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I'm definitely glad that I'm up here, that I got away from Dawson. I mean,

ground is getting harder and harder to find by the minute, and I think I made

move at just the right time.

Four years of mine bot, Rick Ness, has bet his fledgling career on a 190

-foot deep cut.

Test drilling hinted at a possible haul of $5 million in gold.

So far, it hasn't delivered.

I am still worried about hitting our 3 ,000 -ounce goal because not only do I

need to send all my guys home with plenty of gold in their pockets, I need

too. So I can't survive off of feeling proud of a giant hole we dug.

After moving a staggering million yards of overburden, Ricky's 800 -ounce is

short of his goal.

And as winter approaches...

He still hasn't reached the high -grade pay layer he's banking on.

The bull's good, but I think the stuff on the bottom is better.

But quite honestly, we're not there yet.

And we need to be pushing the best of the best out of here to be able to hit

goal right at the end.

But if it doesn't pay off, that's going to end it.

Hey, Rick, you got a coffee, Rick?

Yeah, go for it.

Troy's here.

Are you serious?

Troy Taylor owns the Duncan Creek claims.

Rick is leasing.

So were you in the neighborhood or is there something important?

What's going on?

Dad and I have been getting some inquiries into our property and hate to

pressure on you, but we're ready to sell.

We're hoping that you're confident enough to...

Five biased out.

I'm not sure if I'm quite ready for that.

Yeah, let me run that through my head for a bit here.

We have a number in mind. I'm not sure if you're ready for that or not.

Rick won't reveal on camera.

The total asking price for the mine.

However, Tory's offering him to pay it off over a two -year period.

But he'll need a deposit.

What would you be looking for for a down payment?

We're thinking 150 ounces.

That's a lot. I know it sounds like a lot, but that's what we need.

Yeah, that's a quarter million dollars.

The ground's getting harder to find.

Yeah. And I think you'd be set for a long time.

Yeah. A lot of years of mining left here.

Yeah.

I mean, I'm going to have to have just a little bit of time to think about it.

But, I mean, I appreciate you giving me the first shot at it.

I'll think hard, and I'll have an answer for you very soon.

Right on, right?

It's good.

Thanks again, buddy.

All right. Talk to you soon.

Yeah, I'll be in touch.

Well, that's a bit unexpected.

It's an amazing opportunity.

You know, I could own my own ground. That sounds exciting, but also

So I got a lot to think about.

The offer couldn't have come at a worse time.

Rick's already invested half a million dollars in new equipment, and he's

pulling in a profit.

To buy ground, he'll need to up his gold production.

I want to keep this ground to myself, and that means they want a quarter

dollar down payment right now.

You know, 150 ounces of gold, but, you know, I don't know what choice they

Rick's moneymaker is Monster Red.

But it's already sluicing 300 yards an hour.

We have to figure out a way to up our production fast.

So I think we're going to have to get creative.

I've got a crazy idea, but I'm really going to need one of my guys to step it

to make it work.

Former Yukon ironworker Kyle Lawson is on his second season with Rick's crew.

I'm an ironworker back in Whitehorse.

So I have...

No experience here, but it's been a few months so far, and it's going good.

Morning, Kyle.

What's going on?

The landowner, Taylor?

Yeah. He's trying to sell this place, and he wants 150 ounces in down payment.

And I had a bit of an idea to kind of up our production.

Oh, yeah? What do you got in store? My thought is that we can try and run both

wash plants for a while.

I know you know, Rocky, you were on that, you know, this spring, and you're

running that, and I kind of need you to run it by yourself.

You think you're up for something like that?

Oh.

I know it's going to be a pain in the ass, and I hate to ask you to do it,

you know, that's what I need you to do if you're up for it.

I'm up for it.

All right.

All right, take that loader down there and get it going.

Right on.

Rocky was shut down four weeks ago after Monster Red was put into action.

I'm down here just about to fire up Rocky.

But this old wasp plant can still run hundreds of yards of gold -rich pay

Chronically shorthanded.

Rick relying on Kyle to bring in the extra 150 ounces he needs, all on his

A little nervous being the first time around the plant by myself.

