16x17 - Trommel Around and Find Out

[bunniefuu]

[dramataic chord strike]

[intriguing music plays]

[Tony speaking]

[narrator]
King of the Klondike,
Tony Beets is riding high.


in over $17 million in gold,

enough to buy a lot of pants.

All of Tony's gold is coming
from his two washplants

running 24-7
on his Indian River claim.

But at his Paradise Hill
operation, the trommel,

his big moneymaker,
is at a standstill.

I still got to get
this whole thing set up.

And youngest son Mike
hasn't run a yard through it

all season.

[Mike] If I could, I'd have been
sluicing two months ago.

But my dad takes away
a lot of my time

doing a lot of other [bleep].

[Tony speaking]

[Minnie] I'm good.
What are you doing here?

Yeah, no, he's working on it,
and just let him be,

and just let him figure it
out himself.

[Minnie] No.

[Minnie] If you leave Mike
to it, he will get it done.

Just let him be for now.

He has to learn somehow.

Not me.
I'm busy, man.

[Tony speaking]

OK.
Drive carefully.

Oh, I will.

[Tony speaking]

OK.

[Minnie] Bye.

[grunts]

Sometimes Mike makes a decision
and Antonio rolls in

and he changes it.
And that's really hard.

I mean, it would piss me off,
to tell you the truth.

I would like Mike
to be his own boss.

Have his own claims,
have his own equipment,

have his own people.

That's what I would love
to see, just like Kevin.

Mike really wants to impress
his father and that's sometimes

a little hard.

If everything were to go my way,

I actually will be
sluicing in three days.

Mike has been battling all
season to get the trommel going

with a skeleton crew.

With the maintenance completed,
he just needs to put all

the parts together
and fire it up.

[suspenseful music plays]

[Mike]
About time we get
this conveyor in, eh?

We'll lift it over there with
the pipe layer, and we'll see

if we can get that thing
sitting flat and straight.

Because then once we get that
in place, all we have to do is

get something to hold
that hopper in, and then

this whole section is done.

To get the trommel running,
Mike first needs

to install a 100-foot conveyor,

using a pipe layer to
lift it into position

at the trommel's prewash.

Then, using a pair of dozers,
he'll lift and push the 30-ton

hopper feeder into position,

perfectly aligning it
with the conveyor.

Next, he'll connect
the water pipeline,

and finally fire up.

Up.
Watch your fingers.

[rattling]

Spin.

[snap]
[rattling]

Stop!

The cable just slipped
along the [bleep] top ring.

Walk forward a bit.

Put it down.

[grunts]

OK.

How's it look on your end?

[Brayson]
Oh, yeah, it's good.

Yeah, it's lined up.

Hey, guys, be careful.
She's coming down.

[Mike] Perfect.

[whirring]

Now we just got to drag
the hopper in.

[intriguing music plays]

OK, start lifting.

[machine roars]

[revving heavily]

Excellent.
Now start walking.

[rattling]

A little bit to your left.

Straighten out a bit.

Stop, stop.

And now the thing's dragging
in the ground.

Oh, [bleep] me...

Zach, you're gonna have
to lift it up a bit.

[rumbling, creaking]

Slowly forward.

[Mike sighs]

You just don't have
enough height.

I got to force the issue.

Len, do you copy? Len?

Front of that 980,
try to pick it up some more.

Excellent.

Now start turning to your left.

That's good.

It looks pretty
[bleep] straight.

[mellow music plays]

Dead on.

It's nice when I can
do it my way.

Celebrate your small victories,

because they're [bleep] few
and far in between.

-Hey, Mom.
-[Minnie] Hey.

That's a sight for sore eyes.

[Mike] Yes!

Went in real smooth,

both the conveyor
and the [bleep] hopper.

Nice.

Nice, nice, nice.

-This looks good.
-[Mike] Yeah.

So when do you think
you're gonna sluice?

[Mike]
If it goes the way
I planned, three days.

Hopper, conveyor are done.

I just got to finish off
the suction, and we're done.

[mysterious music plays]

[Rick] We're not quite getting
where we need to be.

It's not gonna be popular
with everybody, but I'm just

thinking we're going to have to

start putting in some
longer shifts.

That's the only way we're gonna
get to five weeks of sluicing,

and that's about what
we're going to need.
-Yeah.

I wish I had better news,
but I know you can make it

happen, so let's [bleep]
do it, right?
-[Bailey] Yeah.

Yep.
Yep.

We'll try our best,
and we'll [bleep] go from there.

