"It's time to separate the boys from the men." "367)\fs35} On this Gold Rush 290)\fs35} On this Gold Rush" "Brought you some gold." "Shut it off." "Fuck." "Watch those water lines." "Whoa." "man." "We're not moving." "Tony's not gonna like this." "Whoa." "I don't want to get in shit for this." "Let's rip it up." "Tony found a nugget." "Right no we need some more ground opened up." "Now that's a pan right there boys." "Just a black muddy mess." "I need some help." "Sterling!" "We're pretty much screwed." "So I'm feeling pretty good about our season gold." "I really think that 3000 ounces is well within reach." "the Boundary Cut's been paying out sweetly again." "Goldzilla's definitely plowing through the dirt. that's a big number." "We've never thrown a goal out that we didn't surpass." "And I'm not about to start now." "Parker Schnabel has 1800 ounces of gold." "3.3 million dollar goal." "Tony Beets." "Hi." "and things are going well." "it's been really good." "We brought you some gold." "Yeah." "You wanna weigh this stuff up?" "Parker owes Tony 285 ounces of gold. 200" "300" "400" "Five hundred." "Ah." "It's just over 500 ounces." "525 or so." "That's a lot of money." "which is 3000." "twice what he owes." "He's paid every cent he'll owe his landlord if he hits his ambitious 3000 ounce season goal." "Just need these guys to stay around." "You sticking around Rick?" "I mean uh." "We're nowhere near that right now." "It's time to separate the boys from the men." "Parker." "See you around." "Parker has put himself and his crew" "Under even more pressure to hit their goal for the season." "the boundary cut's doing good but." "393)} What if something happens?" "We're gonna be here till fuckin Christmas now trying to pay it off you know." "Onwards and upwards." "right here in this supercut." "The Hoffman crew has spent all season mining their biggest cut ever." "The supercut." "383)} The paydirt's coming." "The guys are dumping it off the back here. and uh." "we'll keep running it I think." "Todd's crew has built what they dubbed the million dollar paypile." "But their last two weekly cleanups have been well short of the 200 ounces they need to hit their 2700 ounce. 3 million dollar season goal." "This ground isn't paying like it should." "393)} I just don't know if we're gonna get 2700 ounces out of the supercut." "We need something good right now." "The crew has to find a hot spot of concentrated gold to get back on track." "Right now we need some more ground opened up." "Called this cut last year the Haul Road Cut. 383)} on this claim so hopefully I can go ahead and try to open it up." "to strip overburden in the supercut." "the Haul Road cut." "Hoping to find a hot spot." "Got a D-11." "Got the equipment to do it." "Got the time to do it so." "Gonna go after it." "it's the elements that we have to deal with." "causes really big problems." "What the fuck." "It's just a black muddy mess." "Andy's new cut is full of groundwater." "What the fuck." "It's a great way to get a dozer stuck." "It could become a permanent fixture." "they don't have any heavy equipment big enough to pull it out." "How we doing?" "Todd." "It is a wet stinking mess up here." "There's water coming in every direction." "I need some help." "a guy and an excavator." "all I got is Sterling." "At this point I'll take whoever and whatever I can get." "has been driving rock trucks for 3 seasons." "This is his first time operating an excavator." "I'm pretty stoked to be out here with Andy." "and I've driven a lot of rock trucks in the last few years." "it's good to graduate." "I'm here." "Stirling." "Just get over here." "You can see this stuff's melting fast." "and cut it in these ditches." "You got it?" "Yeah." "I think I can do it Andy." "Go slow." "Take your time." "We don't want to have these machines stuck out here." "10-4" "We got a bunch of water right here." "So we got to get it cut out so it doesn't flow into our cut and create a big mess." "but." "it's gonna halve things up." "Sterling has to dig a 400 foot ditch." "Whoa." "That is nice." "don't get in over your head." ""We're the excavators." "Talk down to me just because I don't have that many hours but it's really not very hard." "Fuck." "Man it chews water." "Unnh." "No." "Shit." "Whoa whoa." "Shoot." "So we drove right in to my stupid hole." "Sterling has driven the 48 ton excavator into his own ditch." "Back up." "Go." "Come on you shit." "Go." "Oh." "Don't get stuck." "Sterling." "Stop." "Stop stop stop." "Sterling!" "I could be stuck." "21 year old Sterling Anderson has gotten his 48 ton excavator stuck in his own drainage ditch." "Remember what I said." "Don't panic." "Just relax." "Gonna get yourself in worse." "Just hold on." "Heck." "Aah." "Fuck." "You drove right in the hole." "I slid." "Let's see if I can get this out." "and swings the arm around to push the machine out of the ditch." "But the 460 is ready to flip over." "This could get ugly." "Up up." "Fuckin bitch." "Geez." "Whoa." "Whoa whoa whoa." "Watch it." "Watch out." "Crap." "Come