"we friggen doubled it." "My goal was 2700 ounces and you know what?" "We hit it." "and we're only 300 ounces behind the kid." "It'll be now." "It's our turn to win." "we have been to hell and back." "we somehow managed to hit our goal." "I mean we got 3000 ounces and we're still not done." "I don't know if that's gonna be enough to beat Todd." "we're gambling everything we got on whatever is underneath that creek bed." "On this season finale of Gold Rush" "Two plants. 600 yards an hour" "Hey." "Juan." "That turbo's red hot." "everything will freeze up." "Look at that." "(cheering)" "Our best season ever." "Are we caught on the bank?" "What is it?" "Our last cleanup." "It's our final push of the season." "Hello ho." "You make my life worthwhile." "She's froze up ah." "Fuck." "Nothing can be fuckin easy." "The weather's just going to hell." "There was a little rivalry going this season." "Do you know what Hoffman ended up at?" "I do." "380.198)\fs34} Dawn at McKinnon Creek" "The Hoffman crew is ready to start the dayshift." "But the Yukon winter is about to hit." "is frozen up." "Looks bad." "so we don't wake up with frozen belts but last night was just a late night." "So now we wake up." "Everything's froze." "The temperature has dropped to 20 degrees." "water in the wash plant will freeze and mining will be over for the season." "Yeah." "Just go and turn it on." "See what it does." "The antifreeze will get into the water." "The ice will start to melt." "And it'll help get traction." "The minute we put weight on there and there's ice it just slips." "Spins out." "Pile up." "Bad day." "Their gold haul stands at 2710 ounces worth nearly 3 million dollars." "Their best season yet." "Hey Kev." "Bump the sandscrew for me." "But 5 months of relentless running have taken their toll on man and machine." "Holy fuck." "Belt's on it's way out." "Just right there." "All the way down Probably about 6 holes and counting." "Right before the lacings like right there is the big one." "Yeah." "That's a hole in the belt." "they can't afford to stop for repairs." "458)}We just have to do whatever it takes to keep this plant running." "20 degrees in the morning." "So winter's setting in." "It gets tough from here on out." "and hope we get through that pile." "They've stockpiled a mountain of paydirt they believe contains half a million dollars worth of gold." "But Monster Red can't sluice it all before the Yukon winter freezes them out." "458)}We got big jar of gold in that big ass pile of dirt right there right." "It's doing us no good stuck in there." "I want to see it in a jar on the scale." "Sheamus Christie." "Right there?" "Perfect." "Dave helps unload the 75 ton beast." "458)}Yup." "This is the biggest thing we've ever pulled off." "I'll guarantee you that." "Todd plans to unload the entire steel structure in one piece." "Hook it around with each bucket." "not pull the plant off this way." "Okay let's go." "Let's pick it up." "Andy." "Just pull a little bit more on Andy's side." "Andy push pull" "Gotta keep coming straight." "Now Andy." "Andy." "Hold it Andy." "Easy." "Way trickier than it looks." "Going straight back." "Go!" "he's twisting." "Pretty cool." "We got it off the trailer." "Step 1." "okay." "Gas in it?" "Just taking that feeder off." "Built a ramp." "Drag it off." "Keep it from flipping over." "Can move the conveyor into place?" "Then it's just hooking up water and electricity." "Everything's getting real close." "Ho." "It's about that far from the other one." "Hol it." "Whoa whoa whoa." "Fuck." "While the crew struggles to get Fort Knox up and running." "Dave." "The sand conveyor stopped." "Shut the feeder off Kev." "Shut the feeder off." "alone." "Chain conveyor quit." "I got the plant shutdown and the water off." "Awgg." "You think it froze or what?" "Hey." "Look how much sand's in there." "Hey." "Who do I have." "You guys are all over there at the plan." "You cannot let these conveyors stack up with tailings." "What do you want me to do?" "You're all working on the plan?" "300)} (Dave) 358)} Somebody's gotta be shoveling this stuff." "Calm down." "Who?" "Do you want me to stop in between dumping the feeder to dig it out." "300)} (Dave) 358)} I don't care who shovels it." "It's shit that fuckin needs doing." "30)} (Todd) 60)} Calm down." "Hey hey hey hey." "I don't know why it shutdown." "I don't care who shovels it." "Somebody needs to shovel that." "But I can't." "I'm putting a plant together." "What's the point of having another plant if we can't keep this one running." "Hey guys." "Listen." "Let's shut this off until we get that one done." "Because he's right." "We gotta have somebody wash this for him." "220)} (Kevin) 250)} What?" "It's really what we need to do." "Fine." "while we're all putting that one