"and then you jump on him." "320)\fs34}On this Gold Rush" "I'm trying to keep a crew together." "You have reached beyond my expectations." "Would you look at that." "I thought it had coffee in that thing." "Ha ha ha ha ha ha." "We got a real chance to beat that kid." "Shut it down." "We got a big hole in this belt." "we would have been alright." "The finger pointing is what leads people to quit." "It's fuckin garbage and it's good stuff." "That's the fuckin bottom line. 386)}These last 3 or 4 days have been really rough on everyone." "386)}Just a matter of time until everything starts falling apart." "Parker Schnabel is in real trouble." "He has only one third of the gold he needs to reach his 3000 ounce goal." "000 dollars in opening up his new massive boundary cut." "Derek Antoniuk." "People are just starting rumors and bullshit about me." "Is it.." "and he's gone?" "I mean." "Do people think I tried running him out?" "but I'm not gonna let it affect me anymore." "Derek's arrival created a rift in the crew." "I just want to punch him in the fuckin face just looking at the guy." "And mechanic Carl Rosk quit." "It's a joke." "I'm just going home." "when Rick refused to shake Derek's hand." "Just tell him to stay the fuck away from me." "Don't put me in this position." "Parker ordered his faithful friend off the claim." "266)}Things were going fine when you were gone." "leave." "elder statesman Chris Doumitt tries to broker a truce." "Rick needs a second chance." "doesn't halve my back." "he doesn't halve my back right now." "and then you jump on him." "You know" "I told him to get his head out of his ass." "Yeah." "And." "Maybe I might say it again." "I said "Why on earth would you take this position"." "He says "I'm trying to keep a crew together"." "He. he's the reason it's getting torn apart." "Oh." "Alright." "you know." "366)}I have to have better than that from a foreman." "I have to." "and it could destroy his season." "People follow leaders." "They don't follow bosses." "the crew goes." "Your attitude is outrageous." "You can't just pretend that kind of stuff didn't happen." "I get it." "It's unacceptable." "I know I came in kinda like a fuckin asshole." "That was stupid on my part." "I wasn't right." "I wasn't" "And I put you in a position where you can't bring that to work." "you can't bring that here." "You told me at the beginning of the season "You don't know how much your mood affects the operation." "the same goes for you now." "Right." "I really want to move forward." "I really" "And I'm just telling you it's gonna be hard for me." "you've always had my back." "So we good for a fresh start?" "Alright." "Parker has given Rick a second chance." "He can now get back to rebuilding his fractured crew." "And making the biggest cut of his life... pay out." "This is not good." "Tony Beets wants his dredge to work like it did 75 years ago." "With just a single generator and a crew of 2." "But so far this season he's mined only 327 of the 900 ounces he needs to recoup his million dollar investment." "Foreman Gene Cheeseman is determined to make the dredge start paying." "He has a plan to up the gold count." "I'm just" "366)}stripping off the overburden in front of the dredge here." "Why run this shit through." "No reasonable person's gonna wanna run or through the wash plant." "so." "get rid of it so we don't have to run it." "the dredge runs all the dirt in it's path." "absolutely no gold in it." "you know." "I mean it's this 6 foot layer essentially of garbage then your cost per yard will go down." "The dredge's bucketline chews through 8 feet of gold rich paydirt." "it has to process 6 feet of worthless overburden." "Gene wants to use heavy equipment to remove the overburden ahead of the dredge." "Allowing the dredge to process twice as much gold rich paydirt." "Quite a lot of mud here." "Overburden. you know." "well recovery." "It's just" "Okay." "haul it move it once." "Excavator and some" "It's fuckin garbage and it's good stuff." "That's the fuckin bottom line." "and agrees to Gene's plan." "show him proof to him that what we did was worthwhile." "To bring that equipment in." "Time to go to work." "at McKinnon Creek." "Kevin Hiatt prepares for