on." "Yeah." "Andy." "Hell that." "Andy saves the day." "Get on it." "cause I sure as hell wasn't going to be able to." "I was a little cocky earlier." "I just got straightened ouIt." "I got humbled by the Yukon." "In just an hour." "That's a lot of water." "Sterling drains the water out of their new cut." "You're done." "Nice job." "Good deal." "We can get that cut down now." "Andy can now continue to strip the cut that just might get the Hoffman crew back on track." "We want to get this strip before it gets too late." "Let's go for it." "Hey Kevin." "What?" "Tony's coming." "Tony Beets has spent over a million dollars resurrecting gold mining history." "But so far his 75 year old dredge has had one problem after another." "it's produced less than half a million dollars in gold." "the dredge is shut down once again." "we might as well start up." "Let's rip the shit up." "The dredge is back up and running." "Tony heads back to Faradise hill." "I'm just gonna take a sweep." "Leaving 27 year old Kevin in charge." "I'm going back to UV soon." "Hopefully another nice long and boring day at the dredge." "And nothing exciting happepns today." "Shit." "What's up Kevin?" "We're not moving." "Fuck fuck." "We're very much stuck." "The dredge won't move." "I'm taking some measurements." "I'm seeing how low where ground is beneath us." "Got 6 feet. 393)} That's where the corner of our dredge is pushing the tailings." "The 350 ton gold mining machine is beached on it's own fine tailings." "Tony's not gonna like this." "It's just one more thing we need to fix." "Kevin has to somehow free the dredge before his dad comes back." "Talk to me Kevin." "Shit." "Want to come down help with the tailings." "Yup." "Come forward like 5 feet." "Pile it to the rear quick." "Everything in reach?" "Let's do this." "Wooo." "393)} Dredge is getting caught up on something." "Assume it's fine tailings." "So we are just getting rid of it." "Worthless fine tailings that pour out of the rear sluices have built up and grounded the dredge." "so that it can float freely again." "that's lost money." "I did it." "Hope we've cleared enough to try and move." "We shall see." "Not at fuckin all." "Let me have a quick look." "The 350 ton dredge isn't going anywhere." "Our fuck up." "We got to step it up even faster." "We got a lot of dirt left to run." "Move as much as we can." "We're running out of time." "Parker's crew is in an all out scramble to hit their 3000 ounce goal." "by paying royalties on gold he hasn't yet mined." "379)} I don't think Parker's going to be real happy going home paying on royalties for gold that he hasn't got." "So." "We're just trying to play catch-up here." "Rick?" "Yeah" "The sluice isn't swinging properly." "Holy fuck." "Like it's out of balance or something." "It's hammering." "See how it's" "Pounding." "Yeah." "That's weird." "The sluicebox isn't oscillating." "It's just banging around." "This is not good." "I'm gonna go get Mitch and see if we can't get this thing running." "they lose gold." "Trying to figure out why this things banging around." "I hope he says something like there's too much gold in it." "Yeah." "we're.." "Yeah." "That shouldn't be that close." "We're way too tight." "Ah." "Something's out of place here." "We got hardly any clearance between the sluice run and this diverter plate here." "So somethings moving around here." "Got to figure out what." "Goldzilla has a set of four oscillating sluices." "vibrating the sluices to make gold settle into the mats." "One of the sluice runs is banging into the diverter plate that supplies gold rich material." "Boy you can see all the water's coming out of the left side of each run so it's leaning this way." "but I think it's laying down on this side." "leaving the sluices uneven." "How do we pick this side up and keep it up." "Well we got all the sand here now." "I think maybe just pick it up and see if it moves that away." "Try and chisel some dirt underneath it." "Rick has to maneuver the excavator dangerously close to their water supply." "Biggest thing you gotta worry about is sliding forward." "If Rick ruptures their 10 inch water pipes they'll be shut down for twice as long." "Should I try lifting it?" "Go ahead." "I'll see what it does here." "Doing anything?" "Try and work it a little bit more with the bucket." "Try lifting it again?" "Yeah." "Watch those water lines." "Relieve a little pressure on there." "Whoa." "Watch those water lines." "Parker's 25 ton wash plant." "Whoa." "Rick's track slipped and he almost takes out the bypass pipe." "I think we got really lucky there." "Go a little bit more would be nice." "Come on baby." "Come on." "Just go up a half inch." "Come on." "Come on." "Keep going." "Almost there." "There you go." "Mitch shovels fine tailings under the plant." "It's time to find out if the sluices are fixed." "Let me turn it on really quick." "We'll see what it does." "Run that suckah." "It's a little tight." "She's close." "But it's that ain't bad." "We're good to go." "Goldzilla is