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Our goal is to hit it hard.

On this gold run. Is that everything we got?

No.

Fred Lewis is confronted by not one.

What the?

But two major setbacks.

Hold on, I'm going to get Alex to come help me.

Holy. Things sitting there sideways.

Rick Ness takes matters into his own hands.

Up in Yukon every second counts.

Hello. If I don't get our 1 ,000 -ounce goal this year, I don't see continuing

on.

And Parker's novel is on track to break records.

Is there wildfires close to your house?

When a disaster strikes.

Can you see the fire from the house?

It's really close.

Which way is the wind going?

Grab what you can and get out of there.

It's late summer in the mountains above Keno City.

In a matter of weeks, temperatures will plummet and snow will blanket the area

for six months.

I'm always worried we're going to get throws out of here before we hit our

This year, that's just really not an option. If I don't get to our 1 ,000

goal this year, I don't see continuing on.

This season, Rick mined 642 ounces.

He now needs at least 70 ounces every week to hit his goal.

But so far, he's averaged just over 60.

How's that PayPal looking down there, Mark?

Looking good, buddy.

Hey, boys. We're staying here until we get that 1 ,000 ounces of gold.

Yeah, I copy that, bud.

Wash plant Rocky spews through 120 yards of pay dirt per hour.

That plant's got to be running flat out 24 hours a day for the rest of the

season. I've got to hit my target this year. Honestly, if I don't, this could

my last year. All right, bud, I'll keep feeding the plant.

To keep up, Rick needs to run nine truckloads to the plant every hour.

I'm not taking my foot off the gas at all because, you know, this time of year

up in Yukon, every second counts.

I need everything to work perfectly. We can't have any stuff until it's frozen

out of here.

It's been a trying year, I guess.

If we don't find a sizable amount of gold, I mean, it could be the same boat

last year.

I don't know. I don't really want to think about not going home with a gold

bonus.

Everyone here wants to see that 1 ,000 ounces, me included, to hit our goal.

we need every hour we can get.

So every hour we're running.

We're getting that much closer.

Coming your way, coming your way.

Hey, Carl,

you got a copy?

Yeah,

man, something's going on with the 700.

They need you to come here and take a look at this thing.

What's going on?

Yeah. That roller's piled right up.

Damn it.

Things sit in there sideways.

One of the 700 tarry rollers has bent out of alignment.

Meaning? And the track is unable to move.

Not quite sure why it happened, but it did.

Something might have got in there like a big rock and got jammed in there. Who

knows? See how that one's sitting right there? It's nice and flat, holding the

track up. That's what it's supposed to do, right?

They carry the track along.

See, that one's on an angle, right?

Without that roller there, man, you're going to be dragging your track on your

side cream.

You know, you're doing extensive damage, right? So you've got to have it, right?

We're going to have to dig those bolts out and bolt that roller back in there

it's not too far gone, right? Yeah.

Watch out.

Oh, yeah.

Dude, it's coming out. Wow.

The reason this broke, the bearing's gone, right?

Sick. You can't be serious.

Each of the 700 tracks runs on three carry rollers.

But one of them has seen.

When it stopped turning, The track forced it out of position.

Now Carl must remove and replace the roller before the 700 can run again.

So here's the problem. We don't

have another roller.

That.

Being where we are, it's tough to say who's got a roller and if there's going

be one in the Yukon, right? So we're playing the waiting game again now,

Just take it until we get a roller?

Yes, sir.

This far north, a replacement roller could take weeks.

I sure hope someone has it. I don't know. They'll be coming from somewhere

south, and it'll take forever to get them.

Find me some rollers.

Go get the 480 down here.

Damn it!

Operator Matt Thomas brings in the 480 to carry on loading pay.

But the three -yard bucket is just half the size of the 700.

It slows us down loading trucks when we have to use the 480. And, you know,

we've got a limited timeline here. So anytime we've got equipment down and we

can't do what we need to do, it's hurting us.

It takes twice as long to load each truck.

So not enough pay is getting to the plant to keep it running at full speed.

Stuart, give me a 20 count every 20 buckets. We're going to go for 5 -0.