together." "you're doubling it." "I'll help you." "Further." "Sorry I yelled at you." "Come on." "Sorry man." "Looks like the sand built up under this tail wheel and stopped it." "where Kevin's feeding it from you can't see this part of this conveyor." "If we don't keep this thing running." "It's not gonna fire back up." "Hopefully we'll get it fired up." "Before it freezes." "But I don't know." "As soon as they clear Monster Red's tailing's conveyor." "The entire Hoffman crew moves over to finish building Fort Knox." "start running that pay pile through here." "Looks good." "how we're gonna get rid of the million dollar mountain." "Pretty cool." "448)}We're just stringing the wires now to hook up to the generator." "The boys are working on the pipeline." "Dave's just building a ramp over here for the loader for feeding the hopper." "A few more truckloads of dirt and we'll be good to go." "Todd." "Everything's ready to go." "and we're not gonna leave here without it." "We got double the trouble now." "and get through that friggen pile." "okay." "Let's do it." "Bring it in." "Fire it up." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Fire it up." "Get that water going." "Roger that." "Fort Knox is 19 years older than Monster Red." "But it can run at least as much dirt. 300 yards an hour." "they will instantly double their gold recovery." "Clear at the screen deck." "Firing up Monster Red." "before winter forces them to quit." "And just maybe get more gold than Parker Schnabel." "Streams going." "Sluices going." "it feels good to be scooping in to this side." "Rock and roll." "Yeah." "We got 2 plants making gold right now." "All in a day's work." "You know what?" "We're gonna get that gold for the guys." "Might even beat the kid." "the first to mine the Klondike in 30 years." "000 dollars." "But he's still 300 ounces short of his season goal." "One last monster cleanup would prove that dredging for gold has a future in the Klondike." "and frozen water has burst a pipe on Tony's 75 year old dredge." "458)}Fuckin cold as a bitch." "Something's wrong with the water filter we built there." "The filter's crucial." "Hey Gene." "I want to shut down here." "Pissing water everywhere down there." "Yeah." "As soon as I came down here water was pissing everywhere." "Frost pushed the gasket out it would look like to me." "so uh." "Pretty worn already so." "Yeah." "Good warning here that winter is definitely on it's way." "Alrighty." "Quick fix here." "We'll get this installed and back up and running." "it always surprises me in the fall how quick the cold creeps up though." "458)}Dodged a bullet there." "Just a simple gasket got froze and pushed out." "So." "winter's coming so gotta try and dry dock it." "it will be crushed by ice." "Give me five Tony." "Hey daddy." "Dark in the morning and dark at night." "winter is coming." "It's time to park the dredge and get the crew on winterizing stuff." "Put things away right and be ready to go in the spring." "if you want me to do this right we need to have the crew." "We need enough people to work with." "Or you're gonna have issues." "Whatever." "Monica and Matt you guys get running here and I'll get started on the dry dock." "And you." "And I'm cold." "hu hu hu hu." "21 year old Monica takes charge." "It's not my favorite place." "You have to watch those buckets come up." "Make sure there's no rocks." "Make sure" "They're not too full." "Make sure it's actually pulling dirt up." "I don't like it." "While Gene preps the dry dock on his own." "I'm getting pretty irritated with the whole situation." "458)}So here we go." "This is the first scoop out of the old creek bed we just diverted." "Some good looking stuff." "We've put a lot of work into this creek bed and it's our final push of the season." "So it'd be real great if there's some good gold in it." "Todd Hoffman." "You know there's this competition that has been brewing between Todd and I and." "Doing that diversion has basically opened up 1800 feet of thawed pay." "I hope it's gonna pay off." "This is when a season is won or lost." "You gotta finish strong." "Parker and crew have diverted a creek to chase the promise of big gold in the newly exposed paydirt." "458)}I think there's a really good chance that this creek bed could be the best dirt we've run all season." "it runs right through 2 of our best cuts." "I certainly know that gold doesn't jump so just seems like a no-brainer to me." "That's really good looking dirt Rick." "Yeah buddy." "And hopefully it's gonna have a ton of gold in it." "had three 800 ounce cleanups off this same ground so." "You know what?" "It's our turn to find out if there's any of that ground left." "You know the creek bed's not completely dried up." "yuck." "it's a terrible idea but we're just gonna wing