"It's been two weeks but... um" "hit me." "(splash)" "Been psyching myself up for the day." "You know it's a Big Day" "This is probably one of the biggest days of my life so far." "you know." "He showed up at Haines in Jone's point and he'll um." "That day's come." "The search for gold has always meant everything to me." "This season's gonna be different." "the man who taught me how to mine and honestly." "I don't know what it's gonna be like without him." "This year I'm taking the biggest gamble of my life." "I'm asking my team to walk away from the guarantee of millions of dollars in the Klondike." "In the hopes that we can do even better in Oregon." "And it's all on me." "These guys have been with me for years." "The trust they've put in me is a privilege and let me tell you." "It's also a burden." "Any miner who tells you they know for sure what's in the ground." "or a fool." "Now." "It's up to me to deliver to my guys." "To repay their loyalty." "get them gold. sincerely thanks you all for coming." "pull the good things out of him." "317)}And pulling those good things made me look at just the great things he brought to me." "a long list of great things." "a lot more love." "He was a true christian." "He really was." "It's a lot bigger than a funeral or... or it's a lot bigger than that." "2016" "Parker's grandpa and mentor." "Pow)" "I'm proud of you." "You had a dream and you stayed with it 'till you won." "What more could I ask for?" "Nothing." "I love you." "I love" "I love you Parker." "Guess I don't know what that's gonna mean for the next few months but." "It's not gonna be fun." "I'm gonna miss you grandpa." "Thank you for everything you've done." "Grandpa not coming up." "this" "This event today is the preparation you need." "Tough day." "Tough day." "Yeah." "How's that buddy?" "You look good." "So do you." "Thanks." "but.." "and you know." "To celebrate John's life you know." "Hopefully it gets us closer as a crew you know." "Hopefully we can and uh have another killer season." "The Hoffman crew has quit the Klondike." "but Todd has decided to start from scratch in his home state of Oregon." "Hey guys." "We're coming up the hill." "Last mile." "I love that we're in Oregon." "This is where the whole dream started for my dad and myself." "Hey dad." "Whaddya think." "You know Todd." "This is like a dream come true." "It's really gonna be a blessing for everybody." "Last year we mined the Klondike." "We got over 3 million dollars worth of gold." "I get it." "Todd wants to come home." "But there's no guarantees." "It's still a crap shoot." "Oregon." "and fortunes were made from the plentiful supply of massive nuggets." "But nobody's ever managed to set up a full commercial operation at the High Bar." "the claim is dry." "And no water means no wash plant." "and are now piping it up." "Which means High Bar Mine is open for business." "Last year when the Hoffman crew scouted the newly accessible claim." "We got something to show you guys." "You..have got to be kidding me." "Big gold." "Look at that one." "That's one of the best nuggets I ever seen." "That's jewelry grade gold." "Todd is betting the farm on High Bar nuggets." "Hey guys." "This is gonna be our promise land." "um." "It sure feels good." "You guys know that I made a deal on the claim." "this whole mountain top." "Okay." "What I didn't tell you is I leased that million dollar wash plant right there." "And if we can get that running we can have gold one week from now." "And it's just setup?" "We're ready to roll?" "but" "We gotta get this plant running." "I want gold in the box in one week." "We need to figure out what this thing does." "How many yards it runs." "this plant has definitely got some different things." "324.}I've never seen one with this many conveyors." "It's quite the setup." "Hey Freddy." "324.}Monster Red has twice as many runs as this and they're bigger runs." "why is this sluice box so small?" "317)}We're gonna have to see what the deposit does cause we got a nugget trap sluice up here for these bigger gold." "Remember that gold we showed you from the tests up here Logan?" "Most of it's bigger." "This is the most important sluice box on this plant." "Freddy." "What is that up there?" "Got a rock scrubber." "Blade mill up here Todd." "That means one thing." "Clay." "Must be some gummy stuff." "That's not good." "What's clay do to gold?" "It steals it." "Clay's a gold thief." "Hey guys." "Everybody come over here." "I got something to tell you." "Whadda ya think?" "How we