14x10 - Parker's Runaway Claim

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We've spent a mountain
of money this year.

We have a lot more to spend.

We don't have a lot left.

Parker Schnabel's
thirst for big gold

is pushing him dangerously
close to going bust.

So right now,
we're stripping at Dominion.

Tyson sluicing down
the Ken and Stuart's.

We've never been that
spread out before.

Parker's fighting
a w*r on two fronts.

At Dominion Creek,
his crew are still stripping

the 40-acre Money Pit cut,

spending hundreds of thousands
of dollars a week.

To pay the bills,
Parker has a second crew

sluicing Ken and Stuart's
El Dorado cut

and needs it
to deliver 300 ounces

by the end of the week.

Now, Parker's about to stretch
his resources even further

and open up a third cut
he leased

before buying Dominion.

We went to go up to
Australia Creek this spring,

but the drilling maps
were all, kind of, screwed up.

And I think we know
what we're doing now,

and it's a pretty
rich-looking piece of ground.

From Dominion Creek,

4 miles south
sits Australia Creek.

Its 8,500 acres
of virgin ground

was skipped over
by the old-timers.

Early drill results revealed
the depth of the overburden

is a third less than Dominion,

suggesting it should be easier

to reach the gold ridge
pay layer.

Before we bought Dominion,
we were really desperate,

so I, kind of,
had to just say yes.

To mine Australia Creek
this year,

it's probably one of the
higher risk things we've done.

When we have
this huge commitment,

nearly half a million dollars
already tied up

in, like,
payments for drilling

and payments for access

and just us
getting the ground.

And we can't afford ground

that doesn't at least
pay for itself.

But really, it needs
to make a lot of money.

We've got a lot on our plate,

but, uh, typical
Parker fashion here,

we're gonna add
a little bit more to it.

Right now, we're on our way
over to Australia Creek.

Parker's behind me
with the loader.

We're gonna take the D6

and the 250 loader out
and just see what we can do.

You've gotta be
kidding me.

Damn it.

This is .

That's pretty good gap.

Do you think the truck
was hooked to it

when they made
the big jump over there?

That's a good question.

Spring meltwater

has washed away
the makeshift bridge,

an old lowboy trailer
blocking access to the ground

on the other side
of the creek.

A lot of water flowing
through there,

and we're probably
looking at the best spot

to try and cross this.

There's nothing upstream
or downstream

that's any more promising.

Not that puts us into a spot

where we can do anything
on the other side.

Do you think we're gonna have
enough time to do this project

with the other ones going on
and get everything

to where we need to be by
the time the snow's falling?

That's the problem.

To walk away from this
would be very expensive.

Like, I already paid a hundred
ounces in royalties,

plus a few other payments for
a bunch of drilling and stuff.

Rock and a hard place.

Just with everything else
going on at Dominion?

There's so much
to do, Mitch.

I know.

Stressing me out.

It's just gonna
be tough on our timeline.

How much is this gonna
cost you if you walk away

versus how much
is it gonna cost us

if we don't get
everything done

that we need to get done
over at Dominion?

And that's the problem

I've got is it's just neither
option seems...

Feels particularly good.

The big advantage we've got
with it is it's quite shallow.

Like, the deepest of it
is 15 feet, some of it's 10.

You're not gonna spend
much money stripping.

I think we, kind of,
have to do it.

What do you think
our best way

we to get from over here
to over there is gonna be?

I think we just need
to bring a hoe in here,

put some gravel on this ramp,

because it's gonna
be mud.

This wouldn't take you a day.

- Okay.
-Um...

So cut this out,
get some gravel in it,

get to the other side.

To reach
Australia Creek,

Mitch will truck
in waste gravel

to build a ramp down the bank.

He'll then take his 750
excavator across the creek,

hook it up
to the stricken lowboy,

and pull it out,

clearing the path
to the other side,

allowing all the heavy iron

to cross and start mining
the virgin ground.

this road.