it and hope for the best cause I think the gold's gonna be worth it." "and Parker is running untested dirt." "we've got a pretty short time line here trying to get this done." "At night the temperature plummets to a bitter 16 degrees." "If there's any time of year you wanna keep the wash plant running 24 hours a day it's right now keep everything from freezing up." "are worn out." "It's running but it ain't running good." "It's not at full RPM." "I know that." "It's kind of half assed running right now so." "We'll see if we can baby it through another couple of shifts." "it's slowing down already." "Fuck." "Is the feed rate way down?" "Yeah." "Turn it down any more we won't be doing anything." "We'll be losing money." "This is fuckin frustrating." "There's no use trying to run it like that." "It's just gonna end up a fucked up mess." "a broken down plant would end Parker's season." "And allow Todd to beat him in the gold count." "something's wrong with the wash plant and the weather's just going to hell." "It sucks man." "I don't want it to end like this." "Hey Parker." "You got a copy?" "Go ahead." "but it ain't working." "It's 16 degrees." "Cold enough to ice up idle machinery." "She gave up the ghost huh." "Not even two buckets man." "But foreman Rick Ness has been forced to shutdown Goldzilla." "I mean." "We don't have any spares for this plant." "A motor for this would probably be a couple days out at least." "The wash plant's motor is failing." "Parker's crew is done for the year." "crap." "We gotta figure it out." "The only thing we got's Big Red sitting over there." "It's the same size shaker deck." "that'd be huge if those motors were the same." "but it's worth a try." "We're fuckin up shit creek man." "That's all we got." "but it's probably our best option right now." "I'll go measure it up." "See what we can do." "It's time for Big Red to make a little sacrifice." "Barely enough room for one person here." "Yeah." "this is pretty well the heart of Big Red." "This is what makes it shake." "we're gonna do a little heart transplant." "Put this on Goldzilla." "And hopefully get us back making gold." "Is it the same shaft size?" "Hopefully it's close." "Alright Rick." "It's all yours." "Pull it outta here." "man." "Looking like this motor might match up to Goldzilla." "That would be huge." "That would get us running." "That's gonna be..." "Five and seven eighths." "Well these motors are a little different." "fuck." "but the belt heights are different." "Gotta have it be the same." "Hope I can swap 'em over." "but it's pulley is too small." "Mitch needs to transplant the pulley from the dead motor onto the one that works." "There it is." "nothing can fuckin work around here." "Just a mater of putting it back together now." "Keep it low till we get over there." "Then you can raise it up." "Okay." "Hold there?" "Okay." "Good." "Bring it up." "Nice and easy." "A little bit more." "Let 'er down." "Coming down." "Hold." "How's it look?" "Better than the last one." "Ha ha ha ha." "Good good." "We got it." "She's shaking." "That's all we're looking for." "Wow." "Shit." "Might have a frozen pump." "No." "Fuck no." "I'm not going through this right now." "Click click click click." "Ha ha ha." "Oh my fuckin goodness." "Nothing can be fuckin easy." "Even turn on a fuckin pump." "18 so." "Not a good sign." "She's froze up bad." "As solid as you can get." "we're packing 'er in." "This is why I think there's a mining season." "I think she's unlocked." "Moment of truth?" "Moment of truth." "Come on baby." "Hot damn!" "Goldzilla is back up and running." "Parker still has a chance to get enough gold to stay ahead of the Hoffman's." "How's everything look up there Mitch?" "Everything's looking really good." "The plant's shaking real good." "Perfect." "Look at this." "Look at this view." "Thank you God." "The Hoffman crew is running two monster wash plants." "In a race to sluice a mountain of paydirt before the Yukon winter freezes them out." "Makes you happy you're a gold miner on days like this." "For 5 days they've processed a colossal 600 yards an hour." "they should be done running their stockpile within 24 hours." "We're beginning to make a dent." "We might actually pull this off yet and get through all this paydirt." "That pay pile goes real fast when you got two big wash plants running." "But it's just 18 degrees and frozen chunks of paydirt are already blocking the grizzly bars." "A lot of black smoke coming from over there where your pump is at." "Holy shit." "That looks bad cause I see smoke really barreling out of that thing." "Juan." "Shit." "Hey Sheamus." "That turbo's red hot." "We got a flame coming out about 6 inches tall." "We don't need a breakdown right now." "This is the last thing we need." "Oh my gosh." "Look at