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[narrator] Every spring,

for over 125 years,

man has traveled north to the Yukon Wilderness

determined to find a fortune in gold.

But only the boldest...

[Rick] I've always been all about the risks.

I just gotta take it.

...make it back...

...again...

Now is the time when they separate the boys

from the men.

...and again.

Here we go.

[narrator] This year, when gold hits all-time highs...

[Parker] With the gold prices where they are,

it's hard for me to not get greedy.

...gold fever strikes like never before...

There ain't no stopping us.

Oh, man, this is money.

...sparking greed...

Sluice, sluice, sluice!

[Rick] This definitely doesn't look like pay.

Parker's throwing curveballs.

...that threatens to collapse an emerging empire...

This pit's [bleep].

I'm losing faith in you guys.

...unbridled ambition...

[Rick] I want to finally get to the bottom of Rallye Valley

and get that gold out of there.

[man] Look at that.

[Rick] That's a lot of gold.

...that could take one man...

Yeehaw!

...to the next level...

I love this place. I love it.

...and family turmoil...

...that reshapes a dynasty.

You're the boss. I'm putting my money where my mouth is.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no!

Stop [bleep] around. Do the job right.

Those are two grown-ass adults.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] And...

[Rick speaking]

...record-breaking gold.

[crew member] You could hear the scale creaking.

Yeah!

Worst cleanup ever.

[narrator] 150 miles south of the Arctic Circle

lies the Klondike.

For over a century, prospectors have poured

into these valleys, hoping to strike it rich.

And today, fortunes are still being made.

[Parker] I love it up here.

It's great.

There's a lot of gold here to find.

We have no landlords.

We have no royalty.

It's really nice that we are in control

of our own destiny and path forward.

[narrator] At only 29 years old,

Parker Schnabel's already hauled in

over 63,000 ounces of gold

worth more than $98 million.

And last year,

he made the biggest bet of his life

when he leveraged everything he had

to buy the massive Dominion Creek claim.

There's only six years left on the license,

and there's a lot of ground to get through in that time.

[narrator] If the ground's as good as he thinks it is,

he could bring in 200 million in gold.

If you work out the ounces that we think are here

across the years that are here,

we have to do, you know, 10,000-plus ounces a year.

[narrator] But unearthing the gold won't come easy.

Everything comes at a price.

Like, the purchase was really expensive

and we have more payments to make.

We've blown a hole in every dollar we had,

and then some.

We have millions of yards of dirt

that needs to get moved every year,

or else it's going to just load up the last few years,

and that makes me really nervous

if something goes wrong. Right?

Well, that's not in gear.

Grind it till you find it.

So have you rolled this thing yet?

No, they're hard to roll, I think.

Let's find out.

[narrator] After pouring tens of millions into his new claim,

Parker wants to mine more ground

than he ever has in a season.

His plan of attack hinges on getting gold coming in fast

from one spot,

the Long Cut.

Parker is out to see if the ground

is ready to sluice with crew member Tyson Lee.

[Parker] This might get interesting.

Hold on.

Big drop.

[Tyson] Big, big drop.

[Parker] Little high for the big drop.

[Tyson] Anybody need to change their pants?

Oh, man, this is money.

Look at this.

It's like we never left.

Right?

[Parker] I'm excited.

With the gold prices where they are,

it's hard for me to not get greedy.

Dude, this looks good.

Yeah, it does.

[Tyson] Long cut, man.

It's 930,000 square feet.

That pit's big.

Yeah.

So we have a pit that's ready to go.

The most critical thing is getting through this

as fast as possible.

You never stop sluicing.

-Oh, joy. [laughs] -Yeah.

[narrator] Gold was first discovered in the Klondike gold fields

in 1896,

just outside of Dawson City.

50 miles southeast

lies Parker's 7,500-acre Dominion Creek claim.

Last season,

he found a 4,500-ounce gold bonanza in the money pit.

Now he's banking on following the same pay streak north

into the Long Cut,

his only stripped ground, which Parker believes

could deliver over $7 million in gold.

But to hit his 10,000 ounce target,

he needs to move in wash plant Roxanne

and hit at least 430 ounces every week

for the next six months, a Herculean task

never before attempted by Parker and his crew.

[Parker] We've got a lot of gold to find,

and it's not gonna come easy.

We're in a situation where there's a [bleep] ton of work

and unrealistic expectations from a boss that, um,

likes to have unrealistic expectations.

It's okay. I'm used to it.

We've never tried to go for this big of a season.

We've never gone through this much ground

that we're supposed to go through this year.

So Parker just really wants seamless sluicing

through and through.

I'm just worried about getting through these...

areas that we have to get done.

Sluicing is the number one priority.

[narrator] King of the Klondike, Tony Beets,

is on a mission to turn his mining operation around

after last year's chaos.

It begins with getting gold in his first week of the season.

[narrator] Tony's built a gold mining empire

that spans thousands of acres of prime ground.

It's a family-run dynasty

that hauls in millions every year.

[bleep] yeah.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] But last season...

...his operation collapsed into chaos.

[Minnie] We're 6-7 million in the hole.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] The house of Beets...

Get out of my face! Leave.

...became a house divided.

It's just so disorganized, and it's so frustrating.

He's kind of running it into the [bleep] ground.

I'd rather you didn't film me crying.

[narrator] And the beets found themselves

a disastrous 3,000 ounces short

of their season target.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] Now Tony's trying to save his business

and his family.

[narrator] To make up for the problems of last year,

Tony is planning an all-out blitz

on his Indian River claim,

known for delivering consistent paydays.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] Tony's identified a piece of ground

he thinks will pay out big,

the Comeback Cut.

To sluice right away,

he gambled on using an old miner's trick

and flooded the cut last year.

[narrator] To keep the ground thawed,

Tony covered the 10-acre Comeback Cut with water.

As the water froze over the winter,

it created a 2-foot-thick blanket of ice,

which Tony Hopes has insulated the pay layer beneath

and stopped it from freezing solid.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] If it doesn't work,

the entire 10 acres could be frozen,

putting him weeks behind schedule.

To test it, he'll clear the ice

then use a ripper shank to see if it's still thawed.

Last season was a major comeback year

after having a year off,

and anything could happen, right?

But, uh, you know, I'm here now,

and there's some big opportunities for me this year.

[narrator] 100 miles away in the mountains above Keno,

Rick Ness is back in the Yukon.

