"To find a mine right now is really do or die for us." "On This Gold Rush" "So what's your gold look like?" "You have got to be kidding me." "Hey guys." "Rattlesnake." "Dad." "I think I found something." "This could be the treasure hunt of a lifetime." "New world out there now." "Watch out." "What the fuck? I think today we should just move the plant." "No." "Pick it up." "Now bring it up." "Pick it up!" "It's gonna fuckin fall over." "Ah." "For fuck's sake." "this wouldn't happen." "Just sick of it." "Where'd everybody fuckin go?" "To find a mine right now is really do or die for us." "We really don't have a future left at McKinnon." "and a new home for his crew." "his claim owner dropped a bombshell." "He's selling McKinnon Creek out from under Todd." "I haven't quite let my guys know how desperate the situation is." "then they're gonna be out of a job." "Todd has found a claim with a reputation for chunky nuggets." "And he's hoping he can strike a deal." "Yeah I think we're coming right up to the mine." "This property just came up for lease but I'll tell you what." "I don't think I'm the only one standing in line." "Hey guys." "Hey." "How's it going." "Doing good man." "Good." "Jared." "Yes sir?" "Man I'm Todd." "Jared and William Wirth's family own the High bar mine on top of this 4000 foot mountain in eastern Oregon." "So what you're looking at here is 200 acres that are permitted to mine." "We've barely scratched the surface on what's up here you know." "It's just too much ground to do with 2 guys." "So what's your gold look like?" "We got some to show you guys." "You have got to be kidding me." "Big gold." "Look at that one." "That's one of the best nuggets I've ever seen." "That's jewelry grade gold." "How deep's your pay gravels?" "we've gone from a foot all the way down to 15 feet and we've hit gold all the way through pretty consistently." "Holy frig." "And there is no overburden on this mine site." "there's gotta be some." "There's zero overburden." "What you're standing right here is gold bearing." "You're on pay dirt as you're standing in it." "You guys drove up on gold that was under your tires on the way up." "Todd." "Now." "I don't want you guys to get offended." "We have to test this our self." "Okay." "grab some pans and I say we start looking around." "I think that's where we start." "Let's get to work." "Alright." "Todd's son Hunter begins the search for nuggets." "I don't know." "there's a old pop can it looks like." "Yup." "Some trash." "I like the look of this up here." "we're gonna take a little bit from here and a little bit from right there." "Let's take this over to that stock tank and pan it." "Nothing." "Whoop." "Dad." "I think I found something." "Is it a nail?" "No." "Here" "Whoo." "What." "Lookit this." "Let's see it." "(beep beep beep beep)" "It's friggen gold." "Look at that." "You are frigging kidding me." "Ha ha ha ha." "Beginner's luck buddy." "Nothing in that one Jack." "you can stop panning." "Show him what we got." "The gravel was exposed kinda right in there." "A little bit of dirt a little bit sagebrush but." "Boom." "He had a hit." "That's nice." "See the gold wrapped around it?" "Quartz with gold in it." "Yeah." "It wasn't even that far down." "In my estimation we're done." "You find a nugget that close to the surface." "We're close to something big." "I say we go down there." "start packing up and get the hell back here." "You know." "Don't get gold fever on a nugget Todd." "I mean that little bit of gold in that rock doesn't mean crap." "I don't know." "We need to find out if there's lots of those here." "Not that one." "We need to find out if there's a lot of them." "I see it differently Freddy." "I say we go here." "these guys are marketing it." "Um huh." "So." "OK." "let somebody else lose their butt." "Not you." "I got one word for ya." "Guyana." "Todd left the gold fields of the Klondike to hunt big gold in the jungles of Guyana." "Look at that." "This is the best gold we've seen." "they found just 2 ounces of gold." "I have to tell you I'm very disappointed." "And Todd lost everything." "nobody's gonna forget Guyana." "I want to get a test plant in here." "I want to run some material." "Cause that'll tell us if it's real or if it's fake." "Not