Gold Rush (2018) s05e17 Episode Script
Frozen Gold
NARRATOR: As time is running out for Tony Beets Six months' hard work, finally it's coming to a head down here.
Everybody ready? Let's go.
Let's make this happening.
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the all-important bucket line breaks Whoa, whoa! Shut her off! .
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pushing Tony to his breaking point.
It's not (BLEEP) funny any more.
The Hoffman crew is out of pay This is all the paydirt we've got.
You're frickin' kidding me.
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and winter locks up Monster Red's sluice-box.
This is the problem, right here.
Just when it looks like the season's over Gonna have to shut it down.
(BLEEP) .
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Andy hatches a plan Do not shut that plant down.
I will get you dirt.
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to make one last push for 1,000oz.
(ALL CHEERING) Parker Schnabel is on main pay Definitely some of the better stuff I've seen.
It's coming together pretty nicely.
Yee-haw! .
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but the young mine boss is tested (RUMBLING) (BLEEP) .
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when his machines fail I've lost all controls of the excavator.
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and the Yukon winter hits.
Do you quit or do you fight for it? I still think just hang in there till the end.
At McKinnon Creek, winter has arrived.
Whew! It's cold this morning.
Really cold.
And the Hoffman crew has run out of thawed paydirt.
You know what? I think we took a chance, took a gamble on that haul-road cut.
Didn't pay off.
Kind of a waste of time in the end.
I don't know what we'll do, though.
Higher cut's about all we got now.
Guess that goes to show maybe we should pay attention to the dirt results.
Last week, Todd and Dave had to abandon the cut on the north side of the haul road, leaving them 186oz short of their 1,000oz, $1.
2 million goal.
You're frickin' kidding me.
To make matters worse, Monster Red's sluice-boxes are frozen solid.
This is the problem, right here.
This has, uh, kinda snuck up on us this morning.
This is gonna take us a couple hours to thaw out.
It's time that we really don't have.
We should be sluicing.
The crew now has to waste precious time thawing out the sluices.
Right now, if you put gold in it, it'll just wash right on down and out the box.
Well, the plan is we're gonna run the water.
Once that gravel gets thawed out and it starts moving, then we can sluice again.
(ENGINE TURNS OVER) So, we're just gonna go kinda slow, let it warm up, thaw out.
As it gets colder at night, this will continue to get worse.
We're gonna have to figure something out.
It will take a couple of hours for the sluices to thaw, but the crew faces a bigger problem.
A shortage of thawed paydirt threatens to shut them down.
Mine boss Dave Turin desperately needs to find gold-rich ground to keep their season alive.
Well, we're gonna check to see how good the gold is at the higher cut.
Five weeks ago, the Hoffmans stripped an extension to their higher cut.
They started mining it and found good gold.
But it soon ran out.
The drill holes on the south side are patchy, but Dave thinks they could still hold the best gold.
All we're doing is kinda going on a hunch, because we know it wasn't real good, but we're moving to a different section of the pit, a little bit deeper into the bedrock.
Andy Spinks digs test holes in the south side of the extension for Dave to pan.
You know, working in this cut, for the most part, it's all nice and thawed out.
Digging right down into bedrock, so hopefully it's got a lot of good gold in it.
What's happening is the bedrock's changing.
There's always the possibility of hitting a hot spot here.
So we'll see what we've got.
This looks bad.
Yeah, there's nothing in it.
Now you're talking.
As Andy digs the next hole, there's a change in the rock.
Here's exactly what we're looking for.
We still got river rock, and then you got bedrock.
See how sharp and angular it is? And you got all this round rock.
Right where those two meet is where all the gold is.
These are the treasure hunts that we go on.
Every gold-miner's looking for stuff like this.
The rocks indicate that an ancient river once ran through here.
Any gold carried by the water would have sunk along with the heavy, round river rocks, eventually accumulating in a pay streak on the bedrock.
Holy (BLEEP).
Holy cow.
I think this could be a good pan.
Look at that.
I got three big pieces just showing themselves right there.
Holy (BLEEP).
We needed this.
I don't know what you did.
We hit a good spot.
That's probably one of the best pans I've had up here.
If the rest of this is like that Nice time of year to hit that.
Maybe this is the break we're looking for.
I'm gonna get some of that to the plant.
No kidding.
East at Scribner Creek .
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Parker Schnabel has already banked 1,723oz, worth over $2 million.
He's on track to hit his 2,000oz, $2.
4 million goal.
Starting to get cold, and we've got a lot of gold to find still, so we need to keep on it, really.
You know, this cut has really been paying off real well.
If we just stick with it, we should be able to break a 2,000 mark.
Looking good.
Hey, this is some pretty good-looking pay - a lot of big, coarse rock.
Coarse gold, too.
You know, we've been finding nice nuggets.
Definitely some of the better stuff I've seen.
Everything's coming together pretty nicely.
Couldn't ask for better timing for it.
Just a week ago, Parker diverted a creek to mine a rich gold streak of main pay on the riverbed.
Now his crew is removing a vast area of overburden to get down to the thawed paydirt on the side of the creek.
But to move the mountain of overburden, they need every machine they have.
It's the end of the season, and this is really our only focus.
This is the berm cut.
This is what we have.
We're stripping overburden and we're hauling pay.
We've got all of our machines in here.
We're in a very, very small area, and we're just going at it cos, really, this is it.
Gene and Rick dig out the paydirt in the two 460 excavators and send it off to the plant, while Greg chews through the overburden in the larger 700.
GREG: I'm moving overburden as fast as we can, trying to get Rick down to some more paydirt.
It's about taking what we can get.
We've gotta dance.
We gotta move back and forth, both excavators loading.
We're moving today.
(RUMBLING) I've lost all controls of the excavator.
(BLEEP) This is bad news.
I don't know what's going on.
I got I've got no controls.
I'm gonna go get Mitch.
(BLEEP) thing.
The 700, right now, is moving twice as much dirt as a 460, just about, and we need it bad.
Hopefully, Mitch can work his magic in a few minutes, have the problem figured out, and get us wired back together and off and rolling again.
Otherwise, this could this could finish us off, right here.
Without the 700 clearing overburden, the crew's supply of paydirt won't last for long.
MITCH: Hopefully, it's something simple and quick.
PARKER: What the hell's going on, Greg? It just stopped.
Just dead.
The hydraulic's not responding, so the next thing is I'm just gonna keep following the wiring back and see how everything looks.
See what it's got for pressure.
