Gold Rush (2018) s05e13 Episode Script
Gold Road
NARRATOR: In the Yukon We've hit desperate times.
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the Hoffman crew takes a fall .
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and hits rock bottom.
Dave, I'm just about out of dirt.
Until Dave Turin's discovery Holy cow.
Now, that's impressive.
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turns their fortunes around.
(CHEERING) Tony Beets pushes his crew Watch out, Kevin.
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to breaking point.
All right.
Parker Schnabel's dream of Fantasy Land gold I know that there's really good gold here.
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hits a frozen wall of permafrost.
It's just solid blocks of ice.
Fantasy Land's dead again.
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that suddenly derails his 2,000oz season.
We need to find a lot of gold here in a short amount of time.
At McKinnon Creek in the Klondike, the Hoffman crew is fighting to keep their season alive.
They're almost three quarters of the way through the season, and have mined nearly half a million dollars' worth of gold.
They're battling to hit Todd's target of 1,000oz, worth $1.
2 million.
Andy Spinks digs paydirt worth $14 a yard out of Dave Turin's new cut.
I'm pleased with how the wash plant's running.
The guys are working.
Everything's going good.
Hey, Andy? This is working awesome.
Logan Pierce hauls Andy's pay to the plant.
This is the smoothest I've ever seen this operation go.
We're sluicing a serious amount of paydirt.
Jack Hoffman feeds Monster Red.
JACK: The material is very good.
If we don't do something stupid, we're going to make the thousand.
ANDY: (BLEEP) Dave, this is Andy, do you copy? Yeah, go ahead.
Dave, I'm just about done with this cut.
We're just about out of dirt.
You're kidding! I know it's not what you wanted to hear, but I'm scratching right now just to finish up.
This has gone a lot faster than we thought.
All right.
Let me come look at it.
10-4.
Dave Turin is partnered with Todd this season, but he's in charge of the mining.
I figured we'd have at least a couple more days.
It's just not as deep as what we thought.
It's just a little shallow.
I think it's great ground, but You know, it is what it is.
Get to bedrock, that's all we've got.
But we've got to find more ground.
Yeah, I get it.
All right, I'll go look.
See what we can find.
All right.
All right.
Finding new ground to mine this late in the season will be a real challenge.
Almost the entire claim is frozen solid and it's too late in the year for the ground to be thawed by the sun.
So we've got to look around, try to find something that's thawed out.
Now we've got to go look for an Easter egg in the grass, I guess.
Without paydirt that's already thawed, the crew will have nothing to run.
Hey, Todd? Andy's already down to bedrock.
Are you kidding? I think we ought to look at those drill maps again.
Yeah, there you go.
Well, what do you think about the haul road? Those drills are awesome.
Do you think we can get something there? Well, I'll grab Steve and I'll walk an excavator up there and we'll dig some test holes or something.
All right.
The haul road runs from the wash plant 800m up to the higher cut, right through an area of good drill holes.
Todd's hoping that the ground beside the haul road has had the frost pulled out of it by the tailings that were used to build the road.
Steve Pasley, the crew mechanic, heads out to dig some test holes.
Right now, our mission is to find thaw ground.
So if this is thawed, here, this could make a nice little cut for us.
If it's frozen .
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our season may come to an end pretty quick.
Right there, I'm down to gravel.
Hey, Steve! Is it frozen? No, man, it's thawed.
Oh, you're kidding! In fact, I got water in the hole.
That's awesome.
It's all thawed, Todd.
OK, that's a good thing.
This is going to be our next cut, right here.
Right on.
This is a big deal, especially this time of the year.
20ft from the road.
We'll get in here and strip it real quick.
Get it on the trucks.
Get it to the plant and keep feeding the monster.
I think we just got pretty dang lucky.
16km east, at Scribner Creek .
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Parker Schnabel works towards his 2,000oz, $2.
4 million goal.
He's mining the Far Cut, but they're down to bedrock and his paydirt is about to run out.
I'm scraping up the last of this one cut.
Follow the bedrock and I'll get them cleaned.
Keep the plant running as long as we can.
Chris Doumitt feeds the wash plant.
These last couple of weeks have been nice.
I mean, they've been keeping the landing totally full of pay, but now it's dwindling.
Well, this Far Cut really held us over for a long time, but looks like we're knockin' on the door again.
But unlike the Hoffmans, Parker is one step ahead of the game.
Across the creek, he has the other half of his crew already working to get down to gold-rich gravel in Fantasy Land.
Now, we've got a big push going on right now in trying to get this cut stripped out.
We've put a lot of time and energy in this ground here.
MITCH: You know, if we want to see that 2,000oz, we've got a lot of dirt left to move here.
Sometimes you've got to spend a little money to make some, and we're definitely spending a lot here.
I know that there's really good gold here, um, it's just a hell of a fight to get it.
What the (BLEEP)? (CRUNCHING) Yeah, that's solid ice.
(BLEEP) Before he even reaches paydirt, Rick has hit permafrost.
Hey, Parker, have you got a copy? Yeah, Rick, go ahead.
Dude, I'm over in Fantasy Land and I'm hitting ice.
(BLEEP) Is it everywhere or just where you're at? Well, I've just started hitting it, but it's solid, and I'm not even close to gravel yet and it's just solid blocks of ice.
Why don't you go around and try somewhere else, see if it's everywhere? I'll be over in a little bit.
All right, wish me luck.
I had no idea that there was going to be this much frost.
It's going to be too difficult of a process to try to dig through this.
This late in the season, this far north Rick? .
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the permafrost won't thaw.
It's the same as last year, man.
And it's everywhere? It's everywhere.
I tried over there.
I tried it this side.
I tried up over here.
It's nothing but ice.
We may have gotten here a little earlier this year, but not early enough.
Apparently not.
Well, we can get in here with the dozer and start ripping it, but it'll be too late Yeah.
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to throw the stuff, to thaw and run it through the plant.
(BLEEP) Let's get out of here.
Yeah? Yeah.
Fantasy Land's dead again.
Yeah.
What's happening to our (BLEEP) season? West, at Eureka Creek .
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Tony Beets works overtime to get his 75-year-old dredge rebuilt and gold-mining before winter closes in, freezing everyone out of the Klondike.
TONY: Halt! (WHISTLES) Go, go, go, go, go! He's a month behind schedule .
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and desperately trying to catch up.
Tony insists his crew works at double speed to rebuild four critical parts of the dredge in just two days.
Things got to be done in an order and if they don't get done in that order, it means us tearing it back apart in order to get the things right, and then put it back together again.
The crew doesn't want to rebuild the dredge in a rush, or out of order.