We're mining!

In Oregon, rookie mine boss Fred Lewis and his crew of combat veterans have so

far only mined two ounces of gold.

I don't know how much longer we're going to get, but it's getting cold fast.

The amount of gold we have, my investors are definitely not happy.

Highly disappointing, you know?

I know it's not my fault, but I can't help but feel like it's my fault.

Not enough.

Not enough gold.

Six weeks ago, Fred abandoned this one cup.

This is not a safe place anymore.

And opened new ground.

This is the first official.

bucket load out of Liberation Cut.

Now Fred is banking on it to save his season.

Master Sergeant Stefan General digs pay with a 400.

Hopefully this could be like a really good week. Have us a Gold Boy that beats

the one we had last week. Constant operation.

No breakdowns, knock on wood.

That's the name of the game today.

It's exciting, but kind of nerve -wracking, you know.

Sergeant Kyle Pletsky loads the plan.

Came out here as a group of injured bats, and here we are. We're doing

everything we can in our power to try to bring money home and make life good

again.

Staff Sergeant Johnny Stenz received two Purple Hearts for his service in the

Marines. I'm doing everything I can to make sure it's not going to be water's

fault that we can't mine anymore.

It's perfectly fine.

Now, more than ever, Johnny's new career needs to pay off.

You know, I got a pregnant wife at home. I mean, money right now is getting

thinner and thinner, and with a baby on the way.

It's not long before that dries up.

So we really got to find gold.

Come on, baby. I know you can do it.

It's not really looking too damn good.

That doesn't look like pay at all.

There's no way I ran out of pay already.

Hey, Kendall. Jeff, can you copy?

Go for Kendall. What's up, buddy?

You know what you're looking at, bro. It's looking like I ran out of pay.

This dirt I'm pulling up is definitely not pay. I need you to come take a look

just to confirm that for me.

All right. I'll get down to you.

Roger.

Is that it for pay?

I don't like the look of any of this.

You're just on bedrock?

Yeah, that's not looking like pay.

Hey, Fred.

We are just about out of hay.

We got nothing else to feed the colonel.

It's not looking good.

No.

It's all just broken bedrock here. That's all it is.

I was still hoping it would go back further and down further.

Yeah. And you're just hitting wall on wall, huh? That's it. I was probably

pushing me up two, three feet every time I tried to dig.

I mean, honestly, I didn't think it was possible, but we basically pay it out.

Well, that was fast.

Yeah, I was going to say I could keep digging, but I think it would be a waste

of time. Don't even touch it again.

Brad, do you want me to cut the extra bit? Yeah,

we're going to go ahead and set it down.

So much for liberation.

Got to do something here because we're screwed at this point.

There's got to be a place on this freaking claim that hasn't been touched

There just has to be. They didn't dig everywhere.

We're just not hitting the right spot.

See what's available.

Definitely isn't going to do it. Back to square one,

but we'll test, see what's available, and go from there.

This cut had about a tenth of the amount of pay I thought it was going to have,

and now it's cashed out.

So we've got to put our heads together.

We've got to attack some other place because right now we are dead in the

until we find another cut.

Hey, Kendall.

What's up?

We've got to figure something out, man. I got this old map.

Okay.

So right now we're... So I think our biggest problem is this place was

picked over by hand back in the early 1900s.

But I've done some research here and I found a picture.

Elkhorn Claim was first prospected in 1896 by old -time miners traveling

south to California.

They established a settlement named Bourne, and in 1898, they appointed

own mayor.

This is our claim. Yeah, that's the mayor's house being built. Right there.

No one's mining under their house. Certainly not the mayor's house.

So just like you said, we're going to have to punch as many holes in this

as possible and try and find a piece of virgin ground and go for it. Okay. Yeah,

let's test it.

Fred has abandoned the swamp cup and the liberation cup.

And he knows other parts of the claim were mined out by the old timers.

Fred believes his best chance of finding virgin ground is a site underneath

where the local mayor's house once stood.

If we can get down there deep enough to find ground that hasn't been disturbed,

that's virgin ground and that's where we need to be.

