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-[dave] hey, guys, you want to come in a minute? -[man] okay.

Um...

[sighs]

[bleep]

It's not going to be easy.

[chris] no, it's not easy, dave. It's not.

Okay. Let me try to get through this.

I need to go home to my family.

Mom needs me.

Um, I need to be there for my brothers.

And I know I lost dad, um...

But you guys,

This is my other family.

We've overcome a lot.

And, uh, gone through some tough times,

And we always put our boots back on and go to work, because that's what we do.

That's how we pay the bills.

That's how we raise our families.

So, carry on.

I'm going to be gone for a while.

And, jason, I trust you... Lead the team,

Keep getting that gold.

We're going to stay on the gold.

Thank you. I appreciate it.

I tell you what, it'd be really special

If you guys could get another 50 ounces in a week.

-[chris] we'll beat it. -Well, it's asking a lot.

-We'll beat it. -[dave] yeah, all right.

-It'll be all right, dave. Don't worry. -Oh, I know.

Go home and take care of your family,

And we'll take care of you.

[dave] okay.

I couldn't turn this over to a better group of guys, so...

We'll take pride in it, and we'll beat that 50 ounces.

[chuckles]

-Promise. -Good.

All in for our dads.

One, two, three.

[all] all in.

It's tough. Tough on everybody, that he's going to go home

And be with his family for a week.

But, you know, we're a team

And we stick together.

[dave] you know, when we say we're all in,

It's not just all in for the gold,

It's all in for each other.

We're taking care of each other,

And right now, I need that.

I hope they can figure it out, get it done and keep mining

Because it's going to take

The whole crew come together now.

[nate] we want to make dave proud.

Wanna show him that we could do things when he's not here.

We'll get there and work our [bleep] off.

That's all we know how to do. That's why we're here.

[jason] we promised dave 50 ounces.

We're going to push ourselves as hard as we can.

But with team being a man short,

It's going to take every bit of blood and sweat we have to make that happen.

Oh! See, I'm clicking rocks, baby.

Get me gold!

[narrator] with an ambitious new goal,

Team turin attacks the lost mine at box creek without their leader.

[jason] that is a neat rock.

[narrator] as dave's second-in-command,

It's on jason to keep them on the gold.

[nate] that's a lot on jason's shoulders, you know?

I'll take care of the mobile side.

My [bleep] running.

He's got to find the ground and bring it to base so we can make it happen.

[narrator] to hit dave's 50-ounce target,

The team must top last week's cleanup,

One of the best they've ever had.

[jason] oh, you feel that? Did you hear that? Could you see that?

That's that pay, baby.

This is a big test for me personally with dave gone.

It's pretty big shoes to fill.

It's his operation, it's his mindsight.

But if we can get to 50 ounces this week,

It'll prove to dave that when he's gone, we can handle business.

[narrator] in their first week running in box creek,

Team turin lost access to the gold-rich hummocks...

All that virgin ground that's gone, it's taken away.

[exclaims] son of a [bleep].

[narrator] ...Leaving only the bank cut to mine.

[dave] I'm not walking out of here with no gold, boys.

That's what you need to pray about.

[narrator] but the team dug in, shifting 60 feet of overburden...

Son of a [bleep]. This is the deepest pit I've ever worked.

[narrator] ...And discovered a gold-rich main channel

Too deep for the old-timers' dredge to mine.

[man 1] this is the main channel, buddy.

-[man 2] oh, my god. -[man 1] it has to be, dave.

[man 3] 38.8!

-Whoo! -Yeah!

That's the best cleanup we've had in a week.

That's amazing.

[narrator] now, to hit dave's gold target

And keep their season alive,

Jason has to stay on the main channel's trail.

You think this was actually the main at one time? What do you think?

I think the original main right back here was that clay wall.

I think the original main channel was coming down, pushing through,

And it hit that clay wall

And it...

The majority of it probably went this way.

I hope you're right, brother.

[narrator] millions of years ago,

Gold washes down from the mountains surrounding box creek

And settles at the bottom of ancient riverbeds.

Jason is chasing a main channel rich in gold down the creek,

But he has hit a clay wall where the channel bends,

Diving even deeper down into the bank cut.

[jason] oh, that [bleep] looks scrumptious.

I don't know how much channel's down there.

I'm just trying to read the dirt,

And the story she's painting could be quite glorious, you know?

