Gold Rush: Alaska (2010–…): Season 8, Episode 9 - Gold Bars and Hail Marys - full transcript
Todd is out of luck, and ground, until he makes a desperate play for new land. Parker's sitting pretty on a pile of gold, but pushes Rick too far. Tony attempts to jump start his season on a risky voyage up the Yukon River.
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.
This was supposed to be
Our biggest year we've ever had,
And all it's turned out
To be is a huge disaster.
I honestly cannot believe
All the bad things.
That have presented themselves
To our mining operation.
We went from heroes to zeros,
Man, real quick.
I started out with
Three wash plants.
Now, I'm down to zero.
I got two over there
I ran out of good pay on,
And this one here,
Park county gave us
A cease and desist.
Our american dream right now
Is on hold, and it might die.
This season,
We've got two big goals.
We're going to get out
From under tony.
And finally mine
Some new ground,
And we're going to kick
Todd hoffman's ass.
And find 5,000 ounces of gold.
And take a 100ounce
Bet from him.
I'm a little concerned
About rick and big red.
He's had a lot of problems
So far this year,
And there's not a lot of gold
Coming in down there.
But we can't end the season
Like todd hoffman,
Short a goal
With a bunch of excuses why.
Bet or no bet, we're getting
5,000 ounces of gold.
This season.
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Discovery communications.
I can't believe we're almost
Halfway through the season.
And I'm this fricking screwed.
After nine weeks mining,
Todd hoffman is out of luck
And out of ground.
What's going on?
I don't know.
You and I are Losing money.
Unless you got any other ideas,
I think we're kind of.
At the end of our rope.
It hasn't been like
We thought it'd be.
But I can't keep
Paying these guys.
I got A little money left.
I can give everybody a cushion,
But they got to go find work.
Let me Show you something.
- Here's sacramento.
- Yeah.
You've been mining
This direction.
It's been getting worse
And worse the whole time.
Worse and worse.
Here's fairplay.
On the virgin stuff
Over here last year.
Was 1.7 ounces Per hundred.
That's awesome.
Right?
So this piece in the middle,
It's got to get better this way.
We can go talk to the guy
That owns it.
It's worth a shot.
- Let's go talk to him.
- Want to do it?
Yeah. Let's do it.
The ground at
Sacramento has paid so poorly,
Todd has been forced
To stop mining it.
One mile downstream, fair play,
Which has the best pay dirt.
He's ever mined, has been
Shut down by the county.
Between the two claims
Lie 30 acres of ground,
Which right now are todd's
Only hope to save his season.
- Howdy.
- Hey, how are you?
My name is todd hoffman.
This is my friend, freddy.
We're the guys Mining next door.
Hi, I'm sullivan.
Nice to meet you.
How can I help you?
Well, we're looking
For more ground.
Well, there's a section down
There that the old timers mined.
So you do have some land,
Maybe, for lease?
I'll be willing
To let you guys find out.
What the old timers Missed.
Okay.
How do we know
There's gold here?
You know what I mean?
This is gold mining.
There's no guarantees.
Can we test it?
I'll let you do
A little test to make sure.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
But I get to see What you get.
That's fine.
I call this The jewelry box.
I mean, we're doing okay
This season,
But if we're going to get
To 5,000 ounces this year,
I really need rick
To step up down at big red.
At scribner creek,
Parker schnabel.
Has more than twice
As much gold as todd,
But he's still not
Where he needs to be.
I mean, I really don't know
What's going on down there at.
Big red, but his last
Three cleanups have averaged
40 ounces apiece.
He's got to start putting gold
On the table and filling jars.
Rick promised
2,500 ounces of gold,
And he's got to deliver on that.
All right, guys.
Let's keep the dirt moving.
Hell yeah, rick.
Let's keep feeding her, Give her
rick ness has just
14 weeks left to deliver.
His half of
The season gold total.
Every week, it's like, "All
Right. We've hit rock bottom."
Let's start rebounding."
You know, I know parker
Is pissed about it,
But so am I, man.
Sometimes all you can do
Is ride this out.
I'm not going to let it
beat me, man.
I said I was going to get
2,500 ounces out of big red,
I'm going to do it.
Everybody is being
Pushed hard right now.
