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[Tyson] It's doing around 200 yards an hour right now.

[Liam] So we can go higher?

Possibly.

Let's leave her where she is for now.

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

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

- He's dead. - [Liam laughs]

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

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

Don't want the runs washed in.

[Parker] I would prioritize the Bridge Cut.

[Tyson] OK.

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

Pick me out somebody to fire.

So just cut your worst one out.

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

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

and I don't want to give you options.

- All right. - OK.

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

OK.

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

Giving him a lot more responsibility has been good,

because he takes that very seriously and very personally.

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

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

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

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

One of them has to go.

[suspenseful music playing]

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

We have Bob running the Bridge Cut.

We have Sluicifer running the Golden Mile.

One month into the season, Parker Schnabel's foreman

Tyson Lee has his hands full.

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

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

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

have a month to breathe.

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

move to the next.

Get that wash plant set up, get it running,

move to the next.

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

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

make the cut.

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

I'm taking lightly.

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

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

Just a decade ago, Tyson arrived in the Yukon.

Pretty green at the mining aspect of things.

Parker saw something special in the rookie miner.

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

and hopefully this doesn't bite either of us in the ass.

[Tyson] Let's get her going.

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

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

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

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

a lot of changes.

Every year I get thrown more and more,

and this year more than ever.

Parker said, "Find your weakest operator,

send one of them packing."

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

doing fine and coarse tailings.

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

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

And then upstream, we have Kayden loading Mary

and who the [bleep] is with Mary?

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

Over at the Bridge Cut...

[high-pitched tone]

Ah, for [bleep] sakes.

New loader operator Charlie Carleton is struggling

to clear tailings from wash plant Bob.

Charlie seems to be having issues

with his loader overheating.

He doesn't understand when to curl.

Hopefully, it's nothing too crazy.

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

[Tyson] How's it going?

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

It's at 107 now.

So that is caused by two different issues.

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

going in for a scoop. Watch me scoop.

There's zero resistance against the machine.

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

see how much the machine is struggling?

It's making that number climb.

Another thing that does it is riding the brake.

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

that number is gonna climb.

Those are the two reasons why

your rear axle oil temp is rising.

And then what is a safe temperature

to start running again?

I think it got to about 120, 122.

It really shouldn't get over 100.

Yeah, 122 is [bleep] hot.

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

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

Newbies learning curve, I guess.

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

It's overheating. I wonder why.

This year, I do not have time for that.

We've hired some experienced guys because we need

some experience.

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

he had when we hired him.

[high-pitched tone]

Concerned with Charlie's performance, Tyson tasks

operator Sandy DuBois with keeping an eye on him.

So how did you get the job here?

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

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

just sick of it.

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

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

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

Oh, what's he doing?

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

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

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

more than a crumb.

Hey, Charles, you got a copy, Charles?

Hey, Sandy.

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

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

Oh, my god. He did it again.

Come in, Charles.

[Charlie] Yeah, go for Charles.

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

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

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

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

It would not work out. He would fall behind.

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

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

And he's starting to slowly get it.

One bucket at a time.

Yeah, that looks a lot better.

Tyson and Parker leave no stone unturned.

They have to train up some people that they can be

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

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

of pay from a section of the cut.

I'm a very driven, motivated person.

I also like to think of myself as a little bit

of a perfectionist.

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

like to come back and do them again.

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

a couple of them are struggling here.

Kayden's one of them.

Yo, yo.

[Kayden] How's it going?

[Tyson] Pretty good. Yourself?

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

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

[Kayden] Into pay right here?

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

you're doing. - [Kayden] OK.

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

[Tyson] Any questions, comments, concerns?

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

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

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

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

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

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

down and watch me for five minutes.

Jarv, come on.

[Kayden] So far, so good.

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

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

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

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

Tyson's making the ditch around the cut deeper

and digging channels to funnel water from the center

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

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

still pay out here, right?

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

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

just listen for a sec.

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

[Tyson] So that's pay, right?

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

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

of pay, potentially costing Parker thousands of dollars

in lost gold.

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

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

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

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

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

Yes, ma'am.

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

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

- [Kayden] OK. - Thank you.

Thank you for your time. I really appreciate that.

[Tyson] No worries. Have fun.

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

Let's go.

Hopefully he gets it now.

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

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

[Nona] Maybe come in a little cocky, you know, a little hot.

