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Previously, on this season of Gold Rush.

We're hunting for ground. We need ground.

With the competition for Klondike Gold reaching a fever pitch, 27 -year -old

Parker Schnabel took a massive risk on a wild card claim.

We've never gone this deep.

Shut her down, shut her down.

This season we put a lot of our eggs in the mud mountain basket, and it needs to

be making money.

Flush with ground, Tony Beat spent $5 million on equipment.

Having all the equipment, having all these people.

My eyes are on that point.

But lost his most productive claim.

No license, 9 ,000 ounces, that ain't happening.

We invested five million bucks in this window and no out at the Goldberg

Paradise Hill.

We got a bedrock hole here at 210 feet.

Rick Ness doubled down on his decision to leave the Klondike with a $1 million

gamble. This is one of the scariest things I've ever done. I'm going to go

broke. On the deepest claim he's ever mined.

Jake, the payoff at the bottom could be life -changing.

And, after a disastrous rookie season, Fred and his band of combat veterans

headed to the Yukon, determined to earn their mining stripes.

That's about the biggest pain we had last season times ten.

Come hell or high water, the misfits are coming out on top.

Now.

The final push.

Kill the pot! What did you do?

I just don't know how much more we can fight.

I'm in the pot!

If we can get to the 4 ,500 ounces this year, I'll be very impressed.

I'm all giving in! Are you kidding me?

With just over 1 ,600 ounces of gold, we're still way off our 2 ,000 -ounce

season goal. We got a bunch of snow overnight.

I'm sure there's lots of people that would call this pretty, but I call it

last thing you need right now.

Rick Ness is running out of time.

He's 190 feet down in his Raleigh Valley cut on the best gold he's ever

seen.

With winter breathing down his neck.

Kyle, come on.

It's time to put the pedal to the metal.

Obviously, you guys are standing in the same storm that I am.

A quick winter snuck up, man. This was way earlier, and I've seen it in a long

time. Of all the years for this to happen, give me a break.

We dug this big hole.

This is the best day we've ever had.

With this weather like this.

We aren't going to have time to run it all this year.

Is there any way we can push this plant and get harder than what we have been?

You've got to add another loader, right? Wouldn't that work? Clear tailings,

grab a bucket of pay every now and then. Maybe crank her out 400 yards and see

if we can keep up with it.

400 yards an hour?

Pretty sweet to do that.

I mean, that pewter will do over 800 yards an hour.

The plant, you know, we're already 300 yards an hour. There's room.

There's room on that deck. There's room in that sluice box.

It's worth a shot.

We're going to have our work cut out trying to keep that baby full of pay.

Yeah. Well, that's how it is at the end of the season.

Wouldn't have it any other way, right? Should we get after it?

I say we should.

Let's get after it.

I want to

crank up to 400 yards an hour.

The only way to keep that amount fed through this plant was to be having two

loaders loading pay.

You know, one full -time just dumping scoop after scoop in the feeder, and

a second one alternating between paling and dumping a scoop of pay in the hopper

as it goes by every time as well. Doing a little dance like that, it's actually

working pretty good.

I'll come in from behind you there with another scoop there, Dad.

Okay, I'll run up there and take care of that, and then I'll go do the waste.

It's great having my dad here. He started operating engineers when he was

18 years old. He had experience before that working for his dad and my grandpa.

So he's got more experience than most of the crew here combined.

I love coming up here helping him for a few weeks, but I'll tell you what, I

don't think I can handle an entire season of gold mining. It is brutal.

Give him credit. He has a great work ethic.

He busts his ass to try to...

Make things work.

We're at the end of the season. We're stressed for time.

My dad and I are hanging out at work, up in dirt through a wash plant.

What's going on over there?

This thing's throwing a low battery voltage code.

Voltage is dropping 16 volts right now and going down and it's honking at me.

I'm going to have to go and check this thing out.

All right.

Maybe it's something simple. I hope it is.

Thanks, Dad.

Hey, Kyle. We're having a problem with one of these loaders, so we're going to

have to dial it back down to 300 yards an hour. Hopefully my dad figures it

Without these two machines, it's going to make it nearly impossible to meet

goal.

Rick's gear has been limping through this season.

Without a mechanic on the crew, he needs his dad to keep it running.

The meat and bones of these machines, right, it's over my head. I mean, you

a tech like Carl to do that kind of thing.

Not having a mechanic up here sucks.

Just looking at the alternator here real quick.

Most times it's an alternator issue, a charging system issue. That's what the

alternator does, charges the battery. But everything looks good here. It looks

like it's running nice and cool.

Connections are all good on it.

I'm going to go and look at the other end of this thing and see if maybe it's

bad ground or something, maybe a battery issue.

If Big Rick can't fix the loader's electrics, Rick will be leaving money in

Raleigh Valley Bank.

This ground wire is very, very loose.

And somewhat corroded. The dirt and the moisture gets in between the clamp from

the cable and the post on the battery, and that'll sometimes make them lose

contact. So what I'll do is clean up this battery post. We'll tighten her

up, and hopefully that'll be the resolve for this issue.

Good, right there.

Hopefully all we need to do is just get a jump start on this thing, get it up

and running, and we'll give her.

I'm going to look and see what we're getting for a charge.

The system's charging. It looks like it's going to hold voltage.

Let's get this done.

Rick, you got a copy?

Yeah, go ahead.

I found the problem on this loader.

That's awesome news, Dad.

Yeah, hey, Kyle, crank that plant back up, buddy.

Yee -haw!

I'm Rick there for a minute. I thought we were turned out for good for the rest

of the season.

My dad and I are loading this plant 400 yards an hour.

And no ice, whatever the f*** it is, we're just going to keep going.

The weather's closing in on us here. It's been snowing a little bit. It's

cold. You know, it's that end of season push.

And everybody's doing a really good job.

With just days left in his season, 27 -year -old Parker Schnabel has mined

7 ,000 ounces of gold worth $12 .8 million.

The best thing we can do is, you know, put as much gold in the box right now as

possible.

make as much money as we can so that we can afford a second operation next year.

To beat his previous record, Parker needs to pull in over 350 ounces of gold

before the brutal Yukon winter freezes them out.

It's a really good team right now, and I've tried hard to give everybody as

autonomy as I can, and it works great.

Parkers leaned heavily on plant boss Tyson Lee and superstar mechanic and

foreman Mitch Blaschke, who's running point on Mud Mountain.

You know, we definitely spent more money than we did last year. I know that.

