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King of the Klondike,

Tony Beets is running out
of time.

With just weeks left
in the season,

he's still over
800 ounces off

his new 2,500-ounce target.

Last week,
Tony fired up his dredge

for the first time
in five years in his quest

to bank every possible ounce.

In charge his dredge master,
Greg Mason.

There's not a lot of dredge
masters around anymore,

and this is probably the only
bucket line dredge

in North America.

I'm sure a lot of people

never thought this thing
would run again,

but Tony is a force
to be reckoned with.

Now, in its first
full week of running,

Tony's hoping the dredge
can bring in 60 ounces.

Everything seems to be working
as it should.

I think we've got all
the kinks out of it.

Working with Greg,

is longtime Beets' minor,

Len Hoekstra.

They're doing pretty
good if I see the bucket.

They're pretty cool.

Absolutely.

What more could you ask for?

Every time a bucket goes by,
it's a nickel.

Just consider it that way.

It's steady at an ounce
an hour,

and it's very cost-effective

because you've only got
two guys running it.

You don't have rock trucks.

You don't have excavators
using fuel.

I can see all flakes
of gold in it.

It's going well,
but that's dredging.

If it goes well,
it's kind of boring.

You keep on going,
keep an eye on it.

It's really a nice system,

but you have to pay
attention.

What the.

Ah.

She's come off
on the port side.

Oh.

Tony Beets,
Tony Beets, do you copy?

Tony Beets,
Tony Beets, do you copy?

Um...

Uh...

I'm gonna need some help here.

I was trying
to catch the corner.

I was deep and I couldn't see
the bucket line.

And so, it just falls off.

The dredge's 34-ton
bucket line,

got caught on a boulder,

wedged in the ground,

tearing it from the ladder.

No bucket line, no gold.

Yeah.

Tony's plan,
lift the bucket line

back into place
using a 349 excavator.

Spin the buckets toward you?

You want bucket line up?

Yeah, a little bit.
And now, you can swing it in.

Little bit more.

We're close.

Okay.

Back in the day
we used to pop these on.

I don't know what the.

Yes, let's do it, okay?

Psst. That's it, man.

It's over. For today.

Every hour
the dredge is down,

Tony's 2,500-ounce goal
slips further away.

The boss man's pissed off.

That's all I know.

You can definitely feel
cold in the air today.

See the seasons getting close
to an end.

That ain't good for us.

But we got a lot of gold
to get yet

before we hit
1,000 ounce gold.

At Duncan Creek,
Rick Ness is battling

to keep his mining
career alive.

I had to make a lot
of sacrifices

to be able to come up
here this year.

A very difficult decision
I had to make was

I had to get rid
of my mother's house

that I inherited
after she passed.

I gotta make that
mean something.

This is a one-and-done shot.

The bench has given us
good gold,

but the gold that we need
to hit our goal

is definitely in the bottom
of Rally Valley.

Rick's crew
is running pay
from the bench cut

through his smallest
wash plant, Rocky.

And after six weeks,

he's finally pumped the water
out of Rally Valley,

and is down
to the cut's best gold.

With only weeks left
in the season,

Rick still needs
over 360 ounces

to hit his goal.

Fall season's
been leading up to this,

a big ending here
in Rally Valley.

We're gonna crank it up to 11

and shut down Rocky
and fire up Monster Red.

And then, it's everybody
over to Rally Valley

for the rest of the season.

Hey, Bailey, you got a copy?

Yeah, go ahead, man.

I started
to pull a plug, man.

Putting the last bucket
of pay through the Rocky

and, uh, we're gonna
shut it down. Clean it up.

Sounds good to me, man.

10-4.

Rocky's been
a great plant,

but we can only run

about a 100 yards
an hour through that.

And, uh, with Monster Red,
we can run well over 300.

This is the last bucket going
into Rocky right now.

I'd say we're
just about ready to fire
Monster Red up.

There's a few things
that gotta be done yet.

We've gotta get a pump moved,

'cause that's the only pump
we have

is to run Monster Red.

