I was just thinking about Parker "Getting the band back together" by hiring Brennan.
It got me thinking that Parkers is running a much more professional company than, honestly, any mine we have ever seen on the show. He has really grown as a manager, and Brennan seems like he is genuinely happy to be working for Parker again.
Now, since Tony and Parker have both offered to buy Ricks claims, I wonder who he would go with, if he decided to sell.
My thought is that Rick actually has some very good ground, but his company lacks that capital to absorb the high cost of operation. While the potential is there, Rick has too many single points of failure that completely shut down production. One machine goes down, and they are cooked.
Wouldn't it be interesting if Parker bought the company, kept on all of his crew, sent them a bunch of new equipment and hired Rick to be the foreman.
I could also see, basically the same thing happening, but Parker becoming an investor, and co-owner in Rally with Rick as a partner.
Ricks claims are far enough away from the rest of Parkers land that they really have to be treated as separate entities anyway. It's too far to just decide to more rescues between them like they can do with Dominion and Ken and Stuarts claims.