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Mud Mountain is where the bulk of our money was spent this season, and that's

where hopefully the bulk of the gold is going to come from.

27 -year -old mine boss, Harvest Mabel, has gambled over $4 million getting down

to pay at Mud Mountain.

Now, with just a month to go before the Yukon winter shuts him down, he's

counting on the deepest cut he's ever mined.

To paint.

First couple things are bad.

At only an ounce or two an hour, it's definitely not looking too promising

It's not producing like it should be.

You're always wondering, you know, is it gonna...

sluice as well as it drilled, you know, are we gonna see some awesome cleanups

here?

Now that we're mining it, well, it's mining pretty average, so it's

disappointing.

Have we figured out where any of the gold is yet?

The strange thing is when you look at it, it doesn't even look like really

awesome looking.

No, nothing in here has been awesome looking.

I just want to pick nuggets out of the bank.

Is that too much to ask?

This is pretty much all bedrock.

We might find some gold in the bedrock.

If that's where we're at, then I think we should probably just do it.

I really don't want to be sending bedrock up to the wash plant there

we're trying to keep that thing in one piece. Yeah, I get that.

For me, it's just making sure that we get as much gold out of the ground as we

can. I'm just curious how diggable it is.

In the rest of the valley, when we get into this, and it's hard, there's one

to find out, and that's with the big old wash plant.

Copy that.

Parker has run over 50 ,000 yards of pay dirt, but has yet to find the super

-rich material.

His testing show was here.

Whether there's lots of gold in it or not, whatever, we're committed to doing

it, and we've got to get it finished.

Right now, it looks like it's all about getting this bedrock here out of Mud

Mountain, get it up to Big Red.

If this is what Parker wants to do, we're risking tearing things up and

it. This is what we're going to end up doing through our walk blast here.

Rookie miner Justin Fraser feeds Big Red.

Got a copy?

Yeah, go ahead, Mitch.

Hey, man, we got some real chunky bedrock here coming out of Mud Mountain.

know, there's a good chance there's some good gold in here.

Copy that. I'll throw her in.

It's plugging her up, but we've got to catch it right away or if the rock jams

up and hit the belt, then we'll have a real disaster.

The fix takes an hour, costing $4 ,000 in luck.

two things.

Let's hope that's Eric.

Yeah, there's another day in paradise. I guess it was just one thing that's a

dozen other, I suppose.

Tony Beats is chasing a 4 ,500 -ounce target, mining Paradise Hills,

Walcott. Anyway, here we are. We invested $5 million in equipment.

We still don't have a license in the Indian.

Pretty much stuff.

So, somehow we're going to have to make up.

But with only a month left in the season, he's found just 2 ,600 ounces of

We're at the end of the season. We're going to try to solute as much as

possible.

Right now, we're not going to waste time trying to round another cut. We're

still soluting.

We're going to have to run this material as efficiently as possible. That's all

we can hope for.

After missing out on an Indian River water license, Tony's hatched a plan to

make some fast cash.

So I have... Jasmine B., Kid Commando, and the two barges sold for a million

bucks. But a million bucks is worth more in my pocket than sitting on the dock.

Three years ago, Tony bought the Jasmine B.

and the Kid Commando to haul Dredge 2 from Thistle Creek, 150 miles away.

Now he needs to drug the larger of the two, the Jasmine Bee, out of the river

deliver to his buyer.

We've got Mike and Monica coming in there. We've got Len over there. We're

to have a whole bunch of people there. We're going to bring the barges into

Callison. Then we'll see if these people can stay out of their finances.

As long as they get a million bucks, I'll be a happy camper.

Good old barge, I guess, the good old barge.

Well, we're going to have a look at it today and get it ready.

Basically, what we're going to have to do is we're going to have to slide it

in the water.

We'll take the big skid that's sitting on right now, take that out so it gives

us more space.