the day." "Not much for conversation this morning." "Just not a morning person 'kay." "The Hoffman crew needs to up their game." "they failed to hit their 200 ounce weekly goal." "3 million dollar season could be slipping away." "Right now everybody's just needs to be on their head game." "You gotta stay focused." "386)}We're riding in a very crucial part of the season and this is always where it starts wearing on people." "It's my job to uh." "Watch everything on this plant." "Oh fuck." "We've got a tear in the belt." "Shut it down." "We got a big hole in this belt." "right here." "Tailings have built up beneath the conveyor." "And a sharp rock has ripped a 2 foot hole in the belt." "Frig." "There's 3 feet of sand up to the belt and with that there we're just gonna break this." "Plant's gonna be down for good half a day." "Another half a day we'll never get back." "Breakdowns just add to the workload of mechanic Juan Ibarro." "386)}We were shut down yesterday." "We're shut down today." "And we're getting further and further behind." "We got a mountain." "we're gonna be completely buried in pay here pretty quick." "You gotta watch the fuckin plant." "And that belt over there looked like somebody didn't dig out from underneath it." "I didn't ask you to come over here and give me grief." "You don't talk 386)}You know Todd they got us running around doing everything man." "I don't know what's gonna happen Dude." "296)}Hey." "346)}Hey." "you gotta keep your eyes open." "You're just gonna have to be more on it I guess." "If I see that again I'm gonna be friggen pissed." "Don't let it happen again." "376)}Wait a minute." "Wait a minute." "Wait a minute." "386)}Wait!" "206)}HEY!" "6 days a week." "When do you want us to do all this." "The Hoffman operation is at a standstill." "How's it fuckin look?" "All sluicing has stopped at McKinnon Creek." "and the belt is now badly torn." "How bad is it Dave?" "Pretty bad." "Aw shoot." "It went lengthwise." "I'm gonna do it single splice." "Lace this up." "Save some time." "Get sluicing." "Stopping Monster Red for 3 hours could cost the Hoffman's up to ten thousand dollars in lost gold." "I guess." "I think that somebody didn't dig that out right." "what you're thinking?" "I think somebody wasn't paying attention at night." "Alright." "I'll see you in a bit." "186)}I've got a lot of work to do." "106}Alright." "I'll get this going." "The splice is done." "It's a quick bush fix." "Hopefully this thing stays together." "We'll have to say our prayers." "Turn it on." "8000 yards through this plant in a day." "stay awake during the day." "Then there's no major breakdowns." "That's what we're trying to avoid right now." "but I gotta find a way to that's for sure." "morale is at an all time low." "unless Rick can make peace with Derek." "you know." "I've seen guys like him." "and immediately" "Shoves his head right up Parker's ass cause he's the boss." "Gets in good with him and then starts shit talking everybody so." "I'm usually a pretty good judge and I doubt I'm wrong." "I'm sorry you had to deal with that shit." "I don't care." "we've busted our fuckin asses." "Thanks for sticking with me." "sticking up for me." "The new guy's not leaving." "Ha." "The new guy's not leaving." "Good man." "Ha ha ha ha ha." "Okay." "There's our boy." "to check in on Parker's new operation." "That must be Derek." "Hiii." "You made it." "Hi." "Lookit." "mom." "It's been too long man." "It's nice to see ya." "Heyyy." "Ha ha ha." "Hello Parker." "I'm good." "I'm fine." "We just got our new plant up and going." "hasn't it." "It's been non stop." "10 days." "206)} Right on." "And all your crew are up and you're running." "Except Rick." "like." "He'll line people out if they're doing something wrong." "206)} Sure." "Like any good person would." "236)} He's got it together." "he wants to see stuff get done." "Don't like working with somebody like that right." "refused to shake his hand." "cause I pulled him over and I said" "We're gonna get along here and we're gonna shake hands and we're gonna work together." "you got to." "Flat out refused." "Rick still refused." "Yeah." "I'm not shaking your hand"." "Said it five times." "eh." "didn't yeah." "Said