"Something break?" "On this "Gold Rush"..." "That doesn't sound right." "It's broke." "It's cracked right off." "Ow!" "We're fucked." "[ horn blowing ]" "Enough is enough." "It's scary." "We ain't got gold in that cut." "You're nowhere near deep enough." "You're going to be well over 100 feet." "So you're telling me that I'm only halfway down?" "I'm scared." "I'm really scared now." "Tony Beets is expanding his Viking fleet so he can transport his new dredge 100 miles up the Yukon River." "The two halves of his 30-ton barge must become one massive steel hull." "up." "His challenge..." "Perfectly line up two 15-ton steel sections and weld them solid." "A team of specialists arc weld the barge 000 degrees." "Tony paid $1.5 million for a second dredge 150 tons heavier than his first." "It was built in 1946 but is now abandoned 70 miles south at Thistle Creek." "Tony will load it onto his barge and pull it upriver by tugboat. for three weeks. 15 miles away in Dawson." "then we've got to put the top house on it and the wheelhouse and get all the systems hooked back up." "It's a lot of work." "Tony enlists his family to transport the tug. 8-wheel-drive combat transporter." "'cause I'm not stopping." "[ air horn blows ]" "go!" "Mike:" "Only fuckin' concern I have is..." "It might be too high." "right?" "we'll just cut the bridge." "Mike." "Kid Commando has just four inches' clearance." "One wrong move from Mike putting the whole project back by weeks and cutting off access to the city." "Minnie:" "It looks really good from the back side." "go." "Tony." "He'll fit." "[ horn blows ]" "Buckland is our second chance." "565)}Let's hope it's not our last chance." "Todd set a massive 000-ounce target. 000." "Todd's not paying his crew until they strike more gold." "The bottom line is is that we all have bills to pay." "Logan just bought his first house." "Kevin had another baby." "We all have families." "So they're obviously all not super happy right now." "My dad has the pressure on him to get some gold for the whole team and their whole families." "But no one knows if they've hit the pay streak that would turn their season around." "We're going 50 feet deep to get to this pay dirt here." "Gawd." "What a nerve-wracking... situation." "they've dug just a monster cut down there." "Let's hope that there's gold in the bottom of it." "'Cause..." "Heard lots of stories and..." "I don't know." "That's... that's the truth." "Dave and Kevin shut down to see if they're finally on the money." "That's it." "We are done for the day." "Let's go check the sluices and see how much gold we got." "There's no gold on this side." "I don't see a single piece." "I don't see anything in here." "I'm not seeing any gold up in here." "There's nothing here." "200 yards we just ran through there." "It ain't good enough." "Back to the drawing board." "[ groans ] we're done." "we're done-done." "This is it." "This is the last chance." "Marvin better have some answers." "They lease the Buckland mine from claim owner Marvin Wirth." "it's the deepest cut Todd's ever mined." "His whole operation hangs in the balance." "we got a problem." "We ain't got gold in that cut." "Todd." "That doesn't sound right." "tested all the way down." "I'm going to tell you this." "You're nowhere near deep enough." "What?" "You're going to be well over 100 feet." "You're telling me we're not even halfway there yet?" "that's a whole different level of mining." "We're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars' energy." "Todd." "you can't run out on us." "If it doesn't work out exactly as you planned." "The question that I have is do we have the ability to dig that deep?" "I'm gonna be honest with you." "You might as well just go home now and just save everyone the trouble." "There'll be gold at the bottom." "Let's kick some ass!" "535)}I was really hoping for a ton of gold in the box today. 