Something that will give us our best cleanup yet.

And I sure as hell hope I'm right, but...

You never know till you dig it.

[narrator] to reach the pay dirt,

The team must dig at least 20 feet deeper into the cut,

Taking them to 80 feet below surface level.

But it means moving over 600 tons of earth,

With the team already a man short.

We've got a lot of pressure right now. Everyone's having to step up.

Dave allowed me to become a better miner in life

And probably a better dad and a better husband.

He's done a lot for me,

So I want dave to be proud of what [bleep] we're doing.

[narrator] at the roche,

Chris is a week into his new job,

Feeding a plant with a 220 excavator.

God almighty.

You know, it's a totally different machinery this year,

But dave gave me the responsibility

And had the trust and faith in me

To feed the whole operation.

I don't take that lightly.

We've got to get our 50 ounces out the bank cut. That's a [bleep] load of dirt.

So all the pressure's on chris right now.

[narrator] to keep up with the roche,

Chris must load almost 60 buckets of dirt

Into the plant every hour.

[chris] it's nearly impossible to keep up with this.

There are so many different levers.

We've got two different joysticks

And they do four different functions.

[bleep]

All right, chris, what's going on, man?

[chris] I'm doing as much as I can do, nate.

You know, the thing is... We just can't keep up.

Damn it.

As you start seeing those air bubbles,

That's all it's saying, there's not enough material in it right now.

Chris kind of let it run low on material.

We call it whitewashing.

[narrator] to keep the roche fed,

Chris must drop dirt through the grizzlies,

Where it travels through a series of vibrating screens

Before being sprayed with water

To clean the pay dirt off rocks.

This fine dirt then washes down the sluice box,

Where gold is captured by the riffles.

But without enough pay dirt running through the plant,

The water starts to whitewash.

It fills with air bubbles and flushes the gold away.

You know, every little piece of gold adds up.

Little small particles will go out.

We can't have that.

Gotta do something different.

[chris] I feel like a weak link right now.

You know, everybody's depending on me

To get the material into the plant

And get it in there on time.

I don't like letting people down.

[narrator] at the bank cut, jason is chasing

The gold-bearing main channel along the edge of the clay wall.

[crane beeping]

[jason] it doesn't even come out as far as I hoped.

Hey, kc, you got copy?

Our pay just went from about 8-foot thick

Down to about 2.5, 3-foot, tops.

Good times.

I maybe have enough for a couple of days' worth of pay.

Roger that.

I got a pay up here, right already exposed at the surface.

I've already dropped 2 feet deeper over here to the right,

And I'm still not on pay.

The bank cut's going away.

That is so wild. What a drop.

[narrator] the gold channel was formed by an ancient river.

The low number of rocks jason is finding

Means he is on the outer edge of the river's bend.

Here, the stronger flow of water

Reduced the chance of gold settling,

Washing it further downstream.

[groans]

It makes the pay zone shallower than jason expected.

[jason] oh, [bleep].

It really [bleep] tapered off.

I don't know if we're going to hit those 50 ounces.

We need more ground, brother.

-Oh, that's an understatement. -We need more ground.

Dear lord, our prayers go to our leader, dave.

[narrator] dave's hometown pays its final respects to his father.

We're gonna honor dad.

[narrator] and jason makes a discovery that could change the game.

Quite a bit of quartz here.

That's a damn good sign that there might be gold

Right here on the surface.

Let's dig a hole and find out.

[narrator] at box creek...

[jason] our real estate is running out.

We're scraping the bottom.

[nate] you ain't kidding.

[narrator] with david home in oregon,

The 50-ounce target he set team turin is under threat.

We're sitting there roughly running on maybe two, three days at, tops.

-[nate] I agree. -We need more ground.

While dave's gone,

I gotta get us back on the goal.

That's... That's my job.

I'm definitely feeling the pressure

Because I don't have dave to turn to for advice

On the mining side of this.

[narrator] on the hunt for more gold-rich ground,

Jason digs into the old box creek mining records.

[jason] gotta try to hopefully, I don't know, find some maps,

Something to look at, where I can get kind of an overview.

I really don't have anyplace else to look.

At this point, I'll take anything.

This year actually has more at stake than what I'm used to,

Me personally, not just the team.

Right before covid hit,

I made a bad-time decision to buy a bar.

