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Wait through, there's second gold mining season. 2 00:00:06,500 --> 00:00:08,500 Your team Amethyst negative. 3 00:00:08,500 --> 00:00:12,000 The Huffman crew is hit one brick wall after another. 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,000 In their hunt for gold, we're going to have to get our ass of gear. 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,000 The American Dream is in our hearts. 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,000 Every single one of us is taking a lot of crap. 7 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:25,000 It's Todd and it's crew finally closed in. 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,000 On their first gold of the year. 9 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,000 So it feels good, we're chasing that pocket of gold. 10 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Their loader breaks down. 11 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Hey, no, no. 12 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:41,000 Down south, at Port Gipin Creek. 13 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,000 Come get this stuff right away. 14 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:47,000 At the coat of boys, push their bodies and machines to the limits. 15 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,000 See you later. 16 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,000 And across the creek, at the big nugget mine, 17 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,000 the pressure to find gold. 18 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:56,000 Can you give us a minute? 19 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,000 Create's tension between Parker Schnubble and his grandfather. 20 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,000 Don't shut my crew down without talking to me. 21 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:28,000 Up at Port's Creek in the Klondike. 22 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:35,000 It's day 75 of the 150 day mining season. 23 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,000 It's taken half the season. 24 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,000 What the Huffman crew finally has their wash plant dialed in. 25 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,000 Take an old piece of equipment that's laid alongside the road. 26 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,000 You pour your heartache into it and you watch it come to life. 27 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,000 And it'll start producing gold. 28 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,000 I guarantee it. 29 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:52,000 It's a good day. 30 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,000 Overall, we're straight kicking some ass. 31 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Now we're out of 100 freaking yards an hour. 32 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,000 This is the American dream right here. 33 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,000 We're doing something right. 34 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,000 And it's gold very soft. 35 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,000 This way we came to do it and we're finally doing it. 36 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:15,000 The Huffman crew is hungry for their first real gold of the year. 37 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Since moving to the Kondike, they've battled to get their old wash plant up and running. 38 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,000 And I can sit here and not get to gold. 39 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:29,000 After a series of setbacks, they made the controversial decision to switch out their gold-trapping 40 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,000 ripples. 41 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,000 The plan looks like it just made pay off. 42 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,000 Guys, check this out. 43 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:40,000 The Huffman crew can now get gold from the pay dirt they feed into the plan. 44 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:45,000 With nothing to show for the first half of the season, they have no choice, 45 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,000 but to run as much dirt as they can. 46 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,000 The loader carries four tons of material in each bucket. 47 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:57,000 Chris pushes the loader hard to keep the wash plant fed. 48 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,000 All of a sudden, the loader conks out. 49 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:02,000 I'm down. 50 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,000 I won't be going anywhere for a while. 51 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,000 Without it, the plant has no dirt to run. 52 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,000 Dave Turin is first on the scene. 53 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,000 I think it's feeling hydraulic fluid. 54 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,000 Clear? Clear? Go ahead. 55 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:24,000 With hydraulic fluid leaking, Chris's force to turn off the loader. 56 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:29,000 We don't want to be spilling any oil on the ground, so we can get this up on a little spot 57 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,000 where we can get it cleaned out a little bit safer. 58 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:36,000 They can't let hydraulic fluid contaminate the creek. 59 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,000 Todd only has one option. 60 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,000 We're going to pull it out of here. 61 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:40,000 Get it over here. 62 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:42,000 We're changing to take a look at it. 63 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:45,000 So we're going to go out there and drag it back out of there. 64 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:50,000 So I can downloader the life in a mine. 65 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,000 Gotta get it out of there. 66 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:57,000 A loader broke down or pulling it out of here. 67 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Todd plans to use the 400 excavator to pull the loader out of the pit. 68 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:08,000 This came a little break, but the loader weighs in at 35,000 pounds. 69 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:18,000 Look at the brick out. 70 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:23,000 Can't see over here. 71 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,000 Take the break up. 72 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,000 It's off. 73 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,000 off. 74 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:36,000 Hey, no, no. 75 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,000 We're going three steps forward. 76 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,000 Ten steps back. 77 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:46,000 For more power, Todd swaps out the 400 for the D8 doser. 78 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:47,000 Jackal. 79 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,000 And Jim Thurber attaches a stronger cable. 80 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,000 Rated for pulling 20 tons or 40,000 pounds. 81 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,000 Look okay. 82 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,000 Looks good. 83 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,000 The roll. 84 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,000 What's that cable? 85 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,000 There we got you. 86 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Woo! 87 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000 With the loader safely out of the pit, 88 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,000 Team mechanic James Harness diagnoses the problem. 89 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:27,000 We have lost a bolt and it's either coming out of the bolt hole 90 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,000 or the lock, the loss of that bolt, 91 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,000 allowed the seal above that to fail. 92 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:39,000 Deep inside the loader, a bolt has sheared on a plate connecting a hydraulic hose. 93 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:44,000 The three remaining bolts can't keep the seal intact. 