm not 100% sure
which is the right one.

I'm pretty sure this one
is the same.

I bloody really hope it is.

We're just really needing
to get this bucket back.
over to Sulphur

and get this hoe
back up and running.

With the few people
and the equipment
that we have,

it's getting stressful.

Yeah, 10-4. And I'm getting
kind of concerned.

Home sweet home.

Hopefully, this bucket
is the right one
for this coupler

because if it's not, yeah,
it's a massive kick
in the nuts.

[bleep]

That had me worried there
for a moment.

Oh, [bleep] yeah.

Boom. [laughing]

[bleep] yeah, boys.

[Damien] It's time to get
some gold back to Parker.

[narrator] A new bucket
fitted to the 480,

Damien avoids shutting down
wash plant Bob

and gets back to building up
the pay pile.

[Brandon] It's awesome
that Damien worked so hard
to pull through

and managed to come up
with that bucket

and get us going first thing
in the morning like that.

Now we're back to hauling pay.

[Damien] Yeah, we finally got
a bucket on this machine,

and we're building up
the stockpile again,

and the plant still
has pay in front of it.

So that's
all that really matters.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] On a mission
to ramp up gold production,

Tony Beets has son Mike
running his trommel
at full throttle.

And after four days
of draining,

he's hoping to get
the first pay

out of daughter Monica's
Hester Cut.

[Monica] Yeah.

[Monica] Sure.

Nice.

And no [bleep].

[Tony speaking]

[Monica] Well, it still looks
pretty wet to me.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] The Hester Cut
was previously stripped down
to pay,

but the banks have caved in
and turned it into
a swampy mess.

We really should've pulled
everything out in the spring,

but, you know, should have,
could have, would have.

[Monica] Yes, sir.

[narrator] On the hillside
of the Hester Cut,

the banks are super saturated
with water,

causing the soil to liquefy
and collapse into the cut
covering the pay.

To hold back the mudslides,

the Beets must haul in
coarse rocks

from a nearby pile
of old tailings
to sure up the bank.

The tailings will also act
as a French drain,

allowing excess water
to flow into the cut,

which will then need
pumping out
once everything has settled.

[Tony speaking]

If we don't push
some of these ceilings in...

...the hillside is going
to fall in pretty soon.

How's your end going?

[Tony speaking]

[Monica] Yeah, totally.

[narrator] To get more
tailings to stop the landslide
from covering even more pay,

Monica switches
to an excavator
and loads a rock truck.

[Monica] Whoa!

Get it over there.

[Tony speaking]

[Monica] All right.

Well, I see a lot of gravel
down here.

Hopefully the hillside
won't fall down anymore.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator]
The waterlogged hill is still
too dangerous to mine.

Until it dries out,
Monica's plans
are put on hold once again.

[Monica] It's never ending.

I don't know if the Hester Cut
will get started ever.

Hello, baby.

I love you.

Mwah.

[narrator] After nearly
five months away,

Damien's wife, Pascal,
and son, Malachi,

have traveled all the way
from Ireland to see him.

-We're going
in the rock truck.
-Whoo-hoo.

Whoo.

Broom, broom, broom, broom,
broom, broom.

Say bye bye to Mommy.

[Malachi vocalizes]

Oh, wow! Look at the loader.

It feels amazing
to see Malachi with his dad.

Driving around in the trucks
'cause he loves machinery.

-[vocalizes]
-Where?

There's Mama?

I'm sure he won't
want to get out of it.
[chuckles]

Beginning this season.
I know I had the best crew
out here to start it,

and I got to figure out a way
to end it that way.

[narrator] At Vegas Valley,
Rick's crew have been running
four trucks,

and now have less
than 20 feet to dig
before they hit pay,

but it hasn't been
clear sailing.

Buzz doesn't feel like
he should be in a truck.

And you can tell he's doing it
with a chip on his shoulder

and he's doing
the bare minimum
and everybody can see it.

And that's the problem.

[Buzz speaking]

[Rick] Rick for Buzz.

[Buzz speaking]

[Rick] Come and meet me down
by the side of the road.

Oh.

The reason I wanted
to talk to you...

I mean, just, yeah, [bleep].

You know,
everybody else is tired,

but, uh, we got you sleeping
on a machine
right in everybody's face.

Like, It's not fair
to everybody else.
I mean, it really isn't.

And it's, you know,
it's a problem.

You know, all season
hasn't felt like

you've really wanted to be
as involved as last year.

So...

Well, talk to me.

[Buzz speaking]

I know. Yeah, I know that.

I didn't kick you out
of that to be [bleep].

I kicked you out of that
because I needed you.

I need you doing more
than one thing.

I keep Bailey in there
because Bailey is not able
to do other things.

