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[intriguing music plays]

This time of season right now, I mean,

I can tell summer's gone.

We're well in the fall,

and we have no time for delays anymore.

[narrator] Four months into the season,

Rick Ness is deep in the hole.

I mean, at the moment, we're not even at 500 ounces

yet, so we can't afford to be wasting any more time.

If we don't see some gold soon, there's no way we're going

to hit our 1,800 ounces.

Just seven weeks remain in the mining season.

Rick's now spent a million dollars moving a mountain

in his Valhalla Cut and he's finally close to hitting

the pay layer.

This whole Valhalla Cut here, you know, it's huge.

It's probably the biggest project I've ever taken on

up here, and, you know, it's really starting

to eat at me a bit.

If things don't go exactly as they have to go,

then I'm broke. I'm done.

Bailey's got a lot done in the cut.

I mean, he's doing a hell of a job down there.

It's looking like any day we're going to be down to pay,

and we need to get sluicing quick.

We need to see some gold.

The guys that are with me on it, I know that,

and they've been working their asses off,

and that's just what we're gonna stick with, because

if Valhalla pays off, it could be the best decision

I've ever made.

[Bailey] Hey, Rick, you got a copy?

[Rick] Go for Rick.

[Bailey] Can you come down to the cut?

[mysterious music plays]

[Rick] Oh, boy.

[Bailey] Well, buddy, I got some honest opinions.

From there, you can see how it dives right there.

That's the slope, and then it continues there.

But everything from, like, that edge...

Yeah.

[Bailey] ...I dug 25 more feet down

as far as that [bleep] thing can go down,

and it was just still pure clay.

-[Rick] What do you mean? -[Bailey] No pay.

Rick believes an ancient dried-out riverbed

filled with coarse gold

runs across four miles of his Duncan Creek claims.

The 50-foot pay streak is proven to run under

Rally Valley and then downstream to Vegas Valley.

Rick assumed this pay layer would be at the same

150 foot depth in Valhalla.

But after digging down for over a month,

instead of hitting paydirt,

Bailey has run into a 25-foot clay layer

with no gold.

[Rick] Dude...

So all this clay, like, where the [bleep] do we take it?

25 more feet down, that's...

-[Rick] That's too much. -Too much for this year.

There might be rich pay farther down, but you think

about it, we don't know what's down there.

[Rick] Yeah.

I dug a test hole pretty much

just across from that elbow right there... -[Rick] Yeah.

...to, like, the edge of that over there.

[Rick] But it's just clay?

Oh, it's clay all the way to the next cut, man.

Doesn't make any [bleep] sense.

[Bailey] Sorry that I got to tell you, but, like...

the ground don't lie.

This is all dead zone.

It's a smack to the face, man.

I know we did all this work, but...

Yeah.

...is it worth it?

[Rick] All right, give me a minute.

[Bailey] Yeah.

[suspenseful music plays]

We have no clue what's underneath this clay,

and we got to figure out something quick

because time's running out.

[Ryan] Quite a bit going on today.

You know, Rick's doing some soul searching right now,

looking for what he wants to do.

So a lot of thoughts going through his head.

[Rick] I really thought that this whole Valhalla Cut was going

to be huge for us.

Bailey gets on this clay layer,

and we just have no way to deal

with that this year, it's just not gonna work.

I'm out here with seven people trying to move a mountain,

right, to get down to a little spot in the bottom

that's got a bunch of gold in it.

I wanted to make these big decisions that would leave me,

by the time I was done with this, with something that I

could hold and not sell and be able to do what I want after

that, that's the whole [bleep] reason I'm out here, right?

It's, you know, I don't wanna be mining

until I'm 100 [bleep] years old.

I wanna learn this, I wanna do it, I want to do it right,

and I want to be happy after this.

And, you know, now...

I'll walk away with nothing, you know?

And that's...

that's the [bleep] opposite of the plan.

I wanted to walk away from this with everything.

And, uh...

Yeah.

Is this...

This whole endeavor could be the thing that...

makes my entire life [bleep] great,

or it could be the thing that [bleep] ruins it.