-[Rick] You'll get it done.
-All right, brother.

-[Rick] Thanks, man.
-[Bailey] Yep.

[Bailey]
Hey, rock truck drivers,
you guys got a copy?

-Go ahead.
-Yeah, I just spoke to Rick.

We're gonna have to do
about 1,800 loads a week.

That's about 100 loads each
for you boys.

Oh, [bleep].

At this point in the season,
we've got 500 ounces of gold.

That's nowhere near
our 1,800 ounces.

So, we've got
a long way to go.

I'm feeling the pressure
right now.

We're running out of time.

Rick Ness is trying to dig
himself out of a hole

by digging the biggest hole
of his life.

Three and months
into the season,

he's mined a quarter
of his 1,800 ounce goal

and still has
no gold coming in.

[Rick]
We've got a hell of a lot of
dirt to move out here when

we're going that deep and not
a whole lot of time to do it.

To get the gold flowing,
Rick and his crew are

on an epic mission
to dig down 120 feet

to hit pay at the bottom

of his enormous
new cut, Valhalla.

And they need to do it

in less than a month.

As far as I'm concerned,
this is our best shot.

We just need to get everybody

you know,
on the same page,

everybody moving smooth,
and that's what we'll get.

We need about 1,800 trucks
per week, which is,

with three trucks, about


At the top of Valhalla,
Rick has one excavator loading

three rock trucks
with worthless overburden.

The trucks must then climb
a steep 30-degree incline

to the top
of the valley's ridge.

Then journey a mile

along a rough dirt road
past their camp

and old Rally Valley Cut

to dump the dirt off a 200-foot
high cliff into a waste pile

before looping back to Valhalla
to do it all over again.

Now, Rick has tasked
each truck driver

to make the eight-minute trip

a hundred times a day.

Well, load one of, like,
a [bleep] thousand.

Gonna be a long day.

[bleep] my life.

Yee-haw...

[rapid music plays]

[Bailey] It's definitely
gonna be hard on everyone.

No one's gonna want
to sit on a truck

you know, all day long.

Rick is worried that we're
gonna run out of time

to meet our goals, but I'm more
worried people are gonna

fatigue out.

We'll all just have to suck
it up and push through it.

This really [bleep] sucks,
but what are we gonna do?

I want to get the gold, so
if that's how we get there,

then that's how
we [bleep] get there.

[truck revving]

Kai, he's typically the fastest
one out of all of us.

He's just being a little
too impatient for the process.

We're trying to speed up
the process here,

and, you know, if we don't
speed up and keep

the overburden coming out
as fast as we can, you know,

we're never gonna get
[bleep] through it.

Obviously, I'm not the new guy
anymore, so hopefully Chris can

keep up with the pace.

[Chris]
I'm a slow, old man because
I don't like to beat the hell

out of my body.

I could be a bit faster, but...

I'm not gonna
be rushing around

like a chicken
with my head cut off.

It's just starting
to get annoying.

Steady is smooth,
and smooth is fast.

[Kai]
My driving's not an issue.

There's a reason
I'm lapping people.

[Chris]
This is [bleep] stupid.

[truck revving]

[Kai] Come on, Chris.

[truck honks]

[Chris] Kai is annoying
as [bleep].

He thinks he knows what
he's doing, but whatever.

[Kai laughs]

[Chris]
Normally, I'd be going in
for a shower right now.

I'm full of dust and sweat.

Really wishing we weren't
working right now.

Come on, Chris.
[bleep] turn around.

You're taking forever.

[honking]

The [bleep] do you think
you're doing?

For [bleep] sakes!

[suspenseful music plays]

[Chris] The [bleep] do you think
you're doing?

For [bleep] sakes!

[Kai]
We got 100 loads to do.

You're slowing me down.

[Chris] We still got to
do it [bleep] safely.

You can't just cut corners.

You're gonna get
someone k*lled.

[bleep] [bleep], what [bleep]
are these guys doing?

[Chris]
I get that we're all tired,
but man, you can't just

sneak in behind someone.
-[Kai] [bleep] hurry up!

[Rick] Dude, you got...
Hey, hey, hey.

What's going on?

[Chris]
This [bleep] idiot
whips in behind me

while I'm trying to back up
to the dump.

I don't want to k*ll
the [bleep] kid.

[Kai]
He's just slowing me down.

[Rick] All right, all right,
all right, enough.

Chris, you take a little break.

Clear your head.

I'll drive your truck
for a while.