Just pray painting an X real quick so that Stefan knows exactly where Fred

us to dig.

Hey Stu.

Yeah bud. X marks the spot.

X marks the spot.

Show me something.

Got it.

Hopefully we can find some better pay than what we just found.

So whatever remainder of the season we have, we can run good pay through it.

Just started digging this test hole and he's already come across a boulder.

Something like that.

Really good sign that the ground hasn't been cut and that there's probably some

gold here.

Yeah, that means I'm hitting some rocks.

See what we got.

A lot of gravel.

I'm noticing on the left, it's clearly a tailings pile that's been dug before.

On the right, it hasn't been dug. So we can chase pay that way. If there's

enough virgin ground left, we could save the season.

I'm going to paint it first, see what we got.

We, uh...

Seeing what our gold content is. Literally right in the place where we're

active in the mine.

Hopefully we'll see the most amount of gold seen so far.

We'll find some gold. Yeah.

No pressure at all.

What we're going to need out of this is to have a couple of flakes of gold.

I would say we get two to four colors out of this pan. It'd be a freaking good

test.

Green colors.

It's better than our liberation cut.

Maybe the best that they got to offer here. We need the best they have to

because outside that one.

Well, guys, what do you say we just go for it?

We should get you busy opening up that hole towards the swamp cut downhill and

just see what we see.

Well, as I'm digging this, it's starting to look more and more like hay.

I really hope this will turn our season from not great to pretty dang good.

We're going to name this the mayor's cut because the mayor's house used to sit

on it, and that's why I think there's still some virgin ground down there.

got to move fast. We've got to move quick. We've got to get this through the

plant.

year we go to the next best piece of ground we've got and we're hitting it

and it's not going to last.

26 -year -old mine boss Parker Schnabel is in the last few weeks of his season,

but still has 50 % of the airstrip cut left to mine.

We really need this season to pay off. Gold prices are good, fuel prices are

low. The big thing is just...

building up some cash so that we can buy a piece of town and so that we've got a

lot of years of mining ahead of us.

Lucifer and Big Red are now working in tandem to bank as much gold as possible

for Parker's mining future.

We've got two plants side by side. You know, we've got to fill Park's old war

chest up with all this gold here so we can put it towards this new ground that

we need and get out of here before it's minus 20 and we can't run a wash plant.

Bitter end of the season here.

We just want to try and keep these wash plants running until we're either out of

thought, Peter, or good enough days to do it.

You never know when you're going to come out here and your wash plants are going

to be froze up.

Co -foreman and chief mechanic Mitch Blaschke begins his daily checks on the

wash plant.

I just got a call from Haley, Mitch's wife, and there are some pretty bad

wildfires down in Oregon where Mitch lives.

they've got an evacuation order, which doesn't sound like fun.

Mitch! Howdy.

You need to call your wife. She got an evacuation order.

Okay. Go steal it. All right. Thanks, man.

What's up, babe?

Can you see the fire from the house?

It's really smoky.

It's evacuating all the way up to the road. To where?

They're evacuating my cousin's house that lived by Furwood School.

Oh, gotcha.

I know.

I know.

Which way is the wind going?

The wind is blowing towards...

All right, babe, grab what you can and get out of there.

Okay. Be safe.

Yes, I love you. Okay.

Love you, bye.

Not good. It's close, and it's out of control, and there's not enough people

help to get it under control.

It's tough. I mean, what do you do?

You came out of nowhere, dude. You got a big windstorm and 15 fires burning.

2020, man.

No,

yeah. Well, there's one that's like two miles from my house. That's life of

perspective. You can't be home to help.

I don't know what I can do to help.

At this point, I don't even, I don't know.

I'll figure out what I'm doing here, but I'll come down and let you know

underway. All right. Well, I'll hope the best for you. Thanks.

Hey, Parker, you got a minute? Yeah.

There's some really bad wildfires down there, and they're getting close to us.

Your house? Yeah.

I mean, I don't know if I can get down there in time, but I've got to try.

It's just outside the next town.

Holy cow.