It's got a big job, but showing a lot of trust in me. I hope I don't piss off.

That's tailing.

It's not a good thing to have the tailings back up.

If it causes a blockage here, have to shut the planes down.

And that's downtime that we don't want.

It gets a little tiring jumping back and forth from the loader to the hull, but

it feels like an accomplishment for me.

Hopefully there's going to be some gold in the box.

Could you bring one actuator to the wall cut, please? Could you bring one

actuator to the wall cut, please?

Okay.

Thank you.

A hundred miles west of Paradise Hill, King of the Klondike Tony Beats

is struggling to hit his 4500 -ounce season goal.

With no water license for the Indian River and a ground wall raging in the

Yukon,

Tony looking to branch out.

Right now in New England, there's a lot of people looking for ground.

So you have a real fight on your hands.

So we're buying good ground right now.

We just want to get it.

But I never give up either.

So we just move on to plan B.

There is some ground that came off in Keno, so I want to do a little bit of

prospecting. To expand his kingdom, Tony's looking beyond the Klondike, with

roads leading to Rikneth's landlord.

Troy has some ground for sale, and if you don't look at it, maybe later on you

will be sorry. It's one of these things you see that you could have, so we'll go

meet him and see what we can do.

Three years ago.

So now that you've got my interest.

Rick was lured here by the promise of big gold.

Finding that in a spruce box like that will drive the guy nuts.

Now Tony wants a cut of the action.

They get some coarse gold here, some glacial stuff.

And they say it's going to chunky country down there.

150 ,000 years ago, a glacier formed at the top of Mount Henton.

When it reached the quartz vein containing the motherlode, it scraped

nuggets downhill, depositing the treasure in sporadic pockets.

Troy is offering Tony 900 acres along the slope of Mount Henton, just five

miles northeast of Rick's. claims.

Tony, good to see you.

So what do we got?

We got about 80, 89 claims.

That's pretty good.

Is this the only drill hole you got in it?

Yeah, this is the only drill hole here.

So some gold at about 80 feet.

I'm hoping the benches will be a bit shallower. Yeah, yeah. How far do we

to go down anything?

20 feet or so.

Tony's plan is to prospect a shallow bench of land, 18 acres of virgin

that should deliver results at just 20 feet.

First up, dig a series of test holes 100 yards apart.

So as soon as it gets in the bigger boulder, there should be a bit of gold.

And yes, you can feel it getting really rocky, really bony, we call that.

After two hours of digging... I'll take one more scoop.

And I'll just have a peek in the hole, I guess.

Tony finishes his final test hole.

Boy, you got some big rocks in there, Troy.

Yeah, that's what I like to see, those guys.

It's always better gold when we get into the bigger rock. Yeah, yeah.

Let's put a couple scoops of this in there.

Hopefully there's some gold in there.

Yeah.

Let's go wash it by the creek.

Sounds good to me.

Oh, you got a long thumb? Yeah, it's my homemade.

Long Tom, miniature sluice box.

Oh, what a guy.

Long Toms are portable, simple sluices.

How does this all work?

Consisting of narrow sloping troughs. Put it on the bolt. With a strainer at

end, feeding into ripples.

You got a little hose there.

Yeah. Perfect.

There we go.

Okay, let's fire this thing up. All right.

After sluicing all the buckets everything now hangs on panning the

Well, we're looking for not the amount to call us, but the size.

There we go.

After several pounds.

Almost right.

It all boils down to this.

There you go.

There we go. We finally now got... Oh.

Actually...

Look at that.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

Right on.

That is nice stuff, isn't it?

She's right there. It's not bad.

For a small pan like this, that is pretty darn good.

In gaining a tantalizing glimpse of the promise of Troy's land, Tony may well

have found his plan B.

No, that's encouraging.

You know what?

That really is going to make a guy start to think that there is a serious

possibility out there. You know what I mean?

Well, I hope you give her some thought.

Oh, I definitely will give her some thought.

Of course, talk to my bank, which is the wife, and the kids, of course, because

I don't make them decisions myself.

We do that as a family, and then we will let you know.

Sounds good to me.

There is options out there.

You know, we still got in the back of our minds that 100 -ounce goal.

