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Deep in the Alaskan wilderness.

-Lookout buddy. -Hope we're ready, -Yeah!

Six men risk it all to find gold.

Turn it on.

But after 80 days The rookie miners have found nothing but failure.

(whistles)

But after 80 days The rookie miners have found nothing but failure.

I'm just gonna pack my crap and go home.

Frustration And

Frustration And

Tragedy

She stopped breathing.

Now, their luck may finally be changing.

-That's the biggest nugget so far. -Lookit that.

But is it too little too late?

We're broke.

Is there enough gold to pay the bills?

I don't believe that the Lord would bring us this far for nothing.

Stop the arguments.

How do you know it's mainly (bleep) money.

Or learn to shut your (bleep) mouth.

Or to keep Dorsey from leaving the claim.

When my kids see someone hitting my husband, it's not okay.

Everything's looking real nice. The water's flowing good.

Ready when it takes dirt.

Make him turn on the shaker.

It's August in Porcupine Creek, Alaska.

The crew has been running their gold mining wash plant for over a week now.

Starting to feel good. Like we're just starting to

Finally, finally get it going. You know.

We're all excited. We need to shake some dirt and find some gold today.

So far, they've pulled out a thousand yards of gold bearing dirt.

weighing over 1500 tons from an area they call the glory hole.

The glory hole has the most gold in it.

After running this material through their wash plant, they've ended up with thirty buckets of black sand mixed with fine gold.

Getting this far has been an epic struggle.

Three months ago, the six man crew abandoned their lives in the lower 48, to find their fortunes in the Alaskan wilderness.

Bang

They built homes for their families on a claim that they think holds 15 million dollars worth of gold.

On this claim, there's gold.

So far, Todd Hoffman and his father Jack have spent 250 thousand dollars on plant and running costs.

We're bleeding bad. Maybe a thousand bucks a day.

After 80 days of breakdowns and delays, the Hoffman's are about to run out of money.

We gotta turn this boat around.

But there's still hope.

The crew thinks there could be 50 thousand dollars of gold in the black sand.

And Mike Halstead's arrived with a machine to cash in on the gold.

-Hey buddy. -Hey.

-You made it. -You like this baby right here.

-Dude. A wave table. -Yeah.

Let's go. -Hey, this is drop-dead perfect.

Wave tables are designed to speed up the recovery of gold from black sand.

We'll see if I can get it running. It'll have a line of gold.

Just as beautiful as can be. And it all drops right in that hole.

And if you get gold and black sand, then you run that one more time, and then you get almost pure gold.

So we could actually take all the stuff coming out of the jig, and run it right on here,

Right through here.

Cool.

The wave table vibrates over 300 times per minute, creating a series of standing waves.

The turbulence of the water washes the dirt down the table towards the waste outlet.

The gold separates from the sand as the table vibrates, and moves up towards the top where it forms into a band.

Almost. Hang on.

All these years these pioneers have mined out here, they've had little gadgets, little tricks like this.

So you know, I mean, they get just tons and tons of black sand and it was just so hard getting the gold out of the black sand.

Probably four and a half inches up.

The other option that we had, was to sit there and pan everything we had. Aww.

And, I've done that before, and let me tell you, that is one time consuming deal.

For the table to run right, it must be set at the correct angle.

How's the level?

Gawd. It looks perfect to me.

Realtor Jimmy Dorsey has been reading up on how to run the wave table.

We're trying to dial this in, so we can actually see the black sand separate, from..

So you think we ought to..Well, we can try it steeper.

Try it steeper. Yeah. Let's go steeper. See what happens.

Up.

Keep going. I'm watching it.

-Turn it up. -It hit the bumper at the end.

Too hard. I think it's working just great.

Put the..

Something is going wrong here.

Yeah. Jack put suds in it.

Uh, We..We have got to get this going. We got to get some gold flowing through here.

That'd take the pressure off big time.

This looks like a kid's toy, but it's not. It's a uh, very sophisticated piece of machinery.

I've read the manual twice. I think I kinda have an idea of how it works.

I think we can get it going.

Besides what's in the buckets, there should also be gold trapped in the wash plant.

