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I definitely hit a big snag

from the beginning of the season

with all this water license nonsense.

So water licensing doesn't go through.

That's pretty much the end of rally mining.

You know this ground will be, will be no more.

After discovering he could only have

one more year to mine on his claim,

Rick ness is taking the bull by the horns.

We gotta get as much gold as we can this season,

so that no matter where, wherever the cards may fall,

we're in the best position we can be to deal with it.

What are we gonna do? We gotta go for it.

He's all in on a mission to uncover,

once and for all,

what's at the bottom of rally valley.

If it lives up to its promise,

Rick could make a life-changing score.

The real good news is this water is out of rally valley.

I mean, that has been a pain in our asses,

but everybody pulled together,

and we really move that out of there fast.

Today, right now, it's gonna be a good day.

Rally valley's open. We're gonna go down there

and start pulling some of the richest pay we've ever run.

So what else could there be better than that? You know?

Rick's leading the charge

to haul pay and build a stockpile

so they can start sluicing.

That's what we're ridin'.

Wait, wait. What the is going on?

This is not good.

This looks...

What the am I supposed to do with that?

The whole cut's flooded with silky, muddy,

Me.

That look like it's got gold in it?

I don't think so.

We're gonna have to move it all

before we get back to the pay.

For the last two weeks, Rick's crew

have been draining the pool of water

at the bottom of the 190-foot deep rally valley cut.

But falling dirt from the high, unstable walls

has mixed into the leftover water,

creating a thick layer of soupy gloop,

stopping Rick from getting to the

gold-rich pay layer underneath.

Rick's only option...

Dig out the silty slop

and truck it to a waste site.

We're in a deep hole,

and getting it out of here is painful.

Need to get my excavator up top there

so I can pull some of this off of there.

Load it in the truck and get a solid spot.

It's pretty, pretty soft here.

I don't want to run this excavator

into something like this,

where I don't know where the bottom is.

I don't, I just don't like it.

What the?

And the more I move the machine,

the worse it's seeming to get. So...

Buzz, you got a copy?

Why don't you meet me down at rally valley?

We got a problem down here.

Foreman buzz lego brings in the 700 excavator

to pull the 460 from the quagmire.

The problem is not knowing right here.

If I knew the bottom was, in, you know, a foot,

two foot, three foot, four foot,

I'd just go ahead and shove down.

You know, I would at least have this thing stable,

and I could crab walk it out of here.

I'm gonna go grab that real big, heavy chain.

He doesn't want to lift up right now

because he's stable where he's at. So.

I don't have a whole lot of experience

pulling excavators out of places,

usually I'm using an excavator to pull a truck.

Sounds good in my head. We'll see how it goes.

One wrong move, and the 51-ton machine

could be lost in the quicksand.

Keep going.

It's unstable a lot farther up than I thought.

It just kept wanting to sink.

We can't spend weeks trucking that out of here.

There's no way I'm getting trucks in the back of the cut,

so I don't know what the hell I'm gonna do now.

I'm gonna have to come up with another plan.

There's got to be another way.

This spring's been in a bit of a fight,

you know, we've dived into this property

just headfirst and in a massive way

and are spending, you know,

way more money than we ever have.

One hundred miles from the keno mountains.

Two weeks into the season,

29-year-old Parker schnabel

is in an unfamiliar situation.

Gunning for 10,000 oz of gold worth $25,000,000,

he's only brought in 5.6 oz,

and has no wash plants running.

We don't really know...

We know what we're doing, but we don't know this property,

you know, a rough line of like, "here's where"

it's profitable for us", where the pay really starts.

Parker's bet everything on starting the season

opening his 20-acre long cut,

but the cut has proven unpredictable.

So arguably...

In some ways, we don't know what we're doing.

Roxanne is gonna fire up this week, which will be good

and hopefully we'll be well on our way

to a big old record breaking season.

I know we're going to break records

in the cost department.