94 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:50,000 With fluid leaking, the loader's hydraulic bucket bolt work. 95 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,000 Getting at the problem is not easy. 96 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,000 If I can get the bolt out with the rust seal in there, 97 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:00,000 we're done and we can go back to trying to assume we have some kind of a future 98 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:01,000 fun and some gold. 99 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Without the loader, there is no pay gravel for the wash plan. 100 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Todd is forced to shut down the entire mining operation. 101 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:22,000 The hopping crew still hasn't found a single ounce of gold halfway into the season. 102 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,000 The crippled loader is yet another major setback. 103 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:30,000 I think this probably about the most depressing day I've had in weeks. 104 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:34,000 It's frustrating. I almost started to think maybe we shouldn't be here. 105 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:38,000 There's too many things are beaten up on us. 106 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:42,000 Down at Porcupine Creek in southeast Alaska. 107 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:49,000 The Dakota Boys prep their DRocker wash plan to run dirt for seven straight days. 108 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,000 It would be pretty exciting, I'm sure. 109 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,000 You'll see. 110 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,000 Figure within one week. 111 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:02,000 We'll have more gold than they made all last year. 112 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:06,000 We've got to have about 15 ounces to make that work. 113 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,000 We'll see how many yards it takes to get there. 114 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:14,000 Hey, long as I can run, I'll make the bet. 115 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,000 Just a month ago. 116 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Dakota Fred made a bet with Jack Hoffman. 117 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:25,000 I'm owned mine more gold in one week than you did all year. 118 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:30,000 It's taken the Dakota Boys four weeks to dial in their DRocker. 119 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:35,000 But now it's fully operation running up to 150 yards of dirt and out. 120 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,000 I feel charged right now. 121 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:43,000 To beat the Hoffman's first season total of 14.6 ounces in just one week. 122 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:47,000 The Dakota Boys have to run thousands of yards of dirt. 123 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:52,000 And they're going to have to do it without their business partner Paul. 124 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,000 There are just two men left to win the bet. 125 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:00,000 Fred digs Peter while Dustin takes it to the wash plan. 126 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Just doing a hell of a job. 127 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:07,000 If you're up, but he young man, he can handle it. 128 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:11,000 He feeds the DRocker materials. 129 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,000 And then clears the tailings. 130 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:20,000 The washed rocks that the DRocker discards. 131 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:24,000 Rock feel like a playing catch-up constant. 132 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Dustin works two jobs at once. 133 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:32,000 But after six hours of running, he's struggling to keep up. 134 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,000 Just there. 135 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,000 I'll get this stuff running and Dustin right away. 136 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:45,000 That freaks me out. 137 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,000 Dustin is fighting a losing battle. 138 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:52,000 He just can't keep the DRocker free of tailings. 139 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:58,000 It's clear that the Dakota Boys need three men working or they won't be able to run enough dirt. 140 00:08:58,000 --> 00:08:59,000 It doesn't work. 141 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:02,000 And that's why we add three people. 142 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:08,000 So run with two people is less than half of what you can do. 143 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:13,000 Because not only are you just doing twice the work, you're going in between the jobs. 144 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:14,000 Okay. 145 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,000 So we'll add the look around and see. 146 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,000 There we are. 147 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:20,000 It'll be done. 148 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:21,000 What's that? 149 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:22,000 That way it'll be done. 150 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,000 Yep. 151 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:25,000 All right. 152 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,000 Well, we'll see you later. 153 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:28,000 There we go. 154 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,000 At this rate, Fred stands to lose a lot more than 155 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,000 just his bet with Jack. 156 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,000 Fred leaves a message for the only guy in town that can help. 157 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,000 I'll give you a call back a little later on. 158 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,000 See if I can catch you in the office. 159 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:49,000 Thanks, Ken. 160 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:50,000 This Fred. 161 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:51,000 Thank you. 162 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:52,000 Bye. 163 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:57,000 No loader. 164 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:58,000 No goal. 165 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:00,000 Up ahead. 166 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,000 Over at the big nugget mine. 167 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,000 The pressure to get to the goal. 168 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,000 It's Parker Schnubble hard. 169 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:09,000 I've got an idea. 170 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,000 If you want to be in charge of the plan, 171 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,000 we might as well make it official. 172 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,000 To go to Fred and his son Dustin. 173 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:16,000 Tell me that school. 174 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:20,000 Get back on track with their first real goal of the season. 175 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:21,000 My first baby nugget. 176 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,000 And just when they need him most. 177 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:24,000 Just surgery. 178 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:25,000 Let me down. 179 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:26,000 The Huffman Cruise mechanic. 180 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,000 James Hardest drops a bomb show. 181 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,000 But I can't do it in the condition. 