I want to pay this ground off

and completely be on my own.

Be my own boss, have my own ground

and not have to answer to anybody.

I'm looking for the best season I've ever had

and got the group of guys to do it,

and we're ready to go.

[narrator] Five seasons ago,

Rick went on a hunt for his own ground

in the Keno Mountains.

Wow. Finding that in a sluice box,

like, that will drive a guy nuts.

I got a place to mine

and I'm out of the Klondike.

[narrator] His first years were a struggle.

[Rick] 32.27.

Really wanting these numbers to start going up.

That's such [bleep].

That's such [bleep].

[narrator] But Rick stuck with it...

[Rick] This is a dangerous game, going that deep.

But the payoff at the bottom could be life-changing.

...eventually hitting Rally Valley

and a gold bonanza.

[Rick] This is the best pay we've ever had.

Uh, and here it is.

Oh, yeah.

[narrator] But just when the gold was beginning to flow,

Rick's life fell apart.

Why aren't you mining?

I don't know, man.

I lost my mom.

Just depression, and I...

I will be gold mining again.

I just don't know when that is.

[narrator] After abandoning his claim for a year,

Rick hit rock-bottom and nearly lost everything.

But Rick rallied and made a comeback.

There's gold there!

It's always been all or nothing with me.

[narrator] Now he's on the brink of realizing his dream...

I do want to own this land.

All I need is a shot.

...to buy Duncan Creek.

[man] I can't even count that fast.

[all cheering]

[exhales] I feel great.

I can look towards the future now and like...

it's-- it's real.

[bleep]

Oh-ho! Look who the [bleep] it is.

Hey, boys, look who decided to come to work.

Look at this guy.

Oh, sorry. I thought I was the top of the dude chain over here.

[slow clapping]

[Rick] [bleep] you guys.

How the [bleep] have you been?

It was a long drive.

What's up, buddy?

[Rick chuckling]

-I'm all good. -How are these guys?

What, you decided to finally show up?

Oh, [bleep]! Come on, Bailey.

-[laughing] -You're lucky you still have a job.

-Hey, Ness. -Buzz!

Kyle, what the [bleep] you doing here?

-Oh, you know. -Did I hire you again?

[laughs] Yeah, you sure did.

-Good to see ya. -How you doin'?

[man] Oh, yeah, get in there.

[man 2] That was a good one.

[Rick] So what's been going on?

Looks like you guys been busy anyway.

We've made some pretty good headway already.

We got the equipment ready to rock and roll.

-Good. -What do you want us to do?

So you want to attack the Rally Valley first or Bench Cut--

-100%. 100% Rally Valley. -...or what?

I think we go [bleep] right for it.

What's your thoughts on the goal this year?

You know, the biggest thing right now

is to not only pay you guys,

put a little money in my pocket, hopefully,

but also pay Troy Taylor off

and own this ground outright.

And for that, we're gonna need 1,500 ounces.

And to help us do that,

I have something to show you guys.

There is a reason I am late.

So, uh, if you jump in the side-by-side, jump in a truck, whatever,

let's take a little ride.

[narrator] To get to 1,500 ounces

and buy the claim,

Rick will need to move a mountain of dirt.

And to do that,

he has a game-changing surprise.

Holy [bleep].

What a beauty.

[man] Nice.

Holy [bleep].

What a beauty.

[man] Nice.

[narrator] At Duncan Creek,

Rick Ness is going all in

on his hunt for big gold at Rally Valley.

Here it is. Brand-new, brand-new 750E.

What we needed was a production hole,

and this was the [bleep] hole.

[narrator] Rick's betting on the 75-ton beast

to dig out the gold-rich pay faster than ever.

[Rick] We've got 1,500 ounces to get,

so that's why we're gonna get this [bleep] done at Rally Valley

and start scooping eight yards of [bleep] gold out of there at a time.

[Zee] It's great. Look at the smile on his face.

It's ear to ear. It's a good day down here.

It's a good way to start the season.

[man speaking]

It's good to see him here.

Last season, it felt like another family up here.

If we can continue the beginning of this year

like we ended last year,

there's-- there's not a lot that can defeat us.

[Rick] I mean, obviously the main unit here,

And then there's, uh, two drop-off loads.

Counterweight, stick boom, big [bleep] bucket.

[narrator] It's the first time

Rick's crew has put together a 750 excavator.

Rick's plan...

use his smaller 700 excavator to lift up

and swing the 750's 8-ton boom into its cradle

and secure it in place with steel pins.

Next, attach the 13-ton counterweight

at the back of the excavator.

Then install the stick with its 1,000-gallon bucket.

And finally pull out the excavator's 20-foot-long tracks.

[Rick] All right, well, hammer 'er together.

Yeah, man.

It's, uh, pretty exciting moments.

keep it going.

Let off it.

[man] Well, we're cockeyed.

[bleep] me.

Dude, it's just-- It's so pinched in back here.

[Rick] It's just dealing with really tight tolerances.

We've got a boom here that's got to fit, you know,

just perfectly between two little slots.

You know, kind of like threading a needle,

except the needle weighs, you know, 25,000 pounds.

Well, right now, all we're doing is damaging this.

So we just need to get it out.

Maybe we should go back out and then come in higher.

[Rick] Just make him go slow.

[man] I don't care for this at all.

He ain't moving nowhere.

[man laughs]

Oh! He started moving there.

[metal grinding]

There we go.

[man] Whoa!

[man 2] Oh, [bleep]!

[metal banging and grinding]

[exhales]

[bleep] me!

It's on the window.

[banging]

-[Rick] That was close. -[man] Yeah, it was.

There shouldn't be that much tension.

No.

Whatever he has to do to get that thing

[bleep] going straight in...

which is probably spin his cab that way,

and then move his tracks over

so that that [bleep] goes straight in.

We won't let it defeat us.

We'll get it in.

We've got to reposition the 700 here

so we can get things lined up straight.

How does it look now?

The best it's looked.

Okay, Buzz, come in.

There we go. There we go.

[Rick] Give it some nuts.

Give it some nuts.

Just rock it.

Almost.

There we go.

-[man 1] There you go. -[man 2] There you go.

[Rick] It's going in. It's going in.

Might want to knock her in with that 460 bucket.

It's so close. We just need a little force.

Oh, yeah.