Hey Jacob,
you got a coffee, Jacob?

What up, Evan?

Why the are we
opening up a third cut here?

I don't know.

It's gonna
be pretty interesting.

Yeah, we gotta get across
this river first.

The bigger
this company gets,

uh, obviously, the more money
is going out

at a more rapid rate,

and Parker is spending it
like he never has before.

It's still just really
hard to stomach.

You know, you wanna try
and have something left over

once you get that
gold out of the ground.

Thank you, thank you.

Right now, I'm just spreading
some of this rock here

and this is gonna be
the foundation for our ramp.

Ramp complete,

Mitch must now haul the old
bridge out of the way.

Jacob,
I think I will just try
and hook the front here.

Hopefully, I can lift it up
and just wheel it right out.

Sweet.

You ready?

Let's do it.

It is really stuck in there.

This thing has proven
to be pretty stubborn here

and not wanting to come
outta here too well.

.

That's why you don't
stand on your chains.

Well, that ain't gonna happen.

I'll dig around
this end a little bit.

Let's go to the back,
see if we can pull it
out a bit.

Okay.

It is really stuck
in the water good.

Well, let's try this
again here.

There we go. Now she's moving.

That's working much better.

Yeah, it's moving.

There we go.

Well, what do you
think, buddy?

That's one more obstacle
out of our way.

Right.

Now it's time to get
to the other side

and we can get
to work finally.

-Yeah.
-Nice job, man.

Thank you.
That was awesome.

The creek clear,
Mitch can now move in
the heavy equipment

to start stripping Australia
Creek's virgin ground.

Well, here we go.

This is the end of the line.

This is where the road stops
and Parker's ground starts.

And now the real work begins.

We've gotta open up a cut.

We've got a sluice it,
and on top of that

we got two other mining
operations going on,

so a lotta work to do.

We're already almost halfway
through the season,

not a whole lot of time
left for it all.

Hopefully there's a lot
of gold in the ground

because we had to work
to get here.

Right now,
we're in full throttle.

We've got a thousand ounces,
you know, to get this year.

And at the current rate,

I don't think
we're gonna get there.

100 miles east

in the mountains above Keno,

Rick Ness
is behind the eight ball.

Over a third of the way
through the season,

he's brought in
just over a tenth

of his thousand-ounce
season gold.

We need to up
our gold tanks

at least 60 ounces a week,

uh, for the rest
of this season

if we're gonna hit
a thousand ounces.

As of right now,
we're mining the Bacon Strip.

It's not really paying out
like I wanted to.

We're doing everything
we can right now,

but by the end of this week,
we need to up our production.

Last week,

Rick's first big call
of the season

was to sluice
the 1.4-acre Bacon cut,

but got a disappointed
11 ounces of gold.

This week, he needs 60 ounces

or he will be forced
to find richer ground.

Hey, Buzz!

Hit the water.

There's a... I see there's one
of the drive belts

at the plants on the ground.
It shouldn't be.

I don't know
what's going on here.

Yeah, that's
toast, .

Nah, it ain't running again.

There's some major
damage done to the pulley

on the drive motor
on this thing, so I...

This just worn out and it just
crumbled, fell to pieces.

It's the pulley that
the drive belt sits on,

uh, which runs
the whole thing.

So, it's gone.

Um, we can't repair that.

We gotta find a new pulley.

Power will likely be down
for a several days,

which is, uh...
Yeah, which hurts.

Rick has no hope
of hitting 60 ounces

unless he can get the plant
up and running and again.

And fast.

We can't run.

We can't...
We can't run without it.

So, it's a big deal.

Rick's washplant Rocky

is shut down with a worn-out
pulley wheel.

Just checking through
the boneyard here

and there's 80 years
of mining, you know,

the mining garbage in here
to search through.

A new pulley wheel
will take days to arrive.

Every hour down,
Rick's hope of a comeback

slips further away.

I got two conveyors
sitting right here
and I'm not using them.