-[Chris] [bleep] kid, man.
-[Kai] Yeah, whatever.

Dumb as [bleep].

[Chris] [bleep] kids, man!

[Rick] Chris and Kai
almost got into it.

They had a bit of a meltdown,
and I get it, man.

Everybody's just pushed
to their limits.

It means that they
give a [bleep].

They're all working,
you know, extra hours

to make this happen,
and having a truck down one day

can erase all of that work,

so I'll get in here and do it,
you know what I mean?

It ain't my favorite thing
to do anymore,

but it's something
that's got to be done.

With a small crew,
we definitely all have

to get along.

We can't, you know,
be down each other's throats

all the time.

Hopefully Chris and Kai,

you know,
get over their little thing

and move on from it
and keep doing their jobs.

It's nice to see
someone else in a truck.

You're never too good
for a truck out here, all right?

I've learned that
a long time ago.

[revving heavily]

[revving wearily]

I'm stalling out on this hill.

[bleep], he loaded me up good.

[revving harshly]

[sighs]
[bleep]!

I'm kind of running
out of [bleep] fuel

on this hill.
I'm right in the way.

Um...

What the...?
What the [bleep]?

[Bailey]
You think maybe dump
that load there, Rick,

and I'll spread it out?

All right, I'll offload it,
and hopefully I can get

to the fuel tank
before this thing runs out.

I've been doing this for over
a decade, and I can't read

a fuel gauge?

[Bailey]
Got Rick just to dump
his load here.

Kind of when the trucks are
coming out, they're having

a little difficult time coming
up out of the slope.

Feel pretty dumb running out
of fuel right away like that,

trying to help out
and [bleep] stalling things.

I can't get this [bleep]
fuel cap off.

[bleep]!

Great start.

Fueled up, Rick gets back
hauling dirt,

chasing his


[Rick]
Mistakes like that are k*lling
me, and I tend to make them

when I'm stressed out.

It almost seems like
an impossible task,

but they've done it before.
We'll do it again.

It seems like a long ways,
but I know we'll get there.

[upbeat music plays]

[calm music plays]

[Buzz speaking]

After eight weeks away
for the birth of his daughter,

Buzz Legault is returning
to Kevin Beets' claim.

[Buzz speaking]

[chuckles]

-[Faith] Hello, there.
-[Buzz speaking]

[Faith] You finally made it.

Hey.
[chuckling]

Fill us in.
How's the baby?

Aw, this is the cutest baby!

[Buzz speaking]

[Kevin] That's a pretty name.

I agree.

Let's go for a little drive.

I can show you what we've done,

what needs doing,
and get you to her.

-[grunts]
-[bleep]!

We finished up the Pyramid Cut,
moved upstream where we're

calling it the Sphinx Cut,

keeping that cat and Egyptian
themes kind of going.

[laughs]

[Kevin grunts]

[Buzz speaking]

So right now, we don't really
have enough pay going

to the plant to keep it
running 24/7.

We don't have enough
pay exposed.

So right now,
we're down on days.

[Buzz speaking]

[Kevin] Yeah, so...

we really got to get to get
the plant back up and running



-[Kevin] Yeah.
-Yeah.

I mean, over halfway through
the season and not halfway

through the gold total yet.
A little stressful.

[Kevin]
Get everyone on stripping.

That way we can get a pay
mountain again and go



[Buzz speaking]

Second-year mine boss
Kevin Beets

is playing catch-up.

He's 1,500 ounces short
of his goal, and his small crew

don't have the manpower to dig
enough pay in the gold-rich

Sphinx Cut
to run the plant 24/7.

Now Buzz is back.
Kevin's tasked him with

building a massive pay pile
and getting back to sluicing

around the clock in the hope
of a big gold haul this week.

[Buzz speaking]

[Kevin] Great time
for Buzz to get back.

Having him in the 480
is really gonna help.

It's good to have
the team back together.

[Buzz speaking]

[Buzz speaking]

At Scribner Creek, Buzz is
trying to build a massive pay

pile to get Kevin
running 24/7.

But he's hit frozen pay,
stopping him cold.

The cleanup bucket's straight
cutting edge is built

for scraping thawed pay
from bedrock.

To dig up the frozen ground,
Buzz needs a bucket with bite.

[Buzz speaking]

[ominous chord strikes]

[sighs]

Go for Kevin.

[Buzz speaking]

[Kevin]
I think our best bet is
to hold it up as quick

as possible.

If you can blow through this by
the end of the day, preferably.

