"On this "Gold Rush"...." "We're not gonna get to 1000 ounces." "We need another piece of land." "This is the whole plant." "We named it Double Trouble." "Hold on." "Back up." "This is your wash plant?" "I need you to get this running." "It's like putting lipstick on a pig." "Hello bleep." "This week needs to be a 200 ounce week, and every one after it." "We just gotta crank everything to eleven." "And we have to force 200 ounces a week out of that fucker." "What the fuck." "Something's gotta be done." "Look at the tailings." "Good to have you back men." "Well, you know what?" "I didn't leave in the right way." "That's not uh, how I'd normally handle myself." "So I want you to know that I'm sorry." "Todd Hoffman and his crew are up for an early start on their new Fairplay mine in Colorado." "After Todd's dream of mining 5000 ounces in Oregon ended in failure and mutiny." "What we had to go through this summer was tough." "Man I just appreciate everybody coming back." "With just 5 weeks left in the mining season, his crew returned when Todd promised them a proper paycheck for their season's work." "I'd love to see 1000 ounces." "'Cause that's what it's gonna take for us to get a profit and to put gold in everybody's pockets." "Last week, Todd's first Fairplay cleanup produced 49 ounces taking his season total to 275, worth $330,000" "You know, you guys can probably do the math." "We ain't gonna hit 1,000 ounces with 5 weeks left." "Okay?" "So..." "We have to have something else going on." "Let's go see if we can find some more land." "I'd like to go look around." "We still got time." "Let's go find some ground." "Yeah." "I met a guy up the valley here" "He's got some land he'd probably lease ya." "Any good?" "It's got gold on it." "Huh." "There's gold everywhere in this valley." "Now I'll go talk to him, but.." "Doesn't hurt anything to go talk to him." "I'll go up there." "Dave, you wanna go with me?" "Yeh." "Let's go take a look." "Want you guys to keep kicking ass." "Hopefully we can find something." "Ready?" "Gonna fire 'er up Freddy." "Fire it up." "Make some gold." "Let's go." "(warning buzzer)" "Freddy Dodge fires up wash plant Rusty Red." "Ready Kevin?" "Yes sir." "While Kevin Hiatt feeds pay into the hopper." "We need to get 1000 ounces." "I need to take gold home." "Mindy ain't gonna go for uh, me coming home empty handed." "You know?" "I don;t know if she'd let me gold mine again after this." "Just one mile northwest of Fairplay, there's an abandoned 55 acre claim beside Sacramento Creek." "It was last mined 2 years ago." "So, Sacramento Creek." "Has it got a pretty good history?" "Well, that's what Freddy tells me." "You know." "And he knows this area." "This is his home turf." "He knows where the gold is." "I trust him." "Sweet." "The landowner's name is Mike." "And he's got ground." "And he's got the wash plant." "Really?" "Yeah." "From what I've heard, it's damn near a turnkey operation." "Hey Todd." "If it's as good as you say it is, I'll stay and run it." "Dave, the wash plant's here." "That's...perfect." "That's not it, is it?" "No way." "That thing hasn't run in years." "Let's go talk to him" "You Mike?" "Yes" "Hey Mike." "Right on." "Michael Pfister." "Hi Mike." "I'm Dave." "How ya doin?" "Nice to meet you." "Nice to meet you." "You got some good ground here?" "The land is very good." "There's gold in the ground." "You just got to get it out." "Huh!" "This is the old plant." "Whew." "It's two trommels run in parallel." "Hold on." "Back up." "This is your wash plant?" "Yes." "It's pretty rough." "How old is that machine?" "It's from the fifties." "(whistles) When's the last time it ran?" "Oh, a couple years ago, until it broke." "How many yards an hour will that do?" "About 350 yards an hour." "Whoa." "Does it really run?" "It was running when it broke." "What's it called, Mike?" "Well, we named it "Double Trouble"." "Double Trouble trommel." "You friggen nuts, man?" "This is good gold ground." "It's the same as what we got down there." "I know." "I saw..." "I think it's good ground." "The same stuff." "It's right next door." "This isn't a good wash plant." "Dave." "I'm not disagreeing with you at all." "If we're gonna put gold in these guy's pockets." "I need you to get this thing running." "Yes or No." "You're in or out on this?" "It's a lot of work." "Yeah." "But I don't think we have a choice." "I'm