That's keeping us fueled. That's keeping us moving forward.

We got to keep that going for the final push.

Special Forces Medic Fred Lewis.

He's on a mission to send his team home with gold in their pocket for the first

time.

His 100 -ounce seasoned target is now firmly in his sights.

We made this deal with the Claytons.

We need them to keep their wash plant running. We need to keep pulling K and

keep pulling in gold.

Two weeks ago.

Maybe there's a way we can work together. Like a partnership.

Yeah. Fred formed an alliance with neighbor Brandon Clayton. Run your

And we'll pull from your area. And we can just split the goal 50 -50. I think

we've got a deal.

Despite some teething problems.

Oh.

This website never ceases to amaze me when it comes to breakdowns. Both crews

doubled their production.

Pretty good for you as well. I'm happy as that.

The 13 ounces short of their goal, former Special Forces Sergeant Rick

is back digging pay.

Brandon's plant can run so much more pay.

We could not have processed the amount of pay that we've already processed.

So with the collaboration with Brandon, we are accomplishing the mission.

Recon Scout Sniper Stuart McKenzie.

Paul's paid at the half mile to Brandon's mine site.

We haven't really been working with Brandon that very long, but Brandon is

They're very talented, awesome people.

You know, he's pretty experienced.

Man, I'll tell you what, every single day that kid amazes me.

It's crunch time, you know, we're trying to get everything as much as we can in

this last month, but I couldn't be happier with the way it's working, so

ready to walk.

Okay, well, let's fire it up.

Crew operator Warren Binney feeds the misfits pay dirt through Brandon's

-built trommel, the Dirt Devil.

Yeah, the misfits are keeping a stockpile pretty good here.

Everybody works really well together, and I'm feeling really good about the

collaboration.

Hit the bipod.

Look at all the stuff we got here.

Dude, there's stuff wrong here.

Yeah.

What? Look at it. Oh.

There's holes in the belt.

The sharp, flat piece of bedrock has slipped through the grizzly bars.

and ripped a hole in the conveyor belt, allowing smaller rocks to fall through

and jam the tail pulley, causing the hopper feeder to clog.

If we would have let it go and just kept running it, it would have ripped this

thing right in half.

But it's a big gouge, so we cut a piece out and we're going to put in a new

square back in there.

It's going to take at least two or three hours to do.

Every hour the Dirt Devil is down costs the Lewis Alliance $2 ,000 in lost gold.

Can you get a drill in? Yeah.

It's up to Warren and team member Sheldon Monteith to get the hopper back

running.

I'm actually going to go figure out what's going on.

Hey, Sheldon.

Hey. What's going on, dude?

Not much.

Is it down?

Well, we're not running.

What's wrong?

We're fixing the boat, buddy.

So how long do you think it's going to keep us down?

We've got probably, I don't know, at least another hour yet.

I don't know, man.

Way too long, dude.

We need to get this fixed as soon as possible.

I don't know, like, what do you want us to do? We can't run without it.

I know. I get it.

Keep bringing the pay, and then once we get rolling, we'll jam her through, I

guess, right?

True.

Last week, the misfits shut down their own wash plant.

Look at this, man.

So we're totally reliant on the Clayton's trommel to keep sluicing.

We took a big risk on combining our operations together.

And when things like this happen to them, it now happens to us.

Kind of put all our eggs into one basket.

So, you know, this one basket is looking kind of weak at the moment.

Warren. What's up?

You ready for another clip?

Uh, yeah.

Yep.

barn oh yeah i don't find it's just a bunch of dirt yeah

you've got to be kidding me

everything is covered dude all our tools and everything so

we had a little bit of build up on the wall and uh you know we probably should

have cleaned that out but um we thought it would hold But she gave out on us.

So, yeah, we got a bunch of trouble now.

The decision not to fully dig out the hopper has now cost the Alliance further

lost loot time.

This thing is taking way too long, dude.

I got you, man.

I don't know, dude. I don't know.

My biggest concern right now, it was supposed to be a quick fix, and it

seem like it's a quick fix to me, dude.

Okay, Sheldon, we're almost done.

Let's get our tools out and pour the plant back up.