I can handle all that. I can, [bleep], I can.

I've been handling it, but, like,

just some [bleep] days, man, it's just too much.

And I don't talk about it with my guys.

I don't talk about it with anybody, because if I talk

about it, it makes it real.

And then I can't [bleep] control it.

It's just not where I thought it would be

when I made the decision.

[bleep] and it's frustrating.

[voice trembling] And I don't understand.

I'm wondering if it ever is gonna be.

[bleep], man.

Yeah, I'm [bleep] struggling more than I thought I would.

Damn it!

[intriguing music plays]

[Tony speaking]

King of the Klondike, Tony Beets, is on the verge

of breaking records.

There's still almost two months of the season to go.

And Tony is already closing in on a massive milestone.

[Tony speaking]

Tony has three washplants running,

Sluice-A-Lot and Find-A-Lot on the Indian River,

and the trommel on Paradise Hill.

To hit his target, Tony needs his entire arsenal

of washplants running full bore this week.

At the Corner Cut, Sluice-A-Lot accounts for half

the Indian River's weekly gold production.

My responsibility is running the plant.

We've got to watch the fines and the coarse tailings that

build up, you know?

[Dalten speaking]

[plant powers down]

[suspenseful music plays]

[rattling]

[Darian] Oh, [bleep].

Oh, you see the metal separating from the edge

of the drum? And that's not good.

You can blow up that end pulley, and then you get

a major jam-up, and then your runs get filled, and you end up

blowing gold out of the boxes because your runs will get

full of rocks, eh?

We got to do something about it.

A broken drum pulley on the coarse tailings conveyor

has jammed, taking Sluice-A-Lot out of action.

[Tony speaking]

[Darian] [bleep] start to the day, though.

Didn't think I'd be doing this.

Shoveling.

[Cousin Mike] A little bit of a project.

We can't just take the drum out.

We got to take the whole conveyor off.

In charge of getting Sluice-A-Lot back on the gold,

Indian River foreman Cousin Mike.

We're just going to move the whole washplant to a new

spot where it's leveled.

Sluice-A-Lot's tailings conveyor

removes coarse waste rocks

from the shaker decks.

But four months of wear and tear has sheared its drum

pulley from its shaft, and the belt no longer turns.

To replace it, Cousin Mike needs to raise the plant with

its built-in hydraulic rams, then drag it out with a dozer

until it's free from the dirt.

Next, he must remove the conveyor and belt

to access the broken drum pulley,

then install a replacement,

reattach the belt,

and finally fire the plant back up.

I can lift up the plant hydraulically.

Every little bit helps as we cannot get it out

of the dirt. There it goes.

This is just so that when I start dragging,

we don't wreck anything.

[drill whirring]

We'll start hooking up some cables.

Dalten, do you copy, Dalten?

Go ahead, go ahead.

[Cousin Mike] Everybody clear?

You guys get the [bleep] away from that cable.

If that cable snaps, it'll cut you right in half.

Stay away from it.

[machine roaring, rumbling]

[Dalten] Stay away from that cable.

Everyone's clear.

Tony Beets wants to smash his 6,500-ounce season target

this week and needs to get his washplant

Sluice-A-Lot back in action.

[Cousin Mike] All right, off we go.

Cable's tight.

I already notice now it's heavy pulling.

[revving]

I'll have a look at it.

The plant free from the dirt,

Tony can now inspect the broken tailings conveyor.

-Poor you. -[laughing]

[Tony speaking]

[Len] If you can't do that anymore, you shouldn't be here.

[Tony speaking]

[Len] I found a new one.

Let's see if it fits.

On each side, we got a plate,

so we have to disconnect that plate, take it off.

[Tony speaking]

[Cousin Mike] OK, I'll loosen this one up, Len.

[Len] Yeah.

-[whirring] -[clanking]

[Len] Let's do some lifting, and then we can swing it out.

Len, can you walk ahead a little bit, walk forward.

[creaking, rattling]

You're free.

Maybe walk another four feet.

[Cousin Mike] I'll lift it up till it's free, and then try

and keep it on the top that I don't hit anything.