Not only was it a financial stress for me,

But it was also personal stress on the family.

With gold being at an all-time high,

That means every ounce that we bring in is worth more.

So, I need to hit it here in colorado

To, uh, give me an opportunity to hopefully get out of the red and into the gold.

[narrator] while jason digs into the mining plants...

All right, chris, you got your new bucket here, man.

[narrator] ...Nate has a plan of his own.

It's about a half a yard more.

It should keep us from whitewashing and everything, chris,

So hopefully it's a work good for you.

[narrator] to get to dave's 50-ounce goal,

Chris must be able to feed more dirt into the plant.

[nate] these buckets here are probably twice as big as the ones we have.

That means twice the material.

It means twice the speed.

So, this bucket right here will help chris

Feed the plant a little faster,

But, uh, it's gonna scare the [bleep] out of him.

A lot more weight upfront, so he's got to be careful.

As you can see, it's a little... Little sketchy.

You're a good girl, little buddy.

How's that bucket feel, nate?

It's a lot more heavier, chris.

It's a lot more heavier?

I didn't want to hear a lot more heavier.

[narrator] chris's machine is balanced 30 feet in the air

And with 1,500 pounds now hanging off the end of his boom,

His job just got twice as hard.

[chris] I just hope they don't pull me off this perch.

I just gotta get that out of my mind and just do my job.

It's starting up right now, chris.

Let's go, chris, let's go.

[jason] hopefully whitewashing no more.

Just that feeling of flipping over

This high up is not a fun feeling.

[nate] you know, we got a lot riding on chris.

If chris can handle the bigger bucket,

The worst-case scenario is we have to shut the plant down

To figure another solution out,

Because we cannot afford to whitewash gold out.

[narrator] to avoid whitewashing,

Chris must feed nearly 2 tons of dirt a minute into the plant.

Hey, chris. How's that bucket working out?

Is it working out okay for you?

I think this is it.

We finally figured it out, buddy.

I think it's gonna work out great.

Whoo. Big old rock.

Oh, chris, she's flowing like the mississippi river, buddy,

The mississippi river!

Hate to say this, boys, but size does matter.

[laughs]

[narrator] now, for the roche to run efficiently,

It needs to be constantly fed with gold-rich pay.

[nate] jason has promised us ground, that's what I mean.

So, you know what? I hope he keeps his promise because

We are gonna run the [bleep] out of some dirt now.

[narrator] in dave's office...

You know, this flow here,

All its force will funnel right down to there.

[narrator] ... Jason digs deeper into the mining records.

As I'm looking at the map,

Right here is the hummocks,

And this is what brought us to colorado.

Very concentrated area of gold.

[narrator] last week,

Claim owner lance baller dropped a bombshell on dave.

-So you're telling me I can't mine these hummocks? -Nope.

That's the reason we came up here.

[narrator] but jason believes the area below the hummocks

Could also be rich in gold.

[jason] we only prospect this upper end of the hummocks.

If there's gold up here,

There's a dang good chance it flows right down in here

At the lower end of this valley.

And all that energy is coming down through that area.

We might have gold right here.

The only issue is

I don't understand what this purple box is here.

That either means I can

Go and mine or I can't.

So I'm gonna call lance.

I'm gonna see what's up with this purple box

And see if that's off-limits, too.

And if it means I can go down and dig holes,

Well, then, hell, that's where I'm going.

I ain't got [bleep] else to lose.

Hey, lance.

Hey, this is jason sanchez from dave's crew.

So, hey, the reason for my call is

I'm scratching out on the bank cut right now,

And I'm looking at the maps

And the upper side of the road is off and you're working on that.

I understand that, in those hummocks,

But what about that lower side of the road?

I guess you could call it the lower hummocks.

There's this purple box around there,

And I'm kind of wondering

If there's a possibility that might be in your mining permit.

All right, I appreciate it, lance.

That's great news.

Thank you so much for your time, lance. I appreciate it, man.

Whew!

That's great news.

Lower hummocks, we can mine.

That could be a lifeline for this season,

But I got to go dig it to find out.

[narrator] until jason finds more mineable ground,

The team must keep the plant fed

With what's left of the bank cut channel.

I'm going to need some pay.

[nate] we are getting really, really low on payday, what's going on?

Had to get a lot of overburden out of the way first, nate.

I'm doing the best I can.

