16x05 - Pick Me Someone to Fire

[bunniefuu]

[Tyson] It's doing around


[Liam] So we can go higher?

Possibly.

Let's leave her where she is
for now.

Parker's happy with where
it is, so...

[Liam]
What happened to the young
and wild Tyson I used to know?

- He's dead.
- [Liam laughs]

[Tyson] I'm gonna go talk
to Parker.

- [Parker] What up?
- [Tyson] Happy with the plant?

Don't want the runs washed in.

[Parker] I would prioritize
the Bridge Cut.

[Tyson] OK.

[Parker] Next weekend,
I've got a new guy showing up.

Pick me out somebody to fire.

So just cut your worst one out.

[Tyson] Want to give me a list
of names of who it can be?

No, because then you're gonna
latch on to the options,

and I don't want
to give you options.

- All right.
- OK.

Don't be afraid to just tell
people to take a walk.

OK.

[Parker] Tyson, he's got
something to prove this season.

Giving him a lot more
responsibility has been good,

because he takes that very
seriously and very personally.

You want to have as few people
doing as much work as possible.

He pretty much told me that
someone's got to go by the end

of the week.
I've never fired anyone before.

We've got to figure out who's
gonna make it and who's not.

One of them has to go.

[suspenseful music playing]

Right now, we have a lot going
on here at Dominion.

We have Bob running
the Bridge Cut.

We have Sluicifer running
the Golden Mile.

One month into the season,
Parker Schnabel's foreman

Tyson Lee has his hands full.

To hit a 10,000-ounce season
goal, Parker's pushing Tyson to

mine as much gold as possible
on his Dominion Creek claim.

Normally, it's been move
that wash plant, get it set up,

have a month to breathe.

This year, it's move that wash
plant, get it set up,

move to the next.

Get that wash plant set up,
get it running,

move to the next.

And somewhere in between there,
I have to find the time to go

through all these operators,
and one of them isn't gonna

make the cut.

Letting someone go, getting rid
of someone, it's not a decision

I'm taking lightly.

You know, they could have come
up here like myself 10 years

ago, hoping to be up here
for years and years to come.

Just a decade ago,
Tyson arrived in the Yukon.

Pretty green at the mining
aspect of things.

Parker saw something special
in the rookie miner.

[Parker] I'm letting Tyson run
Sluicifer, see what he's got,

and hopefully this doesn't bite
either of us in the a*s.

[Tyson] Let's get her going.

And gave him a chance to step
up to the plate.

- [Parker] Nice job.
- Thanks, man.

Back when I first started
for Parker and up until now,

I've seen this company go
through a lot of growth,

a lot of changes.

Every year I get thrown
more and more,

and this year more than ever.

Parker said,
"Find your weakest operator,

send one of them packing."

So right now,
we have Charlie up top who's

doing fine and coarse tailings.

Then we have Michael down below
who's loading trucks,

two new truck drivers.
There's Lauren and Julian.

And then upstream,
we have Kayden loading Mary

and who the [bleep]
is with Mary?

It's a lot of [bleep]
new people, man.

Over at the Bridge Cut...

[high-pitched tone]

Ah, for [bleep] sakes.

New loader operator
Charlie Carleton is struggling

to clear tailings
from wash plant Bob.

Charlie seems to be
having issues

with his loader overheating.

He doesn't understand
when to curl.

Hopefully, it's nothing
too crazy.

- Yo, yo.
- [Charlie] Hey, what's up, man?

[Tyson]
How's it going?

[Charlie] I let it go down
a few more degrees.

It's at 107 now.

So that is caused by two
different issues.

You always want to have
the tires moving when you're

going in for a scoop.
Watch me scoop.

There's zero resistance
against the machine.

If you're going in for a scoop
like this...

see how much the machine
is struggling?

It's making that number climb.

Another thing that does it
is riding the brake.

So if you're riding around
like this...

that number is gonna climb.

Those are the two reasons why

your rear axle oil temp
is rising.

And then what is
a safe temperature

to start running again?