[Brian] OK, good, there.

-[Len] All right? -[Brian] Yeah, we're good here.

Well, that was pretty successful.

[rattling]

[Brian] Yeah, that's it.

[Len] Watch your toes. Watch your toes.

[Brian] She's out.

[Cousin Mike] Yeah, so we finally got this bastard out.

As you can see, it's ripped here

all the way around.

So we'll first try to put the new pulley in, getting back

to sluicing as soon as possible.

[Tony speaking]

The other one is 56, and this one is 68.

[Tony] Uh-oh.

The one I brought is a little bit smaller.

[Tony] Uh-oh.

[Tony speaking]

[mysterious music plays]

[Parker] The gold in the ground is the gold in the ground,

but it's a lot of dirt to get through.

It's just extremely frustrating.

Heading into the homestretch of the season,

Parker Schnabel's 10,000-ounce gold target is in danger

of slipping from his grasp.

[Parker] We just need to keep the sluicing hours up.

We're going to be hard-pressed to get through that pit

this year if we don't have washplants running.

So to hit 10,000 ounces, we've got to sluice all of it.

Last week...

We shut down both Sluicifer and Big Red.

Parker shut down two washplants

to dig out the last of the paydirt

from the Golden Mile.

We have a major problem.

The dirt can't be in the hole anymore.

We could just start making pay piles.

While the crew continues to dig out pay, Parker wants

to get one of the plants back up and sluicing.

So we've built two big pay piles.

Big Red's ready to move next to one of the big piles

that we've got of pay.

But now, Tyson's taking some time off.

Timing's not great.

[Tyson] Well, that's a wrap for me right now.

Drive to the airport and fly out to my sister's wedding.

While I'm gone, one of the major things that really

have to happen is moving Big Red.

With Tyson being gone, Brennan's filling in for him,

and Brennan's going to get that plant moved.

This is the first kind of major washplant thing

that Brennan's been in charge of, so

we'll see how badly he can screw it up.

It's on Brennan now.

Shouldn't take more than a shift.

Hopefully, I remember how all the pieces go together here.

Despite being a seasoned dirt mover,

Brennan Ruault hasn't moved Big Red in five years.

Moving a plant is always a big responsibility, and it does

always give me a bit of anxiety if I was to be honest with you.

We have two pay piles that are the size of Mount Everest

here to get through.

So it's all a massive [bleep] race

against the clock right now.

Every minute that the plant shut down, it's that many

ounces of gold not getting washed.

Parker wanted this thing sluicing tonight,

and I want to make that happen.

But I do want to prove myself here.

You guys are good with all this?

[Brennan] Yep.

I was hoping to have it moved and set up today and washing

rocks for night shifts. -Is your pad ready?

[Brennan] Yeah.

Better be.

Don't break my washplant.

He looked at you, not me.

[Parker] I should be looking at you first.

Don't break my washplant.

[Brennan] I can't promise you that.

Hopefully these guys can get a washplant moved.

Hey, pal, we're ready to move this plant here.

Mechanic Alec Kelly helps Brennan move Big Red one mile

to the far end of the Golden Mile.

Oh, this thing doesn't corner like a passenger car.

The main body of Big Red weighs 50 tons

and clocks in at 21-feet high.

[suspenseful music plays]

Come on.

[creaking harshly]

[heavy thud]

[bleep] yeah! Whoo!

Ha-ha-ha!

Plant off the lowboy,

Brennan must drag it into place on its new pad.

Make sure the plant comes up sort of square enough,

so we're not twisting on your pad here.

Favor that side of the bank and then sort of like walk

sideways and out.

To leave enough room for Big Red's massive feeder belts,

Brennan must maneuver the plant to the edge of

the pad by dangling his 58-ton excavator over

the 50-foot drop.

[Brennan] Feeling better about that?

[Alec] Yeah, now just walk your far track down into it.

-How close am I? -[Alec] Uh, like two feet?

[Brennan] Am I gonna drop hard?

[Alec] Should be OK, just lower your boom down as you go.

