"Narrator:" "On this "Gold Rush"...  [ truck horn blows ]" "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!" "This is quite a commotion, isn't it?" "It's like having unprotected sex." "This isn't the spo..." "way it's supposed to be, okay." "Here's 40." "Oh, oh, oh." "Yeah." "We're in trouble." "Hey, hey, hey!" "Knock it off!" "That cut's done!" "I'm done!" "Oregon was meant to be a beautiful homecoming." "Good luck." "This has turned into an absolute nightmare." "A little more." "Right there." "Beautiful." "We're done." "That's it." "I still need you to put this section in." "You can't take the 200 and dig the hole?" "I can't operate that 200." "I'll sink it." "I've already wasted an hour." "I should be doing overburden." "Narrator:" "At the Buckland mine in Oregon..." "Keep going." "Keep going." "The Hoffman crew is facing failure." "All right, Andy." "We're hooked up." "I'm outta here." "Nobody's been paid for over a month." "And they're at breaking point." "Todd, you got a copy?" "Hey, Andy." "How you doin'?" "I got a problem with Randy." "I need you to talk to him." "Try to keep it positive if you can, buddy." "I got 5 feet of water." "The pumps don't work." "Narrator:" "Halfway through the season," "They've mined just 204 ounces worth less than $250,000." "Todd Hoffman's 5,000-ounce season goal is history." "This has really turned out to be a really rough, rough year." "We okay?" "No." "I've already wasted an hour." "You want me to do your job?" "Why?" "Why is this a problem?" "You fuckin' start screaming and yelling at me." "No, listen to me." "Because I have a..." "No." "Listen to me!" "No more bullshit!" "Can I..." "And this is why I'm leaving." "No, listen to me!" "Don't!" "No!" "Come here!" "We don't quit." "Come on!" "Hoffman:" "Hey." "Hey." "Calm down." "Don't leave me." "I love you" "Don't..." "I love you." "Listen." "Calm down." "Listen to me." "Come on." "[ voice breaking ] I can't do it." "Come on, man." "No." "No, no, no, no." "No, no, no, no." "It's okay." "It's okay." "You're doin' good." "You're doin' good." "We've had a hell of a summer." "It's okay." "All right?" "Sometimes, you just stand down." "It's okay." "Do you want me to go back to work or not?" "I want you to go back to work, man." "I want you to go back to work." "You're all right." "[ truck engine starts ]" "Tempers are flaring." "Every..." "Everybody's pissed because we're not getting gold." "And it's just tough." "Um, you know, when your mechanic just frickin' shed a tear..." "You know it's bad when your mechanic is crying." "It's not easy to do when you're losing, man." "And all we've been doing this summer is losing." "I don't know." "I gotta try to keep these guys together." "And it's not easy, man." "It's not easy at all." "Narrator:" "After a disastrous start to the season," "The Hoffman crew came to the Buckland mine 5 weeks ago," "Determined to turn their fortunes around." "No one's been in here, seriously, since the '20s." "How do we know they didn't just pick it clean?" "The dredge didn't make it to the bottom." "There will be gold at the bottom." "Dig down right in here." "Narrator:" "But last week," "Their dreams of bedrock gold were shattered." "Bedrock." "[ sighs ] Nothin'?" "The dredge didn't really miss jack shit." "We're looking down a barrel of a serious failure." "Enough is enough." "Narrator:" "Freddy Dodge," "Todd's gold recovery expert and friend for the last 7 years called it quits." "I gotta go, for now." "I know." "It just hurts." "We started stripping this cut hoping that the dredge had not gotten down to bedrock." "Unfortunately, they have." "It's gonna be sidepay." "It's what the dredge couldn't get." "That's what we're chasing." "Narrator:" "The crew's only option..." "Dig alongside the wall of old dredge tailings in search of another small pocket of sidepay." "And this cut has been an absolute pain in the butt." "The pay wasn't where we started, you know?" "And now, I got nothin' but water problems." "How's it going?" "Not very good." "Crap." "Well, we need more pay to keep that sucker runnin'." "We've got our work cut out." "But I'll get your pay dirt." "It's all I can ask, buddy." "We're in trouble." "Narrator:" "No one knows if there's gold in the dirt they're running." "And no one's getting paid 'til they hit a real pay streak." "I just bought my first house." "And, fuck." "It's so..." "It's nerve-racking not getting paid." "Tensions are pretty high." "Hunter:" "It's hard to keep working when you're not getting any gold." "It's really frustrating." "Morale's really