The three of you guys
can just go over to Rocky,

unhook that pump,
get it down here,

we'll hook it up
to the existing water line,

and then just drag
that suction line down here.

But I'll just keep hauling
for now

and then when we're all ready,

we'll just jam it on. Okay.

100%. Let's do it.

This is the final push.

Yeah, I'm pretty excited
to fire up Monster Red.

Thanks a lot, buddy.

Yeah, you bet.

I'll go grab the suction line.

Perfect.

Like it.

Right now, I'm installing
the discharge line.

It's gonna go feed,
uh, Monster Red.

This thing looks huge.

We had this same flange
on here?

You sure?

Got ten and eight.

What we're missing
is an adapter right here.

The discharge line

is two inches too big to fit
onto the pump.

Without an adapter,

there's no way to run water
to Monster Red.

What we're missing
is an adapter right here.

Rick, you got a copy?

Yeah, go for Rick.

You got a spare minute,
run down here?

Got a question that I'm hoping
you can answer.

Yeah,
I'll be right there. Hold on.

Appreciate it.

At Duncan Creek,

the Ness Crew have hit
a roadblock.

They're missing
a critical adapter

needed to connect the pump
to Monster Red's waterline.

What's going on?

Assuming you guys used
to have an adapter.

me.

Yup. Yeah, we do. Yup.

It's being used, uh, down
in Rally Valley right now.

. That's an oversight,

and I didn't
even think about that.

And I can't have that pump
go out of service now..

Rally Valley will flood,
we're not done there.

Without an adapter,

Rick can't connect the pump
to the plant.

You got anything
anywhere else?

We don't have
any other adapters.

That's why I robbed
that off of this one.

So, you're getting
build something, I guess.

Okay.

I bet you can scrummage
up everything we need.

We'll figure out somethin'.

You're just gonna have
to build it
in a hurry.

Well,
everybody's kinda down
a bit here right now

and the Cash Cut's been a bit
of an instant up

and instant down.

It's just
not looking good, man.

We need
some kind of a Hail Mary.

100 miles west
at Eureka Creek,

hotspot miner,

Brian McCaughan
is out of luck.

Last week, Brian opened
his only thawed ground,

the Cash Cut,

but it's unexpectedly
run dry,

and is almost tapped out.

Pay streak, we lost it.

Maybe it's further up.

We don't know,

but it's down to, like,

not even worth washing.

With winter closing in,

the McCaughans' still need
nearly 200 ounces of gold

to hit their target.

That's really look
like we're not gonna make

our 1,500 ounce gold
this year.

That's our minimum.

That's what we need.

That added pressure
with Parker wanting

to see us performing.

If we don't get some pay in,
we're gonna be screwed.

Twenty-four-year-old son,
Bryce,

trucks in the last
of the Cash Cut pay.

We're just hauling
the last pay in here,

but we don't really
have another cut to do.

Literally scraping
the bottom of the barrel.

Brian wants
to return to the deep cut,

where he had success
earlier in the season.

But there's a problem.

It's locked in permafrost

beneath 50 feet
of overburden.

It really hurts
when you can stare at your pay

and you can't get it
'cause it's frozen solid.

It's like a block of concrete.

So, I have to come up
with a plan,

and the plan
is on this trailer.

What do we have here?

What do you think?

What in WTF is this thing?

Well,
it's a drum cutter.

They use 'em for ripping rock.

You gonna go through
this frost like nothing.

I'm thinking we can
tunnel under the sides,

somewhere around 20 feet.

What do you think?

I've never seen anything
like this.

By any chance
that you've ever seen this
done in the permafrost?

I've never seen nothing
done like this ever.

So, what's this worth?

$150,000.

What?

So, we're gonna need, uh,
75 ounces

to pay this thing off.

I'm anxious
as hell to give it a spin.

I can't think
of any reason it won't work.

The 4000-pound drum cutter

links to an excavator arm

and hooks up to
its hydraulics.