-Oh, yeah, keep her going. -Oh, yeah!

-[Rick] [bleep] eh, buddy! -We're almost there.

Send her home, Jerome.

[Zee] Yeah!

You don't [bleep] with this thing!

Whoo!

[bleep] yeah!

[Rick] Well, time is getting tight.

That was hopefully the biggest pain in the ass.

We've got 1,500 ounces to get,

and this machine is...

I'm kind of betting the farm on it.

I'm looking at this as like a forever home right now,

this ground.

Let's get it.

[Tyson] Alec, you ready?

[Alec] All right. Just making sure

I don't have any tools in here,

but there's nothing in here, so we're all good.

[narrator] At Dominion Creek,

Parker Schnabel's crew is gunning for a record $25 million season.

All righty, Mitch, all set when you are.

Let's do it.

Here we go.

[narrator] Parker's entire season hinges on the long cut,

his only stripped ground, which he's counting on to deliver first gold.

To get sluicing, he needs a wash plant running ASAP.

These monster machines sift out the flakes of gold from the pay dirt.

Water jets blast the gold and find dirt off the rocks.

A shaker deck vibrates a series of screens

to separate out the waste rocks,

allowing fine gold-bearing material

to flow down into the sluice boxes,

where the heavier gold settles between the riffles and into the mats.

Foreman Mitch Blaschke and Tyson...

[Mitch] Looking nice!

...prepare to haul wash plant Roxanne

and its sluice runs three miles to the long cut.

[Mitch] Once we get the sluice runs in place,

then we can pull that shaker deck in where it needs to go,

and start putting these parts and pieces together.

But the clock is ticking here.

Yeah. You're looking good, buddy.

She's tight.

You want to, uh, go out front there

and make sure we don't meet anybody on the road?

[Tyson] Yup. Sounds good.

[Mitch] All right, let's do it.

Parker's got some huge plans for this season

and where he wants to be by the end of it.

And, you know, this wash plant is key to make all that happen.

And right now, Parker is looking at the price of gold,

and he's saying, "Guys, start reeling it in."

Getting the sluice runs out here is really important.

It's the first step of setting up Roxanne,

so we are so close to the cut right now.

Oh, [bleep].

That is not good.

Oh, [bleep], man.

What's going on?

Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho.

[Tyson] It looks like the road's washed down on us.

[Mitch] She looks pretty deep.

-[Tyson] Yeah, it definitely does. -[Mitch] Whoo!

She's ripping. Oh, yeah.

This trailer rides low. There's no way it's gonna make it through that.

Right now, we just need to grab some material from wherever we can.

Probably grab the rock trucks.

Grab a loader and start packing this thing in.

[Tyson] We need to get this road back opened up.

Hey, Tater Tot, you got a copy?

What's going on?

I need you down at the road here. It washed down.

We have the sluice runs loaded,

and we can't get through with them.

So if you want to meet me down there,

I'll load you up with some coarse,

and we'll get this road doctored up.

It's never straightforward in this place.

[Mitch] Perfect. Right there. Let it fly.

Oh, yeah, keep 'em coming.

[narrator] To dam the flow of water,

rock truck driver Tatiana Costa

dumps 100 tons of coarse tailings.

That ought to do it. Thank you very much.

No problem.

[Mitch] Yeah!

This is looking really good.

There it is.

There's already water flowing across this here.

Oh, yeah, she's a little soft there, but holding.

Come on.

Come on, come on.

There we go.

Now we're gonna take Roxanne down to the long cut.

Whoo!

She's rocking and rolling pretty good back there.

Come on. Hang in there, Roxanne.

Yeah!

There it is. One wash plant in the cut.

[Tyson] Well, nice work, man.

What do you say we get the rest of this set up?

Let's do it.

-Sluice, sluice, sluice, sluice! -[Tyson] Yeah!

[Kevin] How do you feel about us being on our own now?

[Faith] It feels good.

Well, you're your own boss now.

[narrator] Forty miles south of Paradise Hill...

-I really want us to push. -Oh, yeah.

[Kevin] Our money, our show, our [bleep], our wins.

[narrator] Tony Beets' eldest son, Kevin,

is finally ready to step out on his own.

I am glad to finally be out of, like, the planning and worrying stage.

We are playing serious ball.

It is on the table for us.

We're gonna have to make this work.

[narrator] Kevin grew up on the family goldmine

with younger siblings Mike and Monica.

[Kevin] Off we go.

[narrator] After operating heavy equipment,

Kevin became Tony's chief mechanic in 2019.

Are you going to give me more responsibility and let me make the call--

[sighs]

[narrator] Over the years...

[Tony speaking]

-Get every [bleep] pump on the property. -[Tony] Mm-hm.

Open up the first pontoon, pump it out.

-[Kevin sighs] -...father and son

have butted heads on how to run the mine.

[Tony speaking]

What the [bleep]? I know I don't need that.

[Tony speaking]

[Kevin] Tony is like a natural disaster.

You don't tell a hurricane to [bleep] off.

[narrator] Last year, Kevin hit his breaking point.

[Kevin] That kind of sucks.

We gotta test fire it.

[Kevin] We're supposed to have this thing up and running,

but because of [bleep] he's forgotten

or didn't [bleep] put people on

or just didn't bother [bleep] doing,

we've wasted so much time.

I don't think we're gonna take much more of this [bleep].

[narrator] Leading Kevin to quit the family business.

It's just, uh, too much fighting.

[narrator] To keep his family from ripping apart...

...Tony gave Kevin the opportunity to lease ground from him.

[Kevin] I want to show that I can do gold mining my way.

I did learn a few things from Tony

as well as a lot of ways to not do things.

Tony has a trust issue.

Yeah. Because, uh, we know how Tony is.

He is a control freak, to say the least.

Yeah. Micromanage.

I'm sure there'll be advice,

but at least now we don't have to listen.

[narrator] Before Kevin can start on his new 44-acre claim,

he still has to negotiate terms for royalties.

The percentage of his gold haul he'll pay to Tony.

[Kevin] But I'm not expecting--

-[Faith] Handouts? -[Kevin] Yeah.

[Kevin] The average royalties is around ten to 15.

[Faith] I don't imagine Tony would screw us over.

Let's go see what it is.

-[Tony speaking] -Hey.

[Kevin sighs]

We're here to sign the lease.

So, I'm getting the royalties.