So hopefully we'll break

some records in the gold department as well.

Parker's crew have stockpiled pay dirt

from the frozen long cut's ditches.

And will finally get a read

on how good the gold is.

You know, once the wash plants stabilized,

the pads happy, our water systems happy.

We really just need to get Roxanne up and running.

This has certainly been quite the undertaking

here to get us to this point.

But you know, we've got some thawed pay dirt.

Now it's all about getting that dirt

through this wash plant.

And hopefully when it's all said and done,

there's a big old pan of gold

to show for all this hard work.

- How's it going? - Not bad. How are you?

- All right. - -I'm just worried about this setup.

Both running out of water. And...

This thing falling off the bank. So...

As long as there's a couple of people here

to watch those things,

and neither one of them is good.

Yeah, for sure.

Don't run out of water.

And don't let the plant fall off the hill.

- Yeah. - Do your thing.

The long cut... This is the moneymaker.

This is what we're after right here.

So, let's go get her fired up.

Parker's 10-inch pump can shift

3000 gallons of water per minute

through Roxanne, which drains away

from the pad via a makeshift trough.

Here comes the water.

All right!

That's what we want here.

As you can see now, that water is falling

right into the trap.

It's washing out the way we want it.

Let's do it.

The bank will be fine.

You can quote me later.

It's time for Roxanne to turn on that red light here.

Wash some rocks.

Let's go, baby.

We're all super excited.

We're about to really start the season and get her going.

What's going on?

The wash plant pad is washing away.

Volvo the whole tray doesn't seem to be catching

much of the water, and it's pouring over the edge.

The discharged water from the plant

is pouring over the top of the tray

and eating away at Roxanne's pad,

putting it at risk of collapse.

My biggest fear is the sluice runs

falling off the pad

and then the wash plant following.

Tyson tries to shore up the bank

with rocks and old tires.

We're gonna have to shut the plant down.

Oi!

Parker's itching to get the gold coming in,

and right now we're trying our best to do that for him.

But it's just one problem after another, it seems.

Parker schnabel's crew have shut down

wash plant, Roxanne.

After a torrent of overflowing

water started to wash away its pad.

You can see where the water is hitting our tray.

It's not landing in the tray.

It's landing short of it,

which is why all this water is going out around the back.

So, we've got to get the tray closer.

And that's gonna allow it to do its job

and get the water away from us here.

Probably need to pull the whole tray out, though.

Pull it all out.

Clean all this.

Set it. Just a little bit of dirt

to hold it. We'll re-bed that.

Obviously, it's time we could be sluicing here,

and unfortunately we are not.

Tyson must first move the 30-foot-long excess

water tray out of the way

and re-dig the ditch that it sits in.

Then, reposition the tray back in the ditch,

directly under the sluices.

If positioned correctly,

it will catch the excess water

and channel it safely away from the pad.

Yeah, that'll be good there.

It's just going to take a little bit of adjustment here.

If we can just lose a little bit of this,

that's where it was hanging up on last time.

Yeah, just that little point right there.

Is it gonna be sitting on that

pile of dirt I put there now?

Just got to get this perfect here.

Right in place. Right in the money.

Right in the butter zone.

We got everything moved around,

adjusted here. We're gonna fire

the water back up and give it a check.

Let's do it.

Yeah, we got some water now.

Hopefully, second time's the charm here.

Come on, baby. She heavy.

That's looking better.

That water's falling right into the drain.

It's washing out the way we want it.

What do you think? Time to wash some rocks?

Yeah, let's do it, man.

Let's throw some dirt at it.

Sounds good.

Tony beets, has put the pedal to the metal,

determined to turn around his fortunes

and haul the family business back on track,

after last year's season of chaos.

In just two weeks, Tony's already banked

774 oz of gold, worth $1700,000.

Tony's given youngest son, Mike,

and daughter Monica,

the job of getting a third plant

up and running on paradise hill.