looking?" "I thought Monster Red was a handful last year." "A lot to watch and maintain." "This is three times the size." "there's a lot of things can go wrong." "But you know what?" "There's a lot of things that can go right." "I think we're just set up the best this year." "probably more than any year before." "I've seen great big nuggets that come out of here." "I don't see why we're not gonna get em." "these are awesome." "If you read some of the history on this place they took out nuggets that were 100 ounce in size." "You know they're huge." "And you know what?" "I got a good feelin' about this and I'm gonna throw out a number." "Cause I think it's possible." "I want 5000 ounces." "Five thousand?" "5000 ounces." "We did 3000 ounces." "I'm thinking five thousand is within reach." "There's no overburden guys." "Think about it." "And this is unproven ground." "It's unproven to us." "We climbed the mountain." "Let's climb all the way to the peak." "Right?" "And I want to see a miracle on this mountain." "I think there's a chance Todd." "But you're on a treasure hunt here." "Boy." "say a prayer man." "Bring it in." "We thank you for the opportunity that you've given us here." "nuggets to the surface." "Help us to run 'em through our plant." "We pray this in your name." "Amen." "Amen." "Yeah." "Mining in Oregon boys." "Hey Chickie." "How's it going?" "The Beets family has arrived in the Klondike for the start of their mining season." "Good." "There you go." "Nice to see you." "Yeah mom." "Thanks." "That's all eh?" "Fine." "Not too bad." "What do we have planned this summer?" "this season he's taking on a massive new challenge." "Bring a second dredge back to life." "He needs his family to keep getting gold while he works on dredge two." "Tony's kids need to step up like never before." "Do I at least get to pick my own crew?" "It's gonna be all girls then." "Yeah." "You know what?" "It'd probably be easier on the equipment." "Probably a hell of a lot easier on the eyes." "they are 'cause they're mellow." "holy hell are they rough." "like twice as fuckin' bad." "let us fuckin' run it." "Don't fly in all huffy and change shit." "Just let us fuckin' run it." "Monica:" "Let us do it." "Take a step back." "we know." "We know." "there was never any concern about you not letting us know." "350)}It's gonna be a family effort." "Get on with it." "right?" "we can do it." "go to work." "Get out." "Get going." "Alright." "fuck." "Bye." "hi-ho." "I have faith in those kids." "So." "yeah." "Tony's got his work cut out if he's going to get the second dredge catching gold this season." "But even getting to it is a challenge." "Parker takes the opportunity to update Chris and Rick on his plans for the coming season." "Here we are." "buddy?" "How are you?" "I'm good man." "Good to see ya." "buddy?" "Good." "And there's someone they need to meet." "It appears you had a pretty nice winter." "(Rick chuckles) it was all right." "[laughter] is that what they..." "are you guys an item now?" "From Australia." "You came from Australia to Haines?" "and I think we just instantly had this connection." "really well." "And we spent some time together back in Australia." "And then he left and came home." "He asked me to come over." "385)}" "Parker:" "Yeah" "I didn't..." "I didn't want to stop." "So I just really wanted to be here to support you." "And be here for you and your family." "and now I'm glad you made it." "Parker has been hard at work designing what he believes is the ultimate wash plant." "I'm having them put... So it will need less manpower." "and it'll lift that... hydraulic riffle up out of the way." "Falling asleep yet." "Really?" "Ha ha ha." "guys." "My pleasure." "I appreciate it." "Ashley and I met traveling this winter." "you know." "three of my favorite people in the world." "It's 150 tons heavier than his first dredge." "But Tony plans to tear this monster apart." "then transport it 50 miles by road." "To have the two dredging side-by-side at Eureka Creek." "His aggressive goal:" "Have it up and running by the end of the season." "Kevin:" "Watch out!" "Tony's son Kevin and dredge number one are deep in trouble." "disaster strikes." "Tony's dredge is sinking." "Watch out!" "Kevin and his crew are desperately trying to save it before Tony finds out." "The dredge floats on empty tanks called pontoons." "A leak has filled half of them with water." "threatening permanent damage to the dredge's generator and electrics." "Water is pouring into the pontoons faster than the crew can