182 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,000 At the big nugget mine in southeast Alaska. 183 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,000 17-year-old Parker Schnubble is clearing ground. 184 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:53,000 He's pumping a new dig site 200 feet up on the slope of Smith Creek Hills. 185 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,000 That is awesome. 186 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,000 Halfway through the gold mining season. 187 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,000 Parker has found only 14 ounces of gold, 188 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,000 worth just $22,000. 189 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:15,000 Since he took over his grandfather's mine at the start of the season. 190 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:20,000 Parker has had a hard time finding Peter. 191 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,000 I've got everything I need. 192 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Except there with gold in it. 193 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,000 Desperate for a new source of gold, 194 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:32,000 Parker has sunk $8,000 into a new dig site up on Smith Creek Hills. 195 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,000 He dunked down the bedrock. 196 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,000 But there was no gold. 197 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:43,000 Parker took his grand-pause advice to keep at it on Smith Creek Hills. 198 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:49,000 A week ago, he cleared overhanging trees from an exposed wall. 199 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:53,000 Now Parker plans to dig into the side of the hill. 200 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,000 This is his last chance to make Smith Creek pay. 201 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,000 Well, I'm trying to get close to bedrock. 202 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:05,000 So what I'm going to do is take it all down and then take it down some more. 203 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:09,000 So that I'll hit the pay streak if there is one. 204 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:15,000 Pace streaks are channels of gold that often sit on the bedrock of ancient riverbids. 205 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:19,000 Thousands of years ago, Smith Creek could have passed through this hillside. 206 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:24,000 Parker believes that when it drying out, it left a trail of gold on its riverbed. 207 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:28,000 If he's right, the pay streak is very deep in the Alaskan dirt. 208 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:41,000 Looks like we found a bedrock. 209 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:46,000 The plan was finding them back wall and start falling down. 210 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:51,000 And when she knew it, but we actually did it. 211 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:56,000 We'll find some good gold up here. 212 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:03,000 I feel like we will go like we'll find good gold up here. 213 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:07,000 If Parker has finally hit bitten, this dirt could be full of gold. 214 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:12,000 He waste no time stockpiling material to run through his wash plan. 215 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:19,000 77 days into the mining season, Parker could be on the Smith Creek pay streak. 216 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:24,000 Back up at Courts Creek in the Klondike. 217 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:30,000 Mechanic James Harness struggles to extract a broken bolt that shut down the loader's hydraulics. 218 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:38,000 It's ugly in there, and without the right tools, there's no way to do anything about it. 219 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:46,000 For six hours, Harness is struggled to find a fix, but working under the loader has taken its toll. 220 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:52,000 Last season, Harness pushed his body to the limit, 221 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:55,000 and eventually an old spinal injury caught up with him. 222 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,000 I blazer shot. 223 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:02,000 Radical surgery in the offseason gave him a temporary reprieve. 224 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:14,000 At first light, the next day, James calls the crew together. 225 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:20,000 I was about in tears under that thing last night, trying to squeeze in there and get anything done. 226 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:24,000 I just gave up. 227 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:25,000 That's not like you. 228 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:26,000 I know. 229 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:29,000 It's a fight I can't win right now. 230 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,000 I've overdone it. 231 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:37,000 The surgery let me down months earlier than it was supposed to wear off, 232 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:43,000 and I need to go get some shots or some medication before I can go any further. 233 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:49,000 I was hoping to get a clean out before that happened, because we really need to know where we stand 234 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:51,000 and a lot of issues. 235 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,000 Mainly, if we have anything to divide up at the end, 236 00:14:54,000 --> 00:15:00,000 or we spend our wheels for nothing, and a lot of decisions have to be made. 237 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:04,000 I've always been the team player, and I want to help you guys no matter what, 238 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,000 but I can't do it in the condition I'm in. 239 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:11,000 So I need a few days. It's all I'm asking for. 240 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:19,000 I know you and I had a couple of blocks earlier, but get it done, 241 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:24,000 and whatever you can get done, and we'll be here when you get back. 242 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:29,000 To sort out his back, harnesses heading 2,000 miles south to Oregon. 243 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:33,000 He's the only member of the Hoffman crew that can fix the broken loader, 244 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:36,000 and he could be gone for weeks. 245 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,000 See you later. 246 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:42,000 Right careful, John. 247 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:43,000 Yeah. 248 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:51,000 If this can help that pain, I'm glad to see you go. 249 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:58,000 Hopefully, we can keep going, you know, and just struggle through until he gets back. 250 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,000 The Hoffman crew is running out of time. 251 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:07,000 They have to find another mechanic to fix their loader, and quick. 252 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:33,000 At Porcupine Creek in southeast Alaska. 253 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,000 So what are we going to do today? 254 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:39,000 Dakota Fred and Sun Dustin are waiting on reinforcements. 255 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,000 I hope that's Kenny. 256 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,000 Go on. 257 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,000 All right. 258 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,000 Are you a site for sororize? 259 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,000 Good man. 260 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:53,000 Good man. 261 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:56,000 Fred is hired local miner, Kenny Waldo. 