"Let's get some fuckin' dirt in it!" "Get the pile in the plant!" "498.)\fs60}On this "Gold Rush" "Tyson:" "What's up with Rick and Parker hiring these old guys?" "Sevigny:" "Tonka toys in your backyard and getting paid for it!" "Perfect." "whoa!" "Screwed up." "I swear I'm gonna wring Doumitt's neck." "I've been forced to work in this cut by myself." "I need help in the cut." "I go where I am needed." "And I'm fuckin' needed everywhere." "Monica:" "Definitely kind of sucks." "Todd:" "We are at ground zero." "but..." "I need you guys to go the next 2 weeks without pay." "I didn't come here to work for free." "I don't see how it's gonna work." "I came down here to Oregon with a..." "A pretty good belief that this ground was worth a damn." "And it's not." "we're not getting paid." "I can't live." "morale is at an all-time low." "that this was gonna be... it just kind of feels like a mistake." "Todd Hoffman has set by far his most ambitious goal..." "Five thousand ounces." "Trey." "Here we go!" "Narrator:" "After a grim start..." "Freddy Dodge discovered a new pay streak." "Ha ha." "Look at that." "Yellow gold." "That could be a serious game-changer." "they've mined just 129 ounces of gold." "000." "That doesn't cut it." "We're hitting a lot more bad spots than good." "♪♪" "We don't want to quit." "But we might not be staying at the High Bar." "Can you guys meet me at the edge cut?" "Todd's crew gave him an ultimatum." "I'd promised the guys" "That I'd close the High Bar down." "Even though it's less than half of what we need each week... 50 ounces would keep us in the game." "it could be here." "And I want to give it every last chance we can." "But I need you guys to give me your all." "Andy:" "I'm with you." "Let's give it 100%. 'cause we can expand on this." "All right." "One more shot." "One more shot." "One more shot." "Todd:" "Let's do it." "This is it." "We got to get every ounce of pay dirt we can." "We got to get this gold." "the plant is going hot." "Radio:" "Copy...that." "you ready to go?" "ready to go here." "Let's do it." "Hiatt:" "My wife's back home taking care of four kids while I'm trying to support them." "And I have another kid on the way." "So I hope we can stay here." "Keep this plant running...hard." "we're at the point where it's kind of a sink-or-swim type of deal." "We've got to get gold." "So what we're gonna do is get this top layer off." "And then I'm just gonna go down deeper." "we have no idea if this goes.." "we just...we just don't know." "Make it a bigger hole until we can get gold." "the more gold you're gonna see." "Might be more difficult to get." "Andy's in some pretty tough stuff right now." "We have a lot of clay up here." "So." "We try to stay away from it." "The plant does not like it at all." "And that stuff's just pretty nasty material." "pick up the pace." "We need to slam as much dirt through this plant as we can." "Getting a full bucket here is next to impossible." "This material is so dense." "All kinds of weird clay." "It's a fight to load with this." "You've got to be kidding me." "Kevin to Will." "Kevin." "bogged way down." "And it's taking forever for this stuff to run through." "I got that feeder turned all the way up." "So it's...it's at max it can go." "And that feeder's packed in pretty tight." "red material." "And that stuff's just packing that feeder tight in." "This is not good." "Aw." "we're never gonna get 50 ounces." "Parker:" "We've got a really good system down." "it keeps up." "000 miles north." "Parker Schnabel has already mined 412 ounces of gold." "Worth almost half a million dollars." "000-ounce season goal..." "Is to run his new wash plant at full throttle." "which is pretty good." "It's uh.." "at that... 95 yards." "So we should be doing about... two and a half ounces an hour." "So." "then we're in good shape." "Narrator:" "Parker's attempting to run lean and mean with as few crew members as possible." "the beauty of this setup with the feeder down in the cut and those conveyors bringing the pay up to the plant is that.." "you can stay running." "groaning ]" "That thing sounds like me when I walk now!" "I think this sounds a little better." "Tyson." "I'm tired of standing here watching you work hard." "You want me to grab you a chair?" "Yeah." "One with wheels?" "as veteran miner Chris Doumitt is on light duty." "and I can't even dress myself." "[ laughs ]" "I can get it!" "Doumitt." "Gol-dang kids!" "Ha ha ha." "Just came off of back surgery." "These kids won't let me do anything." "They think I'm old or