So, what's the story with this pig? Lost the pilot pump.
(BLEEP) The pilot pump sends hydraulic fluid throughout the 700.
It's kinda the brain.
It's what tells everything what you're asking for.
Without it, the excavator won't run.
We don't have any spares out here, so looks like a little bit more than just a five-minute fix, here.
All right.
Let me know.
All right.
We need this thing running.
I'll see what I can do.
Overburden's the game right now.
We've got 40ft of overburden and only 4ft of pay.
This was the machine that we were moving all our mud with, and we were winning the battle until now.
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At McKinnon Creek, with temperatures now dropping below freezing at night, the Hoffman crew needs a way to keep their sluices from freezing solid.
Kevin Hiatt has a plan.
If you go hunting, you realise that if you slam a heater in your tent with you, it keeps it warm.
We'll have a tarp over the top and tarps around the side.
And hopefully, that's gonna keep our sluice-box thawed.
This should do it.
At the end of the day, they shut down the wash plant and meet at the sluices.
That way a little bit, Dave! DAVE: My way? Yeah.
We're hoping to cover this to keep the heat in, keep the frost off.
Bring her in.
Hopefully, it doesn't get too cold.
I think we can probably handle into the early 20s, but if it gets into the teens or below that, we may have an issue.
We'll see.
We're gonna try it.
I don't know if it'll work.
We're gonna give it a shot.
Plug it in! (ENGINE TURNS OVER) KEVIN: If this works right, this heater, right here, is gonna get it nice and toasty in here.
All right, grab some ropes and tie it off.
So, I hope when we get to work in the morning this thing is thawed out and we can go to work, start sluicing.
The next morning, the temperature has gone way below the freezing point.
It's cold.
I hope this worked.
Ah, dude, it's warm in there.
Feel that.
Looks good? LOGAN: Yeah.
Nice! So far, so good.
That's good.
Jeez Louise.
No frozen It's perfect.
We are ready to run.
You want to fire it up, we'll get going.
(ENGINE TURNS OVER) OK, Jack, put it in.
JACK: We are cooking.
The rock gobbler catches up real quick.
Great.
East at Eureka Creek .
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Klondike legend Tony Beets has almost finished rebuilding his 75-year-old, million-dollar dredge.
MIKE: Like it? It looks good.
It's already taken six months, but Tony believes that if he can get the old dredge running, it could net him millions in gold each season.
The bucket line does the digging.
The chain-linked cast-iron buckets feed gold-rich dirt into the dredge.
But before Tony can install the bucket line, he first has to make sure that the motor that powers it will run.
I have a 75-horse motor up there.
We got the gears there.
We got the big bull gear there.
None of it has turned.
It went together great, but that don't (BLEEP) mean it's gonna run.
So I'm gonna have to start it up and see if everything works.
Tony is hoping that the 75-horsepower, 30-year-old motor will still have the power to move the bull gear, drive the bucket line and feed paydirt into the dredge.
If that stuff don't work, if that thing don't run or something isn't right with it, ain't not much gonna happen today.
So it is kind of an anxious moment for me to see if all this is gonna happen.
Fingers crossed, hopefully it's gonna work.
Mike! Hey! Fire it up, guys.
JERRY: It's starting to go over.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Immediately, the motor's belts smoke and the bull gear slips.
Whoa! Tony! Tony, stop! It's not safe.
(ENGINE STOPS) Mike! Hey! Look how sloppy that (BLEEP) is.
I mean, no wonder that (BLEEP) thing was spinning like you wouldn't believe.
I guess that's why she wouldn't turn, huh? So shouldn't be that big of a deal to tighten them up.
No, just wrench her in and lock it down.
Mike tweaks the tension on the belts.
Come on, you (BLEEP).
I'm tightening the adjuster on the motor mount, here.
It's just tightening the belts up.
So, he's not gonna be able to go much farther here.
Should be good to go.
With the belts tightened, Tony attempts to start up the gear system once again.
Everybody ready? (ENGINE TURNS OVER) At Scribner Creek .
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with the 700 excavator down, Greg is struggling to move overburden fast enough in the smaller 460 for Rick to keep the plant fed.
This time of the season, there's no time to waste, so the name of the game is moving overburden.
RICK: Well, the scary part is, yeah, regardless of the 700 being down, we still gotta move the same amount of dirt.
This is where efficiency Either we got it or we don't.
It's a good time to have it.
It's gonna be a tricky one.
(BLEEP) Hey, Rick.
I just lost the controls on this 460.
(BLEEP) Piece of (BLEEP).
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm two for two.
(BLEEP) One piece of equipment at a time, I'm killing them.
Battery connections are tight.
That's the extent of my mechanical knowledge, so I'm gonna go get Mitch.
He just left, literally just left from figuring out the problem with the 700, and I get to present him with another problem.
He is not gonna be very happy to see me.
If the 460 isn't easily repairable, and with the 700 already out of action, it could mean shutting down their operation for the last time.
Well, the only way that we were going, and going slowly, I might add, was that we had one machine hauling pay .
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and one machine stripping overburden.
Now we are down to one machine, and it can't do both at once.
Once this pay is gone .
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we gotta stop.
Their wash plant Big Red is chewing through 150 yards of paydirt an hour, and Parker can see a problem.
CHRIS: What up, youngster? PARKER: Your pay pile's looking pretty thin.
We're not dumping that in the plant.
We're what? We're not dumping that in the plant.
Are you serious? Yeah.
Why not? If we run any more pay, then it's not gonna make it through the night.
We gotta shut her down.
Parker has avoided frozen sluices by running 24/7.
But now, with the 700 down, they are producing half the paydirt.
He has no choice but to shut down during the day to build up a stockpile to run through the night.
We're into some rich ground now.
We're on the gravy train.
Now we're making profit.
Now we're making money.
I mean, it's probably some of the best stuff I've seen in five years.
And to say, "Shut her down," it's painful.
It's real painful.
The whole reason we are where we are is because we run 24/7.
And if you're running 50% less time, then I'm making less than half the amount of money.
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At McKinnon Creek, the Hoffman crew is working a new gold channel Dave found in part of their higher cut.
You know, right now is the time when we need the gold the most, so hopefully this bedrock pays well and gets us over that 1,000oz.
They're in a race against the Yukon winter.
To have any hope of reaching 1,000oz, they can't afford any more shutdowns.
Well, the rock gobbler is doing its job.
We're doing our job.
Everything should turn out fine in the end.
ANDY: Hey, something has broke on the 700.