Being shorthanded, everybody
Is working extra hours.
And just doing what they
Can do to get things done.
Chris doumitt is running loader
To help rick get back on track.
Dear.
Crap. We got water problems.
This thing is all plugged up.
We don't have the water volume
To push the bigger rocks.
Down through the free wash.
When it doesn't move, piled up,
And you wind up
With a mess like this.
Hey, rick, I had to shut
The plant down.
We got some bad water going on.
All right.
I'll be right up there.
Once again,
A water problem holds up.
Rick's gold production.
It's nothing but mud.
My water must have dropped.
I don't know how many feet.
Yeah, we're.
If there's no water,
We can't sluice.
Good timing.
So why aren't You sluicing?
He had to Shut the plant down.
- It's all full of silt.
- It all.
Recirculation just stopped,
And it just...
It's all mud.
What the.
Well, I'm sick
Of these water problems.
We can't afford This downtime.
I've got it figured out.
I was just talking
To chris about it.
I was just about
To start doing it.
What are we going
To do about it?
I've got it covered.
For sake.
You know, it's just
Typical, man.
Parker walks here
And just assumes
I don't know what The I'm doing.
I mean, I'm not mother nature.
I can't control The weather.
I didn't dry up the
Pond, you know?
It's just bull.
I got a plan, and by the time
I'm done, we'll have so much
water, Parker will have to take.
A boat down here.
Between fuel, wages
And lost gold,
Rick's panama canal project.
Has cost parker
The best part of $50,000.
You annoyed?
A little bit that
You don't have a vest on.
"A little bit that you don't
Have a vest on."
Really?
You moved A ton of dirt in here.
I told you this is
What I was going to do.
Yeah, you also told me it was
Going to take two or three days.
You said you'd get it
All done yourself,
And now we've got
Four people in here.
I've been down here by myself
For 90% of the time.
You really don't appreciate it
The minute I show up here.
I can tell that.
- That's not true.
- It is.
It really isn't.
It's just because I...
Well, that's not
What your face says.
It's just because I don't know
Which parker I'm going to get.
When you show up.
The parker is the parker
That wants to make money.
And I understand that.
If you want to run
Your own mine site,
Which is the way
You're running this show,
Doing it with my money.
Without collaborating
With me doesn't work.
I didn't realize
That's what I was doing.
I just... I'd like to see us
Work together a little better.
Okay, I want to be here,
So I can do that.
It's not that I don't like it
That he shows up down it here.
It's that he always
Overlooks great progress.
To try to tear you down.
Nobody wants to bust their ass
And be hassled for it.
I'm about this close
To just shutting big red down.
For the rest of the season.
Well, the trench is done.
Thank that's over with.
After five days,
Having moved enough dirt.
To fill six
Olympic swimming pools,
Rick has finally completed
His panama canal.
Hey, chris, I think
We finally got it, man.
We're done. That pump is in.
Let's go ahead
And fire up big red.
That's great, rick.
You want to fire off the pump?
I'll go ahead and get
The wash plant going.
Whoo.
Yeah.
Well done, young man.
- Thanks. Thanks, man.
- Well done.
Turned your panama canal
Into the niagara falls.
It's flowing off the sluice
Beautifully now.
- Good, clean water.
- Yeah.
Well, all I care about
Is it's over man.
That was brutal.
Now we can get back
To gold mining.
First scoop, back in.
We're back running
At indian river.
In the klondike,
Nearly halfway through
His season,
Tony beets should have
Already transported.
His second dredge
Back to his claim,
But he hasn't even begun.
Tony!
Turbine engine is overheating.
At the start of the
Season, the engines.
On his 60ton barge overheated
And almost seized.
Since then, the jasmine b
Has been docked for repairs.
Hey, not bad, tony.
Got finished up with the last
Of the piping here.
Tony's righthand man,
Sheamus christie,
Has been attempting
To fix the cooling system.
I've replaced this small
Narrow line, the red one here,
With this larger Black hose.
It will triple the volume of
Coolant going into the engine.
On tony's first voyage
This season,
The coolant system failed,
Causing the engines to overheat.
Sheamus thinks the coolant
Wasn't moving fast enough.
To disperse the heat.
His solution, take out
The 3/4inch pipes.