262 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:01,000 Kenny will operate the doser, so the Dakota boys can run the maximum amount of dirt. 263 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,000 So you're going to come out and help us out today? 264 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,000 Yeah, I'll come and help you guys now. 265 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,000 Fred might have a fighting chance of winning his bet with Jack Hoffman. 266 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:14,000 We got this little thing going with the former residents here. 267 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:18,000 I kind of boasted it. 268 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:23,000 I was going to get more gold in one week, then they got all last year. 269 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,000 Were you close with your help? 270 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,000 I think we can do it. 271 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:28,000 All right. 272 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:29,000 Well, you're the best shot. 273 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:43,000 Kenny starts clearing tailings, freeing up dust to collect four tons of fresh material with each bucket loan. 274 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,000 He didn't want ever three minutes. 275 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,000 That's about eighty ninety yards an hour. 276 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,000 Kenny doing a great job. 277 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:51,000 Stop in a man. 278 00:17:51,000 --> 00:18:00,000 Now Fred has to hope that there's enough gold in the porcupine dirt to be 14.6 ounces by the end of the week. 279 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:09,000 Court's Creek the Clondite with their loader broken and wash plants shut down. 280 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:13,000 The Hoffman crew is putting the finishing touches on their gold room. 281 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:22,000 This year, the Hoffmans are automating their gold recovery protected from the elements. 282 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:27,000 Sit two gold catching machines, a duplex jig and a gold table. 283 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:34,000 Last year, we wound up in a gold band. 284 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:39,000 In their rookie mining season, the Hoffman crew failed to dial in their machines properly. 285 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,000 It's just unbelievable. 286 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,000 The Hoffmans learned their lesson. 287 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:49,000 This season, their machines are already set up to catch gold. 288 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:56,000 We wind up with a bucket of material like this that's loaded with freaking gold. 289 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:00,000 Then we shovel it into this hopper. 290 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,000 It's washed in that hopper. 291 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,000 It goes to the two jigs. 292 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:11,000 The gold bearing dirt enters the top of the duplex jig where rocks and stones are discarded. 293 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:19,000 The material then flows through pipes into the jig and onto a pulsating bed of steel shot on a fine screen. 294 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:25,000 Only the heaviest material, black sand and gold falls through into buckets beneath. 295 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,000 Ready for the next machine. 296 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:32,000 We come out with this red bucket from underneath here. 297 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:37,000 Like this, it'll have constant trade in it. 298 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:46,000 We take that bucket over to this hopper and we feed it into this hopper. 299 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:52,000 The concentrate then falls under the gold table where jets of water wash the dirt. 300 00:19:53,000 --> 00:20:01,000 As the material works its way down the table, the constant vibration of the machine separates the gold from the black sand. 301 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:06,000 The gold should form into a line in the central channel. 302 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:13,000 This table is drop dead fantastic yet it really works and I'm real happy with it. 303 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:16,000 I have yet to see anything better. 304 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,000 This year, the Hoffman crew should be able to capture every grain of gold. 305 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:24,000 All they need to do now is get back up and run it. 306 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:30,000 I think missing from this beautiful equation is gold and run it so that's what we're doing next. 307 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:34,000 600 miles south at the big nugget mine. 308 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:40,000 Parker is at his wash plate overseeing the clean out of the dirt from Smith Creek Hill. 309 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:47,000 There's a lot on the online kind there this week. 310 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:57,000 You know, we've been having quite a few down weeks and I am worried. 311 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:01,000 Parker spent two weeks prospecting at Smith Creek. 312 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:09,000 If he's on the gold, Parker should see at least an ounce of gold worth $1,600 in this process material. 313 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:15,000 Pretty poor. 314 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:22,000 The gold prices are out, but not that high. 315 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,000 We need more in a few flakes. 316 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:28,000 I mean, that's only like $50. 317 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,000 It doesn't make sense. 318 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,000 It is what it is, you know. 319 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,000 I can't change what's in the ground. 320 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,000 I can get there. 321 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,000 I can dig it up. 322 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:43,000 There's gold, there's gold, there's not. 323 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:51,000 There's something weird about that piece of ground up there. 324 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,000 Well, if that ground is $300,000 a year's land there, 325 00:21:54,000 --> 00:22:00,000 that waiting for us by the must be something hidden underneath it. 326 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:05,000 Smith Creek Hill isn't panning out in just four weeks. 327 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,000 Parker has to go back to high school. 328 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,000 His season is slipping away. 329 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:28,000 At court's creek in the clundice, Todd Hoffman has hired two local mechanics to fix the broken down loader. 330 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:33,000 Without it, Todd can't run dirt and find gold. 331 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,000 It cost me $200 and $50 an hour. 332 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:41,000 It'll be $200,000 probably by the time it's all said. 333 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,000 They wanted me to ask you what the plan is. 334 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:48,000 Plan is to pull it apart and fix it for over. 335 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,000 Fix it proper. 336 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:56,000 The mechanics discover what the Hoffman crew mechanic James Harness already knew. 337 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:02,000 A sheared bolt has compromised the seal of the hydraulic hose that controls the loader's bucket. 338 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,000 So one that flew out is this one here. 339 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:10,000 We got the guys and they have angled drills and stuff we don't have. 340 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:14,000 So what was impossible to ask they're going to be able to do. 341 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:21,000 Unlike Harness, the new mechanics have the tools to get to the underbelly of the loader to replace the bolt. 342 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,000 The work takes eight hours. 