I think it got to about


It really shouldn't get
over 100.

Yeah, 122 is [bleep] hot.

- [Charlie] All right, thank you.
- [Tyson] No worries.

So I'll pay attention to both
those things more next times.

Newbies learning curve, I guess.

[Tyson]
Stuff that's common sense.
Hey, the tires aren't moving.

It's overheating.
I wonder why.

This year, I do not
have time for that.

We've hired some experienced
guys because we need

some experience.

Charlie's experience level does
not match what I was told

he had when we hired him.

[high-pitched tone]

Concerned with Charlie's
performance, Tyson tasks

operator Sandy DuBois
with keeping an eye on him.

So how did you get
the job here?

I used to work as a software
developer and systems engineer,

and I'd spend my days in front
of computers, and I was

just sick of it.

And I'm like,
"Man, I need to get out.

Get into gold mining
and get out in the wilderness."

[Sandy] I don't really know
what to say, man.

Oh, what's he doing?

I'm hoping to be able to get
him to go a bit faster,

'cause he's gonna have
to take care of this on his own.

You're not always gonna get
the best bucket, but you need

more than a crumb.

Hey, Charles, you got
a copy, Charles?

Hey, Sandy.

[Sandy] If we're not utilizing
our whole bucket, it's kind

of just like waste of fuel
and a waste of time.

Oh, my god.
He did it again.

Come in, Charles.

[Charlie] Yeah, go for Charles.

[Sandy] I can see that your
bucket's not fully curled in,

making a mess over the road,
so just make sure your bucket's

curled all the way up.
- OK, I'll do that next.

[Sandy]
'Cause yeah, at this point,
I can't leave him alone.

It would not work out.
He would fall behind.

If that plant washes out,
then we're not gonna have

a happy Parker, and that's what
I'm trying to avoid right now.

And he's starting
to slowly get it.

One bucket at a time.

Yeah, that looks a lot better.

Tyson and Parker leave
no stone unturned.

They have to train up some
people that they can be

confident will get every last
drop of gold out of this cut.

In the Golden Mile, new hire
Kayden Foote digs out pockets

of pay from a section
of the cut.

I'm a very driven,
motivated person.

I also like to think
of myself as a little bit

of a perfectionist.

I like to do things right
the first time, and I don't

like to come back
and do them again.

[Tyson] We have a lot
of new people, and...

a couple of them are
struggling here.

Kayden's one of them.

Yo, yo.

[Kayden] How's it going?

[Tyson] Pretty good.
Yourself?

[Kayden] Oh, you know,
just fighting water.

[Tyson]
The ditch needs to be lowered,
and then you're into pay here.

[Kayden]
Into pay right here?

[Tyson] Lower the ditch,
then you can carry on with what

you're doing.
- [Kayden] OK.

- Does that make sense?
- Yeah, that makes sense.

[Tyson] Any questions,
comments, concerns?

Like, I can jump in there
for you, and you can watch me

for five minutes if you want.
- [Kayden] Up to you.

I don't want to take up more
of your time than necessary.

[Tyson] Nope.
No, it's all good.

I just want to make sure what
I'm saying is what you're

understanding, and the best way
to do that is for you to sit

down and watch me
for five minutes.

Jarv, come on.

[Kayden] So far, so good.

Just have a few little things
I need to get adjusted to.

Right now, I'm trying to show
Kayden how to go about ditching.

He seems to be struggling with
a lot of water flowing down.

What we need to do is get
that water under control.

Tyson's making the ditch
around the cut deeper

and digging channels
to funnel water from the center

cut down to the ditch,
exposing the pay dirt beneath.

[Tyson]
Hey, Kayden, come take a look at
this, because I can see there's

still pay out here, right?

Makes me wonder what else is
under this water, right?

- [Kayden] And, and--
- [Tyson] You see,

just listen for a sec.

- You see that gravel seam there?
- [Kayden] Right there, yeah.

[Tyson] So that's pay, right?

Kind of-- I'll point it out
as I'm going.