And then we're basically going to come in with the Oscars and the Scissor Neck,

back the boat up, throw the trailer in the water, and just put it on.

Boom, a million bucks.

However, first things first, we got to get that paddle wheel out of there.

Pull it back another 40, 50 feet, which would give us enough room to get a truck

and a trailer in here straight to tuck the barge on, and then we'll just got to

go from there.

Tony has pulled all his best operators off the mine site and wants to get the

job done in just two days.

Okay, there she goes.

Give it a little push, Monica.

Keep her going, keep her going, guys.

That's perfect. Keep her going.

Mike, steer the thing the other way.

Monica!

Go that way a little. You got to turn. Now the other way.

Go that way. All the way.

Oh, my God.

Keep her coming. Keep her coming. Keep her coming.

Keep her coming. Keep her coming.

Perfect.

Yeah, that's done. That's where she stays, guys.

All right, so the next thing we're going to do is put the boat back in the

water.

Tony only had time to bring two loaders down from Paradise Hill.

He's counting on them having enough power to push the 100 -pound Jasmine Bee

the slipway.

Okay,

Monica, bring it in a bit.

I guess you got it. That's good.

Okay, I've got to wait for the boys to be ready.

Okay, Monica, Kevin, jump in the water.

Nice and steady. Get Monica to take the lead a bit, Kevin. Okay, yellow.

Motor, you step on it.

Keep her going, keep her going, keep her going. Keep her going.

Kevin, keep going, Kevin, keep going.

Keep pushing, Kevin.

Kevin, keep going.

Keep going.

Monica, keep going, keep going.

There you go.

Both in the water.

How does that feel, gentlemen?

Like olden days?

Is he good or what?

All right, back it up, put it on the bridge.

Now Tony needs the loaders to drag the steel skids it was resting on out of the

way.

Okay, both pull and lift and see what happens.

Youngest son Mike is back in the car.

Keep the power on, keep the power on.

So you guys lift it up high. You can lift it up as high as you can.

Higher.

Higher, higher, higher.

Gentlemen.

Okay, let it down again one more time. Let it down one more time. Let it down

one more time. Good.

That second section is absolutely stuck in the stilt.

Obviously, that ain't working.

We tried it too low, and that didn't work. We got 50 feet here, and there's

another 50 feet of ramp behind there, which, of course, over the years got

in the silt.

But now it doesn't want to come anymore.

We didn't have enough power now.

We're going to get a couple of instructors over there, hook them up,

see if we can pull it out that way.

Tony brings in two Kenworths and the off -court tank transporter.

Their winches have a combined pulling power of over 100 tons.

Just lock it up. Hold it right there and lock it up.

Fix the spark behind that wheel.

Okay, those go behind the truck.

Okay, wind's line.

All I've got to do now is put the wind's line on it, the three fractals, and see

what that does.

Let's crank it up!

Yep.

Pull, pull, pull. Keep on rolling.

That's more like it.

Got it.

Beautiful.

Huh. Yeah, I figured that one was solid.

If you got toys, you got power, then a little bit less of a circus that way.

No wonder it was that tight. If you see the silt that we pull up, and I think

there's two more like that on the water still.

Everybody clear?

Mike, give it a pull. Lift it up, pull it, Mike.

There you go.

Pull it, Mike. Keep pulling. Go.

Gentlemen, go.

Mike, go with it.

Step on it.

Mike, step and pull.

This way, this way, this way.

So this will be the first one out.

Then we'll drag the other one out.

Okay, let's go.

That's it.

More power.

Daddy.

That's it. We're done.

There's even more filth in than I expected.

It's almost like we're dredging the Yukon River, isn't it?

Because this goes to show how much silt goes down the river every day, huh?

So we'll get this all cleared out of the way, and the boat will be next, I

guess.

We've only got a few short weeks left.

You know, winter's coming, and up here, man, it can sneak up on you way before

you even know it.