STEVE PASLEY: What's up, there, Andy? I'm leaking hydraulic fluid everywhere.
That's not good.
The 700 is their largest excavator.
Without it, Andy can't get enough paydirt to Monster Red.
It's gotta be up in those hoses on that belly pan.
You can smell hydraulic oil.
Holy cow.
Can you see where it's coming? Not really.
Want me to start it real quick? Yeah, start it.
(ENGINE TURNS OVER) Yeah, OK.
These are (BLEEP) bad.
When one of these things breaks, it's no joke, man.
It's not good.
A hose like that, we just don't have one here at camp, so we gotta go into town and get one made.
That's a whole day of us not getting paydirt up to the wash plant.
Losing their 700 excavator hits the Hoffman crew just as hard as it hit Parker.
Kevin to Todd.
Kevin to Todd.
Do you copy, Todd? Copy.
Hey, I got some bad news.
We are just about out of pay.
How long we got? Oh, I'll be lucky if I can run another 45 minutes before I have to shut it down.
(BLEEP) ANDY: Do not shut that plant down.
TODD: Who's down there? Todd, this is Andy.
Do not shut that plant down.
I will get you dirt.
That's music to my ears.
What are you gonna do? The excavator is sitting next to paydirt.
I'll push paydirt to the excavator, and I'll have the trucks haul it out.
We can keep that plant running, though.
Don't shut it down.
All right.
You've got it, buddy.
Do it.
Do it quick.
The tracks on the 700 can't move, but its arm and bucket still work.
If Andy can push dirt close enough, the 700 can still load trucks.
You know what? We work too stinking hard to get right to the end, and just because a hose blows, we can't put gold in the box.
We're gonna do whatever it takes to keep that plant running, and this will keep the plant running.
Tyson and CJ, I need you guys down here in the rock trucks ASAP.
We gotta go.
Let's go.
Hurry up.
DAVE: All right, we're working.
We're working.
Nice job, Andy! Thank you! Dave loads Andy's pay into the rock trucks with the immobilised 700 excavator.
This might just work.
Come hell or high water, the Monster's not gonna shut down.
Right on, you guys.
Your timing couldn't be any better.
I'm just about out of dirt.
That's what I needed, right there.
Keep it steady and keep it often.
At Scribner Creek, Parker's wash plant is shut down.
Now two of his excavators are out of action.
While they wait for parts for the 700, Mitch goes to work on the stricken 460.
MITCH: We could have had a better place for this machine to break down.
GREG: I could have put it up a little higher, I suppose.
It's never a good time to have breakdowns, but especially this late in the season, we're trying to push for just a little bit more here and everything's fighting back pretty hard.
This is kind of what happens.
You just start having a lot of problems.
Go ahead and try and hit it.
(ENGINE SPUTTERS) OK.
It's acting like it's kinda cooked some of these batteries.
Oh, no.
It won't restart here.
Can we take the batteries out of the 700? They might be the same size.
Let's go look.
That'll work, Greg.
Let's grab the batteries out of this, put them in that 460.
Hopefully we can get it to start up, get it off the pile there, get it over where we can do some more diagnostic work on it.
Ready? Yep.
OK, go ahead and see if it will turn over.
(ENGINE TURNS OVER) We gotta get it off this pile, here, before these ones go dead and we are back in the same boat we were.
Why don't you go ahead and just walk it off here out of the cut? We are gonna get this machine down to a better place to work on it.
We were really fortunate that it fired up with these other batteries, but they are not recharging right now, so this machine's only gonna run for so long and then it'll die again.
Hopefully it stays running long enough so we can get it out of the way here.
Never-ending, being a mechanic in the Yukon.
East, at Eureka Creek Tony's crew prepares to install the very last part of the dredge - the bucket line.
If he can get this vital part in place, the dredge should be ready to run for the first time in nearly 30 years.
(TONY SPEAKS) The line of 72 cast-iron buckets will eventually dig paydirt .
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but hauling the 24-tonne line is no easy task.
OK, Brian, get up there.
Give Kevin a hand.
Make it happening.
Tony is in his typical "rush, rush, get 'er done" mood.
Jerry, is the brake on? Just (BLEEP) pull it up.
Then we'll bang them up and tight, and then, gentlemen, we get ready for the buckets.
OK? Tony's plan is to use the winch on the back of the dozer to pull the bucket line up and around the dredge's ladder.
Once in position, he will connect the two end buckets to form one continuous loop.
(MACHINERY CREAKING) At least we got the first couple of buckets on.
KEVIN: I don't like how that looks like.
Mike, pull it in.
MONICA: Hey! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! No, (BLEEP) no.
The heavy-duty steel cable pulling the 24-tonne bucket line has snapped.
Got trouble with that (BLEEP) cable.
We almost gotta have a pulley over here, eh? Or what we can do is lift it up and then make it a little bit easier on the winch line.
Sure, if you want.
Whatever you want.
You're the chief.
Monica.
This time Monica will lift the buckets using the excavator to reduce the load on the cable, while the dozer still does the pulling.
We'll have to have that chained down pretty good, otherwise she'll break off on us.
OK, let's try this one more time.
OK, Mike! Keep it (BLEEP) going.
Pull! There she goes again, guys.
Isn't that easier? The new plan works.
Once operational, these buckets will move 100 yards of paydirt an hour.
Keep her going.
Just pull that up.
That looks good.
The buckets are in position Good! .
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but there's a problem.
The bucket line isn't long enough.
Go to Clear Creek's junkyard.
I know we went through it, but there could be some laying there in the junk.
There was leaves on the trees at the time.
You couldn't see through the brush very good.
Yep.
No.
Yep.
Awesome.
OK.
Winter is closing in, so we're really running out of time.
At this point, it's not (BLEEP) funny any more.
If I can't find two buckets, I don't know what we're gonna do.
I mean, we might not end up running this season.
The next morning .
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the first snows of the season hit the Yukon.
Parker's wash plant is frozen solid .
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and the parts for his 700 still haven't arrived.
His crew is cold and has nothing to do.
It's freezing already.
That ice never melted off it at all today.
Uh-uh.
Not at all.
And it's gonna do nothing but get colder.
Yeah.
Our day is coming.
Yeah, yeah.
PARKER: The way this weather is going .
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who knows what's gonna happen? I mean, one minute it's nice and sunny, the next minute it's dumping snow, and in an hour, it'll all probably be gone, I hope.
But a special delivery is en route .
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and it might just get Parker's season back on track.
