The third main cast member of Discovery's Gold Rush is Tony Beets. Unlike Schnabel and Ness, Beet didn't come from a gold mining background.
Instead, the Dutch-born prospector left his farm in Holland and moved to Dawson City, Canada, in 1982 in a bid to make his fortune with gold.
In an interview with Entrepreneur, Beets said: "I hung around Alberta and BC for a bit, then I went to the Yukon for the money. They said you can make a thousand bucks a week, so I thought: if they get that, I'll get a little more".