[intriguing music plays]

[clanking]

After half a day of welding,

Buzz can finally get
to digging

the frozen pay, loading trucks,
and building up the pay pile.

[Buzz speaking]

[triumphant music plays]

[crumbling]

Go for Kevin.

[Buzz speaking]

[Kevin] That's great news.

Let's fire it up
and get back to her.

[Buzz speaking]

Got a bit of a stockpile going
again, so hopefully we can

sluice 24 hours a day
and keep running.

[creaking]

[rattling]

[epic music plays]

Just one day after returning,
Buzz has Kevin's operation

back sluicing around the clock.

[victorious music plays]

[Kevin speaking]



[country music plays]

Kevin's brother, Mike, is
also pushing hard to make up

for lost time.

[machine powers up]

Mike, we got water up here.

Excellent, excellent.

Got water, let's go see
if we can sluice!

To prove himself to his dad,

and have a chance of running
his own claim,

Mike must first get
his trommel on the gold.

It might actually happen today.

[Tony speaking]

Nearly four months
into the season,

Mike's finally
ready to fire up.

And he's called in his family
to mark the big occasion.

[Minnie] Thank you.

It's D-Day.

[Kevin]
Yeah, finally get to see
this whole [bleep] thing go.

[Monica]
Mike, you're about to sluice!

-[Mike] Yes!
-[Monica] Whoo!

-[Minnie] OK.
-[Tony speaking]

-Yeah.
-[Tony speaking]

It'll be good to see
this thing start rolling.

[Minnie] I'd love to see it.

OK.

[Tony speaking]

-[plant powers up]
-[rattling]

Ow!

[Monica] I forgot
how loud that thing is.

Water, please.
Water, please.

[triumphant music plays]

[Mike speaking]

[Tony speaking]

Are you [bleep] kidding me?

[Tony speaking]

[plant powers down]

[Mike]
What the [bleep]'s going on?

[rattling]

[Mike]
Are you [bleep] kidding me?

What the [bleep]'s going on?

At Paradise Hill,
seconds after firing up

for the first time this season,

Mike has shut down his trommel.

[Monica] Not enough water?

[Tony speaking]

[Monica] None?

[Mike] What happened?

[Tony speaking]

No water is reaching
the prewash, causing dry dirt

to pile up in the trommel
and back up

into the feed conveyor.

Can you go to close
the bypass a little bit.

[Tony speaking]

Good!

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] Oh, [bleep].

[Tony speaking]

That's going on
my social media.

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] [bleep],
I hate this sometimes.

[sighs]

[plant powers up]

For some reason there was
no water going into the chute

So then it filled up with dirt.

Mike shut it off.

And then they finally
got water to go through.

[rumbling]

Mike!

Now that belt shut off
because it piled up.

[plant winds down]

[Mike] I had it hit.

Nothing happened.

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] Fine.

[revving]

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] It stopped
for some [bleep] reason.

[suspenseful music plays]

[Mike] What?

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] Well, to be fair,
we didn't look.

We thought Len got it, right?

[Tony speaking]

Eh.

[Tony speaking]

Ah! Someone did mention,
I think Len said...

OK.

[unsettling music plays]

[revving]

Tony retreats to Indian River
to keep the family's only

source of gold flowing,
leaving Mike to order

the missing rollers and get
the trommel fit for purpose.

[Mike]
No, [bleep] off right away.

That whole thing was
a [bleep] nightmare,

like a [bleep] pain in my a*s.

He's frustrated.

He's very frustrated.
It's kind of too bad.

I was looking forward
to seeing it roll.

He's been having troubles
all year.

It's just one more thing,
I guess.

Hopefully,
tomorrow's another day,

and if not, there's the next
and the next and the next.

[Mike] Everything keeps
going [bleep] wrong.

Constantly, no matter
what I seem to do,

it doesn't want to [bleep] work.

[bird cawing]

[calm music plays]

[bleep]!

[Rick] This loop is bad.
It's hard on the trucks.

It's hard on the people.

I mean, these trucks are gonna
be not taking too much more

of this abuse.

At Valhalla, Rick is still
pulling his weight in the rock

truck, helping his crew to hit


to pay in less than a month.

I got a lot more respect for
everybody else now after a day

like that.
Holy [bleep], man.

You gotta do that every now
and then to appreciate what

everybody's going through,
I guess.

This is a long shift.

Yeah, definitely, it sucks
to be a rock truck driver.

[Rick]
Well, I'm gonna have to
figure something out for real.