it five times." ""I'm not shaking your hand"." "256)} But that is so not Rick." "But I can't have a foreman here." "he's not a super though." "He's not caring about the operation." "You know it's bad when your foreman can't even come say hi to your family right." "That's pretty bad." "You gonna talk to him about it?" "Cause that's not Rick." "Roger has known Rick since he came to work with Parker at the family's Big Nugget mine 4 years ago." "welcome back." "it's Roger." "It was a tough trip for you." "Yeah." "It turned out that way." "were you happy to be back?" "and I'm feeling quite the opposite. a lot more responsibility you know." "200)}Yeah." "Yup." "so." "Yeah." "Aah." "Parker's all upset that I didn't like the new guy." "And you want to preserve your relationship." "that's what I'm dealing with right now." "I don't really see myself getting along with the guy but." "It's my job to shake the guy's hand." "so." "Well I hope so." "I don't know." "or" "Yeah." "Things are gonna be good." "Good." "I hope it does." "Well it's nice to see ya." "you too." "150)}We're here." "I'll see you back in the house." "We're here for a couple days." "Yo." "Take care fella." "Yeah." "that's what I gotta do." "Whatever." "Still don't mean I gotta fuckin like the guy." "Rick takes Roger's advice." "Sorry I called you a name." "Come on." "Handshake." "Alright." "whatever." "We'll see how it carries on." "Keep the show rolling." "(laughs)" "Clear." "Brandon Unsworth is approaching the end of the nightshift." "while new operator Doug Sutherland loads paydirt." "you know." "fatigued." "You know you miss stuff." "You're just trying to stay awake." "so uh." "We're non stop." "386)}As the time goes on it's starting to get darker." "It's harder to stay awake." "That's for sure." "but it just makes it tough." "the dayshift takes over." "Good morning Kevin Hiatt." "Hey Brandon." "How you doing buddy." "I just woke up about an hour ago." "Everything go good?" "Everything went awesome." "not a hitch." "So." "Good." "That's what we like to hear." "Everything's fueled up and hopefully there's some gold in the box for us tonight." "Yeah." "Ran some product." "That's for sure." "Oh yeah." "Just as the nightshift heads back to the trailers." "Shut it down." "Shut it down!" "only 20 hours after the rip in the conveyor belt." "What the fuck." "Grab the shovel it out." "Thing is fucked." "We're gonna have to take that cover off." "are causing us problems." "they're tight against this belt." "This has to be shoveled." "every hour." "These little things are what eats up your 2700 ounces at the end of the year." "that adds up and you never get it back." "and neither the day or the nightshift will take responsibility." "Hey Juan." "Yeah." "Probably wouldn't have happened if you guys shoveled your conveyors." "If you did your fuckin walk around we would have been alright." "100)}You can't" "Good morning." "Good morning." "You just wake up?" "No." "The Hoffman crew is at a standoff." "No one will admit who caused their wash plant breakdowns." "I just" "Heard that it was said that that the shoveling's not getting done up at the wash plant properly." "let me just" "Tell you what happened." "Okay." "I showed up." "That tail pulley was buried." "I'm trying to figure out why." "There was never any accusations." "Nobody disparaged your name." "Nobody said somebody did it at night." "Nobody said Brandon didn't shovel." "So just relax." "I don't doubt that you guys have confidence in me." "But the only two things that I'm going to be shown for right now is that I was a good enough operator?" "And we're not doing a good enough job up there." "That's two things that" "That we're gonna see a notice about me." "okay." "okay." "We need to quit talking about each other." "If you got a problem with somebody bring it to him." "Yeah." "Don't talk to somebody about somebody else behind their back." "That;s the kind of stuff that's a bunch of bullshit." "it's like sometimes we're working against each other." "that we have improvements to make?" "Absolutely." "Because that's the whole point." "We're starting to cause our own friggen downfall." "It's real easy to get on shift and criticize what everybody else does on