[indistinct radio chatter]

You know, we're a small operation here,

You know, we got six guys.

Take a couple away, it hurts us dramatically.

It's going to be a struggle here.

[narrator] at the roche,

Chris feeds the beast with his new bucket.

You ain't gotta worry about me whitewashing.

You just better get us some pay.

That's all you need to worry about there, buddy.

[narrator] but the pressure to deliver the pay dirt is all on kc.

[kc] I'm stressed.

My way of showing stress is I usually start laughing.

Like... [laughs] you son of a [bleep].

[narrator] for each load,

Kc must dig it out with the excavator,

Then run to the haul truck and drive the pay to the plant.

[kc] I'm a one-man show.

Well, not really. I got a good team. [laughs]

They're just not here right now.

And here we go again.

Keep the plant fed, keep the plant fed.

Come on, dig.

[bleep]

You cholos realize I haven't eaten lunch yet, right?

[indistinct] ...You did a good job, man, keep it up.

[kc] thanks, brother.

Oh, this is just tough.

I'm doing my best right now to keep everything running,

But it's not going to last forever.

Jason's prospect better come back with big gold.

[narrator] southeast of the bank cut,

Jason heads to prospect the lower end of the hummocks.

Let's go to the top

And overlook it,

Give them a nice aerial view.

[narrator] to help them decode the land,

Lance has sent veteran colorado mining engineer ben miller.

So, ben, this is the only chunk of ground we have,

And I don't know what's here.

I don't know what these hummocks hold.

[ben] well, the first problem is that they're not hummocks.

-They're not? -They're not hummocks.

This wasn't formed by a glacier.

This was formed by the lake,

-That had filled this whole valley. -Okay.

The height of the water was maybe halfway up to the top of that ridge.

And what happened is this lake drained really hard and fast.

When all the water left quickly,

It ended up slumping and pulling out

Quite a large piece of land...

-Landslide. -I'll be damned.

And you can see it slid right off

And broke into pieces.

But this, the fact that it's a landslide is kind of exciting,

'cause there's a chance

That this landslide came across

The original big pay channel

That would have been dredged before.

[narrator] the old timers' dredging operation

Focused on a 1-mile gold channel

Covering the river that ran through box creek.

Into an ancient lake.

But 50,000 years ago, its banks burst,

Causing a landslide to crash into the valley,

Burying the channels so deep

The old miners never even knew it was there.

You guys might be lucky

That you don't have the permits to mine up there anyway.

Down there, I think, is a better...

Better payday if it pans out.

Plus, it's permitted and ready to go.

It's all I got. I'm ready to dig it, ben.

I appreciate it, man.

The opportunity to get onto the same main channel that the old timers found

Would be amazing, considering they did 30,000 ounces,

And you never know.

This right here could change our season

And potentially change our lives.

[narrator] morning at box creek.

With a make-or-break day ahead,

Jason calls a meeting.

I know it's kind of a, you know, a hard time 'cause we're already short dave.

But we got to still keep ourselves in the gold.

And if there is gold in the lower hummocks,

I will find it and I will get us back on the gold.

I hope you're right, brother.

Before we start, we all know it's dave's dad's funeral. Jim.

-Yeah. -Say a prayer

And get doing what dave wants us to get doing.

Dear lord, I thank you for the men in this group.

And I thank you for our leader, dave.

Our prayers, our hearts

Go out to him and his family

While they mourn the death of jim turin.

And, lord, I just ask you to be with them

And comfort them in this time,

In jesus' name.

-Amen. -[all] amen.

[narrator] with only a day's worth left of pay in the bank cut,

Team turin's season hangs in the balance.

Jason must strike it rich in the valley he's named the "lower hummocks."

I don't know, it's shallow feet,

But if there is any gold there, I will find it.

[narrator] his plan, start at the top of the hummocks

And work down the valley on the hunt for indicators of gold.

[jason] okay, you ready?

It's quite a bit of quartz here.

That's good quartz.

I mean, that is a heavy son of a gun.

That's a damn good sign that there might be

Gold right here on the surface.

Let's dig a hole and find out.

It's my favorite part.

All right, all right. Let's see what this,

Uh, little chunk of ground has for us.

[narrator] if jason finds gold near the surface,

It will mean the ancient landslide

Carried gold-rich ground into the valley.