With the cut full of water,
Kayden's leaving behind pockets

of pay, potentially costing
Parker thousands of dollars

in lost gold.

Biggest thing of all is to get
the water out and if you've got

a drain running right beside
where the water needs to go...

then you can see what's there
and what needs to be dug out.

'Cause it's only been a few
minutes and he's got that drain

in 100% and we'll be
off to the races.

Yes, ma'am.

You have to go over
every inch of it, right?

'Cause if you didn't do it,
how do you know it's done?

- [Kayden] OK.
- Thank you.

Thank you for your time.
I really appreciate that.

[Tyson] No worries.
Have fun.

I'll see you in a bit.
Come on, Jarv.

Let's go.

Hopefully he gets it now.

Kayden, he's thinking he
understands more than he does.

- I would agree with that.
- [Tyson] Yeah.

[Nona] Maybe come in a little
c*ck, you know, a little hot.

[Tyson]
God help us if Parker came in
there and decided to dig there

and found that we were
burying pay pockets.

[Nona] Yeah, no, he wouldn't
be a happy camper.

[Tyson] No.

[Tony speaking]

At Indian River, King
of the Klondike, Tony Beets,

is off to a strong start.

So far, his Early Bird cut has
banked over 1,000 ounces

of gold of his


Tony wants to keep up
the pace and is on a mission

to sluice 24-7.

Yeah, Tony seems to have
a little bit of a rocket

up his a*s.

He is getting older,
but he is not tired yet.

Cousin Mike is running Tony's
only working moneymaker--

Sluice-a-lot, feeding it


and eating through
ground faster

than Tony can open it up.

[Tony speaking]

To increase his Indian River
stripping power, Tony's on

the hunt for a dozer,
an excavator,

and three more rock trucks.

Even secondhand, a D10 dozer
could set Tony back more than

one million dollars.

- [Tony speaking]
- [Conor] Yeah.

So he's brought along trusted
mechanic Conor Elmes...

[Tony speaking]

...to assess it.

[Tony speaking]

[Parker] What are you doing?

[Parker] What are you doing?

[Tony speaking]

To keep his Indian River
operation running 24-7,

Tony Beets is hunting
for another dozer.

Good.
How are you?

What are you doing?

What, you want to buy
this thing?

Maybe.
I haven't decided yet.

I was like,
"Put some feelers out,"

but I'm a little hesitant
to sell it right now because

we're in--
we'd use it this summer,

but for you, Tony...

[laughs, scoffs]

You know, you got
to help the guys out

that are struggling, right?

[Parker] Um...



Mm.

That's the end-of-season
price.

No, no, no.
[laughs]

[Parker] OK.


You're at 1.3.
Um...

Probably not.

OK.
Let me think about it.

Well, 1.5.

[Parker] Why not?

It's worth it
all day long, Tony.

No, I don't really care
that much.

- [Parker] No.
- OK.

[Parker] I'm in no rush.

OK.

[Parker] All right.
See you, dude.

Good to see you guys.

- [Conor] Later.
- [Tony] Oh.

[Rick] It's been a tough start
to the season.

I did a classic Rick move,
I made a quick decision

and bought this ground out
at Lightning Creek.

People that know me know

I don't have a whole lot
of patience.

We gotta hope
the gold's there, and, uh

[bleep] we're gonna know soon.

Rick Ness has gone all in
on his biggest gamble yet.

After his water license
on Duncan Creek expired,

Rick's thrown down $700,000
for the Lightning Creek claim,

with no idea how much gold
is in the ground.

[Rick]
It's a hell of a gamble.

I made this purchase based off
of, like, a two-yard test.

Probably more like a yard
and a half, you know?

One pan...

with, you know, a few grams,
not even a gram of gold in it.

It probably is one
of the crazier things

I've ever done.
You know what?

I'm stubborn like that.

I wanna do things my way,
and that's just how

it's gonna be.

At the end of the day,
if I know the gold's there,

we just have to make
it pay off.

If Rick hits a hotspot on
the notoriously unpredictable

Keno ground, it could mean
a massive payday.

