What Happens In Tony Beets' Gold Room?

In a behind-the-scenes look at the gold room shared by Discovery UK, Monika Beets explains that the length of the entire demagnetization process from start to finish depends on the coarseness of the gold and how many pails they have on deck. The gold is then sprayed with a power washer and sifted using a pan and screen. This step is necessary to further separate the dirt from the fine, powdery gold found in Canada's Yukon region. The third step calls for the miner to "jig the gold," as described by Beets, through a large green gold shaker table. The table utilizes both water and gravity to further separate the fine dirt and sand from the equally fine gold.

After starting his career as a machine operator, Tony Beets is reportedly the richest miner on "Gold Rush," and now runs the Eureka Creek Mine, one of the largest gold-mining operations in the Klondike. But, why has he been so secretive about the operations behind his gold room?

According to the "Gold Rush" star, the lack of access to the gold room is a normal practice in most gold mines. "It's just not fair to the employees to see all that gold," Beets explains to "The Dirt" host Christo Doyle, though he acknowledges that his employees likely still see the gold on TV. "But a normal place and a normal gold mine, it's not fair to the employee," Beets continued. "[The employee] gets a $10,000 check this month, and there goes the owner who walks away with a million or two. Right. They forget to see what it cost us and what little that is left of it."