the other shift but you really know it." "You don't know what they had to deal with that day." "you know." "I religiously shovel out those conveyors." "anybody to sit and look around and judge what we're doing and what we're not doing." "You know." "They're not there." "They don't see what we have to deal with." "the finger pointing and miscommunication is what leads people to quit." "Let's get to work." "Gene Cheeseman is reinventing Tony Beets operation." "just run everything through the dredge and I don't see any point." "He's running material through the dredge that has no gold." "It's full of sticks and wood and causes nothing but havoc with the dredge." "so they can just run the gold rich paydirt underneath." "We can move that material." "cheaper and more efficiently." "Tony doubts that Gene's new plan will net them enough gold to pay for the extra fuel to run the heavy equipment." "and has brought in a 40 year old belly scraper." "Tony." "that's good." "We gotta do something with it here." "It's starting to stack up on us." "I just want to get this stuff outta my way so we can keep running." "206)}Yeah." "It'll help all the way around." "And the dirt don't care what it looks like." "Tony and Gene need to remove 6 feet of overburden." "It took awhile to get Tony to get rid of this brush and mud." "He got the scrapers and I don't really care how we move it." "I just want to get it outta here." "That's what we're doing." "In my mind there's no sense in sluicing material that has no gold in it." "they've cleared 2500 yards of overburden." "There's nothing but paydirt ahead of the dredge." "they'll run pure pay through the dredge for 24 hours straight." "Starting to hog into it pretty good here." "It just slowed." "We're up against that tank." "Gene's risking his reputation on this new plan." "Nice looking bedrock there though." "will be covered by a significant increase in gold." "Hey." "We got a problem." "We're a man down." "We're a man down on our nightshift." "Todd agreed with Brandon that he could leave before the end of the season." "But he failed to tell the crew." "Brandon's gone home." "I wish I was." "000 dollars in gold." "Dave Turin calls an emergency meeting." "Hey everyone." "We got a little problem." "We're down a nightshift guy." "but I'd like to keep running the nightshift." "I'm willing to run the shift." "looking for some volunteers to finish the nightshift." "Dave has volunteered to cover part of Brandon's 12 hour shift." "But he needs 3 more guys to each take 3 hours." "Yeah." "I'll help." "I'll help you out Dave." "Yeah." "I'm in." "Okay." "I'm in." "and we got it covered." "Anybody else?" "Dave." "I'll take a shift." "That gives us four guys." "I guess." "but each to one it doesn't really matter." "Our job is to get gold out of the ground and run it through that wash plant." "That's exactly what we're gonna do." "Dave is determined tailings won't damage the conveyor." "This rock is just unforgiving." "I volunteered." "I got the 1:00 to 3:30 shift." "So I told Dave and then Kevin's relieving me." "Then Kevin relieves Randy to take the graveyard shift." "Hey." "I'm ready to swap you out." "Whenever you're ready." "Okay. go ahead." "10-4" "It's 3 in the morning." "It's my shift." "I'm just gonna run straight through." "Works out better for me because I run the plant." "I can just keep going until quitting time." "Thanks man." "That means 15 hours of non stop loading dirt." "This isn't mandatory." "This was Dave asked us." "We all stepped up." "That's what we do around here." "We just halve each other's back." "(yawns) We're gonna run it." "We're not gonna shut it down." "We're not gonna play cards if there's nobody here to run it." "We're all just gonna step up and keep this plant running." "and uh." "We kept the plant running." "We definitely didn't take the easy way out." "We stepped it up and gave it our A game." "That's all good gravel down there." "Gene's had it running nothing but paydirt." "they should be able to tell whether Gene's experiment has paid off." "Good." "How are you?" "Hi daddy." "Yeah we should." "000 dollars." "from here on out." "Sure." "20 30" "40 50" "60" "Getting close to a hundred." "It's a hundred." "110" "119" "Yeah." "I