"On this "Gold Rush"..." "We got to shut down." "The gold that we're supposed to be getting up on that hill, we ain't getting it." "These guys came up here and wasted our fuckin' time." "Thank god for second chances, 'cause the Buckland is our second chance." "First pay at Buckland!" "Yeah." "Yay." "That 5,000 ounces might not be too crazy." "Keep putting gold in the box." "There's no way we can run it like that." "We can't afford any more weeks like this." "He took all my fuckin' tools." "Yes, we have." "I don't see any rigs up here." "Nobody's in here, William." "No one's in here, either." "Claim owners Jarrod and William Wirth" "Have leased the High Bar mine to Todd Hoffman for the season." "What's going on?" "There's nothing, dude." "Nothing." "Nobody's up here." "No rigs are up here." "What the hell Is going on?" "What the fuck is this?" "What shit is this?" ""Sorry guys"..." "Todd." "You serious?" "He put a fuckin "Sorry" tag on the generator." "And that's it." "Fuck this." "I'm gonna go find Todd." "These guys came up here and wasted our fuckin time." "This season, Todd Hoffman gambled every dollar he made in the Klondike." "To chase a mountain of nuggets here in Oregon." "I want to see a miracle on this mountain." "He set his crew a massive season goal." "I want 5,000 ounces." "A quarter of the way in, they have just 138," "Barely a tenth of what they need to hit his target." "I feel like such a fool right now." "Hey, Todd." "What the hell's going on?" "Well..." "Plain and simple," "The gold that we're supposed to be getting up on that hill," "We ain't getting it." "I'm pissed." "When you came up here, signed the lease on this place," "I mean." "You knew what you were getting yourself into." "I've lost several hundred thousand dollars, okay?" "I'm worried that I'm gonna lose my business." "What in the hell happened?" "I can tell you what the hell happened, Todd." "This is High Bar, 320 acres." "You're complaining about not finding gold up here." "We have half our resources shifted to a" "A separate mine you're looking at right now." "This has got gold down here." "That is complete bullshit." "Your focus should be on High Bar." "Sometimes, you got to make business moves." "And that's just what I'm making." "We got to shut down." "This's business." "And this is where we part company." "Hell." "Fuck no!" "I'm not happy with what he said." "I mean, Todd came up here," "Decides to pin all the blame on us." "And, I mean, honestly, he's making a big mistake." "They believe In that property." "And I don't believe in it." "It comes down to business." "I got guys that I got to take care of." "I got to make decisions for my team." "Todd is moving his entire operation." "15 miles East..." "To his new Oregon claim, The Buckland." "The High Bar claim was located on a mountaintop." "And had patchy nuggets." "The Buckland is in a valley" "And has fine gold deposits deep on the bedrock," "More like the claims the Hoffman Crew mined in the Klondike." "Hey, guys, how you doing?" "Everything....we got all the machines coming, Todd." "Here comes the Cavalry right here." "Whoo-hoo!" "Here we are!" "It's good to see these guys." "I can't believe it." "We're all together here at the Buckland." "It's a beautiful day." "and you know what?" "Thank god for second chances." "Because Buckland is our second chance." "You know, after last week's downtime," "We just can't afford that kind of stuff anymore." "We really got to keep the plant up and going," "Keep Sluicifer fed." "And keep gold coming in." "2,000 miles north in the Klondike," "Parker Schnabel works hard to recover from the worst week of his season." "He's slipping behind on his 4,000-ounce," "$4.8 million season goal." "Got a long ways to go this season." "And" "And the only way to do that Is keep..." "Just keep putting gold in the box." "You've got to be kidding me." "(thunder-clap)" "A lightning storm forces the crew to play it safe." "And take a break from mining." "For fuck's sake." "Four hours later," "Rick returns To check out the cut." "Pretty nasty up here." "It's raining a lot." "Still raining now." "It's just been miserable." "The water's definitely up a lot." "Hopefully, There's no damage from it." "But you never know." "BLEEP" "BLEEP BLEEP" "The hopper that feeds pay dirt into the wash plant is flooded." "The tail wheel is so far under the water," "There's no way we can run it like that." "BLEEP BLEEP" "That's probably 4 feet of water, at least." "I can't believe it came up that high." "We're supposed to be firing up right now and sluicing." "And there's no way we can do it like this." "Every hour Sluicifer stands idle..." "Costs Parker $2,500 In lost gold." "Hey, Mitch, uh, we're gonna need Pump Norris down here." "The hopper's