I know that those run electric
motors, uh, just like that.

But I don't know if whether
or not they're the same size

or share the same
shaft size or nothing.

It'd be pretty easy for me
to find out right now.

These are actually conveyors
for Monster Red
that I don't use.

So, they're sitting here
with good donor parts on 'em.

Yeah, that's not, but this is.

That's the right size.

So this pulley would fit
on the shaft that we need,

um, on the electric motor
at Rocky.

But the diameter of the pulley
is too big, it may not work,

but we're definitely
gonna try.

This is better than
to sitting on our asses,

waiting for a new one to come
from the store.

Boom, came right off.

.

Now, we're just gonna see
if she fits on the, uh...

Fits on the shaft on Rocky.

We're good to go.

Bingo.

Yeah.

I mean, there's quite a bit
of size difference there.

Not in Rocky.

With that bigger pulley,
you know,

we might be able to go
from 120 yards an hour to 140.

Or 150. Who knows.

It's gonna
run faster? Cool.

We'll run it faster,
get more gold, you know?

We got thousand ounces to get,
why not?

Rocky's pulley
wheel drives the belt

that makes the washplant
shaker deck vibrate

to separate gold
from the dirt.

Instead of finding one
that's the same size,

Rick gambles
on replacing the pulley

with one twice the size.

It could speed up the rate
the dirt is processing,

potentially bringing
in 20% more gold.

We'll just
have to judge.

Oh, if it's a little faster,
I don't mind that.

Maybe we get a little more
yardage out of it.

Buzz and Rick's
bush fix

means Rocky has been down
for only three hours.

Running the plant faster

should claw back
the lost time.

Right now, Parker is, uh,
under a lot of pressure.

We are trying to get
Australia going.

At Australia Creek,

Parker's crew are opening up
a new 11-acre cut.

We're just getting off
the top gravel

just a little bit more until
we're down to good pay.

The third mining
operation of Parker's
ever expanding empire.

We'll be mining three
different areas,

but so far everybody
is in good spirits,
which is good.

Everybody
is pretty busy.

Tyson is down
at Ken and Stuart's.

The stripping crew
is out moving mud

in Australia Creek.

Here on Dominion, there's
a mountain of things to do

and not enough people
to do them.

And it's just a general state
of disarray.

4 miles away,

at Dominion Creek's Money Pit,

Parker's crew
has spent eight weeks

stripping 36 acres
of deep overburden.

Parker needs the final
four acres down to pay

by the end of the week
so he can finally get gold

coming in at Dominion.

We have a really good crew.

It's just like when you start
getting that as spread out

as we are with three projects,
it's, uh...

You can never
have enough people.

So today, we're getting rid
of these piles of overburden.

In the 480 excavator,

veteran operator Damien Brown

clears the worthless
overburden.

So, we have two trucks
here with us.

We have Jacob,
he's here last season as well.

And his friend, Connor.

He only started
a couple of days ago.

Two trucks
isn't nearly enough.

We could do with another
two here for me to keep up.

Are you on here, Connor?

Hey, Jacob.
Yeah. Do you have a copy?

Hello.

Jacob McClure

and greenhorn Connor Woodruffe

truck the waste dirt
out of the cut.

Sunday was
my first day.

Before, I was working retail,
I was going to university.

I was thinking about
becoming a teacher,

but, uh, the last part
of becoming a teacher

is super expensive.

Like, I was just
barely scraping by.

I'm making no money.

You know, if I make no money,

then, you know, I can't live,
I can't do anything.

I can't pay for school.

So, you basically have to make
decisions like this.

You know, keep going to
school or go and work.

To hit
Parker's deadline,

the stripping crew
need to shift

7,000 tons of dirt every day.

Enough to fill three
Olympic-sized swimming pools.

The hell?

What the
is that noise?

Yo, Connor.
You got a copy, Connor?

Yeah, I can hear you.

Yeah, man.
You must pull in that truck.