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

and found that we were burying pay pockets.

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

[Tyson] No.

[Tony speaking]

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

is off to a strong start.

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

of gold of his 6,500-ounce target.

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

to sluice 24-7.

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

up his ass.

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

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

Sluice-a-lot, feeding it 250 yards of pay dirt an hour

and eating through ground faster

than Tony can open it up.

[Tony speaking]

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

the hunt for a dozer, an excavator,

and three more rock trucks.

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

one million dollars.

- [Tony speaking] - [Conor] Yeah.

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

[Tony speaking]

...to assess it.

[Tony speaking]

[Parker] What are you doing?

[Parker] What are you doing?

[Tony speaking]

To keep his Indian River operation running 24-7,

Tony Beets is hunting for another dozer.

Good. How are you?

What are you doing?

What, you want to buy this thing?

Maybe. I haven't decided yet.

I was like, "Put some feelers out,"

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

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

but for you, Tony...

[laughs, scoffs]

You know, you got to help the guys out

that are struggling, right?

[Parker] Um...

1.5?

Mm.

That's the end-of-season price.

No, no, no. [laughs]

[Parker] OK. 1.3.

You're at 1.3. Um...

Probably not.

OK. Let me think about it.

Well, 1.5.

[Parker] Why not?

It's worth it all day long, Tony.

No, I don't really care that much.

- [Parker] No. - OK.

[Parker] I'm in no rush.

OK.

[Parker] All right. See you, dude.

Good to see you guys.

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

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

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

and bought this ground out at Lightning Creek.

People that know me know

I don't have a whole lot of patience.

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

[bleep] we're gonna know soon.

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

After his water license on Duncan Creek expired,

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

with no idea how much gold is in the ground.

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

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

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

One pan...

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

It probably is one of the crazier things

I've ever done. You know what?

I'm stubborn like that.

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

it's gonna be.

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

we just have to make it pay off.

If Rick hits a hotspot on the notoriously unpredictable

Keno ground, it could mean a massive payday.

Rick loves taking big risks.

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

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

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

that's why we're here for him.

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

good on paper, but it's definitely

a finger-cross moment.

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

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

The guys did a great job.

They stuck with me, and now they're seeing

pay dirt already.

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

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

the damn gold.

To start sluicing, Rick just needs to move

wash plant Rocky into place.

[Rick] Look good down here, boys.

We're gonna set up sluicing, eh?

- Yeah. - Yeah.

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

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

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

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

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

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

you know, that sluice box past that bank.

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

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

both banks, just yelling and screaming at me not

to hit anything. And it should be good.

Rick's crew has already removed

the two-acre Diamond Cut's shallow overburden

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

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

from its current home, 300 feet along a narrow

and winding track using his 750 excavator, avoiding a bank

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

into position near his pay pile,

and, finally, fire it up.

[Rick] I just need eyes around me.

[Bailey] Yeah, yeah. Eyes around.

Right.

[Bailey] The hills have eyes.

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

Frozen.

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

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

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

Oh. That's what we needed.

[Rick] Look at that. Look at that.

Nothing broke? No one got hurt?

[Rick] No.

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

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

it hurts, so...

we have to get gold coming in right away.

[tense music playing]

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

and see what happens.

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

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

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

it in the drink, and here we go.

[Kyle] Lots of room, lots of room.

[Rick] Good on that side?

Keep going!

Whoa!

[Kyle] Getting a little close there.

What?

[Kyle] Getting a little close.

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

Hey!

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

[Rick] Holy...

- Oh - Whoa, whoa, whoa!

[Kai] Getting a little close there.

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Oh.

Did I hit?

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

At Lightning Creek, Rick and his crew are fighting

to get wash plant Rocky up and running

by the end of the day.

Yeah, it's got to go that way.

Let me see if I can do that.

Yeah, go that-- keep going that way.

[Zee] We got two things.

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

want to put it in the river

because we don't have another one.

We're close. We're close.

Ooh, yeah!

Yeah! Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Are you unhooked?

- [Rick] Yeah. - Looks like it.

Shall we just stop overthinking it and plug

this [bleep] in and see what happens?

- Yeah. - Yeah.

[laughing]

[Zee] Just getting the water line set.

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

- Put some water in this thing? - Yeah.

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

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

[Rick] Well, we got water.

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

[Zee] All right.

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

[Kai] Whoo!