Those big dozers ripping all that mud this year was very expensive.

So far, he's dropped $5 .4 million getting to the bottom of Mud Mountain.

and he still hasn't broken even.

But he's finally on a hot pay streak.

If there's enough of it, he could still win big.

The piece that's left, though, is where the best drilling was, so there's still

hope.

Good morning!

What's up, boss man?

Now, Mitch and operator Damien Brown are ready to pull the last section of gold

-rich pay dirt.

All we got to do is get the last of this pay out of this road.

We'll pull the dewatering pump as soon as this last pay is big red.

Mud mountain, cut's done.

Sweet. We've been waiting a long time to say that.

We have no season to say that to us.

Sluiceford should be finishing up this week as well down at Ken's. We'll get

trucks down here.

Hopefully it's got a lot of gold in it. Sweet. Have a good one.

Thank you, Damien.

Ever since I got here this season.

Parker told me about this project he wanted to take on, and it's been a huge

one. You look at the equipment, it's tore up. You look at the manpower we've

invested into this, and, you know, it's just a matter of, is there enough gold

in here to make it all worthwhile?

You ready to pull this pot?

Let's do it!

This dirt is where the best drilling was.

Now, what we're shooting for here is the total of the season.

of over 7 ,500. We want to beat what we did last year.

That's a lot of gold to get out of this ground up here in one season.

We've been running Big Red at a nice pace here to make all this happen, but

right now it's the last lap. We're going to crank this baby up.

Oh yeah, that'll do it.

If we got any chance of getting this dirt through there, this is it.

Sluicifer is in rough shape right now. We've run it hard and run a lot of pay

dirt through it this year and caught a hell of a lot of gold with it.

Four miles west of Mud Mountain, Tyson Lee is piling pay dirt from the ugly cut

through Sluicifer as fast as he can.

We're a little short from where we were last year gold -wise.

Hopefully we can get the rest of this pay through Sluicifer before Mother

freezes us down.

Without Tatyana clearing tailing, Tyson will soon be forced to shut down.

He's go, go, go, trying to get things fixed. The pressure is on.

Well, well, well.

Looks pretty good.

A lot of the bedrock that is in the cut is very sharp, jagged.

I wouldn't want to be a tire running on this ground personally.

There we go.

Rim's coming apart.

Oh yeah, great success.

Things are looking good. Just laying the new tire in place.

There we go.

Just reassembled the outer part of the two -piece rim, and now we're about to

throw some air at it.

I see a smile on Tatiana's face, I'd expect.

You saved the day.

Yeah. High five. We'll pound. Yeah.

I just... Finally got my load back with a brand new tire.

And finally get going with tailings.

I got tons of work to catch up with.

I'm happy because there's only so much time to get back to work and finish her

off.

Everything around here is frozen. The creek's starting to freeze.

Cold weather is our biggest enemy.

At California Creek, Fred Lewis has a few days left in the season to hit his

goal. Right now we're sitting at 87 ounces.

Last week we spent the entire week fixing problems. We got zero gold for

we want to reach our 100 -ounce goal, we can't have any problems. From this

point on, we've got to fire on all cylinders.

To maximize production.

He's teamed up with neighbor Brandon Clayton and his monster trauma.

Turn like a kitten, baby.

Fred's part of the deal.

Scout sniper Stuart McKenzie is in the cut.

Right now, I'm going to a frozen fate that is unbelievably thick.

Battling rock, battling ice, battling mud.

Run as much pay through Brandon's plant that we possibly can before we get

kicked out of here.

Special Forces Sergeant Rick Douglas runs pay to the plant.

We're all just hanging on by a thread as far as trying to get this last big push

in before the cold weather sends us all home.

Trying to keep this thing running 24 -7 right now.

As you can see, our pay pile is pretty small.

I could probably make this last one hour. If they don't pay up safe, we're

to have a problem here.

I don't want to have to shut this plant down.

Hey, guys, what the hell is a hole up back there?

Need more paint.

Yeah, Stu's really fighting it over there. I mean, every place he's digging

harder than every place we're driving now is soft and buck.

We're trying.

All right, 10 -4, man. Time is ticking.

If you would like to switch jobs, I'm more than happy.

in the pond.

Somebody better get over here quick.

Hey Rick, what happened?

Driving back to get another load of pay and as I'm coming down the slope just

takes me in.

Even if we wanted to, we couldn't get the other rock truck by to go over and

pull pay on the other side.

Holy man.

We're going to try and hold it with the big hoe and the 250 will start to drag

it out. We don't want that cab to roll over or we're going to ruin a half a

million dollar machine.

The truck is blocking the road from the cut.

If they can't rescue it within the hour, the plant will run out of pay.

It's in neutral?

It's in neutral.

Okay, bud. Let's see if it'll come backwards.

Watch your eyeballs, kids.

Yes!

Right now we're unable to get paid to the plant.

We just can't keep up anymore. We're shutting the plant up.

Until they salvage the waterlogged rock truck, the California Creek operation is

at a standstill.

Well, a cable has a lot more strength than a chain, and if we're going to pull

it out of there, cables are best bet.

Clear?

Clear.

You've got to be kidding me.

Oh, man.

That cable actually hauled our wash plant up a hill.

And it broke here because there's so much suction from the silt on the front

of that truck.

So you've got to come up with another plan.

In my world, we call it a from hell.

I mean, it looks so close right here, but it just won't come. Got an idea,

though. What's up? What about using the old dozer?

Well, they could probably pull it back, eh?

Okay. Yeah, let's do that. We'll get this fixed as soon as possible. Sounds

good. All good.

Voila!

Oh, they broke the lead wire that we had, so we're making a new one. If this

breaks, that rock truck's probably staying there.

Fred's last ditch plan.

Use the pulling power of two excavators plus the D8 dozer.

Good.

Okay, everybody pull.

Three, two, one, pull.

That is a faucet of water pouring out of the engine.

Everything electrical was underwater.

I believe this one's done for the season.

Yeah, we've got to get this out of the way so we can get the road fixed and get

back to pulling pay.

Probably lost about 20 grand today in fuel costs, labor, and lost gold.

Right now we've got one rock shrunk down. That's a third of our fleet for

hauling pay.

We don't have a lot of time here.

This one hurt.

I'm not impressed with this season, really. This spring was wet. We've been

a lot.

If we can get to the 4 ,500 ounces this year, I'll be very impressed.

Never mind all the other troubles that we had to go through in order to get

far.