Rick loves taking big risks.

[Kai] Is it smart?
I don't know yet.

Obviously, time will tell,
but we all support him.

I think this whole crew is
big-risk takers, and, you know,

that's why we're here for him.

I mean, you can make a plan,
and it sounds good and looks

good on paper,
but it's definitely

a finger-cross moment.

Now it's time to find out
if Rick's bet will pay off.

We are down to pay now.
It actually went really quick.

The guys did a great job.

They stuck with me,
and now they're seeing

pay dirt already.

So I'm gonna get
to Lightning Creek, get the guys

together, get a plan to get
Rocky set up, and get on

the damn gold.

To start sluicing,
Rick just needs to move

wash plant Rocky into place.

[Rick] Look good
down here, boys.

We're gonna set up
sluicing, eh?

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

I mean, there's not a whole
lot of space to deal with

right here.
- [Kai] We're all set up.

[Rick] I'll drag it backwards.
Then the only thing

I'm worried about
is it's a real narrow area,

the creek on one side
and kind of a bank on that side.

I'm gonna have to hug
the creek to get this,

you know, that sluice box
past that bank.

Otherwise, it's dragging
get all bent out of shape, so...

I'm just gonna have to
have everybody on both sides,

both banks, just yelling
and screaming at me not

to hit anything.
And it should be good.

Rick's crew
has already removed

the two-acre Diamond Cut's
shallow overburden

and 15 feet of pay to make
a stockpile ready to run.

Now, he wants to pull
his 32-foot-wide, 25-ton
wash plant, Rocky,

from its current home,


and winding track using his


on one side and the creek
on the other, then drag it

into position near
his pay pile,

and, finally, fire it up.

[Rick] I just need eyes
around me.

[Bailey] Yeah, yeah.
Eyes around.

Right.

[Bailey] The hills have eyes.

[Zee] Well, this is it.
It's the start.

Frozen.

I mean, it's been sitting
all winter in ice.

This [bleep] just turns
into concrete, all those fines.

[Bailey] Oh, that's it
right there, oh.

Oh.
That's what we needed.

[Rick] Look at that.
Look at that.

Nothing broke?
No one got hurt?

[Rick] No.

[Rick]
It's important for us to get
this wash plant up and running.

A lot of money going out,
and without gold coming in,

it hurts, so...

we have to get gold
coming in right away.

[tense music playing]

All we can do now is drag it
into place, set it up,

and see what happens.

I'm gonna have Kyle
on that side and Kai, both be

in my eyes on that sluice box
that I can't see behind me.

I'm gonna hug this side by
the river, hope I don't dump

it in the drink,
and here we go.

[Kyle] Lots of room,
lots of room.

[Rick] Good on that side?

Keep going!

Whoa!

[Kyle]
Getting a little close there.

What?

[Kyle] Getting a little close.

[Kai] Rick, you're getting
a little close.

Hey!

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

[Rick] Holy...

- Oh
- Whoa, whoa, whoa!

[Kai]
Getting a little close there.

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Oh.

Did I hit?

I can't see that side,
so I really [bleep] that up.

At Lightning Creek,
Rick and his crew are fighting

to get wash plant
Rocky up and running

by the end of the day.

Yeah, it's got to go that way.

Let me see if I can do that.

Yeah, go that-- keep going
that way.

[Zee] We got two things.

You don't want to bend
the sluice boxes and you don't

want to put it in the river

because we don't have
another one.

We're close.
We're close.

Ooh, yeah!

Yeah!
Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Are you unhooked?

- [Rick] Yeah.
- Looks like it.

Shall we just stop
overthinking it and plug

this [bleep] in
and see what happens?

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

[laughing]

[Zee] Just getting the water
line set.

- Are we ready, you think?
- I think so.

- Put some water in this thing?
- Yeah.

[Bailey] There it goes.
Oh, oh, oh.

- [Rick] That's what
I'm talking about.
- [Kayden] Wow.

[Rick] Well, we got water.

- [Zee] She's running, boys.
- [Kai] She's running.