Armed with 100 tungsten
carbide teeth

attached to a spinning drum,

it can cut through rock
and concrete.

Brian plans to use it

to churn through the frozen
gold-rich pay layer

trapped in
the wall of the cut.

He'll then be able
to run the ground up pay

through the trommel.

But Brian
hasn't told everyone

about his new toy.

A what machine?

Drum cutter.

A drum cutter?

Okay. Where's the money
coming from, Brian?

-You keep on buying equipment.
-Well...

And you're not selling
equipment.

Now, we have

-this boring machine.
-It's a cutting machine.

You're just
taking on more debt

at the end of the season.

And you did this
behind our back.

He gets it.
He knows that we need it.

If we don't do it,
we're shut down by the cold.

This keeps you operating.

Who else
has something like this?

No one's ever done it
in the Yukon.

No one's
done it in the Yukon.

So, this is 100% risk.

We have to get it out
while we can.

-It's not funded...
-I get that, Gage, but...

It's an investment.

We are gonna get
all of the gold

that's there
that we know is there.

- This year...
- This is what we need.

- You can discuss it with Gage.
- This year,

-we were supposed
to be focusing...
-I'm not here to fight

- with you.
- on what, Brian?

Oh, my.

This is not over.

We're running with this.

I'm gonna have that thing
hooked up to the machine,

freaking grinding rock
in no time.

Freaking let's go.

For the price,
it looks way smaller

than expected.

There we go.

Okay.

So bring her down.
We'll hook her up.

Fired it up.

It spins.

This thing works unbelievable.

Okay.
I'm off to the cut.

Man, I'm so stoked.

This is like your first day
of school right now.

I'm just looking
at that this frozen wall

and I'm coming hard.

I'm gonna tear
this up.

Here we go.

Yeah, baby.

She's going.

I'm going dead straight
into solid frozen ground.

This thing is awesome.
I'm like...

I'm trying
to hold back my giddiness.

It's really mulched up
to a nice-size.

I believe we'll be able
to run this

right through the plant,
frozen,

right now, right through.

Get the rock trucks
down here and start hauling.

I'm gonna run
up there and watch

the first
few loads go through.

I'm watching for anything

that's not rock, basically.

Any piece of clay
that might still be

frozen together.

Everything's coming
through a thawed

and clean, like spotless.

Yeah. There's no big chunks
in it at all.

It's beautiful.

So, it's 100% success.

Holy.
I'm getting down there.

I'm just hammering out
as much as I can,

'cause this is incredible.

I've never been able
to stay late in the season

like we're gonna be able
to do this year.

Like, this is complete
game changer for us.

Yup.

Fifteen hundred, here we come.

At Tony Beets
Indian River claim,

the dredge
is dead in the water,

leaving him
with just Mike's trommel

on Paradise Hill,
and Sir Sluice-A-Lot

at the Indian River,
bringing in the gold.

Two days ago,

Tony's attempt
to put the bucket line

back on, failed.

Holy.
Look at that anchor chain.

Yeah.

Hmm. Mmm-hmm.

Now...

- Ow!.
- Ah.

- Good thing you have that.
- Yeah.

he's bringing in
reinforcements.

Tony's plan,

wrap a winch cable
attached to an anchor chain

around the bucket line

and use a D6 dozer to pick up
the bucket line slack.

A chain attached
to a 349 excavator

will then lift the 34-ton
bucket line up

while Greg repositions
the bucket ladder

from the wheelhouse.

Once everything is lined up,

the excavator
will drop the bucket line

back into place.

It's a game of inches.

Tony needs
to carefully coordinate

the three machines.

Mechanic Brandon Carr
is in the D6

while operator Evan Kale

works the 349 excavator.

Ladder down, slowly.

Pulling port winch.

I'm maxed out.

Nice job.

Okay.

Shall we fire this puppy up?

Drumroll.

There it is.

How about bucket line?

I think we're dredging, Greg.

Here we are.

Making gold.

You got that right.

You're a living proof.