something." "Doumitt's definitely eager to get back in the loader and.." "690)}And I hope he takes his time to do it 'cause I don't want to see him go back for another surgery." "okay?" "I wonder." "[ laughs ]" "Narrator:" "Chris has been one of Parker Schnabel's wash plant operators for the last three seasons." "things have changed." "Is your back all right doing that?" "Oh yeah." "Yeah." "I'm going slow." "All right." "Parker:" "I love Chris Doumitt." "But Chris just isn't.. You know?" "And Tyson's turned into a very good plant operator." "too." "I'm bailing pay as fast as I can." "And I'm hardly putting a pile up." "We're never gonna keep up with this thing." "Not two of us." "Denis Sevigny." "Parker needs every crew member to be at the top of their game." "right?" "Don't stop the sluice box." "It's been like that everywhere I ever worked." "They'll deal with him." "Keep feeding the box." "I'm gonna go to work." "Parker:" "Denis is a Yukon local." "He's been mining a lot of years. and uh.." "anyway." "We've got good people in the loaders." "It's a really good system." "Tyson:" "What's up with Rick and Parker hiring these old guys?" "[ laughter ] did they go to the retirement home and hand out flyers?" "Tyson!" "What's up?" "I need fuel." "And where's the fuel cap?" "The fuel truck's right there." "Okay." "So just back up to it and lift the ass end." "Lift the cap." "New guy's first day on the job." "is he?" "I don't think he's got as much experience in a loader as he claimed." "which one opens the grizzly?" "Tyson:" "One." "But make sure your bucket isn't over it." "This one here opens it?" "Yeah." "And this one closes it?" "No." "One opens and closes." "Two is stop." "maybe he can figure it out." "Kind of odd how he's going up the ramp with the bucket... though." "What's your thoughts on him?" "It don't seem to me like he's been in the machine before." "man." "You got two levers." "One makes the boom go up." "one makes the bucket scoop." "Yeah." "And... carrying the bucket that high going up that ramp." "I don't know if that's balls or..." "Inexperience." "What the hell is he doing?" "he's sitting in the middle of the cut while he's supposed to be running the plant." "Oh yeah." "It's ridiculous." "he can't be fuckin' having a sandwich when you're supposed to be running the fuckin' plant." "What's going on?" "He's decided to take a lunch break or something?" "I don't know." "Fuck." "There ain't fuckin' dirt in the hopper." "The wash plant's on." "It needs dirt." "But the guy in the fuckin' loader ain't moving." "but..." "Go fuckin' find out." "Dumb shit." "Letting the belt run dry." "new loader operator Denis Sevigny has stopped work in the middle of his shift." "Rick:" "You can't just have dirt not going through the plant." "I was having my coffee break." "there's no fuckin' stopping when you're loading that plant." "I'm running okay." "Yeah." "I didn't know that." "There's got to be dirt going through that plant." "I gotcha." "Rick:" "Fuckin' kidding me?" "Coffee break?" "Fuckin' retarded asshole." "This new guy's a joke." "Narrator:" "Running water through a plant without pay..." "I can't fuckin' take this." "Will wash gold right out of the sluices." "That is not okay!" "okay!" "I don't know!" "Hey!" "Don't fuckin' do that again!" "'kay Sir." "Don't stop..." "Get some fuckin' dirt in it!" "Don't..." "Get the pile in the fuckin' plant!" "'Kay." "This pile right here." "Right here." "That's why the stockpile's there." "It's when the... just grab it." "I gotcha." "We can't have that fuckin' belt running dry." "Mitch:" "Look at that right there." "Just pissing it all out onto the ground." "massage it through." "I guess." "Dumping it off the back?" "Yep." "It's as piss-easy as it can get." "then they're not gonna get it." "It's empty." "It's empty?" "Yeah." "and I'll shut 'er down." "Narrator:" "Denis has reached the end of his first shift." "♪♪" "Actually really good." "I got a good teacher." "Tyson knows what he's doing." "Yeah." "Had a great day." "I've maybe spilled.." "15 shovelfuls down here." "And then..." "New guy runs the plant for two hours and buries the bloody thing." "Young man's job." "Ha ha ha ha." "but..." "No." "I guess. we can't keep him around then." "that's what we hired him to do." "And" "Give him one more day." "See if he can figure it out." "anyways." "I can't speak for Parker." "Tony Beets' 75-year-old dredge is on the gold." "while daughter Monica strips ground ahead." "Their teamwork has so far produced 757 ounces of gold." "000." "man speaking