[Zee] All right.

- [Kai] That's good.
- [Bailey] Whoo!

[Kai] Whoo!

[Bailey] Hey, Rick.

Yeah, it's gonna wash off
pretty bad right there.

- [Rick] Other side?
- [Bailey] Yeah.

[Rick] [bleep]

[Bailey] It's just gonna wash it
out, you know?

The bank's eroding way
too fast.

It's already creeping back
towards the plant.

There's too much fines
and not enough big rock.

- [Zee] Yeah.
- [Rick] It's just all topsoil.

- Hey, shut it off.
- [Zee] Shut it off.

It's already gone
too [bleep] far.

[bleep] [bleep].

[Zee]
I mean, you can honestly look
at this and say, "If we ran it



[Rick] We haven't even put
any dirt in it yet, right?

And the whole [bleep] bank's
trying to wash away.

But we're gonna have to yank
this thing out of here

and build it out,
build it up with rock.

It's gonna take some days.

[Zee] It just sucks, man.

We've been spending money
since I got here

and nothing coming in.

We still got 1,800 ounces
to get.

Bottom line is we're not
sluicing today.

Things are going real nice
here at Sulphur.

Really happy with how this
project has gone.

We've seen some really good
gold come out of here,

and I feel good about it.

Foreman Mitch Blaschke
is on the gold,

running wash plant Roxanne
at full tilt.

[Mitch]
We got a busy week ahead of us
here, keeping Roxanne running.

You know, these gold prices are
high, and profit is what

it's all about.

25 miles east at Dominion...

Parker's asked me to find
the weakest link and get him

out of here.

So I'm gonna try and figure
that out, because my

deadline's due.

...Tyson is back to check in on
recent hire Kayden and see how

he's doing cleaning out
pockets of leftover pay.

[Tyson] Hi.

- [Kayden] Hi.
- [Tyson] You having fun?

[Kayden]
Yes, um, getting there.

But I might have to do
a little more ditching.

[Tyson] I'll go clean it up.

All this trapped water back
here, right?

I'll kind of cut a little
trough here.

Because then all this stuff
can drain.

Wet pay, as you know,
doesn't like

going up conveyors.

[Kayden] No, belts do not
like wet material.

- [Tyson] And this is
[bleep] soup.
- [Kayden] Yeah.

And we can make it so
it's not soup.

- So we got to get the water out.
- Yeah.

Because if we dug
with that trapped water,

it would come this way.

All that yellow [bleep] would
end up back down here.

Which is where
we don't want it.

[Tyson] That's what we're
after, right?

We're after that yellow [bleep].

It's worth something
for some weird reason.

[Kayden]
I'm just watching what you're
doing so I can mimic it in my

own work?
- [Tyson] Yeah, yeah,
pretty much.

I think Tyson will feel that
I'm really trying my best to do

what he wants and get it right
the first time.

[Tyson] We need to get this
material out of here,

and we need it to happen now.

My goal is to get
Kayden spelt out...

on the way we do things here.

The main thing is just getting
the water out,

letting it soak and drain.

You can see how the water is
draining towards the ditch now,

because it's sloped.

So you can see kind of what
I'm doing here, right?

[Kayden] Yeah, sloping the edge,
leveling it out.

Or, well, not leveling,
but giving it a slope so water

can run down into the trench.

[Tyson] But, yeah, have fun.

I will try my absolute best
to make you proud.

[Tyson] Yeah.

He explained it the way
we like it done,

but there's zero execution.

We have operators here
who said they had lots

of experience, and when they
got here, it didn't show.

So are one of those people
gonna be the ones to leave?

Maybe, maybe not.

Is it gonna be due
to poor attitude?

Maybe, maybe not.

Not a decision I take lightly,
but these people were hired

to do a job, and if they can't
do that job,

we'll find someone else.

No issues with the temperature.

I'm fine.

Over at the Bridge Cut,
loader operator Charlie is

still on tailings.

I'm starting to feel a little
more comfortable.

It's a little less chaotic.