low." "Narrator:" "One hundred feet down in the cut," "Everyone's pinning their hopes on Andy Spinks finding a new pocket of pay." "Spinks:" "I keep diggin' a hole deeper and deeper and deeper." "I've got a bunch of water coming into my cut when I'm trying to dig." "I don't want to waste another day or two trying to reset all my pumps." "My biggest concern is just getting pay to the plant." "Pierce:" "Andy, the high wall's comin' down." "Ah fuck!" "Oh, you've gotta be fuckin' kidding me." "Can I get one more thing to go wrong today?" "Narrator:" "At Paradise Hill," "Tony Beets' $250,000 power barge is finally finished." "It's the linchpin of his plan to expand his mining operation." "Tony's new $1.5 million dredge lies abandoned 100 miles south." "He'll use the power barge to retrieve it." "But first, he has to get the barge 15 miles down to the Yukon River." "Yeah." "The barge is so big," "Tony's hired a team of welders to build his own monster trailer." "Tony has constructed a steel bed 80 feet long by 8 feet wide." "His plan:" "Take the front axles and 6 foot wheels from two old loaders," "Weld them directly to the base of the bed to create a monster trailer capable of hauling his 26 foot wide 60 ton barge." "Just gonna go around right here." "And then we'll roll them things in there." "A little more, Jay!" "More!" "All right." "Tony has spent 2 weeks and $10,000 building his trailer." "Tony: [ laughs ]" "Cheeseman:" "Just go around to the other end." "I wanna look at something." "Narrator:" "Foreman Gene Cheeseman is worried about the height." "It's gonna be pretty tall." "Nine foot eight." "It'll be damn close." "Gotta go double check our measurements at the bridge." "The only route to the Yukon River passes through a box bridge." "Hurry." "26, 11." "I think we're, like, 26, 6." "So we got, like, 4 1/2, 5 inches." "The clearance on the bridge is less than 17 feet, 4 inches." "The power barge and the monster trailer combined stand at just over 17 feet." "I don't know what to say." "Hey, guys." "I don't like the sound of that?" "You know, I don't get it." "Why didn't you measure it?" "Yeah, it's too close." "We're not..." "So..." "We spent a lot of money and..." "On the welders and everything else." "And we have nothing for it." "So don't you think you guys maybe should get going and find something else?" "[ sighs ]" "Just deal with it." "Go fix it now and get going." "Schnabel:" "I'm really not happy with where we're at this point in the season." "The halfway mark, and we're nowhere fuckin' near halfway." "Narrator:" "At Scribner Creek, Parker Schnabel is halfway through the season but has only mined 1,075 ounces, around a quarter of his 4,000-ounce $4.8 million goal." "He needs around 150 ounces a week to stay on target." "But last week's haul was just 96." "Parker's come to the cut to investigate what's going wrong." "Schnabel:" "Fuckin' shit!" "Kelly's left fuckin' a mountain of pay in the cut." "And it's the best stuff." "People need to start gettin' their shit together." "They can't be makin' any more fuckin' mistakes." "Narrator:" "Tyson is loading the feeder." "[ remote beeps ]" "Schnabel:" "Hey, Kel." "Think you'll be able to get another 20, 40 feet?" "Yeah, you betcha." "Narrator:" "And Kelly is digging pay." "Come here." "I just want to look at somethin' with ya." "There's fuckin' pay all over in here, Kelly." "Right?" "All this?" "That's all river rock." "Look at that." "That's the best stuff." "All that's pay." "All of this is pay." "I've been trying to figure out why our numbers are so bad." "And I think it's because of..." "I think it's because a lot of the best pay, we're leaving in here." "Look at all of that." "That's all river gravel." "Right?" "But, Parker, All the sand's out of it." "No!" "No!" "If a rock like this is..." "If a rock like this gets down here, then, uh, how's a flake of gold that's one-ten-thousandth the size of that?" "You looked at the whole cut with me." "Not one bucket that you..." "that you... that you complained about." "I'm looking at what we've got right here." "Well, that's not the way it's fuckin' supposed to be, Parker." "But are we..." "no, you're right." "This isn't..." "this isn't the way it's supposed to be." "Okay?" "I'm not..." "I'm not gonna talk about this any more." "We'll put a plan together to get the rest of the pay out of the cut." "If you want me to scrape it all up and get a truck..." "No, I don't really want you to." "I don't." "um..." "That... that is not the way we dig pay." "Narrator:" "The boundary-cut extension has