that." "Sheamus." "What do you think?" "The turbo's gone man." "Yeah." "It looks like it's all toasted." "It's red hot." "demands 4000 gallons of water a minute." "But the turbocharger on their water pump has overheated." "Is there any way you can rebuild that?" "Not likely." "No." "Not in the state it's in right now." "So." "We got to try to order one or find one or?" "yup." "this is a 3406." "I got a 3406 in it." "Probably the same exact turbo." "we can rip it off my truck and put it on this thing for now." "Seriously." "Yeah." "Do you really think it'll fit?" "I'm sure it'll fit." "You cool with that?" "I'm cool with that." "No kidding." "Let's go." "Do it." "Go for it." "That shows his dedication." "He'll take a part off of his truck to keep us going and get that gold." "Here it is." "Get some tools and we'll get it pulled off real quick." "If I can get the friggen socket on there buddy." "Essentially a turbo is a blower." "It's driven by the exhaust." "which gives your engine more power." "Well we just gotta get this thing off." "We can't even touch it." "It's so darn hot." "You got it?" "Got it man." "How's it feel Juan?" "458)}I feel like any of these guys would have done the same thing had they been in the same position." "Very good." "Fort Knox hasn't caught any gold in 5 hours." "Monster Red has been working solo." "And it's worn out belts are slipping." "The tailing's conveyor is once again clogged with rocks." "It's gonna be a piece of shit all the way to the end." "then the rocks just stack up." "It makes a lot of shoveling." "Want to try that out?" "Yeah." "This stuff's staying to the end." "458)} Especially when everything goes all catty wonkers like this." "and it's the ninth round." "And it's trying it's hardest but it's got all kinds of problems." "before Monster Red is finally back in the fight." "Keep going." "It's all we can do." "Juan struggles in the bitter cold to install the turbocharger from his truck on to the pump." "We need one more here." "is it?" "Belts are starting to freeze up." "It's go time." "Dave." "We good?" "I think so." "Good job Juan." "That's a real team player right there." "Dave can get back to loading pay." "processing 600 yards of paydirt an hour." "Both plants firing." "Good to be going again." "It was snowing out here this morning." "I'm surprised it's actually all melted now." "Tony Beets and his crew are desperate for one final massive clean-out to prove that dredging has a future in the gold fields of the north." "Gene prepares a dry dock to get the dredge up and out of the water before their pond freezes over." "Where do I want to put the dredge?" "On dry ground for the winter so it's not in the ice and don't have to worry about any issues with freezing or and should be good to go in the spring." "just like they do in the locks." "Gene's plan to get the million dollar dredge safely onto dry land." "excavate a flat area 100 by 200 feet that will act as the dry dock." "Next." "Block the drainage channel." "And open up the sluice gates to raise the water level." "they'll float it into the dry dock." "allowing the water level to drop." "Leaving the dredge high and dry on a smooth base for the long winter." "I'm using the water level we're at as a gauge." "just a few inches and once we know we don't have any real high spots or low spots here then smooth it out with the bucket." "the dredge sits level." "I still need to get this truck off of here to hold the water back." "Can you make a pass down on that side of the coarse tails." "Tony blocks the drainage channel with tailings." "He can't risk leaving his million dollar dredge in the water any longer." "Tony." "Alrighty." "Higher?" "he has to get the dredge safely into the dry dock." "let's hook these up." "Alrighty." "ready for the float out in 24 hours." "then it's a good fuckin day." "Cause there ain't no turning back then." "Winter's closing in man it is friggen cold." "360)\fs34}First light at McKinnon Creek before the cold cripples their mine." "everything will freeze up." "So we keep going." "We're almost done." "Dave." "Shut it down." "The stacking conveyor stopped." "Shut it down." "Shut it down." "Dang it." "for the 6th time this week." "It's already cost them 18 hours of lost sluicing." "Hate that thing." "Thing is the biggest pain in the ass." "and we got to get it ran." "Let's just start shoveling it and we'll see where it goes." "I'm not shoveling any more of this." "I've already done a lot." "200)} (Pierce) 258)}I did it all night long Kevin." "458)}I don't know if you know this but this has been fighting with us all season." "100)} (Todd) 198)} Hey." "Would you quit fighting." "Screw that." "Screw digging it out and screw friggen fixing it." "Bring the 9-L up Andy." "Push it right off the friggen hill." "I