in." "Let's do it." "That's good news." "When I started mining 30 years ago" "I used to work on crap like this." "And uh, we're gonna try to make his thing work but it looks like a pile of shit to me." "It's like putting lipstick on a pig." "The original machine was built in the late 50's with just one trommel." "Twenty years later, they added a second." "The way they designed it..." "This side breaks down, I can continue to run the big one." "If the big one breaks down, I can still continue to run the little one." "Each one of Double Trouble's trommels is a giant rotating sieve." "As pay dirt passes through water from the spray bar washes the rocks" "The gold and fine material drop through the screens and the gold collects in the riffles below if Dave can get it running." "We got a lot of work to do around here." "All these areas have to be guarded." "We got work to do on these chutes" "We got a spray bar to put in here." "I mean we got a mess." "This is a lot of work." "We've been running Sluicifer and, uh both come in good as well." "Mine boss Parker Schnabel is under the gun." "What should be 200 to 300 ounce cleanups are only about a hundred ounces." "Rick's Indian River operation has been producing well but the Boundary Cut Extension hasn't been paying out." "Parker has a total of just 1,680 ounces of gold." "less than half his 4000 ounce, $4.8 million dollar season goal." "What the hell's going on with these cleanups from this Boundary Cut Extension." "Man, that is dismal." "Yeah, it's been pretty fuckin' bad." "Oohhh!" "What's the solution here?" "I don't fuckin' know." "We're gonna have to make some big fuckin' change if it keeps up like this." "You know, we'll end the season with... not even 2000 ounces." "Heh, Yeah." "The Boundary Cut Extension has averaged less than 100 ounces per week." "This week needs to be a 200 ounce week, and every one after it." "Well, if it ain't in the ground, what the fuck can we do?" "We just gotta crank everything to eleven." "Crank that plant up... and we have to force 200 ounces a week out of that fucker." "Well, that's why we got 'er." "Buy a new plant to wear it out." "Yeah, I mean I know..." "Turn this stuff up and things are gonna start breaking, and" "So I've got a new mechanic that we've hired." "Andy..." "Mitch can focus on the wash plant." "And Andy can take care of all the rest of the equipment." "You know, hopefully we can give Mitch some relief." "Come on buddy." "Ha ha Jake." "Hey good buddy." "Hey welcome." "How's it going guys?" "Andy Payne is a shop mechanic." "Hey Jake, huh." "who's never worked on a mine." "Oh yeah, buddy." "My old man was a mechanic, and I've had a lot of experience on just about every kind of piece of equipment." "But I've never really mined, myself." "So, uh, it's gonna be a new adventure." "(bark bark) Oh, oh." "We got trouble." "Little dog, big attitude." "I'm Rick." "Good to meet you Rick." "This is Mitch." "How's it going?" "Good to meet you Mitch." "We got quite a bit of work for you." "So, we'll get started." "'Kay, will do" "Awesome." "You know I've been telling Parker for a long time we need some more help up here." "So, it's nice to see uh, he finally got on the program and got another tech up here." "You know, it's a lot different working out here than working in the shop." "So, you know hopefully he's used to that and uh, he'll figure it out." "Hey Mitch." "Yes." "Is that A30 runnable?" "This will be in like, this is only, it should take, 15 minutes." "Oh." "Hammer it out then." "Okay." "Gonna find some grease and grease the machine." "Andy's first task:" "Grease the A30 rock truck." "And make sure it's good to go." "Hey Mitch." "You got a grease gun I could borrow?" "Just..." "Got a few tubes of grease too." "Yeah." "Try and get this stuff in your truck so you got it next time." "Right on." "Thanks bud." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Should be only 15 minutes." "There's a rock or something beside the nipple." "I can't uh. holy..." "Get the..." "Alright, uh.." "I need another tool." "I'll be right back." "Now, all my tools are a mess." "I couldn't find the proper extension." "With a new piece of equipment you have a lot more stuff you don't understand." "So..." "Takes a bit of time to get familiarized with it." "You know, that should have probably taken about half the time." "Hey Mitch?" "Yo." "Uh." "There was nothing else on that rock truck." "Eh, you just uh." "Should I bring that back over to them or?" "So, you got the grease lines done?" "Yup." "And uh, tire pressures as well." "Tire pressures as well." "Uh, you know, I don't actually have a fitting for that 3/8 fitting?" "Do you have a gauge." "Yeah." "That drawer that's open right there..." "It's right next to the screwdrivers." "It's a large gauge." "Uh, okay." "You know, it's a silver.." "It's in your hand." "Ah!" "It's right there." "I mean, there's so many tools you have to have to work on this machinery out here." "that, you know you're never gonna have everything." "But a guy that.." "is coming up here to do it should at least have the basics, you know." "Should at least be able to, uh.." "put air in a rock truck tire." "You know Parker's just been hiring guys that just drive up the road and, you know, want to go to work and... you get what you get." "Tony Beets is in trouble." "Tony's 2nd dredge lies abandoned 100 miles upstream at Thistle Creek." "The only way he can move it is to break it down into smaller pieces." "Tony has built a power barge to transport the heavy equipment he needs up the Yukon." "But it's been lying idle." "Three weeks ago, Tony fired his original skipper." "So he turned to the captain of the local stern-wheeler." "I'd really love to do that, but I can't turn my back on this for a day." "My season goes on for another month or so." "But if I can help you out then?" "Tony's not managed to find an alternative." "Hey." "How are you?" "What's up?" "Are you serious?" "So are you gonna be able to barge this year?" "So you're telling me I spent like... just about a million bucks on all this stuff over here, and now" "I have to pay someone else to barge it?" "It's not flying." "Damned if you do and damned if you don't." "Isn't it?" "You want to see what paid on average?" "Okay." "Well then you better get on it." "Hopefully you can negotiate a little bit." "The next day, with the deal on the barge done" "Tony can finally bring in his crane." "Gotta come towards me." "You're good." "After months of delay, Tony's crane and loader finally begin the 100 mile journey up the Yukon River." "It is mayhem here." "At Scribner Creek, in a bid to hit his 4,000 ounce, $4.8 million dollar goal" "Parker has cranked his wash plant up to 250 yards an hour." "Yeah." "Old Sluicifer's chewing through ground like crazy" "So hopefully we can pick the gold back up here and still get to where we need to be this season." "We need uh, as much pay tossed up as we do find." "Coarse tailings don't get sorted." "We're stretching ourselves thin here." "What the fuck." "For fuck sakes." "Hey Chris." "Look at the tailings." "Tailings have caught up with us so it's a little bit of a crisis mode now." "Fine tailings have built up around the sluices" "They're backing up and will soon fill the sluicebox." "causing gold to wash straight over the riffles, and out of the plant." "It's a pretty simple solution." "You get somebody down there on a loader and excavator and..." "Move some tailings out and get that flow going again." "Chris." "What's going on here?" "Andy, he's just wandering around." "So why don't you let him bail the" "Tailings?" "Alrighty." "Sounds like a plan." "New mechanic Andy is in the hot seat." "Hey." "You wanna move some of those fine tailings." "Get a couple scoops." "You want me to grab a bucketful of sand to make the channel." "Yeah." "You know I'm not the most experienced with that so far uh..." "But I've never done this before" "Alright." "I can give it a try." "Ha ha, yeah." "To stop the fine tailings piling up, Andy needs to dig a channel from the base of the sluices all the way down to the settling pond." "Ah, I'm gonna dig out some of the fines." "Uh, just avoiding some of this equipment here." "$100,000 dollar thing here." "$650,000 dollar thing there." "Andrew!" "Andrew." "No no no no." "The cord." "Oh!" "This side." "Yeah." "I realized I saw a very worried look on his face." "It's obvious he's never been in an environment like this." "But, you can't have just one job around here." "You know, you can't just..." "Be a mechanic." "You just can't be a loader operator." "There's too many jobs to be done." "I'm pretty green when it comes to moving dirt, so some kind of fuckin' corners." "I'm nervous too because I mean it's soft there and..." "Should this start to