a little piece of gold off the side of a hill." "Yeah." "You're right." "You're right." "let's do it." "Um huh." "so let's do everything we can to make it right." "Freddy won't support a move south until he's certain there's good gold in the ground." "His plan." "Bring in a test plant to mine 100 yards of High Bar paydirt." "you get gold fever." "In the grand scheme of things." "everybody's lost their job." "in the Klondike" "Tony Beets is in trouble." "he has only half of the million dollars in gold he needs to recoup his investment in the dredge." "He's found a 20 year old drill map and come up with a new plan." "and then dredge the best ground on his claim." "Looks like it's getting better in there huh?" "down the valley." "But the map shows good drill holes in the trees just 100 yards north of the dredge." "How do you know what's there?" "To get the dredge to new gold rich ground will require a difficult 90 degree turn." "We haven't done that yet." "We gotta learn how to do that." "we'll turn that direction." "and get dredging." "Perfect." "Let's do it." "The dredge crew has never attempted a complicated maneuver like this before." "It's not gonna be a perfect 90 degree corner." "It'll be a little bit of an angle but we'll make it." "First the crew has to re-position the 2 dozers that anchor the front of the dredge." "Then raise the 9 ton steel spud that anchors the rear." "they'll pull on the cables attached to the dozers to turn the dredge 90 degrees." "Until it's heading right for the new drill holes." "Hard over." "Kick that way more." "right now we're just moving the dead man to it's final position." "And now start turning this way." "the crew begins to lift the 9 ton spud." "386)} The spud only really needs to come up about 3 feet you know." "It shouldn't be a major ordeal." "Watch out." "What?" "(THUD)" "What the fuck." "We're picking the spud up and the wire popped out of the pulley." "Tony Beets' crew has destroyed one of the pulleys on his dredge." "Put the wheel back in there and tighten it down." "Want to have him pick up on the spud real easy." "Till we get a load on it." "I want to see what it does." "Montana." "We're gonna have to lift the spud." "they have to lift the full weight of the 9 ton spud." "Hold it." "Just hold it for a sec." "I'm gonna have a look." "You gotta start the winch." "the dredge can finally complete the 90 degree turn." "the crew can start dredging towards the ground that could save Tony's season." "New world out there now." "Hey Rick." "Can I have a chat with you guys." "Yeah." "and is ready to move his mining operation north." "the pay is further away now." "There's nothing really left down here to run." "I think today we should just move the plant." "We've worked our asses off to get this far and we need to finish strong." "And I guarantee you we stop fighting we get our asses handed to us by somebody that none of us want to get beat by." "that ain't happening." "We can't end on that note." "No." "We can't." "a full 174 ounces behind his rival Todd Hoffman." "unfortunately means moving the plant." "we better make it happen quick." "I think we can do it in a day." "Don't you?" "We moved Big Red lobster in 12 hours." "I don't see why we can't do it with this." "night crew so." "I think we can have it up and running for them." "One shift move." "12 fuckin hours." "Let's do it." "Alright." "Goldzilla." "Now he has to move the three pieces that make up his wash plant four hundred yards across the cut to their new home." "320)\fs42} 8 a.m." "he needs Goldzilla setup and ready to sluice." "306)} Keep going." "By the time the nightshift arrives." "386)} Goldzilla's gonna go from right here to that pad." "so." "Just gotta make it work." "The wash plant is designed to be moved easily." "The stacker is on wheels." "The hopper can be hitched to a truck." "That'll probably do 'er." "so that it can be dragged." "this plant was designed to be nice and portable so." "Hopefully it stays that way." "Parker leaves his crew 346)} Let's roll boys." "and get it set up in the new cut." "Bingo." "So we just move on to the next step and that's the hopper feeder." "320)\fs42}Ten a.m." "nice and easy." "The next piece to be moved is the mouth of the wash plant." "The