[Bailey] Hey, Rick.

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

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

[Rick] [bleep]

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

The bank's eroding way too fast.

It's already creeping back towards the plant.

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

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

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

It's already gone too [bleep] far.

[bleep] [bleep].

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

10 more minutes, it's gonna go."

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

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

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

and build it out, build it up with rock.

It's gonna take some days.

[Zee] It just sucks, man.

We've been spending money since I got here

and nothing coming in.

We still got 1,800 ounces to get.

Bottom line is we're not sluicing today.

Things are going real nice here at Sulphur.

Really happy with how this project has gone.

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

and I feel good about it.

Foreman Mitch Blaschke is on the gold,

running wash plant Roxanne at full tilt.

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

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

it's all about.

25 miles east at Dominion...

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

out of here.

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

deadline's due.

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

he's doing cleaning out pockets of leftover pay.

[Tyson] Hi.

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

[Kayden] Yes, um, getting there.

But I might have to do a little more ditching.

[Tyson] I'll go clean it up.

All this trapped water back here, right?

I'll kind of cut a little trough here.

Because then all this stuff can drain.

Wet pay, as you know, doesn't like

going up conveyors.

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

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

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

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

Because if we dug with that trapped water,

it would come this way.

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

Which is where we don't want it.

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

We're after that yellow [bleep].

It's worth something for some weird reason.

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

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

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

what he wants and get it right the first time.

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

and we need it to happen now.

My goal is to get Kayden spelt out...

on the way we do things here.

The main thing is just getting the water out,

letting it soak and drain.

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

because it's sloped.

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

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

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

can run down into the trench.

[Tyson] But, yeah, have fun.

I will try my absolute best to make you proud.

[Tyson] Yeah.

He explained it the way we like it done,

but there's zero execution.

We have operators here who said they had lots

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

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

Maybe, maybe not.

Is it gonna be due to poor attitude?

Maybe, maybe not.

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

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

we'll find someone else.

No issues with the temperature.

I'm fine.

Over at the Bridge Cut, loader operator Charlie is

still on tailings.

I'm starting to feel a little more comfortable.

It's a little less chaotic.

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

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

'Cause I--

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

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

[Charlie] Yep.

[Tyson] Wanna walk down?

OK.

Ah, [bleep] my helmet.

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

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

OK.

[Tyson] How's it going, Charlie?

[Charlie] Pretty good.

Sorry, can I ask you a question?

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

[Tyson] Yeah.

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

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

I'm training, so you can keep going.

No, I'm listening.

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

important to us now.

Everything's most important, right?

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

Getting tailings is important. Everything's important.

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

For you, that's making sure

this wash plant doesn't bury itself.

OK, awesome.

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

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

I gotta go.

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

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

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

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

how he's getting along with his crew.

He takes his job very, very seriously.

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

right off the bat.

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

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

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

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

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

wants someone's name on the board to chop

because he's got another operator coming.

You know Parker better than anybody when

he gives a deadline. - Yeah.

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

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

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

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

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

done in one," so...

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

but I had help. - Yeah.

[Chris] Right, exactly.

Maybe you can help me, you know, figure out

if I'm making the right decision.

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

you're gonna fight with him all season long.

Now's the time to sort those people out.

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

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

Thanks, Doumitt.

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

Start surrounding yourself with good people.

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

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

[Tyson] Later!

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

and see how I'm doing.

I got some good insight from him.

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

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

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

someone home.

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

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

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

that should have experience. So enough is enough.

Yo, yo.

Things aren't really working out, man.

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

Yeah. It's just--

you let on to have more experience than you have,

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

training people. - [Charlie] OK.

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

this loader off.

[groans]

[Charlie] I gave it a try.

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

to be honest.

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

And we've done that.

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

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

25 miles west at Sulphur Creek,

Kayden has survived but been demoted to loader operator.

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

I'm not sure if Tyson had anything to do

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

that Tyson's not around to give me guidance.

Hopefully, I can go back to digging pay

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

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

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

much gold out of the ground as we can.

I just care on getting the cuts stripped and ready,

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

for when I do start sluicing.

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

At Paradise Hill, Mike Beets is trying to prove himself

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

his own ground.

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

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

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

all the conveyors.

And then I'm also gonna have

to put in my hopper and everything.

Hey, how's it going?

I don't even know.

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

[Mike] OK.