And you're actually gonna pay me

instead of I'm paying you?

I thought that was the whole point of leasing the ground.

[Faith] We might as well pay family.

[Tony speaking]

[Kevin] I do hope we'd get a slightly better deal than Parker did.

15% would be a kick in the nads.

What is in it for me?

[Faith] Family's gotta account for something.

[Tony speaking]

That sounds very, very nice.

I don't think there's much room for argument there.

So what's your season goal this year, Kevin?

Our season the gold this year is going to be 1,000 ounces.

I think that's reasonable.

Hopefully we get more than that.

But don't count your chickens until it's dried, and wait.

[Monica] Why are you drying your chicken?

Should we go look at all the equipment?

[narrator] Tony has agreed to give Kevin and Faith equipment

to get them started.

[Tony speaking]

[Kevin] We'll need rock trucks.

-Oh. -[Faith] Can we have this one?

[Tony speaking]

-[Faith] Why not? -[Kevin] Why not? That's a good one.

[Tony speaking]

Mm-hm.

Ideally, we would like to have four rock trucks.

[Tony speaking]

[Kevin] What about loaders?

Oh, here's a loader. Can we take this one?

[Kevin] Hm. We'll have to find one then.

-Yeah. -[Tony speaking]

[Kevin] Uh, we'll need some dozers.

Excavators, obviously.

[Tony speaking]

[Kevin] Mm-hm. That could work, yeah.

[Tony speaking]

[Faith] We definitely appreciate the help, for sure.

[Tony speaking]

[Faith] Oh, yeah.

-Yeah. -Sounds like a good deal.

[Tony speaking]

Something that's catching my brother off guard, which is funny.

The amount of things you need, the amount of people you need is a lot.

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] It's his life, not mine.

Not what I would have done.

[narrator] Now Kevin just needs to find a wash plant and crew.

I'm excited for us to get going.

I think it's a big gamble. Time to strike out on my own.

But it's time to show I have what it takes to be the boss.

[narrator] After getting Kevin started,

Tony turns to the rest of the family.

This season, he's giving youngest son, Mike, and daughter, Monica,

responsibility for his operation at Paradise Hill.

Now I get more freedom to do it the way I want to do it.

My dad's getting a little less micromanaging,

which makes my job a lot less stressful.

T. Beets is, well, "really good,"

but also "really bad" at driving up here.

Um, so it's...

[sighs]

Hopefully, this year, he doesn't do that and doesn't have to do that.

I think, you know, he should have enough confidence

in Michael and myself to keep everything going here.

And I think Tony really should be able to trust us by now.

I've been working here for almost 20 years.

[Mike] Okay, this is gonna sound bad,

but it's [bleep] honestly true for anyone.

You have to, uh, get the job done, even if you're family.

To my dad, everyone's expendable.

You're never irreplaceable at your job.

You can be very hard to replace,

but you're never irreplaceable.

[Mitch] There we go.

[narrator] At Dominion Creek,

Parker Schnabel is chasing a massive $25 million in gold,

and is counting on his long cut,

the only cut down to pay dirt,

to deliver over 400 ounces by the end of the week.

[Mitch] Everything's looking pretty good here.

We got Roxanne set up top.

We've got our conveyor systems going in place here.

Parker's saying this cut's all ready to go.

Next stop, sluicing.

[Parker] You guys are way up here.

-[Mitch] How's it going, buddy? -[Parker] Good. How are you?

Not bad.

Dude, you guys are on a pile.

-[Mitch] Oh, yeah. -[Tyson] Yeah.

-Hi, Liam. Hi, Justin. -[Justin] Hey.

I'm just trying to put the finishing touches on this and see what she does.

[Parker] You still have a lot of little [bleep] to do.

[Tyson] Yeah.

[Mitch] It shouldn't take long.

Who's going on nights tomorrow?

[Tyson] Are we 24ing it right off the get go?

[Parker] Yeah.

[Mitch] So we just got to get after it.

[Parker] No, it'll be all right.

-[Tyson] All right, man. -Yeah. Okay.

Sweet.

[narrator] Eleven years ago...

-[Parker] Hey, Tony. -Hello, Parker.

...Parker started out with a small piece of ground in the Klondike...

I'm looking for the best dirt, not just any old dirt.

...and a crew of five.

I'm gonna crank it up.

-[machine rattles] -[Parker] Oh, dear.

[Parker bleep] plant!

[Tony] Well, that's not [bleep] good enough.

I've probably bitten off a bit more than I can chew.

[narrator] He barely turned a profit in his first year.

If you don't take risks, nothing will change.

[narrator] But the youngster turned the ship around...

[horn blaring]

[Parker] Oh, yeah!

First brand-new plant we've had,

and it's gonna find us a lot of [bleep] gold.

...building a stockpile of gold.

That's three million dollars right there on the table.

[narrator] And growing his operation each year...

$7.5 million.

[men cheering]

...to a crew of 40

and a huge fleet of earth-moving machines,

pushing for bigger gold hauls each season.

Get after it.

[narrator] Parker believes there could be

seven-and-a-half million in gold

in this first cut alone.

All the crew needs to do is dig out the pay dirt and start sluicing.

We're, uh, running pretty aggressive

this early in the season.

We are definitely just coming out swinging here.

[Tatiana] I see Tyson and Mitch already brought the plants.

In no time, we're gonna start sluicing.

[Tyson] Parker really wants some gold

early off in the season this year,

especially with high gold prices.

We're sure fighting, trying to make it happen for him.

But I'm not really happy with what I'm seeing.

This definitely doesn't look like pay.

It just looks like sand.

And if we've learned anything over the years of mining

it's that there's no gold in sand.

So I've got to go get my gold pan.

Figure out what the [bleep] is going on here.

It just looks like he went to the beach

and tried panning for gold.

He went to the beach anywhere.

It just looks like sand.

None of that pays the bills.

It doesn't look like there's any gold in here.

We need to go deeper.

[narrator] If Tyson is right,

the whole cut will need to be re-stripped down to pay,

costing hundreds of thousands of dollars more and weeks of precious time.

[Tyson] Well, I'm gonna go show Senor Mitch.

[Mitch] How did your panning go?

[Tyson] It's not looking good, man.

Not even a fly [bleep].

[Mitch] Oh, boy.

Well, man, this high spot back here,

I just hit it with the ripper, and check this.

It's just all mud underneath a little lens of gravel.