So, this is the pump, here, that we've been waiting on.
As you can see, she came in red label.
We're happy to see this.
This is what's been holding us up from running that 700.
It's the biggest excavator we got out here and moves the most dirt, and we're looking forward to getting it back running today.
(STRAINING) Oh, that's not light.
Ready? Yeah, go for it.
(ENGINE TURNS OVER) Everything looks good up here! Let's get this done.
GREG: Back in action.
Now the Schnabel crew can finally get back to mining.
Back in the saddle again.
Yee-haw! PARKER: We lost a few shifts of running, which hurts, but now that we've got the 700 back up and running, we should be able to get the plant back up and running 24/7 and make up for lost time.
Good to be back in the seat again.
We have a lot of overburden to move, and this is the machine to do it.
Hopefully, with both Rick and I on this overburden, we can make up some time and offset our losses.
Full steam ahead.
At Eureka Creek .
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Tony's dredge is almost complete.
But to have any hope of running before the winter freeze hits .
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Monica has to find two more cast-iron buckets.
(DOOR OPENS) Hey, Dad.
Found something.
These were way at the back.
That's probably why they didn't find them.
(TONY SPEAKING) I mean, that one down there is completely busted up, isn't it? Yeah, but the length is really all you need.
It'll work.
Yeah, point taken.
I know.
I see.
You're right on that.
It'll make the link in the chain.
So that is good.
We'll just have to put them on and get this show on the road.
Tony races back to the dredge.
There's no time to lose.
He needs to fit the buckets before more snow falls.
Monica, truck.
Back it in there.
Jerry, crane.
Unhook the crane.
Let's get those buckets on.
Good.
(WHISTLES) We're gonna hang it up and you're gonna hang it in, then we'll let her down.
Bingo, perfect.
OK, let's put the (BLEEP) thing in.
OK, can you let the bucket down? Thanks.
KEVIN: Watch your fingers.
Nail the (BLEEP).
Well, that's one down, one more to go.
OK.
That's just so she can turn, right? (TONY SPEAKS) Down, down, down, down.
A bit more, a bit more.
It's taken six long months, more than 10,000 bolts, 150 I-beams, 2 gantries, 19 pontoons, a wheelhouse, stacker, bull gear, trommel, sluice-box, spud, ladder, 72 buckets, and one last pin.
For the first time in almost 30 years, Tony's dredge is ready to run.
It is snowing right now.
We get lots of frost at night, so I couldn't have cut it any closer than I'm doing.
So, once we get her floating, we'll turn her all on and just see what happens and better (BLEEP) hope everything is right.
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At Scribner Creek in the Klondike, Parker Schnabel has shut down.
It's time for a gold weigh.
PARKER: So, it's been a pretty rough week.
We'll have to make hay while the sun shines here, cos there's obviously not much time left.
This year, Parker's mined 1,723oz of gold, worth more than $2 million.
Hey, Tony.
Parker! How you doing? Huh? I don't know what the hell's going on.
Hopefully, this is just a shot across the bow, you know? It's a little early, isn't it? Yeah.
Oh, whoa.
You got a whole pan full, huh? There's a couple nice chunks in there.
That's cool, all right.
With temperatures dropping fast All right, well, weigh this stuff up.
OK.
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Parker will be lucky to get another week of sluicing.
To stay on track for his season target, he needs at least 140oz.
117.
10.
What the (BLEEP)? 117oz is worth $140,000.
He's well shy of his 2,000oz goal, and he only has days left before the big freeze sets in.
So where are you at, Parker? This brings us to 1,840.
160 to go.
You're gonna get quite a ways up there yet.
Yeah.
Yeah? Well As long as this weather doesn't hold up, then It's just not worth fighting frozen ground, I don't think.
Right.
Yeah.
Right? I hear you.
Yeah, you too.
OK.
There's still a long ways to go.
I knew it was gonna be a bad one, cos we didn't get the hours in.
You know, we just weren't sluicing as much time.
And with the 700 back up and running, we gotta make up for lost time.
It doesn't matter what colour the ground is - white, brown, golden - we gotta move the dirt.
It's time to separate the men from the boys.
He's doing a lot better than me.
If I can get 117oz out of that dredge this year, I'd be (BLEEP) happy.
At McKinnon Creek .
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the Hoffman crew waits to find out if the ancient river channel will pay off.
TODD: We need to hit this one, guys.
If we don't get 1,000oz, guys, I love all of you, but we're not coming back.
That's the long and the short of it.
Me and Dave are in trouble, and we're not gonna be able to come back.
That's just the way it is.
With the season drawing to a close and just 814oz banked .
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they need at least 93oz to have a chance of reaching their 1,000oz goal.
JACK: Hey, guys.
There's Jack.
Hey, guys.
100.
Yeah! (ALL CHEERING) Grand total: 936.
Yeah! (ALL CHEERING) We're close, Jack.
Yeah, we are.
MAN: Yeah! 936oz is worth more than $1.
1 million.
Good Lord.
Guys, we got nine full jars.
Dad, hold that last jar up.
Guys, that's all we gotta do.
We just gotta get that tenth jar filled up.
Look at that, guys.
Andy.
How many more days of pay do we have in the higher cut? We only got a few days left.
We gotta do it, Andy.
I know the gold's there if we got enough pay.
It's gonna be close.
We're not leaving till this jar's full.
But here's the deal.
We went through some crap last year.
And this is our year.
This is our year of redemption.
Let's fill this up, guys, and let's keep going.
Well, guys, I'd like to just thank God for it.
Heavenly Father, we thank you for just bringing us to this point.
You know exactly how much gold is out there in that ground, and we ask that you would give it to us abundantly.
Amen.
ALL: Amen.
Let's get some sleep and hit it in the morning, OK? That last 60-something ounces is gonna be tough, very tough.
It's probably gonna be a fight to get to the very end, but one way or another, this team, right here, we'll get there, and we'll get that 1,000oz.
I can see the finish line.
I know where it is.
Now the question is can this team finish? Can we finish the marathon that we started? TODD: Time's up.
We gotta get it.
We gotta get it now.
On the next Gold Rush, with the big freeze about to hit, Parker's crew is ready to head home.
I just wanna know.
What's the issue? Everybody's wore out.
I don't want you guys here if you don't want to be here.
Tony's million-dollar dredge springs a leak.
Whoa! Hold it! We're taking on water.
Get out of the way.
Clear this area.
Gotta get some pumps up there quick.
And when they least expect it We did it! We did it! Yeah! .