indistinctly over radio ] yeah." "it's not getting done around here." "I need help on the cut." "too!" "this is my own little pile of shit." "at Paradise Hill." "26-year-old Mike is solely responsible for getting the family mine up and running." "Mike:" "Dad is pretty busy this year." "He's left me in charge around here." "So he can spend most of his time focusing on the dredges." "I'm actually behind schedule here because I've been forced to work in this cut by myself." "3 weeks behind." "Narrator:" "Mike needs to start producing gold." "But he can't fire up the wash plant 'till he and the monitor operator..." "Strip 20 feet of overburden and get down to the pay layer." "It takes three machines to remove the permafrost." "An excavator digs out the frozen overburden." "which blasts it into a slurry." "The dozer can then remove the liquid mud out of the cut." "it's gonna take a bit of work." "Yeah." "Good." "Yeah." "Narrator:" "Kevin's just been demoted from Dredge Master to his younger brother's assistant." "I'm needed everywhere." "Mike!" "Not all of us drive like you do." "All right." "You got a plan for this?" "Yep." "30 feet that we got to strip away to get to the white channel beneath it." "like permafrost." "which is what we're working through right now." "So Mike's ripping through the frost." "And I am pushing it all to where the monitor can reach." "Narrator:" "The Beets brothers have been mining together for more than a decade." "we move a shit-load." "I don't know if you guys can see it." "But I think I just saw pay pop up over there." "do you copy?" "what's up?" "Found pay dirt." "One more time." "I found the money dirt." "man." "Whoo-hoo." "I don't got any spare bodies to drive the rock truck." "So I'll just do it." "Narrator:" "Kevin hauls the first pay dirt to the wash plant." "Monica:" "Can you grab this end?" "sister Monica joins them to set up the sluice box." "And now pull that mat out." "All right." "Perfect." "Monica:" "We are putting the box together on the hill to get Mike sluicing here." "Um..." "Just got to lay these mats down." "And." "and it's good to go." "'cause we've all been doing this for a long time." "we all know it's gonna get done a certain way." "no matter what you say." "Let's go." "Mike:" "Yep." "Yeah." "Yeah." "All right!" "Narrator:" "It's taken five weeks of hard work." "the Beets family have their second operation running this season." "They're mining gold in two separate locations." "isn't it?" "You're welcome." "You're welcome." "it's awesome." "It's nice to be finally out of that black muck and fuckin' sluicing." "his father." "both of you." "Hello!" "Eek!" "Eek!" "You don't have to like each other." "But you fuckin' have to take care of each other." "'cause blood's thicker than water." "right?" "Mike!" "The new job's going slow." "Chris!" "Yo!" "Can you turn the pump on?" "You're good 000 ounces this season depends on getting the best out of his minimal crew." "Little bit of back problems kind of slowing me down." "Narrator:" "Stuck on light duties after back surgery... then you fuel it at noon?" "Is that the routine?" "Chris Doumitt has a new job." "Chris." "Yep." "He has to refuel every piece of equipment on the mine." "Chris:" "Hitting the ground running this year." "walking." "Walking hard." "Least I'm doing something." "don't forget about your fueling responsibilities." "right?" "loader operator Denis Sevigny starts day two of his new job." "you know." "Tonka toys in your backyard and getting paid for it...perfect!" "we just need to pick the speed up now." "is that where you're at?" "[ laughs ]" "Parker." "Let's do this!" "Parker needs every crew member to bring his "A" game." "we're running through a lot of dirt." "Pretty important that we've got good people on it." "you could be running 24/7 all season." "It's all about finding those right people." "doesn't... seem like he's a... all-star on the loader." "Rick:" "Is he getting any better?" "Tyson:" "Not really." "And now I'm running around more than I was before." "Fuckin' bullshit." "Tyson:" "I need to be dealing with coarse tailings and tossing up pay and watching the plant." "I can't have time to sit there and teach people how to get a full scoop in their bucket." "They should know that stuff if they're coming out here looking for a job." "♪♪" "And we're running our feeder belt at the highest rate it's ever ran." "So.." "We're definitely pushing things." "We need guys that know how to run the loader." "how's it going?" "Fine." "Ha ha." "I'm gonna take over here for a