My wife's down there trying to pack up everything she can in the back of her

car. You need to go because it's just... Yeah, when it comes to your home being

threatened by some fires, it's obviously a lot more important than whatever

we've got going on here.

I don't want you to even consider not going.

After the conversation we've had.

Yeah.

I would expect anybody here to do no differently.

Appreciate it. Thanks, Mitch.

Now Mitch has a

four -day drive ahead to reach his home in San Diego.

Give you a hug, brother.

Take care and drive safe, buddy. We'll miss you. We'll see you later. Thanks,

man. Yep.

Not good, boys, not good.

At Duncan Creek, the nest crew has been running at half capacity for over 24

hours.

This definitely sucks, right?

Without our 700, we're running way behind with our 480, right? So it's

can't keep up to the plan right now.

They should be running nine trucks of pay an hour, with the 480 loading them.

They can only run four and a half.

I don't know how much longer we're going to be able to run. We're on a fine line

between running and not running here. I don't know, it's a bit of a nail -biter.

Rick is on the hunt for a replacement roller.

Found that carrier roller for the 700. I ordered it, but it's going to be over a

week before that thing gets here. And I can't have the 700 down that long. I

mean, that's my main machine.

Up in Yukon, every second counts. So I made some phone calls.

Somebody in Dawson's has got a used one that I can use for now to get me going.

If it saves me a day, that's what I'm going to do.

He's come to the man with the biggest boneyard in the Klondike.

Hello. How are you? Good. How are you doing? Long time no see. I know.

Do you want to come see Tony?

Yeah.

He's in?

He's in. He's hiding in his office.

He's actually kind of looking busy. Hey, Rick. How's you doing, man? Good. How

you doing, Tony? Oh, pretty good, pretty good. Good to see you.

You got the same hand.

So, how's the season going?

Oh, it's not too bad.

Good. A little better last year. It's much better than last year. Perfect.

Same hand. No complaining.

There is a lot of people in the world these days that are a lot worse off than

us here in the Yukon.

So what can we help you with, Rick?

Well, like we talked about, I had that roller pile up on my 700.

Yeah. And that's my main machine.

And I found one, of course, but I don't know what kind of luck you guys have

been having, but if they say it's going to take a week to ship here, it's been

taken two.

Getting parts with COVID, it's taken twice as long now.

I mean, there's...

places that they don't fly from anymore, and you have to truck it all, so it

takes a lot longer.

I got them here on site, so if you need it, you take it, then get going with it.

Absolutely. Well, I tell you what, once that other roller comes in, instead of

me bringing it here, why don't you come out and visit?

I would like to go do that. We'll be down there, absolutely.

I'd love to see that.

I'd love to.

Please don't give your hands over there.

And then, safe travels. All right, thanks again. You bet, man.

It's right here.

Oh, perfect.

Ready for you.

All right, thanks again.

You're very welcome.

Rick now has a six -hour drive to Duncan Creek to get his operation back up to

full strength.

Bingo.

It's always good to see Tony and Minnie, and it's good to have friends in the

Yukon. Carl's going to be waiting on that roller.

But the reality is all that's done is cost me money. So if we're going to hit

our 1 ,000 -ounce goal, it's time to get serious.

Hey, Carl.

Yeah, buddy. Let me show you what I got.

Zero, zero of the day.

You like that? I'm happy.

Yeah, let's get this in and let's get this goal game in. Yeah, buddy.

The smaller 480 is loading pay at half the rate of the 700.

Carl must install the replacement roller to get the plant back to full speed.

Let's pop it up. The good thing about Tony is Tony's got all kinds of spare

parts. Can't complain, man. He's getting us going, so we owe him big time.

Yeah, fire it up. Give me a spin.

Yep, better.

Back the other way.

Looking good, man.

We're in business.

Put her down there, buddy.

Coming down.

I like that.

I like that.

Number 1 -0.

Hey, we're back to full speed.

I tell you, it sure is nice having the 700 back. Isn't it, Cruiser?

I like it.

Although, when the truck's getting loaded with the 480, I can squeeze out a

while I'm getting loaded.

I'll just have to go to bed early tonight, I guess.

Go time.