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the Hoffman crew gets devastating news.
I'm really sorry.
This is a disappointment.
Everybody ready? Let's go.
Let's make this happening.
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the all-important bucket line breaks Whoa, whoa! Shut her off! .
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pushing Tony to his breaking point.
It's not (BLEEP) funny any more.
The Hoffman crew is out of pay This is all the paydirt we've got.
You're frickin' kidding me.
.
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and winter locks up Monster Red's sluice-box.
This is the problem, right here.
Just when it looks like the season's over Gonna have to shut it down.
(BLEEP) .
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Andy hatches a plan Do not shut that plant down.
I will get you dirt.
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to make one last push for 1,000oz.
(ALL CHEERING) Parker Schnabel is on main pay Definitely some of the better stuff I've seen.
It's coming together pretty nicely.
Yee-haw! .
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but the young mine boss is tested (RUMBLING) (BLEEP) .
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when his machines fail I've lost all controls of the excavator.
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and the Yukon winter hits.
Do you quit or do you fight for it? I still think just hang in there till the end.
At McKinnon Creek, winter has arrived.
Whew! It's cold this morning.
Really cold.
And the Hoffman crew has run out of thawed paydirt.
You know what? I think we took a chance, took a gamble on that haul-road cut.
Didn't pay off.
Kind of a waste of time in the end.
I don't know what we'll do, though.
Higher cut's about all we got now.
Guess that goes to show maybe we should pay attention to the dirt results.
Last week, Todd and Dave had to abandon the cut on the north side of the haul road, leaving them 186oz short of their 1,000oz, $1.
2 million goal.
You're frickin' kidding me.
To make matters worse, Monster Red's sluice-boxes are frozen solid.
This is the problem, right here.
This has, uh, kinda snuck up on us this morning.
This is gonna take us a couple hours to thaw out.
It's time that we really don't have.
We should be sluicing.
The crew now has to waste precious time thawing out the sluices.
Right now, if you put gold in it, it'll just wash right on down and out the box.
Well, the plan is we're gonna run the water.
Once that gravel gets thawed out and it starts moving, then we can sluice again.
(ENGINE TURNS OVER) So, we're just gonna go kinda slow, let it warm up, thaw out.
As it gets colder at night, this will continue to get worse.
We're gonna have to figure something out.
It will take a couple of hours for the sluices to thaw, but the crew faces a bigger problem.
A shortage of thawed paydirt threatens to shut them down.
Mine boss Dave Turin desperately needs to find gold-rich ground to keep their season alive.
Well, we're gonna check to see how good the gold is at the higher cut.
Five weeks ago, the Hoffmans stripped an extension to their higher cut.
They started mining it and found good gold.
But it soon ran out.
The drill holes on the south side are patchy, but Dave thinks they could still hold the best gold.
All we're doing is kinda going on a hunch, because we know it wasn't real good, but we're moving to a different section of the pit, a little bit deeper into the bedrock.
Andy Spinks digs test holes in the south side of the extension for Dave to pan.
You know, working in this cut, for the most part, it's all nice and thawed out.
Digging right down into bedrock, so hopefully it's got a lot of good gold in it.
What's happening is the bedrock's changing.
There's always the possibility of hitting a hot spot here.
So we'll see what we've got.
This looks bad.
Yeah, there's nothing in it.
Now you're talking.
As Andy digs the next hole, there's a change in the rock.
Here's exactly what we're looking for.
We still got river rock, and then you got bedrock.
See how sharp and angular it is? And you got all this round rock.
Right where those two meet is where all the gold is.
These are the treasure hunts that we go on.
Every gold-miner's looking for stuff like this.
The rocks indicate that an ancient river once ran through here.
Any gold carried by the water would have sunk along with the heavy, round river rocks, eventually accumulating in a pay streak on the bedrock.
Holy (BLEEP).
Holy cow.
I think this could be a good pan.
Look at that.
I got three big pieces just showing themselves right there.
Holy (BLEEP).
We needed this.
I don't know what you did.
We hit a good spot.
That's probably one of the best pans I've had up here.
If the rest of this is like that Nice time of year to hit that.
Maybe this is the break we're looking for.
I'm gonna get some of that to the plant.
No kidding.
East at Scribner Creek .
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Parker Schnabel has already banked 1,723oz, worth over $2 million.
He's on track to hit his 2,000oz, $2.
4 million goal.
Starting to get cold, and we've got a lot of gold to find still, so we need to keep on it, really.
You know, this cut has really been paying off real well.
If we just stick with it, we should be able to break a 2,000 mark.
Looking good.
Hey, this is some pretty good-looking pay - a lot of big, coarse rock.
Coarse gold, too.
You know, we've been finding nice nuggets.
Definitely some of the better stuff I've seen.
Everything's coming together pretty nicely.
Couldn't ask for better timing for it.
Just a week ago, Parker diverted a creek to mine a rich gold streak of main pay on the riverbed.
Now his crew is removing a vast area of overburden to get down to the thawed paydirt on the side of the creek.
But to move the mountain of overburden, they need every machine they have.
It's the end of the season, and this is really our only focus.
This is the berm cut.
This is what we have.
We're stripping overburden and we're hauling pay.
We've got all of our machines in here.
We're in a very, very small area, and we're just going at it cos, really, this is it.
Gene and Rick dig out the paydirt in the two 460 excavators and send it off to the plant, while Greg chews through the overburden in the larger 700.
GREG: I'm moving overburden as fast as we can, trying to get Rick down to some more paydirt.
It's about taking what we can get.
We've gotta dance.
We gotta move back and forth, both excavators loading.
We're moving today.
(RUMBLING) I've lost all controls of the excavator.
(BLEEP) This is bad news.
I don't know what's going on.
I got I've got no controls.
I'm gonna go get Mitch.
(BLEEP) thing.
The 700, right now, is moving twice as much dirt as a 460, just about, and we need it bad.
Hopefully, Mitch can work his magic in a few minutes, have the problem figured out, and get us wired back together and off and rolling again.
Otherwise, this could this could finish us off, right here.
Without the 700 clearing overburden, the crew's supply of paydirt won't last for long.
MITCH: Hopefully, it's something simple and quick.
PARKER: What the hell's going on, Greg? It just stopped.
Just dead.
The hydraulic's not responding, so the next thing is I'm just gonna keep following the wiring back and see how everything looks.
See what it's got for pressure.
So, what's the story with this pig? Lost the pilot pump.
(BLEEP) The pilot pump sends hydraulic fluid throughout the 700.