You can just push yourself back too if you want, it'll dig in.

There you go.

[Brennan] It sure sucks having Tyson gone here right in the middle

of a plan move like this.

Yeah, it's definitely feeling a little steeper

than I thought it was.

[Alec] Keep her coming and stop there.

That does look a little gnarly, eh?

[Alec] Yeah, not bad.

You guys better make sure you remind Parker because

he looked at me and said,

"Are you sure you finished your pad?"

[Alec] Doing a lot of prep saves a lot of time.

We've still got a little ways to go here, but I think you got

her lined up pretty good.

Next step, bring in the feed conveyor that delivers

the gold-rich paydirt to the plant.

We can start folding up our radial stacker.

Fingers crossed, things are looking good.

Hmm.

That definitely won't last the rest of the year,

that's for sure.

This clip here, that clip there, and that one down there

are toast.

And all it takes is one bad clip to rip and then the whole

belt could be garbage.

The metal clips that hold the 200 foot long belt together

are nearly destroyed.

[Alec] Oh, we've got four seams in pretty [bleep] condition.

So what's that?

What are you trying to tell me here?

I'm really wanting to hang a belt on this guy.

-[Brennan] Are you serious? -So we have one seam.

We'll have more uptime for later

throughout the cold season.

How long is this gonna take?

If I can get it to the yard, probably six, eight hours,

have it buttoned up. -It [bleep] sucks, man.

I told Parker I'd have this [bleep] thing moved and sluicing

by night shift.

It's really [bleep].

We can do night shift the next day.

Already near the end of the shift, replacing the belt

crushes Brennan's timeline.

[Brennan] [bleep], that pissed me off.

You know, that's a lot of sluice time lost.

That'll be a 24 hour period of no rocks getting run.

Those piles are just too big

to [bleep] have a minute of downtime,

let alone 24 hours of it.

[calm music plays]

[Tony speaking]

On the brink of breaking through his season goal,

one of Tony's top moneymakers, Sluice-A-Lot,

has been shut down by a broken tail pulley.

[Tony speaking]

[Cousin Mike] This one here.

[Tony speaking]

[Cousin Mike] Here, this one.

Nice and thick.

[Cousin Mike] It might be.

[Tony speaking]

[Cousin Mike] 17.

-[Tony speaking] -[Cousin Mike] Yeah.

That would never break again, eh?

[Brian] I don't think so.

[Cousin Mike] [bleep] yeah.

I think it's a nice pipe.

[Tony speaking]

Weld it against it.

[Tony speaking]

-[Tony] Perfect. -[Cousin Mike] Perfect.

We should have this plant going before the end of the day.

After finding a pipe approximately the same diameter

as the busted drum, Cousin Mike and Len need to cut it to size.

We got to do a bush fix today.

All right, over there.

First, what we're going to do is remove the side plate

from the drum.

[Cousin Mike] So I just got to clean that up, so that we got a clean surface

to weld on.

That will make a more solid weld too for the new drum.

All right.

Now we have to line it up a little bit.

Everything looks nice and straight.

[Cousin Mike] It's going to be a heavy pull.

[loud clang]

Double the weight of the old drum,

Cousin Mike must now install the new pulley on the conveyor

to find out if it will work.

[Brian] If we can slide it in, we can drop one side in, right?

[Cousin Mike] Let's try it, yeah.

[Brian] Beautiful.

Whoop, OK.

[Cousin Mike] OK. I'll lift the other end up, eh?

[clanking, clattering]

[Len] Can we put a chain on that?

[Cousin Mike] Yeah, I'll put a chain on this one, too.

Yeah, I'll slide it your way.

-[Len laughs] -[Cousin Mike] OK.

The drum looks good.

I'm very happy with how that looks.

[Brian] Oh, yeah!

We are pretty much ready. Conveyor belt's done.

Hanging back in the plant, and we're getting pretty close

to it looking like a washplant again.

[Dalten] There it is. No one move,

no one move, no one move.

[Brian] We're in.

[Dalten] All right, we're in there now.

[Brian] Right on, boys.