Now without eldest son Kevin,

who's left to run his own claim,

Tony's counting on his nephew,

27-year-old cousin, Mike,

to run his Indian river operation.

And then there's always someone keeping an eye on things.

To keep up momentum

and hit Tony's 5000-ounce target,

cousin Mike's two wash plants

need to bring in a total

of at least 200 oz a week.

Tony put me in charge.

So that means there's a little bit more

pressure on my shoulders this season.

Which I don't mind.

I hope I do a good job and don't disappoint Tony.

You know, we hope it will be better than

what we did last year.

Tony's shaker deck has been running

gold-rich pay nonstop for the last two weeks,

manned by veteran beets crew member len hoekstra.

That's not good.

Tony, do you have a copy?

All the parts coming apart.

Never seen this before.

All the bolts came out.

All the holes are ripped out

and this screen just fell off.

All the welding broke.

It's pretty much destroying itself.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The shaker deck shakes pay dirt

through two screens

that filter out worthless rocks and dirt.

And allow gold to settle

in the sluice runs at the bottom.

The bearings, holding the rollers beneath the deck,

keeping the vibrations in check

have worn through.

Without them,

the 30-year-old shaker deck is shaking

more violently and tearing itself apart.

The entire deck needs rebuilding.

A massive job that will take days to complete.

With the shaker deck out of action,

it's down to Tony's only running wash plant,

sluice-a-lot, to keep the operation

on a roll and deliver 200 oz.

Aww.

Eric morel feeds sluice-a-lot pay,

while in the loader,

his girlfriend and new recruit,

enyez vj, restocks the pay pile

and clears the mounting fine tailings

from the foot of the sluice runs.

Go ahead.

Yeah, I'll be there in a couple of minutes.

Apparently, the fine tailings are piling up by the sluice

runs of sluice-a-lot, and we can't have that.

The sluice runs don't do their job right,

then we're washing away gold,

and we don't want to lose gold.

Tony, do you copy? Tony, it's very bad.

Normally, the plant is set high on a pad

and the fine tailings flush out the sluice runs,

dropping away from the plant.

But in his rush to jump start his season,

Tony set the plant up at ground level,

allowing the tailings to pile up quicker,

blanketing the sluice runs

and preventing sluice-a-lot from catching gold.

Tony's gone from two wash plants running to none.

And with no gold coming in, his flying start,

has screeched to a halt.

Right now, all the pay dirt in rally valley is

covered in slop.

One hundred miles away

in the mountains above keno,

Rick ness is still no closer

to getting on the gold.

He needs to get rid of a thick layer of sloppy gloop

stopping him from getting to the treasure

at the bottom of rally valley.

It's just a mess

and you know, I'm trying to come up with new ideas.

There's something I saw poking

out of the woods on the property here.

It might work. It might not.

I'm not sure, but I'm just gonna check it out.

Yeah, I mean, I've driven past this thing a million times.

I've seen it poking out of the woods here.

I knew what it was. Knew it was a monitor.

I never really had much, much use for one.

If we have everything to make this work, this will be

a hell of a lot more efficient than running trucks down there.

Hey, Ryan, you got a copy?

Come and meet me down by... on the side of the road.

We're going to war, boys.

It looks like it.

What's your plan here?

A six inch monitor. What do you think about that?

Yeah.

You know what I mean? It's a six inch neck down

to what probably looks like about three inches on the end of that Cannon.

That's gonna provide a hell of a lot of pressure. If we can get a pump,

hooked up to this thing and get the water coming out of this,

that I know it'll handle.

I mean, I think this will wash that silt right towards our trash pump.

Do you know when the last time it was used?

This thing?

I mean, by the looks

I think those trees have grown up around it.

Yeah, I mean, honestly, it could have been sitting there for the last 40 years.

We're gonna need a hell of a lot of hose.

And a six inch pump.

Bailey and Kyle have searched high and low and found us a ton of six-inch Clay flat,

and we just found this pump in the container.