underwater." "Good old Pump Norris." "Yeah, she's..." "She moved a lot of water for us." "Should be good to go now." "This pump actually is a..." "been swamped several times," "It's gone underwater running." "We nicknamed it Pump Norris." "It's a good pump." "Pump Norris... isn't pumping." "I just want to see this thing pump some water." "That's the problem." "Ohh." "Yeah, that's fucked." "So that would be the foot valve." "And what happens is, this shuts off" "And allows it to create suction." "And as you can see, this thing's uh.." "hanging on by a thread there, so..." "I guarantee you we don't have another one of those." "I guarantee you we don't." "A new part will take 2 weeks to be delivered to the Klondike." "Should we duct tape it?" "Glue it?" "Pin it?" "We could drill it, put rods through it." "All right." "Now we're just trying to uh," "Drill out both halves of this broken foot valve," "And uh," "Gonna go kind of with what we got out here," "A bag of zip ties, And just try and zip tie it back together." "We've got to get this pump up and running." "If you're not first, you're last," "Just like some stitches." "Let's go give her a try." "The whole mining operation depends.." "on Mitch's bush-fix working." "Ready?" "Fired up." "Come on." "Yeah, come on." "There we go." "Awesome." "Nice work, Mitch." "Pump Norris." "Back in action!" "But, you know, it took longer than it should." "But at the end of the day, we solved the problem, you know?" "That was a dollar fix for a $10,000 problem." "Hey, ain't that a pretty site?" "Todd is setting up an entirely new operation" "On the Buckland claim." "And he's bringing in his most faithful old piece of equipment." "Hey, guys, Monster Red's here." "Yay!" "After a 2-week, 2,000-mile journey from the Klondike," "Monster Red is in Oregon." "Just like top" "Over two seasons, this colossal wash plant" "Has delivered the Hoffmans $4.6 million worth of gold." "I feel really, really bad about how we started this season." "Man, my spirits are down." "I don't know how this is gonna end." "And I'm not gonna promise anybody anything." "We're so far out on a limb," "You know, it could break at any moment." "But I tell you what..." "This right here, this is an encouragement." "We got Monster Red." "There's millions of dollars of gold down there, And we're gonna get it." "Freddy, Dave." "You set this machine up?" "Yeah." "Make this damn thing run." "We're gonna make this thing" sing"." "It's like a new day." "Monster Red's home." "This is where it belongs." "Let's set up Monster Red," "See what's in the bottom of that hole." "This is a kick-ass team." "And if we're gonna go down there into bedrock," "It's gonna be this team to do it." "I don't care how deep it is." "We will get to bedrock." "We're gonna come out of here with our heads high." "And a big ol' pile of gold." "If we got any chance of saving this season, It's right here." "Let's do it." "With this wash plant, we're gonna get some gold." "So I'm excited." "But now, it's time to go to work." "Okay, we're gonna swing over to you guys." "Yeah, if you can put it right in front." "Dave is in charge of getting Monster Red up and running." "Well, it's nice to have Monster Red here." "We got a lot of work." "Look at this." "We got stuff scattered everywhere." "So now, the real work starts." "While Dave rushes to assemble the plant," "Andy's in charge of opening up the first cut." "It's not too late." "To get the gold that I think we need to get." "But there's not gonna be any easy days right now." "Till we get down to that bottom." "We're not gonna know what's in the ground." "They've already dug a 490-by-90-foot settling pond" "And built a 25-foot-high pad for the wash plant." "3,000 feet East," "Andy's team is opening up a 200-foot-wide cut." "But no one knows how deep they'll have to dig to hit pay dirt." "I'm just praying that we hit pay dirt soon." "I'm telling ya," "I don't want these guys to be let down again." "Todd has delayed paying his crews' wages.." "Until they strike gold again." "We are at Ground Zero." "I need you guys to go the next two weeks without pay." "You tell Mindy I'm not getting paid." "I didn't come here to work for free." "I'm currently in here operating machines for free." "I hate this." "I have a mortgage to pay." "I have a lot more responsibilities now." "And..." "I won't give up on Todd." "But I can't say that I like what he's asking me to do." "There just better be some damn gold at this Buckland." "Todd needs all the gold he can get right now" "To convince us all to stay here." "But if I know one thing," "He's gonna give it his best shot." "Come on in and push it, Kev." "Before they can get any gold," "Dave has to haul the plant onto its pad." "Don't tip it." "All right." "There, you