At Paradise Hill, Tony Beats has just days left in his season to get the 500

ounces he needs to hit his season goal.

He's depending on son Mike with his massive trommel on the hill.

Trying to get as far in and grab as much pay as we can.

And family friend Ruby Mahoney running the kiwi plant down in the honker cut.

At this point in the season, you know, every single ounce counts.

It's just going to push us closer to that, you know, 4 .5 thousand ounce

All of our hard work and all of the work that we've been through here.

We'll actually count for something.

Everything's looking all right.

That should be spinning and spinning.

It shouldn't be, isn't, so it's all good.

Hey, Tony. Hey, Tony. Kiwi plant is running. Everything is up and going.

It's getting really close to the end of the season, and it could just be done

like that. We could get a bunch of snow and just have to shut down.

So hopefully we can keep at it for as long as we can.

Everything that could have gone wrong has gone wrong in this cut. We've had

engine problems.

The cots blew out on us.

Hopefully we can, you know.

And this season on a high note.

Kevin! I don't have any water.

What?

All right, what? You don't have enough water up on top?

Yeah, that ain't pumping right.

They can't mine any gold without water.

We're not getting enough bloody water.

So what we're going to do is we'll close off the pump.

The governor's going to hope that Jane does it.

Lift it up a little bit and hopefully we don't break the damn thing.

The basket is about three quarters full of dirt. Oh, yeah.

The little holes that are in that suction, they clog up with little sticks

with little moss that is floating in the water down there.

Bingo, closes it right off.

Only last week, Kevin cleared mud and debris from this intake.

Now, it's blocked again.

I'm really not surprised at this point. This cut has been nothing but problems.

Without water, we can't sluice, and we're down again.

Cut is cursed. I don't know how we're ever going to finish this place.

Hey, Ruby. Hey.

So clearly we're not going to get decent water from over here. It's going to get

clogged again. Right. So we're going to end up moving the pump.

Really? Since we haven't been down here in a while, where we've been pulling the

pay from has flooded again.

Right. So that water is pretty well clear as we're going to get.

We won't have all this.

All right, well, I guess we're counting two birds with one stone. We can empty

our pond, and at least we have clean water.

Kevin's plan?

Move the water intake for the plant to the flooded section of the cut, which

should supply clean water, free of sediment.

That's exactly what I expected. It's all river rock.

So it's been pre -washed almost.

We should not have any sediment issues in here.

It's all right there.

Next step, hook up the suction, hook up the feed lines, and then

off we go.

Perfect.

Want a drink?

All the work is just done.

How much better could I plan it? All right. I'll really put some gold in the

box. That would help out. Yep. Be nice. Have both plans running for the end of

the season.

That's nice.

Let's go make some money.

How's that?

Cool. Nice to do it.

Please work, you piece of junk.

Firing up.

here ready to sluice so hopefully that's it we can just finish this off

yeah that looks a lot better i should be able to just come back when they need a

cleanup back

You know, this time of year, the snow can start flying at any minute.

And that's why it's so important to get Mud Mountain done here.

Obviously, we had a big stockpile of pater here at one point.

And now we've got, you know, hardly anything left.

Just got to try and get it through the wash plant before everything freezes up

here.

24 weeks ago, Parker staked his season on Mud Mountain.

He's dug 60 feet down to the deepest and hopefully the best pay.

He's never mined.

So this is the last few loads here in Mud Mountain.

Now, operator Damien Brown is digging out the last of the cut in the hopes

it delivers their biggest goldway ever.

So it froze quite hard last night. We came out this morning to find all the

water. It's all frozen over, so it's a good job we're getting close to the end.

I'm really hoping that these...

Goody holes here are going to really fail for us.

I think this is actually it.

Nothing, Mitch?

Yeah, go ahead.

Yeah, man, I think we're done down here.

No way, man, that's the last of it, huh? We've been waiting a long time to say

that.

All right, awesome. Well, let's just see if we can get this stuff through a wash

plant now.

Better crank it up.

Yeah, buddy.

It has been a long season here at Mud Mountain.

I actually can't believe that that was the last scoop out of it.

I just hope there's a bucket full of gold.

Last bucket of Mud Mountain, and we've been at it since Bruce got on the ground

this season.

Hasn't been what we thought it was going to be.

Finally, we can call it an end after this.

That's it, buddy. Last one right there.

No time. I never thought this nightmare was going to end.

Yeah!

That's what I'm talking about.

This is such a good feeling. You think about that stockpile we had here when we

started. Mud Mountain has been reduced to one hopper a pater.

We conquer.

Yeah, nice job, man.

Let's shut this thing off, man.

Woo! Yeah!

Right now we're shutting off Big Red at Mud Mountain for the last time. It's a

good feeling.

We won't know until Chris does the final cleanup here for us.

We see just how much gold we were able to get out of this.

Every year we've...

Been able to climb higher and higher with our gold numbers, and, you know,

really hoping this isn't the year when we don't beat that record.

This last bit of pay in the ugly cut and the last bit of pay at Mud Mountain can

help us get to where we want to be, and that's above $7 ,500.

Just hours after Mitch shuts down Big Red, Tyson is also reaching the end of

pay dirt in the ugly cut.

So here we go. This is the last scoop of pay going into Sluicifer.

And that's the mining season wrapped up.

Things are starting to ice up around here.

Couldn't have stopped at a better time.

This is the first day I've seen stuff like this on Sluicifer.

And it's a good thing we're done.

Hey, Chris.

Hey, old dog.

How are you doing, young fella?

Good.

This is it, huh?

This is it?

Last one. This is all you're going to get.

Yeah.

Claim owner Ken Tatlow and gold expert Chris Dumit arrive for the final mat

of the season on Sluicifer.

Get some of this mud and dirt out of here and see what we got, Ken.

Yeah, you got some gold there, Chris.

Yeah, a little bit in there, huh?

It is pretty fine, isn't it? It is. That looks good if you've got enough of it.

I think everything went really good.

Tyson's very conscientious about what he does.

He takes his job really seriously, which is good.

And hopefully Tyson will be back next year, and if he is, I'd love to see him

our ground again.

Hey, Ken. Hey, Tyson.

How are you? Thank you very much.

No worries. Good job. Well done.

Thank you, sir.

I'm glad you were looking after it down here. It's done. It's in the bag.

Well,

the good cut was all right.

The bad cut was better than the good cut.

And the ugly cut seemed to hold to its name.

Now all we have to do is watch the movies, the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Yeah.

I guess I'll catch you at the Goldway. Sounds good. I'll see you there.