It's smoking like crazy.

Just run back there
and see Mitch

and turn off that truck

because something big
is up with it.

Hey, Mitch.
Do you have a copy?

Yeah, go ahead.

My truck is making
a horrible noise.

Okay.
I'll get over and look at it.

About to pull off.

All we wanna do is move dirt.

And all the stuff
I'm about to do is not.

But this truck
has 20,000 hours on it.

So it's, uh,
definitely seen better days.

Gonna pull this cover off here

and see if something
is failing here

on the front of the engine.

If it's not,
that means it's something,

uh, deeper in it,
which is not a good thing

because that
won't be a quick fix.

All right. Why don't you
go ahead and fire it up?

Hey!

She's got some, uh,
deeper issues here.

Not good. We only have
two trucks out here

and moving material,
and we need about five or six.

And now, we're down to one.

With Parker's fleet
of trucks

now stretched
across three sites,

Mitch has no choice

but to turn
to Dominion's auction yard.

This is where all
the equipment came

that we're like, "Yeah, we
don't wanna own that stuff."

But now,
we've got so many trucks down

that here we are,
looking at these, uh,

two magnificent pieces
of history here.

When Parker
bought the mine,

it came with a ton
of old beat-up excavators
and rock trucks.

We never intended
on running any of this gear.

And now, here we are,
gonna go out there
and try and run it.

Oh, yeah.

That's not bad for sitting
as long as this thing
has been.

Oh .

Hopefully, that truck
could give us some time here,

let us catch up
on these other machines.

It's put in a lot of hours.

Hopefully, it's got
a few more left in it.

Well, we finally got
a second rock truck again.

It's pretty beat-up,
to say the least.

And I'm pretty sure
they pulled the "do not use,

do not operate"
sticker off of it.

What is this stuff?

man.

this thing, man.

The lock on the, uh,
bed doesn't wanna stick.

I'm gonna go insane.

Well me.
There it goes.

The truck just died.

No power.

All right.
It's lunchtime.

Connor's replacement truck

has lasted less than an hour.

What's up?

It's screaming at me,
telling me to stop.

You got to be kidding me.

You know, once you got
one truck break down on ya,

you certainly
don't want any more,

but it is what it is here.

These trucks are old.
They got a lot of hours
and we're pushing 'em hard.

They're gonna break.

Look how the trucks
are going down.

Trucks that were
in the auction yard

that we weren't gonna run,

and we're down
to them resources now.

Parker needs
to be down to pay

by the end of the week
at Dominion Creek.

It's obviously
the weakest link

in the chain
that's gonna break.

But he only has
one working rock truck

removing overburden
out of the cut.

Yup.

It looks like we've
probably dropped a valve.

It's a big job.
You don't do this

out in the yard.
You do this in a...

In a nice clean shop.

Mechanic Taylor Matejka

is trying to revive
Connor's first truck

with a blown engine.

We fortunately have
another truck,

like an A40E, just like this.

It's in pieces

and the engine's
still good on it,

so to me, the thing
that makes sense

is we just pull
this engine out

and throw that one in it.

Taylor will replace
the blown engine

from the 40-ton rock truck

with another
from a truck used for spares.

First, the broken
470-horsepower engine

will be detached and craned

out of its tight housing.

Then the new
two-ton replacement

must be swung in and fitted

into the engine bay.

If Taylor doesn't damage
the housing or hoses,

he can reconnect
the transplant engine

and fire it up.

How we
looking there, Janko?

Just need
some lifting power.

Lifting power?

Coming right at ya.

Helping Taylor
with the transplant,

mechanic Tyler Jankowski.

So Taylor's just
gonna get his crane

all rigged up

and we'll pick this engine out

and we'll set
her down right over there.

Up we go.

Are you good on your blocks?
- Yeah.

Broken engine removed...

- You happy with that?
- Oh, yeah.

...next, they need
to carefully install

the replacement.