We're just making sure we can put it together way we're ordered to put it together and stuff fits.
We're not sure we can.
Yo! All right! First on Tony's list, the gearbox and the bull gear.
When it's running, a chain of buckets delivers paydirt into the dredge.
The bucket line is driven by the large cog of the bull gear .
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which in turn is powered by the drive cog of the gearbox.
For the mechanism to work, both cogs have to be perfectly aligned.
Lift the damn thing up.
Jerry's in the crane, hoisting the gearbox up first.
Mike guides it into position.
The gearbox and bull gear are irreplaceable, and have been sitting unused for 27 years.
Hey! Up! Up! Up! Look out! .
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At Eureka Creek, Tony Beets and crew are reinstalling the bull gear on their 75-year-old mining dredge.
Hey! Look out! (MIKE SPEAKING) No-one is hurt, but the teeth of the bull gear have hit the superstructure.
(MIKE SPEAKING) (TONY SPEAKING) They need to lift the six-tonne cog carefully into position, and there's no room for error.
Suck your boom in about a half-inch or so.
(BLEEP) Oh, (BLEEP).
This ain't going to happen.
Yeah, there's no way that shaft will clear into that bearing.
We're (BLEEP).
The bull gear is designed to sit in a bearing set at 45 degrees.
The gearbox sits on a horizontal bearing.
In his haste, Tony put the gearbox in first.
Now it's impossible to lower the bull gear in at a 45-degree angle, and the gap is too small to simply drop it in from above.
Uh, we've got a problem.
This ain't going to work.
(BLEEP) This has got to go in before the gearbox.
I've got to come back because I'm hitting on my bearing and my shaft isn't anywhere closer.
We've got to unpin that gearbox.
That's what happens when you get hurried and don't think things through.
They move the gearbox aside, then hoist up the bull gear again for a second attempt.
OK, hold it there.
Now cable down.
Just a little bit left.
(TONY SPEAKING) Bit of boom on it.
Yep.
Down, down, down.
Cable down, easy.
In.
Gearbox is in.
Next up on Tony's brutal schedule: the heaviest part of the dredge, the bucket ladder.
The dredge's ladder supports the all-important bucket line that carries paydirt up into the dredge.
It's a colossal conveyor that weighs in at 14 tonnes.
To keep up the fierce pace, Tony jumps into his big rig to back the ladder into position.
Argh! (BLEEP) Tony is losing valuable time.
He brings in two excavators.
They lift the ladder so the truck can pull out.
There you go.
Pull! Then Tony has to guide the ladder into the narrow space between the pontoons.
(INDISTINCT INSTRUCTIONS) Up! Yo! Mike? (WHISTLES) Yeah, Mike.
Are you ready? Finally, they can lift the massive ladder into place.
Good.
Mike uses brute force to secure four huge steel bolts.
It's in.
The ladder's in.
At McKinnon Creek .
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the Hoffman crew is stripping thawed ground from their new cut beside the haul road.
ANDY: Any time we can find some ground that's thawed out close to the wash plant, it's a big deal.
You can't ask for anything better than this, this late in the season.
We've got this last month or so of push to go.
This is where you get all your gold, so we've just gotta keep going hard.
They need to get down to gravel before Monster Red chews through the last of the paydirt from Dave's old cut.
It's gobbling it as fast as I can feed it.
They've got to light a fire under their butts and get the pay.
Logan hauls overburden in his rock truck.
Uh, we've hit desperate times.
We're running out of paydirt and we're trying to keep this wash plant going, so we have to throw almost all of our people at stripping.
You know, it's going to be a race.
I think we're going to be OK.
It's just, uh it's just what we've got to do.
Holy (BLEEP)! .
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At McKinnon Creek Holy (BLEEP).
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Logan Pierce has rolled his rock truck.
You all right, Logan? (ON RADIO) Yeah, I mean, it thumped pretty hard, but I'm good.
I felt it.
(BLEEP) (ANDY SPEAKING) Logan's shaken up, but OK.
I've driven trucks for three years.
This is the first one I've rolled.
There's nothing you can do about it, though.
Andy uses his excavator to carefully right the truck.
It happened really slow and then it, pfft, slammed at the bottom.
Just get it out of here, Logan, so we keep going.
Within minutes, they're back in business.
Awesome.
Let's move some dirt.
Back at Eureka Creek Tony Beets is determined to get four major parts of his dredge rebuilt in just two days.
But he's also got to run his gold mine at Paradise Hill.
We took it apart.
We can get it back together.
It'll be up for you this afternoon, how's that? You know, we had a couple of stuff out of order here this morning, because Tony was in a mad rush to get this done.
And Tony has a habit of showing up, causing a ruckus.
Then we got to pick up all the pieces and make it all work again.
Tony has left the crew to fit the wheelhouse, the nerve centre of the dredge.
Here, the dredge operator uses a system of levers to control the giant gold-catching machine.
This is going to be a very tricky lift, just to get it to line up and stay where we want it.
I think we're safe to go here.
Easy up here and let's get her in place.
(ON RADIO) Yeah, just watching it swing, there.
It looks good going back up in the air, here.
Don't go over to the other side there.
Don't go down too much here.
OK, I think you need to move him up a little bit To lock the wheelhouse in position, they need to line up 20 two-centimetre bolt holes.
So many pieces to line up and none of them are perfectly straight.
You're going to hit these other tail lines, unless we go that way a little bit.
But some of the columns that the wheelhouse sits on have been bent during the long haul to Eureka Creek.
And there's six columns we're trying to set it over at the same time, plus a set of stairs, and we don't have any wiggle room.
I'm sure a lot of this stuff was straight before we moved it.
If you put a bolt in that corner, it will key it.
When I lift, it will lift your side and not come undone there.
Swing back towards your left a little bit.
OK, that's good.
Nice! Yeah, it looks good.
They got all four corners pinned and it looks like they're just putting in the bolts in the rest of the holes, calmly.
It feels good to be in the pilot house again, doesn't it? We got really far really quick, actually.
It's gone really nice.
I'm surprised to see how fast we've been able to get this back together.
And Tony wants us to head it that way when it's running.
Yeah, I can picture it now churning out across there.
Over at Scribner Creek .
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frozen overburden has forced Parker to abandon Fantasy Land, the cuts he was banking on to reach his season target of 2,000oz.
Rick has moved back over to the Far Cut to get the last of its paydirt to the wash plant.
I'm sitting on the last bit of pay that we have exposed right now.
I'll be done with this by the end of today.
After that, you know, that's it.
Yeah, I mean, it's a difficult situation we're in right now.