Yep. Take care. Thanks, Tyson.

This is the final cleanup for Dugley Cut.

And it's the final cleanup for Sluicifer for the season.

The last two cleanups weren't all that great.

But with this one, we're doing the wings also, which we haven't done during the

whole cut.

That might be the saving grace for the final cleanup.

Last chance to change its name from the ugly cut to the not -so -good -looking

cut.

What's happening?

I want to let you guys know where we're at with everything.

Hours after the sluice has stopped, Parker has some bad news for his crew.

We're going to come up short on the gold front on a season where we've got a

huge amount of bills.

So what do you want to do to try and fix the problem?

I think that we should try to get something else opened up.

Still shy of last year's 7 ,500 ounce total.

Parker wants to push for another quick score before winter hits.

When we finished up at the airstrip in Zone 3, we did that addition there where

the road was, and that was all thawed underneath there. That was good ground,

too, when you tore up that road, Mitch.

That shows some real potential there.

Earlier in the season.

Hey, man, I got the first scoop of the airstrip road extension piled up here if

you want to start sending it through that wash plant.

Mitch mined out ground under a road at the airstrip.

20, keep it going, 281 .55.

And his gamble paid off.

I'll get down to that section of road right along the river there, move a wash

plant down there.

So we'll start getting things in place for the reclamation, and your crew can

start doing that kind of stuff, right?

Yep, for sure.

Okay. I think I'll go back to cleaning gold. It's a lot easier.

Make sure the bills are paid.

I tell you what, I'll get the gold to pay for the fuel for the guys running

dozer. Perfect.

There we go. Thanks, Grant.

Parker already has Lucifer on the airstrip.

But his deal with Tony means he needs to use Big Red or pay a higher royalty on

any gold he mines.

She's definitely brisk this morning. Yeah, she's a little chilly. That's why

went for some new gloves because my other ones had holes in the finger. I've

been saving a new pair for a nice cold day.

Got to start growing a beard so your cheeks don't feel the same way. Is that

just insulation?

Is that face insulation?

You got to keep it.

Is that why you're growing your hair out too? Oh yeah, it keeps the back of my

neck nice and warm. Keeps your ears warm? Pretty convenient this time of

Just a wind blocker.

Let's do it. This is the last wash plant move of the season.

Yeah. You ready?

Let's do it.

All right. Come on, Big Red.

Be good to us.

Mitch loads Big Red for the three -mile journey to Redemption Road.

Nice and easy now.

Just like that. Real nice.

Yeah, we're looking pretty good. It looks pretty balanced.

Right now we're bringing Big Red right back to where we started the season out.

Sluice room was set up right here.

No snow on the ground yet, so we're going to keep going.

Once we get done with this next piece here, it'll be time to head home and be

able to spend time with my wife, my daughter.

That's what I'm looking forward to the most.

A little bit more of what we did last year.

At the end of the year here, we're going to need the biggest cold wave we've had

all year.

190 feet down in the cut, Rick's crew are racing against the clock.

And the deeper they go, the better the pay gets.

I wish somebody would turn the heat dial up to help us out just to finish the

season off. You just don't know what this weather is going to do up here.

It might turn minus 45 overnight.

wake up one morning and it's over and we're not to our goal i mean i've been

trying to go as hard as i can all season being the first year it's rick i want

to prove myself i want to smash the goal

we've been giving her all season and we're down

to that good pay layer now it's just basically come down to how much we can

pumped through that wash plant

Everybody's out here putting in 100 % effort.

We need to push a lot of yards through here at the end.

They know that the goal is in the ground here, but we still have to run it.

I'm caving in.

You better get out of the way, man.

God damn it. Rick, you got a coffee, Rick?

The inner wall just caved in on us.

Are you kidding me?

This is not good.

All right, just stay out of there.

Hang tight. I'll be right there.

Get out of the way.

Did you take off?

Water that's formed a pond on a bench above the cut has caused the bank

to collapse.

There are high walls on all sides.

Any further collapse could bury the pay, Rick's equipment, and worse.

Any crew operating them.

Get the pump out of there.

If it gets sketchy, just leave.

Get the pump out of there. Leave the lathe flat. Yeah, yeah. Okay? Good.

Yeah, go quick.

Brennan, Kruze, and Nathan rush to rescue the pump before the collapsing

buries the bottom of the cut.

My piss off.

They make this flat.

We've got all of our out of there, but for this year, you know, we're going to

have to call it. It's just getting too dangerous.

We've got a stockpile of pay up at the plant.

Hopefully, that's what we've got up there right now.

It's going to be all we need to hit our 2 ,000 ounces because this cut right

here is done for the year.

Winter has arrived. This is a hell of a lot more cold than I was expecting.

I just don't know how much more we can fight.

We've had a rock truck stuck in a moat. That's still down, so we're down to 60 %

of our hauling capacity.

But this is a group of soldiers.

We aren't quitters.

We aren't going to slow down.

At California Creek, the temperature has hit 8 below.

But Fred Lewis and his crew are still 13 ounces short of their 100 -ounce season

goal.

Got to adapt and overcome.

Winter's going to make us do a lot of crazy things to keep going.

Yeah, I don't like this cold weather, not at all.

Rick and Chris are feeling the pressure as winter draws them nearer.

to the end of the mining season.

My boots were froze to the floor of my camper this morning, so I'm ready to go,

but we'll do what we got to do until it's time to go.

So this week has been a hectic one. We're in our asses a lot, but we have

significant progress.

This season has definitely been humbling, having to put in as much work

had to do. I think everyone's ready to get the hell out of here.

Because we are all hired here.

Those guys are hauling as fast as they can now to keep at me. As long as we can

keep enough pay coming to the plant.

We won't have to shut it down to risk freezing up.

That doesn't look right.

Trommel is wobbling.

Hey, Warren, this is Fred. You copy?

The trommel itself is wobbling. It looks like it's off balance.

Oh. Do you have a look at the guider wheels?

The last wheel on the end of the trommel doesn't look like it's doing the right

thing. If we let that run, it's going to put more stress on the other side, and

we're going to blow the other side too. I'm going to have to shut the plant

down.

Fred uses the excavator to remove the broken guide wheel.

I got it.

Hey,

I got it.

We're going to take this cap off and see what's behind door number one here.

Oh, can you hear that? It should be like whisper quiet.

This is a bearing that's a roller bearing that's supposed to be in that

there to keep the rest of the bearing together.

