It's been an emotional season.
We faced some
pretty big decisions.
Buying dominion, it scared me,
but it looks like this
purchase was worth it.
The ground's been a
lot better than expected.
We set a 5,000 ounce goal
and we're able to up the ante.
We're in striking distance
of 7,000 ounces,
which is unbelievable.
I want as much gold to go
in our pockets as possible.
That is unreal. My god.
At the beginning of the
season, I didn't know if I...
If I had it in me.
I didn't have a crew, I
didn't have machines,
a lot of people doubted me,
but I love proving people wrong.
I knew I had to come
back here and finish the job.
the bare minimum.
That's what's gonna
give me a future here.
I need the biggest gold
weigh of our season right here.
It's wildly stressful
waiting to find out
if you're gonna make it back.
Did we?
Just 150 miles south
of the arctic circle,
winter has hit the gold
fields of the klondike.
After a chaotic season
of setbacks and disasters,
Tony beets is determined
to end on a high note,
and blow past his
I am pushing hard.
Hopefully, get this
whole show done
before it starts snowing.
Let's go, baby.
We got a couple days left.
Let's do this.
The king of the klondike
has never run four
plants at the same time.
He's halfway there
with his current setup.
On paradise hill,
a trommel is sluicing
super pit pay dirt.
his new wash plant,
sir sluice-a-lot, is
running 240 yards an hour.
Now, he wants to fire
up the broken shaker deck
alongside it, and
the icing on the cake,
reboot dredge number one.
I'm back.
When we left last,
it wasn't exactly a
cheerful goodbye.
There was a lot of frustration,
I think, from both ends.
But hopefully, we
can make something
work this time and it'll
be a bit more cheerful.
At the start of this season...
We've been thinking that perhaps
this year we might take it off.
Eldest son and chief mechanic,
Kevin, abandoned
the family business.
He came back in the summer...
To help get the family's
season back on track.
Stop for a sec. Let's
have a quick look.
But clashes with his father.
You gotta test fire it.
Sent him packing.
He's kinda running
it into the ground.
Despite the offer
to run his own mine.
The problem is I
honestly don't think
I can trust that you'll
keep your hands out of it.
We got home and had
more time to calm down.
So, we've been thinking
about Tony's offer.
The biggest thing is
gonna be nailing down
what he's committing to
because we all know
like he commits now,
but five minutes from
now, not so much.
All righty.
Hey there, Tony.
How'd the rest of the season go?
So speaking of that,
we've given some more
thought to the scribner offer.
So we're gonna think
maybe trying to go with that.
Like, like what?
We knew that was coming.
I'm up here for a little bit so,
and I think we can
make that work.
- Okay. I'll go get started with that.
- Okay.
Get started with that.
So he really didn't
give a straight answer,
but it's not been
the best season.
I'll try and help
out where I can,
and then sometime this
week, we'll figure something out.
Before Kevin can strike a deal
for ground to mine next season,
he needs to fix
Tony's shaker deck
that's been sitting
idle for three months
with broken screens.
Si.
Okay. All right.
To get the shaker
deck back in the game,
Kevin must first
disassemble the plant,
then weld the new steel screens
into the shaker deck.
Next, he'll crane in
the seven ton deck
back onto its Springs,
followed by the hopper feeder
and the spray bars.
Let's, make that happening.
Last little bit of welding here.
I'm fairly optimistic
we can get some dirt
through it today, if
everyone stays focused.
The new steel screens
welded into position,
Kevin reassembles the plant.
Down a bit, straight down.
At least it's much
easier now you're here.
What's that?
Much easier now,
now you're here.
- I bet.
- When we took it apart,
I was here and I had to be
telling them what to do, so.
Next, the hopper feeder.
Yay, you got one.
And finally, the spray bars.
I'll have to watch
out for my fingers.
Last quick push to get it
all running, so here we be.
He's gonna swing this way again.
- Hold it there a minute.
- Hold it there.
Like hot butter through knife.
Holy we're good.
Get the out.
Get the water line
hooked up and then
he'll have two plants
going side by side.
A.
Yeah.
Sounds good.
Shaker deck, here it is.
We have dirt on the way.
It's kind of cool to
have them side by side.
With the third plant
humming, Kevin's next task,
get the dredge back on the gold.
Sounds like a plan.
Timeline-wise, we've
still got quite a ways.
Still a lot of sluicing to do.
It's just so much material.
Gold-wise, what
we're sh**ting for here,
that's gonna be damn close.
Very close, yeah.
The big concern I have
is looking at forecast,
it's, you know, it's supposed
to start dropping off.
When you get that
point where it never gets
above freezing in
the day is when...
You're building
ice the whole time.
Yeah, exactly.
I'm sure that we're gonna have
like pipes freezing
up and stuff like that.
We do need this out this year
- from a...
- Yeah.
From a planning standpoint,
let alone a gold standpoint
'cause it would
be a pain in the a*s
to have to deal with
some of this next spring.
It'd set us back weeks.
You really need to be
on top of your game.
We're just gonna have
to see what we can do.
Hopefully the weather holds.
All right, thanks, Mitch.
Yup.
Overall, this pit has
way more gold in it
than I thought it
would, so that's good.
But we can still
have quite a bit left.