343 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,000 Looking good, we got our loader back. 344 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:36,000 The fix costs Todd $2000, but in the long run he hopes to get the money back in gold. 345 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:40,000 We're ready. Everybody's ready to see gold in that box. 346 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,000 This is a real good site. This is a real good site. 347 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,000 All right. Thanks, you guys. 348 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,000 With the loader and wash plant finally back up and runny. 349 00:23:54,000 --> 00:24:00,000 The Hoffman crew is once again headed for their first gold cleanup of the season. 350 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:04,000 I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing finally. 351 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,000 Dark again. 352 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,000 Looks like we're all mine. 353 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,000 God, that thing is holding out. 354 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:18,000 That is. 355 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:22,000 It almost tastes uh, that's his golveder right there man. 356 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:32,000 Down at the big nugget mine in southeast Alaska. 357 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,000 Parker has fallen on hard times. 358 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:40,000 He followed his grandpas advice to mine Smith Creek Hill. 359 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,000 But so far, no gold. 360 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:47,000 He is now running reserve painter material saved for dark days at the mine. 361 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:51,000 This is the security dirt, I guess. 362 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:58,000 I think we can pretty reliably get around three quarters of an ounce of gold a day. 363 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,000 We'll at least break even like last week. 364 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,000 We didn't even find a half out. 365 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:12,000 It costs a thousand dollars a day to run the big nugget mine. 366 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,000 Parker is out of options. 367 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,000 He has to cover his costs. 368 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,000 While Parker stockpiles the reserve dirt, 369 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,000 Renpa John runs it through the wash plant. 370 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,000 Right now we haven't had much success. 371 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,000 This material is bringing here I'm sure we'll produce gold. 372 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,000 The wash plant runs for six straight out. 373 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:47,000 After running a hundred loads of grandpas reserve painter, 374 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,000 John calls it a day. 375 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,000 We've got all shut this thing down. 376 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:57,000 But Parker has more dirt that he wants to run through the wash plant. 377 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,000 Can you give us a minute? 378 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:00,000 Yep. 379 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:01,000 Pardon? 380 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,000 Don't shut my crew down. 381 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,000 Pardon? 382 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,000 Don't shut my crew down without talking to me. 383 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:10,000 Who's the boss? 384 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,000 You are. 385 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:12,000 What? 386 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,000 And that doesn't feel like it. 387 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,000 Parker, I don't want to. 388 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,000 I really appreciate the help. 389 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,000 But when it comes to telling the crew to shut the plant down, 390 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,000 I think that I should be have some input in that. 391 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,000 Well, I'm fine. 392 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:29,000 That's great. 393 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:30,000 I'm sorry. 394 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,000 I stepped out of line. 395 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,000 That was put it that way. 396 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:38,000 Okay, let's see. 397 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,000 The pressure to turn a profit is taking a toll 398 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,000 on the 17-year-old boss of the big nugget mine. 399 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:49,000 So I got an idea if you want to be in charge of the plant 400 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,000 and Terry and Gary. 401 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,000 I can just bring dirt to the plant. 402 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,000 I just like, I did last year. 403 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:58,000 Please, I did not wish to. 404 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:02,000 The last few weeks, that's been what's going on anyway. 405 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,000 So we might as well make it official. 406 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:11,000 He feels that I am undermining his authority. 407 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,000 I guess is the right way to praise it. 408 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:20,000 But in my mind, I wasn't doing anything but trying to help him. 409 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:26,000 Sometimes we don't know what we're doing. 410 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:32,000 Like that, that was a little more aggressive than I should have been. 411 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,000 He's going to take that pretty hard at night. 412 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,000 I might have been a little too rough on him. 413 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:43,000 After one day of running grand pause, 414 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:48,000 reserved dirt, Parker just may see his first golden weeks. 415 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,000 Four ounces. 416 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,000 Four ounces in a week isn't bad. 417 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,000 Four ounces worth about $6,400. 418 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,000 Enough to just cover Parker's running costs for the week. 419 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:17,000 Parker weighs the gold he's fell and so far this season. 420 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,000 18.7 ounces. 421 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,000 Pretty piss poor. 422 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,000 I gotta get back to work. 423 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,000 Parker needs 70 ounces to break even this year. 424 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:41,000 In just four weeks, he has to go back for his senior year of high school. 425 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,000 He has to find gold now. 426 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:48,000 If he doesn't, the big nugget mine just may go out of business. 427 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,000 At Porcupine Creek in southeast Alaska. 428 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:09,000 Dakota friend his son Dustin and a new recruit Kenny are running dirt. 429 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,000 Right now everything seems to be gone alright. 