Yeah, we're just going to pound that seal at the back end and go look for

another one.

We're going to play Robin Hood today, you know.

We're going to rob from the good bearings and give to the bad bearings.

secluded environments, you've got to use what you've got.

This small bearing could be the part that ends their season if they can't

an identical replacement.

You got her. You're busting her.

We want to get that plant up and going because we've got a pile of pater on

yet.

So we don't actually know if this is the right size here. We're taking a gamble.

and hoping that it's going to be the one that we're looking for.

That's it, eh? This is what it should look like.

Just like this.

All together, one piece.

Not like that other one that was in several and very unhealthy.

We'll take this piece over. Looks like it should be a pretty close match.

Sheldon's hunch pays off.

The bearing is a perfect fit.

Yeah, it's pretty tight.

That'll be good.

That's a wrap.

We got this guide wheel back together now.

We're going to get this welded back up into place and get back to washing some

rock.

Stick up.

Stick out, yeah.

Is that good, Dirt?

No, that'll work.

Dirt Devil is back in business, and Fred could still hit his 100 -ounce goal.

It's almost spinning.

We're hoping it's going to last the rest of the season.

We're stockpiled. We know we got locked.

Very good pay.

So the devil's hungry. Let's feed her.

Right here is going to give us our last bit of thawed pay on Brandon's side.

Now the plant is back in operation.

Fred needs to find thawed pay.

So in this section, you know, we knew there was good pay here. Brandon's

me that it's probably around two ounces a hundred.

But in order to get this pay, we're using an old method that they used to

monitors, you know, when they were using water to melt pay.

So we dug on this side right in front of me where the creek's running now, and

it was frozen, really, really frozen. So we decided to divert the creek from the

right to the left, and we ran it over that pay streak.

to thaw it out a little bit of a gamble but if it does pay out could make or

break our season we're going to build this road divert the creek on this side

where i'm digging the trench right now and then we're going to pull to the

of me that will finish up this side on brandon's and then we'll be focusing on

our side after that and now i'm going to let the creek in see if this works

so far so good the creek is looking like it's drying up i'm gonna give it a

little test oh yeah see all that was frozen and it's all nice and thawed now

here we go mission success on there

we'll send rock trucks over here and probably uh the 250 and start pulling

right away because we don't have time we got to get it now

Hey, Brandon, what's up?

Just wondering how you're making out in the cut down there.

Looks all thawed to me, buddy.

Okay, I'll come down.

I'm just going to have you come to the very end of the road, Brandon, just

straight like you're going to back into the creek.

You got her, son.

Yeah, I actually thought it would be a little more frozen than this. It's

up pretty nice.

And the rocks are looking really good.

Perfect, just what we needed.

It's that end of the season push, Fred.

Oh yeah, we're taking every ounce we can get. Until we get frozen out.

For the ninth bar, Jesus!

And Paradise Hill.

Temperatures have dropped to 10 below freezing, and the snow is falling fast.

Winter has hit.

Are we going to meet a season total?

Well, we'll see. Hopefully we get very close. That would be nice.

So let's turn the plan up.

There we go.

The more we set up the feeder, the more yardage

we're going to run through the trommel. Hopefully that will help us get to the

season goal of 4 ,500 ounces.

Hopefully.

Kevin increases the feed rate to finish the last of the pay pile before the

plant starts to freeze.

We're trying to get this all done as soon as possible.

We started the season clearing the snow. Now we're going to end the season

running from it.

Winter has officially arrived here on Paradise Hill.

We've shut the kiwi plant down.

Hopefully we can finish the season on a high note and then get out of here.

Ruby is pitting on a pile of pay.

With the plant at full speed, she should be through it in two hours.

Hey, Ruby, how's it going?

It's going well. We're pushing through the last little bit here.

Hell yeah.

Yep.

All the dirt gone, Mike?

Yep. Everything clean, Kevin?

Yep. Okay. Shut the damn thing off. That's enough.

All good.

Okay, Ruby, did you copy? That is it.

Might as well run that hole off the pile.

Done.

It's bittersweet, you know. We're at the end of the season.

We've worked hard, and I hope our work has paid off, and this last piece will

get us to that.

4 .5 thousand ounce golf.

Here we go.

Been one hell of a season.

Last bit of pay to the thermal.

End of the season.

Okay, final cleanup.

Feels good, don't it? All good? All right, thanks. Okay.

Okay, Mike, you get ready, get all them guys up here, start doing, get ready for

the cleanup, would you?

Hey, Nick.

Oh, that's a nice one.

You know, we tore this wash plat apart.

It was beautiful out.

We got it over here on the new pad and we started putting it together.

And this morning we came out to a dusting of snow on everything.

Completely changed overnight.

Temperatures have plummeted, but Mitch still has to sluice Parker's final pay

the season from the new cut, Redemption Road.

We'll see what she does, but... Check out those loose runs. We're going to

to run some water on them just to get them to thaw out.

Ready to go?

Throw some dirt at it? What do you think?

Yeah, let's do it. Let's see what happens.

Here we go. Let's fire this up.

Here we go.

Oh, yeah. There we go. She's shaking. Took a little bit to get her going.

Everything's looking good. Here, Justin, give it some dirt, man. All right, go

time.

Oh, there we go.

There it is. We got the first tater of our winter wonderland here going through

Big Red.

Nice.

Redemption Road, trying to get as much pay out of here as quick as we can

it freezes us out. Big Red's last chance to pay out before the end of the

season. We're knocking home without a fight.

With the cold weather, there's lots of different variables, and if for any

reason we've got to shut down, the pipeline can freeze up, and we're going

have no water to wash the rocks and get that gold, so we've got to do everything

we can possible to keep the plant running steady.

major problem?

Depends what you consider major.

Well, there's dirt getting washed.

Right now, we're doing all right.

If it's minus 10 or so, you've only got what?

Two hours.

If you're broke down for more than two hours and the sluice runs are going to

frozen solid.

Oh, yeah.

Well, that's what we're going to focus on is just keeping it running. We got

four trucks bringing pay dirt up.

Hopefully, we can get all the dirt through before that happens.

All right.

Day dirt's coming out of the cut right now.

We got lots of material up here on the deck, so all we have to do is just try

and keep Big Red running.

Overnight, the temperature at Redemption Road has dropped to 15 below.

The snow continues to be falling here on the mine site.

And everything's starting to get a little packed here, so it's getting

We've got trucks pay up here. We've got to be very careful now.

You look at all the icicles already starting to form up here on Big Red.