We've got no ground open.
And not really any clear path as to where we're going, so we're on the road to trouble, actually.
Parker had been one step ahead, but if he can't find new ground soon, his crew won't have anything to mine.
Got to figure out what direction to go.
What do you want? So we can make To make another six, eight weeks.
And our headstart's pretty well gone as far as open ground, huh? Yeah, you know, we're just basically staying ahead of the plant.
All right, our options are limited, aren't they? Yeah.
You got decisions to make here, so All right.
What way you wanna proceed? The only option is to go up on the upper end of the Far Cut, on the tree-line up there.
It kind of goes up in a hump there.
Looks like 25ft deep.
We need to commit to something.
Yeah.
What the hell.
We take out a couple of thousand yards and if it's paying good, then we strip more.
Hopefully it's thawed.
Hopefully it's good, but we'll do it because we have no other option.
With Fantasy Land locked in permafrost, Parker's new plan is to move just north of the Far Cut to start stripping unproven ground.
He knows the paydirt is buried up to eight metres deep.
DAVID: Whoo-hoo-hoo! Was that cool or what? But the only way to find out if it's thawed is to remove the overburden.
Well, everybody's working good together.
Everybody has to, to get the 2,000oz.
RICK: It's so deep that Parker's up top with the 700 and two trucks and he's taking one level off, and then I'm below him with two trucks taking another level down.
I mean, that gives you a little idea how deep it is.
It's nasty.
It's a race to get down to gravel before Chris' stockpile of pay at the wash plant runs out.
CHRIS: I can see those guys working that cut over there, but I can't really tell how much we're getting done.
We're running out of paydirt now and we're going to be in a world of hurry.
Hey, Parker, have you got a copy? I need some paydirt up here, man.
I've only got about two shifts left, maybe 24 hours.
Are you sure that's all we've got? (ON RADIO) That's about it.
Right now, things are hectic.
We're trying hard to catch back up.
The real problem is just the depth of overburden that we're going into.
We don't know if it's thawed or frozen when we get down to the bottom.
Everybody's working as fast and hard as we can.
You know, we're running the machines continuously all day.
Nobody's stopping for coffee breaks or lunch.
Everybody's eating on the fly.
It sure helps out.
All right, Rick, how are we looking down there? I'm pretty sure I'm finally down to paydirt.
You want to come check this out? Parker needs the Far Cut extension to deliver over 800oz of gold if he's to reach his 2,000oz goal.
After clearing almost 10m of overburden, Parker finally tests the exposed gravel.
That's a pretty damn good pan right there, actually.
See, there's some good gold right in there.
Some damn nice stuff.
Rick! (GRUNTS) It's, like, 30.
That's out of this bank? I mean, man Yeah.
Hey, Mike! That's big flakes, eh? Yeah.
When you keep finding pans like that, you can make more money panning.
Damn close.
Might have more fun.
This is awesome, because we know it's thawed.
The plan is pretty simple - keep chasing this good ground.
At Eureka Creek, Tony Beets has left his crew to rebuild the dredge whilst he works at his gold mine Paradise Hill.
Jerry's left in charge of Mike and Tony's son Kevin.
It's getting late.
We've got to pull it out.
I can rest when this is over, but right now, we've got to keep on (BLEEP) going.
Today, the crew is reinstalling the last item on Tony's list .
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the ladder walls.
Get way back, guys.
It's a big wall, here.
These timber and steel plates fit on either side of the bucket line to protect the pontoons and the dredge crew from falling rocks.
They're not in very good condition, as you can see.
We're going to try to wiggle them in right now.
And we're going over the top and try straight down, right? Yup.
It's like a big sail up there.
It's catching any little bit of wind there, but Am I going to clear? You've got to boom up a bit, Jerry.
Give me a little bit of left swing.
They need to lower the wall into a narrow 30-centimetre gap between the bucket ladder and the superstructure.
So, now we've got to try to thread the needle, here, with this wall going down.
I really don't like this.
You guys be (BLEEP) careful.
Now that the ladder's in place, it's going to be a pain in the ass.
We should have put the walls in first, then the wheelhouse, and then the ladder would have been the last thing to go in.
What do you think, Kevin? KEVIN: Looks sketchy as (BLEEP).
Uh, it's a 20-foot wall hanging in the air with (BLEEP) falling off of it.
(BLEEP) It's sitting right on that bracket, it looks like, so we're going to have to get him up there just to kind of push it over.
Hey, Kevin, do you want to get in the genie lift and go up? Yeah, sure.
It's very dangerous up there with stuff falling down.
If that thing swings and catches me, I go for a tumble.
It should have been put in in the right order and we wouldn't be going through this.
(ON RADIO) I know, I know.
Cable down, cable down.
Little cable down.
Give me a foot or two, here, see if it's going in.
Yeah, I don't like that.
Give me just a hair.
A piece of timber coming loose from the wall is caught on the bucket ladder.
More.
(HIGH-PITCHED ALARM BEEPS) Shut up.
(BLEEP) Yeah, just don't boom out too far or it'll tip over on you.
That's why the beeper's going off, there.
Oh, I know.
Kevin has extended the cherry-picker to its maximum reach, and it's now at risk of tipping over.
Kevin, one of your rear tyres is just about lifting off the ground a little bit here, just so you know.
I would have been a lot happier not hearing that.
Yeah, well, it was Tony that decided to put this bucket ladder in, and now his own son's up there in a dangerous place, trying to get this thing back into place, here.
Watch out, Mike.
Yeah.
Watch out, Kevin.
How's that? She ain't stuck no more.
Just the way we planned it.
It's a pain in the ass, but it's in.
It takes another hour to slide the second wall between the ladder and the wheelhouse.
Whoa! She's all in, Mike.
What a pain in the ass.
Yeah, big shiny pieces make you feel good to have 'em in, but there's other stuff that needed to go in first.
Just as they finish the job, Tony arrives.
Hello, Tony.
Well, we've been struggling here.
Cos the wheelhouse was in there out of order.
The ladder was in out of order.
Oh, really, huh? No room.
Threading a needle up there.
Tony's crew has managed to install four major parts of the dredge in just two days.
At McKinnon Creek .
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Andy and Dave strip overburden in the new haul-road cut.
They're desperately hunting for paydirt.
Cold this morning, we've got fog.
We're running out of time.
When we find ground that's thawed out, that's easy money.
It's easy gold.
It's exactly what we need at this point in the season, because winter is coming.
After digging for 12 hours straight, Dave makes a breakthrough.
Oh, there's a pocket right here.
See how deep it is? See how much water's in there, the big gravel? That means at the bottom of that there should be a lot of gold.