430 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,000 We hold in our breath for another couple hours here. 431 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,000 Everything all together. 432 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,000 You're closing in on a good day now, dude. 433 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:28,000 It's the seventh and final day for Fred to win his bet with Jack Hoffman. 434 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:35,000 Fred boasts that he could find more gold in one week than the Hoffman's found in their entire rookie season. 435 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:40,000 In a single week, the Dakota boys have run 5,000 yards of dirt. 436 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,000 It's finally time to clean up their wash. 437 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:44,000 Set it up. 438 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:50,000 Anything over 14.6 ounces will give them bragging rights. 439 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,000 We got it for it. 440 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:56,000 We are rolling know how much we got until we clean it up. 441 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,000 You need to prove me wrong or prove me right. We don't know. 442 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:15,000 If they are on the gold, it will be trapped in rows of ripples and special carpet known as minors moss. 443 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,000 Yeah, apprehensive. You don't know. 444 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:19,000 You can't see it. 445 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:23,000 It's all hidden out of that dirt mud, everything else. 446 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,000 My fate is in the box. 447 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:34,000 Dustin loads seven buckets of concentrated material into the clean out trauma. 448 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:42,000 The trauma washes the dirt separating out only the heaviest material, like gold. 449 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:50,000 This refined dirt is then caught in more ripples and minors moss. 450 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,000 I'm pretty excited. 451 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,000 I think we have more than we think we have. 452 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:08,000 It's taking me two and a half months to get to these seven days. 453 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,000 It's been a rough row. 454 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,000 Fred shuts down the trauma. 455 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,000 Hey, hey, hey. 456 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,000 Hold on. Just just let us sit there for a minute. 457 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:25,000 After 82 days, the Dakota boys will finally find out if they have found gold that 458 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,000 Porcupine Creek. 459 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,000 I want to see a nugget. 460 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,000 Yeah. 461 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,000 Big one right there. 462 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,000 There it is. 463 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,000 That is nice, huh? 464 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,000 Look at that. 465 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,000 There's a lot of little stuff, huh? 466 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,000 Oh, God, look at all those flakes. 467 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,000 Oh, there's so many of them, I love it! 468 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:56,000 The Dakota boys can see good gold, 469 00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:00,000 but the layer of miners must might have trapped even more. 470 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,000 All right, there you go. 471 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,000 God, look at all those flakes. 472 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,000 Yeah! 473 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,000 It's all gold flakes in there. 474 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,000 We've got to need ever bit week and get. 475 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,000 They're on the goal, but the question is, 476 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,000 how much Fred lost his home in North Dakota to floods. 477 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:22,000 He needs 70 ounces, just to cover costs this year. 478 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:27,000 Well, I've invested very huge part of any savings I've had. 479 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:31,000 We're going to have to get a lot of gold to cover these expenses. 480 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,000 To determine their week's haul, 481 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:40,000 Fred and Dustin pan late into the Alaskan night. 482 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:43,000 Water! 483 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,000 Oh, no way. 484 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,000 Tell me that's gold. 485 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:54,000 That's gold. 486 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:55,000 That's gold. 487 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,000 Yeah. 488 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,000 My first baby nugget. 489 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:03,000 In the middle of the night, they are finally ready to weigh their gold. 490 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:07,000 The Dakota boys need over 14.6 ounces 491 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:12,000 to beat the Hoffman's total for all of last season. 492 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,000 All right, we need drum roll, Dustin. 493 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,000 I can't do that. 494 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,000 Are we ready? 495 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,000 Five months last year. 496 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,000 Six guys working in the same hole. 497 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,000 They get 4.5 ounces. 498 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,000 There's 14.5. 499 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,000 17. 500 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:42,000 Eighteen point nine loaf. 501 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:51,000 Eighteen point nine ounces in seven days. 502 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,000 Take that Hoffman's. 503 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:58,000 Fred has one bragging rights over the Hoffman's, 504 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,000 but more importantly, 505 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,000 the Dakota boys have found $30,000 of gold 506 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,000 in their first full week of running. 507 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,000 I'm proud of you, proud of everybody that helped. 508 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,000 I'll say you want it really, 509 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,000 it's been a hard roll to hold, 510 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,000 but hey, I'm happy. 511 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:22,000 I think tonight is a three beer night. 512 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,000 The Dakota boys are now on track 513 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,000 to pull in almost $300,000 in gold 514 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,000 before winter chokes off Porcupine Creek. 515 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:34,000 Good job, Fred. 516 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:40,000 While the Dakota boys celebrate long overdue success, 517 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:44,000 600 miles north at Court's Creek. 518 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,000 The Hoffman's repaired loader is bringing 519 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,000 pay gravel to the wash plan. 520 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,000 Todd and his crew are finally back up in running, 521 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,000 headed for their first payday of the season. 