In the mountains of Volcano, Rick Ness is hoping for a 2 ,000 -ounce season

to take him into the Yukon Mining Big Leagues.

But he's less than halfway to his target, and winter is closing in fast.

We've still got 1 ,200 ounces to go to hit our 2 ,000 -ounce goal, but we've

this big, beautiful watch for it finally back up and running after two years.

We're just about at that high -grade day that we're looking for, and that's the

stuff we're going to need.

Rich invested almost a million dollars digging in Raleigh Valley.

Drill results indicate they could be approaching the richest material.

Paying out an estimated three ounces per 100 yards.

And potentially worth a total of $5 million.

But first, they have to sleuth the low -grade pay dirt above it.

We're going to have to crank this plant up to 300 yards an hour and just slam

dirt through that wash plant until it freezes.

Time to see what that thing can really do.

At their current pace, they hope to get down to the rich pay layer.

in a matter of days we're not even halfway to our 2000 ounce bowl yet and

know literally running out of time we need a high volume plant

which monster ed is absolutely built for i mean 300 yards an hour crazy

Veteran operator Chris Cruz digs out pay.

We got this slick new setup to top the cedars.

Crank the plant back up to 300 yards per hour.

Boom. It is just fouling through paydirt. Like, I think our chances are

improving against the 2 ,000 ounces.

Operator Kyle Lawson feeds the plant.

Almost down to this good pace.

Brennan's digging down, the other guys are hauling it, so it's just a matter of

time. So all hands on deck just trying to get down to this good stuff.

Let's see what we got going on here.

Rick, you got a copy?

Yeah, go for it, Rick.

Looks like we got Ross rolling back down this conveyor.

That ain't good, buddy.

Yeah, I'll be right there.

this morning and here we are.

Now, this kind of weather doesn't mean all the work.

But it'd be nice to get all this done.

Okay, back thing up.

Tony Beats is back at the Yukon River to haul a million dollars worth of boats

onto trailers ready for collection by his buyer.

The wind moves that thing over two feet towards the other boat.

Good. Stay right there.

We are trying to get the jasmine a little bit more out of the water.

We've got a 500 canvas over here with the wind on the back.

So we put that against the bank, and then we wind the jasmine onto the beach

far as possible.

Good. You take the other one. When we get out, we go, Mike, rev it up.

You lift yours up, up you go. There you go, that's good.

Take that one and give that a try.

Pull on it.

Pull, pull, pull, pull it in.

Keep pulling it, keep pulling it, keep pulling it.

Keep it coming, keep it coming. Pull on the line, line, pull on it.

Mine is not pulling anymore.

Hold it, Mike, Mike, Mike, hold it. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Tony's winch tractors are slipping on the riverbank's soft sand.

So what we're going to do is we're going to bring one more dozer in, put the

blade in the ground, put a pair of snagged blocks in it, and then something

should give.

Double the thing, always double the thing. Jump in the loader, maybe we

need him jumping in the loader.

Yes.

Here it is again, Jake.

Meaning? No, we're just in the process of getting all set up for it. Why? What

do you got?

Well, think.

There's no money down there.

It never fails, does it?

A million bucks, would it be nice?

There's no use hauling it home at this point.

We'll just beat them and then we'll come home.

Sound deal? Okay.

Bye. Yeah, bye.

We'll just beat them down there and then it's all of the day.

So, I guess they pulled out or not, they didn't pull out. There was no money

transferred, no deed transferred.

Pull this anchor up there, leave it there for the winter, come back in the

spring.

We are done.

It's an early bedrock that we're pulling out. It's definitely not easy on our

equipment. It's banging and crashing hard on the shaker deck.

At Mud Mountain, Parker Snable is running bedrock, hoping to see signs of

million worth of gold his drill tests indicated.

How's things here?

It's pretty full.

Yeah, and with that bedrock it packs worth too, huh? Yeah. Keep going.

All this big bedrock, it's not easy on the whole wash plant.

You can't really afford any more repercussions or downtime.