hopper feeder." "hopefully back our semi truck underneath it and pull it outta here." "just gotta be patient here in." "386)} Do it right once." "Don't want to tip this thing over." "Alright Tyson." "Pick it up." "Let's go." "A little bit more Tyson." "They prop the hopper up on blocks." "Ready?" "Yup." "gently." "High enough for the truck to back under and hook up." "No no no no." "Now move pick it up." "Pick it up." "Pick it up." "okay." "Pick it up!" "It's gonna fall over." "Settle the fuck down." "Drive forward a little bit Tyson as you're coming down." "There you go." "Let 'er down." "You're in the clear." "hook it up to the front end." "Probably the fastest way to get it outta here and the safest way." "Just guide me back in here." "I'm just not sure if we're gonna have enough clearance right here." "Whoa." "Still haven't fixed the door." "Parker's been talking for a long time about buying a good semi and he's been borrowing this one from a guy and." "It's an old crusher getter." "It's not meant to be out here pulling this big stuff around so." "Boys are ready?" "Yup." "4 hours into their 12 hour move." "The hopper finally starts it's 400 yard trip across the cut." "Mitch." "Stop." "Oh mother fucker." "on the hopper feeder just fell off." "I'll back up a little ways Rick." "Alright." "Huh huh huh." "Fuckin piece of shit." "You're kidding me." "What's going on." "Tranny just locked up." "Are you serious." "Fuck fuck." "You're only kidd your something fall apart on it." "What the fuck." "Just 100 yards from the hopper's new home." "Fuck it." "The semi's transmission has seized." "How the fuck do we lift this thing off here." "just pull it." "Right now we're just gonna use the 700." "Try and pull this feeder into position." "Good." "Come on you bitch." "Roll." "Alright." "Cut 'er hard Mitch." "You gotta make this corner." "Rick resorts to desperate measures." "It seems kinda" "Kinda sketchy." "Might need to come over a little bit more." "One more of them." "Whoa." "Does it look pretty good in line?" "Looks good." "Then let's call it." "We're good where it's at." "Yeah." "the hopper feeder is finally in position." "Ho." "That'll work." "But it's taken 6 hours to make a move that should've taken 3." "Yeah." "Things aren't exactly going the smoothest." "Parker needs to fire up the plant in just 4 hours." "Do you want to go grab Goldzilla?" "Yeah let's do it." "But the crew still has to move the 24 foot 25 ton shaker deck and sluices." "Just move the wash plant they say." "It'll be easy." "Whoo." "Look at that baby." "In eastern Oregon 306)} Baby Red." "The Hoffman crew is prospecting a new claim." "Look at that thing." "Mining legend Freddy Dodge." "There's our test plant." "Mini Red." "fine gold sluices so if it's here we'll find it." "Perfect." "We just gotta get the plant put up." "Let's friggen do it." "Let's go." "and see if it's there." "Don't bend this Andy." "up." "Easy Andy." "Whoa." "Perfect." "we've dug our test holes." "We got a hundred yards of pay here." "This could be the treasure hunt of a lifetime." "Anything else we're missing?" "Nope." "Start running this material and find out what the heck lives in it Todd." "Hmph." "Let's do it." "This might just work." "Guys." "We got a rattlesnake." "Everybody back." "How far can they go?" "Not this far." "Freddy?" "About half the length of their body they can strike." "I'd move him out of the mine site here." "The only poisonous snake in Oregon is the western rattlesnake." "Right I'll get him." "A bite can kill in just 4 hours." "Push him out Hunter." "Push him out this side." "He may be able to go right beside that pipe too Hunter." "There he is." "Whoa." "Keep pushing Hunter." "Keep pushing." "I'm just gonna help him." "Keep pushing him Hunter." "That's it." "No no." "No no no." "Don't bang it." "Hold on real tight." "Hold him this side." "get over here." "I'm fine." "Hunter." "Yeah." "Try to pull that pipe back your way and then push it back through again." "push it." "Dad." "Push it through." "Hunter." "Push him some more Hunter." "Try to push him some more." "Keep pushing." "I can't." "let me have it." "Yeah." "Let me have it." "Two people's one too many." "Back up." "I am." "Freddy." "Look out! Get back." "Freddy." "**** ****" "A