Well, one thing's for sure, we don't need to sluice mud.

-[Tyson] Yeah, or sand. -[Mitch] Yeah.

[Tyson] We've got to go deeper.

This is not ready, this is not pay.

Gotta go talk to Parker and let him know the bad news.

-[Tyson] Hi. -[Parker] This is some lovely weather.

[narrator] In the long cut...

[Parker] Hi, Mitch.

How's it going?

...Mitch and Tyson have made a discovery

with catastrophic consequences

for Parker's operation.

Well, man, I know we thought this cut was ready to go,

but, you know, it's not.

We're trying to get sluicing,

but we're finding some, uh, material

we definitely want to not be sluicing back there.

[Parker] Right.

[Tyson] We found a lot of sand, a lot of mud up there.

We just can't put that through a wash plant.

We need to go deeper.

[bleep]

[Tyson] And that makes me really nervous.

Oh, boy!

[narrator] Unable to mine the Long Cut,

Parker's operation is now at a standstill.

[Parker] We're [beep] right now.

[Mitch] Last year, we just weren't able

to spend the time up here

that I think we really needed to.

Wow, I wouldn't say that we did anything wrong.

Last year, we had to strip

last year's ground and this year's ground.

We did what we had to do.

[Mitch] So what's our game plan then?

Um...

There's gravel piles down by the other pit,

but they're, like, old, overburdened gravel piles.

[narrator] To get some quick gold,

Parker wants to run piles of dirt

from the money pit left by the previous owner,

which he believes could still

have a significant amount of gold.

I think there's 400 ounces

sitting in a bunch of waste gravel.

I think they probably would have sluiced it.

[Tyson] We'll be lucky if there's two ounces, man.

[Parker] I'm losing faith in you guys,

and it's time to figure out another option at the moment.

[Mitch] So do you just want to set up a plant?

-Yeah. -[Mitch] Or do you want to do like the test trommel?

What wash plant are you thinking?

-Big Red probably. -Yeah.

So are you sick of moving wash plants?

-No, no. -Good.

You don't have any time.

Get sluicing.

[Mitch] Ten-four.

Those are just a bunch of big, old waste piles.

It could just be a bunch of [bleep].

Well, man, I'm in wash-plant-moving mode,

so why don't I go move this plant,

and you can stay here and try get this dialed in,

and I'll be back as soon as I can.

-Okay, let's get after. -Yeah.

-[Mitch] Later. -[Tyson] See ya.

Parker wants to start another project.

It means Tyson has to leave and go there,

and that leaves a whole bunch of work here.

Stripping overburdened mud, and less hands to do it.

When Parker and I first came up here,

he said it was good to go.

That's not the case.

But, man, I hope there's some gold

down in that gravel,

because if there's not, we're screwed.

[sighs wearily]

[narrator] It's a huge gamble,

but with no other stripped ground,

Parker has no other option.

[Parker] It's a mess.

And I don't like feeling like a dumb piece of [bleep].

Having a plant running is important right now.

Oh, yeah.

What do you say? Let's go, boys.

[narrator] While Parker struggles to find gold,

Rick Ness knows exactly where to find it.

[Rick] Time to take this beautiful machine

and get it dirty down in Rally Valley.

[narrator] He's counting on Rally Valley

for the biggest payday of his mining career,

if it lives up to its promise.

[Rick] We found some big gold on this ground,

but supposedly, at the bottom of this

is three, four, five-ounce nuggets.

I want that.

It's early in the season, the sun's shining.

I'm sitting in a brand-new 750 excavator.

I got my crew behind me, we're heading to Rally Valley.

I mean, that all adds up to a huge win for me.

[man] That thing's [bleep] nice.

I love that bucket, man. That's what I love.

[man] Hey! Ah!

[Buzz laughing]

[man] Well, that's the last time we're gonna see it clean.

Yep. [laughs]

[Buzz speaking]

[bleep]

[Rick] Well, everybody's thinking long term,

and that's exciting.

It's a hell of an opportunity, but there's also

a huge opportunity to fail hard.

[narrator] To hit a big payday of nuggets,

Rick will need to dig dangerously deep.

He spent two years

digging down into Rally Valley,

shifting over 90 feet of overburden

to reach 100-foot deep pay layer.

So far, it's delivered over 1,800 ounces

worth more than $4 million.

Rick should still have 30 feet of pay to go

before he hits bedrock, where he should find

his richest concentration of gold ever.

[Rick] I want to get the [bleep] in here.

I want to finally get to the bottom of it,

get that gold out of there.

First day of digging pay out of Rally Valley.

With ease.

Hell, yeah. There it is. First scoop.

It's just a glorious sight.

Last year, I really just felt grateful

to be here, to have another shot.

And now I'm ready to [bleep] go.

And now I'm ready to push it.

I haven't seen any gold

out of Rally Valley since last fall,

so I think I'm just gonna go ahead

and, you know, do a little panning.

This looks good.

The spot where we're at right now is all pay dirt.

That'll do it.

I don't really know for certain,

you know, if there's hot spots

or if it's all, you know, spread out in there.

That's really dirty water, but...

Oh, well.

[bleep] Look at-- Oh, my [bleep].

Take a look at that.

Look at all the little specks.

I bet you there's 60, 70 colors in there.

Easy.

And then the bigger chunks up top.

That's [bleep] awesome to see.

That's just a healthy little reminder

of what we got down here in Rally Valley.

And it's a very good reminder

that I'm doing the right thing.

This is where we need to be.

Rally Valley is the spot where the best gold is.

That pan right there proves it.

That's a hell of a pan.

I love this place. I love it.

Yeah, go ahead.

[Tony speaking]

Okay.

All right.

First bucket of the season.

[narrator] At Indian River, Tony Beets is on a roll.

And is sluicing from his gold-rich,

10-acre Comeback Cut...

using wash plant, Sluice-A-Lot.

[Tony speaking]

[bleep]

[Ruby] I think, at this rate,

it's gonna be a successful season.

I don't think we're gonna run into a problem

of not having enough pay.

We've got the Comeback Cut.

I just hope that we keep up this momentum

throughout the rest of the season.

[narrator] Now Tony wants to take it up a notch.

[Tony speaking]

No.

[Tony speaking]

[bleep]

[man] Yeah.

[bleep]

Make it work.

[bleep]

Yeah. I'll try and make the best of it.