running pay." "The crew can get back to mining." "the oscillator deck's a real important part for us to catch every little bit of gold." "every second." "Otherwise there's no way we're gonna hit that target." "Oh." "Don't like being shut down." "I don't like when shit doesn't work like it should." "Shouldn't be this fuckin difficult." "Kevin Beets has run their 350 ton dredge aground." "they left it high and dry overnight." "I'm sure Kevin had hoped for his last few days that it'd be smooth sailing." "But uh." "Both today and yesterday have been nothing but a fuck-up." "I think." "You end up given a lot more responsibility." "So." "When shit does have a fuckup we're generally the ones." "In the middle of it." "Fixing it." "I don't want to get in shit for this." "Any taken away **." "That was his fault." "Monica and Kevin have to get the dredge running before Tony shows up to check on progress." "the answer is to get more water in the cut." "in about ten minutes it's not gonna be leaving there." "water flows in." "via a drainage ditch." "Kevin's new plan." "Block the drainage ditch." "Raise the water level in the pond." "And re-float the dredge." "I'm gonna go raise the water level a bit." "Okay." "Close the drainage closed." "Then we can just float over the hump." "Okay." "I got to raise it up." "Only way to do that is to close off the drain." "the water levels gonna go up." "Pretty simple physics." "Success." "Done." "enough to see if Kevin's simple fix has worked." "Moment of truth." "Yay." "We are moving." "Here we are swinging.." "Thank fucking day." "The thing I tried to do has fuckin worked." "And just one fuck-up after another." "we are back to dredging." "before Tony shows up for an inspection." "Hi daddy." "Yeah." "Holy crap." "That's quite a bit eh." "Huh uh." "Tony found a nugget." "the dredge is catching gold." "That is good." "he can leave with his reputation intact." "I'm just so sad you're leaving." "Been a fight to get this cut opened up." "We got her." "Andy Spinks is on a solo mission to open up a new cut at McKinnon Creek." "He's determined to find a new source of gold to get the crew back on track." "I hit some red rock." "You might want to bring a pan." "Come down take a look at this." "10-4" "Pick a spot Andy." "What do you think?" "huh." "Okay." "Red rock mean it's good gold?" "we'll see." "It's gonna be touch and go." "Cause we need this." "We need this cut right here." "Sure would be nice to hit it now." "Holy crap." "I'm seeing gold already." "Ho ho ho." "that's a pan right there boys." "Holy frig." "There's probably 50 colors in there." "Andy?" "This is like playing roulette right here because all on a color?" "It's all right here." "Tell you what." "Let's call this the Roulette Cut." "It's obviously got gold in it." "I don't know how far the gold will go." "Nobody knows until we get it through the plant." "Let's go." "Right." "It's the first load of dirt out of Roulette Cut." "Right now it's down to the wire." "393)}" "We're just really hoping." "(Beep beep) 386)} really really hoping that this Roulette Cut's gonna pay well enough and get us over to the gold." "This side is the supercut." "This side is the Roulette Cut." "And that way I want the cut stacked." "I want to make sure we keep it separate." "Oh yes." "The Hoffman crew has to run the Roulette Cut pay for the rest of the week to find out if it'll pay out as well as their test pans suggest." "So right now I'm running the first pay from our Roulette Cut." "It is a gamble." "it is the Roulette Cut." "We're under a lot of pressure." "We got a lot of work to do and not too much time to do it." "Goldzilla." "Everybody get an opportunity to have the wonderful experience of running bedrock." "373)} They're a lot of whining and moaning going on." "He's ordered his crew to dig twice as deep into the cut." "We're taking not just 6 or 8 feet of bedrock." "That's quite a bit deeper than we've gone before." "we'll keep running it." "We'll deal with the pain." "is to take more bedrock." "But running bedrock is risky." "This is fuckin crushed pay." "It's tougher to dig." "It's hard on the machines and it's hard on the wash plant." "it means more problems." "More problems for everything." "I fuckin hope you know it." "What the fuck." "Come on." "On the far side of the boundary cut" "Fucking son of a bitch." "Bedrock has already become a headache for foreman Rick Ness." "Tough bedrock and I'm trying to dig it." "I just shattered a brand new tooth." "Fuckin pin don't want to come out." "Ooh." "This is fuckin stupid." "Dammit." "has me this pissed off." "Fuck!" "I got to put some dirt in here." "Mitch takes over feeding the wash plant." "but it comes at a price." "We're hoping it's gonna pay off for us." "But the biggest problem is tearing up the plant and tearing up machines." "Another rock jammed in the hopper." "stop." "A big chunk of bedrock has made it through the grizzly bars." "Shut it off." "Mitch immediately shuts down Goldzilla." "See all this material its built up." "It's not letting the