venomous rattlesnake has delayed the Hoffman crew from testing this nugget rich claim in Oregon." "Nobody messes with me." "Hunter back up and Jack back up." "(steady rattle gets louder)" "Stop." "Stop." "Nobody messes with me." "Alright." "'kay." "We're gonna take him away from the mine site." "And let him go." "He don't look happy." "He's not happy." "He's pissed off." "Freddy." "Shut it." "Okay." "There's no use killing him." "They're part of nature." "huh Hunter." "Yeah." "Set it down." "We're gonna open the latch." "don't get your fingers in there." "Cause if they're in there he can get 'um right and he is pissed off." "Right now." "Where is he?" "He's over on my side." "Right there now." "'kay" "I'm gonna get him to the bottom." "Stand back Hunter so I don't have to worry about you okay." "Stinking lip on the tote." "What the heck." "Gawd grief." "There he is." "Hot dang." "There he goes." "That's one mad snake Hunter." "Right (laughs) Yeah." "A free snake is a happy snake." "Let's go fire up a wash plant Hunter." "Yeah." "Todd." "Ready to run some dirt?" "I think that looks pretty awesome." "I think we oughta go for it." "Ready." "Sir." "Fire it up." "The moment of truth." "in business." "We're running about 7500 pans an hour right now." "So." "Beat that with a gold pan huh." "Todd needs at least one ounce of gold in this 100 yard test." "our future could be resting in the hands of this little teeny red plant." "How's it going?" "Like shit." "6 pm at Scribner Creek." "Parker's crew has been moving their wash plant to it's new pad." "For 10 hours." "we're way behind." "We don't have a plant even moved an inch and we've got 2 hours left." "Parker needs the nightshift to be running paydirt in just two hours." "But Goldzilla is still 400 yards from their new cut." "And it's base is buried deep in the dirt." "We should probably just get the 10 in here and pick the front of it up and the 700 can pick up the back of it and just get it up out of the mud." "Yeah." "Let's do it." "Parker decides not to dig the plant out of the mud first." "Oh." "This is gonna be fun." "Let's go." "he lifts with the 700 excavator" "Come on." "As Brennan pulls with the D10 dozer." "(Snap) for fuck sakes." "That's why you dig stuff out first before you start pulling on it." "What happened?" "Cable broke." "Do we have another." "Uh no." "Fuckin stupid bullshit." "this wouldn't happen." "Right." "We had so many they didn't fit all on the boom truck before." "I didn't fuckin lose any." "**** **** **** **** dammit." "Bleep." "Hard saying he hasn't been out here all day." "We have." "Sat around all day didn't lift a fuckin finger to help us." "And then he wants to come and scream at us as we're moving the last piece." "Fuck him." "should have been here all day." "Just sick of it." "Where the fuck did everybody go?" "340)\fs35} 7 pm" "Goldzilla is still 400 yards from it's pad." "Rick returns with one more cable." "it's that long." "Hey Rick." "I'm gonna try to hook two of those up to 'em." "we can always try it." "to split the weight of the 25 ton wash plant." "'kay." "You ready for this buddy." "Yeeup." "chance." "Let's do it." "It's coming free." "Brennan and Mitch drag Goldzilla across the claim." "It's like synchronized swimming with excavators." "*** bleep." "The biggest challenge will be getting Goldzilla up the 50 foot slope on to it's pad." "Just gotta get it up the hill." "That's gonna be the hard part." "these 2 machines so one's gonna be right on the edge of the bank." "Who's got the clip bag?" "How much room we got Parker?" "You've got a good 5 feet over here." "Mitch." "Spin that track that way a bit." "'kay." "Let me slide over a little." "How we looking?" "Hang on a second." "You got Parker right there." "halfway where Mitch is." "Yeah I know." "I Just gotta reset here." "340)\fs35} 8 pm" "Parker's 12 hour deadline is up." "What do you reckon?" "Everybody's pretty beat." "it will take less time." "And we'll do it right." "It's not like me but I'm half tempted to just call it a night for now." "It ain't worth somebody getting hurt." "No." "It's *** ***." "Alright guys." "We're gonna call it a night." "cool." "Good effort." "so." "We'll start fresh tomorrow." "This is new and improved Parker." "340)\fs42} 