don't really care." "Let's go." "And let's get running again." "Alright." "Let's do it." "Yeah." "The stacker's been the thorn in our side." "I wouldn't sell that to Parker." "Ah." "Yeah." "Maybe I would." "Just keep sluicing man." "Screw that conveyor." "10-4 Here it goes." "Okay Kevin." "Here goes your buddy." "I don't even care." "From now on they'll have to bulldoze the tailings away." "But this late in the season the only thing that matters is to keep running." "There you go Todd." "Conveyor problem solved." "50 seconds." "Let's start sluicing." "I don't think we're in too early." "360)\fs36} At Eureka Creek" "The water level has finally risen high enough for Gene to winch the dredge into his dry dock." "You guys got a copy up there?" "Yeah." "Go ahead." "I'll dunk you backwards and start leading you around." "Sir Gene will come over." "Give us a shove." "And we should swing right in." "Should." "One never knows." "I'm just giving the dredge a little push off the bank here." "I'm gonna lead it around the corner into the dry dock." "We're swinging around now into position." "the crew connects a cable to the side boom and slowly winches it towards the dry dock." "Once the dredge is in shallow water." "They can drain the pond and leave it safe and dry for winter." "That winch is engaged." "Give you a bump off the corner here." "What?" "We got it pulling." "Shit." "Winch going at all or." "Montana?" "Yeah." "We caught on the bank or something?" "Yeah." "It looks like we're all hung up here." "I'll go see what I can do for you." "The water level is too low." "The dredge has run aground on the dry dock." "I looked it was 18 degrees Fahrenheit." "In the cold it makes it more of a battle that's for sure." "At McKinnon Creek the Hoffman crew struggles to pull the mats on Monster Red before they freeze in the sluice box." "We just made it by the skin of our teeth." "The plant was icing up." "I don't think we could have ran another day." "Every year it's about the same." "You just push so hard at the end." "makes it all worthwhile." "What brings people back year after year is all that yellow gold right." "You look at the graveyards in the gold mining towns." "Full of people 20 years old." "That shows you the difference of the hardships they had but the drive's the same." "It's that yellow metal." "It's always a gamble." "Wahoo." "Yeah." "You want to come look at this?" "Tony Beets has to get his million dollar dredge safely onto dry land before the winter freeze destroys it." "But the water level in the pond has dropped." "The dredge has run aground on the edge of their shallow dry dock." "Gene breaks through a berm upstream and thousands of gallons of water rush into the dredge pond." "You know it won't be an hour." "Nothing ever goes smooth." "This whole area is cursed." "Nothing goes right here." "Before the water can drain away again" "Pull the thing up onto the pad." "Then I'll start winching forward." "Gene takes matters into his own hands." "He uses his excavator bucket to drag the dredge into the dock." "Easy there Gene." "Put a little weight on the front of the dredge it'll pick the ass end up and I'm just gonna pull it in." "Whew." "Spuds down." "Whew.." "All that matter's down and the dredge is docked." "Gene breaks the berm downstream to drain the water out of the dredge pond." "In a few hours the dredge will be high and dry for the first time in 5 months." "Finally the crew can begin their all important cleanup." "I think it's been a pretty good year." "It's nice to be doing the last cleanup." "It feels good." "I've had a lot of fun." "Yup." "That's encouraging." "Tony's last gold of the season is in this box." "Just how much will determine whether his dream of dredging in the Klondike has a future." "Next morning the brutal Yukon winter has arrived." "Snow has blanketed the claims." "And at 15 degrees it's cold enough to burst pipes." "Most gold miners are either packing up or have already left for the season." "and it's cold as fuck so." "Think that might be a sign that it's time to pack up and go." "Parker's diehard crew works tirelessly to get at what they hope is gold rich paydirt from the creek bed." "458)}Right now we're just trying to run this plant as long as we can before it gets too cold." "There's some 462)}grumblings going on like why are we still here?" "You know they're thinking we should be going home with everybody else." "We should be." "That's hard to take." "Despite the bitter cold 95 year old John Schnabel flies in for the end of Parker's season." "Grandpa rides in style now." "Hey hey." "Ho ho." "You got to get unbuckled first." "Oh." "Hey hey." "I can't get out of this." "What the." "Please" "Boo." "Ah heh heh." "There ain't much to hold onto." "Well." "We'll try our best then." "We'll make