[Dalten] So all we got to do now is just get it bolted up,

and we're in business.

[drill whirring heavily]

[Tony speaking]

Looks pretty good.

Will be there for years and years.

[plant powers up]

[victorious music plays]

Back to full capacity, Tony's in the hunt

for his 6,500 ounce gold target.

[Cousin Mike speaking]

Well, plant's set up water line's in,

and we're just waiting on Alec to get the radial stacker down here.

Massive pay pile that the trucks keep adding to

daily, so we need to get through that.

After moving the bulk of Big Red in one shift,

stand-in foreman Brennan Ruault is itching

to get back sluicing Golden Mile pay.

[Brennan] Just keep putting a few things up here, keep busy until

he shows up with that, so I want to be washing rocks here

as fast as possible.

Stopping Brennan from firing up,

a busted 200-foot conveyor belt.

[Alec] I know Brennan was really hoping to get Big Red moved

in one day, but I've already slowed that timeline down.

Gotta get it figured out.

Looks like it's still me, myself, and I

here for this project.

There's no spare hands to help.

[Alec] Come on, Sash.

So Alec will need to think outside the box.

This is...

to help feed the new conveyor belt into the frame

of the unit.

Just like that.

String this guy out.

Cut the old one off.

Rip the old belt out this way.

The rope gets caught in the frame.

Tie the new belt onto the rope,

going through that snatch block.

Pull on the rope. New conveyor belt goes in.

So we get it, get it assembled.

We'll cut this in half and rip it off.

That's in half, start pulling.

It's a long belt.

Oh, got the old belt pulled out of the conveyor frame.

Worked really nicely.

Get my rope back here, and then pretty well reverse

the procedure, tie the new belt onto this rope end,

drag it through again with the truck.

Get this roll freed up, lay it out

next to the mighty zoom boom.

Next, Alec unspools the 5,500-pound

roll of fresh belt.

[Alec] This is perfect.

Brand new belt.

So I have to make sure that I

don't cut the belt too short, I don't cut it too long.

I hope this is the right place.

If you can't tie knots, tie two.

Done.

Hook the other end of that rope up to Mr. Truck and sort of

drive out that way and this guy should feed in nicely.

To pull the new belt onto the conveyor and avoid snagging

or ripping the new rubber, Alec has devised

a unique solution.

[Alec] Got a snatch block here just to direct the rope travel

somewhere away from the path that our new belt will be

taking to get into the conveyor.

So we're not driving over top of ourselves.

Got everything rigged up. There we go.

[epic music plays]

Well, we got our belt together. I'm really satisfied.

The guys are itching for it.

And he's going to take

the white Kenworth there and hook it up to

this guy here. Take it to Brennan.

A day behind schedule, Brennan finally has the radial

stacker back and is ready to test Alec's belt fix.

[Brennan] This is the moment of truth.

Here we go!

[Brennan] This is the moment of truth.

[Alec] Testing.

[plant powers up]

[Brennan] Whoo!

Ha-ha-ha-ha!

[Alec] Well, should we hit the shaker and get some dirt thrown at it?

I think so.

Well, I'm super happy to see the dirt going through Big Red

again, and I just hope Parker's just as happy.

24 hours behind schedule, Big Red is back sluicing

Golden Mile paydirt.

-You're washing rocks. -[Brennan] [bleep] yeah!

Day late and a dollar short, Brennan.

-[Brennan laughs] -[Alec] That's normal.

[Brennan] I'm more than a dollar short.

[Parker] What do you mean?

You've got 80,000 yards of top gravel sitting there.

Thank you guys for getting this thing rolling.

-[Brennan] Yeah, you bet. -[Alec] Yeah, no problem.

It's a nice setup. Super clean.

[Brennan] I'm very happy right now.

We're going to have a hope in hell

and get through this pile,

and all the rest is going to come this way.

[birds chirping]

[calm music plays]

[Rick] It's just clay. Nothing but clay.

It's got me by surprise right now.

I just wasn't ready for that. Come up with a new plan.

Rick Ness is reeling from a gut punch.

After spending a month and a million dollars,

he's hit a dead end at Valhalla.