This is technically
the biggest engine

that you should
work on, right?

It's 16-liter.

The turbocharged
two-ton engine

is worth over $50,000.

Quite a bit of weight.

Uh, we don't really
wanna play around with it

too much while
it's dangling in the air.

-Moving down.
- Yeah.

Okay. Hold it.

We're getting
pretty tight now.

Okay. Boom down.

Whoa.

Obviously, it's engineered
to fit

in quite a tight space.

There's lots of things
that can get in the way,

hoses or electrical harnesses.

Stuff that could
be easily damaged

by the weight of the engine,

so you wanna just do it

very incrementally
till you can get it in

nice and smooth.

Going slow
is your friend here.

So we're just finishing up

installing all the parts
and pieces on this truck.

Uh, it'll be nice to get
this one all finished up

and back to Mitch,

so he can stop bugging us

on getting this truck back.

After just
eight hours,

the engine is safely
in its new housing.

So we got this engine in,
so I can start, uh,

putting it all
back together and...

-Right on.
-we'll give Mitch

a radio there and we can...

-Woo.
-...send her back to work.

Hey, Mitch,
you got a copy? Mitch?

Taylor, man, I've been waiting
to hear from you for a while.

You got that thing running?

Yeah. Janko's just putting
the finishing touches

on this 40E,
so she's good to go.

With the rock truck
ready,

all it needs is an operator.

It's pretty nice, Mitch.

Oh, yeah, Taylor's the man.

He'll get you fixed up.

Well, man,
I'm just happy to see

that truck
heading back out here

because we got a lot
of dirt to move.

We are just
running pay through Rocky.

That thing is just
a good ol' washplant.

Rocky's just as simple
as it gets, you know?

100 miles away,

Rick's crew is chasing
a 60-ounce weekly goal.

We are a pretty well-oiled
machine going right now.

Everybody's got a task

and everything's going exactly
how it's supposed to be going.

Right now, we're really
working Rocky really hard.

The shaker deck
is going a lot quicker.

Things are a bit
noisier right now.

A new,
larger pulley wheel

is driving the shaker deck
faster than ever,

allowing operator Trey Charlie

to up the feed rate

to 140 yards an hour.

The spare pulley that we found

is definitely just a bit
bigger than the old one,

which is making this thing
shake like crazy,

a lot faster than normal,

but, you know, we got
to be sluicing and, um,

we got to have
money coming in.

If not, we're... We'll be...

We'll just keep
throwing money out.

On the other side
of the shaker deck,

you can see smoke coming out
of the outside of the walls.

It's overheating for sure.

The replacement
pulley wheel

has forced
the shaker deck motor

to overrev and overheat,

shutting down
Rick's operation once again.

We can't run...
We can't...

We can't run without it.

Rick's gamble
on a larger pulley wheel

has caused the shaker deck's
engine to overheat,

bringing Rocky
to a standstill.

We've been having solid
sluice times all year.

Plants have been running.

But this is a big deal,
you know what I mean?

A lot of it is a gamble,

but yeah, that didn't work.

While the plant
is down,

Rick pulls the mats
for a cleanup.

I mean, right now, I wanna
know how much gold's in there,

but really,
in the back of my mind,

I can't stop thinking
about the plant

because the moment we're done
with this cleanup,
we can't start...

We can't fire back up.

Is that a smaller one?

-Nice.

Yeah.

yeah.

We're a lot closer
to that one for sure.

The pulley delays

have cost Rick nearly
four hours of washing pay.

But if Buzz's
fix works,

it will save days waiting

for a delivery
of a replacement.

She sounds happy.

That's awesome, man.
I appreciate that.

We're back up and running.
Thanks, Buzz.

Appreciate it.

You know, Buzz
went above and beyond,

found a pulley that was right

that could keep us running

and, uh, you know,
that's awesome.

That's the kind of guy
I need about out here.

Um, he kept us going.

He saved us five days
of sluicing.
It's great.