We shut this wash plant off, it's not going to take much time at all for

everything to freeze up here.

So we've got to keep it running.

Yeah, it's like a deer on ice in this loader right now.

With these icy conditions and going up and down the ramp, it's definitely

dangerous. So the guy's just going to be definitely on his heels and paying

attention.

Whoa!

Justin, go kill the puck! Go kill the puck!

Now we're just going to cut down big red.

Hopefully there's nothing too major and we'll get it fired back up.

It looked like we got a jam up in the pre -wash, but we'll take a quick look

here. What did you do?

That gets through.

Big rock in there?

Yeah. You want to get that big bar from the feeder?

We had a close call.

I thought I could break it in half like some sort of superhero.

This ain't working, Mitch.

If they can't clear the pre

-wash fast, the plant will freeze and their season will be over.

I saw we had material spill it out. The pre -wash here, you can see all this

dirt that's built up. It was fluffing off the side here.

Watch out.

The risk with any downtime this time of year is you only have a couple hours to

be down before everything starts freezing up, which is kind of cool. It's

of fun. It keeps you on your toes.

An hour in, and the pre -wash is still blocked.

You know, I think this is one of the first rock jams we've had this season in

the pre -watch.

Yeah, so that's not bad.

Oh, just the boot. I see Parker's technique, but I've never seen your

there, Justin.

Dude, are you seeing his foot action here?

Watch, Justin. Yeah, the toes.

Not bad, eh?

You look like a crab up there just using your toes.

Oh, yeah, there you go. Some gold in this stuff.

That's better than what we saw at Mud Mountain. We couldn't just pick up a

and find a piece of gold there.

Did you see that?

You know, this ground down here might not be the best, but it's been pretty

reliable.

All right, you're all good?

Yeah, we're just going to get this fired back up.

Big Red lives to fight another day. A few rocks jammed up ain't going to hurt

us.

Woo!

There it is.

We were very fortunate. We caught it as quick as we did. We got it cleared out.

Big Red's back running.

But this would have happened at night with attempts like this.

The plant would have been down for a while. Probably wouldn't have got it

going. We're almost there, but we still got a ways to go.

Come on, Big Red, hang in there.

That right there is ice.

Fred Lewis is still 13 ounces short of his season goal.

But with his 50 -50 split with Brandon Clayton's crew, they still need twice

that. We're basically chasing our thawed pace. There isn't much of it left.

That's as far in as I can go.

These pieces of equipment are getting beat up by all this frozen ground.

The end is near.

We let it fire inside the hopper just to heat it up, get the frost out of it so

it will spin.

Over at the wash plant, Brandon's trying to get the wash plant running after

another freezing night.

See, you can hear that, eh?

That little ice crystal smashing in there.

Solid as a rock, dude.

Probably 8 ,000 pounds of ice in there.

8 ,000 pounds of solid ice.

We could get a tire torch on it, but it'll take us six, seven hours to thaw

thing out.

When this eight -inch water line freezes solid, then it's way too cold and we

need to get back home.

Fred, you got a coffee?

This is Fred.

Hey, Fred, we need you down here as soon as possible. We got an issue down here.

Roger that. I'll be right there.

What's going on? My 8 -inch water line froze.

That froze solid.

Oh, that's not good. It looks pretty frozen.

When 8 -inch water line freezes, it's game over.

So what do you want to do?

I'm not seeing any way we can keep going. I think we were lucky to be here

long.

I think you're right. It's just time to pack up, go home, take what we got in

our box.

All right, I'm going to call the guys, and we'll get those mats pulled.

10 -4.

Get everything out of here. Good job, bro. Okay, see you later. Yep, later.

Hey, Misfits, I'm going to have you guys meet up at camp. We're going to have a

meeting. Everybody, la -di -da -di.

What's up?

What is up?

There you are.

Howdy, howdy. What's up, man? All right, so I talked to Brandon. His pipes are

freezing. His water pump has very little left if it gets any colder than it is.

Supposed to snow a foot tonight.

There is no pay left right now that's economically viable to pull.

Basically what I'm saying is we're done.

Fred's crew of military veterans still needs to clean all the concentrate

they've produced.

to find out if they've hit their 100 -ounce season goal.

We've got a pull mat, all full mat pull. We'll do that today.

We get our final goal away, and we go home.

That's good with that? Cool.

Misfits. Misfits.

It's always got to be so close, man.

Rick's Rally Valley mission to double his gold haul to 2 ,000 ounces is in the

balance as the Yukon winter slams the door on his season.

We did everything we could, man.

Roses and sluices aren't doing us any favors right now. I don't think we could

go on any longer this year, even if we had more dirt.

Well, last scoop.

Time to shut her down.

If it wasn't in the pay pile, there's nothing we can do this year.

All right, boys, that was the last one.

Let's shut it down and see what we got.

Oh, there's just some gold in here, eh?

Eh? There's some gold in here. Yeah, that other one looked good.

When you see runs like this, it's usually time to get out of here and go

for the winter.

Well, it's a lot cleaner, but the season minus 10 last night, that's cold, you

know what I mean? We usually try and get done and get out of here, but the

weather's set in a lot earlier this year, so hopefully this will take us to

2 ,000 -ounce goal, and that's what matters, right?

Rick's crew dug 190 feet down to pay dirt that should be three times as rich

the pay he normally runs.

I hate guessing. You're never going to know until you run across the scales.

Hopefully it's all in the box, man. That's all we got for this year.

Well, here we are. We finally made it. This is the last scoop.

Heading towards the hopper.

And this road cut is going to be finished.

At the airstrip, Mitch taps out Redemption Road.

Yeah, buddy, go ahead and throw her in there. That's the last one. How's that

feel?

Oh, I don't know. After Mother Nature and everything else against us, I wasn't

sure we were going to get in here. It feels pretty good.

That's it.

Shut her down. Shut her down, boys.

Yeah. Good work, Justin.

Yeah.

It's definitely been a struggle here, but we got Chris down ready to do the

cleanup, and it's time to call it a season.

Worst part is I got to wash his mess with my bare hands.

A little frosty this morning. A little bit.

It was a good call digging up this road, Mitch. It really was. I think if you

get a good cleanup here, it could put us over the top from last year.

When you look back, we've done a lot of cuts. We did zones one and two at the

airstrip. Then we did zone three. We did the road extension in zone three. Then

we sent sluice for down.

Did the good, the bad, the ugly.

We took Big Red up, did Mud Mountain.