7 am" "The first snow of the season has blanketed Scribner Creek." "Oh come on." "This is fuckin yuck." "Parker planned to have his plant up and running 11 hours ago." "the night crew was unable to run." "They've lost over 20 thousand dollars in un-sluiced gold." "It snowed overnight just fucked us man." "right." "Well if everything goes good maybe we can have the plant all set up before Parker wakes up and gets out here." "perfect." "Sounds good." "Start yarding that baby in place." "Yup." "Every minute this thing's down is a minute we're losing gold so." "We're gonna put every guy we got on it which ain't many right now." "And hope to get back to sluicing this afternoon." "Goldzilla is on it's new pad but the crew still needs to drag it a few more yards to line it up with their superstacker." "Clear." "Just let 'er rip." "This thing pulls like butter." "That snow is really helping it." "It's gonna be a tough ass for that thing to swing it." "We didn't have the proper amount of time to finish this pad off so." "Space is definitely a big issue over here." "The new pad is just 50 feet wide and it's surrounded by a fifty foot drop off." "You're getting close to the edge." "Whoa Brennan." "Stop." "Stop." "What's going on?" "It's hanging a couple feet off the edge of the bank." "Holy shit!" "will slide down 50 feet." "Have to re-position." "You're gonna have to watch out over there." "'kay." "Whoa easier!" "Brennan slowly gets the 700 excavator back on to solid ground." "Should be good now right?" "you look good right now." "stage in this program is we gotta start twisting the plant to line up with our superstacker." "It's definitely and probably the trickiest part of this whole move is getting everything lined up here." "Keep 'er coming." "We're good." "It's real close now so we'll just get Mitch to run that conveyor the rest of the way up see if it will clear the prewash." "Have him keep coming." "That's as high as it goes." "Aw it's so close." "Filler fun." "There you go." "There you go." "Perfect." "Think that's it?" "Can live with that." "Fuckin great." "By 3 pm 306)}Ooh yeah." "Goldzilla is finally ready to run." "Well it didn't happen in 12 hours but we got our feeder in line." "We got our superstacker in place." "Right in line with the wash plant." "We're all ready to go?" "Yeah." "Only now is the boss coming up here so we we can start this thing." "We can all go back to bed I guess till he gets up." "There you go." "Go back to bed." "Good job fella." "Looking good." "Yeah." "It all came together well." "It's all in line." "It's all lined up." "Water's all hooked up." "It oughta work." "Good job guys." "are we ready to fire 'er up?" "Let's do it." "That's a good sign." "Just a matter of putting dirt through 'er now." "Are you ready Mitch?" "We're ready." "Let 'er rip." "so." "Got the plant moved and this is the first scoop of pay." "00 dollars in lost gold." "We lost a bunch of time." "It's been a battle." "everybody really put everything they had into it." "And did a good job of getting 'er here and hopefully here we're back on the gold." "to run what he hopes is the best ground on his claim." "Hi Gene." "Alright." "How's it going." "so so." "Tony only has 3 cleanups left this season." "he needs each of them to hit 130 ounces." "Oh boy." "20" "Five" "Thirty." "Thirty five." "Forty..three." "Forty three point seven six." "000 dollars." "Tony's drill holes failed to deliver." "Yeah." "That's kinda piss poor." "It's almost pathetic." "It is." "obviously." "it's not in the ground." "No." "So now what." "I don't know what to say." "I'm disappointed." "I just don't know what the hell to do." "Tony's plan to resurrect dredging is on the rocks." "Freddy Dodge has spotted a problem." "Our spray bars are plugging up so now I'm gonna have to pull these plugs out." "Let's see what the heck comes out of here." "See all that." "It's like seeds." "it is." "the plant needs a good flush." "Give us some more water." "rattlesnake." "I think we're out of animals?" "Animals are messing us up here so hopefully an elephant doesn't come through." "no kidding." "Every week around here is tough but this one was especially bad." "Parker moved Goldzilla 400 yards north to a new section of his boundary cut." "You