Now he's expecting a visit from an old friend.

[truck honks]

[Tony speaking]

[Rick] Look at this.

[Rick] Good, buddy. How you doing?

Oh, yeah. Good to see that.

-How you doing, Minnie? -I'm good.

-How are you? -I'm great.

Yeah, rock trucks. I could use some of those.

Yeah.

The price of gold is good.

I see what you and Parker are doing,

and I'm just like, "Man, am I missing something?"

Depths that we're going, though, I don't know.

That's getting a little out of hand for such a small crew.

But every now and then, we hit some clay band

and that [bleep] a mess.

[Tony speaking]

Yeah, we need a lot of trucks.

-That's right. -We should just go look at it.

[grunts]

It's got no brakes right now.

[Tony speaking]

-[Rick] Oh, [bleep]. -[Tony laughs]

[Rick] Yeah.

[Tony] Wow, wow, wow.

[Tony speaking]

See, this is bedrock we're staying on right here.

And it goes down like that.

I'll have to come up with a new plan for that, but...

50.

50 feet.

Yep.

Yeah, for the plus side for us.

[Rick] Yes, yes.

No.

Vegas Valley, we opened up last year,

and this is where the channel went down,

and we got all that out of there.

[Rick] Yeah, that has a chunk in there.

[Tony speaking]

-[Rick] Yeah. -[Tony speaking]

[Rick] To really, yeah, to really [bleep] open it up.

That'd be something.

I can't afford that, so.

[Rick] Yeah.

[Tony speaking]

It won't [bleep] be until you get to the bottom, right?

[Rick] Yeah.

[Minnie] How did it go? You learn anything new?

That's not bad.

In order to do this, you know, you should go in big.

A lot of equipment.

[Minnie] But that takes lots of money.

[Tony speaking]

It's worked so far.

We've definitely stayed alive, but this one's got me worried.

Yeah.

[Minnie] Kind of tough.

[Rick] That's what's got me worried the most.

I was hoping to be, at this point, pay this off and start

really putting the money away, and now it's turned into,

"can I survive until I can start putting the money away?"

Yeah.

[Minnie] You don't want to become a seller.

Do I or do --? I don't know.

Sometimes I'm wondering.

Me, put a --? Put a price on the table?

[suspenseful music plays]

[Tony speaking]

At Duncan Creek, Rick's just had a bombshell buyout offer

dropped by the King of the Klondike.

If you want to discuss that, I don't want these guys around.

At current prices, Rick's four miles of Duncan Creek claims

could contain over $50 million of gold.

[Rick] I appreciate you stopping by.

[Tony speaking]

-[Rick] Nice to see you. -[Minnie] Good to see you, too.

[Tony speaking]

[Rick] Drive safe. Yep.

[Rick] It's a weird situation to be in right now,

just with what Tony said. I just, uh...

kind of, I mean, kind of hit me in a way.

I mean, obviously, I know what I got here.

I know the value of it.

It just seems like

at this point, taking the money and running is just,

is it really [bleep] smart or is it...

contrary to what I set up here to do, you know?

It's...

A number with seven zeros on it gets thrown

in your face, like, it's hard to [bleep].

It's hard to [bleep] say no to that too.

I've never really been one to get pushed out of something

when I wasn't ready for it, but maybe I shouldn't be

looking at it that way, I don't know.

[sighs sharply] [bleep]!

Every time I think that, you know, I'm getting ahead,

I just get pushed backwards again.

And like, you know, that's whatever...

I'm not crying about it.

I'm here to [bleep] take it, I'm here to do it.

But like, when is enough enough?

When there's a guarantee put in front of you,

when do you just say, "[bleep] it.

I'll take that, and I'll quit fighting?"

Um...

I've been saying, like, you know, I was 30 years

old when I came up here 14 years ago, and now I'm 70,

but I don't know if that's a joke anymore.

Yeah, I'm not going to have an answer today

either, so I've got a lot to think about.

[calm music plays]

-How's it going, buddy? -Good.

At the end of the week, Tyson has returned

from his sister's wedding.