got it." "That way, Dave!" "All right." "Here we go." "Kev, it needs to go that way." "Kevin, ho!" "We're putting blood back into the monster." "It's coming to life." "Okay." "What's next?" "Let's set the shaker deck." "Oh my gosh." "Okay." "That's the big one." "They need to lift the 25,000-pound shaker deck 50 feet up onto its stand." "I've moved this bad boy over 2,000 miles." "And the last 50 feet Is probably the most important." "We've got a crane here to lift the shaker deck," "And put it on our stand." "Hey, Willie." "Crane operator Willie Borgerding" "Has never done a job like this before." "This will definitely be my first shaker screen." "Going from ground level up to an elevated position." "Is definitely a..." "Gives it a little bit more of a complication." "It's really hard for this crane to" "To lift this screen at this angle." "It's just so heavy." "We drop this screen, we're screwed." "The only secure crane position" "Is at the bottom of the slope." "The crane arm will have to reach across more than 20 feet to place the deck on its stand." "So what he's gonna do is pick it up, swing it right there." "But as he's swinging this over, keep your distance." "Wherever that load's going, the amount of boom that I have out," "If it tips over, it's gonna get ya." "You know, a lot of things can go wrong quick.." "So let's just be real careful out there." "Willie, you ready?" "You bet." "Let's go for it." "Everybody good?" "Good." "Toes clear!" "Clear!" "Hope he's got his seat-belt on." "We got to be careful with this, guys." "Come on up." "Come on, big boy." "If it gets too far over one side," "It could literally tip the crane over." "The crane has maximum lift capability..." "When its arm is close to vertical." "For every five degrees the arm reaches across," "The crane's safe lifting load drops by 5,000 pounds." "If Willie extends the boom too far," "The entire crane will crash to the ground." "Right here, Willie." "Give me your hand." "Thank you, Todd." "Push it!" "Whoa, stop!" "Whoa, stop!" "Willie!" "Willie!" "Are you maxed out there?" "No." "This isn't gonna work." "Willie." "Set her down." "Set it down, Willie." "The crane arm can't lift the shaker deck any further." "Coming down." "Their only option..." "Set the shaker down on the edge of the 25-foot drop." "All clear!" "I don't like the way this thing's leaning." "It's making me really nervous." "We're gonna have to reposition the crane closer." "This is exactly what I was worried about." "If this bank kicks out, that screen's gonna fall over." "So we got to move pretty fast." "Dave!" "We need to hurry and get it off the side hill!" "Move this thing!" "Okay." "He's coming ahead, you guys." "I'm going as fast as we can." "It's leaning this way." "We need to get this out of here." "We need to get this out of here." "The Hoffman Crew is racing to lift Monster Red's 25,000-pound shaker deck onto its stand at the top of a 25-foot pad." "All right." "Let's go." "Move that thing." "The deck is unstable on the edge of a ridge." "The crew needs to re-position the crane fast." "All clear!" "Hurry up, hurry up!" "You got to get these outriggers out." "Time is of the essence on that." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on." "Hurry, hurry, hurry." "Hurry up." "Put some timbers under it." "See if this'll work." "Little bit more." "Give me a little bit more." "If this settles and this bank kicks out," "We've lost our stream." "If the outrigger legs aren't secure," "The crane could topple," "Taking the 25,000-pound shaker deck with it." "Bring him down." "Come on, come on, come on." "We cannot screw this up." "Think we got it." "We get the shaker in there, It'll be by the skin of our teeth." "Let's go!" "Hey, guys, be real careful." "We cannot screw this up." "Your whole season..." "Sitting right here." "Scary." "Bring us your line." "Let it go." "Up a bit." "Down a bit." "Right a bit." "Left a bit." "One, two." "I'm in." "I'm in!" "I'm in!" "Good job, guys." "Nice job, Freddy." "Nice job!" "Yeah!" "Dave, one shot!" "Good, Willie?" "Yes, sir." "Thank you" "That was smooth." "I like doing shit like that." "I could have bent re-bar with my butt cheeks right there." "Your whole season is freakin' dangling 20...20 feet in the air." "It's not funny." "Arrgh." "We did it though." "Ah well, Back at her, then." "Looking good." "At Eureka Creek, Kevin Beets is in charge." "of his father's 75-year-old dredge." "Easy, bud." "So far this season, Kevin has mined a phenomenal 757 ounces of gold," "Worth $900,000." "Now back to dredging." "Nice and slow, nice and steady." "Fuck-all's happening?" "Piece of fuckin' shit." "I don't like this." "The tailings have stopped coming out of the conveyor." "Fuck!" "I guess there was another problem