Twenty-nine-year-old
Parker schnabel's
$15 million gamble
to buy dominion
creek is paying off.
So far this year, he's
brought in 6,820 ounces,
just shy of his
With only days left
before the big freeze,
his crew is focused
on tapping out
the last piece of
ground, the money pit.
Winter is knocking
at our door here.
We got a massive pile of
pay left in the money pit.
There's just so much to do here.
The 40 acre money pit
has delivered
big gold this year.
Now, there's
just five acres left.
Right now, I just don't
know if we're gonna have
enough time to get through
all the pay we got left,
before that wash plant's
just, frozen up brick of ice.
Our big concern, with Roxanne
is we've never seen
how it runs into the cold.
It's the last push, we are all
giving it all to get it done.
This far in the
season with that little
sluice time left, it's
just been really hectic,
but that's the way she goes.
Shut it the down.
Gotta shut this
water off right now.
A rock jam.
That sucks.
Hey, Mitch, do you have a copy?
Yeah, the prewash
is jammed up, man.
We're gonna have to
figure something else out.
That'll do it.
This is supposed to
protect the floor in here
of the prewash,
but the corners of it
have peeled up and,
caused a big jam up here.
I don't know what
we're gonna do.
With the amount of
material we have left.
We are in a world
of hurt right now.
We need, something
different in this prewash.
Yeah.
That was, no good.
With winter closing in fast,
Parker's only running wash plant
is at a standstill.
We got a massive pile
up here in the prewash.
What's going on is this,
impact board down here
that's supposed to
protect the prewash
had started to separate and,
that's caught a bunch
of material here and then,
we're gonna have
to do some repairs.
Roxanne's prewash
has impact boards
to absorb the force
from heavy rocks
before they hit the shaker deck.
But large rocks have
ripped a hole in them
causing material to snag,
build up, and block the prewash.
The fix, remove the blockage,
tear out the damaged boards,
and replace with new ones.
This is what you could round up?
I mean, the question's
gonna be is this thing
gonna last long
enough, you know.
But it certainly isn't gonna
run the way it is, so...
- No.
- Let's get this in there,
- we'll keep an eye on it.
- All right.
We'll hop to it.
- Yeah.
- All right. Thanks.
Sometimes these problems
are showing up faster
than we can anticipate.
Coming in.
We're pulling out
the yellow sheets,
that are giving us problems.
We're putting in new white ones.
Problem is it's only
half the thickness
because that's all
we have on site.
But this is the quickest
and fastest method
of getting back sluicing.
If we were to
start cutting plate
and installing that with
welders and all that,
we'd probably be
near the end of the day
before we even
were ready to fire up.
- There you go.
- Hey.
That's a prewash
pad if I ever seen one.
She's fixed.
Fire it up.
After just four
hours of downtime,
Roxanne is back in the race
to mine out the money pit.
All we can do now is,
cross our fingers here.
It's gonna get cold.
It's gonna get nasty.
Winter's coming,
we still got a lot of
material to get through here.
You guys have been
doing a great job, all of you.
We're so close.
I just want us to finish strong.
Let's just, yeah,
keep it together.
We'll be walking
out of here winners.
Let's do this.
Fire it up.
mountains above keno,
Rick ness is going for broke.
This whole year
has basically been
about turning my life around.
Pretty much had to start
with nothing this year.
You know, it
I had to sell my mom's
house, get some capital built up,
to just to get started
and lay this out.
Now, it's all gonna come
down to this last week here,
one last final push.
After hitting rock bottom,
Rick's on the verge of
completing his comeback
and has bet everything
on his rally valley
cut paying out big.
Let's finish this off.
Let's go.
To hit his 1,000 ounce goal,
he needs it to
deliver 176 ounces,
a season best
before winter hits.
I mean, if we don't
get 1,000 ounces,
you know, it's likely that,
I'm not coming back here.
I just won't be
able to, to afford it,
but, I am not willing that...
To have that happen.
There's a lot of
futures riding on this.
It's not just for
me at this point,
it's for everybody.
This is the best
crew I've ever had
and, I want us to all hit it
so that we can all
come back here.
Rick's running his
biggest wash plant,
monster red, full throttle
to get through a
massive pay pile.
Yeah, I think we've
got enough dirt
out of rally valley to
get us to 1,000 ounces.
But at a certain point,
mother nature's
gonna end it for us.
If we aren't where
we need to be,
well, we're out of luck
but I'll do everything I can
to make sure we're
at that 1,000 ounces.
We're gonna run,
you know, two plants.
That's it, cut the pump!
Wants us to get this
pump out of here.
Watch your boots.
Oh.
I said watch your boots.
Sweet.
We're good to go.
I'll pull this pump
out of rally valley,
get it upstream, get
it hooked up to rocky.
Throw everything that
we have out of here,
get as much gold as we can
before we're frozen out of here.
Rick's final roll of the dice,
run two wash plants to get
as much as gold as possible.
First, he'll pull the pump
that keeps rally valley
from flooding and
move it a mile up claim
to run an extra 100
yards of pay an hour
through wash plant rocky.
We're definitely,
running out of time.
This is a lot of pressure
to put on the crew,
but this is my
last shot at this.
We are gonna throw
everything we got at it
to make sure we hit
that 1,000 ounces.
That's the spot.