sink, ah, you know, who knows how far you'd go down." "Or maybe one side would go down and you'd roll and uh..." "You know you got water all through there, so I mean..." "I've gotta use a shovel." "I can't risk it." "Worried that he might somehow sink the loader, Andy decides to go old school." "I'm digging a trench." "for the water to leave so it doesn't get under the sluice." "The water's washing underneath the plant." "Something's gotta be done." "Things go bad real fast." "At Scribner Creek, new mechanic Andy can't cope with the tailings that threaten to swamp the wash plant." "Hey attention?" "Might need a hand" "There's not much I can do to help, man." "I gotta keep this plant running." "Yeah." "Maybe just send him up." "I actually could use an extra hand here." "Foreman Rick makes the 5 mile journey from his Indian River claim." "Fuck." "The fine tailings are piling up at the launch corners." "I don't have a competent person to help you do it." "So I gotta stop pulling pay" "And go do it myself." "Just fuckin' roll it back." "Looks like you came just in the nick of time." "Whew." "A little bit of saving the day." "I got worried there for a minute." "There you go." "Just standing there leaning on a shovel." "He hasn't been around this stuff and he didn't really know what to do when the tailings backed up like that." "And that's a problem." "If it was Mitch..." "He would have known to jump on an excavator and take care of it." "I just don't think he's got what it takes." "It is an issue in my mind and it's..." "Yeah." "It's a major issue." "In just 10 minutes" "Rick digs Andy's channel." "Andy's just not cut out for this shit up here." "You know, he's just not working out." "So" "Aahh!" "I've gotta do something about it." "How's it going Parker?" "Where we at?" "I'm sorry Andy." "Just not working out." "Hope you understand." "Damn." "It was good...good working with you Parker." "It's too bad it wasn't uh, enough to keep another guy... steady state?" "another mechanic anyway and..." "Right on." "That's the..." "And that's what the problem is, you know." "It's field work and it's, if you're not geared up for it it's tough to do, right?" "Yeah?" "No." "I got ya." "Right on man." "You have a good day." "You too." "Come on Jake." "Andrew's a nice guy and he has good intentions but he's just not a field mechanic." "And out here in the Yukon you can only hire who's ready and available to work." "So" "This late in the season you don't have a lot of options." "It's not his fault." "Come look at this." "Oh." "Holy smokes." "At Sacramento Creek, Dave and mechanic Juan have a problem." "What d'ya think?" "You know I'll be honest Dave." "It's a lot of dang work." "One of the trommels on Double Trouble is missing a vital part." "The spray bar." "So do you think you can uh, cut some holes in this?" "Put some nozzles." "Yeah." "How uh," "Put it in the end and hang it off of the end there." "Okay." "Well, we found some old uh, scrap steel." "We need to put a wash system in the big trommel." "What we gotta do is cut a bunch of holes, put some nozzles." "And it goes in the center of the big trommel and it just sprays and it cleans all the rocks." "Using an 18 foot pipe, and 15 steel nozzles, Dave and Juan have to build, and then fit an entirely new spray bar capable of delivering 3,000 gallons of water per minute to wash the gold off the rocks and through the trommel screen so it collects in the sluice." "This is the spray bar we just got done building." "We're gonna put it inside the big trommel and hang it." "Gonna be kind of tricky because, ah," "We can only get it part way in and then it's gonna take 3 guys to pull it the rest of the way." "Yeah, I got very small room to work with here." "Watch out." "[ Bang ]" "Easy!" "Easy!" "[ Bang Bang ]" "That's it." "It's in place now." "It's just gonna take a lot of heavy lifting on the other end to get it up." "Lift up." "Push it." "Fuck." "Fuck!" "Easy." "Easy." "And then you weld it in place." "[ arcing buzz ]" "That looks really good guys." "I'm happy with that." "What do you think Dave?" "Looks good." "Looks real good." "Next we got to put the pipe coming down, to feed this uh, this spray bar." "It won't go." "Push it." "Down a bit." "So now we'll weld that up." "Put a flange on there and that'll feed the water to this." "We don't have all the right fittings, so..." "I'm just cutting what we have