around 20 feet of worthless overburden sitting above the pay." "The richest pay is in the top 4 feet of fractured bedrock." "Parker thinks Kelly has taken the first 2 feet, leaving 2 feet of gold-rich material that he now wants Tyson to run." "Bedrock definitely is not the fun stuff to run." "It's the stuff that has the gold in it, though." "See?" "There's some pretty meaty ones in there." "[ Beep...beep...beep ]" "Fuckin' grizzlies!" "Hey, Parker." "do you have a copy?" "What's up?" "They are not going up or down." "Narrator:" "The grizzly bars stop large rocks getting into the wash plant." "When ever there's a buildup of rocks, Tyson uses a remote to lift the bars." "But the remote-control system isn't working." "It's just not sending out the signal for the grizzly bars up, I believe." "With mechanic Mitch away getting married, it's up to Parker to find a solution." "They've got a part." "but it's down south." "So may take a while to get here." "Tyson?" "I think we just say fuck it." "We're not gonna have any." "We're just gonna leave 'em up." "Okay." "This is gonna be fun." "Parker has decided to run the plant with the grizzly bars open." "I know Parker wants to get running." "And I do, too." "Ness:" "But running that feeder with the grizzlies wide-open in the air is not a good idea." "You know, one big chunk of bedrock falls in there, straight onto that rubber belt." "It's gonna tear it." "Maybe we'll get lucky." "But it ain't a good idea." "Hiatt:" "The stuff's wet, but, you know," "I'm just seeing a lot of clay in it." "And the best pay that we've had so far has been a l... really rocky and sandy." "Narrator:" "In Oregon, Kevin Hiatt is running 300 yards an hour through the wash plant." "Seems like the material that Andy sends isn't that great." "Narrator:" "But he's not convinced it contains gold." "Hiatt:" "I hope Andy's not just sending up dirt to keep us happy." "Running pay that has no gold in it, that won't help." "They've gotta come up with a better plan." "Narrator:" "Down in the pit, Andy is struggling after a wall of fine tailing's collapsed." "Spinks:" "I just spent all day digging', that just filled up full of mud in about 2 seconds." "Now I got a whole pile of crap to deal with." "Hiatt:" "Andy, do you copy?" "Yeah, Kevin." "Do you have any pay you can send up here to the plant?" "I am just about out." "We need some pay, like, right now." "You're gonna have to shut it down." "Dude, this ain't cool." "We can't shut the plant down, Andy, because you guys couldn't get us pay." "I'm not talkin' about this any more." "You're gonna have to just wait." "I'll get it as quick as I can." "Running out of pay!" "Andy's got no pay to send us." "We gotta shut down now." "Trey, I'm shuttin' down the, uh, wet feeder." "We got no gold in the sluice box." "How you gonna catch gold if you don't have any frickin' pay?" "Narrator:" "Until Andy sends more pay, the plant crew's only option is maintenance." "It just gets worse every frickin' day." "I got a brand-new baby at home that I don't get to see." "And I'm here doing this crap." "I'm not even getting paid for it right now." "Ah, damn it." "Hiatt:" "Dave, do you copy?" "Yeah, go ahead, Kev." "Do you have the grease gun?" "Sterling's greasing' something down there." "Sterling!" "Its just been a crappy year, all the way around." "I cannot believe we're not gettin' any gold." "Get the fuck..." "Hey, hey!" "Hey!" "Whoa, whoa!" " What!" "Hey!" "Knock it off!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Stop, stop, stop!" "Get off!" "Hey!" "Come on!" "You asshole!" "Grab him, grab him!" "Hey!" "Kevin!" "Knock it off!" "Stop, stop." "You bastard." "Take a break." "I'm sick of this place." "I'm sick of this crew." "I'm sick of fuckin' Oregon." "[ panting ]" "Turin:" "Never seen the crew like this before." "I't's happening.." "it's happenin' bad." "And you know what, Dude?" "If we don't get gold pretty quick," "It's..." "it's gonna get worse." "Tyson:" "We don't have any grizzly bars." "So we're just dumping all that thick bedrock into the system." "Those big rocks can be a real issue." "But that's the risk we run running no grizzlies." "I mean, we don't really have a choice." "It's either.... don't run, or run without the grizzlies." "Narrator:" "At Scribner Creek, the grizzly bar's remote-control system is broken." "And Parker is gambling on running with the bars open." "Tyson:" "Oh shit." "Fuckin' jammed!" "For fuck sakes!" "Christ sakes, man." "Fuck, fuck." "Ah." "I can't wait for these fuckin' grizzlies to work." "I'm just trying to