pump it out." "fuckin' shit." "The dredge is about to be totally submerged." "the damage will be so catastrophic it could cost Tony millions of dollars." "385)}This has been an ongoing battle here for the last 20 hours or so." "Kevin went through a 12 hour shift last night fighting with it." "We came on today and it still wasn't floating so." "I'm gonna start pumping the pond out." "My plan is to drain the pond as much as we can." "open the water outlet to drain the pond before the dredge sinks." "But it's not working." "I don't fuckin' get it." "The pond should be going down." "Monica arrives with more bad news." "Kevin!" "Hi." "You look angry." "Tony's supposed to be coming out in the next little bit." "Fuck." "it's not going down." "It's almost getting fuckin' deeper." "You've got to be kidding." "there's no way the pond will drain." "Because I had no conception that that was the thing." "you gonna close that?" "This had better work." "Kevin." "Kevin has already opened the drainage culvert." "that's continually filling up the pond." "That's how the water was coming in." "wide open." "So...that's so awesome." "Now they should be able to drop the water enough to get..." "All the water out of the pontoons." "Somebody's got to save the day and that was me today." "Monica's fix starts to work." "The water is low enough for the pumps to empty the pontoons and re-float the dredge." "We're just finishing up." "We can actually see the edge of the pontoons now." "The dredge is safely out of the water." "Uh." "And Kevin can finally go home and get some rest." "I mean" "I might as well take a nap." "That's a lot of hours." "Fun." "(yawns)" "hard challenges." "Which one?" "Kevin's sleeping." "He was here till 11." "we knew it was coming from somewhere." "starting it up could create some fireworks." "I honestly don't know what's going to happen when I turn this thing on." "So maybe don't be standing in here in case I do blow some boxes off the wall." "no start)" "(engine fires up)" "Sure is good to have it up and running." "Actually I didn't think it was going to fire up. 000 worth of lost gold." "the Hoffman crew is ready to run nugget rich pay dirt on their new claim." "It's looking good." "Everything feels right." "and we're gonna get a jump on the Klondike." "This plant's got a million different parts." "Hopefully we can fire it up and start firing up each piece of this plant." "Dave?" "I'm ready here." "this far conveyor." "it's time to go." "Todd." "Yeah." "I can't fire it up." "What do you mean?" "their locks are still on here." "Why the hell is there a lock on there." "Rick's going under." "284.)\fs32}Still to come this season on "Gold Rush" "Gonna be the hardest thing we ever done." "You're losing thousands of dollars a day." "360}We're not mining." "We're just wasting time." "Unless I see something really screwed up." "360}" "Whoo." "Rick's the boss." "360}You're kidding me." "It's just not gonna thaw." "We're supposed to be mining gold." "too fuckin' bad." "Everybody has a breaking point." "but the claim owners have locked them out of the wash plant." "Hey Todd." "Jerrod." "So we're locked out." "What's the scoop?" "William and I and this was a humongous investment." "we have to work with you guys side by side to protect that." "or you gonna work with us." "my brother and I have been running this place since 2014." "One of the things we bring to the table is the knowledge of this place." "We don't bring in employees just willy nilly." "Okay." "We're basically a family and we take it really damn serious." "you see our flags." "You know about our faith." "If you believe in those same things I'm open to it." "we could sure use your help." "start running stuff." "And that we're ready to go." "You got your keys to those locks?" "We do." "Yup." "Okay." "Unlock that." "And welcome to 316 mining." "Alrighty." "Let's start to work with you guys." "Let's go." "Let's get started." "the geology of High Bar is different to anything the Hoffmans have mined before." "The gold was formed in quartz veins." "exposing and breaking off chunks of gold." "And carrying them downstream to where the ground flattened out." "leaving large nuggets that have never been worn down by further movement or friction." "You want to know how I feel." "I feel unbelievable." "Let me tell you something." "This is the very first load of pay from Oregon." "Generator coming on." "Everybody clear." "Freddy." "Going hot." "Cross conveyor going hot." "Looks good." "Hey Dave." "You want to try the