Look at this.
All of a sudden we've got this pocket.
It dips down and look at all this white quartz.
So we've hit a pocket of white channel.
There should be some good gold in here.
Small depressions in the gravel often contain large concentrations of gold.
To find ground that's thawed in the Yukon, it's pretty rare.
So it really is a gift from God that we're finding ground that's thawed, because normally, you'd be ripping and tearing up the ice and the frozen permafrost, but when we can work through it with excavators and trucks .
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it really is a gift.
So we're just hunting for anything we can get our hands on.
So if this is as good as I think it is it's an amazing bonus, because this could Holy cow! Look at that.
Now, that's impressive.
There's 25, 30 colours in that.
It's easy.
It's quick.
It's right next to the plant.
That could be an amazing find, right there.
Andy, check this out.
That is an amazing pan.
That's exactly what we needed, right there.
Cool.
We'll keep digging.
Yeah.
Get it to the plant.
Nice job.
Sweet.
The haul-road cut looks good.
It's time to start hauling pay.
Now, if we can get two or three days, four days of running out of this, this close to the wash plant, it's got great gold in it You know, this is perfect.
This is exactly what we needed.
That's our paydirt, right now, coming in from the haul road.
We've got big hopes on this paydirt, right here.
THURBER: I like this.
Yeah, it's got that, you know, gold smell to it.
Just literally .
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smelling it.
Yeah, smelling it.
It's got Yeah.
I just feel relieved Yeah.
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to finally see good pay like that, so Doesn't get any better than this, I think.
We're able to scratch it, bring it down here, and putting it right inside the hopper, so This could be some of the best dirt we've ever ran.
It's going to be awesome.
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At Scribner Creek, Parker has run every last yard of paydirt from the original Far Cut.
CHRIS: This is all the Far Cut.
They've moved quite a ways upriver.
We just want to know if we're still in the gold.
We'll do this clean-up and see what the results are.
How's things looking? Finding a lot of big chunks.
Yeah? Yeah.
It looks like there's some pretty decent gold in here, so that's good.
Parker only has five weeks left to hit 2,000oz.
He's about to find out if he's on track.
We're starting to get into some pretty deep ground, so where we used to make money doing an ounce an hour, now we need probably an ounce and a half.
Cos if this ground gets worse, then we'll have to go somewhere else.
But that's not an option any more.
This thing's got to really produce.
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I think when your goal is 2,000oz, you should probably have a scale that goes for more than 30, huh? Yeah.
Might be a good idea.
So where are we at now, Parker? Before this we were at 11.
86oz and change.
You know I threw that challenge at you in the beginning of the season, Parker.
Keep me in paydirt and we'll keep that plant running.
You're slipping.
Yeah, we're slipping a little right now, there, Chris, but it's deep.
I mean, all the effort we put into Fantasy Land hurt us, you know? Just Yeah.
Like, with it being dead and the amount of effort we put into it, that's a lot of time invested that we're not going to get any gold out of, you know The area we cleared is damned near 200oz worth of pay.
So do you have a direction you're going to go now? I don't know.
What's that total? Last week, he had a monster clean-up - 156oz, worth $187,000.
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What's that bring us to? Got a total of 126.
9oz.
(EXHALES) So it's doing a little worse.
I thought it would get better, but it's weird.
That brings us to 1,313oz.
Parker has mined over 1.
5 million dollars' worth of gold.
But the 20-year-old mine boss is almost 700oz short of his target.
We need to find a lot of gold here in a short amount of time, so if we just extend that Far Cut upstream, and hopefully it'll deliver.
I'm going to have to start figuring things out here.
At McKinnon Creek, the Hoffman crew badly needs a good clean-up.
Monster Red's sluices look loaded, but they've been fooled before.
I don't like sitting on the crate.
I'll just sit on the wood thing right there.
Bud, did you see that, what I was digging? It's over your head.
It's six feet deep.
Did you see how high the bedrock is, though? Cos that just looked weird to me.
It looked like there's something special in there, you know? That one big pan that I got on top That was phenomenal.
It could surprise us.
Maybe it'll be good.
Jack's in the gold room finishing up the clean-up.
You know, the other thing is they say that those old-timers, that's what they look for, is those bedrock dips, and we had a big bedrock dip, right there.
They're less than halfway to their 1,000oz goal.
And then it'd go like this and then it'd go back down and I said instead of a And the geese are already heading south.
The Hoffman crew's season depends on getting better clean-ups.
What have you got, Jack? 132oz (CHEERING) 132oz, worth over $150,000, is the Hoffman crew's best clean-up this season.
It's been almost two years since they've produced this much gold in a single week.
Hey, dude, that was way bigger than we thought.
I cannot believe that.
Finally, we've got a surprise in the right direction.
Finally, we're on some good gold.
Dad, what's that put us at? Um, well, with these four, that brings us to 544oz and we are cooking.
544oz.
Hey, guys 544oz.
(CHEERING) Hey, guys, think about that.
I never thought we'd get this far.
We're over 500oz.
With the late start we got Yeah.
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that's pretty good, guys.
We're 544oz.
We're halfway to 1,000oz.
I don't know if we can get there, because we're late.
But I'll tell you what, we've just crossed over halfway point and we're heading towards the goal line now.
Can we do it? ALL: Yeah.
132oz, man.
That's a shot in the arm, that's what it is.
With the amount of yards we ran, that's a lot of gold.
We set a thousand-ounce goal and I hate to tell everybody we're going to beat it.
I mean, that clean-up alone, that's insane.
That's exactly what this team needed.
We needed a morale booster.
Everybody's up.
Everybody's back, energised, and that's what it will take to finish this season.
There's about $680,000 sitting right there on that sawhorse.
Think about that.
I just want to stare at it.
We dug that out of the ground.
JACK: We're going to hit that thousand and we're going to sail right past it.
We're going to make our goal.
(CHEERING) On the next Gold Rush Kicking ass.
Things are good.
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the Hoffmans' luck suddenly runs out.
What the (BLEEP)? It's just about gone.
And this time, their hunt for new paydirt Whoa.
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gets them stuck deep in a hole.
It's buried up to its axles.
I don't know if we'll get it out.
As Parker makes a push for 2,000oz Oh, come on.
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failing equipment (BLEEP) tracks split.
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and yet more frozen ground Now we're screwed.
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puts his monster goal in jeopardy.
We're in trouble, boys.
And Tony Beets goes to new heights Somebody get me a couple of bolts.
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and new lows Torch.
We'll blow that thing off.
(BLEEP) .
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to get his gold ship ready to set sail.