We're going to start getting pay up to the plant.

Yee -haw! Round you go, boy!

At his Elkhorn claim, Fred Lewis is counting on a new cut of virgin ground

save his season.

We're all in on this right now. We're opening up what we're calling the

cut. We've got both excavators, Alex and Stephan, right now pulling off

overburden. So I'm filing pay.

I'm seeing some really good color in the dirt.

a lot of round river rocks, no bedrock, which is a good thing.

It's starting to look pretty good over there.

They're getting a decent pile of pay.

And while they do that, I want to make sure absolutely everything involved in

irrigation is good to go.

It's usually a two -man job, but sometimes you've got to improvise.

Fred found some virgin ground, so...

I'm going to try and dig it out as fast as I can, see if we can test it, see if

there's any good pay there.

Let's just kick this mine down.

How in the... Where are you?

What the...

Hey!

Give me your hand.

Jack, his knee does not feel stable right now.

Clipper on your back. Ready?

One, two, three.

Hold on. I'm going to get Alex to come help.

Hey, Alex, Johnny's got a pretty bad hurt leg. Can you come help carry?

Down here, man.

We're gonna help you up the hill, okay?

I'm gonna get under his arm.

Hold me.

Oh!

Oh! Wait on it.

One,

two, three.

Scoot his back up to that cab. There you go.

Sit comfy. You guys are good here?

I'm just gonna take him back to him.

That's the same one. That's the same ACL he got replaced.

Feel anything pop?

I'm just taking it.

All

right,

guys. Thank you.

All right.

Be safe, bud.

We're all combat disabled.

We've all got issues.

But as of right now, we have one last person on the team. We're just going to

have to figure out where we go from here.

Well, Johnny got hurt. I really hope he's okay.

But we've got to do everything we can to get all the pay we can out of the

mayor's cut.

Still a lot of years in airborne units, I think.

For the most part, when you go off that knee, you're pretty much done.

We'll see.

Until then, we'll just keep on going.

That's what we do.

Keep on going.

What's up, Johnny?

How you doing?

It's still freaking sucks.

You want me to check it?

Yep.

Oh, jeez.

You've got a lot of inflammation on this side, too.

But I do think you've done some damage on it.

Gosh dang it.

I've got to be here to freaking help out. I can't let the team down.

I just think being out here working is going to put you at a higher risk.

The right decision to make here is to get you home.

This sucks, man.

I know it sucks, but I think that the only answer right now is for you to go

home and recover.

It's on me. It's my decision, and I don't want you to get hurt.

You know, it's really tough.

Johnny's one of my best friends, and I started this mining season to get

everybody to learn a new purpose and to get better.

And I feel like Johnny coming out here and getting hurt.

I kind of feel a little responsible for it, but it really just sucks for the

team.

Like, it sucks, too.

Freaking threat took my choice away, though, and I have to pack up to get

to go home.

While Johnny packs up, the rest of the crew runs the first pay from

the mayor's cut.

All right, dude.

Super easy.

Stuart McKenzie takes over for Johnny at the pump.

So I think what we're going to do with the irrigation position, we're just

to have to share it. But you're not here permanently.

Oh, I know. We're going to have to cover while we figure things out. No, I got

it.

All right, guys, this one's for Johnny.

Time to get some gold.

My goal for this morning is to dig my ass off, dig deep, find gold.

That's what we need to do.

Run, run, run.

You ready down there?

All right, brother.

Fire it up.

First time firing up the pump, and it's not starting on me.

BSNI has got 38.

38.

Hotter going?

at the Indian River.

Parker's novel is a man down.

Come on.

No answer.

Mitch Blaschke is on his way home to his wife and baby after wildfires force

them to evacuate and take filter with his parents 20 miles away.

I'm almost at my parents' house, so I'm just going to check on Haley and Mia.

There's been a ton of smoke on the drive down here.

And, you know, I haven't heard any status or update on our house.

makes me think twice on, you know, if mining in the Yukons, am I making the

right choice?

I don't know.

I just don't even know what to think.

Well, that's 2 ,200 miles. I finally made it. I'm glad I'm here.