Hey, guys. I got this pump,
unloaded down at rocky.
Why don't you meet me down here.
Let's get this thing
hooked up and ready to roll.
While Rick hooks up
rocky to the pump...
Let's go!
Morgan Lauren and zee
zaremba... It's go, go, go.
Truck pay from
the rally valley's
stockpile to rocky.
This is what you
worked all season for
to get to this 1,000 ounces,
so this final push is crucial.
It's not only a goal
for Rick financially,
it's a mental one to give
him boost of confidence
that he can still do this.
The guy is a hell
of a mine boss,
so I always rooted for him.
I always will.
Well, that's it.
Ready to fire up rocky.
All right, Bailey, the
pump's all fired up,
let's get some pay through it.
It's go time.
Let's get it sluicing.
Well, that's it.
We got two plants running, baby.
Rick tasks Bailey car ten
and Trey Charlie with
keeping rocky sluicing.
We're right at that final
stretch right now so,
you know, to try
to get as much pay
through rocky and monster red.
Definitely gonna
use my gold bonus
to help me get my life set up,
so it's definitely the
more gold that we get,
the more gold I'm
gonna have in my pocket.
Trey, Trey, Trey,
shut the plant down!
I'll hit the water.
Hey, Ryan, you got a copy?
We got a little
problem down at rocky,
um, the bucket fell off the 330.
Minutes after firing up.
Rick's second
wash plant, rocky...
What the.
The excavator
bucket has fallen off.
Hey, buzz, hey Ryan,
get down to rocky.
While zee and Morgan
run monster red,
the rest of Rick's crew
race to get the excavator
back in the game.
I just dug in the pile,
come in a little hot,
hit a big rock like
away she went.
Well, half your
bolt's stuck in there.
It's broke off.
My up, man. I'm sorry.
Make it work, all right?
- Let's go.
- All right.
All right. Go for it.
Foreman buzz legault
and mechanic Ryan Kent
cut down a scavenged bolt
to make two makeshift bolts.
I think we'll make that work.
These tighten onto a metal wedge
that holds the bucket in place.
I'd say it's do or die.
So I'd say it's pretty important
to have this stuff,
everything going
as far as we can,
as long as we can until
absolutely can't even run it.
It's going.
That's not the proper fix.
It's definitely temporary,
but we only have
a couple days here,
so we'll do what we gotta
do and hopefully it lasts
and hopefully it holds together.
Hopefully these
new bolts last for us
and holds up for the
rest of the season.
The bush-fixed bolts
need to hold the weight
of a fully loaded one
and a half ton bucket.
These bolts are holding up nice.
She'll hold. Nice job.
- Hey, Bailey.
- Yes, sir.
- Happens.
- It wasn't your fault.
At the end of the day,
we're all in this
together, right?
Let's keep it going.
I mean, I've never seen
a bucket fall off like that.
That bolt did shear
off, so like whatever.
I'm not gonna blame anybody.
At least we got the
thing back together.
At least we're sluicing again.
Rick's final two-plant push
to a thousand ounces is back on.
You know, we need to
run now to the bitter end
so that we can
pay off all the bills
and send the crew home
with a good gold bonus.
In a hail Mary play
to get as much gold as possible,
Tony beets has tasked son Kevin
with running the dredge.
There's the dredge, still
as pretty as I remember.
Hello.
And take it in low.
Tony's dredge was shut down
two weeks ago when
his dredge master left.
With five years' experience,
Kevin is the only person
who knows it inside out.
Everything looks about the same.
I don't think they've
done any improvements.
So, where is my power switch?
That is on.
What am I missing?
I'm just trying to
refresh my memory
for where all the
power buttons are.
That sounds like it's on.
Okay. Ready?
Stacker on.
Bada bing.
Trommel on.
Bada bing.
Turn bucket line.
There she goes, Kevin.
We are dredging.
We are flying.
I ain't even going fast yet.
Nyaw.
Dredging is essentially
a lost art form.
There's not many that
are still in operation.
Tony wanted me to
help run this for a little bit.
Get the last few
ounces out of the ground
before end of season.
Tony has never run the dredge.
I don't think he
could, honestly.
It's too much Patience.
It's too much delicate work.
When folks think Tony beets,
delicate is not one
of the first words
that come to mind.
You should not be
on high anymore.
Slow the down, bud.
If I'm not careful,
I'm gonna knock
that bucket line off, so.
Bucket line came off.
Yup. It's.
The bucket line came off.
Hey, Tony, you got a copy, Tony?
Yeah. Bucket line came off.
At Indian river,
Kevin has thrown the
dredge's 34 ton bucket line
off track.
I think I was a little greedy
when I was digging,
so it must've caught
the bottom of the bucket
line and knocked it off.
Tony will use a d8 dozer
to pull on the bucket line,
then lift it with an
excavator back into place.
I honestly have
better stuff to do.
I came up here
looking for claims,
not to run a dredge.
Maybe.
Like, legit, I'm impressed.
Let's go.
For the first time ever,
Tony has four wash plants
running simultaneously,
the dredge, sir
sluice-a-lot, his shaker deck,
and the trommel at paradise,
all sluicing for gold.
How you doing over there, Chris?
I think I'm getting
it figured out.
I know that you're
doing like two to my one,
but, um, I hope
I'm doing it right.