Look at how many people
we have here.

There's not
a 100-person crew here.

I mean,
if I've got to fill in,
I'm gonna go sit in the truck.

You're not
the senior operator.

You're not the [bleep] guy
on this crew.

You're gonna jump in
where [bleep] you fit in

or you're gonna go
the [bleep] home.

It's just how it is, so...

[Buzz speaking]

Yeah. I...

I mean, I...

I didn't see that.

Sorry,

I, uh...

I need you.

These guys need your help.

I mean, I want you to be
part of this team.

You're a big part
of this team.

-I made that clear last year,
you know.
-Okay.

[Rick] And, um, I mean,
I said it a lot last year
and I meant it.

You know, like,
this is the best team
I've ever had.

But I don't want
to lose anybody.

Well, you're at the top
of the heap.

If you're sticking around,
are we good?

We're on the same page.

It's the only way
it's gonna work.

Honestly?

All right.

I ain't getting up
at 4:00 in the [bleep] morning

when you're due
to have a meeting with you.

So you can [bleep] off
with that.

If you want me
to send you flowers,
I ain't doing that either.

[both chuckling]

-Give me a hug.
-[bleep]

[Buzz speaking]

-All right, pal. Good talk.
-Yeah.

I'll give you another...
I'll give you another hug
at dinner.

[chuckling]

It's good to clear the air
with Buzz.

Um, I think the air is clear.
I mean, it is on my part.

Do I think he got everything
off his chest? I'm not sure.

Um, he sounded like
he wanted to get pretty
animated about his role,

you know, and the trucks
and all that, and I get it.

But, you know,
that's my decision.

We're a small crew
and everybody needs
to get in where they fit in

on that day,
and if he's got a problem
with that going forward, well,

that will be a problem,
but if he doesn't,
I think we're good.

[Minnie] Hi, guys. Hello.

Okay, what's happening?

So, Mike, how's everything
with that trommel going?

Yeah, ran pretty good.
Seven days.

Sure would be nice
to start washing some rocks
out at Hester.

I mean, we do have issues
down there
at the moment, but...

[Monica] Yeah.

[Monica] Yeah.

Should we, uh, see what Mike
brought in this week?

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] To stay on track
for Tony's 5,000-ounce
season goal,

his only running wash plant
needs to deliver
at least 200 ounces.

One hundred, 110, 120,












[narrator]
Worth over $800,000.

Bringing the season total
to 4,159 ounces.

[Tony speaking]

Mmm-hmm.

[Minnie] He can do that again.

[Mike] Well, I hope to be
doing that weekly.

If you got your plants going,
you'd be doing that, too.

-Okay.
-Don't kick me out.
I'll leave. [chuckles]

[Mike speaking]

-[Tony speaking]
-[Mike] Yeah.

Take your [bleep]
with you, man.

-[Monica] Bye, everybody.
-[Minnie] Bye.

-[Monica] Can't I do both?
-[Tony speaking]

Bosco.

Hey, pup.

Looking for snacks.

[narrator] All season,
Parker's Dominion operation

has struggled to bring
in the gold.

But with Sulphur back online,

Parker is hoping
for a big haul.

By the sounds of it Damien
had a hell of a week
over at Sulphur.

Man, I really liked his idea
there for his Yukon water
filtration system.

Yeah, a couple of trees
goes a long way.

And Red's chugging along?

Yep, still in the red gravels
in their happy place.

All right. Speaking of Red,
let's do Red.

[narrator]
Before Parker's decision
to run red gravel pay,

the Bridge Cut was averaging
just 75 ounces a week.

We got 10, 20, 40,



We're gonna break 100.
One hundred.





Yeah, well done.

-Nice work.
Red Gravel's paying off.
-Yeah.

It still sucks,
but it's better than it was.

All right, Mitchell.

Roxanne, here we go.

[narrator] Roxanne's nearing
the end of the Long Cut

and last week delivered
just over 200 ounces.

[Mitch] Twenty, 30,









On the nose.

Oh, yeah, not in the place
we thought we'd be
this part of the season.

And Mister Bob here.

[narrator] With the gold
on Dominion coming up short,

it's up to Sulphur
to pick up the slack.

All right, here we go.

Twenty, 40,









[narrator]
Worth over $440,000.

[Parker] But at least
there's gold coming in.

Yeah.

Could be better but it could
also be a lot worse.

Yeah.

For the week we had


Our season total, 4,593.9

-Bosco likes it.
He's celebrating.
-Yeah.

-Keep them running, guys.
Keep them running.
-All right.

-Right on.
-Thank you, guys.

-Thank you.
-We'll go keep
some plants running.

-[Parker] Good luck.
-[all laughing]