sandscrew?" "Yeah." "Sandscrew next." "Fire it up." "Yeah." "Screen going hot." "baby." "yeah!" "Whooo!" "Yeah!" "We got a screen." "William." "Both valves are open." "We're ready for water when you are." "Todd." "drop the first bucket." "Let's do this." "10-4." "There we go!" "I think we're ready to kick some ass." "So this is our place." "This is all your place?" "So this is all what you did last season?" "and all that up there." "Wow." "That's impressive." "it's good to be back." "Ashley Youle." "buddy?" "how are you?" "How's she going?" "This is Ashley." "Hey Ashley." "How are you?" "You met Tyson." "Nice to meet you." "how are you." "You find your gear?" "Richard?" "Ashley?" "It's nice to meet you." "who's this?" "She's my sister." "[ laughter ] we met in Australia." "fancy." "Nice." "Parker has cut his crew in half." "this is it." "Right here." "There's...nine of us?" "you know." "and find as much gold as they want." "That's not how much they take home." "Right." "We've got a handful of guys here." "Lean and mean." "What we're gonna to do will be impressive for the group of people we have." "So." "What's the game plan?" "basically the goal is the same as it was last year." "000 ounces." "(ominous music)" "That's the goal for this season?" "Yeah." "000 at least." "Yeah." "000 ounces." "I came up here to make some money." "I always wanted to go for more too." "I do." "I started doing the math on the last couple hundred ounces we did." "At that point we're paying 25% royalty." "Claim owner Tony Beets has Parker locked into a tough royalty deal." "Tony's cut increases to 25%." "I don't see us going for more than that." "More than 3000?" "No." "But honestly it'll be more of a fuckin' fight this season doing 3000 ounces than it was last season because we got half the crew." "And I didn't think that I'd get this kickback from you guys." "just not what I expected to hear." "All we've ever done is go bigger." "Well we proved ourselves last season." "The last thing I want is an issue with you guys." "I can't say that we're gonna try to do 5000 ounces because at 5000 ounces we're giving Tony Beets like 1.5 million dollars." "And I cannot afford to do that." "Parker's mining plan this season:" "Expand the creek diversion cut another 450 feet." "While also extending last season's gold rich boundary cut." "creating one giant cut covering 70 acres." "The equivalent of around 50 football fields." "But he's determined to keep his costs to a minimum and pay Tony as little royalty as possible. you know." "All we've ever done is to have Parker throw out a pretty uninspiring goal for the season is...pretty surprising." "I think a lot of people are wondering how.." "and me will be affected by my grandpa dying." "he died at 96 with a great head on his shoulders." "you know." "but.." "(dozer starts to slide)" "What the fuck?" "Oh shit." "Shit." "Well now." "you got a copy." "Parker Schnabel has his 85 ton dozer stranded at a 40 degree angle." "Yes sir." "Go for Rick." "I'm stuck pretty bad." "I'll need you to come up here and bring the 460." "I'll head back." "boy." "There's a whole lot of weight teetering there." "You think I'm pulling that out with this?" "I was thinking we just dig this out right here." "I should be able to back down." "Alright." "I would have tipped it over." "Alright." "There's no hope of getting out forward." "So Rick's just gonna... dig out.." "underneath this track on the high side and" "Try to get us a spot where it'll level out and I can back up out of there." "so he's got a straight shot back." "but we're gonna get it in the best possible position." "that looks good." "That's about the best I can do." "You want to give 'er hell?" "Seat belt?" "Oh yeah." "Perfect." "come down." "Fuck." "Whooo!" "Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho." "Thanks!" "man." "that track must have been eight feet in the air." "Ha ha ha." "Fuckin close." "Wooo." "Hoo. hoo hoo." "Parker can return to opening new ground while Rick digs a test hole in the old boundary cut." "Bingo." "There it is." "That's it right there." "What do you got." "So I dug a hole right on the edge here." "Yeah?" "There's some big pieces in there." "yeah." "you know." "Thawed." "Really good pay." "we'll be here a month and be gone." "right." "but." "go for it." "think about what's in that cut out there." "that's like a warm up lap." "We're all ready to go get it." "This is the season we go big and set some records." "We just gotta convince Parker." "so." "Hopefully there's gold in it." "the