Was there any good drama at your wedding?

-No, no. -Boring.

It all went pretty good, man.

[Parker] It's not a real wedding without at least

one fist fight. -[laughing]

How did Big Red's move go, Brennan?

I wish you were there with us, but we got it all set up.

Had a delay, though, with that belt, the radial stacker there.

And he's like "I need to change the belt,"

and I tried arguing with him.

You don't want to be the guy that goes to them at midnight

and be like, "Hey, remember that belt?"

[cackling]

And it's like minus 10 out.

"The one you wanted to change like two weeks ago when it was

still kind of warm?" -"And we told you not to."

But yeah, other than that, it went really smooth.

Thanks for filling in while Tyson was gone.

-[Tyson] Nice work, man. -Yeah, thanks.

Hoping to make you proud there.

Tyson, you want to see what Bob did?

Sure.

[Chris] I think that says Bob on there, doesn't it?

Oh yeah, let's see what the Bridge Cut did.

First up, Parker's washplant, Bob.

Over the last two months, it's been consistently

averaging 150 ounces.

[Tyson] 40...

80...

100, 130...

142.7.

[Parker] Meh...

Bob's been pretty boring.

Next up, Roxanne,

running paydirt from Ken and Stuart's,

where last week it pulled in 123 ounces.

[Mitch] All right, Roxanne.

60...

100...

120...

130...

134.3.

[Parker] That's not bad.

Finally, Big Red, sluicing the first paydirt

from the Golden Mile in two weeks.

[Chris] Here we go, Big Red.

10...

20, 30, 40...

40.25.

[Chris] Well, you know, Brennan, you didn't get

a full week, right?

You're just getting started, so it's a start.

[Brennan] Yeah, no, for sure.

Last week we had 306.25 ounces.

This week it's 317.25.

Worth $1.1 million.

So we picked up 11 ounces.

And season total, 7,365.8 ounces.

This crawling towards 10,000 ounces is painful.

At this pace, Parker will fall short of his 10,000 ounce goal.

We were racing earlier this season.

Well, I don't know how much I've told you guys,

but there is a new plant showing up.

So we should be able to slam through some yardage.

And so hopefully that makes a difference.

Hopefully you're ready for a good push.

We'll see.

[intriguing music plays]

[Minnie] So we went and visited Rick.

[Tony speaking]

Yeah.

We're almost at 6,000 ounces. Our goal is 6,500.

To break through his season target

six weeks ahead of schedule,

Tony needs his three washplants to deliver 507 ounces.

First up, Sluice-A-Lot, running paydirt from

the Indian River's Corner Cut.

[Minnie] You made it sound like an auction.

-[Tony speaking] -[Cousin Mike] I'll take it.

Should we do Find-A-Lot now?

Find-A-Lot ran all week long, also sluicing Corner Cut pay.

[Cousin Mike] I'll count the lot.

10, 20, 30, 40, 50...

70, 80, 90...

110, 130, 140, 148...

148.96.

Oh, you got more.

150, 170...

200, 220, 230...

250, 270...

278.18.

[Monica] Coming really close to that season goal.

Now I really wanna know what the trommel brought in.

To hit Tony's season goal, Mike's trommel needs

to bring in 144 ounces.

Y'all ready for this?

10, 20, 30, 40, 50...

70, 80, 90...

100, 110, 120, 130, 140, 60, 70...

180, 190...

200, 210, 220, 230,

240, 250, 260...

[Tony speaking]

Tony has hauled in a weekly total of 625 ounces.

[Minnie] And that gets us over our seasons total.

[Tony speaking]

[Monica] Boom! Over our goal.

Tony has now a total of 6,618 ounces,

worth a stunning 23 million dollars.

[clapping]

Yeah! Ha-ha-ha!

[victorious music plays]

We still have a month or so left.

So are we going to up our goal?

We'll do the best we can and we'll see how far we get.

[Minnie] You and I have to go back to the hill.

You're [bleep] bossy, aren't you?

-This is my place. -You love me.

-You love me. -I'm not so sure.

[all cackle]