Ready? Yep.

The four -hour delay has cost the two crews over $8 ,000 in lost gold.

We're out quite a bit of time here, so there's a lot of pressure on us right

to kick some ass. We've got to pile drive this material through the plant

try to catch up on our lost time.

it somewhere.

We got it, you know.

Finally got down to that good pay we were chasing, and now we've got a lot of

to run through the plant.

And I'm pumped.

At Raleigh Valley, Rick Ness is mining the deepest cut of his career.

And he's finally down to the high -grade pay.

I can tell he finally hit that good, good pay when I looked over his team.

flexing and grinding the teeth, blowing them sticks like they owe them money.

Finally some good news.

We've been digging since we started Rally Valley to get to, and we're

here, and it's going to the plant. I can't wait to see what the runs look

when we do the next map hole.

To raise the 150 -ounce deposit, he needs to secure his claim from Troy.

Rick has fired up his second plant, Rocky.

First time ever having two plants going.

Pretty big accomplishment, I think, for Rick.

Loader operator Kyle Lawson runs the plant.

Get Rick some more gold.

Trucking the pay is new hire Dan Motzer.

I can't see anything back there with the sun in my eyes.

What's this idiot doing?

Way too close to that edge.

Dan, stop!

Stop!

You got a copy? I'm going to need some help over here. Oh, yes.

Jesus Christ. Exactly what I didn't need to happen.

Kyle has no choice but to shut down.

Jesus Christ.

I'll get adjusted so I'm holding your box. I'm on a bank right there. Slowly.

Nice and easy, Dan.

Nice and easy.

It's okay.

Yeah, just hold on there, Dan. Your tailgate's stuck up. I'm just going to

this.

Liftoff.

Right on, buddy.

I'll try not to do it again.

Yeah, that's right.

Kyle came in and saved the day, and now I can go all pay again.

Be right back, Kyle.

Now that all that's good, I need to get back up in that excavator and keep

running some pace so we can find some gold.

I heard the commotion on the radio. I realized that, you know, Rock Truck had

been rolled on the pay pile, and that's normally my cue to, you know, haul ass

down there and rectify the situation. But I made the decision to just kind of

hold back and, you know, see if Kyle couldn't take the initiative and handle

himself. And he sure as hell did.

We're eating away at that pay pile pretty good.

And I'm just waiting for Warren to dump a load into the feeder there, and I'm

going to have a quick look at the belt here, see how our repairs do.

With winter just around the corner, the Lewis Alliance do -or -die mission to

pull 100 ounces out of the ground is at last back on track.

Here's our repair, but holy... No, this

isn't good.

The Clayton's belt repair has failed after just one day of running.

Hey, bud.

Yeah, it looks like we're pretty... right now.

We repaired the belt, but she ripped on us again. All right.

I'll have a look, I guess. Yeah, dude, look at this.

See that?

This jail rock ripped the... of that belt.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, it's like you can see it's all in there. Yeah, I'm not happy about it.

Shut it down.

So it's either, I don't know what to do, but it doesn't help that those big

rocks. Yeah.

But we're going to have to deal with what we got.

We need something on there.

Well, we're going to have to rip it apart and I'll build it with Bob

Sounds good.

I'm done.

Hey, Fred, you got a minute?

Yeah, what's up?

So that patch we fixed in the belt ripped.

Yeah.

The bedrock that we're into right now, it's sharp, it's jagged, and the gap in

that grizzly bar is too big. I think it's just taking a toll on that belt. So

what I want to do, if you're okay with it, I think I've got to shut the plant

down for a day.

I know, but I want to find some old spray bars off another trommel, cut it

apart, we'll put them in on top of that feeder and weld them. And that big,

chunky bedrock won't go through.

The Clayton's custom -built wash plant is designed to sluice fine gravel and

bony Lewis pay dirt is destroying their conveyor belt.

Brandon's plan is to remove the angled grizzly bars and weld lengths

of 4 -inch pipe over the hopper feeder to block the jagged rocks while allowing

gold -bearing dirt to fall through.

Are you sure this is the best bet?

Yeah, man, I just can't see any other solution, and I think this is the only

we can fix it. All right.