bit if you want to go up and see Parker there." "I don't know." "He just said he wanted me to run the plant for a bit." "Parker:" "Hi." "You can hop in with me." "things just aren't working out." "We...we just need a little faster pace here." "Hope you understand that." "I won't take it fuckin' personally." "never will." "Too old for that." "operators a lot worse than me." "I stopped at 11:00 for a coffee." "the results of it." "you know?" "you know?" "maybe I shouldn't be here anyways." "We need more guys here that know what they're doing and are able-bodied." "We don't need a bunch of guys that all they want to do is sit on their ass and run equipment." "That's not the way things run out here." "go work for the city." "what the fuck." "they really do." "What in the fuck." "There's no fuckin' water." "Oh Fuck!" "Shut it down!" "our screen deck!" "What the fuck." "this thing just shit our lower deck out." "Oh fuck." "Wow." "isn't that gonna be fun?" "we lost water to our plant." "Now it's fuckin' completely clogged." "that was our bottom deck going out the damn conveyor." "Fuck." "I wonder if it built up so much underneath on the bottom that it pushed it out?" "Mitch." "under chute because we had no water washing it away." "it pushed all of our screen media out." "And it all went out our tailings." "the conveyors kept piling dry pay dirt into the shaker deck." "Eventually forcing the screens out of the deck." "and into the tailings pile." "I'm gonna wring Doumitt's neck." "out of fuckin' fuel." "Unreal." "That's fuckin' ridiculous." "if it was good." "And he said yeah." "This is his fuckup." "Fuckin' Doumitt didn't fuel that pump." "I love...this is make-work project right here." "Something that didn't need to happen." "human error has brought the plant to a standstill." "I said make sure nothing runs out of fuel on this site." "It's a pretty easy job." "this stuff is just like concrete." "our gold it's buried underneath all this shit." "all because a pump didn't get fueled." "It's just ridiculous." "I got to go talk to Chris about it." "And I'm fuckin' delaying it 'cause I'm pissed off at him." "Should have brought a jackhammer." "I'll try and break it up if you just want to wing it out." "all because the pump didn't get fueled." "100% self-inflicted and 100% preventable." "Mitch:" "We did lose all the pins that hold the lower deck in." "the same ones that we used to run on Big Red." "And we still got some spares kicking around from that." "All right." "I'll be back with pins." "Okay." "Chris?" "Pardon me." "Pins for the deck?" "Uh..." "I saw them somewhere." "we need them 'cause remember when you told me you fueled the pump today?" "it ran out." "How could it run out?" "It ran out." "The plant filled with dirt." "And it shit the fuckin' middle deck out." "I screwed up." "I been fueling it every other day." "I don't know why.... it stopped." "Let's find these so we can get going." "Chris:" "Go do it right now." "Chris:" "Rick was pretty upset." "I don't blame him." "That was my fault." "But I don't know what happened." "[ Rick sighs ]" "That's why I stayed away." "I don't want to be yelling and screaming at people here." "Mistakes get made but.." "something like that can't fuckin' happen So.." "I think I made my point." "I didn't have to yell and scream at him." "I don't think it's gonna happen again." "Any luck on pins?" "it took me forever." "But I finally found them." "Okay." "I got all the screens." "Do you want to start passing them up?" "Okay." "♪♪ we got to get this wash plant back running." "The only way we can do that's getting these screens back in place." "They are a tight fit." "it looks like we got them all back in." "Let's see if we can't get this plant back up and shaking." "Ready?" "Yep." "Start it up." "[ engine starts ] making money." "it ended up being about 2 1/2 hours to solve that problem." "So." "000 fuckin' gone right there." "We can't have those." "But back to getting gold in the box." "how you doing?" "dude." "We need that 50." "Copy that." "preparing for a crucial cleanup." "Whew." "Everything's coming down to this final test." "I want to mine here." "I love it here." "And I love these guys. (sighs)" "I got to do what's best for me." "We need 50 ounces to stay alive." "this is it." "Kev?" "Yeah." "Be ready to shut this thing down." "they've run all the dirt they can ahead of their 50-ounce test." "Todd:" "Just ran our last bucket of pay." "I'm banking my season on this mine." "It's do-or-die time." "I got everything on the line now." "Hiatt:" "Want