That's way too much of it.

Damn.

Whoa.

What's going on here?

Well, as you can see, this motor's jumping all over the place.

The reason for that, this right here, this is a tensioner.

This keeps this motor isolated.

And you can see it's broke.

All the vibration and the rattling and energy that gets transferred through

these machines running bedrock takes toll on them.

Mud Mountain is refusing to give up its bedrock gold without a fight.

We pull this thing down. Is that bolt going to be long enough?

Yeah, I'd like it to be long enough.

Get this thing going again.

Perfect.

We're going to have to pull this back into place, re -weld this, see if we can

get it fixed.

A bolt holding the tensioner, which isolates the motor from the shaker deck.

has broken loose from the steel plate it sits on.

Mitch's fix is to hoist the motor back into position, realign

the tensioner bolt, and then weld it back onto the plate.

Got to get the motor back in place so the belts stay on there, they stay

the shaker deck shakes.

and this motor isn't jumping all over the place but

right now we've just got to get this back into position and once we do that

we can weld it up so we've got to get that bolt lined right back up where it

there then we can polish it up and throw a weld on it

Right now we've got the shaker motor back in place. We've got the tensioner

put back where it needs to be. We're going to weld this thing back up.

Once we do that, we'll take the clamps off.

You know, big rods are taking a lot of abuse this season and we've got to keep

it going.

Once we do this, we can fire back up and hopefully we can get through this pay

dirt here from Mud Mountain before we have any more problems.

Watch your eyes.

to see if the world will hold.

30 seconds or 30 feet, that's my warranty.

Man, I think that's solid.

Let's get it fired back up. Sounds good.

Let's try it out.

Hopefully, when we hit the switch, this shaker deck will shake like it's

supposed to.

We finally got Monster Red up and running, but we cannot run that boat

Rick Nurse is in a race to reach 2 ,000 ounces, chasing the richest pay of the

season.

But Monster Red's speed has been reduced from 300 to 200 yards per hour.

If this ground is as good as drilling suggests...

Rick could be missing out on thousands of dollars worth of gold.

We got this high -earth plant and to be running, while we're running through it,

it's not going to get us anywhere close. We might as well just kept running

rocky.

How's it going?

Hey, Scott.

Scott, nice to meet you. Rick. Well, Rick, very proper.

Barry, nice to meet you. You're the one I've been talking to. Yeah.

Right on. How's things going?

You know, I cranked it up.

Obviously, you can handle it.

But the problem is we've got some impossibly round rock here. And at that

I'm getting them tumbling back down the conveyor like I told you. Okay, we've

got basketball coming backwards?

Exactly. I've got the ground open, and I need to crank this thing up as high as

I can go for the rest of the season. I'm running out of time.

How fast are you running the flat right now?

Right now, we're at about 200 yards an hour. Where would you like to get there?

I want to get it to 300 yards an hour. Okay, well, we'll see how few we're

Okay.

We'll just draw it out here for an example.

So what I'd like to do is build this at a finger.

As the rock comes back down, it can't get through the fingers.

I see.

Barry Proctor and Scott Ezekiel.

will build a finger trap.

A frame with eight metal fingers come from a horizontal beam.

The fingers will let pay dirt and rocks pass through on their way up the

conveyor.

But any rock rolling down the conveyor will be caught and stopped.

That seems like a great solution.

That's a major question I always have to ask, though, is how long is it going to

take? We're probably looking at four or five hours.

So we're going to shut down for four or five hours.

I just need you to completely stop for maybe 15, 20 minutes so we can bolt it

on. Oh, that's it?

That's it.

I love that.

Okay, sounds good. Thanks, man. Thanks, guys.

Barry and Scott will have to construct Rick's finger trap entirely out of scrap

solving from his boneyard.

Looks like a good little scavenger pile.

Oh yeah, this will work.

We need something like a four inch square tubing, HSS, some flat bar,

or some channels.