It's kinda the brain.
It's what tells everything what you're asking for.
Without it, the excavator won't run.
We don't have any spares out here, so looks like a little bit more than just a five-minute fix, here.
All right.
Let me know.
All right.
We need this thing running.
I'll see what I can do.
Overburden's the game right now.
We've got 40ft of overburden and only 4ft of pay.
This was the machine that we were moving all our mud with, and we were winning the battle until now.
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At McKinnon Creek, with temperatures now dropping below freezing at night, the Hoffman crew needs a way to keep their sluices from freezing solid.
Kevin Hiatt has a plan.
If you go hunting, you realise that if you slam a heater in your tent with you, it keeps it warm.
We'll have a tarp over the top and tarps around the side.
And hopefully, that's gonna keep our sluice-box thawed.
This should do it.
At the end of the day, they shut down the wash plant and meet at the sluices.
That way a little bit, Dave! DAVE: My way? Yeah.
We're hoping to cover this to keep the heat in, keep the frost off.
Bring her in.
Hopefully, it doesn't get too cold.
I think we can probably handle into the early 20s, but if it gets into the teens or below that, we may have an issue.
We'll see.
We're gonna try it.
I don't know if it'll work.
We're gonna give it a shot.
Plug it in! (ENGINE TURNS OVER) KEVIN: If this works right, this heater, right here, is gonna get it nice and toasty in here.
All right, grab some ropes and tie it off.
So, I hope when we get to work in the morning this thing is thawed out and we can go to work, start sluicing.
The next morning, the temperature has gone way below the freezing point.
It's cold.
I hope this worked.
Ah, dude, it's warm in there.
Feel that.
Looks good? LOGAN: Yeah.
Nice! So far, so good.
That's good.
Jeez Louise.
No frozen It's perfect.
We are ready to run.
You want to fire it up, we'll get going.
(ENGINE TURNS OVER) OK, Jack, put it in.
JACK: We are cooking.
The rock gobbler catches up real quick.
Great.
East at Eureka Creek .
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Klondike legend Tony Beets has almost finished rebuilding his 75-year-old, million-dollar dredge.
MIKE: Like it? It looks good.
It's already taken six months, but Tony believes that if he can get the old dredge running, it could net him millions in gold each season.
The bucket line does the digging.
The chain-linked cast-iron buckets feed gold-rich dirt into the dredge.
But before Tony can install the bucket line, he first has to make sure that the motor that powers it will run.
I have a 75-horse motor up there.
We got the gears there.
We got the big bull gear there.
None of it has turned.
It went together great, but that don't (BLEEP) mean it's gonna run.
So I'm gonna have to start it up and see if everything works.
Tony is hoping that the 75-horsepower, 30-year-old motor will still have the power to move the bull gear, drive the bucket line and feed paydirt into the dredge.
If that stuff don't work, if that thing don't run or something isn't right with it, ain't not much gonna happen today.
So it is kind of an anxious moment for me to see if all this is gonna happen.
Fingers crossed, hopefully it's gonna work.
Mike! Hey! Fire it up, guys.
JERRY: It's starting to go over.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Immediately, the motor's belts smoke and the bull gear slips.
Whoa! Tony! Tony, stop! It's not safe.
(ENGINE STOPS) Mike! Hey! Look how sloppy that (BLEEP) is.
I mean, no wonder that (BLEEP) thing was spinning like you wouldn't believe.
I guess that's why she wouldn't turn, huh? So shouldn't be that big of a deal to tighten them up.
No, just wrench her in and lock it down.
Mike tweaks the tension on the belts.
Come on, you (BLEEP).
I'm tightening the adjuster on the motor mount, here.
It's just tightening the belts up.
So, he's not gonna be able to go much farther here.
Should be good to go.
With the belts tightened, Tony attempts to start up the gear system once again.
Everybody ready? (ENGINE TURNS OVER) At Scribner Creek .
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with the 700 excavator down, Greg is struggling to move overburden fast enough in the smaller 460 for Rick to keep the plant fed.
This time of the season, there's no time to waste, so the name of the game is moving overburden.
RICK: Well, the scary part is, yeah, regardless of the 700 being down, we still gotta move the same amount of dirt.
This is where efficiency Either we got it or we don't.
It's a good time to have it.
It's gonna be a tricky one.
(BLEEP) Hey, Rick.
I just lost the controls on this 460.
(BLEEP) Piece of (BLEEP).
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm two for two.
(BLEEP) One piece of equipment at a time, I'm killing them.
Battery connections are tight.
That's the extent of my mechanical knowledge, so I'm gonna go get Mitch.
He just left, literally just left from figuring out the problem with the 700, and I get to present him with another problem.
He is not gonna be very happy to see me.
If the 460 isn't easily repairable, and with the 700 already out of action, it could mean shutting down their operation for the last time.
Well, the only way that we were going, and going slowly, I might add, was that we had one machine hauling pay .
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and one machine stripping overburden.
Now we are down to one machine, and it can't do both at once.
Once this pay is gone .
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we gotta stop.
Their wash plant Big Red is chewing through 150 yards of paydirt an hour, and Parker can see a problem.
CHRIS: What up, youngster? PARKER: Your pay pile's looking pretty thin.
We're not dumping that in the plant.
We're what? We're not dumping that in the plant.
Are you serious? Yeah.
Why not? If we run any more pay, then it's not gonna make it through the night.
We gotta shut her down.
Parker has avoided frozen sluices by running 24/7.
But now, with the 700 down, they are producing half the paydirt.
He has no choice but to shut down during the day to build up a stockpile to run through the night.
We're into some rich ground now.
We're on the gravy train.
Now we're making profit.
Now we're making money.
I mean, it's probably some of the best stuff I've seen in five years.
And to say, "Shut her down," it's painful.
It's real painful.
The whole reason we are where we are is because we run 24/7.
And if you're running 50% less time, then I'm making less than half the amount of money.
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At McKinnon Creek, the Hoffman crew is working a new gold channel Dave found in part of their higher cut.
You know, right now is the time when we need the gold the most, so hopefully this bedrock pays well and gets us over that 1,000oz.
They're in a race against the Yukon winter.
To have any hope of reaching 1,000oz, they can't afford any more shutdowns.
Well, the rock gobbler is doing its job.
We're doing our job.
Everything should turn out fine in the end.
ANDY: Hey, something has broke on the 700.
STEVE PASLEY: What's up, there, Andy? I'm leaking hydraulic fluid everywhere.