While the misfits stockpile pay, the Titan team

field strips the hopper feeder.

That feeder splits in two pieces. We're taking the top off.

What are they doing? They're removing the entire grease.

Warren! Hey!

The first step.

Pick it up.

Okay. Is to remove the angled grizzly bars, currently clogged with boulder.

Go up one.

Okay.

Yeah.

Come down a bit.

There it is.

On the ground.

Out with this piece of... And in with the new.

Already down five hours, the two crews now combine forces to fabricate the new

grizzly bars and repair the torn feeder belt as quickly as possible.

Right now...

I got my crew working on the belt. It's lined up perfect right now. These guys

here, Clint and JP, they're cutting some old spray bars off of another trommel,

and we're going to use that as our new grizzly bars. So they're just cutting

them apart, and then I'm going to weld them in place there.

Yep, we're in.

I'm starting to, you know, wonder if this is the right decision to make.

Yeah, right there, Solomon. Yeah.

Our pay had more jagged.

bedrock in it. Yeah.

That's why they're making this extra grizzly.

It's a good call. It makes sense, but... I don't know. Well, it's only a good

call when it's successful.

It is their plants down, but, you know, since the merger, it became our plant,

too. You know, so that kind of pisses me off.

Time is precious right now, and us being down means that we're not getting gold.

Gold is the ultimate goal. You know, I mean, like spending time away from our

families, which does suck. You know, watching my daughter grow up through

FaceTime is unbelievable.

And, you know, I miss the first day of school. I miss her getting her ears

pierced. I miss the precious moments.

And I just want to get this over with so I can get back to my family.

After 10 hours of downtime.

The new grizzly bar modification is complete.

Well, this took way longer than we wanted it to, but you know what? We've

this wash plant and hopper set up now, so hopefully we don't have to set it

again.

Before firing up, Brandon clears the discarded

boulders piled around the hopper feeder.

Sheldon, look out!

Holy... Are you okay?

Yeah.

This is

absolutely the worst thing that could happen.

It pretty much cripples our operation.

And we can't handle having it down for more than a day.

And I know this problem is going to take a long time to fix.

Being down on my own is one thing, but being down and spending Fred's money

is also another thing, and I feel awfully guilty for it, you know.

I told him we'd be down a day, and now we're going to be down a day and a half.

A California creep.

Yeah, come forward a little more.

Brandon Clayton races to rebuild the shed wash plant bed.

Hopefully we're running by four.

All fingers crossed.

Fixing this is probably going to take us most of the day.

Fred?

Man, we are getting hammered, bud. I know.

It's just frustrating, right? Yeah. It's frustrating on my end, too. So it's

pretty rough. But you can't make mistakes.

Yep. I know.

But no reason to cry over spilt milk.

Definitely, we're in this together.

I agree. I feel the stress, bud. OK.

We got it.

The support units for the hopper are pretty much the most important part

this thing upright.

So at this point we're going to have to rebuild the platform.

Block one is in and in place all level.

I'm just going to flip this other block over. We'll chain her up and start

lifting the second block in place.

Hey. Yeah.

Pick it up.

I'm going to smack you if you don't move.

There's no base left, so right now we're just going to rebuild it and try and

get a strong base again.

Is that a lot more?

Yeah.

We just got our blocks leveled out here, and we're going to pick

our feeder up.

Try to get her spotted in here so that she can sit nice and level and roll some

dirt again.

Okay, we're going up.

The 250 excavator has a maximum lifting capacity of 22 ,000 pounds.

With the added steel, the Clayton's copper feeder now weighs 24 ,000 pounds.

You know, it's taking everything this 250's got.

I hope these chains are going to hold. If that thing falls now, we're pretty...

You know, I'm dangling.

Pretty heavy suspended load midair. And I've got three bodies working around me.

It's a little scary.

Down?

Okay.

Can I keep coming down?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, you can keep coming down.

How are we on those cinder blocks, though? Pretty good?

You're looking really good.

There she is. Yeah. On the ground.

I think she's good.

All that's left now.

is to level the hopper.

Thank God this is done, because now we can start running again.

It's only 3 o 'clock.

You got the fire up?