Like, this is not sustainable.

[Rick grunts]

[bleep].

That's bull[bleep].

Oh.

What do we do?

Well, I know firsthand now,
just after doing that loop,

it's, er, bad.

And yeah, we got to change it.

We're never gonna hit


[Bailey] I'm loading them
as quick as I can.

They're trying to get back as
quick as they can, but you got

two choices, more trucks
or a closer dump site.

Yeah, more trucks would be
great, but that's

a little out of our league.
-[Bailey] Yeah.

The only other thing we have
is our old dump site,

but we left that
because there's a big high-point

here around it.

Maybe we could cut a new road,
just a straight shot.

Yeah, try to cut some corners.

Yeah, get them on
a straight shot there,
while they're loaded,

and then they can turn around
and come and make

that loop back.
-[Bailey] Yeah.

That's easily got
to cut it in half.

And that's what
we're gonna need

to be able to hit


Rick's current route
to the waste site

is taking too long.

He's identified a closer
dump site near Vegas Valley,

just 500 feet from Valhalla.

But it only has one road
to get in and out.

To make a safe one-way loop,
Rick must dig a steep path

through the trees directly
to the waste pile,

sending the empty trucks uphill
and the loaded trucks downhill,

saving fuel and time.

[Rick] Hopefully by shortening
the rounds for these trucks

and then getting a good dump
site here a lot closer, this is

gonna make all
the difference that we need.

There we go!

Now we're getting somewhere.

While Rick works
on a new path,

Chris and Kai
keep moving dirt.

[Chris] Today is another
beautiful Yukon day.

This whole thing with Kai,
like, things were a little

heated, but, like, I don't hold
anything against Kai.

We're all just a little tired.

Yeah, you know,

we just need to forget
what [bleep] happened

and move on, and we just need
to get [bleep] done.

[Chris]
Rick's over there making a new
access road so we can get

to a shorter haul,
so I'm super excited for that.

[Bailey]
This closer dump site is
definitely gonna help us get

you know, the material
out of here a lot quicker,

get the trucks moving,
a lot more loads.

It's just gonna.
speed up everything.

We should be able to get down
to pay a lot sooner.

After putting the finishing
touches to the road,

Rick's small crew can start
hauling overburden to the new

dump site, giving them
a fighting chance

of hitting 1,800 loads a week.

[Rick]
For the trucks, we've got
a pretty steep keep downhill

for the loaded ones,

and then a nice,
gradual, you know,

going-back-up ramp
for the unloaded ones,

just so it's keep the speed up

and save a lot of money
on fuel for sure.

Hey, hey, truck drivers,
the new dump site's ready,

so why don't you go ahead
and start taking that new road?

Let's see how this works out.

[bleep] yeah,
sounds good.

[Chris] Here we go.

Yee-hee-hee!

Ugh, it is perfect.

[Kai] It's looking great.

It'll keep the traffic flowing
a lot better, and we won't be

holding each other up
so that we can get down to pay

as fast as we can.

[upbeat music plays]

Everything's definitely
a lot better for the trucks.

At Valhalla, Rick's trucking
crew have been dumping

at the new waste site
for two days.

You know, we did cut the time,
you know, quite a bit.

It's about six minutes
for a round trip instead of,

you know, between
eight and ten minutes.

Hopefully, can move
quite a bit of dirt here.

Rick's crew have been hauling
around the clock, trying to hit

Rick's 1800 truckload
a week target.

[Rick]
Honestly, this week has been

one of the hardest weeks
I've had this season.

Chris and Kai
almost got into it.

You know, they had
a bit of a meltdown.

Everybody's just,
you know, pushed

to their limits.

Hey, Bailey, you got
a copy down there?

[Bailey] Yeah, go ahead
for Bailey.

[Rick]
So how are we looking
there, buddy?

Did we get our 1,800 loads
this week or what?

We're about 1745.

[bleep] no.

Just 55 truckloads short
of the target, Rick's crew have

shifted a colossal 70,000 tons
of overburden this week.

[Rick] That's a hell of a jump
from where we were at.

You know, you guys
pushed it hard.

I saw it all week and

you're damn close,
so I'm happy with it.

[bleep] yeah, Ricky,
we'll get to her here sometime.

[Chris] Thanks, Rick.

It makes all these long hours

in this [bleep] truck
worth it.

[Kai]
So, yeah, you know, we're all
tired, all worth it once we get

down to the bottom.

Rick's crew still have another


pay in Valhalla,
fire up Monster Red,

and start bringing in gold.