Well, we've got some treasure on board.
How the (BLEEP) is that?
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the Hoffman crew takes a fall .
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and hits rock bottom.
Dave, I'm just about out of dirt.
Until Dave Turin's discovery Holy cow.
Now, that's impressive.
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turns their fortunes around.
(CHEERING) Tony Beets pushes his crew Watch out, Kevin.
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to breaking point.
All right.
Parker Schnabel's dream of Fantasy Land gold I know that there's really good gold here.
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hits a frozen wall of permafrost.
It's just solid blocks of ice.
Fantasy Land's dead again.
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that suddenly derails his 2,000oz season.
We need to find a lot of gold here in a short amount of time.
At McKinnon Creek in the Klondike, the Hoffman crew is fighting to keep their season alive.
They're almost three quarters of the way through the season, and have mined nearly half a million dollars' worth of gold.
They're battling to hit Todd's target of 1,000oz, worth $1.
2 million.
Andy Spinks digs paydirt worth $14 a yard out of Dave Turin's new cut.
I'm pleased with how the wash plant's running.
The guys are working.
Everything's going good.
Hey, Andy? This is working awesome.
Logan Pierce hauls Andy's pay to the plant.
This is the smoothest I've ever seen this operation go.
We're sluicing a serious amount of paydirt.
Jack Hoffman feeds Monster Red.
JACK: The material is very good.
If we don't do something stupid, we're going to make the thousand.
ANDY: (BLEEP) Dave, this is Andy, do you copy? Yeah, go ahead.
Dave, I'm just about done with this cut.
We're just about out of dirt.
You're kidding! I know it's not what you wanted to hear, but I'm scratching right now just to finish up.
This has gone a lot faster than we thought.
All right.
Let me come look at it.
10-4.
Dave Turin is partnered with Todd this season, but he's in charge of the mining.
I figured we'd have at least a couple more days.
It's just not as deep as what we thought.
It's just a little shallow.
I think it's great ground, but You know, it is what it is.
Get to bedrock, that's all we've got.
But we've got to find more ground.
Yeah, I get it.
All right, I'll go look.
See what we can find.
All right.
All right.
Finding new ground to mine this late in the season will be a real challenge.
Almost the entire claim is frozen solid and it's too late in the year for the ground to be thawed by the sun.
So we've got to look around, try to find something that's thawed out.
Now we've got to go look for an Easter egg in the grass, I guess.
Without paydirt that's already thawed, the crew will have nothing to run.
Hey, Todd? Andy's already down to bedrock.
Are you kidding? I think we ought to look at those drill maps again.
Yeah, there you go.
Well, what do you think about the haul road? Those drills are awesome.
Do you think we can get something there? Well, I'll grab Steve and I'll walk an excavator up there and we'll dig some test holes or something.
All right.
The haul road runs from the wash plant 800m up to the higher cut, right through an area of good drill holes.
Todd's hoping that the ground beside the haul road has had the frost pulled out of it by the tailings that were used to build the road.
Steve Pasley, the crew mechanic, heads out to dig some test holes.
Right now, our mission is to find thaw ground.
So if this is thawed, here, this could make a nice little cut for us.
If it's frozen .
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our season may come to an end pretty quick.
Right there, I'm down to gravel.
Hey, Steve! Is it frozen? No, man, it's thawed.
Oh, you're kidding! In fact, I got water in the hole.
That's awesome.
It's all thawed, Todd.
OK, that's a good thing.
This is going to be our next cut, right here.
Right on.
This is a big deal, especially this time of the year.
20ft from the road.
We'll get in here and strip it real quick.
Get it on the trucks.
Get it to the plant and keep feeding the monster.
I think we just got pretty dang lucky.
16km east, at Scribner Creek .
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Parker Schnabel works towards his 2,000oz, $2.
4 million goal.
He's mining the Far Cut, but they're down to bedrock and his paydirt is about to run out.
I'm scraping up the last of this one cut.
Follow the bedrock and I'll get them cleaned.
Keep the plant running as long as we can.
Chris Doumitt feeds the wash plant.
These last couple of weeks have been nice.
I mean, they've been keeping the landing totally full of pay, but now it's dwindling.
Well, this Far Cut really held us over for a long time, but looks like we're knockin' on the door again.
But unlike the Hoffmans, Parker is one step ahead of the game.
Across the creek, he has the other half of his crew already working to get down to gold-rich gravel in Fantasy Land.
Now, we've got a big push going on right now in trying to get this cut stripped out.
We've put a lot of time and energy in this ground here.
MITCH: You know, if we want to see that 2,000oz, we've got a lot of dirt left to move here.
Sometimes you've got to spend a little money to make some, and we're definitely spending a lot here.
I know that there's really good gold here, um, it's just a hell of a fight to get it.
What the (BLEEP)? (CRUNCHING) Yeah, that's solid ice.
(BLEEP) Before he even reaches paydirt, Rick has hit permafrost.
Hey, Parker, have you got a copy? Yeah, Rick, go ahead.
Dude, I'm over in Fantasy Land and I'm hitting ice.
(BLEEP) Is it everywhere or just where you're at? Well, I've just started hitting it, but it's solid, and I'm not even close to gravel yet and it's just solid blocks of ice.
Why don't you go around and try somewhere else, see if it's everywhere? I'll be over in a little bit.
All right, wish me luck.
I had no idea that there was going to be this much frost.
It's going to be too difficult of a process to try to dig through this.
This late in the season, this far north Rick? .
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the permafrost won't thaw.
It's the same as last year, man.
And it's everywhere? It's everywhere.
I tried over there.
I tried it this side.
I tried up over here.
It's nothing but ice.
We may have gotten here a little earlier this year, but not early enough.
Apparently not.
Well, we can get in here with the dozer and start ripping it, but it'll be too late Yeah.
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to throw the stuff, to thaw and run it through the plant.
(BLEEP) Let's get out of here.
Yeah? Yeah.
Fantasy Land's dead again.
Yeah.
What's happening to our (BLEEP) season? West, at Eureka Creek .
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Tony Beets works overtime to get his 75-year-old dredge rebuilt and gold-mining before winter closes in, freezing everyone out of the Klondike.
TONY: Halt! (WHISTLES) Go, go, go, go, go! He's a month behind schedule .
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and desperately trying to catch up.
Tony insists his crew works at double speed to rebuild four critical parts of the dredge in just two days.
Things got to be done in an order and if they don't get done in that order, it means us tearing it back apart in order to get the things right, and then put it back together again.
The crew doesn't want to rebuild the dredge in a rush, or out of order.
We're just making sure we can put it together way we're ordered to put it together and stuff fits.