get it up high enough that I can roll it off without fuckin' rolling downhill." "Schnabel:" "All the big rock and everything is goin' right through the plant." "And I've been bailin' pay." "I'm trying to keep 'em out." "You can see a little pile of rocks right there that I've picked out." "But I can't catch 'em all." "It's like having unprotected sex." "It's not... it's not a matter of if something goes wrong, it's just when." "Yeah, hopefully." "Narrator:" "Tony's monster trailer has proved an embarrassing $10,000 mistake." "He's had to compromise and rent a lowboy trailer to get his power barge through the Dawson bridge." "It's half the width of the monster trailer, which will make it less stable." "Tony:" "Up!" "Whoa!" "We gotta come over 3 inches." "I hope so." "Kevin:" "We are playing with some very big toys." "If it fuckin' fucks up the lift, that's what this thing is." "Honestly, just lifting," "We gotta play around with each fuckin' corner." "Narrator:" "Tony needs to balance the $250,000 barge precisely." "We need to come this way about 6 inches." "If Monica or Kevin are just 1 inch out, the barge could tip and crash to the ground." "Do I gotta go down, too?" "Narrator:" "The convoy heads toward Dawson City with Tony in the pilot car." "To prevent anyone hitting the oversized barge," "Tony leads the way." "Tony: [ laughs ]" "Narrator:" "The barge has only a 2-inch clearance on either side." "One wrong move could destroy the barge or shut down the only bridge into town." "Ready to go?" "About 6, 7 inches." "I got lots of room, this side." "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" "Cheeseman:" "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" "Tony:" "Hey, hey!" "Narrator:" "Tony Beets is trying to navigate his 26-foot-wide power barge through the Dawson bridge with just inches on each side." "Good on this side." "Looking good over here." "[ truck horn blowing ]" "Schnabel:" "Really harsh bedrock that's fuckin' us over." "Narrator:" "At Scribner Creek," "Tyson is fighting to keep the plant running." "He's loading sharp bedrock without the protective grizzly bars." "Leaving the grizzly bars off is just crazy." "This rocky bedrock can do so much damage to the belt." "And that's an $8,000 belt." "Schnabel:" "Fuckin' piece of shit!" "The fuckin' rollers are trying to kill me." "Narrator:" "Running unprotected has taken a serious toll on the conveyor." "Giant rip in our conveyer." "Lee:" "For fuck sakes, man!" "For fuck sakes." "That is bullshit." "This bracket is completely torn off the middle rollers." "That's probably where it ripped." "It probably ripped along this section of metal here and this section of metal here." "That's the bracing for the roller to sit on." "Ness:" "Where's the tear?" "Lee:" "It's up by the stand." "Oh, for christ sake." "That's the risk you take when you're runnin' big rock on rubber conveyors." "This is the kind of shit that Mitch is good at." "Should we just go ahead and wait 'til Sunday when he gets back?" "Yeah." "Ah, let's go gather our shit that we need." "Narrator:" "Every hour the plant is down costs Parker $2,500." "[ drill buzzing ]" "We're going on 4 hours of downtime right now." "I think that'll get her." "The belt's back in one piece." "Time to roll." "That's it." "We are back in business." "Narrator:" "After 5 hours, Tyson and Rick have the wash plant back up and running." "But that means Parker's lost over $12,000 worth of gold." "Ness:" "It's lookin' good for now." "Hopefully, we can get a bit of time out of it." "[ truck horn blowing ]" "Narrator:" "Tony Beets has finally got his power barge down to the Yukon River." "Cheeseman:" "Super trucker." "This is quite a commotion." "Yeah, I just wanna get him over and then we'll go up." "We can start hauling stuff, which would be awesome." "Narrator:" "Tony's all set to head out and retrieve his new gold dredge." "We just got back with our new controller for our grizzly bars." "We're gonna install this." "And hopefully, it fixes our problem." "Narrator:" "At Scribner Creek, crew mechanic Mitch is back from his wedding..." "There we go." "...and straight back to work." "Blaschke:" "Yeah!" "That's what we're looking for." "Thought this was our problem." "And sure enough, looks like it was." "Welcome back, man." "How was the wedding?" "Oh, it was awesome!" "Good?" "Yeah, nothing weird." "No wedding crashers." "No, uh, no fights, no, uh, nobody getting too wasted." "How were the bridesmaids?" "Oh, dude, you shoulda been there." "They were lookin' good." "[ chuckles ]" "Went off real