So Todd and Jack stop the plant for a clean up.

-Turn it off. -Y'okay.

They have no money left, and have to cash in all the gold they've pulled from the glory hole.

Just to keep running for the next week, they need four ounces of gold worth five thousand dollars.

This is when we find out what gold we got. Or if we have any gold.

You know, It's hard to believe, but I'd like to be doing clean-outs where we have sixty thousand dollars in 'em.

First off, we got to clean out Jack's nugget trap. Thurber.

Step number two is we ought to get the miner's moss off of this big sluice. Want to do that Chris?

Dorsey's the only miner who has read the wave table manual.

You know. I'm gonna have Dorsey do it. He understands it. You're my guy.

Uh. I'm depending on ya.

You ready?

-Let's go get our gold man. -Do it.

Fine. Let's go.

The crew now depends on Dorsey, a down on his luck Realtor, to figure out the wave table, extract the gold, and save the mine.

Each ounce of gold that that Dorsey gets from the buckets will fund the operation for a day and a half.

The decision to go with Dorsey is not a popular one.

It's a little scary for me. And I think everyone else is concerned.

Uh, He's got a track record of not really making things work right.

Dorsey has struggled from day one.

There has been numerous mistakes.

You took it out. Go put it in yourself. You took it out.

Bottom line. No one knows what they're doing.

Arguments.

Don't talk to me that way.

-Don't try and intimidate me. -Understand me?

And he's even threatened to walk out.

-You keep talking to me like that . -You might be going home.

You'll all be going home.

I've been struggling up here for 2 or 3 months trying to figure out, What can I do that's?

What kind of skills can I bring to the table. And, it's sort of funny, the wave table.

And I thought, here's my opportunity. I'm gonna read the manual,. Gonna read books.

I'm gonna try and figure out exactly how it works. I'm gonna keep us from losing any money.

Dorsey starts by running tests to calibrate the machine.

Just want to start fresh. Clean the thing off.

Oh. Shoot. There's stuff spilling on the ground.

Frig.. Careful - Okay. Let's move this over. -Let's use that.

Careful.

Careful. Dude!

Stop. Stop. Dude stop.

Holy crap dude. Look at this.

This is all gold. This is all gold, dad.

All friggen gold. Where'd this come from.

There's over an ounce right here.

Don't worry. We're gonna capture it.

You don't have anything underneath this.

-Don't wash up here. -I saw at least an ounce.

Maybe two. We gotta be careful.

The price of gold is at 1300 dollars an ounce, an all time high.

Only four ounces. worth over 5000 dollars, would keep the mine afloat for a week.

They simply can't afford to let any gold wash away.

There's a lot of gold on that wave table. Looks like. I know we got some gold Greg.

I don't know how much but luckily we didn't get it poured on the ground.

Good thing you walked in.

Only a little bit.

It's not a great start for Dorsey.

But I didn't realize with the test stands that we're using. It was heavy. that had that much gold in them.

They got a.. Everyone's gotta start somewhere.

While Dorsey resets the table, Todd goes over his plans to recover gold from the wash plant.

The first thing we're gonna do

is

My Jack's nugget trap. We're gonna scoop that out. And I'll show you where that is.

The heavier gold is actually coming down this chute like this.

And then hitting Jack's nugget trap right here. We'll dig this out.

And put it in a bucket. Simple.

This is the 2nd step.

Is taking this expanded metal out,and underneath there's like a carpet material and this is called miners moss.

We're gonna take that carpet, roll it up and wash it out real good.

Step number three is the jig. And we're gonna vacuum out the top..of the jig.

Everyone's future at Porcupine Creek rests on a successful clean-out.

People, looking at me like, whoa. What the heck did you just get us into?

So.

We'll find out.

Up ahead, Dorsey tries to prove his worth on the wave table.

You're bogging it down with too much weight.

Dude. You're bogging it down because of your angle.

Todd faces a harsh reality.

Guys. We're out of money.

Thurber snaps.

You and I. You wanna do it? We'll (bleep) do it. Then you'll learn to shut your (bleep) mouth.

And, it's the end of the road for the Dorsey's.

When my kids see someone hitting my husband, that's not okay.