with the stacker belt." "So I'm gonna go investigate that, see how bad it is." "Let's see what zee problem is." "That does not look fuckin' good." "This is part of the belt." "It's fuckin' ripped from the looks of it." "Pretty clear what happened here." "One of these belt clips got loose, got caught." "Apparently this shit got caught in a roller, ripped it." "Tony, do you copy?" "We got a problem with the belt." "There is a 5-foot long, 4-inch-thick strip torn out." "We don't have any belt clips." "I need the ones you guys stole and all the toys and tools," "That little red toolbox and everything." "Just Just bring the whole shebang." "Sounds like a plan." "If Tony's pissed about having to send me out tools and people," "He should stop stealing my tools and people in the first fuckin' place." "Could've had the job done long before he had to send out anyone." "But he took all my shit." "What does he expect's gonna happen?" "Six hours later, mechanic Mike Beaudrey turns up with the kit to fix the conveyor." "Every hour the dredge is down" "Costs Kevin $1,200 in gold." "Yeah, we're gonna have to get that patched up." "And get you running again." "We need to zip cut all of these fuckin' clips off both sides of the belt and put new clips in." "Then after that, we can get it pulled together." "And then we'll run a row of clips." "Right down the cut." "It'll be just like stitches." "Ready?" "Here you go." "Well, that's her." "Skirting's on." "Ready to try it out." "She's running right down the middle." "Let's crank it up." "This is it." "Yeah." "We got it!" "Don't get better than that." "The dredge is finally back to capturing gold." "We fixed it, as usual," "Without Tony's having to be here and babysit." "Could've been a two-hour fix, turned into an eight-hour one." "So now that we're running," "We can finally make some fuckin' gold again." "Just got to finish wiring." "And we'll be running." "Narrator:" "At the Buckland," "Dave's team has been assembling Monster Red all week." "Plant's almost done, Getting ready to go here." "Crossing our i's and dotting our t's." "The feeder's in now." "Last piece." "Monster Red is soon to be ready to roll." "Starting to put all the little pieces in place." "Fire the screw, Dave!" "Sands screw's coming on!" "Yeah!" "Screen's coming on!" "Conveyor, Dave!" "Tailings conveyor coming on." "All right." "It's looking good." "Going the right direction." "How's it look, Dave?" "Everything looks good so far." "I like it." "Watching it come back to life is great." "You better talk to Andy and tell him to get his butt moving." "And get some pay down here." "Amen." "Over at the cut," "Andy's dug down 15 feet in search of pay dirt." "This here looks like an old stream bed," "Which means we're out of the...overburden." "And this is actually where a stream actually had flowed at one time." "This could be really good news." "This.." "is the start of maybe where we're getting closer to pay." "Todd, do you copy?" "Yeah, I got a copy." "Hey, you want to come down in the cut?" "I got something here to show you." "10-4." "Maybe this is it," "Huh." "Let's take a look." "Two little pieces." "So freakin' tiny." "And pretty." "I think we need to go deeper." "That's where the gold is." "You and I both know it's gonna be deep." "We're gonna have to get back in there and start stripping down deep." "Gold's not really coming in like" "I thought it would." "Our cut got flooded." "I mean, I know it's early in the season still." "But.." "We need to start picking the pace up." "Hopefully, that means more gold." "After floods stopped them running," "Parker's wash plant has been back sluicing for four days." "Getting ready to do another clean up." "Doumitt, kill it." "Parker is behind on his 4,000-ounce season goal." "He needs every grain of gold he can get." "All right." "Let's see what we got." "Well, we're just getting rolling." "What do you think, Parker?" "No." "Oh ho, yeah." "Rick." "Beautiful." "Ha ha." "Geez." "Look at that, Parker." "Already, there's a ton of gold coming through this, this chute here." "You see, it's real chunky gold." "You get a lot of, a lot of chunks like that." "Chunky stuff." "Yeah." "You know, this time of year, It's almost enjoyable." "But..." "Hey." "Hey Parker," "Pretty nice." "Looks are always deceiving in the sluice box." "You see the gold just pouring out of the mats." "You don't know until it goes in the jar, you know?" "It doesn't look too bad, But you never know till you get the gold on the scale." "We're gonna jig it." "We're gonna clean the jig real well." "We'll table it." "We'll clean it." "Parker's girlfriend, Ashley, helps with the cleanup." "I'm picking nuggets." "Ain't no nugget's getting past me." "A ha ha." "Gentlemen." "Hey." "How's it