grizzlies come down." "You get something caught in here like that." "The belt keeps rotating it can cut it right in half so." "We'll break this out." "We'll spin the belt." "Make sure everything's good." "Parker keeps adding the pressure here trying to get 3000 ounces and we can't afford any problems like this." "they need to break up the boulder." "Hopefully you spotted it in time." "It didn't rip he belt in half." "We'll find out very shortly." "Nailed it." "Rick has managed to remove the broken tooth on his excavator." "We got it." "you know it leads to more problems." "The fact that I got that pissed off over something so stupid like a broken tooth is uh." "The telltale sign that I look pretty tired." "Mitch and Tyson are still clearing the rock." "Day old chunk of bedrock." "it's really skinny but you know they're 2 feet long so." "getting wedged up in the bottom of the feeder." "not coming out the other end so." "Hope we got it in time." "We're gonna find out here." "Let's go ahead." "We'll take a good look at the belt." "Let's cross our fingers." "It's no good if we have a big gash in it." "000 dollars in lost gold." "wait." "Stop." "If that's all it did to the belt we got really lucky." "We're ready to fire the plant back up." "You know this time of year just the smallest little detail can shut this whole operation down." "Something as simple as a rock jammed up shuts us down." "That was a really close call but we caught it." "We slowed down 3 times for repairs like that right now." "We keep this plant running." "the Beet's family gathers for dinner before Kevin goes back to college." "1:30" "So you work in the morning right." "you're funny." "Yup." "I'm not worried." "That's it." "End of the season." "Okay guys." "Flash is loading dirt on the Roulette Cut." "Hopefully it goes good." "Andy Spinks has gone out on a limb to mine the Roulette Cut." "He's banking on his new cut making up for the shortfalls the Hoffman crew's had the last 2 weeks in the supercut." "You kill it?" "You can shutdown right now." "we're gonna take a look at it." "If we don't have gold in this cut we're pretty much screwed." "We gotta hit this goal man." "the entire Hoffman crew checks the mats." "I want some gold." "Crazy ah." "Look down there." "Have you ever seen it look so good in the middle?" "Holy frick." "Look how deep that is." "Holy smokes." "Go through that gold room." "Put it on the table." "Dry it." "Weigh it." "That's the truth." "Here he comes." "That looks like a load." "The Hoffman's have to get at least 200 ounces a week to reach their 3 million dollar season goal." "Well." "I did basically 2 cleanups." "I did the supercut." "Yeah." "That's 62." "Oh." "That's terrible." "It's horrible." "But." "172" "What's the verdict?" "234" "Alright." "good job." "Awesome." "It paid off." "You made that call." "Yeah." "000 dollars." "That puts us over 2000." "Yeah." "What is it?" "About 2096." "Yes." "Yeah." "A ha ha nice." "Wow." "Okay everybody." "Listen up." "This is the gold room." "We got 2096." "We broke 2000." "Whoo." "That's a crazy amount of gold." "bringing in an extra 172 ounces of gold." "but beat their weekly goal." "It was a risk going down to the Roulette Cut." "But you know what." "It panned out." "when you're the boss in an operation like this your job is to limit the amount of variables there are." "That plant in the ground and everything." "Just so many variables." "there's been a lot of risks in this last few months so." "Ah." "Hopefully it pays off." "Parker made the bold decision to prepay royalties on a 3000 ounce season." "he's pushed his crew to mine deeper into bedrock than ever before." "Alright well." "Let's weigh it up." "Oh my geez." "Parker has to get at least 240 ounces of gold every week." "That's our first hundred there." "That's two hundred and thirty." "That's 302.685" "Nice." "Good job." "Over 300." "I figured it out." "Bullshit." "Maybe." "Wow." "Three hundred." "000 dollars." "Wait." "We add that to our total." "We just broke 2100." "Ohh." "2103" "That's damn good." "This week's cleanup takes Parker's total to over 2.3 million dollars." "Parker has overtaken Todd Hoffman in the race to become the next King of the Klondike." "If that's Todd Hoffman in the helicopter right now." "He'll probably be able to see that gold from there." "Should hold it up." "Ha ha ha ha." "Thanks guys." "Yup" "Yeah." "Guys may not be too happy that I paid Tony the royalty up to 3000 ounces." "307)\fnLucida Calligraphy} Subs by {\fs42.153\b1\i1} Jack T" "I know the gold's in the ground." "And with cleanups like this." "What is there to worry about." "137)\fs40} On the next Gold Rush" "Holy shit!" "I've never seen one this destroyed." "I don't give a fuck." "As far as I'm concerned you both go home." "Turn them fuckin things up." "This old machine wasn't designed to run that fast." "Fuck." "It's busted." "She's cracked in there all the way through." "The biggest cleanup ever." "We're looking at selling this property." "Conceivably your mine boss next year." "would be Parker."