Hoffman crew Is already running pay dirt." "Todd is gambling everything on the search for the legendary High Bar nuggets." "You can't succeed if you're afraid of failure." "You have to risk to have a big reward." "Sometimes you got to shoot for the moon." "Todd has leased this million dollar wash plant." "Specifically designed to cope with the difficult mining conditions at High Bar." "so the pay dirt passes first through a blade mill." "Paddles on a shaft agitate the material to help the water wash the clay off the rocks." "The gold-rich gravel can then pass into a sluice box which traps the nuggets." "The remaining material goes on through a shaker deck and into the lower sluices that catch all the remaining fine gold." "What do you think overall?" "So far it looks like it's running good." "let's do a shut down." "You want the bypass valves open?" "Todd has put his reputation on the line." "000 ounces." "There's nothing up here." "What do you think?" "I mean there's definitely gold in there." "bad or indifferent." "it'll be nothing but yellow." "I see some down here." "it's sunk down in there." "But I don't see a whole lot of it." "Maybe it'll add up." "pull the mat." "Let's see what we got." "and we wash the whole thing out." "The mats go down to the gold shack for the first cleanup of the season." "Jack." "Here we go." "uh" "Todd lifted the bar pretty high." "Let's see if we can reach it." "50)} Last year..." "That's the biggest nugget I think I've ever seen." "100)} The Hoffmans ran a 100-yard test at High Bar." "Holy mackerel." "Listen." "Ha ha." "I love the sound of that." "That is awesome." "50)} With impressive results." "1.7 ounces." "Per 100 yards." "Yeah." "look at this." "Todd." "000 yards of dirt." "The total should be around 35 ounces." "Nicole is back here." "She's picking up the big nuggets." "They're corn flakes sized nuggets." "But not that much weight to them so." "We want to catch all of it." "she's grabbing it before it takes off." "let's see it." "I want to see the first nugget." "You ready?" "Shake." "3.55 ounces." "That's it." "That's it." "Where's the rest of it?" "I wish there was more." "nobody panic." "Todd." "that's not good." "We know that." "we got 1.7 ounces on our test last year." "Got to be gold there somewhere." "3.55 ounces is frickin' horrible." "so." "I don't know what's going on." "This might be a harder treasure hunt than we thought." "we had really good gold in there last year." "Parker starts his second week of mining." "At the same time we want to get this creek cut sorted out because it's got good gold in it too." "Got the pond drained out." "Got a good thaw going." "warm early spring." "Oh." "Looks like Tony's here." "uh." "right." "He can be... very accommodating or... completely unrealistic." "Mister Beets." "Good." "How are you?" "Good to see ya." "Thanks." "What more can you ask for." "He had a lot of good years." "at his birthday there a month before he died and it was a ton of fun." "we had a great time." "get 'er." "Get 'er thawing and get things opened up here and." "right now we're just shooting for 3000." "Just cause of the royalty rates and just the fighting for it and not really making any off of it." "000 ounces." "there's little left for profit." "You work six hours a day for Tony Beets at that point." "I'd love to push harder but.." "I can't." "Lower your royalty rates a little you could probably get a little more money in." "so." "Something's gonna have to happen." "we've got our problems." "I don't like having clipped wings but." "The more we make the more we work for Tony Beets." "Just ain't cool." "I want to be working for Parker Fucking Schnabel." "And off we go." "determined to redeem himself." "let's..." "Make this fucker work." "My girls are gonna kick ass this summer." "Monica has brought in her all girl rock truck crew to help strip the overburden ahead of the bucket line." "We all grew up in the Yukon." "We're all around the same age." "These girls are doing really good." "I'm really happy." "And I think we can really show everybody that.." "Us women can do the job just as well as any man can." "What the fuck." "Kevin has struck a problem." "Can you see what's in those buckets?" "Because I can't see." "The bucket line is bouncing and the buckets are coming up empty." "I don't like this." "This really isn't good." "What the fuck." "Shut her off." "Off!" "Fuckin bullshit." "but it's hit a solid ridge of unfractured material that he bucket line can't break through." "Preventing it from reaching