know the plant move kinda kicked our ass a little bit." "We broke some stuff." "um" "It was a rough one." "I lost my cool a little." "wish I could kinda keep from happening." "But" "It all ended up alright." "And there's a pile of gold here as a result." "So." "I think this gold will more than make up for" "The battle that we've been through the last week." "Hey ****." "Parker needs the new section of the boundary cut to produce a healthy 266 ounces per week." "How's it going?" "Oh good." "So I just weighed this stuff up." "Sweet." "I just want to say good job moving the plant." "got a little short tempered there and I apologize for that but you guys did a good job and not only is it behind us but it was well worth it already. 388.24 ounces." "nice." "Geez." "There you go." "Lookit that." "We're back on track." "Yeah." "000 dollars." "worth over 2.8 million dollars." "His 3000 ounce goal is within reach." "Ha ha ha." "Finally." "Alright." "That's awesome." "At least the boundary's still holding up for us." "hopefully blue skies from here." "The gold's in front of us." "Yeah." "Just think Parker." "That's enough we can buy some new cables." "(laughter)" "Here comes Dave." "Look." "340)\fs32} 1500 miles south in Oregon" "Todd Hoffman and a skeleton crew are prospecting a new claim." "High Bar." "Hey hey." "What's going on?" "G'day Dave." "isn't about to let any big decisions be made without him." "How's it going man?" "Doing alright." "Getting any gold?" "We don't know." "I want to see what's in that sluice box." "We cannot afford to make another Guyana mistake." "Show me an ounce a hundred and I'll be happy." "When we're done with this 100 yards we're gonna clean it up and see what it looks like." "Alright." "We're just about done." "Last bucket Andy." "that this ground is a worthy replacement." "320)} Let's shut it down." "for McKinnon Creek." "There's no fibbing now." "What's in the sluice box is in the sluice box." "Just let 'er finish running out here and start cleaning up." "Hey Dave." "Yeah Fred." "Look at this." "Show me." "Oh my goodness." "Lookit that Dave." "There's a big one." "Holy smokes." "That's impressive." "Very nice." "That's the biggest nugget I think I've ever seen." "Ever see something like that on Indian River." "No." "Oh my gosh." "Not a chance." "It's beautiful." "It's a good start Freddy." "It's a very good start." "Awesome." "they have to pan the concentrate by hand." "Holy mackerel." "This everything we ran?" "Every little thing?" "That's all we ran." "It's probably about 25 percent chunks." "Listen." "I love the sound of that." "That is awesome." "the Hoffman crew gets one ounce of gold every 100 yards." "Let's weigh it up guys." "The moment of truth." "Todd needs this 100 yards of Oregon paydirt" "Come baby." "To produce at least one ounce." "There's an ounce." "Nice." "One point seven ounces." "Per hundred yards?" "Yeah." "Oh man." "That is great." "Look at that." "That's pretty damn good Todd." "870 dollars." "13 dollars a yard." "You know what?" "That's double what we're doing in the Yukon." "Imagine what we could do running 300 yards." "300 yards an hour." "Never thought I'd see that." "High Bar is rich in nuggety gold." "The Hoffman crew just may have a future in Oregon." "But we still got some gold to get out of the Klondike." "We got a crew waiting for us that's counting on us." "We gotta finish what we started." "I agree." "Yup." "I agree." "but I tell you what." "We at least have an option now." "Yeah we do." "I'm really hoping I can negotiate a lease on this place." "Let me tell ya." "327)\fnLucida Calligraphy} Subs by JackT" "This is a once in a lifetime opportunity right here." "Yeah." "Let's go." "Our time in the Yukon is coming to an end." "It really is." "I think we'd be stupid not to come here." "I really do." "Let's pull some levers." "Make it happening." "360)\fs32} On The Next Gold Rush" "See if we can find some old kind of a plan for doing it Gene." "Let's do it." "Gene." "Bob." "Look at that." "The gravel is frozen." "We'll be lucky if we run another week." "I don't know if that's gonna beat Todd." "Might be Goldzilla's last shake." "I don't think we got time to run this pay." "Two plants." "We got a double barrel shotgun coming at Parker."