[narrator] Tony's nephew, known as Cousin Mike,

joined the family business three years ago.

Now Tony is giving him a new opportunity.

[narrator] Cousin Mike must resurrect

Tony's 30-year-old shaker deck,

which has sat idle for six months.

[Mike] We came to look, check it out.

See if everything's good.

There's a lot of shaking going on here.

And we see that there's bars missing

that hold the screens.

So, yeah, we gotta do this ASP,

as Tony would say.

[narrator] Mechanic Nolan Brown

screws the metal bars back onto the screens.

[bleeping]

[sighs]

[narrator] They hold the screens in place

when violently shaking

to separate gold from pay dirt.

[Nolan] We're wasting time.

It's wasting money.

And you got to make that dough. [grunts]

[bleep]

-Good? -[Nolan] I think so.

[Mike] Ah, good enough.

We're ready to fire the plant up.

Tony, the shaker deck is ready to be fired up.

[bleep]

[Nolan] Yeah.

All right. I will.

The fire is going.

[bleep] grizzly bars won't stay down.

[Mike] [bleep] thanks.

The grizzly bars are keeping opening up,

and when I let it down, it goes back up by itself.

[narrator] The grizzly bars screen out large boulders

to protect the wash plant.

But an electrical fault is sending it haywire.

[bleep]

[bleep]

[Mike] Is there a breaker on that thing?

[Nolan] Yeah.

[Mike] Grizzly, oh.

[Nolan] Yeah, it's down.

[Mike] There we go. Awesome.

We just turned the breaker off for the grizzly bars.

That's it.

[narrator] Cousin Mike's quick fix

cut the power to the grizzly bars,

keeping them shut.

To clear the boulders,

he'll have to manually turn it back on again,

costing valuable time.

[Mike] It's a temporary solution.

It's not ideal, but the plant has to get going.

Feeder on.

Fire is going.

First bucket. [bleep] yeah.

[Mike on radio] New plans. It's happening.

Let's get some gold.

[Tony speaking]

[bleep]

[Mike] That'd be good.

[narrator] Tony is sluicing

four month earlier than last year,

and he's got two wash plants on the gold,

a long way from last season's chaos.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] Three miles away,

Tony's eldest son, Kevin Beets,

is also on a mission to get on the gold.

Today we're off to pick up the wash plant we bought.

This thing is only 20 minutes from Scribner camp.

Tony and Mike are on their way there

with a semi-truck.

Ah, it's a big day.

I am legit excited to get the wash plant into the yard.

I paid half a million dollars

as a down payment on the plant.

I still owe 200K.

There's still a large [bleep] [indistinct] to process.

[bleeping]

[grunts]

[narrator] Kevin's gone all-in,

investing most of his life savings

to buy the best wash plant on the market.

Ah!

This is a very nice wash plant.

The folks who I bought it from took very good care of it.

So I'm very excited to see it run.

[narrator] This 35-ton beast

processes 250 yards an hour,

and only needs one person to run it.

[Kevin] It's definitely the same as what Tony has.

I think Parker also has a Macon as well.

He's even got a [bleep] impact bed.

Oh, that's so nice.

[chuckles]

This is what I kind of nerd out about.

I'm very keen to start getting some [bleep] gold.

Yeah, I hear it.

A Tony and a semi approaching.

[Tony speaking]

[Kevin] Yo!

[bleep]

[Kevin] You gonna crawl up here, too?

[Kevin] Oh, yeah, yeah.

But then tomorrow, what you gonna [bleep] do?

[Kevin chuckles]

Well, I'm not in the best [indistinct] right now, so...

Yes. The more I look,

the more nice things I [bleep] see.

Oh, [bleep] yeah, like--

Ridiculous.

-[honking] -[Tony] Ah...

[narrator] Without his own crew

to haul the $700,000 plant eight miles to Scribner Creek,

Kevin's called in a family favor

from Dad, Tony, and younger brother, Mike.

-Hello. -Hello.

[Mike] Yeah, right?

I mean, my bill's gonna be huge.

[Tony laughs]

[narrator] Mike's first task...

hook up his truck to Kevin's prized wash plant.

[Kevin] You might need a loader.

[Tony speaking]

We're gonna need some sort of lifting power

to get it high enough.

I'd be very careful backing up.

[bleep]

And hopefully, she squeezes under.

Ah...

[honks]

[Tony speaking]

[Kevin] Ah...

[Tony speaking]

[engine roaring]

[metal creaking]

[Kevin] Watch out!

[Tony speaking]

[honks]

[metal creaking]

[Kevin] No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[narrator] Kevin's bid to haul his new wash plant

to his his claim at Scribner Creek

is not going to plan.

[bleeping]

[Mike] So remember when I said we might need a loader?

[laughs]

[bleep]

[Kevin] The kind of [bleep] I was hoping to avoid.

To the surprise of no one, Tony doing it terribly,

and me going "[bleep] I told you," afterwards.

[narrator] The impact has knocked

Kevin's lowboyed wash plant off its blocks,

making it harder for Mike to hook up and tow it away.

[Mike] Feeling a little annoyed that it fell off.

[Kevin] Yeah, should've known it wouldn't go [bleep] easy.

Should know by now, you think.

Watch my [bleep] feet.

[Tony speaking]

Hopefully, we'll have the angle

for it to pull everything up,

rather than just into the trailer.

-[bleep] -Yeah.

[Tony speaking]

[Kevin] All right. Fingers crossed, folks.

[engine revving]

[Kevin] Oh, boy.

Let's not tip my plant, please.

[Tony speaking]

[metal creaking]

Now [bleep].

[Tony speaking]

[Kevin sighs]

Well, currently, I'm feeling a little bit flustered,

not terribly surprised.

Half the reason we left was to get away

from that kind of horse [bleep], so...

Hopefully, next time we'll come

with a bit more power, we can get it the [bleep] up.

So it's not gonna have any choice

but to go on to the [bleep] truck.

[bleep]

[humming]

-[Tyson] All righty, Jack? -[Jack] Right on.

[narrator] A half mile East, at Dominion Creek.

-[Tyson] Have you ever pulled a wash plant before? -[Jack] Nope.

[narrator] Desperate times, call for desperate measures.

-[Tyson] Alrighty, good luck. -Yeah, thank you.

[Tyson] Jump on in.