Now we brought it back down here and did the road.

Nine cuts.

A whole bunch, man.

It's all the thawed dirt we have right here. So if it's in there, it's in

If it's not, we gave it a hell of a try.

To beat last season's 7 ,500 -ounce gold total, they still need over

350 ounces.

All right, well.

We're going to start breaking things down, start winterizing stuff, and we'll

see you down at the gold room.

Sounds like a plan. We'll be out of here in just a couple minutes.

Okay.

Another season over, eh? Hard to believe.

Woo!

Chris!

Final cleanup!

Final cleanup!

Final cleanup.

Been watching the geese fly by, thinking, you know, they're going the

direction I want to go.

High fives, ladies.

Well done.

We did it. We did it. We did it.

As you can see, it's getting really cold out. I mean, the timing was impeccable.

We're about 360 ounces short of last year.

It's going to be close.

It's going to be very, very close.

Hi, guys.

After six hard months of mining, the Beats family gather for their final gold

way of the season.

I know, it's a lot, isn't it? It's more than you?

To find out if they've hit their 4 ,500 -ounce goal.

Seeing as this is our last week, we're all teared down. How did the last week

go? We had the New Zealand plan going. How did that all go for you?

We did do some sleuthing, so I hope we have something in one of those jars.

Just hope that we have something to show for all the headache that we were down

there for.

When we got done with Maestro, almost time to go home, wasn't it? It's

I could see Santa Claus waving as he was probably by. Whatever.

We cleaned out them last two pits, and that became the night to see what came

out of them.

Kiwi first. Let's go.

Say hello to my little friend. What? No way!

I don't think we've ever gotten that much off of kiwi.

Is that a season total? No.

Okay, everybody ready?

Do the thing, chicken wing.

20, 30, 40, 80, 90, 100.

140, 150.

158 .34.

That's super awesome. I did not expect that at all.

Neither did I.

Worth $285 ,000.

Battling the cursed cut has finally delivered.

So now that I've contributed a little something to the end of the year

how much more do we need to get to that $4 ,500?

Another 354 ounces.

I hope it's in those jars.

They look pretty promising.

So let's see if we're going to reach $4 ,500 or not.

Three, two, one, go.

10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 110, 120, 130, 200, 210,

220, 300, 310, 20, 30, 340, 350,

360, 370, 380, 390, 400.

You got that part.

You got more left? There you go.

410, 420, 430, 450, 460,

463 .94.

Both cuts bringing in a total of $1 .1 million.

That's our biggest gold blade it's brought.

So where did that put us, Minnie?

The season total for this year is 4 ,620 .9 ounces. That means we're over by 120

.9 ounces.

The Beats have mined well over $8 million and beaten their goal for

Hill. I thought it was nice to be over by a little bit.

And I'm pretty happy that at least we made half of our original gold. So we're

finishing the year off pretty good, huh?

I would just like to say that this year has been pretty great, seeing as you

have a granddaughter.

That's the best thing about this year. You know, it is. That's priceless. Far

more precious than all that metal you have on the table.

We better get good gold waste if we're going to keep that up now, don't we?

Yeah.

You guys all done a good job.

And I guess we have to get ready for winter, so you guys want to get on that

we can all leave?

She almost sounds like she's the boss around there.

She is the boss. She is?

She is the boss. Whatever makes you feel better. Okay, guys.

We'll see you in Holland. Yeah.

Give me a hug!

I love you, I love you, I love you! Bye.

Okay, I'll see you in the Netherlands.

You betcha.

Anyway, that was a pretty nice gold way, huh?

Yeah, that turned out pretty good. I have to say so myself.

We got what we were aiming for, the $4 ,500. We did better than that.

Hopefully next year we can get that $9 ,000 we were hoping to get this year.

And we got another grandchild.

And we got a grandkid. So life is pretty good. I think we did pretty good this

year. Yeah.

Hey, what's up?

Let's see. That sounded heavy.

All right, guys.

The last one.

I'm a little nervous about this one. We had a tough week.

At the start of the season, Fred struggled to find ground to mine.

He didn't start sleuthing until over two months into the five -month season.

Now... He's going to find out if he has made it as a Yukon miner and hit his 100

-ounce goal.

Regardless of what this is, though, I'm proud of you guys.

Right now we're sitting at 87 ounces.

Remember, we give half of it away.

So we need 26 ounces to hit 100.

The crew needs 13 ounces to hit their goal, but half the final gold belongs to

Fred's partner, Brandon Clayton. Kind of delaying the inevitable here, guys.

How about you start pouring?

Oh, I've never been this nervous.

26, come on.

1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 15,

17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24,

25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30.

Oh, look at that.

38. Oh, come on.

39, 40, 42,

43, 44, 45, 45, 85.

That's a wave.

We get half of that, so we get 22 .8 ounces.

Nearly twice what they needed.

Dude, we did it.

Not only did we do it, we beat it. I can't believe it. We came here under

impossible odds late in the season, found ground, and we pulled over 110

Worth almost $200 ,000, over 15 times what they produced last

year.

I'm proud to be part of this team.

You come here to the Yukon, greet it.

And now I don't care what anybody says.

You guys remind me.

Right on.

Thank you, bud. You guys are.

I appreciate you.

Thanks, man. This was not given to any of us.

Nobody was handed anything here. We earned this with blood, sweat, and some

tears. This was a fight, man. This was a fight. The whole time. And I don't

think I would have had it any other way.

Thank you for being part of this team because now we're all family.

I needed this to help me focus, and you guys stuck with me.

And I said, I'm all in for the win, man. When people tell you you couldn't do

it, it's like, no.

You bring in a bunch of Green Berets, we're going to make it happen.

All of us can say we've goldmined in the Yukon. It's like legendary epic.

You talk about obstacles, we've all overcome them in our lives. This is

probably, for me, one of my biggest achievements ever.

Let's pack our and get out of here. Let's go see our families.

I'd call this an A -team, gold mining A -team. You're surrounded by guys, you

trust them with your life, and it feels like that with these guys here.

Kudos to Fred. He had a number of hurdles that he had to clear to make

happen. He's a great leader, he's a great guy.

I can't wait to start it up for next year.

I started this company to help veterans, to give some people purposes that

needed a purpose, and right now we've done that. Every single person that came

up here has a purpose now, and now I couldn't feel any more proud of my team.

just can't wait to kick more ass.

Man, this weather's beautiful. We should start sluicing again. I think so.

Not everybody has made it to Rick's final gold way of the season.