522 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,000 The bill's good to be riding, 523 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,000 chasing that pocket of gold in all. 524 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:10,000 This is the critical stage. 525 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,000 Everything we've done comes down to this. 526 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,000 We do this wrong. 527 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,000 It's all for hot. 528 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,000 After running a thousand yards 529 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,000 of the top layer of pay gravel through the wash plan, 530 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:27,000 Todd shuts down. 531 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,000 It's time for their first big cleanout of the year. 532 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,000 Look right there. 533 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,000 I see gold in here. 534 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,000 That's good. 535 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:43,000 That's all fine fine gold. 536 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:44,000 Look at it. 537 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,000 It's all over. 538 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,000 Right now we know there's gold in the slew, 539 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,000 but nobody knows how much. 540 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,000 That'll be kind of a benchmark for the rest of the season. 541 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,000 Are we going to make it or break it? 542 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:04,000 There are specs in the Hoffman crew's slew boxes, 543 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,000 but no one knows just how much gold 544 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:11,000 the first thousand yards of pay gravel holds. 545 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:15,000 The answer is in 50 pounds of muddy concentrate. 546 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:20,000 The Hoffman crew's future sits in this tub. 547 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:24,000 Okay guys, this is the big moments are first cleanout. 548 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,000 Let's get her done. 549 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,000 Let's get her done. 550 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,000 Let's do it. 551 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,000 Court's Creek, the Klondike. 552 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:47,000 Over a halfway through their second gold mining season, 553 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:51,000 the Hoffman crew is deep into their first cleanout of the year. 554 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,000 Step out of gold for us. 555 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,000 The result will make or break. 556 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:56,000 There's season. 557 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,000 Okay guys, this is the big moments are first cleanout. 558 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:03,000 Let's let Fred do his thing, guys, and everybody pay attention. 559 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,000 Let's get her done. 560 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:06,000 Let's do it. 561 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,000 We're ready. 562 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,000 Todd's recruited gold expert, Fred Duns, 563 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,000 to run the Duplex jig in the gold team. 564 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:18,000 Todd needs Fred to extract every last bit of gold. 565 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:22,000 First, Fred loads the dirt into the jig. 566 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,000 Just try to keep a constant feed. 567 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,000 Soar materials in our feeders. 568 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,000 We're putting it into a slurry. 569 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,000 Then it's going down to the street deck. 570 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,000 Our screen deck's cleaning arm material. 571 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,000 And getting our fine material out. 572 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:40,000 Then our fine material is going to carry through. 573 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,000 And into our kick. 574 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,000 Our light material is going up. 575 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,000 Our heavy material is going down. 576 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,000 This is the nephal process that works extremely well. 577 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,000 Fred, is this looks like pretty rich material. 578 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:58,000 Are you seeing any gold? 579 00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,000 Fibal tell. 580 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:00,000 We'll see here in a minute. 581 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:01,000 Who knows, huh? 582 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,000 You can see how clean our material is. 583 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,000 Our screen's doing an exceptional talk. 584 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,000 Once all of the material is run through the jig, 585 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:20,000 the refined concentrate gathers in buckets below. 586 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,000 And it's looking good. 587 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,000 What is that going right through the bottom? 588 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:25,000 Is that gold? 589 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:26,000 Do you hear Brad? 590 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:27,000 Yep. 591 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:28,000 You can see some gold. 592 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:29,000 Three. 593 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,000 Here's our fine gold. 594 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:35,000 So now we've got the majority of our heavies. 595 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:36,000 Oh. 596 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,000 And our gold. 597 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:38,000 See the gold in it. 598 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:39,000 See the gold in it. 599 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:43,000 That's just a goddamn nasty, you know. 600 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,000 What about it, Fred? 601 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,000 Yeah, we're done with this process. 602 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:53,000 The final step in separating the gold from the dirt is the gold table. 603 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,000 So let's get the table rolling up. 604 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,000 Let's see what's in your fine stuff, thought. 605 00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:58,000 Yeah. 606 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,000 This is a big time. 607 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,000 Looks like we're ready. 608 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,000 These grooves are catching our material. 609 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,000 So I'll be able to cut the gold right out of it. 610 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,000 And we'll get rid of the rest of the material. 611 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:25,000 That is it. 612 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:26,000 That's it. 613 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:27,000 That's the first jump. 614 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:28,000 It came down. 615 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:29,000 Drop down. 616 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,000 And went back up here and it's coming down. 617 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:33,000 There we go. 618 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:34,000 There goes. 619 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:35,000 It's in the bucket. 