We got all the grizzly bars in.

We're going to hopefully run smooth for the rest of the season, man.

It's time to put their new fortified grizzly bars to the test.

There we go.

See if all this hard work paid off.

All right, here we go.

Right on.

Yeah!

Fred's coalition of forces is back on the gold.

We're up and running again, but, you know, we did not loosen up the even

Matt. We don't have a goal away. What? I'm seeing my team and Brandon's team

work in cohesion. Now it's time to get some more goals.

Every time Tony goes away, things seem to run a little smoother.

And maybe they should go away at more often.

At Paradise Hill, the family gathers for their favorite pastime.

Weighing out that gold.

Is that better? Probably not.

It's a lot.

You going to bring us some goodies?

A couple.

More gold, a bit more gold it looks like.

So, how was Pino?

Yeah, it was nice driving.

Yeah, the weather was good.

But we did some prospecting down there, and it's very, very rocky ground.

But we got some decent colors, so if the gold is there, we'll deal with it.

Before we make a decision, of course, we'd have to do more drilling to make

sure. There's some nice, chunky stuff in there, so it'll look promising.

Mike, how did the plan do?

It did well.

Didn't have any breakdowns this week.

Oh, that's okay. We got the full week in there.

Okay, pour that. Let's see what we got. Who's counting?

Not me.

I'll do it. Ready? Yeah.

Let's go.

5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60.

To hit his 4 ,500 -ounce season goal.

110, 120.

Tony needs over 400 ounces a week.

200, 210, 220, 230, 240, 250, 260, 270, 280.

90, 300, 330, 350, 360.

364 .82.

Worth over $650 ,000.

It tops their best gold weight this season by almost 60 ounces.

Okay, that's the biggest ones we've had this year? Yeah.

I thought it was a crown of gold. There you go.

If the wall cut continues to deliver.

We are at 3 ,620 and we have a couple more weeks to go.

Tony's 4 ,500 ounce goal will be within striking distance.

So it is doable if we keep up this kind of gold waste.

We'll get close.

Anyway, that did good, Mike.

We should be excited about that.

Oh, hey, guys.

Check this out. Oh.

Rignas has a decision to make.

Either pay a quarter of a million dollar deposit to secure his claim.

or risk losing it to someone with deeper pockets.

It's an amazing opportunity. It's kind of scary, too, though. Like, if I don't

buy it, it'll lose it.

He's finally on good gold.

But is it good enough?

Yeah, Kyle, that's actually this jar right here. That's all you, buddy. Maybe

let's see if we've got 150 ounces for that down payment.

Well, what do you say, Kyle? You want to count these numbers out? Yeah, check it

out.

30, 40, 50, 60,

70, 80, 95

.4.

Worth $170 ,000.

Nice. Nice. Good job, man. That's awesome.

Woo!

Next. The gold from Munster Red.

I already weighed the first 100 ounces out that Heather cleaned. So that's in

here. And this feels pretty heavy too, so.

Oh, yeah.

We got 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60,

70, 80, 100.

119 .8.

So, yeah, that's 219 .8 ounces out of Monster Red.

95 ounces out of Rocky.

That's 315 ounces out of Leek.

Worth over half a million dollars.

That's got to be a record.

That's our biggest gold blade ever.

Yeah, bro.

That's awesome. Amazing.

With Raleigh Valley delivering Rick his biggest gold way ever, he heads off

to meet with landowner Troy Taylor.

Hey, Rick. Good to see you.

That's nice looking gold there, Rick.

I guess you could probably see what my decision was.

I'm ready to buy, I guess.

Yeah, that's great. That's good news for us. Yeah, well, that's good news for me

too. So just to be clear, this is the down payment, and it's non -refundable,

and we'll keep doing the royalty thing next season, and hopefully by the end

you'll have it paid off.

Yeah.

I'm confident I can do it.

All right. Thanks again, Troy.

Appreciate everything.

Hey, Rick.

Good luck out there. Thank you.

Ooh, big commitment.

I mean, it's scary because it is a big commitment, but it's also exciting

because, you know, I'm going to own my own ground.

The only way that's going to happen, though, is if I finish this season

So I've got to get at it.