You need to come aboard,
take a ride.

A lot of miners
have already gone home

for the season.

They don't bother
with the fight.

Sometimes, you need
that little extra.

At Eureka Creek,

Brian McCaughan's
$150,000 gamble

is paying off.

Seeing these
trucks come down here

at this time of the season,

watching the pay
go through the plan,

I mean, it's just a feeling
that I've never had before

in my life with such
simple success.

I mean, we're easy staying
for another two weeks.

Brian's new drum cutter

is tearing through
a frozen wall of dirt.

Delivering gold-rich pay
to his trummel.

We're hauling pay
from the drum cutter.

We can really
snipe our rich spots.

So if anything that we send up

is actually really,
really good.

We actually prefer
snow at this time of year.

The rain just turns
everything into slop.

Time is not
on our side at all.

Ugh.

The rain's coming down
and it's thawing out

any of the frozen material
above where we're grinding.

So it's starting
to drip and slip down

and I have to hit a certain
efficiency with this.

If we dilute
our product too much,

we are basically losing money.

We're washing material
for nothing.

Holy.

The rain is causing
worthless black muck

from above to slide down
the wall of the cut,

diluting the pay.

I gotta call
for something

to hold mother nature
back for a bit.

But we're not beat it,
that's for sure,

but we like to tease her.

I gotta make a...
mud protector,

I guess I'd call it.

It kinda be like
an interest to mine shaft

where, you know,
we'll set it against the wall

and we just work right there.

And then if anything,
trickles down

and it won't fall in.

Well, I have a big hook,
I mean, and we just grab

with an excavator,
and move it along the wall.

It needs to be done
quick and dirty

because we need it right away.

She's bolt in.

It's gonna be heavy.

But we're gonna drag this
thing down to the cut.

Place her by the wall,
stand her up,

and start drilling.

Okay, just-just keep an eye
on it, make sure this thing...

I don't wanna take a tire out.

Yeah.

Here we go.

Yeah, it's good
there, good there.

Got her stood up?

And start freakin' hammering.

There we go.

A little poke here.

Yeah, buddy.

Looking good,
looking good.

There she is.

I'd say this
is a home run for us.

I'm so happy,
I'm just ready to go.

Mud protector in place.

Oh, baby.

Brian can fire up
the drum cutter

and get back on the gold.

Boy, look at that.

What the hell is that about?

Oh, my.

Are you me?

Oh, my.

Are you me?

At Eureka Creek,

Brian McCaughan's
brand new drum cutter

has sprung a leak.

It's full power,
there's nothing spinning.

Holy.

It's his only way
of getting pay

this late in the season.

Copy, Wayne.

Wayne here.

Hey, Wayne, uh,

you might wanna come down
and have a look at this thing.

All right.
I'm on my way down there.

Okay.

I'm just kind of in shock.

Oh, God.

Stand back
and I'll spin it for you.

That's weird.

But definitely it looks like

it's got an internal failure
of some sort.

Yeah, this is weird.

The only thing that
they've got in there manual

was just on how to take
your rotator head's off.

And I definitely know...

I do not have the tools
to work on this unit.

I'm just sick
to the stomach right now.

We're done.

Not how we'd like
to end the season, but...

Oh,.

Really?

Yeah.

I'm kinda busy right now.

We're gonna finish up
what we have.

We can get
everything washed up

and see where we're at.

At this time of year,

and so now
that wash plant running

is a... Is a pretty
spooky thing.

It's not a good feeling.

Rick Ness
is at a standstill.

After shutting down
wash plant Rocky

and moving to Rally Valley,

he's discovered he's missing
a critical piece of equipment

to fire up Monster Red

and start bringing
in the gold.

You have a few
hundred ounces to get there

1,000 ounce of gold, and...

Holy.

what's going on?

We need to talk.

I'm getting really concerned.

When I see all this money
being spent

and I don't see gold
coming in,

we're running out of time.

At the start of the season...

You're about a year behind
on your payments, so...

Yeah.