Every little bit helps here.
Ten miles north with
temperatures dropping,
the schnabel crew still has
three acres of the money pit
to mine out.
I'm getting some
pretty chunky stuff.
Yeah, it's very compact.
Foreman Mitch blaschke
has drafted gold recovery
expert Chris doumitt
to help stockpile pay dirt.
We are just trying
to finish things up
out here at the money pit,
but that is getting
more and more difficult.
This pay is really tough to dig.
It's very compact and
it just takes some time.
Now, we got Chris
down here helping us
and we're doing
everything we can here
to try and get enough
pay dirt dug here
that Roxanne can run all night.
Yeah, it's been a long time
since I've been in one of these.
Mitch is having a
hard time keeping up.
I'm out here for a few hours,
see if I can't
help him out a bit.
Wash plant Roxanne is sluicing
a massive 250 yards
of pay dirt an hour.
And the slow to dig pay
dirt means the pay pile
is running down faster
than they can restock it.
The last thing we
want is this wash plant
running out of pay.
And right now with the
rate it's going through it,
that might just happen.
If this thing freezes,
we're gonna be done.
At night, temperatures plummet
to a bitter 13 degrees.
If the stockpile runs out,
the plant will shut
down and freeze solid,
ending Parker's season.
As fast as I'm digging it
with as fast as
Roxanne's running like,
you know, I'm
barely gaining on it.
We can probably put up,
you know, 16, 18 hours of pay
but there's no way
we're getting 24.
- It's getting frosty.
- Yeah.
Do you think we're gonna
have an issue with weather
- and getting us out?
- Yes.
Keep going at the rate we are,
I don't think there's any way
we can have enough for tonight.
That's when the sluice
runs start freezing up.
And it just turns
up the whole thing
- into a nightmare.
- Yeah.
It gets pretty
dangerous pretty quick.
We'll do what we can.
- All right.
- See you.
All right, man.
We'll keep after it.
I'm thinking we're both
gonna have to come out here,
pull an all-nighter
and keep this going.
You know, we can both dig, pay,
keep that thing fed.
All righty.
Well, I'll see you out here
around the 11:30, then.
All right. Sounds good.
Woo! It's frosty.
Winter has arrived.
Six hours after
the end of the shift,
Mitch and Tyson
returned to the money pit,
determined to keep
Roxanne running
in order to avoid
the plant icing over.
You can see the ice
build on the sluice runs here.
We just need to make sure
this plant stays running
through the night.
And if that means we're
out here working with it,
that's what it's gonna be.
Well, man, for as cold as it is
old Roxanne seems
to be doing pretty good.
We'll just focus on trying
to get enough pay up,
make sure that we can
keep this thing running.
I'll see you down there.
All right. We'll start
digging some pay.
All right, buddy,
shake and bake.
Let's make this thing happen.
Hopefully we can get
caught up to the point where
we have some
breathing room here.
We don't keep this thing going,
it's gonna be bad.
That plant will freeze up
and it's gonna be
that way till next spring.
Let's just try and
close this thing up,
start working all this
dirt right into the feeder.
Yup.
One scoop at a time.
Hey, Tyson, you got a copy?
Those fine
tailings are built up.
We got some room right now,
but I don't think it's gonna
make it till the morning.
Okay. I'll go jump in the cat
and push some fines,
and let me know if you
need a head back down here.
- Sounds good, man.
- Appreciate it.
We could use about
two more of people
out here, but...
That's not an option, so.
I'm just having to, I
guess do what I do best
and that's run around
and jump from machine
to machine here.
Tyson, in the d10
dozer gets to work
clearing fine tailings,
Sandy waste material from
below Roxanne's sluice runs.
These fines keep
getting worse and worse,
pretty much spent all
day yesterday in them.
They've already built back up
and this hole
we're sluicing into
is a little past its due date.
How are those
fine tailings looking?
They're getting pretty sloppy,
but hopefully I can
get enough of a hole
before I'm needed back
down digging pay here.
Come on.
Sakes.
You serious?
Hey, Mitch, you
got a copy? Mitch.
Go ahead.
I'm stuck.
She's pretty buried.
I don't know how the hell
we're gonna get
this thing outta here.
It's just a wall of.
I gotta get this thing out,
or else I'm gonna have
to shut the plant down.
I don't know how we're
gonna get this thing outta here.
I think I'm gonna need
you up here in the hoe, man.
I'm on my way, man.
And we just can't
catch a break out here.
At dominion creek's money pit,
Tyson Lee's d10 dozer
is stuck in a slurry
of waste material.
The last thing we wanna do
is shut this wash plant down,
but if we don't get
this thing out quick,
we might have to.
With the stranded dozer,
unable to clear the tailings,
they could back
up onto the sluices
and cause a catastrophic pileup.
You can't back up there.
Is that what's going on?
No, I'm just stuck
in the swamp here.
This material is
absolutely disgusting.
I just gotta try and get
some of this dug out
and then hopefully, you'll be
able to push through this here
and get it off the
end of the ramp.
This silt is getting
trapped here.
When there's this
much of it built up,
you can't get it
to go up the ramp
and now, there's so
much silt behind him
that he can't back up.