How's old cruisy boy doing?

He's in the hospital.

He's got diverticulitis and possible perforation.

He's in some pain, but, you know, he'll recover.

At the start of the season, Rick shocked everyone by doubling his gold to 2 ,000

ounces to achieve the impossible.

He moved over a million yards of dirt from a cut over three times as deep as

he's mined before.

And he did it all with a bare -bones crew.

I'm interested in quite the season, eh?

I couldn't be more happy to be a part of my first year here and look at what we

conquered as a team, man. It's crazy.

It's kind of nice to be that small family feel again, just get back to the

of mining.

Yeah, we're a small team, right? But we're doing a big thing.

You look at what we did this year, like, you go home with head high.

Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, this deep ground's worth that. I've never

gotten anywhere close to that deep.

None of us here had.

No. And that wall to collapse, it sucks that it happened, but I think there's

huge potential in this channel. And I'm looking forward to hopping out where it

goes and chasing.

Yeah.

We were at just over 1650.

From the last gold weight. Need just shy of 350 ounces to hit 2 ,000.

And it's going to be really close. I'm not going to lie.

This is 250 ounces right here.

Holy. Right here. And I don't know what's in here as I want to do it with

guys. So there's 250 in there. We need like 96 ounces.

To hit his season gold, Rick needs the biggest gold weight he's ever had.

Man, it's going to be close. This is absurd.

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

70, 80.

Still going 90, 100.

103 .4. No way.

I got something else, though. We didn't get to the bottom of that cut, but we

got close. We got some nuggets.

No way.

Wow. Wow.

Nice.

Yeah. This would be bigger than Indian River, right? Yeah. Yeah.

See what it is.

Oh, that's a good sound.

That is.

There we go. That's another 27 ounces, boys. Man, awesome.

Got one more little jar here.

This will sound really good.

Oh, wow.

That's another 13 and a half ounces.

Doesn't that look cool, though? Look at that.

Oh, man.

That is by far the biggest gold total for a week.

It's almost 400 ounces, 393.

That's 2 ,047 ounces.

That's awesome, man.

$700 ,000 worth of gold in the last week.

and taking his seasoned gold haul to almost $3 .7 million.

I love you, man. I love you too, man.

It's awesome that you're here for this. I appreciate it. This is a big step.

That represents victory right there. Yeah.

The gold we needed was at the bottom of Raleigh Valley.

We all went after it, and we got it.

The amount of people that we had and to pull off what we pulled off, I'm going

to have a nice little jar of gold for all you guys.

Yeah, that is. Thank you. What about Dad?

Check's in the mail, Dad.

Trying to think back what you used to pay me when I was growing up.

Pay you a kick in the ass.

There it is.

That's what it was. It was a kick in the ass. There it is.

All right, let's get out of the snow.

Time to go home, boys.

Isn't it nice to go home knowing that we hit 2 ,000 ounces?

I don't know how to top it.

I mean, I will. I'll top it next year.

But there's more than a lifetime of mining here, and I put the down payment

secure it. That's a hell of a good feeling, because by the end of next

I've got no royalties to pay.

Unbelievable. Rick has entered the major leagues, doubled his gold total, bought

his own ground, and produced his best season ever.

To say that I'm proud right now is an understatement.

Yeah, it's a good feeling.

Final goal away for the season.

Traditionally, we get a campfire going, get the whole crew down here, let them

see the fruits of their labors.

All the gold we're going to get, we got. After starting the season on the back

foot, facing competition for Klondike ground, and struggling to mine the

cut of his career, it's time for Parker's final gold way.

Parker! Parker!

Parker!

What? Is that what they said?

Thank you all for coming to this little powwow, our final gold way.

It is your guys' work that got us through the season.

You know, the season started out, I was a little bit nervous. We lost Superman

Shane and Brennan, and it was a little bit of a concern for me, but you guys

rose to the challenge. And thank you.

So you want to throw some gold on the scale? So we've got...

Lucifer that was running down on Ken and Stuart's ground, and Joan, of course.

I hate to pick on you, old -timer, but I know we get excited when we find it

tough. What it must have been like when you found, like, the whole animal

walking.

No, Chris, I'm old, but I'm not that damn old.

You get my abuse when you leave, so you just sit back and take it.

So, Ken, this is last year's ugly cut. And this is from like half a week.

To hit his biggest season total ever, Parker needs 7 ,500 ounces.

But he's over 350 ounces short.

60 ounces.

Ken, for your ground this year, the good, the bad, the ugly is 2 ,076

That's good. That's good.

Yeah, that's not bad.

Ken's Ground this year has delivered over $3 .5 million.

Ken, thank you for helping getting that strip down there. And thank you for just

being here all season.

Like, nobody has a landlord that comes in, like, does

all the work.

You guys left nothing for us.

This is the end of all the airstrip cuts. This is where Big Red just

up. Let's see what we got here, damn it.

50.

100.

And we're still going. Keep her going, keep her going.

299 .6.

Yeah!

So all in all, we got 3 ,000 combined with both wash plants.

Yes. That's pretty awesome.

You guys answered the challenge, man.

The bonus 300 ounces from Redemption Road puts the season total at 7

,501.

So here's Mud Mountain.

What do you got? What do you got?

This is 350 ounces right there.

And in this one is another 350 ounces.

Yeah!

We need 3 ,000 ounces to break even at Mud Mountain. We're at 2 ,950 ounces.

We're 50 ounces short.

But we have one more thermos.

It's a one -hander, not that heavy.

That's 80. It's got to be 100.

108 .45.

So for Mud Mountain, we got 3 ,058 ounces.

Far less than the drill tests indicated.

And barely enough to cover the costs.

Parker, you almost made $100 ,000 on the deal. Almost.

With all that worry, all that wear and tear.

It's just like the sad part is how much effort went into it. Because you guys

busted your balls to make that work.

I know.

They won't. Neither will you. I'll throw some fun facts at you.

Last year we had 7 ,504 ounces. This year we have

8 ,309 .75 ounces.

Yeah!

We beat last year by 800 ounces, you guys.

Despite Mud Mountain not living up to its promise, Parker's mined over a

dollars more than ever before.

grossing a record -breaking $15 million in Klondike gold.

I wouldn't want to have had any different crew. I really enjoyed working

you guys.

Even you, Justin, and losing the fuel pack.

Yes, even you.

But we had some really good greenhorns this year, and I hope that we can do it

again.

Team Parker, yeah?

Cheers, guys. Cheers.

I'll drink to that.