1970's.

It's a 1970s pump.

We will be sucking water out of the river.

It will go into this pump here.

We plan on shooting it all the way down into rally valley,

to get to the monitor,

use the pressure from the monitor to break apart the silt.

The major thing with this pump is going to be pressure.

We've got about a 50-60 foot hill to climb right in front of us,

and then we've got probably another...

Eight hundred feet across the flat,

and then we've got probably another 200 feet at an angle down into rally valley.

So, we're going to be asking every little thing that this pump can give.

- I don't think it'll work. - I don't think it's powerful enough,

but Rick's proved me wrong before.

Rick plans to hook the old monitor up to the six inch pump

and blast the silt with pressurized water,

breaking it apart and diluting the slop,

so it can be washed towards the waste pump

and sucked out of the cut.

The last step here, brought the monitor down there.

Hook the last line up to it,

and then it's just point and shoot.

Put it there. Gonna try to get everything in front of it

washed to our pump.

You ready to fire that thing up?

Pump's running. Here comes the water now.

Water's at the top of the hill.

I think we're using every bit of power this pump has.

It's chugging pretty good.

Is that is that water?

Copy.

Rick down at the bottom just gave us a heads up

to shut it off immediately.

So, I'm gonna see what happened.

What happened?

The center swivel of that thing.

I think it just needs to be tightened, it was all pouring out of it.

That's all she got, dude, it almost died pushing up that hill.

Looks like the swivel on the monitor.

There is a gasket in there.

That swivel allows that monitor to move all over the place

to be able to control where you're shooting the water.

Right now, it's just pouring water out of it.

So we're losing pressure out of the nozzle, so they're going to go down.

Try to tighten up some bolts, hopefully, we don't need to find a gasket,

hopefully some stuff just tightens up.

We'll fire back up and we'll be back on track.

- Fire the thing back up. - Yep.

See if we actually have enough pressure.

If it works, Rick could get down to pay

by the end of the day.

Great. Yeah, let's do it again.

Okay, everybody ready for round two?

All right, we're building pressure.

Here it comes.

Yes, it's working so good!

Well, no call's a good call so far.

Rick's monitor is diluting the silty gloop,

which can now be sucked out of the cut through the trash pump.

I think we could use a little more pressure.

But I'm happy. All right, let's get the out of here.

One hundred miles west of keno, chasing a 200-ounce week,

Tony's gone from two working wash plants to none.

His shaker deck lies in pieces.

And sluice-a-lot has run out of room for tailings.

If you don't set it up quite right

the fine tailings will pile up.

So I got to fix it.

We are going to move this plant.

We're setting it up a little higher than it is now,

and hopefully this will fix the fine tailing problem

we keep having.

Sluice-a-lot is sitting at ground level,

and fine waste tailings from the sluices have piled up,

blocking the wash plant sluice runs.

- Cousin Mike's fix? - Drag the 45-ton plant,

one mile along a thin, treacherous road

running between Indian river and the comeback cut.

To a new higher pad with more room

for waste tailings.

Until the wash plant's moved,

Tony has no gold coming in.

Rookie foreman, cousin Mike,

is now in a race to get it to the new pad.

Well, this wash plant is pretty new.

We can't have anything happen to it.

You've got to pay attention here because it's sliding sideways.

Yeah. I just gotta keep an eye on it,

that the trees won't up the sluice run.

Yeah, so if I hit anything major with the sluice runs,

it will bend the whole thing out of shape,

or worse, rip it off, destroy it.

Don't break it.

Well, yeah, it's a lot of trees.

That's why I want to check.

I'm not too happy with the trees, but it's all we have.

So, keep going.

At Indian river,

Tony's nephew, cousin Mike, is moving sluice-a-lot to a new pad

in an attempt to get back on the gold.

Mike must maneuver the 30-foot-wide wash plant

along a narrow road with a dangerous drop

into the cut on one side and the Indian river to the other.