Hey, baby.

Hi.

Oh, you've gotten big.

Well, I hear you got the dogs.

Yeah. Yeah?

Yeah, of course.

Glad you're all right.

Yeah? Can you see her?

Yep. Hey, Chiggy, remember me?

Huh?

You don't know what to think. Oh, you want your mom back. Well, you've been

spending a lot of time with her.

That's okay.

I'm so glad you made it out of there. Me too.

Hi,

Daddy's home.

What all happened?

I just grabbed some stuff and grabbed her

and the dogs and also been reports

of looters and people holding people at gunpoint. And I

don't really feel comfortable going back with her.

Just stay here.

I'm going to go home and see if there is a home.

But I just thought you guys were all right.

It'll be okay. I guess just call me whenever you... Yeah.

The fires have now passed, but Mitch doesn't know if they destroyed the

home.

This definitely isn't looking good here. I mean, stuff's still smoking, and the

closer I get towards the house, it seems like the worse it gets.

And you look at all this through here, it's cooked.

I mean, look at this place here. This guy's stuff is being burnt down in the

front. Stuff burnt down in the back. Still smoldering over there on the side.

That was a church right there, and the only thing left to stand is a chimney.

Yeah, it definitely is not looking good.

Crossing my fingers here, hoping for the best, but...

There she is, and it's still standing.

Oh, man.

I mean, everything's looking good.

Ducks are there, too.

I feel very thankful that it's all still here, so got to let Haley

know.

Hello. Hey, baby.

Hi, how's it going?

It's good. I got down here. Everything's fine. The house is here. The ducks are

here. Everything looks good.

Oh, thank goodness.

I'll get Mia together and the dogs, and we can head down there.

All right.

Okay. I'll see you soon.

Okay. Love you. Bye. I love you, too.

In Oregon.

The worst of the wildfires are over.

Mitch Blaschke is back home with his family.

You know, I got to say, I was definitely looking forward to getting home, but

didn't think I'd be getting here this soon.

Now I'm going from, you know, working on dozers and wash plants to making

bottles, too.

Hi,

Mitch. How's it going, Parker?

Good, how are you?

Doing better now, man.

It looks like you're in your house.

Yeah, in the house. It's still standing.

We got really lucky, man. It got really close to us.

Unfortunately, some people did lose their houses down here.

It was a bad deal. But I'm at a place down here now I think, you know,

everything's good and safe. I mean, I was planning on trying to head back up.

Whether you come back this fall or next spring, you've always got a spot here.

All right, buddy.

All right, let me know.

All right. Talk to you later.

Bye. You know, it's just really nice to talk to Parker and know that, you know,

he stands behind my decision and, you know, that I've got a good place up

and, you know, I might not make it back this season, but I'll certainly be back

in the future. So I'm just glad to hear that, you know, he understands why I had

to come home and stands behind it.

What's up, guys?

Oh, just talking about stuff we probably shouldn't be talking about. Yeah,

probably.

At Duncan Creek, Rick and his crew get ready to weigh their gold for the week.

And you're at 700 this week, huh? Oh, I never had to do that. I love that thing.

I tell you, I mean, it's a good machine, but when it goes down, it hurts.

It is the workhorse. But we did keep sluicing, just not at the rate we would

have been at, right?

I don't like going in reverse, buddy, but luckily you came through with that

roller. Yeah, really, I got to thank Tony for that roller, right? Yeah, we

Tony one. So I think we just weighed it up.

Yeah, buddy.

To make his 1 ,000 -ounce goal, Rick now needs to bring in at least 70 ounces

every week.

All right, we got 5, we got 10, 20, 30, 40.

50, we got a 51 .55.

Worth almost $100 ,000, but short of what he needs to stay

on track.

I'm not going to lie, that seems a little light. I think it's better than

week, but I think that we, I think we can do better.

Yeah, buddy.

I'm not too worried yet.

It's kind of two weeks worth of problems that we've had, right? But 700 is back

in action. The ground's good. We know it is.

All we need is a few clean, good weeks, and we're going to smash our 1 ,000

-ounce goal.