So, I'm gonna try and
get some of this material
out of the way of the cat
and then hopefully,
he can back up
and blast through
it on his next pass.
What do you think, Mitch?
Should I give her a
try, try and get on here?
Give her a go,
and I got most of it,
out of the way there,
but it's still really soft.
All righty. Here
it goes nothing.
Come on.
I'm just spinning here, Mitch.
It's like quicksand.
The more you dig,
the softer it gets,
the deeper it sinks.
I don't wanna pull
on that blade, man,
'cause I might just
rip it right off there,
like that cat's
pretty old and tired.
Yeah, for sure.
Think you might
need to get behind me.
Yeah, I'll try and give
you a push start here.
Okay. 10-4.
Yeah. That's soft.
Yeah. It's never good
when you gotta, like,
pull yourself into a bad spot.
Man, I've been
thinking that every time
I've come into
the fine tailings.
All right. You ready for this?
We can give her a whirl.
Swing shot engage.
All right. Here we go.
Come on, baby. Come on.
Come on. Come on.
It's not wanting to move here.
Come on.
Get rolling. Get rolling.
Come on. Get some
momentum going.
Come on.
Inch by inch.
Come on. There we go.
There it goes.
I think we got her, Mitch.
Yeah!
Big ball and smashing.
We got Tyson unstuck,
but I gotta get back
to dig and pay here,
'cause that pile is,
dwindling quickly.
With the fines being
as high as they are,
we didn't have much
time to get this thing out.
In a couple minutes there,
we would've been
shutting down the plant.
Hey, Mitch, looks like
the sun's coming out.
That means we did our job
and we kept the
plant running all night.
Well, man, we got a
mountain of pay again.
It's looking nice.
Nice work.
Yeah, buddy.
We're gaining on it,
but it's not done yet.
We still gotta get the dirt
through that wash plant,
get to that 7,000.
Mike, Mike, do you copy?
Mike, Mike?
Go ahead.
Hey, I just put the last
scoop into the feeder,
so we'll let it run dry
and I'll meet you
at the electrical Van.
At paradise hill,
Mike and Monica
are sluicing the last
of the super pit's pay.
We're finishing up
that monster stockpile.
I will be happy when it's over.
Well, it was quite a year?
If anything went
right this year,
you have to tell me,
'cause I don't see it.
I'll head to the Indian
and I'll meet you there.
Yeah.
Hopefully, when
I'm getting there,
you guys are doing the
final cleanup there, too.
Over at Indian river,
Tony still has three
wash plants running.
My.
This is not good.
On his way to dig more
pay in a 52-ton excavator,
operator Thomas lenchysyn
has made a costly mistake.
This is sunk.
I was trying to cross the creek
and the hoe sunk
right down on me.
I don't know what the
right move is right now.
We better hurry, that sinking.
At Tony beets',
Indian river claim,
the king has called
in the big g*ns
to rescue a 52-ton excavator.
I'm digging it in so I
have somewhere to sit
while I pull that thing out.
I have never been
that stuck before.
Some people just don't
have the experience I had.
Until you get the experience,
you really don't know
what to watch out for.
- You know what?
- Like this,
it takes two seconds.
It's the ground and
you feel yourself sink
and you can try
to get yourself out,
but, like, this much soup,
what... what's gonna happen?
Ready to pull it out?
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Tony's plan,
hook the buckets of the
onto the bucket
of the stricken 349,
and use their combined power
to try and haul it free
as Monica uses the boom arm
to drag herself to safety.
I can't see a thing.
Just so you know I
can't see anything.
Aces.
Aces.
That went really well.
Not just any operator
could use buckets like hands
to pull out an excavator,
but Tony and Mike
are some of the best
operators I've ever seen.
Disaster averted,
the beets get
back to bringing in
as much gold as
possible before winter hits.
I definitely feel the pressure.
I mean, this is it.
About to warm this...
Warm up monster
red and get it running.
mountains above keno,
winter has struck hard.
I'm gonna go get
the pump, the loader.
- You wanna get that excavator?
- Yeah.
Let's do it.
Zee's ready, I'm ready.
We're ready to
turn this plant on.
It's last run.
Of course it's snowing,
right up to the limits.
Rick ness still has a day
of rally valley
stockpile pay to run
and needs to sluice every scrap
to have any chance of hitting
his 1,000 ounce
make or break goal.
- Rick.
- You got a copy, Rick?
- Go for Rick.
- We got a huge problem.
Rock is frozen.
I had a... I had a
bad feeling about that.
All right. We'll see
you in a minute.
What the is this gonna be?
Hey, zee, keep the
plant running full capacity.
All right.
Those are some icicles.
Everything is iced up, man.
I mean, there's no
use running it like it is.
Rick's smaller wash plant, rocky
has frozen solid overnight.
Without it, he won't finish
his rally valley stockpile.
I would say just start
getting some heat to it.
- Get it thaw out.
- We're gonna have to do
something about it
because we gotta at least
run this thing another day.
Light it up.
And now, we'll
start thawing it out.
It's that time of
year, but, you know,
I just need one more
day running out of this.
We're gonna get some
torches on it, get it thaw out.
Well run it one more
day no matter what.
Solid ice up here.
So, it's definitely
a setback right now
with this late in the season.
So, let's, bust our a*s.
Hey, Rick.
See down here?
