In an interview with The Malestrom, Parker Schnabel was asked what the highlight of his career was so far, and Schnabel said it was his first time visiting Dawson. "It's just a wonderful mining community that's made up of some of the best people in the world," Schnabel said, "and I'm really glad to have become — or feel like I'm becoming — a part of that." He then followed that up by pointing out that, even after years working in the Yukon, he still feels like an outsider in the area.
Schnabel looked into other parts of the world for new gold deposits. In an interview with Entrepreneur, he explained the whole point of his industry is to take something out of the ground that can't be replaced, so his job is to put himself out of business unless he finds new land to mine. However, his attempts to move into other claims outside of the Yukon have mostly turned into dead ends.
At the end of Season 4, Parker bought a claim in Australia, but nothing ever came from that. In a thread in the u/goldrush subreddit, u/Seanacey2k asked what happened to that claim, and Schnabel responded that COVID got in the way, and he pretty much abandoned everything in Australia. Meanwhile, as impossible as it seems, the Yukon seems to keep producing enough gold that they continue to mine the Dawson area every season.
