[Warning: The below contains spoilers for Gold Rush Season 16.]
The Olympic athletes aren’t the only ones going for the gold. After a week break, Discovery Channel gave us another new official episode of Gold Rush. Tony Beets has been enjoying a great run right and already banked $14 million. With gold prices so high, the “King of the Klondike” is showing no signs of stopping, driven in large part to running two wash plants at the Corner Cut.
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