We've got the belts
froze to the pay dirt.
We'd end up ripping a belt
as soon as we try to fire it up.
Yeah, it's pretty ugly.
Be real careful not to melt 'em,
but we don't wanna
anything up in that process.
I don't wanna take
any chance of...
Chances of doing any
damage to the plant.
She's getting hot now.
It's gonna take some time.
All right, boys.
Got the belts unfroze.
I think it'll be all right.
It's just gonna freeze
again if we don't hurry up
and fire it up, though.
I'll get the pump.
We've got water.
Well, pump fired back
up, so it ain't froze.
Fire it up.
A lot of ice coming
out the end the plant.
Dude, that doesn't
look good at all.
Look at that belt.
There's probably
some ice still on it.
Although, it should smooth out
after it throws it off there.
Come on.
There we go.
Look at that.
- Call it done. Be good to go.
- Cool.
All right. Well, the sooner
we throw dirt at this thing,
- the sooner we get done.
- Sounds good.
We're gonna get one
more day of running out of it
and hopefully
that's all we need.
Rocky is back in the fight
for a thousand ounces.
Every yard counts right now.
Just, you know, hammer down.
Buddy, this weather's pretty?
Foreman buzz legault's wife,
susi, is terminally ill
and a gold bonus would
help him care for her.
One mile upstream...
Not letting anybody go home
without a good gold bonus, man.
We've all fought
way too hard for it.
Let's do this.
Let's finish it.
Rick rejoin zee at monster red
to try and finish off the
rally valley stockpile.
We're so close
and all we gotta do
is finish up this pile.
The only way we're gonna do that
is to keep hammering at it hard.
We don't have much time left.
Pressure's on.
Yeah, that's what
we've been looking for.
Tyson. You got a copy, Tyson?
Go ahead.
Yeah. Why don't
you come over here
and see what I just found.
At dominion creek,
Parker's crew is close
to finishing the money pit.
Dude, you know
what that is right there?
The finish line.
All this area over here,
done, waste, back filled.
But this right here
is the line of pay,
and you can see,
there's not much left.
And that is a damn
good feeling, my man.
Yeah.
Right here, it's
like pay, not pay.
Pay, not pay.
Not done, done.
- Right?
- Yeah.
Now it's just the tiny
little sliver there, isn't it?
Yeah, yeah.
- Left, left, left.
- Go towards speeder.
There you go.
Right there. Hold on.
Sluice, sluice,
sluice, sluice, sluice.
Sluice, sluice, sluice, sluice.
I would call that your last.
I think that's it.
That's the last one right there.
My I'm actually out of dirt.
Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, we're done.
Good job, boys.
Thanks, man.
- Thank you.
- Yeah, buddy.
It's amazing all we got
done though this year.
Pretty wild, man.
Hopefully, we can
get to that 7,000.
You never know. It'll be tight.
Well, you guys made it work.
Guys.
- Yeah.
- Good job, Sandy.
Yeah, we did it.
- Nice work.
- Nice job.
- You k*lled it.
- Chris.
You got a copy, Chris?
We are ready for the cleanup
down here at Roxanne.
The last of the materials
going through
the plant right now.
Thank you for getting this done,
it really means a lot.
Like, it's a huge
amount of ground,
a huge amount of logistics
that we're not
used to dealing with
that you guys... That
you guys fought through.
Like you've put in a
hell of a season, Mitch,
- and I just wanna thank you.
- Well, thank you, man.
You should probably
get in your truck
and get out of here.
- You sure?
- Yeah.
I mean, you've
got a pregnant wife
and a daughter's birthday
to get home to, don't you?
Yeah, it's her
birthday this weekend.
- Well...
- Yeah.
Yeah, that would
be awesome, man.
I mean, if I hit the road today,
I can get home for her birthday.
- Sweet.
- I really appreciate it, dude.
- Thanks, Mitch.
- Yeah.
See you next year.
This is it, it's my
last pass over here.
Scooping the last
of the rally valley
dirt for the year.
Last bucket going in, zee.
- All right.
- I'm good over here,
then I'll jump out and
meet you over there.
After running monster
red hard all day,
Rick ness has reached the end
of his rally valley stockpile.
Last time.
Rest easy, monster red.
And get the winter off.
That's it for the season?
That's it. It's a wrap.
Tapped out of pay, Rick's
second wash plant rocky
also shuts down for winter.
They say it's
always bittersweet.
It's like the end of a battle,
but we don't know if we won yet.
Bailey!
- Yeah, man.
- That's it!
- We're done.
- All right.
Rick's last chance
to hit his thousand
ounce comeback gold...
Awesome, keep it
going, keep it going.
Now rests on having
his best cleanup
of the season.
We're gonna wash this
out, we're gonna find out
if we hit our goal.
- Do we deserve it?
- Absolutely
but, you know what I
mean? This is mining.
Just because we deserve it
doesn't mean we're gonna get it.
There's a big question
that remains, you know,
can I hit my goal?
Can I get all these guys gold,
you know, home
with, in their pockets?
And, you know, can I
come back next year?
Rick ness' future
is on a razor's edge.
But before he finds
out his final goal total,
Rick has a debt to settle.
Right now, I gotta
secure the ground,
and that's what matters most.