And replace with pipes
Nearly twice the diameter.
By increasing
The flow of coolant,
The engines should stay cooler.
So I figure we'll take
It for a test ride?
The jasmine b will
Carry the heavy equipment
Tony needs for
The dredge teardown...
As long as her engines
Don't overheat.
On the way up The yukon river.
Tony, we're going to have
To keep a real close eye.
On these engines.
We're going to have
To make sure they run.
Between 150, 175 degrees.
You do not want to hit
That 200 degrees again.
That's when we'll have
Engine problems.
If the engines hit the critical
200 degrees, they'll shut down.
Tony's dream of running
Two dredges.
Will be dead in the water.
We've been running
For about 20 minutes.
This is exactly where
It overheated last time.
We're holding 174 degrees.
Looks like we're
Getting somewhere, tony.
Holding strong.
I think we got her solved.
The barge looks good
For the twoday voyage.
Through the remote klondike
Wilderness to thistle creek.
About time.
Well, here goes nothing.
Todd hoffman has
Finished his 1,000yard test.
Of the jewelry box...
Hey guys, come on in.
The claim that
Could save his season.
Sullivan?
Well, we got our backs
Against the wall on this one.
I mean, I'm not going to
Sugarcoat it.
If this ground pays as bad
As sacramento,
We're all going home.
Thurber, what do we need
To get out of this test?
You said we won't Mine anything.
If it's less than
A half ounce per hundred,
So at least 5 ounces.
All right.
Go ahead, dad, Pour it.
- It looks good.
- That does look good.
Look at that. Lots of big rocks.
2...
4...
5...
7...
8.85.
Yeah.
I'll take that All day long.
- Yeah.
- We're back in the game, son.
Look at that.
Isn't that pretty?
It's super pretty.
All right. Mr. Sullivan, 20%?
Todd still needs to negotiate
The terms of his lease.
- You got a deal.
- All right.
Told you there was gold
In the jewelry box.
Damn good.
It's about $10 a yard.
That's the best material
That's gone.
Through monster red this year.
Ten bucks a yard,
A guy can make a living on that.
You guys, the jewelry box
Is open for business.
- Let's go.
- All right.
- Fire them up!
- Let's go.
- Whoo.
- Let's get gold.
We are back in
Fricking business.
We are not going anywhere.
It's been a tough
Couple of years,
But I'm feeling good right now.
We're finally running good dirt,
And, you know,
This is our future right here.
5:00 a.M. On the yukon river.
Well, one day you'll grow up,
And you'll understand.
After a short night's sleep,
Tony, mike, and sheamus.
Are heading back out
To thistle creek.
One of sheamus'
New hoses has blown,
And the engine is
Losing coolant fast.
They have just minutes
To pump the spilt coolant back.
Into the system
Before the engines seize.
That was close.
Four hours later,
Thistle creek finally
Comes into view.
I'm happy
That we're finally here.
Whoa.
Tony finally has
The heavy equipment.
He needs to tear
Down the dredge.
Up ahead...
It's a lot less than
We should have.
Remember, he had
A lot of problems this week.
I hate excuses.
Holy.
At scribner creek, parker and
Rick have an uninvited guest.
Where are you guys currently
On the proximity of the bear.
And safety and all that?
Those are todd hoffman's bears.
He's trained them.
- He didn't get inside?
- I don't think so.
It's all fine and well
When they're roaming the hills,
But when they start coming
Into our camp it's a problem.
Someone is going to get hurt.
100 ounces a piece,
That's what we've got so far.
This season, 1,400 ounces.
Parker has smelted his haul,
Worth close to $1.7 million.
Dude, I've seen a lot of
Pyramids built out of beer cans.
But never gold.
Pretty cool?
- You poured all these?
- Yeah.
I figured I'd let you guys
Know where we're at.
It's a lot more than we had
Last year at this time,
But it's a lot less than
We should have, you know,
Considering we're going
For 5,000 ounces.
Definitely things down
At big red need to pick up.
That was a lot of time
We were shut down.
Yeah.
To get back on track,
Parker needs 130 ounces.
A week from each claim.
How about We do sluicifer first?
Yeah.
30,
60,
100,
130.
Still got some more to go.
151 ounces.
Worth over $180,000.