If we had the whole wash plant slide in there, then,

that would the whole season up right there.

It was a little bit too tight there.

Made it through.

It's all good to go, so we'll fire up the plant.

That works great.

Tony's finally back in the running to hit

his 200-ounce weekly goal.

This cut is the only thing making any money,

and there's a lot of money getting spent.

We're just trying to fight and get enough thaw every day

to keep the plant running, so it's just a challenge for everybody.

At Parker schnabel's long cut,

Roxanne is finally on the gold,

sluicing ditch pay dirt.

Now, we're running Roxanne back up to snuff.

Parker wanted us running it faster,

so that's what we're doing.

We still don't have any water on the far run.

Get up on that platform

and see what's going on in the center.

So like, there's tons of

all the nozzles are getting clogged up.

Mitch and Tyson have spotted sticks and other materials.

Shut it down.

Choking the supply of water to the plant.

We need to go down, pull our suction basket and see what's going on here.

Yeah, look at that.

You can see all the sediment on this.

You can see everything on the outside.

It does have some exposed, but it created enough suction

that it pulled the one screen in, on this side.

That's why all these sticks are now in our wash plant.

Thick mud in the water has caused a section

of the suction basket to implode,

allowing sediment and junk from the pond,

to be sent to the plant,

where it's clogged the spray bars.

We've got to get this cleaned up.

We got to get this pulled back out, welded up, put in place,

and then we got to get our wash plant cleaned out.

What the hell was that?

For sakes, man.

On top of everything, a loader operator

hits the radial stacker that feeds the plant.

Yo.

Our radial stacker just got run into.

- By what? - A loader.

And one of the radial tires exploded.

No way.

Way.

Couldn't make this up if I tried, I'm telling you

and it just... It almost dropped.

Hit the pre wash. That's why it didn't flip.

- Wicked. - Right?

- We don't have any spare of those. - That's sure

come on, jarv.

Let's go, come on.

It's early in the season here, and people are not on their a game yet.

Mitch and Tyson now have to fix the suction basket,

the spray bars and the radial stacker

before Roxanne can get back on the gold.

Everybody wants to be a gold miner until it's time to do gold mining.

Whoo!

Look at that!

As soon as that's welded up, we'll get this thing back in the water.

We've lost so much time already this season,

and we're falling further behind.

Suction basket back in the water,

next, the spray bars.

Hey, Mitch, -how's it going, buddy?

Now, what we're gonna do, is remove these fittings.

We're gonna pull these spray bars out.

We're gonna get all the big stuff out of here,

so that we can get back up and running

and have full water flow.

Yeah. Look at all that stuff down there.

Finally, the radial stacker.

This tire's shot and this one's almost got eaten.

It looks like she came in, hit it and then backed out and tore this.

Yeah, what we can do here,

because we can Jack it up high enough.

That we can just take the tires right off and block it underneath.

With no replacement tires on site,

they improvise, using wooden blocks

to level up the stacker.

Good. Hopefully nothing else was on this thing

when they hit it with the loader.

We back level?

All right. Here we go.

Let me know when you want water.

Send it.

We were down for almost three hours.

It's about time we fired this thing back up.

Here's the water, time to add some dirt.

Roxanne's red light is back to green.

And the team are closer to seeing what kind of gold the long cut holds.

Right now, everything's doing what it should here.

Plant's looking all right.

We've got good flow across everything.

We've got the right amount of water flow, so, let's keep her going.

Clean up time.

At dominion creek...

Parker's crew, are finally on Roxanne's first cleanup

of the long cut.

I like your gloves, Tatiana.

They're for reaching in cows.

So this is one of the two best cleanups of the year.

It's the first clean up.

The other best one's the last cleanup.

We got Roxanne set up for the first time this year,

all new pad.

We'll get her cleaned up and start our season.

Hopefully, it will be a first good, clean up.

I just washed away six feet of muck in the back,

six feet of muck in the front,

just cutting up all the silt and pumping it right out of the valley.