it." "There we go." "Ha ha ha ha." "Aw." "Aw." "Good to see ya." "You're looking wonderful." "So are you." "Ha." "I'm glad that I'm here." "Me too." "Where's my cane." "I need something to keep me from falling down." "Thank you." "There we go." "You want a cup of coffee?" "I was just" "Sure." "about to have a cup of coffee." "I just had a hell of a good sandwich." "So I'm not hungry at all." "So." "When are you planning to shut down." "Is the weather gonna be your determining factor?" "Everybody's in a very good spirits and I don't want it to be everybody starting to tear each other's heads off that shuts us down you know." "I've got a good group of guys here right now and I don't want to lose them." "You can shut down today." "You don't have to fight the plant and ice if you don't want to." "I don't say that's what you have to do." "I just say that's what I'd do." "I think we should probably just go ahead and call it a season." "you know." "You know at some point enough is enough and it's time to call it a season while everybody's still on good terms so." "Come on." "It's Lady's last shift." "Parker and his crew go all out to get the last of the gold." "is on it's last legs." "we're not quite sure where Todd's at but." "if we can manage to get this creek diversion done." "that might be just what puts us past Todd Hoffman." "Everybody wants to know what this creek holds." "That's why we're here." "Yeah." "Rumor has it that Todd had a pretty good season and so." "We just want to make ours a little bit better." "So this is the last pay of the season." "hopefully it's gonna be one for the record books." "the temperature hits 12 degrees." "Parker runs the last of his paydirt." "That's it for the season." "Hey Rick." "You got a copy." "Yeah go ahead Parker." "Yeah." "That's the last scoop that just went in." "If you guys want to shut 'er down." "Meet you up at the plant?" "shut 'er down." "Roger that." "Tell you what." "I don't think we could get one more yard across this old shaker deck." "Yeeah." "It's just time to call it man." "It's too cold." "There's ice everywhere." "It ain't worth fighting it anymore." "It's the last dirt of our season going through the hopper right now." "that's this thing off for the last time." "Ah." "It's actually a good feeling." "Ha ha ha ha." "Good job guys." "Oh ho." "Yeah." "There we go." "There's a souvenir." "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha." "Yeeah." "Ha ha ha." "That's a piece of spring off the shaker deck." "Sitting in our sluice box so." "I'd say.." "We probably picked a good time to shut down." "Ha ha." "Thank you guys." "Sounds good man." "You did a hell of a job." "It's been a great season." "Fingers crossed that it's a success." "Uhh." "If I had a beer we'd be having a cheers right now." "Yeah. ha ha ha ha." "It's the Beets' family's last day in the Klondike before they head south for the winter." "Hey you." "Good." "It's like Christmas." "I brought you a present." "I found him." "How are ya?" "Fuckin liar." "I'd like to see what the dredge come up with." "Where did you want the stuff." "what is it." "Our last cleanup or what?" "That would be nice but I don't think so." "This is all the gold we've dredged so far." "Plus one more gold weigh that we need to weigh." "And that's all the dredge has done." "It is 609 ounces." "000 dollars." "15" "Well there's some beautiful nuggets in there." "20" "Tony's goal this season is to mine 900 ounces." "30" "Enough to pay back the cost of buying the dredge." "50" "Tony needs his final weigh in to produce 291 ounces." "70" "But the dredge's average cleanup this season is just 68 ounces." "80" "90" "10" "127.75" "There isn't much better cleanups." "737" "Tony has come up 163 ounces short." "That's bullshit." "That's not gonna cut it." "It's not what you promised me." "How many days did we sluice?" "3 and a half days." "it would have paid for it." "Tony has not paid for his dredge in his first season." "But he and Gene have figured out how to produce a respectable 36 ounces a day." "Or 250 ounces for a full week." "Worth a quarter of a million dollars." "The dredge is really efficient to run." "That's the whole key to the whole thing." "That thing burns less fuel than most people's water pump feeds their wash plant." "At that rate Tony's dredge could soon be making a very healthy profit." "You have to admit the costs pay off and all this stuff." "It is very feasible this." "It really is feasible." "Okay." "Well I'll take the gold." "You guys just take your learning experience." "Million dollar mountain of pay was right here." "We did it." "the Hoffman's ran every yard of their massive pay pile." "In the gold room Jack cleans up the last of the gold." "This could push us over our goal." "Yeah." "Wouldn't that be