[narrator] After hitting a major roadblock, with his first cut,

Parker's made a snap decision,

to sluice waste gravel piles.

and drafted in his pilot, Jack Frischkorn,

to help with the second plant move of the season.

[Tyson] So boom up a little more, Jack,

just to give it a little bit of lift in the front end.

And now, stick in a bit.

-[Tyson] Yeah. There she goes. -[engine revving]

[Tyson] Now just start walking it.

[Tyson] The heat's on now.

[narrator] The gravel piles left behind, by Dominion's previous owner

were dug, from the lucrative Money Pit cut.

And based on the gold they pulled from the pit last year.

Parker believes, there's gold still in them.

So, we're gonna set Big Red up, right there.

Tyson and Jack um, are moving it, and it's pieces up here.

We have spent so much [bleep] money, in the last year.

So, I don't know what to say.

But gold price is up, so that's good.

I mean, it's only good if you have gold,

which, we don't have any but...

[Tyson] Yeah, that's good there Jack.

[Tyson] Perfect.

Right on.

[narrator] A mile and a half, upstream,

in the Lung cut.

[Mitch] Oh man.

[narrator] Mitch, is removing overburden, to get down to pay.

Parker said, this season's gonna be all about sluice, sluice, sluice.

and it's definitely not going the way we thought.

This is about the future of the company.

[Mitch] If there is gold in it yeah, it's a great idea.

There's those piles down there.

But, it takes us away from this.

[Tyson] Things are happening fast.

Definitely didn't think we'd be doing this today.

[metal clanking]

[Tyson] Ready?

[Jack] Tyson, come up just a little bit.

[Jack] That's good.

[Jack] Try swinging it in.

[Jack] Stop there.

[Tyson over radio] We've got the plant in.

Next is the feeder.

Are you ready, Jack?

[Jack] Bring her home.

[engine whirring]

[Jack] Come back another foot.

[Jack over radio] Little more.

[Jack] Stop! Stop, Stop, Stop, Stop, Stop!

Behold, my feeder.

[Jack] Well, it all came together.

So, I think the next step is, we start loading dirt

and see how it goes, huh?

[Tyson] Here we go.

[Tyson] You guys ready?

[metal squeaking]

[water splashing]

Give her [bleep] Jack!

-All right, Todd. Here we go. First bucket for Big Red. -[whooping]

-[woman] Yay. -[Jack] First bucket of the season.

[Parker] How's it going?

Is this thing fine?

[Tyson] Clean rocks coming out.

-[Parker] That's nice looking rock. -[Tyson] Yeah.

-[Jack laughs] -[Tyson] You haven't seen rock since last year.

[Parker] I know.

[Parker] There might be some gold in this.

I would like to prevent anything else from possibly going sideways.

If at all possible.

[narrator] First season mine boss, Kevin Beets'

new $700,000 wash plant,

is stranded eight miles, from his Scribner Creek claim.

And his dad, Tony is now back to help.

[Tony speaking]

[honks horn]

[Tony over radio]

[narrator] After brute force didn't work.

Tony has a new plan, and is bringing in the big guns.

Expert operator Len Hoekstra, and a pipe layer crane.

Capable of lifting 51 tons.

[Tony speaking]

[Tony speaking]

[Tony speaking]

[Tony speaking]

[Kevin] I only have one head, too.

That doesn't stop me from whacking it.

[Tony speaking]

[Tony speaking]

[Tony speaking]

[Tony speaking]

[Tony speaking]

-[chain clanks] -[tony speaking]

[Kevin] Much [bleep] better.

[Kevin] Everything, is in one piece.

[Kevin] Next step.

Chain everything down, and then we get driving.

Len will be driving the truck, so, should be in good hands.

She's a wide [bleep] load.

[Kevin] So, fingers crossed.

[narrator] Len must now carefully haul the 45 ton,

32-foot wide load,

down eight miles of treacherous, narrow road to Scribner Creek.

Well.

[Kevin] If the plant does fall on its side,

that does kind of [bleep] me.

That would be pretty [bleep] horrible.

[narrator] Kevin scouts ahead, to guide his prized wash plant.

The issue we have right now, is that, it is so wide.

[Kevin] Uh...

Right ahead of us. The road narrows up quite considerably.

as well as having trees on either side that are fairly high.

[branches snapping]

[Kevin over radio] Hey, Len. How is it looking? How's it looking?

[Len speaking]

Yeah. [Kevin chuckles]

[bleep]

Hey, Len, you got a copy? Len?

Yes, I do.

[Kevin] I got to the creek crossing and she's a little deep.

[Len] Alright.

If it nosedives in, and we never see it again.

[Kevin] [bleep] Yeah.

At this point, he should be very safe.

[Kevin] I'm very excited to have this thing, here in one piece.

Let's get it parked, and get it [bleep] ready.

[grunts]

All right. Looks good. Thank you, Len.

[Len] Yeah.

[Len] Uh, Kevin, a couple of branches.

In the sluice, around it, a little bit of dirt.

[Len] Hopefully, there's some gold in it.

-[Kevin] Jeez. -[Len laughs]

[Kevin] Well, that went pretty well.

Gonna count it as a win.

[Kevin] I spent a lot of money already.

Gotta hit 1000 ounces, to get some of those costs back.

Hopefully, we can [bleep] hit her.

[Rick] Things are going good.

[narrator] Rick Ness, is one payment away, from buying his own claim.

I'm more excited, than pretty much any season I've been up here.

[narrator] Which he believes, has one of the richest,

untapped gold pay streaks, left in the Yukon.

[man speaking]

[Rick] I've got one hell of a crew here.

I've got a brand new 750 here.

we've got down in Rally Valley.

That's where we got the best gold.

That's where we're starting this year.

And right on top of all of it, I'm gonna be a landowner.

And I've got one more payment left on my contract with Troy Taylor.

And I'm gonna own all this ground. Start building my empire.

And this, is setting up my future.

With one more payment comes a hell of a lot of freedom,

and I'm excited about it.

So, I'm going to Troy's house right now.

Have a little chat with him about it, and hammer out the details.

[narrator] Rick secured his deal, to buy Duncan Creek

with landowner Troy Taylor two years ago.

He's already put down 400 ounces.

and owes one final 250 ounce payment.

-[Rick] Hey, Troy. -[Troy] Hey, Rick.

-[Rick] How you doing, buddy? -[Troy] Good. How are you?