There we go.

That's going to do the trick right there.

After four hours, the finger trap is complete.

Shut it down.

It's up. Here it comes, Scott.

Right on. Looks good.

Looks good.

Wrap her up and let's start putting some rock to her.

Fire it up.

Cranking it back up to 300 yards an hour.

Time for the test.

here at 300 yards an hour? No.

You don't have any rocks rolling back anymore?

Yeah, that's simple, effective.

There's no way for rocks to get through that.

Love it.

That turned out good.

Monster Red is back to running 300 yards of dirt an hour.

And Rick is back in with a shot at getting down to the high -grade pay.

I can't thank you guys enough.

Well, thank you. Yeah.

Thanks again, guys.

Everyone's pretty stoked.

We're not running at 200 anymore.

We're back up and running in full.

It's a good feeling.

Got that plant straight back up to 300 yards an hour, and it's time to rock and

roll and see what this deep ground's going to have in it.

It's a gulp.

Paradise Hill.

Tony Beach has been running white channel pay from the Walcott all week.

You're related to them, I'm sorry.

Excuse me.

Really? So how did things go this week?

We've done with the adjustments.

Well, once we got the loaders out of there, got the winch tractors.

Anyways, it's too bad the buyer pulled out of buying the barges.

Yeah, that really sucks.

I mean, here we are going through the process, yarding it out, getting it

to ship out.

And now we may as well leave the thing there.

Right? Yeah.

But, I mean, that goes to show you get ahead of yourself.

Doesn't always pay, does it?

No, it doesn't.

Well, now you know for next time.

I counted last, so who's counting now? I'm busy.

Bye. Bye.

To hit his 4 ,500 ounce season goal, Tony needs 370

ounces every week.

There you go.

10, 20, 30, 60,

100, 130, 190,

250, 292 .84.

Worth over half a million dollars and their biggest haul of the season.

But over 70 ounces short of what they need.

In a week when Tony also lost a million dollar deal for his fleet of boats.

You know what? We are very fortunate to be mining on Paradise Hill.

That is so true. Because if we didn't have that property, we'd be nicely

scrounging around like everybody else.

I mean, we all know that doesn't grow on trees around here.

Anyways, it's time for everybody to go back to work. Strip that for a bit?

Yep. Okay.

Go for it, Mike.

Anytime. Okay.

Bye.

Bye. Don't go away mad, guys.

Just bugger off.

Take a hike.

On the end of the day, if we do reach our goal, then I think we did pretty

good.

We'd better start doubling up around here.

Anyways, your grandfather agrees with you. Perfect.

We better.

If he wants toys and presents, he better be nice to me.

No phone from the dinner table. Okay.

At Lower Duncan Creek, Rick Nurse and his crew are about to find out if

hit high -grade pay in Raleigh Valley.

That's a little scary about how quick the leaves started turning yellow, eh?

Well, yeah, it happened overnight.

It's getting chilly in the morning, too, and the days have gotten short like

that fast.

At least we're all on the same level.

You're working here with this guy. What's wrong with us?

Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

We're all here because we're not. Holy.

Oh, sorry, yeah.

Damn. Did you hear that?

Yes, sir. Is that lead?

Yes, we're lead miners.

There's actually gold.

Lots of gold.

That sounded heavy.

Toast heavy. Yeah. It was going pretty good all week. You know, I had 200 yards

an hour, and then I had to get greedy and turn it up to 300.

I know where you learned that trick from.

But it's got the capacity, you know what I mean? Oh, for sure.

The rocks here are so round, though, you know, they just started rolling back

like that.

We weren't running at max capacity for the whole week.

So a couple days, we had to dial it back to 200 yards an hour. But, you know, we

did get a full week, 10 hours a day.

Sleuthin, that's 70 hours.

Should we see what we got?

Yeah.

Shiver jabber. Let's see what we got going on.

Rick's massive gamble on Raleigh Valley has yet to pay off.