At Porcupine creek, Todd Hoffman needs to cash in gold to save the mine.

Okay. This is when we find out what gold we got. Or if we have any gold.

Let's go get our gold man. Ah, let's go.

The Hoffman's 100 thousand dollar operating budget has run out.

This is where the rubber hits the road. Right here.

To keep mining, they need to cash in at least 4 ounces of gold, worth over 5000 dollars.

Their hope lies in thirty buckets of gold bearing black sand that could be worth up to 50 thousand dollars.

Dorsey's volunteered to extract the gold on the wave table.

Yeah. I'm looking forward to putting gold into the table.

The rest of the crew is cleaning out gold bearing material from the wash plant to take to Dorsey.

This is the duplex jig. And this is where the ball bearings

and the gravel's are up in this section right here.

Carpenter Chris Doumitt is helping out.

I'm pulling out the moss. Miners moss, down here and up above.

For the last 3 weeks, Chris has helped Greg Remsburg build his house on the claim.

Now, with the future of the mine at stake, he's been recruited for the clean-out.

We're gonna take this to a tray we have up here with soapy water in it.

Help release all the gold.

They call it miners moss. uh, the rug, the carpet.

I think it's kinda like the magic carpet.

I think with what this thing holds, it could take you for a ride. you know.

A nice ride. And what they'll do now, is they'll run this across the table

And separate it out instead of panning it cause we have so much to do.

The crew plans to process all the material from the clean-out on the wave table.

Dorsey adjusts the height to get it just right.

There's a lot riding on me and this wave table today. I'll take the blame if it doesn't run right, cause I'm supposed to be the guy who knows about it.

With buckets of material piling up

This thing weighs a ton. Must be full of gold.

Jack checks to make sure Dorsey is doing his job.

Alright.

Go ahead. Crank her up.

Can we turn this down. Just a little bit. Okay.

Alright.

(Clack, clack of machine is continuous)

Through this table right now.

Everything that we've ran is going through.

Uh. We're gonna go ahead and get our gold. It's climbing nice. It's looking good.

You got a nice black sand layer coming right here

To properly extract gold from the dirt, the angle of the table needs to be perfect.

If it's too flat, the mix won't separate.

If it's too steep, precious gold will be flushed away with the waste.

Get the angle just right, and a line of gold appears at the top of the table.

Those waves look pretty good. See that?

-Oh yeah. -See that?

But Jack spots a problem.

It ain't working.

There goes a piece right there.

See it?

Look at it.

It's floating.

A big piece.

Dorsey could be flushing the thousands of dollars they desperately need, down the drain.

You won't believe where this came from.

It's one of our bigger pieces.

Dorsey was uh, scooping stuff off the wave table and chucking it on the floor in here.

I hate blaming somebody, but that's who did it. You know.

It's a nice piece of gold.

As the first day of the clean-out ends, they have no gold.

The crew now faces some gut wrenching cuts.

It costs the Hoffmans 100 dollars a day to feed the families at the claim.

Todd and Jack call a meeting to deliver even more bad news.

Guys, we're out of money.

I feel like I've kinda

let everybody down but, I've put everything I got into this, me and Jack and

We need about 10,000 bucks by Friday. And after that, we may need to send the families home.

I won't be able to afford to, take care of everybody.

The miners now need to find 8 ounces of gold, worth approximately 10,000 dollars in the next day, or the families will be forced to go home to Oregon.

I don't see how sending these guys home would make a bit of difference.

Basically, we're broke.

We don't have the money to get home. I mean, we have to make this work.

It's just a sad state of affairs. But listen. We got to get that gold.

We're prepared to do whatever it takes to stay here and make this thing go.

We don't have anything to go back to either.

Dad. You want to say a prayer.

Heavenly father, I just ask that you would be with us this evening, and Lord, that you would just richly bless us with gold.

And we pray this in your name, Amen.

Amen.

It's taken a quarter of a million dollars, and months of hardship to get to this point.

It would be absolutely horrible if my family had to leave.

I can't uh, I can't even imagine it.

Now, everything depends on Dorsey getting a shot glass full of gold from the wave table.

I'm, I'm willing to do whatever I can.