That's not good.
The 700 is their largest excavator.
Without it, Andy can't get enough paydirt to Monster Red.
It's gotta be up in those hoses on that belly pan.
You can smell hydraulic oil.
Holy cow.
Can you see where it's coming? Not really.
Want me to start it real quick? Yeah, start it.
(ENGINE TURNS OVER) Yeah, OK.
These are (BLEEP) bad.
When one of these things breaks, it's no joke, man.
It's not good.
A hose like that, we just don't have one here at camp, so we gotta go into town and get one made.
That's a whole day of us not getting paydirt up to the wash plant.
Losing their 700 excavator hits the Hoffman crew just as hard as it hit Parker.
Kevin to Todd.
Kevin to Todd.
Do you copy, Todd? Copy.
Hey, I got some bad news.
We are just about out of pay.
How long we got? Oh, I'll be lucky if I can run another 45 minutes before I have to shut it down.
(BLEEP) ANDY: Do not shut that plant down.
TODD: Who's down there? Todd, this is Andy.
Do not shut that plant down.
I will get you dirt.
That's music to my ears.
What are you gonna do? The excavator is sitting next to paydirt.
I'll push paydirt to the excavator, and I'll have the trucks haul it out.
We can keep that plant running, though.
Don't shut it down.
All right.
You've got it, buddy.
Do it.
Do it quick.
The tracks on the 700 can't move, but its arm and bucket still work.
If Andy can push dirt close enough, the 700 can still load trucks.
You know what? We work too stinking hard to get right to the end, and just because a hose blows, we can't put gold in the box.
We're gonna do whatever it takes to keep that plant running, and this will keep the plant running.
Tyson and CJ, I need you guys down here in the rock trucks ASAP.
We gotta go.
Let's go.
Hurry up.
DAVE: All right, we're working.
We're working.
Nice job, Andy! Thank you! Dave loads Andy's pay into the rock trucks with the immobilised 700 excavator.
This might just work.
Come hell or high water, the Monster's not gonna shut down.
Right on, you guys.
Your timing couldn't be any better.
I'm just about out of dirt.
That's what I needed, right there.
Keep it steady and keep it often.
At Scribner Creek, Parker's wash plant is shut down.
Now two of his excavators are out of action.
While they wait for parts for the 700, Mitch goes to work on the stricken 460.
MITCH: We could have had a better place for this machine to break down.
GREG: I could have put it up a little higher, I suppose.
It's never a good time to have breakdowns, but especially this late in the season, we're trying to push for just a little bit more here and everything's fighting back pretty hard.
This is kind of what happens.
You just start having a lot of problems.
Go ahead and try and hit it.
(ENGINE SPUTTERS) OK.
It's acting like it's kinda cooked some of these batteries.
Oh, no.
It won't restart here.
Can we take the batteries out of the 700? They might be the same size.
Let's go look.
That'll work, Greg.
Let's grab the batteries out of this, put them in that 460.
Hopefully we can get it to start up, get it off the pile there, get it over where we can do some more diagnostic work on it.
Ready? Yep.
OK, go ahead and see if it will turn over.
(ENGINE TURNS OVER) We gotta get it off this pile, here, before these ones go dead and we are back in the same boat we were.
Why don't you go ahead and just walk it off here out of the cut? We are gonna get this machine down to a better place to work on it.
We were really fortunate that it fired up with these other batteries, but they are not recharging right now, so this machine's only gonna run for so long and then it'll die again.
Hopefully it stays running long enough so we can get it out of the way here.
Never-ending, being a mechanic in the Yukon.
East, at Eureka Creek Tony's crew prepares to install the very last part of the dredge - the bucket line.
If he can get this vital part in place, the dredge should be ready to run for the first time in nearly 30 years.
(TONY SPEAKS) The line of 72 cast-iron buckets will eventually dig paydirt .
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but hauling the 24-tonne line is no easy task.
OK, Brian, get up there.
Give Kevin a hand.
Make it happening.
Tony is in his typical "rush, rush, get 'er done" mood.
Jerry, is the brake on? Just (BLEEP) pull it up.
Then we'll bang them up and tight, and then, gentlemen, we get ready for the buckets.
OK? Tony's plan is to use the winch on the back of the dozer to pull the bucket line up and around the dredge's ladder.
Once in position, he will connect the two end buckets to form one continuous loop.
(MACHINERY CREAKING) At least we got the first couple of buckets on.
KEVIN: I don't like how that looks like.
Mike, pull it in.
MONICA: Hey! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! No, (BLEEP) no.
The heavy-duty steel cable pulling the 24-tonne bucket line has snapped.
Got trouble with that (BLEEP) cable.
We almost gotta have a pulley over here, eh? Or what we can do is lift it up and then make it a little bit easier on the winch line.
Sure, if you want.
Whatever you want.
You're the chief.
Monica.
This time Monica will lift the buckets using the excavator to reduce the load on the cable, while the dozer still does the pulling.
We'll have to have that chained down pretty good, otherwise she'll break off on us.
OK, let's try this one more time.
OK, Mike! Keep it (BLEEP) going.
Pull! There she goes again, guys.
Isn't that easier? The new plan works.
Once operational, these buckets will move 100 yards of paydirt an hour.
Keep her going.
Just pull that up.
That looks good.
The buckets are in position Good! .
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but there's a problem.
The bucket line isn't long enough.
Go to Clear Creek's junkyard.
I know we went through it, but there could be some laying there in the junk.
There was leaves on the trees at the time.
You couldn't see through the brush very good.
Yep.
No.
Yep.
Awesome.
OK.
Winter is closing in, so we're really running out of time.
At this point, it's not (BLEEP) funny any more.
If I can't find two buckets, I don't know what we're gonna do.
I mean, we might not end up running this season.
The next morning .
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the first snows of the season hit the Yukon.
Parker's wash plant is frozen solid .
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and the parts for his 700 still haven't arrived.
His crew is cold and has nothing to do.
It's freezing already.
That ice never melted off it at all today.
Uh-uh.
Not at all.
And it's gonna do nothing but get colder.
Yeah.
Our day is coming.
Yeah, yeah.
PARKER: The way this weather is going .
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who knows what's gonna happen? I mean, one minute it's nice and sunny, the next minute it's dumping snow, and in an hour, it'll all probably be gone, I hope.
But a special delivery is en route .
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and it might just get Parker's season back on track.
So, this is the pump, here, that we've been waiting on.
As you can see, she came in red label.
We're happy to see this.