me to grab half of that?" "Yep." "I got it." "Logan:" "Oh shit." "What?" "There's a goody." "Look at that." "That's a really good one." "Holy crap!" "That was a good nugget that Logan just found." "And there's only one." "Hunter." "Grab a part of that." "Jim Thurber starts the most important cleanup of the season." "Thurber:" "We've never ran this much concentrate from the High Bar ever." "Got to find gold." "there goes a piece." "Or he'd shut down the High Bar for good." "from our wash plant." "We've been working hard." "and I've gotten gold pans that are way better-looking that this before." "it's a guessing game." "go through everything." "Get the nuggets." "Make sure we got every little piece of gold." "I don't care if we got to sweep the floor." "man." "I really want 50." "Chris:" "It's brutal running that wash plant." "It is really brutal." "And my body is really happy that I'm not doing it. you know you'll never go back to it again." "it's the realization that" "I'm no longer gonna be able to do a young man's job." "And that hurts." "Shut it down!" "it's time for a cleanup." "this is our first cleanup since our pump ran out of fuel and our shaker got clogged up." "So we'll.." "See if that changes our gold total at all." "I hope it doesn't." "We've had some problems this week." "if you could keep the plant running..." "Yeah." "geez." "I'm not kind of embarrassed." "I'm totally embarrassed." "It's a basic mistake." "Doumitt." "It's behind us." "It's behind us." "Should we go weigh this up?" "Let's do it." "hot!" "Whoo." "let's see what we've got." "Sweet." "000-ounce season goal..." "There's 20." "They need at least 144 ounces this week from Scribner Creek. 103.7" "That's not bad for all the problems." "No." "I mean it's our worse on yet." "But..." "We did lose some time. 000." "It brings Parker's total to 516 ounces." "We're bound to have a down week here and there." "Yeah." "That's a pretty good bad day." "Yeah." "Yeah." "000." "We've got a long ways to go and a short time to get there." "though." "I hate to say it." "But I think it might be turning into a young man's game around here." "you better hate saying something like that." "[ laughter ]" "♪♪" "I want to know what we got." "I'm tired of waiting." "no kidding." "it's the moment of truth for the Hoffman crew." "That's it." "Oh." "Huh?" "that ain't 50 ounces." "dad." "We could get obliterated this year." "Todd:" "I love these guys." "And I feel like I'm letting them down." "here they come." "Moment of truth." "Yep." "Well..." "[ sighs ]" "I don't know what happened." "I can't explain it." "I had such high hopes for that place." "But we got 9.2 ounces." "We didn't come anywhere close to 50." "How is that possible?" "I don't know." "because of that we're gonna go ahead and close the High Bar." "Turin:" "We've almost lost half our season." "you guys." "15 miles away." "I really feel the Buckland has gold in it." "That Buckland could be rich." "We're gonna have to consolidate at the Buckland and see if we can kick some ass there." "I'll tell you what." "We are at ground zero." "We are starting over." "guys?" "I hate to say this." "But.." "I need you guys to go the next 2 weeks without pay." "We got to cut anything we can cut." "Then you tell Mindy." "You tell Mindy that I'm not getting paid." "She thinks I'm up here making money to support the family." "You tell Mindy I'm not getting paid." "I thought the High Bar was gonna make us all rich." "It just didn't work out that way." "It ain't gonna happen if we start dividing ourselves." "That's for sure." "Hiatt:" "I'm not talking to you guys right now." "I'm not talking about it." "I'm not here." "I didn't come here to work for free." "I can't afford to work for free." "I've got a mortgage to pay." "I don't see how it's gonna work." "Thurber:" "I've been through hell... with this team." "basically we got our backs against the wall." "327)\fnLucida Calligraphy} Subs by JackT" "Think a lot of us are in shock." "Turin:" "You know what?" "I never had confidence in the High Bar at all." "I've always felt that the Buckland is where it was at." "And now it's do-or-die." "485)} On the next "Gold Rush"..." "We got to shut down." "we ain't getting it." "I'm pissed." "These guys came up here and wasted our fuckin' time." "[ horn honks ]" "First pay at Buckland!" "That's a problem." "Ohh." "I guarantee you we don't have another one of those." "I guarantee you we don't." "Our total is 913 ounces." "So it's the first million bucks this year?" "we have." "That's more like it."