- That's good.
- That'll work.
Think about it.
It's a bar and a half.
That's not bad to add
To that stack.
No, it's not.
- Yeah.
- All right.
Let's see What big red's got.
Rick hasn't hit
130 ounces in over a month.
Remember, he had
A lot of problems this week.
Rick's canal project means
Big red only ran for two days.
Holy - wow.
- Get it over with.
- Okay.
32.1.
Worth less than $40,000.
Where does that leave us?
So as of today
We've got 1,601 ounces.
Worth just under $2 million,
Parker is only 1/3 of the way.
Towards his season
Goal of $6 million.
We can't be doing this.
It's not like we haven't been
Busting our ass down there.
It's just gold
Is not reflecting it.
There's no point
In washing rocks.
For the joy Of washing rocks.
I'm leaning pretty close
To shutting it down.
Whatever, man. You're the boss.
I hate excuses.
Something is going on.
Freddy wants to tell us
Something, so something is up.
Nobody knows what's going on.
In colorado, freddy dodge has
Called an unexpected meeting.
Thanks for Coming up here, guys.
What's happening, fred?
You guys know
I'm a real personal guy,
And when things go weird
I just go off by myself,
And that's the way I deal
With stuff the best, right?
Yeah.
There's just been a lot
Through my mind, you know.
You've been off.
You haven't been yourself.
Anyway...
I might have
Some cancer stuff going on.
- What?
- What?
I got to go in
For more testing, all that.
Dude.
I've been doing the best I can
To keep my chin up, okay?
I'll be here
For you guys, though.
I may be gone a lot.
You do what you need
To do for you.
All the problems that we've
Faced, it's not about all that.
We love each other,
And it's more about that,
And we're going To pray for you.
Like I said,
I don't want your sympathy,
But I'll take
All of your prayers.
Yeah.
You guys Are my buddies.
Lord, we just love Freddy dodge,
And we just ask
For your hand on him, lord,
As he goes in for tests
And get some healing for him,
In jesus' name, amen.
- Amen.
- Amen. Thank you.
On the next "Gold rush"...
For sake.
Can't one thing go right?
In 20 years in mining, I've
Never seen anything like this.
If it was up to me,
I'd fire all four of you.
All four of you are gone.
If it was up to me,
I'd fire all four of you.
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.
This was supposed to be
Our biggest year we've ever had,
And all it's turned out
To be is a huge disaster.
I honestly cannot believe
All the bad things.
That have presented themselves
To our mining operation.
We went from heroes to zeros,
Man, real quick.
I started out with
Three wash plants.
Now, I'm down to zero.
I got two over there
I ran out of good pay on,
And this one here,
Park county gave us
A cease and desist.
Our american dream right now
Is on hold, and it might die.
This season,
We've got two big goals.
We're going to get out
From under tony.
And finally mine
Some new ground,
And we're going to kick
Todd hoffman's ass.
And find 5,000 ounces of gold.
And take a 100ounce
Bet from him.
I'm a little concerned
About rick and big red.
He's had a lot of problems
So far this year,
And there's not a lot of gold
Coming in down there.
But we can't end the season
Like todd hoffman,
Short a goal
With a bunch of excuses why.
Bet or no bet, we're getting
5,000 ounces of gold.
This season.
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Discovery communications.
I can't believe we're almost
Halfway through the season.
And I'm this fricking screwed.
After nine weeks mining,
Todd hoffman is out of luck
And out of ground.
What's going on?
I don't know.
You and I are Losing money.
Unless you got any other ideas,
I think we're kind of.
At the end of our rope.
It hasn't been like
We thought it'd be.
But I can't keep
Paying these guys.
I got A little money left.
I can give everybody a cushion,
But they got to go find work.
Let me Show you something.
- Here's sacramento.
- Yeah.
You've been mining
This direction.
It's been getting worse
And worse the whole time.
Worse and worse.
Here's fairplay.
On the virgin stuff
Over here last year.
Was 1.7 ounces Per hundred.
That's awesome.
Right?
So this piece in the middle,
It's got to get better this way.
We can go talk to the guy
That owns it.
It's worth a shot.
- Let's go talk to him.
- Want to do it?
Yeah. Let's do it.