and trying to make it work," "This is actually the main water supply." "This hose that comes up right there is gonna plug into this." "So what we got left to do is to hook up this water." "And then this trommel will be ready to go." "Don't let go." "I'm not, Todd." "They connect 600 feet" "Pull some length down." "of lay flat pipe" "Okay." "See if the old girl still works." "This is the last of the wiring right here." "It's still a mystery whether this thing's gonna work or not." "But we'll put it together and hope for the best." "What do you think Dave?" "You just about got 'er?" "I've got it." "Last wire." "It's kind of exciting." "We need this thing to work." "Double Trouble's ready to roll." "The only way the crew is going to get paid for the season is running Double Trouble." "Test the small one first." "You ready?" "My gosh." "Alright." "Say a prayer you guys." "Here we go." "Power's coming on!" "Oh Lord." "Help this thing run." "[ rumbling squeaking ] [ small bangs, steady hum ]" "Power's coming on." "At Sacramento Creek" "This gonna work?" "I hope so." "It's time to find out if Dave Turin can breathe life into Double Trouble." "Oh lord." "Help this thing run." "[ rhythmic thumping ] [ banging worse ]" "[ tumbling sounds ] [ a crunch, then starts ]" "Yee Ha." "Juan." "Look at that." "Ha ha." "I see." "After 2 years of being left for dead" "Double Trouble lives again." "Wow." "All those rollers working Juan?" "They look good." "Hey Dave." "Gotta try the other, the big one now." "See how that one goes." "Lay clamp." "Big Trouble's coming on." "Double Trouble Dave." "Here we go." "[ rumblings ]" "Turn." "Come on." "Yeeaah!" "Woo hoo." "Whoo." "They run fast?" "Yeah yeah." "Wooooh." "Yeaaaa!" "Yaa haa." "Awesome, man." "Yahoo." "Whoa." "Whoa." "Fuck, look out." "It's already falling apart." "She's rough." "But it's working." "So pretty successful start." "We're gonna throw a profit." "And we're gonna get gold in the guy's pockets." "This year it's going to be because of these right here." "Yeah, they're not gonna win any kind of a beauty award." "But you know what?" "Neither would I." "It works!" "Yahoo." "Yeah." "At Thistle Creek" "Tony and Gene arrive for the next stage of Tony's grand plan." "Bring in the heavy equipment to take his second dredge apart." "After a 15 hour journey up the Yukon" "The hired barge has made it to the nearest drop off point." "Ah, it looks like they got it unloaded." "Gotta have some tools here to work with at Thistle." "Don't have gear here." "We can't get nothing done." "So, now we can get the stuff moved up to the dredge." "You know it's 8, 10 miles." "These things aren't very quick." "So.." "we gotta get going." "The 47 ton loader, and crane capable of lifting 40 thousand pounds will be the key to dismantling the 70 year old dredge." "Wow." "Alright, my way." "You're clear." "The crane lifts an 8 x 6 foot dumpster into place." "Hey Mikey!" "Am I in about the right spot there or what?" "Swing...to your right." "About 6 feet up here." "Yup." "Stay right there." "Tony needs to remove all the superficial structure" "Before he can get into lifting the key components." "That's nice to have the crane here." "We'll start working at getting the superstructure down." "Yeah, I'm gonna take that down and go dump it." "Well, the crane's vital to taking this thing apart." "Swing left." "Am I good now?" "Winch line up." "Main boom down." "[ Clunk }" "Good thing we got the big power here to help us out." "Starting to haul down bigger loads." "The tin and the siding and the windows." "All this fuckin' crap" "It's nice to get this shit out of here." "Yeah." "There's a lot of bulky stuff." "It's gonna take up a lot of deck space." "Well it ain't the first load." "We got the buckets lying here we gotta get out." "Could drag them down there." "Get 'em hauled down and throw them on." "Yeah." "Really good shape." "Yeah, they're not gonna be able to pick it up in one piece." "So we're gonna have to break it up into chunks." "Hey well, I'll go grab the loader Tony." "This half of the bucket line weighs almost 10 tons." "The equivalent of around 5 large cars." "The 47 ton loader will have to use all it's 375 horsepower to drag it from the river." "It won't let me turn." "Ho!" "Huh?" "Aah." "Yee aah." "Hee uge." "Drop." "We can get a chain around that now." "We're gonna put a chain around the pin and pull it on