At Duncan creek,

Rick's crew have been monitoring for 24 hours.

And are finally rid of the thick soup,

sitting on top of the gold rich pay layer.

As far as I'm concerned, it's going really well.

Now, it's time to get to the good stuff. Get to the gold.

Right now, all we've been doing is spending money,

and I need some coming back in.

I can't wait to see that freaking 750 and them rock trucks

to get down here to give me a hand getting pay out here again.

I figured I'd just jump in the truck.

Just get in where I fit in.

All that gone out of rally valley.

There's nothing left in rally valley right now but pay dirt.

Nothing left but gold.

We're gonna start hauling some pay out, so...

It's finally an exciting moment. We're doing something.

We're gonna be straight hauling pay for the rest of the day,

and hopefully, the rest of the week.

Rick is finally back to stockpiling rally valley's

gold-rich pay dirt and is one step closer

to finding out if he can deliver his 1500-ounce goal.

You know, we've been on a bit of a holding pattern.

There's that little feeling like, are we doing the right thing?

Blah, blah. But now I know we are.

You know, we're back.

All the silt's got out of there. We're trucking pay.

We're just about ready to fire monster red back up.

We're in good shape.

We're in good shape.

Hello!

Hi.

With paradise hill producing no gold,

the beets family gather for a gold weigh,

at Indian river.

Funny, she said the same thing at the hill.

My side, Mike, what do I say when he drives up?

He's here again.

It's really hard to manage to get on everybody's nerves.

So, how is Mike doing here?

That doesn't mean you're scared?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, seeing as they've just talked such nice things about you,

should we weigh up the fruits of your labor?

- Sure, let's see how well I actually did. - Fruits of your labor?

So this is for three days sluicing with sluice-a-lot, right?

To be on track for Tony's 5000 ounce season goal,

cousin Mike needs to deliver 200 ounces.

Twenty.

Thirty, forty.

Fifty.

Sixty.

75.3.

Worth over $188,000.

Bringing the season total to 849 ounces.

Sluice-a-lot didn't sluice a lot.

No, sluice-a-lot definitely didn't sluice a lot.

Yep.

Well, if...

Yeah.

Okay.

I know.

Yeah, man. Nice to have Roxanne back up and running, finally.

Yeah. Yeah.

About time we get to sluicing?

Yeah, it took us a bit to get there, but we're finally there.

Parker's about to find out

if his bet on opening the long cut first

this season will pay off.

If the gold doesn't live up to expectations,

his plans for the season,

and his quest for 10,000 ounces could fall apart.

You think you'd be able to keep up with that plant?

Man, it's hungry, like,

you know, big red can get through some material but

Roxanne is definitely a very hungry wash plant.

Hopefully, we can keep it running.

Bank started washing away a bit there.

Yeah, that was a little scary for a couple of minutes.

A little mad scramble.

Well, how did we do doumitt? Did we get anything? Are we rich?

Man, you're holding that like there ain't a lot in it.

Or he got strong over the winter.

You ready, Mitch?

To have any hope of hitting his target,

Parker needs over 475 ounces a week.

Fifteen, 20, 25, 28

30.80.

That's it.

- That's all of it? - That's it.

That's all we get out of that little beast.

Worth just over $77,000.

We did a lot more sluicing than what's sitting there.

Yeah.

Well, you can't get to 10,000 without getting to 30 first.

Don't say that number around me.

I expect a bit of calibration problems on this ground,

of like, our process,

and figuring out the most efficient way of doing things, right?

Like, I expect those problems.

Well, shall we go see if we can find a little bit more?

Yeah, I'm like, really hoping that this is not gonna be...

A theme.

You know, and get in some good material, it can turn around.

It has to turn around, really.

Yeah, it's not ideal.

Gotta go broke, if we keep doing this.

Thanks, guys. Thanks for everything out there.

We're still in the start up process of this property.