Whatever it takes.

Ooh. Golly.

6 am on the 2nd day of the clean-out.

I'm gonna suck up this material. Then I can throw it on the wave table.

Todd and his crew need to find 8 ounces of gold, or 10,000 dollars before sunset, or the miner's families will have to head home to Oregon.

I have to stay strong. It's a moment by moment process for me, that's for sure.

Todd's working the duplex jig, where he hopes gold is trapped among the ball bearings.

Okay. I'm starting to get to the ball bearings. You can see them laying down in here.

I don't see any gold yet.

Ohh. That's like 80 pounds.

Mike and Chris wash the 200 lbs. of ball bearings from the jig to remove any gold.

Now. We have to clean all the ball bearings, then separate them.

If there's any gold in this, it's gonna fall right down to the bottom.

At the wave table, bucket after bucket arrive to have the gold extracted. But before they run them, Jack wants to make some modifications.

I've been..

I've been not so happy with this wave-table.

Finally figured out what's going on. It's just a pain in the butt. And the angle's wrong.

Jack's asked the crew's mechanic, James Harness, to come up with an easy way to change the table's angle.

I'm building a frame to go under the concrete. We're gonna use a floor jack to make it go up and down quickly, so we won;t have to undo any nuts and bolts.

And it'll be the best possible scenario.

Okay, so. All we have to do now is just put a little piece underneath here.

Turn it on. Watch your fingers.

See. That's doing pretty good I think.

I'm happy with that.

Jack leaves the table running. to test out the modification. If they've set the angle correctly, a line of gold should form at the top of the table.

Dorsey arrives to run the table, and immediately notices the changes.

See what happened when they raised it up.

How's it supposed to work, when they raise it up like this. Just setting me up for failure.

Why don;t we lower it down by the jack?

Setting me up for failure every day, and that's why I bet you that was done.

Yeah. So, why don't you lower it some?

Huh? I can't, they don't, they, lower it?

Just lower the jack. You said you got it up too high? Or, what do you mean?

No. I need it up higher.

Well then, jack the damn thing up.

When I say it needs to be six inches, I mean it needs to be six inches. I'm confident on that.

Harness comes back to discover Dorsey's changed the angle.

With no gold showing, they shutdown the table.

You're at an extreme angle right now. Explain to me how this angle's gonna benefit you.

And how much gold is gonna actually go out.

Well, because it's Alaskan black sand, it's very heavy.

No matter what, it needs to be at least six inches high to be able to separate gold from black sand.

I know Dorsey knows more about this than I do. I don't give a crap.

You know, I don't care. Uh, that doesn't mean anything to me. You know. My goal is to get the gold.

With less than half a day to come up with 10,000 dollars in gold, Jack and Harness take over the table and readjust the angle.

Dorsey, has lost his job, again.

You know what. I didn't come up here and spend all this time for having somebody else telling me what to do.

When it comes to this stuff, I'm the boss.

Jimmy Dorsey is at his wit's end.

Mister Hoffman wants to be able to control the height of it.

Right now it's like, If Dorsey touches it, and, I mean. I work hard on stuff. I put things together.

And then they want to tear it apart and do it their way. Why? Why am I doing this?

Well, they can do what they want with this stupid thing. I hate that (bleep) table anyway.

Nearby, Jim Thurber cleans out the duplex jig.

Hey Jim. What're you doing?

Moving this rock outta here.

What are you doing?

Nothing.

Oh I know. There's a lot to do.

A lot of cleanup to do.

All kinds of stuff..

Is there a lot to do. I was supposed to run the table today.

Dig in and do something.

That's the problem.

What are you gonna do. Are you just gonna whine about it, or we..

I want to know if we're actually making any money. Is there a reason to be here.

We have a wave table. What do you want to do?

I don't know what you're talking about, but you know..

What I'm talking about is. I'm trying to make you understand, everyone, Let's just work on what we got and let's get it going.

And who's working on it right now.

Watch me work faster than anyone else. Cause we'll do something..

Yeah. Totally ass backwards.

-You're (bleep) psychotic. -I am.

-Can't talk to you. -Cause I been here for 3 months without any (bleep) money.