I don't see much of Tyson.
He's so busy.

Maybe that's a good thing
that I don't see him much.

'Cause I--

Trust me, if I was doing a bad
job, I'm sure I would hear

more from him though.
- [Tyson] Can you hear me?

[Charlie] Yep.

[Tyson] Wanna walk down?

OK.

Ah, [bleep] my helmet.

[Tyson on radio] No, there's no
need to panic, Charlie.

There's no need to run,
we're all good.

OK.

[Tyson]
How's it going, Charlie?

[Charlie]
Pretty good.

Sorry, can I ask
you a question?

- [Tyson] Yeah.
- [Charlie] While I have
a minute?

[Tyson] Yeah.

So, the part that you told me
before, I did not realize

that the--
So, we gonna talk, or...

I'm training,
so you can keep going.

No, I'm listening.

Now that I understand that
the tailings is what's most

important to us now.

Everything's most
important, right?

- Feeding the plant's important.
- Yeah, yeah.

Getting tailings is important.
Everything's important.

And that's why we have multiple
people doing different jobs.

For you, that's making sure

this wash plant doesn't
bury itself.

OK, awesome.

- You all set, Charlie?
- [Charlie] Thank you.

[Tyson] OK, thanks.
OK, jump in.

I gotta go.

He came with 20 years'
experience, is what I was told.

If I have to do that with him,
then we're [bleep].

Tyson this year has a lot of
responsibility, so I thought

I'd just run down,
see how he's doing,

how he's getting along
with his crew.

He takes his job very,
very seriously.

If he's having any problems,
we need to remedy those

right off the bat.

- T Bird!
- [Tyson] Yo, yo!

- Hey, T.
- Hey, Doumitt, how's it going?

- Good, how about you?
- Oh, pretty good, thanks.

- You're surviving so far, huh?
- Yeah, so far, so good.

Parker said by the end
of the week he wants, uh...

wants someone's name
on the board to chop

because he's got
another operator coming.

You know Parker better
than anybody when

he gives a deadline.
- Yeah.

So now I'm trying to figure
out, "OK, the guy over there,

"in the excavator,
is he helping me or hurting me?

"Or is he not cleaning the pay
properly, and then I have

"to tell him two, three times to
go in when I could have gotten

"his-- what he could get done
in three days, what I could get

done in one," so...

One of my favorite sayings,
I would have been done by now,

but I had help.
- Yeah.

[Chris] Right, exactly.

Maybe you can help me,
you know, figure out

if I'm making
the right decision.

If they-- not doing the job,
they don't understand the job,

you're gonna fight
with him all season long.

Now's the time to sort
those people out.

- Yeah.
- [Chris] You're aware of that.

Every promotion, every step up
you've taken, you've earned.

Thanks, Doumitt.

[Chris] So, make a decision
and stick with it.

Start surrounding yourself
with good people.

OK, you take care, buddy.
You're doing a great job.

- Thanks, Doumitt.
- [Chris] Proud of you, son.

[Tyson] Later!

You know, Doumitt just came down
to the cut to check on me

and see how I'm doing.

I got some good insight
from him.

I've reached a decision
on who's gonna be let go.

Gonna have to let the first
person go of the season.

At Dominion Creek,
it's time for Tyson to send

someone home.

[Tyson] You know, this is
a new role to me.

I know I've never fired anyone
before, but I have a lot

of people that deserve my time
and I'm spending it on people

that should have experience.
So enough is enough.

Yo, yo.

Things aren't really
working out, man.

- I'm gonna have to let you go.
- OK.

Yeah.
It's just--

you let on to have more
experience than you have,

so I only have so much
of my time that I can spend

training people.
- [Charlie] OK.

So yeah, if you want to grab
your stuff, we'll just shut

this loader off.

[groans]

[Charlie] I gave it a try.

I guess it was harder than
I expected it would be,

to be honest.

You know, Parker asked me
to find someone to let go.

And we've done that.

When we're hiring experienced
operators, we need experience.

