Interview: “Gold Rush” Star Rick Ness Stands to Lose Home and Friends Working His Own Claim
After six years working under Gold Rush’s most successful miner — the 23-year-old Parker Schnabel — Milwaukee’s Rick Ness is going out on his own. Season 9 of Discovery’s No. 1-rated show returns Friday, Oct. 12 at 9/8c to find Ness as his own mine boss with a claim of his own and everything on the line. Ness spent the offseason caring for his moving, who passed away months prior to him departing for the Klondike. Never having mined a claim of his own, he recruited his Wisconsin buddies (almost all who had no experience) to join him on what […]