620 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,000 Guys, we're done. 621 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,000 We're just starting, but we're doing it. 622 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:46,000 Hey guys, let's see what you did. 623 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:47,000 Yeah. 624 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:51,000 After an hour of running the material through the machines, 625 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,000 it's time to total up the gold. 626 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,000 Here we go, Todd. 627 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,000 See how much gold you've got. 628 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:06,000 Four ounces. 629 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:07,000 Yeah. 630 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:08,000 Good Lord. 631 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:09,000 Four ounces. 632 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:22,000 Or $6,500 from only a thousand yards of pay gravel. 633 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,000 With their operation now firing on all cylinders, 634 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:29,000 the Hoffman should be able to process a thousand yards a day. 635 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:33,000 If they can average four ounces a day for the rest of the season, 636 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:38,000 the Hoffman crew will walk away with over $400,000 in gold. 637 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:42,000 Enough money to feed their families over winter. 638 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,000 But overall man, I feel pretty happy. 639 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:47,000 Almost a third of what we did last year. 640 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,000 And it's our first clean up. 641 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,000 They told us we couldn't get in here and get set up. 642 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,000 And actually run any gold this year. 643 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,000 We got four ounces on the top. 644 00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:00,000 We're set up to end this season very successfully. 645 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:07,000 These clean outs are going to go from four ounces to 10 ounces to 15 ounces to 20 ounce clean outs. 646 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:13,000 We're going to have clean outs mark my words that are bigger than what we did all last season. 647 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,000 In one clean out. 648 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,000 Guys, we've got to work twice as hard as everybody else. 649 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:23,000 And we can put several hundred ounces in our pockets by the end of the season. 650 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,000 Let's get to work. 651 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,000 With 67 days left in the season, 652 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:32,000 the Hoffman crew can still strike it rich at Quartz Creek. 653 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:38,000 Guys, incredible to see the gold in that table. 654 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,000 We know something now. 655 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:44,000 We know that there's gold. 656 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:48,000 We know that we've got depth to go yet. 657 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:49,000 I mean, that's the gold. 658 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,000 That's where the gold is. 659 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:57,000 The American Dream was based on the fact that if you want it bad enough, 660 00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:58,000 you can have it. 661 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,000 Everybody here has wrist a lot. 662 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:06,000 But the opportunities for the returns are phenomenal. 663 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,000 Four ounces is not bad to start. 664 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,000 By the time we get down to our real painter, 665 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,000 we're going to have our game down. 666 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,000 If we get everybody going again, 667 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,000 we'll be rocking in the morning. 668 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,000 So we've got to get going here. 669 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,000 In the second half of the mining season. 670 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,000 They guys, this is our final push. 671 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,000 Time is running out on all three plates. 672 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:31,000 We're going to run and run and run. 673 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:32,000 Easy, Jack! 674 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:36,000 The miners race to get to the gold. 675 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,000 Let's get to a hundred ounces. 676 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,000 I can't keep chasing the dream. 677 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:42,000 Disaster strikes. 678 00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,000 My grandpa's had a heart attack. 679 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,000 Temporous flare. 680 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:47,000 Get out of the way, I've had it. 681 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:48,000 Stop! 682 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,000 Oh, what the f*** stop is. 683 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,000 I don't want anyone talking about it. 684 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,000 And the authorities clamped down. 685 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:57,000 We've got to shut you down because of some damn paperwork. 686 00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,000 It's ridiculous. 687 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:02,000 And as the winds, once again, this sends on the miners. 688 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,000 We're getting our butts kicked by the winner. 689 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,000 They fight the frozen north to the bitter end. 690 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,000 Desperate times. 691 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,000 The required desperate measures. 692 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,000 Come on. 693 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:14,000 Woo! 694 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,000 That's our first Klondagnaga. 695 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,000 This might just be the part of the go. 696 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:20,000 We've been looking for it. 697 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,000 You don't have to get, you know? 698 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,000 You don't deserve to go. 699 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,000 I'm Christo Doyle executive producer of Gold Rush. 700 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,000 This time on the Gold Rush after show. 701 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:30,000 We've got to ask you. 702 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,000 We see it in the show all the time. 703 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,000 But in on your helmet, it says Big Boot. 704 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,000 It's actually a term of indirma domain in a way. 705 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,000 Regular boot. 706 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:39,000 Big Boot. 707 00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:40,000 Okay? 708 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:44,000 Watch the Gold Rush after show at discovery.com slash Gold Rush after show. 53323

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