Yeah. Yeah. We get to move on. Yeah, exactly.

The ground's out there. All we got to do is go get it.

Right? Let's go get it. Let's go get it. Well, let's go get dinner tomorrow.

Right.

Redemption, boys.

It's nice to get help from friends. It's pretty cool.

Rick's a good guy, and when you're a good guy, other good people are willing

help you out in the pinch. So it saves us some time and money.

At the Elkhorn claim, the Lewis crew gathers to weigh the last gold from the

liberation cut and the first hundred yard of their new cut.

So I got kind of mixed feelings about this week. We got the mayor's cut opened

up. I see a lot of possibilities there, but we've also got Johnny. This injury's

kind of dampened it a little bit, but I don't know. I don't know what else to

say. I'm sad because of it.

I'm sad too, sadly.

He's making the right move.

But you can leave your snacks.

Yeah. Stare into the cabbie.

You guys ready to see some gold? See what we got this week? Hell yeah!

So far this season, Fred has mined just 1 .97 ounces of gold.

0 .77, guys. That's our best cleanup yet.

Worth just $1 ,400.

Barely enough to cover their fuel.

What? 2 .74 for the season, guys.

Still ain't... This gives me a little bit of hope that you guys are going to

out there and get a lot more.

It just sucks that you're not going to be here for the end.

You know, to see it through.

The good thing I want to say is don't get discouraged.

This is just another obstacle. You've already pounded through 10 million times

more difficult than this, and we got your back.

I appreciate it.

I really appreciate Fred inviting me on this little trip.

Every new adventure in life has a place, and this one has a high place in my

heart. It was an awesome time.

Looks like that's your ride, bud.

It's a little earlier than I thought, but hello. Want to use my shoulder?

If he can prove to me that he's healed, we'll definitely take him back. But

right now the priority is to get him healed. Everybody will line up for the

hugs.

Take care of yourself.

It's unfortunate that he's gone, but the team has to pick it up, and we're going

to have to fill in that gap and get on the goal, because if we can't get that

plant running and put serious pace to the plant, none of us are going home

anything. Bye, Johnny.

Hey, how's it going?

I'm proud of you.

Good.

Parker and his crew gather for the weekly Gold Way.

It doesn't really matter that much, I believe.

Yeah, I know, right?

What a natural disaster going on at home there, eh?

I tell you, I've never seen Mitch look so stressed out ever since I've been

here. Yeah.

He's pretty scared of losing everything he's worked so hard for. Well, I guess

Haley and the baby are fine.

Yeah, which is the most important part.

Anyway, he needed to go. It was the right thing.

So how'd the week go, dude? You know, you guys really did good.

Both plants for the same cut.

Yeah, they were both pretty much running the same pay, hey, Brennan, with the

trucks hauling. Yeah, they were, weren't they? Yeah, right off the same back

piece of the cut there.

With Mitch gone, Tyson Lee on Sluicifer, and Brennan Rueau on Big Red,

went head to head.

Well, why don't you bust them out and show us, because that was a terrifying

week. First up, Lucifer.

10, 30, 50, 80, 100, 120,

140, 150, 161 even.

Worth $305 ,000.

161? Right on the nose.

Nice and steady.

It's not bad at all. Yeah, it's consistent.

And here's Big Red.

100, 120, 150,

161 .2.

Just .2 ounces more than Tyson's hole with Sluicifer.

That's how much more gold.

He got the new.

There you go. What is the chances of that?

Well, I guess the gold's consistent in that cut.

Seriously. That gives us a weekly total of 322 .2 ounces.

So our season total now is 6 ,090 .6 ounces.

Worth $11 .2 million and nearly 35 % above this time

last year, despite the late start.

Weak for us here. We had to lose Mitch, but I mean, totally understandable.

And look at that. The plants pretty much tied each other in gold. When the hell

does that ever happen?

On the next Gold Run, Tony beats Hope for a 3

,000 -ounce Caesar.

Or walked away.

Rick Ness receives devastating news.

I got a message from my doctor that he had a big tumor on my spine. Holy.

And Fred Lewis fights his biggest battle yet.

Holy crap.