You got to remember,
Parker's looking
for 5,000 ounces this season.

And to achieve that,
we're hoping for 1,500 ounces
from Australia Creek.

Nearing mid-season,

Parker is on a three-pronged
gold as*ault,

but he's only sluicing
at Ken and Stuart's.

And the pressure is on Mitch

to strip Australia Creek's
virgin ground
down to pay dirt.

Parker wants this done

and he wants it
done this season.

This time of the year
to be opening ground
and moving mud,

uh, there's nothing good
or smart about it.

This is gonna be difficult
the whole way through.

The shallow
pay layer is covered

by just 10 feet of overburden,

but it's late in the season

to open a new cut.

Hot temperatures are turning
the ground
into a swampy mess.

You know, it's really cool
to be someplace totally new,

but it's also very stressful.

I've been really busy,
yet Parker wants
to make this happen.

Oh, that's not good.

.

Alec, you got a copy, Alec?

Yup. Go ahead for Alec.

Hey, man.
We got a lot of water

pouring in here
at Australia Creek.

Is there, uh, any chance
you could bring a pump
up here?

Man, we're gonna be swimming.

I'll get a pump
out there as soon as I can.

It's so hot
this time of year.

We rip the mud, we push it,
and it's thawing out

just as fast as we can get it
out of the cut.

That water's building up,

and the best thing
we can do is get rid of it.

Mitch asked for a water
pump down under at Australia.

All the ground water
has spilled up and, uh,

you can't really dig a hole
when you're underwater.

Let's go see
what Mitch is up to.

To bail out Mitch,

mechanic Alec Kelly
must haul a pump

four miles from Dominion
to the new cut at Australia.

This place looks
a little bit different.

Oh, yeah.
That looks like it could be
up to a couple feet deep, eh?

The pump has
just two feet of clearance.

If it gets flooded,
Australia Creek

will remain underwater
until the pump dries out.

See what happens.

Oh .

Oh, yeah.

Oh, this is the end
of the road.

To start draining
the cut,

Alec must move the pump
into position.

I'm going to wheel the
excavator over

and I'm gonna pick the pump up
with the backside
of the bucket

and we'll wheel out
to the spot.

It's good that I showed up
with this today.

Mitch is definitely
in need of it.

All this water I'm going
through needs a place to go

and sitting at the bottom of
our cut doesn't help us any.

So we'll, uh...

drop the water pump.

Oh, damn.

Not bad.

How's it going, buddy?
Glad to see you made it.

Oh, yeah. We're here.

Well, we got
a lot of water out here

and this
isn't helping nothing.

Yeah. It definitely looks
like a bit of a hole.

So, if we don't have
the pump in place,

we're gonna be in trouble.

Cool, buddy. Thank you.

Yeah.
Hooking up the piping.

It's going. I think we got
another piece of the puzzle

just about to be clicked
into place here.

Suction baskets
going in the drink.

Hopefully it stays attached.

We'll fire this pump up.

Cranking.

I think I got
all the drain plugs

in here this morning.

The way it's bouncing
in this line here

means it's full of air.

It needs to be full of water
for the water pump to work.

So we pump up the revs a bit.

Woo, hoo, hoo.

We're pumping, baby!

The 6-inch pump
can move over 2,000 gallons
of water a minute,

and should have the cut
drained in two days.

Woo.

You know, this project
at Australia Creek

has been crazy from the start

and we don't know
what this ground has in store

for us and we certainly won't
until we fire up a washplant.

Well, my wife and daughter
should be getting here
any minute.

It's gonna be my daughter's
first time

getting to come out here
and see

what I actually do all summer.

After a busy week
stretched across two cuts...

What's up?

Mitch is joined
by his wife Hailey

and daughter Mia.

Hey, you wanna see
what this is all about?

This is so it's nice and quiet

and then we start it.

See how that works?

See, that curls the bucket.

Oh, easy.

Yeah. That makes it go.

And back.