000." "Gold's not really coming in like... 565)}I thought it would." "He needs Sluicifer to run Klondike pay dirt for 12 straight hours a day." "I thought we'd be up there but we're more like two." "That's a pretty big difference." "you know." "Over a.. 500 ounces short we'd be." "[rattle noise]" "That doesn't sound right." "No." "Rattling going on in the wash plant somewhere doesn't sound quite right." "535)}Not sure if it's a rock or broken spring or what it is." "[ rattling ]" "It's foreman Rick Ness' job to keep the plant running." "Wow." "Holy shit." "What do we got going on?" "There's a plate that goes from the prewash to the shaker deck." "It's fuckin' broke." "It's cracked right off." "Something break?" "Yeah." "Bad." "The whole fuckin' plate that transitions from the prewash is in three fuckin' pieces." "For fuck's sake." "Every hour the wash plant is down 500 in lost gold." "Aw fuck." "What we gonna do about this one." "It's down to mechanic Mitch Blaschke to fix the problem." "How's it going?" "Not good." "it's totally fucked." "almost." "555)}We've got something major going on." "It's basically tearing itself apart." "The inlet chute never gets closer than three inches from the prewash. resulting in a series of cracks." "We've got big problems." "We've kind of pushed everything back up in place." "Should make it a lot stronger." "We're just trying to get through it as fast as we can." "We gave it a little bit more clearance." "shit!" "Ow!" "Fuckin' ass.." "[ laughs ]" "Mitch:" "I'm watching a forest fire start in Parker's hair." "[ laughs ]" "Mitch and Jordan have done a great job of getting this thing fixed." "and we'll be..." "Yeah." "We'll be sluicing again in... 30 minutes." "Mitch welds the cracks with an ingenious bush fix." "You can see the gussets that we added in here to give it some strength." "it was broke pretty good." "Everything's holding together well." "And it doesn't look like it's breaking back apart anymore." "Really happy." "Parker:" "Now we're fuckin' gold mining." "You're telling me that I'm only halfway down to where we got to end up?" "And it's been a chore to get to this part." "Andy Spinks has opened up a 50-foot cut." "They've just discovered he might have to dig another 50." "All of my knowledge and everything that I've done I've pretty much exhausted it." "I've never dug a hole this deep before." "Either we figure out a solution or we're done." "I'm scared." "I'm really scared now." "What's the solution?" "What are we gonna do?" "but" "I've got the solution." "but we'll do it." "How?" "Switchback it just like a mountain pass." "Build zigzags to the bottom till we hit bedrock." "mine our way out." "safety officer Trey Poulson has spent two decades in deep-pit mining operations." "Digging below 50 feet will open up a whole new raft of challenges." "So it might as well be another language." "You show me how and I'll dig the dirt out." "It's above me." "It's above my pay grade." "but..." "We'll get there." "Because everybody's futures relying on this." "It's a hell of a plan." "Let's see if we can fricking pull it off." "do it?" "Let's do it." "Let's do it. digging down one bucket at a time in a desperate search for the pay streak. and looks like we've got to go down 100 feet total in depth." "It's not the news that I was hoping for." "I've never dug a hole this deep before." "all I can hope for is the pay streak." "Guys are getting tired of moving dirt every day and not seeing any gold." "Andy plans to dig down five feet a day." "Todd." "Holy frig." "What do you mean "some" water?" "we've got 20 foot of water in our ditches." "That's a lot of water." "We don't know how fast it's coming in." "[ groans ]" "We've gone down 50 feet and that's what we hit." "And we've got another 50 to go." "I honestly don't know what we're gonna do." "This'll probably be our last cut ever." "So either we get this water figured out completely screwed." "I honestly don't know what we're gonna do." "What do you guys want to do?" "What should we do?" "The Hoffman crew is trying to dig down But they've hit the water table and their cut is flooded." "Bring it all the way down to the end of our mine limit and put it in those old existing ponds." "You guys figure out the plan." "Where are we gonna take the water." "Let's do it." "Let's do it." "Trey's toughest challenge:" "Pump the water 60 feet vertically to get it out of the cut." "He needs a 200-horsepower pump" "And a heavy-duty piping system." "is gonna to be moving 500 gallons per minute." "What we're going to do is weld the pipe." "Then we'll run all the