going?" "To get back on track," "Parker needs this cleanup" "To deliver around 150 ounces." "All right." "Let's see what we got." "There is 20 and 40," "60 100, hundred and... 122.6" "A little less than normal, huh?" "Fuck." "That ain't good." "122 ounces is worth around $140,000." "A long way to 4,000 ounces." "Parker and his crew have slipped even further behind." "Well," "Let's try to keep the hours up on Sluicifer." "Yep." "Pfft." "Wow, that's a pretty disappointing result." "You know, the weather, I think, probably cost us about 20 grand." "And..." "Ohh." "We can't afford any more weeks like this." "I got a guy named Jim, coming." "And..." "Supposedly, he's got a little bit of information on the Buckland." "We're short on information." "So." "Could be a big deal." "The Hoffman crew has been digging deep in their cut at the Buckland." "But they still haven't found the gold-rich pay layer." "What I'd like to know." "Is there gold at the bottom." "At least we know there's a goal." "Todd's brought in a neighboring miner for advice." "The best gold, I think, is right in the bottom of the valley here." "When I was working up here," "I got an ounce an hour for 25 yards." "I was on a main deposit." "We might actually be on to something big here." "But I tell ya what..." "It ain't gonna be easy." "It's gonna be hard to get to." "But maybe worth it When you get down there." "We're gonna go right To the bottom." "We're gonna go get rich." "Tell ya what...that 5,000 ounces might not be too crazy." "Tony Beet s relies on the gold from Kevin's dredge." "To fund his dream of building an entire fleet." "I think she's about dry." "Yeah?" "There's a bit there." "Want to make sure that she's ready?" "I think this gold weigh is gonna be a bit lighter than the last few." "I mean.." "We don't have quite as many hours in the box as we did." "So...find out." "Over the last 5 weeks," "Kevin has mined 757 ounces, worth $900,000." "70, 80 90, 120, 130, 140" "156.06" "Not bad." "156 ounces is worth over $180,000" "And now, our total Is 913 ounces." "Yes, we have." "(laughter)" "Really?" "That is." "It totally is." "In just six weeks, Kevin has hit 913 ounces..." "Poor Daddy and little brother." "...$1.1 million in gold," "A quarter million more than they got in all of last year." "Oh!" "We're not even halfway through." "We're only a third of the way through." "Yeah, have to keep it up." "Yeah, nice if you're not the one that has to dig it out of the fuckin' ground." "I think we can, yeah." "Hitting Tony's new 2,000-ounce goal" "Would net them $2.4 million." "So far, we haven't found any gold." "I'm gonna dig down as deep as I can." "And we'll see what we find." "After seven days digging at the Buckland," "The Hoffman crew still has no pay dirt." "What I'm gonna do is dig a test hole," "See what..." "See what I can find." "Andy Spinks digs down to 25 feet." "This looks like bedrock to me." "See the different color?" "This is what we've been digging." "So you got two different kinds of dirt." "And you...that gold's usually gonna sit on that change." "Gonna take some of this bedrock, pan it, show Todd." "Hopefully, it's good news." "We need, we need to see some gold right now." "That right there?" ".Yep." "That's gold right there." "There's some little pieces Right there, too." "Well, we got gold there." "Yeah." "It's encouraging to see gold in that material." "And that's what we wanted." "You know what, buddy?" "I think we're back in business." "Let's do it." "Let's start running this pay dirt." "Hey, guys, we're in business." "Let's start running." "Bring the pay." "We're ready." "Let's do this." "Kevin, give us some water." "We got water, Dave!" "Let's rock 'n' roll." "We got water in the desert, boys!" "He's got pay dirt in the back of the truck." "We're about ready to run some dirt." "Let's make some gold!" "Yeah!" "Bring some pay in here!" "Let's go!" "The Hoffman crew is finally running pay dirt on their new claim." "There we go." "First pay at the Buckland!" "Yeah!" "Whoo!" "You want to know the truth?" "I've never felt pressure like this before." "Our whole future, the entire future of our mine" "And all of our guys is resting on that pay dirt." "I'm just praying that it's got gold in it." "Subs by Jack T" "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" "Look out!" "What's going on?" "On the next "Gold Rush"..." "This is bad." "I think we should shut it down." "All I know is, I'm not getting paid, Todd." "Crap!" "That's a disaster." "Right now, it's a losing battle." "What the fuck happened?" "Mike!" "It's all frozen mud." "Time's ticking." "It's all frozen mud." "Time's ticking." "I think this means shutting it down." "It's just fuckin shitty." "I just got word that my grandpa died." "I got to go."