And back, yup.

-Nope. No.
-Sorry.

That's okay.
Let's make it spin.

That's your favorite, huh?

Okay. Okay.

They know, they're good.
They're good.

Yo.

- Hi.
-Hi.

-How's it going, guys?
-Good.

I got a bigger jar this week.

We got pretty much closest
to our fullest week

of sluicing, man.

You know, other than...
Uh, other than that pulley,

that was really
the only big problem we had.

-Yeah.
-I thought the fix that we did

was gonna,
like, make it better.

- Mmm-hmm.
-Like, run the plant faster.

Yeah.

It was just a little too much.

Poor Rocky couldn't handle it.

Thankfully, you caught it...
You know, caught...

Saw it right away because,
yeah, if we would've kept
running like that,

that would've went
from a small problem
to a bigger problem.

Yeah.

You guys wanna see
what we got out of it?

- Ooh, I do.
- Yes, we do.

To hit
his 1,000 ounce season goal,

Rick needs the Bacon cut
to deliver 60 ounces a week.

All right. Here we go.

But so far,
he's averaged just 15.

One, two, three,

four, five, six,
seven, twelve,

sixteen, seventeen,
twenty-four, twenty-five,

twenty-six, twenty-seven,
twenty-eight, twenty-nine.

30.16.

-30.16.
-Hooray.

That's the best one
so far.

Yeah. Yes, it is.

I will take the time to be
a little negative though

and say, like,
that's just over half
of what it should be.

So, I'm concerned about that.

At least this'll keep
the bills paid and...

Keep fueling our tanks, man.

Well, the Bacon
Strip didn't quite give us

what I wanted for gold,
but it is just

in the meantime until
I get to rally in the Valley.

Nice job, everybody.

That looks like we're ready
for a wash plant down here.

Couldn't have done it without
all these trucks and, uh,

all you driving 'em,
so thank you very much.

After nearly
11 weeks

and millions of dollars,

Mitch and crew have finally
stripped the Money Pit
down to pay dirt.

We've moved a hell of a lot
of material here

in a short period of time.

And it feels really good here
to be moving to the next step.

Getting big right in here.

Waddup? Waddup?
How's it going?

Hey, Mitchell.

How's it going, man?

-Good. How are you?
-Good. Thanks.

Man,
that was quite the week.

Oh, yeah.

You make it up
to Australia yet?

Oh,
we're up there, buddy.

- Yeah.
-We got a road in,

got a dozer up there.

That's awesome.

It's just the middle
of a swamp, man.

So, like, it's middle
of summer,

middle of the swamp.

And some would say not ideal.

So the...
How's the Money Pit doing?

Yeah. We have lost
an engine in a rock truck.

So Connor's like,

"Oh, my truck's kinda
acting funny,
making some weird noise."

I look over and it's just
a plume of smoke coming.

Oh, no.

It sounds like the Money Pit's
holding up to its name.

Yeah. I was just...
I was just gonna say that.

Well, sluice
ran all week.

Yes, you did.

- Wanna see?
-Let's check it out.

What'd I do?

Now we just gotta find it.

Parker is now
mining on three fronts.

But so far, only Tyson
at Ken and Stuart's
is bringing in gold

with washplant Sluicifer.

You wanna
do the honors, Mitch?

Oh, sure.

Good ol' Sluicifer.

To bankroll
his massive operation,

Parker needs Tyson
to deliver 300 ounces.

All right.
Let's do it.

Okay. Here we go.

30, 70...

100, 140,

150, 200,

220, 240,

270, 280,

290. Is it gonna break 300?

301.20.

Man, you had
a good week down there.

Nice, Tyson.

Worth over
$600,000.

That puts us what,
over a thousand now?

So for the season,
it gives us 1,330...

It gives us 1,033.95 ounces.

-1,300?
-1,033 ounces.

I thought you said 1,300.

I was starting to get happier.

-Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry.

Your stutter cost me
half a million dollars.