Gold Rush

Nick, we ain't making a painting.

We're only moving gold.

On this "gold rush"...

Whoo! All right! Plant move!

Parker's crew runs into double trouble.

Trying to do all this with two people...

It's pretty ridiculous.

- More power! More power! - Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

Holy.

Tony beets goes on a treasure hunt.

For lost gold.

What the?

There we go again.

Misfits, are we ready to rumble?

And fred lewis...

All right, we're about to witness history.

With his rookie crew...

- Yeah! - Finally get sluicing.

I'm pretty sure this is gold mining.

Whoo! Let's get some gold, boys!

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That's the last bit of pay there for you.

Let me know when you got the last bucket.

We're up here ready to shut down.

All right. That's all, folks.

All right. We got it. We got it up here.

It wouldn't be a plant move without some pouring rain.

At indian river, parker schnabel.

Is over a third of the way into the short season.

But he's making up for lost time with a hot start.

We're definitely trying to take a new approach this year.

With moving the plants more often.

And trucking a lot less pay.

So sluicer was just finishing up.

We're about to start a plant move.

I'm just looking forward to doing this with you in October.

- Yeah. When it gets cold. - Yeah. Can't wait.

Parker's new strategy is working.

The team's been getting 100 ounces more gold per week.

Than last season.

You always start a cleanup with a cigar.

After running for just 10 days.

At the current location,

Sluicifer's ready to be cleaned and moved.

I'm hoping there's good gold in there.

We will find out quite shortly here.

Are you here to help or just visit?

Visit.

Chris, I can feel you spraying me with water.

I've been holding off.

Been holding off.

Rookie plant boss tyson lee loads the first tank.

Of concentrate.

Want to make sure that that's level in there.

It doesn't need to be leveling that.

Well, I mean, so it's not spilling out that side.

He just means so it's not spilling out, nick!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's good.

We ain't making a painting.

We're only moving gold instead.

Dozer, in the back.

Four miles away in the last cut,

Co-foremen mitch blaschke and brennan ruault.

Are running wash plant big red.

How's it going?

Not too bad.

We're ready to move the wash plant again.

You guys have a plant move coming up tomorrow, then?

Yeah, for sure.

'Cause that's the same time.

The other plant's planning on moving.

And what's our game plan for tomorrow?

I mean, if we're trying to move both plants at the same time,

That's gonna be a handful.

Okay, thing is, we're gonna both need the rigging.

Rigging... yeah, that's gonna be a problem.

There's gonna be a few things that have to get juggled,

But it should be just the usual

perfect.

Let's do it.

To get ready for the move,

Brennan builds a wash-plant pad.

You know, the part of all this is,

We've never had two plants ready to move.

At the exact same time.

You know, we're already stretched thin.

With people not being here.

And if anything is to go wrong at either plant move,

You know, it's really gonna set us behind.

Mitch starts the teardown.

- Hey, chris, you got a copy? - Yeah, mitch, what up?

Everything's done sluicing,

And we just need to clean this up.

So we can move these runs.

Dude, I can't.

We're cleaning up sluicifer, full box.

You're still... you're at sluicifer?

I got my whole crew. I can't move them now.

We're gonna be waiting on you.

Sorry, bud.

All right, well, just get here as soon as you can,

We'll figure something out. Talk to you later.

If we're already starting the morning this way,

I hate to see how the rest of the day is going.

Next morning in the laydown yard,

Mechanic shane smith arrives.

In search of equipment for the sluicifer move.

We're a little short on rigging here.

I'm trying to beat mitch and brennan to the punch

'cause I think we're gonna be ready to move.

Sluicifer from where they are.

So I'm just grabbing the rigging before they come and get it.

Then we'll have no choice. We get to move first.

Well, we got a big day, then. Both wash plant same time.

We've never had to do this before.

So, I mean, you guys got the 750,

So you got some horsepower down there for dragging sluicifer.

We got 480 is the only thing.

It's gonna be a challenge for sure.

Who's gonna be up first?

Yeah, I bet you it's gonna be us there.

Yeah?

Well, we'll see.

Well, we got the rigging.

They're gonna have to fight us for it.

- Yeah. - All right.

Well, see at the end of the day.

Which one's shaking first.

- Good luck, guys. - Challenge is on!

On paradise hill, klondike legend tony beets.

Is making up for a late start.

James, do you copy?

At the mega cut, which tony believes could get him

3,000 ounces of gold,

Son mike is chewing through 350 yards of paydirt an hour.

Hey, james, how's it going up there?

My day is going great.

That's good, james. Keep it going?

Another nice day of sluicing,

Which is good since it's the only thing.

Sluicing right now is the trommel.

To cash in on high gold prices,

Tony's also been searching for other quick scores on the hill.

Half a mile away from mike's trommel,

Tony spotted a pile of rocks and gravel.

That he believes are tailings left over by old-timers,

Lying below the remains of an old sluice run.

Yeah, what's up?

Yeah.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

- Nope. - No.

Now, did you recently get told...

They probably started around.

When the gold rush happened.

The remains of the old mine workings.

Date from the 1940s.

Old-timers used hoses to wash valuable pay dirt.

From the hillside into the sluice runs.

Their basic technology only caught half the gold,

But the ground was so rich,

They still pulled in thousands of ounces.

Now tony wants to find out what they left behind.

In their discarded tailings piles.

Yeah.

No, not at the current prices.

At least check it out, see what's in there.

Might as well.

Yep.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

Tony's located the old-timers' tailings pile.

Halfway down the hill.

Now he must dig up a sample.

To find out if it contains lost gold.

He's not the one that has to lift them into the...

Monica runs the tailings through the test trommel.

To send up to the gold room.

Where tony pans the concentrate.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

Yes, I do.

Be right up.

That's a lot of gold in there.

You're all excited now?

My gosh.

Misfits, are we ready to rumble?

Let's get ready to rumble!

In oregon's elkhorn mountains,

Rookie mine boss fred lewis has gambled his last $20,000.

Setting up a gold mine.

With a greenhorn crew of combat veterans.

We've been here four weeks,

And only 1/2 ounce of gold to show.

Problem after problem keeps plaguing us here on the claim.

If we don't get it moving today,

The rest of the season's gonna be a washout,

And we're gonna go home with nothing.

Standby, standby, standby,

Fred's foreman, kendell madden,

Is the only member of the team with any mining experience.

Are you ready? Are you ready?