We've got a lot stacked up
against us right now, but...

-[inhales]
-[sighs]

We still have time, I think.

It's going fast, but I think
we have the time to get

this done.
It's all or nothing.

If we don't get any gold out
of this by the end of the year,

I don't think we're coming
back, because, yeah.

I'll have well over a million
bucks in this to strip it,

and we need to make that back.

[dramatic chord strike]

[mysterious music plays]

[Faith] Hey, Buzz!

-Hey, Buzz.
-[Buzz speaking]

[Kevin] Not too bad.

[Kevin] How she goes?

[Faith] Oh, yeah.
I can imagine.

You got something to
look forward to as soon

as the season's done.

[Kevin] Nothing but smile
when you come through

the door again.

-[Faith] Oh, yeah.
-[all chuckle]

Yeah, it kind of sucks that
we couldn't run throughout

the day because we didn't
have enough pay.

I mean, other than that,
we're at the spot where

it's starting to come out
pretty nice, so...

hopefully we'll get
what we need to get

in the coming weeks.

[Buzz speaking]

So why don't we weigh it up
and figure out how much we got?

To get back on track
for their 2,000 ounce target,

Kevin and Faith need their last
three weeks of sluicing

to deliver 450 ounces.

[Buzz speaking]

Whoo!

[tapping on bottle]

[Buzz speaking]

Worth $655,000,

bringing their total
to 769 ounces.

Well, our goal this year
was 2,000 ounces.

We're already past halfway
through the season.

We're not even close to halfway
through our goal totals.

So kind of need to pull
something somewhere.

I mean, obviously,
if we could go during day shift,

we would have gotten
[bleep] more,

but hopefully it just
picks up from here, so.

That's what I hope, too.

[Kevin] Yeah.

[Faith] Yeah.

All right.

[Faith sighs]
We do need that nice pocket.

Yeah.

[Kevin]
Probably should get back to it.

Yeah, we better.

Let's roll out, I guess.

Alons-y!

I mean, it is great
to have Buzz back.

He has definitely helped us get
our pay pile back up to a point

where we can do day and nights,

which is gonna
[bleep] help because, well,

as good as that was
for a few weeks of running,

we do need to be
bringing in more gold.

[mysterious music plays]

[Monica] Do you want to hear
my best joke?

[Tony speaking]

What do you call a hen
who counts her eggs?

[Monica] A mathema-chicken.

[Tony cackles]

-Oh, sorry.
-[Monica] Sorry.

[laughing]

I was looking for a smile.
That's all I was looking for.

So what's happening
at the Indian?

Both plants?

[Minnie] That's good.

So Mike, it kind of sucked
when we went to fire up

the trommel and then
all this [bleep] that happened.

[Mike]
Oh, there's the rollers.

We should have saw
that one coming,

but we're just trying
to get it going.

[Monica] Yeah.

So hopefully this will be
the last issue

with the rollers.
-One would hope.

It's just a constant thing of
finding the next problem until

we run out of problems to fix.

[Tony speaking]

Yep, I know.

[Tony speaking]

You'll get it to work.
I have faith in you.

[Tony speaking]

Well, I think we've talked
about dirt enough.

Why don't we weigh up
the actual stuff we care about?

First up, gold
from Indian River's Corner Cut.

OK, let's pour it.



Sluice-A-Lot's been averaging








Worth over $900,000.

A little less, eh?

Yeah.

All right,
time for Find-A-Lot.

[Monica] Time to find out
if Find-A-Lot found a lot.

[Monica] You never know.



Find-A-Lot is also running
Corner Cut pay, and last week

brought in 238 ounces.









All in,

Tony's banked
$1.9 million dollars this week,

bringing the Beets' total
to 5,432 ounces,

just 1,000 short
of their season goal.

[pouring softly]

[bleep] ton of money.

That's a lot of money.

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] Yep.

[Monica] Sounds good.

[Tony speaking]

Yeah.

I think you put them out.

I don't think you "k*ll" a fire.

[Tony speaking]

[Minnie] I don't know either.

[Mike]
For sure, he starts them.

[Minnie laughs]
I think so, too.

[Monica] Is that like fighting
fire-with-fire type thing?

[Minnie] Well, it works.
See you guys later.

[Tony] See you guys later.

[Mike] Until I get that
[bleep] trommel going,

my dad is gonna be
a [bleep] nightmare.

Either he takes charge
or he lets me take charge.

That's what I find frustrating.