the gold rich paydirt beyond." "Kevin takes a chance." "He'll try and smash his way through the obstruction." "Got to be kidding me." "I'll better radio Monica." "Yeah." "Okay." "The dredge is having a hard time chewing through it." "so..." "Monica's going to take the Volvo hoe and dig up a chunk of bedrock we got there." "She's gonna hopefully pull that out for me." "Right now Monica's just scraping where we been dredging." "Trying to break up all that bedrock shit hidden there." "At least make it into manageable chunks." "Hopefully I can rip it up." "Make it more of a smooth ride for the boys." "Holy." "No way." "What do you think?" "Um." "I can't really work through it." "It's fuckin' bedrock." "Pretty much." "so." "Kevin's new plan:" "Flood the pond." "The higher water level should allow the dredge to float right over the obstruction." "Inlet valve." "that'll raise the dredge up and we can get over that bedrock." "it causes a serious problem for Monica's crew." "go." "4 feet lower than it is." "The trucks are getting stuck in it." "And that makes the whole stripping situation a shitty job." "Kevin is flooding the pond to float the dredge over a bedrock obstruction." "You!" "Out of the fuckin' way!" "Arrgh." "go." "Go for a loop." "Go." "Tell her to fuckin' go." "The ground is too soft." "Fuck." "it would all just flood out." "So it's just too soft for the trucks." "Mechanic Mike Beaudry brings in the 360 excavator to rescue the rock truck." "It's like jello in there." "The fully loaded rock truck weighs 75 tons." "back in action." "The water level in the pond is finally high enough for the dredge to get over the bedrock ridge." "There we go." "We're back in business." "That should be good." "Alright." "Crock." "What?" "307.)\fs22}Eh?" "we're digging about six plus feet of bedrock." "Okay." "Uh no." "But we'll do it anyways." "Tony's reacting like he usually is." "And now he's going to go out in a big old huff and have a big old union meeting." "Blah blah blah blah blah." "And then we're gonna keep on doing what we're doing." "Because he doesn't got a fuckin' clue." "is it?" "the Hoffman crew is working at full throttle." "that means we're getting gold." "hopes are high for the new ground." "you start stripping ground in April." "you start running pay dirt." "One really awesome part about mining at the High Bar here in Oregon is that..." "This gold is very coarse." "With McKinnon Creek it was just powder." "We were chasing dust." "Here we're actually on a treasure hunt." "The crew has run for two days since the disappointing gold weigh." "Shut it down." "And they're anxious to spot check the sluices for signs of nuggets and fine gold." "which is telling me..." "There's not much gold in the material we're running right now." "Definitely not a good start. 000." "we're not doing good." "we know." "And now I'm starting to wonder if I made a big huge mistake." "don't panic." "Stay up here." "The problem with High Bar is that you have deposits all over the place." "So yeah." "You're gonna have your crappy days." "You're going to have days where Or you're gonna have really hot days where you look in the nugget trap and you're gonna pull 80 ounces." "I wouldn't panic." "I would just try and hold out for at least a few more days." "Right here in this cut." "See how it goes." "The patchy deposits of gold nuggets result from a unique combination of events." "Millions of years ago a series of small streams carried gold rich gravel down the mountain side." "and with it the gold." "Leaving only isolated pockets of nuggets." "this is some of the stuff that we've pulled." "it's so pretty." "It's chunky." "but you're going to hit quite a few of them." "but I tell you what." "you know?" "You got it?" "I got it." "I say we've only given this cut three days." "I say we keep on pushing for at least a week." "And after a week we'll analyze it and then decide whether we should move or not." "What I don't want is my guys to lose heart." "I can handle just about anything." "But when I look in my guys' eyes and they stop believing that's when we got troubles." "They're not there yet but." "you know." "and uh." "You know we're gonna have a day where everything's gonna change." "you know what I mean.?" "you bet." "A lot of it's faith." "264.)