I mean, there's debts
to be paid, but I gotta
I gotta give a big
chunk to Troy Taylor.
You know, he had other people
that wanted to buy this place
and I'm lucky he kept it a deal.
Is Troy doing?
Two weeks ago...
What's going on?
Landlord Troy Taylor
gave Rick an ultimatum.
I think it's gonna be over.
This is your last chance.
Pay the $400,000 installment
he owes towards his
purchase of the property
or lose his gold rich
ground and his camp
which he put up as collateral.
The gold's coming.
I'll have it for you at
the end of the season.
- Hello, Troy.
- Hey, Rick.
- How're you doing?
- Good.
- You want a coffee?
- Appreciate it. Yeah.
Okay. Here we go.
Thank you, sir.
Let's have a seat.
Yeah.
I'm sure you're
happy to see that.
I'm hoping that this
should seal the deal on...
You know, that
I'm... That I'm serious.
I was getting worried there.
Why do you make it so dramatic?
You wait until the last few days
and you come up with this.
I said by the end of the year.
Yes, you did. Yeah.
And sorry I was so
hard on you last time,
but I just, um, I just, um
I didn't know if you're
gonna be able to do it, so...
You're gonna have enough
for the rest what
you're gonna do?
I have no idea.
Well, I still got
other bills to pay.
And, um, you know, I gotta
get these guys good bonuses
because they're... you
know, it's a hell of a good crew
and I want them back next year,
but I just don't
know at this point.
You know, I'm gonna
need really good...
Really good cleanups to end this
and, I just... you know.
At this point, I don't
know if it's there.
Yeah.
It's scary. I thought...
When I saw this, I thought
you were out of the woods,
- but, um...
- Yeah. We're close.
Out of the woods with
us, but you're gonna...
Yeah, you want those
guys coming back, so...
Yeah. We'll see. We'll see.
- All right, man.
- All right.
Thanks again, Troy.
- Good luck out there.
- Thank you.
- I'll talk to you soon.
- You're done.
Rick's made good
on his deal with Troy
and is closer than ever to
completing his comeback.
I'm happy to see this from Rick.
Obviously, this covers
our what we needed.
I just hope he
can reach his goal.
Giving Troy all that
gold, that had to be done.
But now I've still
got a lot of bills to pay
and I do have to make
sure my guys go home
with a lot of gold
in their pockets
so I get them back
next year. So...
And we're gonna
need the biggest goal
weighs of our season.
beets have also shut down
their remaining
plants for the season.
Hi, guys.
- How are you?
- Hello.
Hello.
How's it going?
- Thank goodness.
- Yeah.
To hit his new
Tony needs 95 ounces.
But with four plants running,
he's gunning for more.
First, gold from
the Indian river
starting with the dredge.
How long was that going, Monica?
I think it was
about half a week.
- Okay. Not too bad.
- That's not too bad.
Next, the shaker deck.
Here's sluice-a-lot.
All right. Let's go.
Tony's third plant,
sir sluice-a-lot.
Bringing the Indian river
total to 328.74 ounces,
breaking his 2,500-ounce goal.
Finally, gold from the
trommel at paradise hill.
So you're looking at
roughly 650 ounces
for this gold weigh.
It's pretty good.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
Tony's four-plant blitz
has delivered his
biggest haul of the season,
bringing his season
total to 3,054 ounces,
worth over $6 million.
Me and faith do wanna
start our own thing.
But the name's not on
the dotted line yet, so
I'll be happy to have you
back in the Yukon, brother.
- Same.
- You love us?
Nice of you to say that. Right?
- I can be cheesy too.
- So, pack this up.
I wanna get going.
I wanna finish up
the last paperwork
so I can leave actually.
So see you guys.
- Bye, bye, bye.
- Bye-bye.
I know a dismissal
when I hear one.
It was very expensive.
No.
No, no, no, that's great.
After helping the family's
end-of-season push,
Kevin's deal to
strike out on his own
is back on the
negotiating table.
It don't change
because you're family?
See, see.
- So let's go.
- Okay.
Gonna be my bills,
my problems, but...
Well, after 20 years
working for Tony,
I think I can do it.
Nice fire.
Nice brief case.
Yeah. Here we go.
Look at me, I'm a businessman.
I work on wall street.
It's judgment day for Rick
ness' comeback season.
I knew you guys
would make fun of me,
that's why I
brought it out here.
Rick needs his
best haul of the year,
at least 176 ounces to
hit his 1,000-ounce goal
that would pay all his bills,
his crew, and fund next season.
To get there, Rick
wagered everything
on returning to rally valley.
You know, it's wildly stressful
waiting to find out if
you're gonna make it back.
- And, um...
- Did we?
I think it's close.
Hate it when you say close.
Just pour the and let's go.
Let's see it. Let's see it.
- Come on.
- I'm ready.
- Let's see it.
- We'll pour out rocky first.
I brought the briefcase
out because it's all separate.
This week, Rick
ran two wash plants.
First up, three days from rocky,
which should deliver
around 70 ounces.
- A little shy.
- Yeah.
- But the bucket, you know...
- Yeah.
That's a little down time.
You guys hustled to make that
happen real quick at the end.
Now, it's all down
to monster red.
I will tell you
this. It was a...
It was a good clean out.
And I did take the first
hundred ounces out if it.