Dude. You wanna go. Then (bleep) go.

You and I. You wanna do it? We'll (bleep) do it. Then you'll learn to shut your (bleep) mouth.

And make some sense come out of it.

I'm not gonna put up with it. These guys are. Just stop it. You'll drive yourself (bleep) nuts.

I am going nuts.

-Okay. Stop. -Hey!

Come on. Let's go for a drive.

Naw, dude. I don't want to go for a drive.

Let's go. You and me.

We're supposed to be doing a clean-out this morning.

-Come on. -Well what's your dad doing?

Why's he messing with the platform? It's like, what are we doing?

Obviously.

Here's the deal. I need you to calm down, okay.

Can you re-engage?

Yup.

Hey.

Hey. You need a hug?

-No I don't need a hug. -Come here.

Don't need a hug. Thanks but..

Dude.

Oh he doesn't know how close he was to..

Someone finally coming to a head and letting him have it.

Which, you know.

That first punch is the only one that feels good.

You know,

I broke a lot of knuckles with my face.

I'm not a tough guy, but it's ugly.

That right there. That's, this is what's causing all the problems, right here.

This stuff right here.

The gold.

Everyone that's ever worked here for this stuff right here. This is a flake.

In Porcupine, they end up just going absolutely nuts.

What are you seeing Todd?

-I'm seeing pyrite. -Really?

Todd and his crew are halfway through a clean-out to recover 8 ounces of gold from their mine.

They need 10,000 dollars in gold by the end of the day, or the miner's families will have to leave.

-Holy crap. -Lookit that.

The biggest one we've got yet.

Yea.

Aye-Yeah.

That's the biggest nugget so far.

Jim Thurber is also finding gold.

A little piece of gold just sitting right there on the sluice.

If it's all like this, it'll be good.

These nuggets are worth around 20 dollars each.

Ah. That just sounds so good.

But the team needs another 500 of these today, to keep the families from being sent home.

We're anxious. We know that tonight's a special night for sure. And our family doesn't have the cash to get home.

If the miners and their families have any chance of hitting their 10,000 dollar goal, it will be because they have the wave table up and running.

Harness took over the job from Dorsey, but now Dorsey wants his job back.

Hi Jack. Well, I'm aware that I annoyed you this morning,, I'm sorry. I'm just trying to figure out ..what to do.

Well. I've, I've invested a lot of money, a lot of time, and I know you have too.

But your attitude is just, you got to quit

down this roller coaster.

The attitude, it just, it needs to settle down, you know. And it won't take much, you know.

You're a good guy. I know you are. You know, I know ya.

So, you know.

We been here for 3 months and I haven't made any money and I, you know, I wanted to see that clean-out, you know.

I know that that, that table is, is kinda your baby, you know and.

That's fine and dandy, but that tables gonna run the way that I like it to run.

I'm just trying to prove myself to be worthy of, of uh.

You don't have to prove yourself to anybody. I want you to be a team player, that's all.

Are you gonna be a team player?

Yep.

I hope so, you know. Cause this is a...

This is drop dead time.

You know. We, we either make it or break it in our clean-out.

I need you there.

Dorsey returns to work at the wave table with James, but Jack's got an ultimatum.

Here's the deal. Put it to the angle that you'd like.

Feed it some more material.

A pan under here.

If there's any more gold, this sucker goes bye-bye.

Jack will get rid of the wave table, unless Dorsey can get it to separate their gold from the black Alaskan sand.

You set it up however you want. I'll help you.

This is Dorsey's last chance to prove that he's a valuable member of the crew. The pressure is getting to him.

-You cannot pull it off of here. You can't -I know but.

It's in production mode. You cannot do this

I can't talk to you if you're gonna talk.

If you want to hear what I have to say, I'll talk to you.

Do you want to hear it or not.

If you don't lose your negative attitude, I'm leaving.

Well. Let's, let it go now. Cause I guarantee you we're not gonna get it working the way it is.

I just guarantee it.

I'd put a couple thousand dollars, I'd put a Million bucks on it. You're not gonna get it right.

Time is up for Dorsey. Jack samples the sand that the wave table has discarded.

