ABOUT TIME, RICK!

Narrator: RICK NESS HAS COMPLETED

HIS ROOKIE MINING SEASON...

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT'S BEEN 6 MONTHS?

Narrator: ...BUT HE'S YET TO FIND OUT IF HE'S HIT

HIS 1,000-OUNCE, $1.2 MILLION GOAL.

SO, KARLA, WHERE DID WE END UP WITH ON THE LAST GOLD WEIGH?

WE WERE AT 973.

SO WE HAD 27 OUNCES TO GET.

MIGHT BE IN THAT JAR.

I -- IT'S TIME TO FIND OUT.

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THAT'S 20.

-LOOKING GOOD. -YEAH!

THERE'S OUR 27 OUNCES.

[ CHEERING ]

YEAH!

THERE'S ANOTHER [BLEEP] HUNDRED OR SO.

WHOA! YEAH!

WHOA!

THE FINAL GOLD WEIGHED 132.49 OUNCES.

[BLEEP] YEAH!

Narrator: WORTH WELL OVER $150,000.

YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? WE'RE OVER 1,100.

NICE. 1,105. BLEW BY IT!

Narrator: IN HIS FIRST YEAR AS A MINE BOSS,

RICK NESS HAS DUG UP OVER $1.3 MILLION IN GOLD.

Rick: ARE YOU GLAD WE STUCK AROUND NOW?

Narrator: HE'S KEPT HIS WORD TO HIS CREW.

THEY'LL GO HOME WITH MONEY FOR THEIR FAMILIES.

I APPRECIATE YOU GUYS, YOU KNOW, BELIEVING IN ME

'CAUSE I COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU GUYS, EVERY ONE.

THAT BEING SAID, I GOT SOMETHING FOR YOU GUYS.

GOT A LITTLE BUCKET HERE, IT'S GOT 6 JARS IN IT.

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AND THERE'S ONE OF THOSE HERE FOR EACH OF YOU GUYS.

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A LITTLE OVER 50 OUNCES IN EVERY ONE OF THOSE JARS.

Narrator: THEIR FINAL 2-WEEK PUSH

ALLOWS RICK TO HAND OUT OVER $360,000.

THANK YOU, GUYS!

Narrator: EACH CREW MEMBER WILL GO HOME

WITH OVER $60,000 IN GOLD.

SIX MONTHS AGO, RICK, WE WERE SITTING IN MILWAUKEE,

AND YOU PULLED OUT SOME OF YOUR GOLD,

AND WE SHOWED IT TO MY KIDS AND EVERYTHING TO SEE,

YOU KNOW, WHAT DAD WAS GOING TO GO UP AND TRY TO CHASE.

I'M GOING TO BRING THAT HOME TO THEM.

THEY'RE GOING TO BE THE FIRST PEOPLE TO SEE IT.

THIS REALLY HELPS, MAN. YEAH, BUDDY.

APPRECIATE IT. YOU GUYS EARNED IT.

I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT TO YOU GUYS

THAT MY FIRST YEAR UP HERE MINING WITH PARKER,

WE STAYED TO THE VERY BITTER END AND WE HIT 1,029 OUNCES.

AND US, NO EXPERIENCE, NO NOTHING,

WE [BLEEP] BEAT THAT BY A MILE.

YEAH, RICK!

[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]

Narrator: SIX MONTHS AFTER ARRIVING IN THE KLONDIKE

WITH FOUR GREENHORNS AND NO WASH PLANT,

RICK NESS HAS BECOME THE MOST SUCCESSFUL ROOKIE MINE BOSS

IN "GOLD RUSH" HISTORY.

YOU GUYS ARE LUNATICS!

Big Rick: THE SEASON, I MEAN, YOU COULDN'T PUT MORE ON

SOMEBODY'S PLATE, AND HE HAS COME OUT SUCCESSFUL.