The ground at
Sacramento has paid so poorly,
Todd has been forced
To stop mining it.
One mile downstream, fair play,
Which has the best pay dirt.
He's ever mined, has been
Shut down by the county.
Between the two claims
Lie 30 acres of ground,
Which right now are todd's
Only hope to save his season.
- Howdy.
- Hey, how are you?
My name is todd hoffman.
This is my friend, freddy.
We're the guys Mining next door.
Hi, I'm sullivan.
Nice to meet you.
How can I help you?
Well, we're looking
For more ground.
Well, there's a section down
There that the old timers mined.
So you do have some land,
Maybe, for lease?
I'll be willing
To let you guys find out.
What the old timers Missed.
Okay.
How do we know
There's gold here?
You know what I mean?
This is gold mining.
There's no guarantees.
Can we test it?
I'll let you do
A little test to make sure.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
But I get to see What you get.
That's fine.
I call this The jewelry box.
I mean, we're doing okay
This season,
But if we're going to get
To 5,000 ounces this year,
I really need rick
To step up down at big red.
At scribner creek,
Parker schnabel.
Has more than twice
As much gold as todd,
But he's still not
Where he needs to be.
I mean, I really don't know
What's going on down there at.
Big red, but his last
Three cleanups have averaged
40 ounces apiece.
He's got to start putting gold
On the table and filling jars.
Rick promised
2,500 ounces of gold,
And he's got to deliver on that.
All right, guys.
Let's keep the dirt moving.
Hell yeah, rick.
Let's keep feeding her, Give her
rick ness has just
14 weeks left to deliver.
His half of
The season gold total.
Every week, it's like, "All
Right. We've hit rock bottom."
Let's start rebounding."
You know, I know parker
Is pissed about it,
But so am I, man.
Sometimes all you can do
Is ride this out.
I'm not going to let it
beat me, man.
I said I was going to get
2,500 ounces out of big red,
I'm going to do it.
Everybody is being
Pushed hard right now.
Being shorthanded, everybody
Is working extra hours.
And just doing what they
Can do to get things done.
Chris doumitt is running loader
To help rick get back on track.
Dear.
Crap. We got water problems.
This thing is all plugged up.
We don't have the water volume
To push the bigger rocks.
Down through the free wash.
When it doesn't move, piled up,
And you wind up
With a mess like this.
Hey, rick, I had to shut
The plant down.
We got some bad water going on.
All right.
I'll be right up there.
Once again,
A water problem holds up.
Rick's gold production.
It's nothing but mud.
My water must have dropped.
I don't know how many feet.
Yeah, we're.
If there's no water,
We can't sluice.
Good timing.
So why aren't You sluicing?
He had to Shut the plant down.
- It's all full of silt.
- It all.
Recirculation just stopped,
And it just...
It's all mud.
What the.
Well, I'm sick
Of these water problems.
We can't afford This downtime.
I've got it figured out.
I was just talking
To chris about it.
I was just about
To start doing it.
What are we going
To do about it?
I've got it covered.
For sake.
You know, it's just
Typical, man.
Parker walks here
And just assumes
I don't know what The I'm doing.
I mean, I'm not mother nature.
I can't control The weather.
I didn't dry up the
Pond, you know?
It's just bull.
I got a plan, and by the time
I'm done, we'll have so much
water, Parker will have to take.
A boat down here.
Between fuel, wages
And lost gold,
Rick's panama canal project.
Has cost parker
The best part of $50,000.
You annoyed?
A little bit that
You don't have a vest on.
"A little bit that you don't
Have a vest on."
Really?
You moved A ton of dirt in here.
I told you this is
What I was going to do.
Yeah, you also told me it was
Going to take two or three days.
You said you'd get it
All done yourself,
And now we've got
Four people in here.
I've been down here by myself
For 90% of the time.
You really don't appreciate it
The minute I show up here.
I can tell that.
- That's not true.
- It is.
It really isn't.
It's just because I...
Well, that's not
What your face says.
It's just because I don't know
Which parker I'm going to get.
When you show up.
The parker is the parker
That wants to make money.
And I understand that.
If you want to run
Your own mine site,
Which is the way
You're running this show,
Doing it with my money.
Without collaborating
With me doesn't work.
I didn't realize
That's what I was doing.