way down to where we're going to turn into our pond." "and we've got to get ahead of this water." "Ho!" "Come into the center right here." "it'll be sending the water up through this pipe and out." "So we had to make another... sweep 90 for the suction on the back of the pump." "So Juan and I have built a 90 out of scrap iron in the middle of the desert." "man." "Hey." "What do you think of that?" "They've got the pump set." "Now we've just got to put the pipe in." "Loop all the way around to the ponds." "Should be good to go." "Let's do it." "100 feet?" "100 feet of pipe." "we can see what the bottom holds." "We're good to go." "Keep your fingers crossed." "Todd." "Are you guys in place?" "we're in place." "Fire it up." "Moment of truth." "So either we get this water figured out... or we're screwed." "guys." "[ motor cranking ] baby." "[ motor cranking ] [ motor starts ]" "I can hear air pushing out." "Can you hear it?" "Anything yet?" "nothing yet." "Trey's been working with high-powered centrifugal pumps all his mining career. open the valve." "Let the air out." "Move the water." "Randy." "This had better work." "Got 'er." "We got some water coming out." "That's awesome!" "She's pumping." "All right!" "Yeah!" "we dodged a bullet there." "buddy." "We needed some good news." "A little bit's better than none." "Todd and his team can get back to digging down to the elusive pay streak." "Let's go get some gold!" "Working!" "That's what we needed right there." "up. the tugboat that will transport his dredge from Thistle Creek." "Happy?" "Yep." "So I'm a little worrisome." "We even got a crowd to watch." "Wow." "more." "more." "Keep her... keep her rolling." "there you go. back it up." "Easy on the brake pedal." "keep her going." "bit more." "Mike." "Keep her going." "Keep her going." "It's not floating." "We're starting to get a little water on the deck there." "The stern of Kid Commando is in the river." "the whole vessel could sink." "back it up. is on the point of flooding." "Because it won't float free from the lowboy." "Gene's got a plan..." "Fire up the engines and attempt to back Kid Commando off the lowboy." "535)}Boat's swaying." "Gene's trying the engines." "Woo!" "It's floating!" "Come on." "Deck it." "look at it lean." "Look at it lean." "Ew!" "I'm not going on that boat." "no." "There's always another step." "Never ends." "I'd be out of a fuckin' job." "We're getting down to the bare minimum pay left in this section of the boundary cut." "Tyson is running the last few thousand yards of of boundary cut dirt before the crew moves on to a new cut." "We probably have another two shifts left." "This pay is pretty good right now 675)}'cause it falls through the grizzlies nicely." "Sluicifer's hungry and so it's all up to us to keep her fed. he needs to keep 250 yards an hour running through the plant. foreman Rick makes his daily inspection." "that's just great." "there's just lots of Covered up our bypass valve for our plant." "is it doing that?" "Where's Mitch?" "it's down to Mitch to solve the problem." "this couldn't have come at a worse time." "Heading to Oregon to get married. there's only so many hours." "Some things you can be late for in life." "probably not a good one." "man?" "I don't fuckin' know." "Should shut it down. we got six inches of rock." "That's fuckin' shit." "These valves cross so that it's not pushing one way more than the other." "I'm looking at our plate here and it just looks like we're hitting way off the side." "So we need to make sure that our water's hitting nice and center." "Mitch." "Ho ho ha ha." "Shit." "I'm glad this didn't happen 10 days later." "Yeah." "Mitch is about to leave for his wedding." "I'm damn glad that he's not gone now." "Because... there's you know?" "He'll get this thing back running." "why don't you go turn the water on?" "'kay. equalizing the water distribution in the prewash to keep the pay dirt flowing steadily." "The water was short on this side." "So it was pushing more on the far side and it was pushing all the material over this way." "That's more like it." "And Mitch can get back to his to-do list before leaving tomorrow to get married." "Mitch." "Mitch." "We've moved a tremendous amount of dirt and Todd spent a lot of money." "nobody get's paid. very nervous right now. but Monster Red is shut down until Andy hits a pay streak." "he may need to dig down to 100." "Andy's the best operator we got." "Maybe we'll find a little pay dirt here." "find that damn gold." "We've got no other choice." "Andy:" "I'm just going to dig as far down as I can dig a hole and just see if I can pull anything up that looks different than what we've been digging." "Andy digs a trench to fast-track towards a pay layer. 