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

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

[Tony speaking]

Tony's on the hunt for more equipment to increase

his gold haul from the Indian River claims.

[Mike] [bleep].

Hey, Dad.

[Tony speaking]

Am I gonna get him back?

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] Holy [bleep].

[Tony speaking]

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

and then expect me to still run the hill,

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

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

40 miles to Indian River.

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

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

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

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

the boss, the big, big boss.

Tony can now take

the Indian River operation up a level.

And start running 24-7.

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

[Tony speaking]

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

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

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

and Rick is still not getting gold.

And now, his friend Zee is headed home.

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

I mean, it sucks going home this early.

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

the plant going and seeing some gold.

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

at planning as it is. Right?

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

Not your strongest suit.

[Rick] I know.

Do you think there's 1,800 ounces in this ground?

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

Would I be a lot more comfortable getting it

out of Vegas Valley? Absolutely.

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

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

- Yeah. - Different story, buddy.

Yeah.

- [Minnie] Hi, guys. - Hello.

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

Spilling coffee everywhere.

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

at Indian River has paid off.

So, how's it going out there?

Pretty good. Plant has been going steady.

We just got to stay ahead, do some more stripping

in Early Bird cut.

How's Paradise Hill going, Mike?

Everything keeps coming to a screeching halt.

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

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

Last week, before Tony started running 24-7,

Sluice-a-lot delivered 250 ounces.

That's 100, 120,

180, 250, 300,

350, 370...

404.52 ounce.

Worth over $1.4 million dollars.

So how much is that roughly an hour?

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

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

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] That's why you never mined.

Yeah.

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

has pulled in 1,430 ounces,

banking him five million dollars.

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

[Monica] Bye.

[Minnie] Yeah, that looked pretty good.

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

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

Heard you had some weak links kicking around.

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

so I had to let Charlie go.

He said he had more experience than he had when

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

Too bad, because he was a nice guy.

[Tyson] He was really nice.

He was really trying, but yeah, he just kinda

oversold, I guess.

This is definitely jumping off the deep end.

[Tyson] Yeah, for sure.

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

be a lot easier than this."

For the first time this season

Parker has been running three wash plants all week

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

First up, Roxanne at Sulphur.

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

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

Roxanne's a little bit unique, Mitch.

[Mitch] Why's that?

Because I didn't have a thermos big enough

and my scale doesn't go high enough.

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

[Mitch] Starting off with a full pan there?

All right, we got 50...

100, 150, 200, 250...

300 right on the dot.

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

because we have a thermos coming too.

[Tyson] Wow.

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

right now too.

That's what I was just thinking about.

So we got 300 plus 10, 20, 30, 40...

50.70.

- So 350.7. - Nice one, brother!

Worth one and a quarter million dollars.

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

At three ounce per 100 yards sluiced, Sulphur is some

of the richest ground Parker has ever mined.

Cleanups like this make my job fun.

Now, it's Tyson's turn.

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

[Tyson] Let's see.

First up, Bob from Dominion's Bridge Cut.

Bob's been running pretty consistent lately.

Good old Bob. Chugalug Bob, right?

Here we go.

10, 20, 40, 80, 100, 120...

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

- 195. - Not quite.

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

[Tyson] Yeah.

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

Sluicifer's got the big thermos, too.

All righty, here we go.

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

Here we go. This is Sluicifer, buddy.

[Tyson] Here we go.

20, 40, 80, 100, 150...

Oh, there's 200, 220, 240.

Keeps coming, Doumitt. 261.25.

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

wash plants have banked Parker another $1.6 million dollars.

Last week, we had 527 and a half ounces.

This week, we have 808.15 ounces in one week.

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

this time last year, we had 288 ounces.

We now have 2,043 and a half ounces.

Worth $7.1 million dollars.

Which we did over a third of this week.

[Chris] Yeah.

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

it's gonna be great.

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

- Yeah. - [Chris] Yeah.

And then, like, some more times after that.

[all laugh]

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

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

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

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

That used to be, like, what we would spend

in an entire season. - [Chris] Yeah.

[Parker] Wow!

Impressive.

Mesmerizing looking at that much gold, eh?

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

You're gonna come to my bedroom with a gun here soon.

You get an airplane. You get an airplane.

[all laugh]

Good job, guys.

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

[Tyson] Oh, man!

Get this...

Make sure this ends up in the safe.

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