Or sadly, they're gonna have
to go down the road.

25 miles west
at Sulphur Creek,

Kayden has survived but been
demoted to loader operator.

Right now, Parker doesn't have
enough guys to run loader.

I'm not sure if Tyson had
anything to do

with me coming out here,
but it ain't my fault

that Tyson's not around
to give me guidance.

Hopefully, I can go back
to digging pay

because that's my happy place
in my big sandbox.

[Tyson]
We don't have time for people
to be not good at their job.

We only have so much time
up here in the Yukon to get as

much gold out of the ground
as we can.

I just care on getting
the cuts stripped and ready,

'cause then I have lots of
[bleep] pay ready

for when I do start sluicing.

But what I need is to get
my trommel set up.

At Paradise Hill, Mike Beets
is trying to prove himself

to his dad, Tony, in the hope
that one day he'll get

his own ground.

But so far, he hasn't sluiced
an ounce of gold.

[Mike] I got to get
my pump set up.

I got to get a bunch of welding
and cleanup, then set up

all the conveyors.

And then I'm also gonna have

to put in my hopper
and everything.

Hey, how's it going?

I don't even know.

Probably three days by the time
I'm all said and done.

[Mike] OK.

I'd love to sluice my pay piles,
but we fight the [bleep] trommel

every [bleep] step of the way.
Every [bleep] step of the way.

[Tony speaking]

Tony's on the hunt for more
equipment to increase

his gold haul
from the Indian River claims.

[Mike] [bleep].

Hey, Dad.

[Tony speaking]

Am I gonna get him back?

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] Holy [bleep].

[Tony speaking]

If you try to take all my
people and all my [bleep]

and then expect me
to still run the hill,

you might as well take me too,
and we all work out there.

After raiding his son's
operation, Tony's heading

40 miles to Indian River.

[Mike] I run a shipping
department, not a mine site.

I got a D10 going to
the Indian River right now.

So what the [bleep]
are we supposed to do?

Because as much as he says,
"I'm in charge," he's still

the boss, the big, big boss.

Tony can now take

the Indian River operation
up a level.

And start running 24-7.

But he's leaving Mike short
on equipment and crew.

[Tony speaking]

Want to get out of here?
Let's go.

- [Zee] No, but yeah.
- [Rick] Yeah, I know.

At Lightning Creek, wash plant
Rocky is still not sluicing,

and Rick is still not
getting gold.

And now, his friend Zee
is headed home.

[Rick] We're going straight
to the airport.

I mean, it sucks going home
this early.

I mean, usually, when I'm
up here, we at least have

the plant going
and seeing some gold.

I'm sorry you can't see some
gold too, but I'm not good

at planning as it is.
Right?

- Let's just be honest.
- [Zee] Yeah.

Not your strongest suit.

[Rick] I know.

Do you think there's


I think there is.
I don't think...

Would I be a lot more
comfortable getting it

out of Vegas Valley?
Absolutely.

You're not gonna go home
with any gold right now,

but if you can make it back
in the fall...

- Yeah.
- Different story, buddy.

Yeah.

- [Minnie] Hi, guys.
- Hello.

[Minnie] Well, look it Tony.
There's a whole bunch of them.

Spilling coffee everywhere.

Tony is about to find out if
his push to run 24-7

at Indian River
has paid off.

So, how's it going out there?

Pretty good.
Plant has been going steady.

We just got to stay ahead,
do some more stripping

in Early Bird cut.

How's Paradise Hill
going, Mike?

Everything keeps coming
to a screeching halt.

I'm losing a bunch of equipment
and a bunch of people.

- [Mike] All week, right?
- Are you ready?

Last week, before Tony started
running 24-7,

Sluice-a-lot delivered


That's 100, 120,







Worth over
$1.4 million dollars.

So how much is that
roughly an hour?

[Monica] It's 2.9 ounces
an hour-ish.

[Minnie]
Well, two ounce, a little bit
over two is not bad.

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] That's why
you never mined.

Yeah.