I just... I'd like to see us
Work together a little better.
Okay, I want to be here,
So I can do that.
It's not that I don't like it
That he shows up down it here.
It's that he always
Overlooks great progress.
To try to tear you down.
Nobody wants to bust their ass
And be hassled for it.
I'm about this close
To just shutting big red down.
For the rest of the season.
Well, the trench is done.
Thank that's over with.
After five days,
Having moved enough dirt.
To fill six
Olympic swimming pools,
Rick has finally completed
His panama canal.
Hey, chris, I think
We finally got it, man.
We're done. That pump is in.
Let's go ahead
And fire up big red.
That's great, rick.
You want to fire off the pump?
I'll go ahead and get
The wash plant going.
Whoo.
Yeah.
Well done, young man.
- Thanks. Thanks, man.
- Well done.
Turned your panama canal
Into the niagara falls.
It's flowing off the sluice
Beautifully now.
- Good, clean water.
- Yeah.
Well, all I care about
Is it's over man.
That was brutal.
Now we can get back
To gold mining.
First scoop, back in.
We're back running
At indian river.
In the klondike,
Nearly halfway through
His season,
Tony beets should have
Already transported.
His second dredge
Back to his claim,
But he hasn't even begun.
Tony!
Turbine engine is overheating.
At the start of the
Season, the engines.
On his 60ton barge overheated
And almost seized.
Since then, the jasmine b
Has been docked for repairs.
Hey, not bad, tony.
Got finished up with the last
Of the piping here.
Tony's righthand man,
Sheamus christie,
Has been attempting
To fix the cooling system.
I've replaced this small
Narrow line, the red one here,
With this larger Black hose.
It will triple the volume of
Coolant going into the engine.
On tony's first voyage
This season,
The coolant system failed,
Causing the engines to overheat.
Sheamus thinks the coolant
Wasn't moving fast enough.
To disperse the heat.
His solution, take out
The 3/4inch pipes.
And replace with pipes
Nearly twice the diameter.
By increasing
The flow of coolant,
The engines should stay cooler.
So I figure we'll take
It for a test ride?
The jasmine b will
Carry the heavy equipment
Tony needs for
The dredge teardown...
As long as her engines
Don't overheat.
On the way up The yukon river.
Tony, we're going to have
To keep a real close eye.
On these engines.
We're going to have
To make sure they run.
Between 150, 175 degrees.
You do not want to hit
That 200 degrees again.
That's when we'll have
Engine problems.
If the engines hit the critical
200 degrees, they'll shut down.
Tony's dream of running
Two dredges.
Will be dead in the water.
We've been running
For about 20 minutes.
This is exactly where
It overheated last time.
We're holding 174 degrees.
Looks like we're
Getting somewhere, tony.
Holding strong.
I think we got her solved.
The barge looks good
For the twoday voyage.
Through the remote klondike
Wilderness to thistle creek.
About time.
Well, here goes nothing.
Todd hoffman has
Finished his 1,000yard test.
Of the jewelry box...
Hey guys, come on in.
The claim that
Could save his season.
Sullivan?
Well, we got our backs
Against the wall on this one.
I mean, I'm not going to
Sugarcoat it.
If this ground pays as bad
As sacramento,
We're all going home.
Thurber, what do we need
To get out of this test?
You said we won't Mine anything.
If it's less than
A half ounce per hundred,
So at least 5 ounces.
All right.
Go ahead, dad, Pour it.
- It looks good.
- That does look good.
Look at that. Lots of big rocks.
2...
4...
5...
7...
8.85.
Yeah.
I'll take that All day long.
- Yeah.
- We're back in the game, son.
Look at that.
Isn't that pretty?
It's super pretty.
All right. Mr. Sullivan, 20%?
Todd still needs to negotiate
The terms of his lease.
- You got a deal.
- All right.
Told you there was gold
In the jewelry box.
Damn good.
It's about $10 a yard.
That's the best material
That's gone.
Through monster red this year.
Ten bucks a yard,
A guy can make a living on that.
You guys, the jewelry box
Is open for business.
- Let's go.
- All right.
- Fire them up!
- Let's go.
- Whoo.
- Let's get gold.
We are back in
Fricking business.
We are not going anywhere.