We're not sure we can.
Yo! All right! First on Tony's list, the gearbox and the bull gear.
When it's running, a chain of buckets delivers paydirt into the dredge.
The bucket line is driven by the large cog of the bull gear .
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which in turn is powered by the drive cog of the gearbox.
For the mechanism to work, both cogs have to be perfectly aligned.
Lift the damn thing up.
Jerry's in the crane, hoisting the gearbox up first.
Mike guides it into position.
The gearbox and bull gear are irreplaceable, and have been sitting unused for 27 years.
Hey! Up! Up! Up! Look out! .
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At Eureka Creek, Tony Beets and crew are reinstalling the bull gear on their 75-year-old mining dredge.
Hey! Look out! (MIKE SPEAKING) No-one is hurt, but the teeth of the bull gear have hit the superstructure.
(MIKE SPEAKING) (TONY SPEAKING) They need to lift the six-tonne cog carefully into position, and there's no room for error.
Suck your boom in about a half-inch or so.
(BLEEP) Oh, (BLEEP).
This ain't going to happen.
Yeah, there's no way that shaft will clear into that bearing.
We're (BLEEP).
The bull gear is designed to sit in a bearing set at 45 degrees.
The gearbox sits on a horizontal bearing.
In his haste, Tony put the gearbox in first.
Now it's impossible to lower the bull gear in at a 45-degree angle, and the gap is too small to simply drop it in from above.
Uh, we've got a problem.
This ain't going to work.
(BLEEP) This has got to go in before the gearbox.
I've got to come back because I'm hitting on my bearing and my shaft isn't anywhere closer.
We've got to unpin that gearbox.
That's what happens when you get hurried and don't think things through.
They move the gearbox aside, then hoist up the bull gear again for a second attempt.
OK, hold it there.
Now cable down.
Just a little bit left.
(TONY SPEAKING) Bit of boom on it.
Yep.
Down, down, down.
Cable down, easy.
In.
Gearbox is in.
Next up on Tony's brutal schedule: the heaviest part of the dredge, the bucket ladder.
The dredge's ladder supports the all-important bucket line that carries paydirt up into the dredge.
It's a colossal conveyor that weighs in at 14 tonnes.
To keep up the fierce pace, Tony jumps into his big rig to back the ladder into position.
Argh! (BLEEP) Tony is losing valuable time.
He brings in two excavators.
They lift the ladder so the truck can pull out.
There you go.
Pull! Then Tony has to guide the ladder into the narrow space between the pontoons.
(INDISTINCT INSTRUCTIONS) Up! Yo! Mike? (WHISTLES) Yeah, Mike.
Are you ready? Finally, they can lift the massive ladder into place.
Good.
Mike uses brute force to secure four huge steel bolts.
It's in.
The ladder's in.
At McKinnon Creek .
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the Hoffman crew is stripping thawed ground from their new cut beside the haul road.
ANDY: Any time we can find some ground that's thawed out close to the wash plant, it's a big deal.
You can't ask for anything better than this, this late in the season.
We've got this last month or so of push to go.
This is where you get all your gold, so we've just gotta keep going hard.
They need to get down to gravel before Monster Red chews through the last of the paydirt from Dave's old cut.
It's gobbling it as fast as I can feed it.
They've got to light a fire under their butts and get the pay.
Logan hauls overburden in his rock truck.
Uh, we've hit desperate times.
We're running out of paydirt and we're trying to keep this wash plant going, so we have to throw almost all of our people at stripping.
You know, it's going to be a race.
I think we're going to be OK.
It's just, uh it's just what we've got to do.
Holy (BLEEP)! .
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At McKinnon Creek Holy (BLEEP).
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Logan Pierce has rolled his rock truck.
You all right, Logan? (ON RADIO) Yeah, I mean, it thumped pretty hard, but I'm good.
I felt it.
(BLEEP) (ANDY SPEAKING) Logan's shaken up, but OK.
I've driven trucks for three years.
This is the first one I've rolled.
There's nothing you can do about it, though.
Andy uses his excavator to carefully right the truck.
It happened really slow and then it, pfft, slammed at the bottom.
Just get it out of here, Logan, so we keep going.
Within minutes, they're back in business.
Awesome.
Let's move some dirt.
Back at Eureka Creek Tony Beets is determined to get four major parts of his dredge rebuilt in just two days.
But he's also got to run his gold mine at Paradise Hill.
We took it apart.
We can get it back together.
It'll be up for you this afternoon, how's that? You know, we had a couple of stuff out of order here this morning, because Tony was in a mad rush to get this done.
And Tony has a habit of showing up, causing a ruckus.
Then we got to pick up all the pieces and make it all work again.
Tony has left the crew to fit the wheelhouse, the nerve centre of the dredge.
Here, the dredge operator uses a system of levers to control the giant gold-catching machine.
This is going to be a very tricky lift, just to get it to line up and stay where we want it.
I think we're safe to go here.
Easy up here and let's get her in place.
(ON RADIO) Yeah, just watching it swing, there.
It looks good going back up in the air, here.
Don't go over to the other side there.
Don't go down too much here.
OK, I think you need to move him up a little bit To lock the wheelhouse in position, they need to line up 20 two-centimetre bolt holes.
So many pieces to line up and none of them are perfectly straight.
You're going to hit these other tail lines, unless we go that way a little bit.
But some of the columns that the wheelhouse sits on have been bent during the long haul to Eureka Creek.
And there's six columns we're trying to set it over at the same time, plus a set of stairs, and we don't have any wiggle room.
I'm sure a lot of this stuff was straight before we moved it.
If you put a bolt in that corner, it will key it.
When I lift, it will lift your side and not come undone there.
Swing back towards your left a little bit.
OK, that's good.
Nice! Yeah, it looks good.
They got all four corners pinned and it looks like they're just putting in the bolts in the rest of the holes, calmly.
It feels good to be in the pilot house again, doesn't it? We got really far really quick, actually.
It's gone really nice.
I'm surprised to see how fast we've been able to get this back together.
And Tony wants us to head it that way when it's running.
Yeah, I can picture it now churning out across there.
Over at Scribner Creek .
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frozen overburden has forced Parker to abandon Fantasy Land, the cuts he was banking on to reach his season target of 2,000oz.
Rick has moved back over to the Far Cut to get the last of its paydirt to the wash plant.
I'm sitting on the last bit of pay that we have exposed right now.
I'll be done with this by the end of today.
After that, you know, that's it.
Yeah, I mean, it's a difficult situation we're in right now.
We've got no ground open.
And not really any clear path as to where we're going, so we're on the road to trouble, actually.