His weekly average this season is just 59 ounces.

I got to be honest with you, I know that this is more than 130 ounces, and

that's all my scale goes up to.

I'm just going to dump out 100 first and then switch hands, I guess.

I like that problem.

Nate,

you want to count it, buddy? Oh, yeah, you betcha.

10, 20, 30, 80,

90,

100.

100 plus 40, 50, 70,

80. If I'm not mistaken, that's 580, huh?

181 .17.

Rick's biggest ever gold weigh were $325 ,000.

181 ounces, boy.

And that was for 70 hours.

Yeah. I mean, that's 300 grand in a week. That's one of the biggest gold

we've had.

Oh, absolutely.

Oh, yeah.

So that puts us at just over 1 ,000 ounces.

Yeah. Monster gold dumpster, 300 yards an hour.

And we get to that good pay, we're going to get it.

Thanks again. You guys are awesome.

I'm going to have to leave my beer behind to carry two pans. Oh, poor you.

Sounds like a real bad problem to have. Yeah, I'll clean up after you.

Well, that was quite a week.

Good week, yeah.

Well, you tell if it's a good week. We're out there ripping paydirt.

If Dumit's leading with saying it's a good week, then it was actually a good

week. It was a good week for one of you.

I remember running a plant. I hated it when I saw a cut coming with that blocky

stuff. It's nothing but a pain in the butt.

Here's the other end. Send it back.

Send it back.

Send that one right over the edge with tailings.

Good thing those days are long behind you, Chris.

Yeah. How's it going down there at Ken's?

Oh, good. Just chugging away.

I'd say we're about halfway through the bad cut right now.

Well, I think we ought to throw a slucifer on there and see how the bad

turning out.

Yeah, let's do it. Why do you want to do the bad stuff first?

When you were a kid and people asked you, would you want the good news or the

bad news, would you pick the good news or the bad news?

Bad news.

Here we go.

Bad cut.

Let's do her.

Last week at the bad cut, Lucifer delivered 192 ounces of gold.

60, 80, 100, 110, 112 .85.

There you go, living up to his name.

That's not that bad.

Worth over $200 ,000.

It's not as good as the first cleanup, but... Which is odd, because normally

first one isn't very good, but... They come from you. I expect things to be

backwards, you know?

Next, it's time to find out if Parkish Mabel made the right call running Mud

Mountains Bedrock.

All the fun stuff. Walking bedrock.

You ready? Yeah, we know. Do it. Here we are. Read it out.

So far...

Big Red's best gold weigh from Mud Mountain has been just 190 ounces.

150, 180,

200, 230, 250, keep going, 300, 350,

399 .65.

Keep her coming.

So this is on top of 315.

We got another 50, another 70, another 84 .45.

You must know what those add up to.

484 .1 ounces. No way.

Finally, a change of fortune at Mud Mountain.

Worth a massive $870 ,000.

Sweet, man. That was definitely...

Worth the struggle right there. Is that sweet or what?

That's got to be the best cleanup Big Red's ever had.

Yeah. Yeah, it is. For the week, you guys, this is pretty sweet. It's 596 .95

ounces, almost 600 ounce a week.

Is that our best week this year?

Oh, by far. Yeah, by far.

This week in total, Parker's crew has brought in over a million dollars in

He gives us the season total of 5 ,230 ounces. 30 and a half ounces the numbers

are climbing really quick hey yeah oh yeah with with wigs like this i mean

but the way it drilled like really it's supposed to have a ton of gold in it

so we're definitely behind what the drilling was showing but it's not to do

much gold and we can still be behind but if it's going to keep doing this then

it shouldn't take long to catch up yeah but yeah that's big yeah yeah let's do

it good

All righty. Thanks, guys. Later.

Later. Thank you both.

Anytime. All three of you.

Chris, nice job cleaning this stuff.

Oh, thanks, Parker.

Yeah, it's really nice.