smooth." "Couldn't have went any better." "Right on." "Wish we could say the same." "Yeah." "Yeah?" "How'd it go?" "We had a bunch of pay that got left in the cut." "That's what we ran here." "Just runnin' straight bedrock through that thing." "Yeah." "That's pretty rough on 'em." "Yeah." "Narrator:" "Running without grizzlies caused costly breakages." "But Parker believes the jagged bedrock will prove rich in gold." "All right." "Let's weigh this shit." "To get back on track for his 4,000-ounce goal," "Parker needs at least 160 ounces." "There's 40, 80..." "Oh!" "100?" "102.65." "Yeah." "Worth just $120,000 The bedrock failed to deliver." "We're well behind right now." "Yeah." "We're in trouble." "Well, we're never gonna hit our goal if cleanups keep going like this." "Yeah." "Yeah." "I know." "How close are you to being able to sluice down there... at Indian River?" "Well, I mean, we've been stripping down there for a month." "It's goin' really good." "I think we have to get it goin'." "So if we're serious about trying to do 4,000 ounces," "Which I am..." "Yeah." "Big Red has to get runnin' down there." "We'll start workin' on it." "Yeah." "Let's get at it Rick." "Narrator:" "On and off for the last 6 weeks," "Rick has been attempting to start up their second claim." "Right, man." "This is what I've been waiting for." "Indian River, you know?" "I just wanna get up there," "Start running' some dirt," "See some Indian River gold, man." "Blaschke:" "How's it going?" "Narrator:" "In the boundary cut, Rick is recovering from a wasp sting." "Hey, you feelin' any better?" "Yeah, I'm feeling better." "It's bad fuckin' news though." "Doctor said I have a severe allergy to bee stings." "It got me, like, right here." "And it's all swollen down to here." "I've got, like, a woman's breast." "[ laughs ]" "It's like a C cup." "Like, it falls." "Like, it's...no." "It's absurd." "The nurse was laughing at me." "Ness:" "There's a wasp in my cab." "Get out of here, fucker." "Ah!" "Fuck off!" "There it goes." "There's, uh, a fuckin' wasp." "Spinks:" "Frickin' walls are fallin' in!" "And I can't keep the dirt out, too stinkin' deep." "I'm tired of it." "Narrator:" "After 5 weeks at Buckland and digging down over 100 feet," "Andy is still searching for a pocket of gold that will finally give the crew a paycheck." "I told them to fuel my stinkin' excavator up." "I get in here and I got no fuel." "So I gotta go get fuel now." "This stuff is startin' to really piss me off." "Perfect." "Great spot to park your truck, guys." "Right in front of this fuel tank." "This ain't a frickin' parking lot!" "Anybody copy who parked this truck up here in front of the fuel truck with no stinkin' keys in it?" "I need this thing moved right now." "[ sighs ]" "Todd:" "What's going on?" "You know what?" "I've had it!" "I've had enough!" "I'm done with this!" "Is this where we're at?" "Really?" "This is ridiculous." "I'm down there digging' dirt." "I got walls caving' in." "Pumps aren't pumping water." "That cut's done." "I'm done!" "Wait a minute!" "Andy!" "The hell is goin' on?" "Andy..." "He just walked off." "[ truck engine starts ]" "Well, I didn't see that comin'." "Maybe you could talk to him, Dave." "I think we're past it." "I'll be honest with you." "I don't know what we need to do." "You know, I..." "I don't know what to do, either." "But I know we're not gonna get any gold at all if we just keep imploding." "You know?" "We can't break apart." "Then we got no chance." "We already have no chance." "Andy's gone." "I can follow his plan for another couple days and then what?" "We've lost Freddy." "We've lost Andy." "I'll be honest with you." "We've lost this team." "And with out this team..." "We can't do it." "At some point, you gotta know when to quit." "I love you like a brother." "But on this one..." "No, not you." "I gotta go." "Not you." "I can't run this without you, Dave." "Good luck, pal." "Seriously?" "Come on." "No." "I gotta go, man." "Sorry." "Todd:" "Well, I lost my whole team." "That's it." "I don't know what I'm gonna do." "Oregon was meant to be a beautiful homecoming." "It's just turned into an absolute nightmare." "Narrator:" "On the next..."Gold Rush"" "It's a very gentle procedure as you can see." "[ truck horn blows ]" "Woo!" "We've gotta get Big Red sluicing as soon as we can." "Easy." "[ bang ]" "What the fuck was that?" "We're killing ourselves right now trying to run this mine with four guys." "I never thought it'd come to this." "Hey, feeder's blowing water out the back." "Shut it down!" "Aah."