That was... that's a
hundred ounces right there
- out of monster red.
- We just need 25 more.
- Yeah.
- So the rest of monster red...
- Yeah.
- It's coming, buddy.
Hit it, bud.
- All right. Yup.
- Can you see it?
- There it is.
- There's a thousand.
Yeah!
We did it, boys. And girls.
- You ready for this?
- There's more!
I can't even count that fast.
- Yes.
- Yeah.
Hell yeah, guys.
What you got more.
More gold more.
That's some beautiful
stuff right there, guys.
No way.
Yeah, there's nuggets, too.
Ooh.
So yeah.
Well, that's 30, 30.17
of just the coarse gold.
Woo yeah, man.
Rick's rally valley
gamble has paid off.
Delivering a total
of 301.7 ounces,
blowing past his season goal.
To hit 1,125.7 ounces
worth $2.25 million.
- Grand slam.
- Hell yeah.
Woo.
It pays all the bills.
It gets all you
guys a nice bonus.
And it gets me that much
closer to owning this place
and, with you guys behind
me, I mean, the sky's the limit.
And this whole place
is our playground.
I can't wait.
- Yup.
- And... That being said, I want to...
You know, I got my man...
My guy sitting here next to me.
And... I know you've
had an insurmountable
going on in your life, too.
This whole season, you know,
you shouldered a lot
of that burden for me
and while you were
shouldering your own burdens,
and I'll never forget it.
Hundred percent.
I've got something for
all you guys, but, buzz,
I wanna make sure
that you know that...
You know, you know
how important you are.
And, you know, that's
For you.
Worth $50,000.
And you earn that.
- You're stuck with me now.
- Yeah.
You're stuck.
You're stuck with me.
I think you're stuck
with all of us, buzz.
Thanks, buddy. Thanks, man.
- Team rally.
- 2023.
We've all became,
like, a really close family.
And we finally hit it
and we're gonna come back
next year 10 times stronger.
I'm so proud to
be a part of this.
Special moment in all of
our lives, that's for sure.
We nailed it.
We pulled this off.
And Rick led the way.
Being able to see
Rick hit his goal,
it's just huge.
I mean, honestly, like, I
couldn't be more proud of the guy.
We did it. We did it
with the right people
and, like, I feel great.
I can look towards the
future now and, like, it's real.
There is no doubts anymore.
I love doing this and I've
got the right guys now.
And I can't wait to
come back next year.
To...
Back. Yeah, I'm back.
Where's the beer at?
Yeah, knock yourself out.
Six months after
betting $15 million
to buy his own massive claim,
it's time for the
final gold weigh
of Parker schnabel's
life-changing season.
All right. So, what've we go?
Everybody's outside.
- I don't really wanna keep them waiting.
- -Yeah.
Parker only needs 174 ounces
to hit his 7,000-ounce
season goal.
But with the money
pit paying out big gold,
it could deliver much more.
Here we go.
- Somebody call it.
- No, I insist.
We got 40, 80,
we have 300 even.
There you go.
So we got two jars here.
Here we go.
Let's see.
We got 50, 100,
A total of 554.35 ounces
worth over $1.1 million.
It's nuts.
The biggest weekly
gold haul of the season
from any single wash plant.
- Good purchase, man.
- Yeah.
Good place to call home.
I'm just relieved
more than anything.
Well, you threw a
You nailed that. You
threw a 7,000-ounce goal.
Our season total... Is
Worth just under $15 million.
Almost enough to
cover the purchase price
of his ground at dominion
in just one season.
- There you go. Good job.
- That's awesome.
I'm beyond happy.
This is for a thank you
and a congratulations.
This is to those that
helped you get started,
those that helped
you along the way
but aren't here to share.
Let's pour that one out.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
Cheers.
Ooh.
Thank you for getting us a home.
I don't know where
I am right now.
As far as the season
goes, the final total was 70
That is unreal.
Sets us up so well
for the next few years.
I really wanna thank you all.
And, um, I mean it from
the bottom of my heart,
and I hope that every one of
you guys wants to come back
because every one of you
guys has a spot here next year.
Chris made these,
melted out of our gold
right out of the ground.
They're exchangeable
for one meal at the kitchen.
I think I speak for
everybody here
that thank you for
finding us a home.
I know you're
taking off to Brazil,
so good luck on that
and stay safe, okay?
- Thanks.
- I just wanna say
this team is
absolutely incredible.
You guys have been
more than fantastic.
It's very much appreciated
and I personally wouldn't
hand pick a better team
than what's standing here.
- Thank you, Ms. Loveless.
- Thank you.
Yeah. Thank you.
You're the best.
We started out in
such a precarious
position with ground.
And it looks like this
purchase was worth it.
I'm just really relieved.
We have an unreal project
with an unreal group of people.
And the ground's way better
than anything
we've mined before.
We've got a whole pile
of ground ahead of us.
That's so nice.
We're in a really good
place for the future.
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14x23 - Winter's Reckoning
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Reality based series follows the placer gold mining efforts of various family-run mining companies, mostly in the Klondike region of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, as well as in the U.S. state of Alaska.
Reality based series follows the placer gold mining efforts of various family-run mining companies, mostly in the Klondike region of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, as well as in the U.S. state of Alaska.