\fs32}Still to come this season on "Gold Rush" "This wind's getting worse and worse." "Right now we're standing on a big ass sail." "I don't think it should be this heavy." "I am not moving at all." "It looks overwhelming." "so to speak." "Fuckin' go to hell." "I'm a real underachieving 21 year old." "That's for sure Todd." "you've achieved everything." "Once you get a little gold in your pocket." "Just got finished burying my grandpa." "Don't need to tell me shit like that." "finally it arrives at the claim." "Parker's gambling his whole season on an untested design." "There she is." "yeah." "Doesn't that just look sexy?" "yeah." "She's beautiful." "I love the color scheme." "I like it." "it's sweet." "Ha ha." "It's bitchin'." "It's nice and compact." "Yeah." "I like that it's nice and new." "That's the best part." "It's like our first new car." "Yeah." "It's gonna be a shame to run dirt through it." "I think we might just set it up and just keep it." "Look at it every day." "ha ha." "We'll just party next to it." "I mean this is a big day for us." "This is probably the biggest day that we've ever had in the Yukon." "You know." "First brand-new plant we've had." "We've never had anything like this." "All we've had is a bunch of hand me downs and uh." "This is our chance right here of having the best season yet." "you know." "It's a pretty impressive big plant." "Yeah we've been waiting for something like this for a few years now." "almost all of it." "now it's time for it to make it back." "It's gonna find us a lot of fuckin' gold." "000-pound wash plant." "that's good." "close to the new pay piles." "I'm incredibly nervous today." "Yeah?" "Just super uneasy." "huh?" "Ohh." "Think that thing's gonna pull that thing?" "One machine all the way." "This 700." "Rick." "Yup." "which has a sheer drop on either side." "leaving the sluices hanging over a 40-foot drop." "Let's do it." "Don't drop it!" "problem!" "Ha ha ha ha ha ha" "Wheelie time." "Wooo!" "Rick." "That is not okay!" "That conveyor's moving like five feet back and forth." "The most vulnerable part of the wash plant is the 53-foot tailings conveyor that sticks out unprotected at the back." "Easy Rick." "Rick!" "Holy fuck." "What?" "It's waving all over the place." "sorry." "you'd think he would take it a little easy." "that's when you make mistakes." "the most difficult part." "Spin the plant 90 degrees so the sluice's and tailings conveyor hang over the void." "You ready?" "000 wash plant could be destroyed." "easy." "Maybe start swinging it back this way." "Whoa." "Rick." "What's going on now?" "It's slopping pretty good." "This is so screwed." "The ground is slipping out from under it." "Rick is forced to stop." "that's just a fuckin' sheer drop right there." "I was thinking that I could just drag it with the hoe." "Parker comes up with a solution." "We're just going to try to move this thing straight forward about six feet." "He positions himself right in the firing line beneath the plant to inch it into place." "You should have a lot of leverage sitting like that." "You should be able to pull it forward no problem." "You think so?" "Let's give it a try." "I don't want to stand by that fuckin' chain." "Yup yup." "She's a moving." "Oh fuck." "I thought that chain was gonna go." "twang)" "There it goes." "so close." "2-3 feet." "We need one more fuckin' shackle." "Why do we have three shackles on this whole fuckin' site." "Rick replaces the shackle." "And it's round two." "How far off are we?" "One more little bit." "Go another six inches?" "Yeah." "Parker's wash plant is finally in position." "It is show time." "Hopefully this thing runs as good as it looks." "Here's the moment of truth." "Fire it up." "Yo." "that's nice and smooth man." "You guys ready for some dirt?" "Yup." "Line her up with some dirt Tyson." "sir." "We got the first dirt of the season heading into our brand-new wash plant." "Wooo." "Ha ha ha ha ha." "Taking the first ride." "Here looks good." "man!" "Hey!" "Our season starts now!" "Yo!" "Time to make some money." "You got to be kidding me." "Parker's shorthanded crew is struggling to keep up the pace." "Mechanic Mitch is attempting to fix a leaking radiator." "We got a coolant leak on one of our 40's here." "I'm gonna throw that in the radiator." "Something Gene taught me a long time ago." "that's the difference of having a good season or not." "you already see it's all sticking together on my fingers." "that's kind of what it does in the cooling system." "Hopefully it works good enough to keep this truck running." "Go ahead and run it for a while." "Just keep an eye on it." "Hopefully that'll slow down the leak." "it's two weeks since Kevin took charge of the dredge." "Up to a hundred." "Tony has arrived for the first