This is what's been holding us up from running that 700.
It's the biggest excavator we got out here and moves the most dirt, and we're looking forward to getting it back running today.
(STRAINING) Oh, that's not light.
Ready? Yeah, go for it.
(ENGINE TURNS OVER) Everything looks good up here! Let's get this done.
GREG: Back in action.
Now the Schnabel crew can finally get back to mining.
Back in the saddle again.
Yee-haw! PARKER: We lost a few shifts of running, which hurts, but now that we've got the 700 back up and running, we should be able to get the plant back up and running 24/7 and make up for lost time.
Good to be back in the seat again.
We have a lot of overburden to move, and this is the machine to do it.
Hopefully, with both Rick and I on this overburden, we can make up some time and offset our losses.
Full steam ahead.
At Eureka Creek .
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Tony's dredge is almost complete.
But to have any hope of running before the winter freeze hits .
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Monica has to find two more cast-iron buckets.
(DOOR OPENS) Hey, Dad.
Found something.
These were way at the back.
That's probably why they didn't find them.
(TONY SPEAKING) I mean, that one down there is completely busted up, isn't it? Yeah, but the length is really all you need.
It'll work.
Yeah, point taken.
I know.
I see.
You're right on that.
It'll make the link in the chain.
So that is good.
We'll just have to put them on and get this show on the road.
Tony races back to the dredge.
There's no time to lose.
He needs to fit the buckets before more snow falls.
Monica, truck.
Back it in there.
Jerry, crane.
Unhook the crane.
Let's get those buckets on.
Good.
(WHISTLES) We're gonna hang it up and you're gonna hang it in, then we'll let her down.
Bingo, perfect.
OK, let's put the (BLEEP) thing in.
OK, can you let the bucket down? Thanks.
KEVIN: Watch your fingers.
Nail the (BLEEP).
Well, that's one down, one more to go.
OK.
That's just so she can turn, right? (TONY SPEAKS) Down, down, down, down.
A bit more, a bit more.
It's taken six long months, more than 10,000 bolts, 150 I-beams, 2 gantries, 19 pontoons, a wheelhouse, stacker, bull gear, trommel, sluice-box, spud, ladder, 72 buckets, and one last pin.
For the first time in almost 30 years, Tony's dredge is ready to run.
It is snowing right now.
We get lots of frost at night, so I couldn't have cut it any closer than I'm doing.
So, once we get her floating, we'll turn her all on and just see what happens and better (BLEEP) hope everything is right.
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At Scribner Creek in the Klondike, Parker Schnabel has shut down.
It's time for a gold weigh.
PARKER: So, it's been a pretty rough week.
We'll have to make hay while the sun shines here, cos there's obviously not much time left.
This year, Parker's mined 1,723oz of gold, worth more than $2 million.
Hey, Tony.
Parker! How you doing? Huh? I don't know what the hell's going on.
Hopefully, this is just a shot across the bow, you know? It's a little early, isn't it? Yeah.
Oh, whoa.
You got a whole pan full, huh? There's a couple nice chunks in there.
That's cool, all right.
With temperatures dropping fast All right, well, weigh this stuff up.
OK.
.
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Parker will be lucky to get another week of sluicing.
To stay on track for his season target, he needs at least 140oz.
117.
10.
What the (BLEEP)? 117oz is worth $140,000.
He's well shy of his 2,000oz goal, and he only has days left before the big freeze sets in.
So where are you at, Parker? This brings us to 1,840.
160 to go.
You're gonna get quite a ways up there yet.
Yeah.
Yeah? Well As long as this weather doesn't hold up, then It's just not worth fighting frozen ground, I don't think.
Right.
Yeah.
Right? I hear you.
Yeah, you too.
OK.
There's still a long ways to go.
I knew it was gonna be a bad one, cos we didn't get the hours in.
You know, we just weren't sluicing as much time.
And with the 700 back up and running, we gotta make up for lost time.
It doesn't matter what colour the ground is - white, brown, golden - we gotta move the dirt.
It's time to separate the men from the boys.
He's doing a lot better than me.
If I can get 117oz out of that dredge this year, I'd be (BLEEP) happy.
At McKinnon Creek .
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the Hoffman crew waits to find out if the ancient river channel will pay off.
TODD: We need to hit this one, guys.
If we don't get 1,000oz, guys, I love all of you, but we're not coming back.
That's the long and the short of it.
Me and Dave are in trouble, and we're not gonna be able to come back.
That's just the way it is.
With the season drawing to a close and just 814oz banked .
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they need at least 93oz to have a chance of reaching their 1,000oz goal.
JACK: Hey, guys.
There's Jack.
Hey, guys.
100.
Yeah! (ALL CHEERING) Grand total: 936.
Yeah! (ALL CHEERING) We're close, Jack.
Yeah, we are.
MAN: Yeah! 936oz is worth more than $1.
1 million.
Good Lord.
Guys, we got nine full jars.
Dad, hold that last jar up.
Guys, that's all we gotta do.
We just gotta get that tenth jar filled up.
Look at that, guys.
Andy.
How many more days of pay do we have in the higher cut? We only got a few days left.
We gotta do it, Andy.
I know the gold's there if we got enough pay.
It's gonna be close.
We're not leaving till this jar's full.
But here's the deal.
We went through some crap last year.
And this is our year.
This is our year of redemption.
Let's fill this up, guys, and let's keep going.
Well, guys, I'd like to just thank God for it.
Heavenly Father, we thank you for just bringing us to this point.
You know exactly how much gold is out there in that ground, and we ask that you would give it to us abundantly.
Amen.
ALL: Amen.
Let's get some sleep and hit it in the morning, OK? That last 60-something ounces is gonna be tough, very tough.
It's probably gonna be a fight to get to the very end, but one way or another, this team, right here, we'll get there, and we'll get that 1,000oz.
I can see the finish line.
I know where it is.
Now the question is can this team finish? Can we finish the marathon that we started? TODD: Time's up.
We gotta get it.
We gotta get it now.
On the next Gold Rush, with the big freeze about to hit, Parker's crew is ready to head home.
I just wanna know.
What's the issue? Everybody's wore out.
I don't want you guys here if you don't want to be here.
Tony's million-dollar dredge springs a leak.
Whoa! Hold it! We're taking on water.
Get out of the way.
Clear this area.
Gotta get some pumps up there quick.
And when they least expect it We did it! We did it! Yeah! .
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the Hoffman crew gets devastating news.
I'm really sorry.
This is a disappointment.