the pin." "It's too long to get it on and off the barge easy." "So" "We're gonna have break it down into pieces we can manage." "Should be able to pull it now, shouldn't I." "It's taken 4 months, a huge crew, and hundred of thousands of dollars worth of equipment." "But Tony Beets' dream of bringing a 2nd dredge back to life is at last becoming a reality." "Whooo." "Shut it down." "At the Fairplay mine, the Hoffman crew has been running pay through their wash plant Rusty Red all week." "Holey moley." "Ha ha." "Ho, ho, holy crap." "Holy shit." "Look at this." "Ha ha ha." "That is packed." "This is worth coming back for man." "A really good sign." "There you go fellas." "A double panner." "At Scribner Creek, Parker and his crew weigh up this week's gold mined from their two claims." "There's Indian River." "Ooh." "That looks nice." "Richard." "Go for it." "Yeah?" "Yeah." "To stay on track for his 4,000 ounce season goal he needs Rick to deliver" "She's pretty heavy." "100 ounces from Indian River." "30, 40 60" "90" "Over a hundred." "Beautiful." "112.65 [ laughter ]" "Hey." "That's awesome." "Um huh." "One hundred and twelve ounces, is worth over $130,000 dollars" "You pulled off a good one Rick," "At the Boundary Cut Extension, Sluicifer runs twice as much dirt, so Parker needs it to produce twice as much gold." "Well." "We're going for 200 ounces this week, but this don't look like no 200 ounces." "30 60" "Fuck, well." "Oh man." "I could even fall short." "and a little bit." "Huh!" "87.4" "That is fuckin' dog shit." "87 ounces, is worth around $100,000 dollars." "The Boundary Cut Extension sucks." "The further we go up the Boundary Cut Extension, the worse it's getting too." "Yeah, I know." "I think it's just the ground is dying on you Parker." "This is turning 4,000 ounces into a fairy tale." "Yeah." "Pretty fuckin' sad." "Something's gotta give." "Fuck." "Alright." "You want to throw this stuff in jars." "Yeah." "Alright." "I got you covered." "Fuck." "This fuckin' cut is absolutely atrocious." "I don't know what we're gonna do but..." "We gotta figure something the fuck out 'cause" "This is not fuckin' working." "We're just throwing good money after bad at this point." "It is what it is." "At Fairplay, Colorado, Jack Hoffman processes the gold from this weeks cleanup." "Now, it's not exactly what I expected but, it's not terrible." "But, I really want it to be good." "The moment of truth." "Todd's only mined 275 ounces this season worth $330,000 dollars." "To hit his 1.000 ounce goal and send everyone home with a fair paycheck foe the season he needs every cleanup to produce more than 100 ounces." "Oh, that's a lot." "How much gold's in there, Dad." "119 ounces." "Whoo." "Yeah!" "Nice." "Ha ha, alright." "That's the best cleanup all year." "Good job guys." "Right there, gold's getting better." "119 ounces is worth over $140,000 dollars." "Well, we got 2 plants now." "And I know it's old, but I think Double Trouble 's gonna run a lot of yards, let's hope." "What do you think, Dave?" "I think it's gonna produce some gold." "I don't know Dave." "That trommel looks pretty rough." "You know what?" "I think we can put a lot more pay through that." "Than what you guys can run." "I don't think there's any way you're gonna get close to beating me." "Put your money where your mouth is." "I'll bet you 100 bucks we beat you this year." "You on?" "Yeah." "I hate to take your money Dave." "Ha ha ha ha." "Let's see buddy." "Easiest gold bucks I ever made." "[ laughter ]" "Know what?" "We've had the best cleanup we've had all season." "Now, Dave and Juan been working their tail off on Double Trouble" "We're gonna have two mines going." "You bet a little friendly wager there." "Subs by {\fs41.8\b1\i1} Jack T" "In the end though it's one team, one dream." "We're going for a thousand ounces and it's gonna take 2 plants to do it." "On the next "Gold Rush"..." "It's your party, so off you go." "It's nice to be actually make money." "What the fuck." "Shut it off." "They got me fucking up at the claim and they're expecting me to get gold." "You got to be kidding me." "I can't make gold in the ground Todd." "There ain't any gold in that box and tomorrow night there better be." "It's time to put this conveyor into overdrive." "Riffles, that's no fuckin' good." "Bad luck, the crane broke, fuck." "Get some oxygen, fella." "I don't need oxygen, Dad."