cleanup of the season." "It's a major test of Kevin's role as Dredge Master." "That looks okay to me." "How's it going?" "It's going like usual...slow." "considering it's only 100 hours on these mats." "The moment of truth." "wait?" "When "you" did the cleanups?" "(laughter)" "we need 163 more ounces to pay for the dredge so." "For last year. 160..." "Stop!" "The dredge is paid off right there." "And that is mine because you can't spend it." "nah." "Uh uh." "all the gold caught by the million dollar dredge is profit." "Do it." "258.5" "That's amazing." "000 worth of gold." "On a par with the dredge's best cleanup last year." "Pretty good." "See!" "I told you so." "Just leave us be and let us get fuckin' to it." "I think he's whining." "325)}Monica:" "I think he needs some cheese." "You?" "Ha ha ha ha ha ha." "I won't give up on Todd." "We're all gonna give this 150% effort." "We knew that the challenges would be different." "350)} But there's not gold here." "I... think we're up shit creek without a paddle." "The Hoffman crew has run pay dirt for five straight days in their quest for High Bar's elusive nuggets." "Spinks:" "We're all pretty excited about coming back to Oregon." "The problem is is there's no rhyme nor reason to where the gold is." "After producing only 3.55 ounces of gold on the first day..." "Shut it down." "The Hoffman crew is about to find out if High Bar can deliver on its promise." "Todd:" "We want all these mats out of here all the way down because I'll tell you what." "We need something good." "three." "[ engine starts ] 000 yards of High Bar pay dirt." "showing signs of gold." "Hey." "How we doing?" "I just got it...spread out." "Hang on." "Alright." "Let's see how much we got." "Alright." "Todd needs around 250 ounces every week." "dad." "it isn't." "35 on the money right there." "35 ounces is less than 15% of what they're hoping for." "It doesn't even cover running costs." "and that's just not enough." "This is not working." "that's what we used to get in a day." "Todd." "We got almost twice that in a day." "but I'm pissed." "You know?" "I was expecting a whole lot more." "go up there and have a talk with the guys?" "I'll come with you." "Okay." "Alright." "What do you think?" "The cleanup didn't look very good." "Didn't look good at all." "So we got 35 ounces..." "out of all we ran." "What's been coming down to the gold room..." "You know?" "It's not working out." "Something's wrong." "This stuff is the right material." "It just doesn't have any gold in it." "And it's what they been telling us that we gotta send to the plant." "There's no sense in going in the hole." "At some point if it doesn't improve." "we're with you but." "It's costing a lot of money." "man." "We need a miracle." "Yup." "I don't know." "I just don't think that this is why we're here." "I hope." "we've had our backs against the wall before." "We didn't do very good in the jungle and we might get our ass kicked again this year." "We're not gonna go down without a fight." "Dad." "uh.." "give us a miracle right now." "it's possible." "we ask that you do it in a... 300)\fnLucida Calligraphy} Subs by JackT" "Amen." "Amen." "guys." "Don't fuckin' do that again." "Ness:" "Shut it down!" "294)\fs32} On the all-new season of "Gold Rush" "Watch out!" "Damn it." "Gold mining legend Tony Beets." "Is relying on his family." "Fuck!" "No one can push your buttons like family can." "To expand his Viking fleet." "Minnie:" "It looks like a piece of shit." "There's a lot more can go wrong on the water." "And double down on the gold." "I can get it out of there." "Parker Schnabel confronts a world of changes." "Parker:" "Oh fuck." "Todd:" "Think you've achieved everything?" "Just got finished burying my grandpa." "You don't need to tell me shit like that." "But the 21-year-old mine boss... huh?" "Has a new woman in his life." "I'm loving it." "She's just such a good rock truck driver." "Got to put a ring on that." "A brand-new wash plant..." "Sluicifer!" "we're not gonna stop for the next 3 months.." "And he's expanding his empire." "We're starting a second operation." "I couldn't be more excited." "Todd Hoffman is risking everything..." "Todd:" "My future isn't in the Klondike." "For a mountain of gold." "It's one of the best nuggets I've ever seen." "But this season... no!" "you okay?" "Goes from bad... hey!" "to worse." "I love you like a brother." "I'm done." "Enough is enough." "I'm finished." "I've lost several hundred thousand dollars." "And my friends." "We gotta shut down."