I'm gonna take all this stuff, and pan it.

If there's any gold in Jack's pan, the wave table will be deemed worthless.

It's a, It's not a good deal.

This is what the machine is supposed to be catching.

This is what it's not catching.

That's a, that's some serious gold.

It's worth about 400 or 500 dollars, right there. That's serious stuff.

This is not funny. I think the guy's gonna get it back.

Looked pretty, yellow and blue, you know, and all that. But it doesn't friggen work.

That thing is getting..taken out here and ran over with the dozer.

Look at this.

Oh. Shoot.

Mainly at the bottom.

I told you this thing is, is just ain't, it ain't working.

We're losing, we're..just not working.

It's just not worth the powder to blow it to hell.

In 1936, at Porcupine creek, miner August Fritsche, recovered 700 ounces of gold in a single clean-out.

That night he was found dead, and his gold, worth a million dollars today, had vanished.

At the Hoffman's claim in remote Alaska, Jack has abandoned the wave table.

I'm just totally discouraged with that wave table. Irritated is a kind word for what I really think about it.

The crew has 6 hours left to find 10,000 dollars worth of gold. If they fail, they will not be able to afford to keep the families at the claim.

I'll get our gold, one way or the other.

This isn't exactly the way we planned it out.

Jack comes up with a radical new plan.

We have to pan it. There is no if's, and's or but's about it. We have to pan.

The wave table is the biggest piece of crap I've ever encountered.

I hate that thing with a passion now. It's wasted so much time.

Caused so much bitterness, you know, between Dorsey and us.

Jack calls everyone together.

I need your help.

We're so far behind. That wave table let us down.

We've got to pan all of this stuff. Now watch what I do.

Gold is 18 times heavier than water, okay. So it will settle. But you got to get it loosened up,

Jack. Is there a certain rhythm. Is there a certain motion. Is it shaking. Is it sloshing.

You could be doing like this It doesn't matter, you know. That's a nice action.

I am so glad that you guys are gonna help us. You know, it's just unbelievable the amount that we have to do.

They've got thirty buckets to pan.

Even with the whole camp joining in, it's a tall order.

I want a great big pan full of nuggets.

We got to do what we gotta do, and we're gonna do it together.

To get to 10,000 dollars, each person has to come up with over a third of an ounce of gold.

I am daunted by this. Cause I'm having a hard time getting the right rhythm. This is, like really important cause, well...

Our hands and pans are all we have right now.

If we don't get the clean-out we need, and my family's gonna go home early, it's gonna be real tough.

As the day draws to a close, Todd's deadline approaches.

If they don't end up with 8 ounces of gold worth 10,000 dollars, the families will have to pack up.

A lot of people have sacrificed to get to this point. Hey, me included.

If I don't get gold, I'm going back home with nothing.

It's always gonna be nice if we have an excellent turnout here, and have something to show for it.

So what do you think man. Did we get gold or not?

I think we did pretty good. It's hard to say.

We'll just have to find out.

Jimmy Dorsey skips the meeting and heads back to his cabin.

We're not living up to our potential.

The potential here is all of us can make a good living gold mining.

Have a great summer and go home with piles of cash in our pocket.

I am totally going

I'm coming apart up here.

Alone in the wave table tent, Jack makes the final count.

-There he goes. -We'll find out right now.

I can tell by the way he's walking, this ain't good.

That's the total take right here.

Two point seven ounces.

If you stop and think about it, we've worked 3 months, and..

A little disheartening.

I know that everybody's in desperate situation.

To me it's a real letdown.

The 2.7 ounces of gold they found in the clean-out is worth only 3500 dollars. Over 6000 short of what Todd needs to keep the families at the claim.

I don't believe that the Lord

would bring us this far and provide every provision for us to get here to this very day

For nothing.

The families must leave Porcupine Creek.

I know down deep, it's, it's hurtful.

And then, a lot of questions and stuff are bubbling up.

We all had high hopes for this, for this clean-out and

So, you know, with high expectations comes, disappointment.

But, we can't go backwards, so

We move forward and we go for the, we go for the deep goal.

My part of this is to keep the...

Keep the wheels turning. And, that's a lot of responsibility, but

I'm not gonna let us get this close and not continue.