What's going on?

[Rick] Oh, lots of stuff.

A big year for me.

-Yeah. Yes. Yeah. -[chuckles]

I'm glad you could come down here

because, I got to get something off my chest.

I've got some bad news.

[Troy] We've got a big problem with the water license

being approved for next season.

What? But, I mean, we're getting it?

Well, I thought so.

I thought we were progressing.

[Troy] And as you know, we've been working on this water license

for two years.

But we're not moving forward on this application.

We're stopped.

And, the way it's going right now, with what I've just heard.

I can't guarantee you'll have the license, next year.

[bleep]

[Troy] I can't sugarcoat it.

Without the water license, you can't mine.

Oh.

[bleep]

[Troy] All I can say is that-- I don't know what to say.

I mean, I've got millions of dollars invested in this

[Rick] I got a quarter, over a quarter of my lifetime into this,

and I... to look at walking away with this, with nothing.

It's not looking good.

You can't mind it.

[Rick] You can't sell it. You can't...

-Live on it. -[Troy] Mm-hmm.

[Rick] Then, what the [bleep] am I paying for?

I know it's not your fault, but honestly, the way things are looking,

why would I make another payment?

Why would I just not take what's left, of the water license

get what I can, [bleep] leave at the end of the year

without paying one last payment?

Well, I'd probably feel the same way, but we have this agreement.

And if you walk away now, you walk away from everything.

There's no refunds. There's nothing.

But I mean, I'm kind of looking

like I'm [bleep] either way here, and um...

I just, I just did not [bleep] see this coming.

[Rick sighs] I don't know.

I've got a lot to think about.

My entire [bleep] future is hanging in the balance right now, and I don't know.

I just can't even [bleep] deal with it, at the moment, so.

Look, man, I just-- I don't even know what to say anymore.

I can't...

Everything-- every time, I think I can get a step ahead,

it's like two [bleep] steps back and I just, I don't know,

how to deal with it. I just-- I've had enough.

I don't know what I'm going to do anymore.

[Troy] I feel for him.

I like Rick.

I want him to succeed here.

But if he bails out now, it's over.

[Rick] I'm just getting tired of this [bleep].

This, is probably the dirtiest, worst job in gold mining.

[narrator] Gold cleaning guru, Chris Doumitt is back, and doing what he does best.

[Chris] Cleaning gold.

This is like, the earliest cleanup we've ever done.

We're running gravel.

I'm kind of excited, really, to see what's in here.

Hopefully, we've got piles and piles of gold.

[Chris] Thank you, my dear.

Now we're gonna take a quick look.

See what's in the gravel.

[Mitch] Look at that, Doumitt.

[Chris] Yeah, a real fine gold.

[Mitch] Well, you know, if there's gold in it, Big Red's gonna catch it.

[Chris laughs] Yeah.

It's exciting, just to have the plant fired up.

And be out here running dirt and, you know, seeing some gold in it.

[Chris] I'll have some numbers tomorrow.

[Monica] Hello. Hello.

[Minnie] Hi, guys.

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] So why the [bleep] did you come back?

[Tony speaking]

First of all, first of all, back it up.

I cleaned all this.

[Tony speaking]

[Monica] It would never look so nice.

[Tony laughs]

[Monica chuckles]

[narrator] The Beets family have gathered to see

if Tony's fast start, has paid off.

You win at the end, even for a bit, so it's...

-[Tony speaking] -[Minnie] Kinda nice to see you.

[Tony speaking]

From the sounds of it, he's turning into quite the Beets eh?

All he needs is experience, and he's getting that every day, right?

[Tony speaking]

You guys went and helped Kevin move his plant?

-[Tony speaking] -[Mike] Grab the truck.

If people listened to me the first time, we'd have had it the [bleep] time.

[Tony speaking]

[all laughing]

well, but after a good start, I would like not to have another year like last year.

No sir, frozen assets.

I think, maybe we should see what else is there.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] At Indian River,

Sluice-a-lot ran, for a week.

And the shaker deck, for two days.

[Mike] Sixty, 90, 100 and 150.

Two hundred, 260, 300, 310.

[Mike] 312.16

Yes.

[narrator] With gold prices, hitting an all-time high,

of 2500 an ounce.

Tony's haul is worth over $750,000.

Breaking his record for most gold in the first week of the season.

That's not bad for a week.

[Tony speaking]

This is the biggest cleanup we've ever had in April.

-[laughs] -[Minnie] All right, children,

you guys put the stuff away, please?

-Uh-huh. -See ya.

[Tony speaking]

[growls]

[Chris] Oh, yeah.

[narrator] Parker's hoping, his fast start will help break gold records of his own.

[Parker] Anybody need a drink?

[narrator] To cash in, on the highest gold prices ever.

And hit his $25,000,000,

10000-ounce goal.

[Mitch] Well, back sluicing.

-[Chris] Yeah. -Look at how long it took us last year

to get actually sluicing at the Money Pit.

And now, we're rolling back in here.

But it is interesting to think about this time last year.

-[Tyson] Right? -[bleep] mayhem.

-[Tyson] Oh, yeah. -Yeah.

The amount of [bleep] we were doing last year, is crazy.

-[Mitch] Oh, yeah. -Moving camp,

moving the yard, It's just like...

It's nice to have everything in one place.

Yeah.

[Tyson] Big Red went pretty good, though, for your setup there.

It looks nice.

It's set up, it's running.

We have dirt.

[Mitch] What do we got, Chris?

[narrator] Parker's about to find out,

if his gamble on the Money Pit's old gravel piles.

will pay off.

5.6 ounces.

[narrator] Worth, just $14,000.

Thirty-four hour run.

5.6 of that, gives us a season total of...

5.6.

-That's uh... yeah. -[Parker] [bleep] man.

Is that the worst cleanup we've ever done?

[Chris] Broke another record, you guys.

Worst cleanup ever.

-[Chris] Worst cleanup ever. -Nailed it.

I'm sorry, to make you guys do that for that.

Now we know. That's not the way we want to start off the year.

No, it's a bit problematic, isn't it?

Especially considering, how far we have to go.

All that time that we spent setting up Big Red

could have been spent elsewhere.

It's definitely a problem, especially with

just how much ground we have to get through.

We don't have much leeway for mistakes.

[Parker sighs]

Only 9994.4 ounces, left to go.