Rick made a frantic deal

with landlord, Troy Taylor,

to keep mining.

Is there anything
we could work out

regarding your camp?

I would be willing to sign
that camp over to you guys.

Three months ago,

Rick delivered Troy
50 ounces.

After last year, I'm always
a little bit on edge.

Oh, yeah. Don't worry.
I'll keep the gold coming in.

But since then,

hasn't made another payment.

And still owes him
$400,000 this season.

I know
we're running out of time,

but we're not out of time.

The gold's coming.

And I'll have everything
I need to pay you off.

If it doesn't happen,

we know
the consequences, right?

You're gonna lose the ground,
thing's gonna be over.

Well, I'm tired of stories,
I'm tired of excuses.

This is your last
chance.

Okay. I'll have it for you
at the end of the season.

Deal's a deal.

Well, I do still owed Troy
a lot of money.

The only way we're gonna
end this season strong

is if we can get Monster Red
up and running

and get it up
and running soon.

Time's ticking.

He says get the go.

I'll figure something out,
I guess.

Actually, probably work.

What I'm looking for now
is a piece of 8-inch

and a piece of 10-inch pipe
that I can weld together.

So we'll need to make
our own adaptor.

In the yard,

mechanic, Ryan Kent,

is scrambling to come up
with a bush fix

to get Monster Red running.

The 10-inch discharge line

is too big
for the 8-inch pump.

Without an adaptor,
Monster Red is useless.

We'll plasma cut out
this outer ring.

That ring will slide
right over the end of this,

we'll put a bead around it.

That ring should butt up
to this,

we'll put it on,
we'll run a bead around it.

One thing I've learned
from being out here,

it doesn't matter what
it takes, just get it done.

Fam, we've got
a adaptor.

All righty, then, eh.

Yeah, you know...

-Big moment.
-Big moment.

It's all on you, Ryan.

Ready?

Once we let off this sling,

there's gonna be
a lot of weight right here.

Big moment.

Do the wells hold?

Beautiful.

Now we'll see if you built us
a reducer or a sprinkler.

- Driving.
- Yo, she's sucking.

She's sucking.

I can live
with a couple small drips.

What a.

All right. It's rolling.

I hear it.

- Look at that.
- Holy , man.

Beautiful, eh?

It's amazing.

That's a big
machine right here.

-Yo.
-What's up, big cheese?

You guys did a great job
getting ready for this.

When we turn this plant on
and, like,

basically we're gonna
one-run at this,

and when we shut it off,
we're gonna have it or not.

It's a pretty pivotal moment
of the season, so.

And I don't wanna
keep talking.

I just wanna turn
this thing on.

, oh, yeah.

- Let's do it, man.
- Yeah.

It's running.

After two years,

Rick is finally back,

sluicing Rally Valleys,
nugget-rich pay dirt.

A lot of people will
think I'll be backing off.

I doubted myself
that I'd never come here.

I didn't know.

It all...
It was a long shot.

But after it have been
put into work,

I put together
a hell of a team,

and were right on edge of it right now.

All we gotta do
is finish this strong

or you get it.

- We're that close.
- We're that close.

Last one of the season.

At Eureka Creek,

the McCaughans
have run out of pay.

We're shutting down the mine.

Oh, wouldn't it be
nice to get more
of the drum cut.

Anytime it shut down because
of a breakdown, it sucks.

I just wanna know
if paid for itself.

We'll get it washed up
and we'll figure
what's in here.

Investing
all of this money

at the end of the season.

Well, I'm a little worried.

We're in too deep now
so let's just...

I'm just praying now
it all works out in the end

and we can finish off
in a positive note.

- Hey, Bryce.
- Hello.

At Eureka Creek,

it's the final gold way
of the season

for the McCaughans.

Okay. Let's start
out with cash cut, here up.

Here we go.
Bryce, you wanna count?

They still need
182.9 ounces

to hit their 1,500 ounce
season target.

First to hit the scale,

the final gold
from the cash cut.