000-ounce season will be shattered." "he stops to check." "What's it look like?" "In that ditch right there." "Can probably see it better down here." "It started dropping." "We all of a sudden started getting into gravels." "We got into that." "Good. there is a black layer." "Look at that." "there." "Trey:" "That's a pay layer." "That's going to make everybody a little bit happy." "This ground isn't as deep as Marvin thinks." "but... this sure looks good right now. the way it's laid in there." "I know there's gold right there." "I would do this. 000-yard run through the plant." "I think our luck's changing." "Let's just call this the ditch test." "Let's just run it." "see what we got." "That's probably where we're going to get our whole season's worth of gold." "All right Shit." "Let's go." "[ air horn blowing ] [ motor starts ]" "Todd can finally fire up Monster Red." "000-yard test" "To see if they've found the elusive pay streak." "Hopefully there's enough gold in there to put a lot of gold in 'cause I'll tell you what." "They deserve it." "Parker has a reputation for driving too fast." "Even his dog Dozer seems to agree." "Get in there." "Dozer?" "I'm rebuilding the trust." "I'll take it easy." "Come on!" "Up." "Is this so bad?" "Remember." "You used to love this shit." "10-4." "This is my last scoop." "we've been running non-stop so..." "We're really hoping to see the runs lit up today." "Sluicifer runs the final boundary cut pay. before Parker starts mining his new cut." "Alrighty." "Let's do this cleanup and let's try and make it quick" "So we can get this beast back to chowing dirt." "The last of the boundary cut here." "She's been a good cut." "Parker needs his final boundary cut cleanup to produce 148 ounces. 100." "140." "Keep shaking." "Holy cow." "Come on." "192.4." "000. a lot." "[ laughter ]" "The best cut we've ever done." "Yeah." "A lot." "It's our best one yet. 000-ounce goal." "buddy." "So..." "Mitch." "buddy." "I got to go." "we do have something for ya." "It's fresh out of the sluice box." "It's your share of the gold cut." "We really appreciate what you do there." "[ laughter ]" "Nice!" "Either out of the jig or the table." "We found it somewhere." "buddy." "We got lots of belt repairs right there." "[ laughter ]" "I think I'd better be on that flight." "But you know what?" "boys." "Want to miss your own wedding one of them?" "[ laughter ]" "To Mitch and Haley." "to Mitch and Haley." "boys." "Cheers." "tug." "I put this sucker at double." "Tony is getting closer to transporting his 70-year-old dredge from Thistle Creek." "is in the water." "And he's finished painting and welding his barge." "All he needs now is for his son Mike to truck the 30-ton steel vessel down to Dawson and launch it into the river." "[ horn blowing ]" "Hmph." "It's always fun driving that Oshkosh." "Can't state that enough." "Mike needs to float the barge. and nearly three times the weight." "Mike can't drive the Oshkosh deep enough to get the barge to float free. he could sink the Oshkosh with him inside it." "Enough is enough." "It's scary." "But Mike is not prepared to quit." "[ engine starts ]" "Here goes nothing." "back it up." "my god!" "Yeah!" "That's awesome." "Ha ha." "hit the brakes." "Nya." "It came clean off." "Whoa Fuckin' smart ass." "Cheers." "Prost." "To a job well done." "Gene:" "One step closer in moving the second dredge." "That's for sure." "[ lightning strike ]" "Sluicifer!" "one mega-packed" ""Gold Rush" "Look out!" "Rick...." "There's no gold here." "Dave's dozing the pay." "Whoa!" "What are you doing?" "Get out of the way." "I'm gonna go down in that cut." "Find that damn gold." "I don't have the right fuckin' tools." "I can't fuckin' get anything done." "How much?" "Holy shit!"