Parker had been one step ahead, but if he can't find new ground soon, his crew won't have anything to mine.
Got to figure out what direction to go.
What do you want? So we can make To make another six, eight weeks.
And our headstart's pretty well gone as far as open ground, huh? Yeah, you know, we're just basically staying ahead of the plant.
All right, our options are limited, aren't they? Yeah.
You got decisions to make here, so All right.
What way you wanna proceed? The only option is to go up on the upper end of the Far Cut, on the tree-line up there.
It kind of goes up in a hump there.
Looks like 25ft deep.
We need to commit to something.
Yeah.
What the hell.
We take out a couple of thousand yards and if it's paying good, then we strip more.
Hopefully it's thawed.
Hopefully it's good, but we'll do it because we have no other option.
With Fantasy Land locked in permafrost, Parker's new plan is to move just north of the Far Cut to start stripping unproven ground.
He knows the paydirt is buried up to eight metres deep.
DAVID: Whoo-hoo-hoo! Was that cool or what? But the only way to find out if it's thawed is to remove the overburden.
Well, everybody's working good together.
Everybody has to, to get the 2,000oz.
RICK: It's so deep that Parker's up top with the 700 and two trucks and he's taking one level off, and then I'm below him with two trucks taking another level down.
I mean, that gives you a little idea how deep it is.
It's nasty.
It's a race to get down to gravel before Chris' stockpile of pay at the wash plant runs out.
CHRIS: I can see those guys working that cut over there, but I can't really tell how much we're getting done.
We're running out of paydirt now and we're going to be in a world of hurry.
Hey, Parker, have you got a copy? I need some paydirt up here, man.
I've only got about two shifts left, maybe 24 hours.
Are you sure that's all we've got? (ON RADIO) That's about it.
Right now, things are hectic.
We're trying hard to catch back up.
The real problem is just the depth of overburden that we're going into.
We don't know if it's thawed or frozen when we get down to the bottom.
Everybody's working as fast and hard as we can.
You know, we're running the machines continuously all day.
Nobody's stopping for coffee breaks or lunch.
Everybody's eating on the fly.
It sure helps out.
All right, Rick, how are we looking down there? I'm pretty sure I'm finally down to paydirt.
You want to come check this out? Parker needs the Far Cut extension to deliver over 800oz of gold if he's to reach his 2,000oz goal.
After clearing almost 10m of overburden, Parker finally tests the exposed gravel.
That's a pretty damn good pan right there, actually.
See, there's some good gold right in there.
Some damn nice stuff.
Rick! (GRUNTS) It's, like, 30.
That's out of this bank? I mean, man Yeah.
Hey, Mike! That's big flakes, eh? Yeah.
When you keep finding pans like that, you can make more money panning.
Damn close.
Might have more fun.
This is awesome, because we know it's thawed.
The plan is pretty simple - keep chasing this good ground.
At Eureka Creek, Tony Beets has left his crew to rebuild the dredge whilst he works at his gold mine Paradise Hill.
Jerry's left in charge of Mike and Tony's son Kevin.
It's getting late.
We've got to pull it out.
I can rest when this is over, but right now, we've got to keep on (BLEEP) going.
Today, the crew is reinstalling the last item on Tony's list .
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the ladder walls.
Get way back, guys.
It's a big wall, here.
These timber and steel plates fit on either side of the bucket line to protect the pontoons and the dredge crew from falling rocks.
They're not in very good condition, as you can see.
We're going to try to wiggle them in right now.
And we're going over the top and try straight down, right? Yup.
It's like a big sail up there.
It's catching any little bit of wind there, but Am I going to clear? You've got to boom up a bit, Jerry.
Give me a little bit of left swing.
They need to lower the wall into a narrow 30-centimetre gap between the bucket ladder and the superstructure.
So, now we've got to try to thread the needle, here, with this wall going down.
I really don't like this.
You guys be (BLEEP) careful.
Now that the ladder's in place, it's going to be a pain in the ass.
We should have put the walls in first, then the wheelhouse, and then the ladder would have been the last thing to go in.
What do you think, Kevin? KEVIN: Looks sketchy as (BLEEP).
Uh, it's a 20-foot wall hanging in the air with (BLEEP) falling off of it.
(BLEEP) It's sitting right on that bracket, it looks like, so we're going to have to get him up there just to kind of push it over.
Hey, Kevin, do you want to get in the genie lift and go up? Yeah, sure.
It's very dangerous up there with stuff falling down.
If that thing swings and catches me, I go for a tumble.
It should have been put in in the right order and we wouldn't be going through this.
(ON RADIO) I know, I know.
Cable down, cable down.
Little cable down.
Give me a foot or two, here, see if it's going in.
Yeah, I don't like that.
Give me just a hair.
A piece of timber coming loose from the wall is caught on the bucket ladder.
More.
(HIGH-PITCHED ALARM BEEPS) Shut up.
(BLEEP) Yeah, just don't boom out too far or it'll tip over on you.
That's why the beeper's going off, there.
Oh, I know.
Kevin has extended the cherry-picker to its maximum reach, and it's now at risk of tipping over.
Kevin, one of your rear tyres is just about lifting off the ground a little bit here, just so you know.
I would have been a lot happier not hearing that.
Yeah, well, it was Tony that decided to put this bucket ladder in, and now his own son's up there in a dangerous place, trying to get this thing back into place, here.
Watch out, Mike.
Yeah.
Watch out, Kevin.
How's that? She ain't stuck no more.
Just the way we planned it.
It's a pain in the ass, but it's in.
It takes another hour to slide the second wall between the ladder and the wheelhouse.
Whoa! She's all in, Mike.
What a pain in the ass.
Yeah, big shiny pieces make you feel good to have 'em in, but there's other stuff that needed to go in first.
Just as they finish the job, Tony arrives.
Hello, Tony.
Well, we've been struggling here.
Cos the wheelhouse was in there out of order.
The ladder was in out of order.
Oh, really, huh? No room.
Threading a needle up there.
Tony's crew has managed to install four major parts of the dredge in just two days.
At McKinnon Creek .
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Andy and Dave strip overburden in the new haul-road cut.
They're desperately hunting for paydirt.
Cold this morning, we've got fog.
We're running out of time.
When we find ground that's thawed out, that's easy money.
It's easy gold.
It's exactly what we need at this point in the season, because winter is coming.
After digging for 12 hours straight, Dave makes a breakthrough.
Oh, there's a pocket right here.
See how deep it is? See how much water's in there, the big gravel? That means at the bottom of that there should be a lot of gold.
Look at this.
All of a sudden we've got this pocket.