It hit 90, 100,

120,

- 122.1.
- Wow.

Yeah, buddy.

Okay.
Our, uh, season total

adding your cash cut

is 1439.10.

Way to go, boys.

It's looking
pretty good to me.

Next, the moment of truth.

Did Brian's $150,000
drum cutter

bring in the 60 ounces
from the deep cut they need

to hit their goal?

You hear it?

Let's see
what she weighs out at.

-Gage, you're calling it?
-Sure.

There's 5...

15 ounces...

30 ounces...

and 60 ounces...

70 ounces...

75, 80,

90, keep going.

1 hundy...

110, 120...

126.7.

126.7.

So the grand total is...

1,565.7 ounces.

Woah.

- You guys made it.
- Yeah.

And we're done.

The McCaughans
season gold haul

is worth over $3 million,

and Brian's
drum cutter gamble

has already paid for itself.

You pulled a horseshoe
out of your ass again.

I'm pretty damn happy
we busted our asses this year.

Congratulations, guys,

that was a freakin'
well fought season.

All in all,
it's a fantastic you.

We're gonna find
new ground for next year.

We just got to choose
the right piece of property

with the right owner.

Maybe it's Parker.

We're hopeful. We're happy.

We're ready to go.

Hi, guys.

Hello.

- Hello there.
- Hi, guys.

For the second week in a row,

the Beets have three
wash plants running.

Blame the operator.
Operator error.

Yes, you can.

Yeah.

If he runs it off again

and then it's easy
to put it back.

Yes.

To hit
their 2,500 ounce gold,

the Beets still need
more than 830 ounces.

Trommel, ready?

First up,
Mike's Paradise Hill trommel.

40, 60, 70, 80,

100, 110, 120.

150.

166.1.

That's a week.

It's better than it was
last week.

We're doing about
just 102 ounces an hour now.

Still less

than what the trommel
usually pulls in,

but puts $330,000
in the bank.

What about sluice a lot?

A little lighter
than it was last week.

Ready?

10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60,

70, 80, 90, 100...

160.22.

Another $330,000.

Ready for dredge?

Okay. Let's do it.

5, 10, 15,

18, 20, 30...

40...

46.70.

Yeah.

No.

The old girl still produces.

The dredge
delivers nearly $100,000

in just four days.

Bringing their season total
to 2,043 ounces.

Hey.

-Hey there, yeah.
-It's getting crowded in here.

So far this season,

Rick's mined 639 ounces
of his 1,000 ounce gold.

Tough week, not a whole
lot of sluice time.

Had a few days shut down,

but we're finally in
the Rally Valley so I'm happy.

Well, the bench helped us,
but the big numbers

are coming now, you know.

Let's see what we got here.
Ready?

First up, two days
of running at the bench cut.

2, 5, 7, 8,

10, 12, 13,

16, and 17, 18...

18.76.

Worth over $37,000.

A little below average
for the bench.

This was Monster Red.

Rally Valley, I know is our
best shot to get 1,000 ounces.

If the Rally Valley's ground

is as good as Rick believes,

Monster Red should deliver
around 40 ounces of gold

for the day
and a half it ran.

29, 30, 35,

40...

41.63.

It's impressive
for a day and a half.

Yeah.

Really impressive actually.

Two together,
that's 60.39 for the week,

- not bad.
- That's working.

Worth over $120,000.

That adds to a total 699.68.

- Nice.
- Nice.

We've got a lot of gold
to get you at

to get 1,000 ounces

'cause I've got a lot of gold
to give to Troy

so that we can a future here.

And I also wanna give you guys
a lot of gold

so you all come back.

It's gonna be a tough
couple of weeks,

but I know we can do it.

- It's crunch time.
- It is.

-Right?
-Right?

Yeah.

That's it.

Thanks, guys.

That much gold is sweet,

but what I'm most
interested in,

is that everybody's spirit
is still high

because we got a lot of gold
to kit the next couple weeks.

It's gonna be tough,

but I know
they're all ready for it.