Rick Ness is a musician on hiatus these days, but that doesn’t mean his music days are over. Pic credit: Discovery Gold Rush’s latest miner Rick Ness is a breakout favorite among viewers.

Rick Ness: Oh, I love…where we were in Haines, Alaska, on Parker’s grandpa’s mine. I mean that area, to me, is one of the most beautiful places on earth.

Rick Ness was a musician before he pursued gold mining. (Discovery) But yeah, I spent most of my 20s as a full-time touring musician. And that's a hard thing to explain to your family.

Everyone deals with loss differently, but when Rick Ness 's mother died from cancer at age 55 in 2018, the Gold Rush star struggled mightily to find his footing in the months and years that followed.

Rick Ness Rally Valley has finally paid dividends where three days of sluicing brought more than 300 ounces into Rick’s 1,500 season goal.

Rick Ness Rally Valley has finally paid dividends where three days of sluicing brought more than 300 ounces into Rick’s 1,500 season goal.

Four days on the Trommel resulted in 203.32 worth half a million dollars. This brought them to 3,695 ounces toward their 5,000-ounce goal for the season. Rick Ness ...

The big story is the return of Rick Ness, gone for a year but not forgotten. Bumps in his road created a situation, and without belaboring the obvious, Ness had some sorting out and shaping up to do.

'Gold Rush': Rick Ness Gets Frustrating News as Parker Schnabel Throws Hail Mary The foreman was concerned by the frost, but Schnabel was undeterred and helped break up the pay using the D10.

PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the first trailer for the new season, which sees miners Parker Schnabel, Tony Beets and Rick Ness get a little dirty as they gear up for new challenges in the Klondike.

After six months of long work days in remote parts of Alaska, Milwaukee's Rick Ness is back home and back in the driver's seat on season 5 of Discovery Channel's Gold Rush.