fantastic." "Nobody's here unless you're dreaming big." "That's right." "We moved over 2 million yards of dirt." "You guys did that." "So where we are today from where we came from is pretty amazing." "I'm proud of what we've done here." "I think we've done well." "I don't know that we could have.." "really done it much better." "Okay we're going." "We're going." "hardest season since they started mining six years ago." "HOLY!" "There's one question on everyone's mind." "Look at that." "Parker Schnabel." "It looks like a lot of gold Jack." "Yeah." "hey." "What did we set for our first goal?" "2700 right." "Twice the amount of last season." "Yeah." "Then we decided we'd go for broke and we set a goal at what?" "3000 3000" "Okay." "Well." "With 2 plants we had 321 ounces." "thirty two." "No way." "(Loud cheers)" "Our best season ever." "worth 3.3 million dollars." "It's not just the best season the Hoffman crew's ever had." "We've got more gold this season." "huh." "and I can't" "Can't praise you any more." "Set a goal and we beat our own goal." "Yup." "I'm not so sure if we're gonna beat Parker." "I have no idea." "we're the same group of guys we started with." "We got mad at each other." "We forgave each other." "brothers." "Okay." "I appreciate you guys being on the team." "bring it in man." "Let's give thanks." "Heavenly father." "We just truly thank you for the opportunities and help us to be bold enough to take them." "In your name we pray." "Amen." "Amen." "guys." "(many talking)" "Hey hey." "Well hello." "Hello." "How you doing?" "Pardon." "How's it going?" "Hi." "Good to see ya." "Parker's crew gathers to find out if they got enough gold in their final cleanup to beat the Hoffmans." "Here's the gold we got left." "These are hundred ouncers." "We've had some of it melted down." "You guys." "What's the weight of that bar Parker?" "These?" "Yeah." "They're in kilograms so they're like 31.2 ounces or something." "Kilo bars. (admiring talk)" "It's been a long one and you guys all stuck it out and I appreciate that." "we start with a young green crew." "but we stuck together and it's ended up really good." "And a lot of that I have you to thank for Rick." "You've been one hell of a leader." "Yup." "Yeah Rick." "Appreciate it buddy." "I want to thank you for giving me a shot." "you know." "that brings us to some gold." "There was a little rivalry going this season between us and the guys downstream." "Do you know what Hoffman ended up at?" "I do." "They finished up at 3031 ounces." "this is from the creek diversion." "we got em whupped." "So I reckon that's probably about 25 ounces which takes us past the Hoffman's." "I think he should have learned by now." "(laughter and cheering)" "So that's 353 ounces." "000 dollars." "362." "698 thousand dollars." "The biggest take of his gold mining career." "you don't know how pleased and proud I am of you." "you had a hundred and some ounces and you were quite pleased but you wanted to do better." "you now look at 3000 ounces." "What a fantastic change in your life." "And I am really proud because you had a dream and you stayed with it till you won." "what more could I ask for?" "Nothing." "I am lucky." "A very fortunate man." "(everyone claps)" "Give him a hug you big goon." "Give him a big hug." "Come on Parker." "I love you." "I love ya Parker." "I not only love you." "I'm proud of ya." "You make my life worthwhile." "It's been the most amazing four or five years of my life." "I'm glad you stayed around for it." "That wasn't easy but it's worth the wait." "Cheers." "Wa-hoo." "(crowd roars and laughs) we stuck together." "We had a group of core guys that are in that room." "And and they finished it." "At the end of the year the people who win are the one's that have the heart." "And the ones that have the dedication." "The one's that put the hours in." "And that's those guys." "That's us." "Four years do we did 193 ounces." "In the year before that we did 34." "This year we found over 25% more gold than last year." "That's a big increase." "we'll keep going down that route." "It doesn't stop here." "This does not stop here." "More power to the kid." "Know what?" "He works hard." "Todd Hoffman is moving on." "He's had his best gold mining season ever." "for good." "we've got our 5100 ounces and if anybody looks at our mine and they don't consider us a major player." "in my estimation we conquered the Klondike." "Is our work done though?" "No." "Todd's hoping his future as a gold miner lies on a new claim 1500 miles south." "Oregon could be the ultimate treasure hunt." "It's got a history of huge nuggets and huge pockets of gold." "We're looking for a friggen miracle." "And you know what?" "We're not gonna stop until we get it." "340)\fnLucida Calligraphy} Subs by {\fs49.901\b1\i1} Jack T"