It dips down and look at all this white quartz.
So we've hit a pocket of white channel.
There should be some good gold in here.
Small depressions in the gravel often contain large concentrations of gold.
To find ground that's thawed in the Yukon, it's pretty rare.
So it really is a gift from God that we're finding ground that's thawed, because normally, you'd be ripping and tearing up the ice and the frozen permafrost, but when we can work through it with excavators and trucks .
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it really is a gift.
So we're just hunting for anything we can get our hands on.
So if this is as good as I think it is it's an amazing bonus, because this could Holy cow! Look at that.
Now, that's impressive.
There's 25, 30 colours in that.
It's easy.
It's quick.
It's right next to the plant.
That could be an amazing find, right there.
Andy, check this out.
That is an amazing pan.
That's exactly what we needed, right there.
Cool.
We'll keep digging.
Yeah.
Get it to the plant.
Nice job.
Sweet.
The haul-road cut looks good.
It's time to start hauling pay.
Now, if we can get two or three days, four days of running out of this, this close to the wash plant, it's got great gold in it You know, this is perfect.
This is exactly what we needed.
That's our paydirt, right now, coming in from the haul road.
We've got big hopes on this paydirt, right here.
THURBER: I like this.
Yeah, it's got that, you know, gold smell to it.
Just literally .
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smelling it.
Yeah, smelling it.
It's got Yeah.
I just feel relieved Yeah.
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to finally see good pay like that, so Doesn't get any better than this, I think.
We're able to scratch it, bring it down here, and putting it right inside the hopper, so This could be some of the best dirt we've ever ran.
It's going to be awesome.
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At Scribner Creek, Parker has run every last yard of paydirt from the original Far Cut.
CHRIS: This is all the Far Cut.
They've moved quite a ways upriver.
We just want to know if we're still in the gold.
We'll do this clean-up and see what the results are.
How's things looking? Finding a lot of big chunks.
Yeah? Yeah.
It looks like there's some pretty decent gold in here, so that's good.
Parker only has five weeks left to hit 2,000oz.
He's about to find out if he's on track.
We're starting to get into some pretty deep ground, so where we used to make money doing an ounce an hour, now we need probably an ounce and a half.
Cos if this ground gets worse, then we'll have to go somewhere else.
But that's not an option any more.
This thing's got to really produce.
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I think when your goal is 2,000oz, you should probably have a scale that goes for more than 30, huh? Yeah.
Might be a good idea.
So where are we at now, Parker? Before this we were at 11.
86oz and change.
You know I threw that challenge at you in the beginning of the season, Parker.
Keep me in paydirt and we'll keep that plant running.
You're slipping.
Yeah, we're slipping a little right now, there, Chris, but it's deep.
I mean, all the effort we put into Fantasy Land hurt us, you know? Just Yeah.
Like, with it being dead and the amount of effort we put into it, that's a lot of time invested that we're not going to get any gold out of, you know The area we cleared is damned near 200oz worth of pay.
So do you have a direction you're going to go now? I don't know.
What's that total? Last week, he had a monster clean-up - 156oz, worth $187,000.
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05oz.
What's that bring us to? Got a total of 126.
9oz.
(EXHALES) So it's doing a little worse.
I thought it would get better, but it's weird.
That brings us to 1,313oz.
Parker has mined over 1.
5 million dollars' worth of gold.
But the 20-year-old mine boss is almost 700oz short of his target.
We need to find a lot of gold here in a short amount of time, so if we just extend that Far Cut upstream, and hopefully it'll deliver.
I'm going to have to start figuring things out here.
At McKinnon Creek, the Hoffman crew badly needs a good clean-up.
Monster Red's sluices look loaded, but they've been fooled before.
I don't like sitting on the crate.
I'll just sit on the wood thing right there.
Bud, did you see that, what I was digging? It's over your head.
It's six feet deep.
Did you see how high the bedrock is, though? Cos that just looked weird to me.
It looked like there's something special in there, you know? That one big pan that I got on top That was phenomenal.
It could surprise us.
Maybe it'll be good.
Jack's in the gold room finishing up the clean-up.
You know, the other thing is they say that those old-timers, that's what they look for, is those bedrock dips, and we had a big bedrock dip, right there.
They're less than halfway to their 1,000oz goal.
And then it'd go like this and then it'd go back down and I said instead of a And the geese are already heading south.
The Hoffman crew's season depends on getting better clean-ups.
What have you got, Jack? 132oz (CHEERING) 132oz, worth over $150,000, is the Hoffman crew's best clean-up this season.
It's been almost two years since they've produced this much gold in a single week.
Hey, dude, that was way bigger than we thought.
I cannot believe that.
Finally, we've got a surprise in the right direction.
Finally, we're on some good gold.
Dad, what's that put us at? Um, well, with these four, that brings us to 544oz and we are cooking.
544oz.
Hey, guys 544oz.
(CHEERING) Hey, guys, think about that.
I never thought we'd get this far.
We're over 500oz.
With the late start we got Yeah.
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that's pretty good, guys.
We're 544oz.
We're halfway to 1,000oz.
I don't know if we can get there, because we're late.
But I'll tell you what, we've just crossed over halfway point and we're heading towards the goal line now.
Can we do it? ALL: Yeah.
132oz, man.
That's a shot in the arm, that's what it is.
With the amount of yards we ran, that's a lot of gold.
We set a thousand-ounce goal and I hate to tell everybody we're going to beat it.
I mean, that clean-up alone, that's insane.
That's exactly what this team needed.
We needed a morale booster.
Everybody's up.
Everybody's back, energised, and that's what it will take to finish this season.
There's about $680,000 sitting right there on that sawhorse.
Think about that.
I just want to stare at it.
We dug that out of the ground.
JACK: We're going to hit that thousand and we're going to sail right past it.
We're going to make our goal.
(CHEERING) On the next Gold Rush Kicking ass.
Things are good.
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the Hoffmans' luck suddenly runs out.
What the (BLEEP)? It's just about gone.
And this time, their hunt for new paydirt Whoa.
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gets them stuck deep in a hole.
It's buried up to its axles.
I don't know if we'll get it out.
As Parker makes a push for 2,000oz Oh, come on.
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failing equipment (BLEEP) tracks split.
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and yet more frozen ground Now we're screwed.
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puts his monster goal in jeopardy.
We're in trouble, boys.
And Tony Beets goes to new heights Somebody get me a couple of bolts.
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and new lows Torch.
We'll blow that thing off.
(BLEEP) .
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to get his gold ship ready to set sail.
Well, we've got some treasure on board.
How the (BLEEP) is that?