Only a month into the season,
Tony's Sluice-a-lot

has pulled in 1,430 ounces,

banking him
five million dollars.

- [Monica] OK, talk to you later.
- [Mike] Yep.

[Monica] Bye.

[Minnie] Yeah, that looked
pretty good.

That was a busy week.
You must have been busy, Chris.

- [Chris] Very busy.
- [Mitch] What's up, Tyson?

Heard you had some weak links
kicking around.

Yeah, well, Parker wanted one
of them to go,

so I had to let Charlie go.

He said he had more
experience than he had when

he came here, so I just had
to pull the plug there.

Too bad, because he was
a nice guy.

[Tyson] He was really nice.

He was really trying,
but yeah, he just kinda

oversold, I guess.

This is definitely jumping
off the deep end.

[Tyson] Yeah, for sure.

When I was driving him back,
he's like, "I thought it would

be a lot easier than this."

For the first time this season

Parker has been running three
wash plants all week

and is hoping to blast past
last week's 527-ounce haul.

First up, Roxanne at Sulphur.

[Mitch] Well, I hope you had fun
with Roxanne here.

- [Chris] Roxanne?
- Yeah, come on.

Roxanne's a little bit
unique, Mitch.

[Mitch] Why's that?

Because I didn't have
a thermos big enough

and my scale doesn't go
high enough.

- [laughs]
- [Chris] So this is Roxanne.

[Mitch] Starting off
with a full pan there?

All right, we got 50...





Right on the dot.
But we got to move this aside

because we have a thermos
coming too.

[Tyson] Wow.

Now what's crazy,
it's doing 150 yards an hour

right now too.

That's what I was just
thinking about.

So we got 300 plus




- So 350.7.
- Nice one, brother!

Worth one and a quarter
million dollars.

- [Brennan] Holy, that is sick!
- At 150 yards an hour.

At three ounce per 100 yards
sluiced, Sulphur is some

of the richest ground
Parker has ever mined.

Cleanups like this make
my job fun.

Now, it's Tyson's turn.

[Chris] You want to take a look
at what you got?

[Tyson] Let's see.

First up, Bob from Dominion's
Bridge Cut.

Bob's been running pretty
consistent lately.

Good old Bob.
Chugalug Bob, right?

Here we go.



...160.
We're gonna beat two.

- 195.
- Not quite.

- [Tyson] 196.2.
- [Chris] Yeah.

[Tyson] Yeah.

[Chris] And then just up
the creek from that,

Sluicifer's got
the big thermos, too.

All righty, here we go.

Sluicifer's been running
all week at the Golden Mile.

Here we go.
This is Sluicifer, buddy.

[Tyson] Here we go.



Oh, there's 200, 220, 240.

Keeps coming, Doumitt.


The Golden Mile is living up
to its name, and Tyson's two

wash plants have banked Parker
another $1.6 million dollars.

Last week, we had 527
and a half ounces.

This week, we have


To give you an idea
of what's going on,

this time last year,
we had 288 ounces.

We now have 2,043
and a half ounces.

Worth $7.1 million dollars.

Which we did over a third
of this week.

[Chris] Yeah.

Man, if it's like that all
the way through,

it's gonna be great.

[Parker] So we just need to do
that 10 more times.

- Yeah.
- [Chris] Yeah.

And then, like,
some more times after that.

[all laugh]

[Parker] It's $2.5 million
dollars sitting there.

Can you do that thing where
it's like, "You get a pan,

you get a pan, you get a pan"?
- [all laugh]

- That's wild.
- That's crazy.

That used to be, like,
what we would spend

in an entire season.
- [Chris] Yeah.

[Parker] Wow!

Impressive.

Mesmerizing looking
at that much gold, eh?

Yeah, get out of here!
You're gonna start...

You're gonna come to
my bedroom with a g*n here soon.

You get an airplane.
You get an airplane.

[all laugh]

Good job, guys.

Like, genuinely,
that's [bleep] insane!

[Tyson] Oh, man!

Get this...

Make sure this ends
up in the safe.

All of it?
OK, we'll do that.