The next morning, Greg Remsburg's family heads home to Oregon.

I'm gonna miss you.

-You know I'm so proud of you. -Yeah.

(tearfully) Go get on the boat.

Yeah. I have an incredible wife and incredible kids.

And uh,

Well I just loaded my gold on the ship, and I'm gonna do what I gotta do here.

I gotta dive in and, and kick some butt.

With tension on the claim at an all time high, chaos has broken out.

There's a psycho on the loose. I'm going to the police station.

Speeding down the dirt road right behind Greg Remsburg are Jimmy Dorsey and his family.

He hit him first, and we're going to the police first.

Dorsey and I have had a disagreement. It's time for the drama to, to stop.

I was mad. Yeah. I was yelling at him. I was like.. Who are you to try and talk to me like that?

I said "You know what. I'm not taking crap from you anymore."

Then he started putting his finger in me. He goes..

You wanna fight, you wanna fight, and Jimmy says NO.

He put his hands on me and it went from there.

When my kids see someone hitting my husband, it's not okay.

We'll not put up with it. And we are definitely not ever coming back here besides to come back and get our stuff.

I don't like it. I don't like what I have to do right now.

Greg gets to the police station first, to report the incident.

-That's his car right there. -Yeah.

The Dorsey's aren't far behind.

Come on guys.

Don't worry about it.

Come on.

Come sweetie.

I got grapes here.

At the claim, Todd was working on the excavator when the fight broke out.

I saw Greg standing there with his hands in his pocket, and then I seen Jimmy just screaming with his arms like this right in Greg's face.

Grrraahh, you know, and I'm like.

So I started getting off the excavator and try and go over there see what's up. Then they walked behind the dump truck.

And then, obviously a scuffle, so I broke 'em up.

Broke 'em up.

The situation is just not good.

Not a whole lot that they can do.

Jimmy's just giving his statement, or his side of the story.

Right now.

When I' got here Greg was in there.

Are you alright honey?

I'm heading back to the mine.

It's hard to breathe, still.

My fingers all swollen. He did, he grabbed my finger and twisted it around my back.

-Tell me what ice. That's where he hit you is it. -Yeah.

He's just bruised up. Luckily there's nothing broken. So that's good news.

Back at the claim, Todd uses the satellite phone to call Dorsey.

Hello.

Dude you alright.

I'm bruised up man.

Hurts to breathe.

Well.

I need to figure out how to get your stuff to you. And I need to get your permission to

You know. I don't, I don't think it'd be good for you to come back.

I'm on a comeback here.. What do you think dude.

Watch. I'm going back to get my stuff. But no, you, I'm not giving you permission to get my stuff. I'm gonna come up and get it.

And, uh, it's not a big deal.

-So, I'll see you up there. -Right.

He's coming to get his stuff.

I've given Todd Hoffman 5 months of my life, and he's let me down in every way.

There's no gold. There's no promise. There's no uh

There's nothing. He hasn't given me anything.

Dorsey and family head back to the mine to pick up their stuff.

I want the best for him. But uh

I'm not going to take any major abuse either. I mean, If he touches me..

It's not gonna be good.

With just 2.7 ounces of gold for nearly 3 months work, the families gone, and fights breaking out, the miners are prepared for anything.

Apparently Dorsey's gonna come back and get a bunch of stuff. I don't want the wrong stuff to leave.

I don't really trust the guy. If he's not thinking right. You never know what they'll do.

How ya doing? How ya feeling?

He got up in my face and today I didn't back down. I wasn't letting him intimidate me today.

Then he put his finger in my chest and I put my finger right back in his chest. And I was like, Dude.

Back off.

Hmm.

Hey uh.

My truck's empty so. If you need more space and stuff like that.

-I just need some time -Huh?

I just need some time to put it all together.

Okay well. It's there.

The Dorsey's sank everything they had into their dream of striking it rich in Alaska.

Now, they leave Porcupine Creek with no gold, and no home to go back to.

He did his best, you know.

I don't think so. I think he did less than what you figure.

Nope.

Either way, he's gone.

Subs by Jack T

He lost it, yeah.