It's been a tough
Couple of years,
But I'm feeling good right now.
We're finally running good dirt,
And, you know,
This is our future right here.
5:00 a.M. On the yukon river.
Well, one day you'll grow up,
And you'll understand.
After a short night's sleep,
Tony, mike, and sheamus.
Are heading back out
To thistle creek.
One of sheamus'
New hoses has blown,
And the engine is
Losing coolant fast.
They have just minutes
To pump the spilt coolant back.
Into the system
Before the engines seize.
That was close.
Four hours later,
Thistle creek finally
Comes into view.
I'm happy
That we're finally here.
Whoa.
Tony finally has
The heavy equipment.
He needs to tear
Down the dredge.
Up ahead...
It's a lot less than
We should have.
Remember, he had
A lot of problems this week.
I hate excuses.
Holy.
At scribner creek, parker and
Rick have an uninvited guest.
Where are you guys currently
On the proximity of the bear.
And safety and all that?
Those are todd hoffman's bears.
He's trained them.
- He didn't get inside?
- I don't think so.
It's all fine and well
When they're roaming the hills,
But when they start coming
Into our camp it's a problem.
Someone is going to get hurt.
100 ounces a piece,
That's what we've got so far.
This season, 1,400 ounces.
Parker has smelted his haul,
Worth close to $1.7 million.
Dude, I've seen a lot of
Pyramids built out of beer cans.
But never gold.
Pretty cool?
- You poured all these?
- Yeah.
I figured I'd let you guys
Know where we're at.
It's a lot more than we had
Last year at this time,
But it's a lot less than
We should have, you know,
Considering we're going
For 5,000 ounces.
Definitely things down
At big red need to pick up.
That was a lot of time
We were shut down.
Yeah.
To get back on track,
Parker needs 130 ounces.
A week from each claim.
How about We do sluicifer first?
Yeah.
30,
60,
100,
130.
Still got some more to go.
151 ounces.
Worth over $180,000.
- That's good.
- That'll work.
Think about it.
It's a bar and a half.
That's not bad to add
To that stack.
No, it's not.
- Yeah.
- All right.
Let's see What big red's got.
Rick hasn't hit
130 ounces in over a month.
Remember, he had
A lot of problems this week.
Rick's canal project means
Big red only ran for two days.
Holy - wow.
- Get it over with.
- Okay.
32.1.
Worth less than $40,000.
Where does that leave us?
So as of today
We've got 1,601 ounces.
Worth just under $2 million,
Parker is only 1/3 of the way.
Towards his season
Goal of $6 million.
We can't be doing this.
It's not like we haven't been
Busting our ass down there.
It's just gold
Is not reflecting it.
There's no point
In washing rocks.
For the joy Of washing rocks.
I'm leaning pretty close
To shutting it down.
Whatever, man. You're the boss.
I hate excuses.
Something is going on.
Freddy wants to tell us
Something, so something is up.
Nobody knows what's going on.
In colorado, freddy dodge has
Called an unexpected meeting.
Thanks for Coming up here, guys.
What's happening, fred?
You guys know
I'm a real personal guy,
And when things go weird
I just go off by myself,
And that's the way I deal
With stuff the best, right?
Yeah.
There's just been a lot
Through my mind, you know.
You've been off.
You haven't been yourself.
Anyway...
I might have
Some cancer stuff going on.
- What?
- What?
I got to go in
For more testing, all that.
Dude.
I've been doing the best I can
To keep my chin up, okay?
I'll be here
For you guys, though.
I may be gone a lot.
You do what you need
To do for you.
All the problems that we've
Faced, it's not about all that.
We love each other,
And it's more about that,
And we're going To pray for you.
Like I said,
I don't want your sympathy,
But I'll take
All of your prayers.
Yeah.
You guys Are my buddies.
Lord, we just love Freddy dodge,
And we just ask
For your hand on him, lord,
As he goes in for tests
And get some healing for him,
In jesus' name, amen.
- Amen.
- Amen. Thank you.
On the next "Gold rush"...
For sake.
Can't one thing go right?
In 20 years in mining, I've
Never seen anything like this.
If it was up to me,
I'd fire all four of you.
All four of you are gone.
If it was up to me,
I'd fire all four of you.
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.