think we are." "puts Tony back on track." "And is proof that Gene's new mining strategy works." "That is pretty good stuff." "I'm glad it worked out." "I just." "we'll just keep hammering away for the rest of the year." "that was good." "We got almost 120 ounces." "goal was to get better." "Figure out what the problems are and how to get better." "Parker has moved over a million yards of dirt in the biggest cut he's ever mined." "But he's taken a massive risk." "Not one of his test pans in the boundary cut showed any significant gold." "1 flake pan." "Parker shuts down the plant to see if there's gold in the sluices." "24 hours or so of running." "Holy mackeral." "Geez. 386)} The timing is good." "Ha ha." "It really is." "it's always nice to have good news." "that's what you don't order." "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha." "It's the end of the week at McKinnon Creek." "Time for Todd Hoffman to reveal if the crew has hit their 200 ounce weekly target." "130 ounces." "We're 70 short." "000 dollars." "That wash plant." "That's the heart of the operation." "we ain't making gold." "But." "We gotta keep our eyes open." "We gotta love that thing like we love our families." "Cause I tell you what." "we have no backup." "I got a little lax there for a little bit and uh." "And after you talked to us I really feel like we need to step it up." "You're right." "You know." "We're here for a short time." "We're doing this for our families and uh." "Yeah." "Let's do it man." "Kick it up a notch." "Let's do it." "Watch that plant." "That's the key man." "And you guys are the gatekeepers of this whole thing. 'kay." "we're 70 short." "Will we make it up?" "Maybe." "You know." "We keep that thing going." "over 1.8 million dollars worth of gold." "I know we don't have as good as ground as Parker but we got a chance." "We got a real chance to beat that kid." "We cannot let this happen again." "There's no way." "has been looking like this and I got another half an hour to go on it." "preparations are underway for a make or break gold way." "Parker still needs 2000 ounces of gold to hit 3000 ounces." "and his new untested cut." "what do we got going here." "you know." "A lot of things in the works and it's a big." "It was a big undertaking and I thought this thing was gonna be the death of us." "in the middle of all that we get some." "Moving a new plant." "getting it up and going and." "Mitch and Derek." "You guys did a hell of a job." "and you know." "You guys did a good job." "thanks Derek for coming in when we're down men." "I appreciate that." "So we ran 150 hours and um We did do a little better than that." "That's nice." "Ohh." "This looks good." "Nice." "Thought he had coffee in that thing." "(everyone laughs)" "Would you look at that." "That's 409.7 ounces." "laughing) 000 dollars." "Parker has almost recovered every cent he invested in the boundary cut." "His high stakes gamble has paid off." "I'm just relieved." "the boundary cut right now is the best ground we've ever ran." "Parker." "You have reached beyond my expectations." "You have brought a crew together." "And I know that everybody is going to respect you and look up to you as a fine example of how to grow up." "Ah no." "I just got a good group of guys here." "Ha ha ha ha ha." "and girls." "(All laugh) worth over a million and a half dollars." "and is almost halfway to his season goal of 3000 ounces." "347.761)\fnLucida Calligraphy} Subs by {\fs42.153\b1\i1} Jack T" "The race to be the king of the Klondike is on." "Let's do this again." "No kidding." "We'll do it again tomorrow." "and the day after." "320)\fs32}On the next Gold Rush" "I bought another dredge down there." "That thing is gonna be a success story from one day to the end." "We're gonna make a million dollar mountain." "Shit." "It's on fire." "Cut it." "I should have 3 times the amount of gold in this pan." "We're gonna fail if we keep doing this." "Whoo." "That's a lot of gold." "Nice week." "I know Todd's hauling pretty hard but I don't think he stands a chance." "Are you gonna take my deal or not?" "I'm not here to lose." "I would love to kick your butt. {\alphaHFF}" "320)\fs42.332} Up ahead. 406)} position"