Team turin may be able to mine a pay layer at the top

And a main channel very deep below.

This is where, you know, being a historic detective actually comes into play.

I get to go in the ground. I got to see what nobody else has ever seen,

Be the first one to see it.

[narrator] at a depth of 10 feet,

Jason spots signs of gold-bearing gravels and decides to run a test.

[jason] see if we get lucky.

Well, isn't that a kick in the lower hummocks.

I don't see anything in here.

I guess you could say I was hoping for a freebie,

Something right here on top, easy to get to.

And a lot of it.

That doesn't seem to be the case.

I better get that hole reclaimed

And move on to the next one.

When you're gold mining, you roll the dice every day.

You never know what you're going to get.

But if you just keep pushing and you just keeps striving,

You just keep putting your boots on every day,

Eventually you're going to catch a break.

I've learned that from dave.

And to be honest,

I really think dave's a lot more like his dad than he realizes.

Dad left a legacy of family and community.

There's a lot of people out there, willing to pay their respects.

With covid-19 going on, we could only have

50 people in the church at one time, so it's all family.

I get the privilege to do the eulogy for dad,

And we're going to honor dad, what he accomplished.

And so we're all here to celebrate dad's life.

Dad was the most influential man in my life. He really was.

Hey, dad.

He influenced everything I did. He impacted my decisions.

I'm trying to figure out whether I mine

For the investor or I mine on my own.

That's a tough decision.

But if I were you, I'd go on your own.

[chuckling] so I thought you'd say,

-'cause that's what you do, right? -Yeah.

I would.

[dave] dad was the guy that was the risk taker.

Dad was a visionary.

Yeah, dad gave me that pioneer spirit

Values of chasing the american dream,

And it lives in me through my dad.

And not just me,

He touched thousands of people.

I went to high school... Jim turin was my biology teacher,

And he was my football coach.

And then in 1974, I went to work for jim turin.

One the nicest men I ever met,

One of the nicest bosses I've ever had.

[man] he was just a trip.

He was a great guy. I'm going to miss him.

[woman] jim turin was just huge.

You see the size of the community,

That's how big a hole he leaves.

[dave] I'm gonna miss him, but on the other hand,

I believe dad's in heaven and he's still watching,

So I will still try to make my dad proud of me.

Dave... [indistinct]

-Are you kidding me? -[laughter]

[indistinct chatter]

[jason] so I'm going to go down here,

It seems to be the lowest point.

[narrator] in colorado,

Jason's hunt for gold has taken him to the bottom of the lower hummocks valley.

This is my best opportunity for me to get in

On the original derry dredge channel.

You know, if I could hit that ancient pay channel right here,

That's a good chance to change every one of our lives.

[narrator] if a channel is buried below the landslide,

Jason must dig deep to find it.

I'm about 16 feet in depth.

You could see the water already starting to pour out of my bucket.

And I still haven't seen a dang rock.

It's not looking good.

Yeah, she's getting wetter and wetter as I go down.

You see that water? That'd kick any miner's ass.

Pretty soon, that water will consume me.

It will pull the whole hole in.

I should go get my fishing pole.

[narrator] any pay dirt here is below the water table.

Mining it could cost more than the gold is worth.

I mean, look at that. Unstable ground.

I don't care how much gold is down there,

It ain't worth putting a man's life at risk for it.

Dang it.

Damn, that's a [bleep] day.

[narrator] coming up...

Did we hit it?

[narrator] ...The day of reckoning.

This is gonna be tight.

[narrator] box creek, colorado.

Hey, how you boys doing?

-Hell, yeah. -You boys need a little bit of something.

Yeah, that's a good ol' southern moonshine right there.

[narrator] with the bank cut almost out of pay,

And dave set to return from oregon

Expecting a 50-ounce cleanup,

Jason has even more bad news for team turin.

And unfortunately,

We eliminated the lower hummocks today.

Now I got to tell the guys,

We got no ground to go to.

We got no place to mine,

And dave's not even here.

That's what makes it worse.

[bleep] my life.

Well, what's the news there, chief?

They don't look too good, so take a swig of this first.

It's definitely one of those moments. That's for sure.

Are you [bleep]? Really?

Just hit it with us, dude. What you got?

Lower hummocks are a bust, guys.

Are you [bleep] kidding me?

-So how... -How many colors?

-What do you see? -What colors?

-Oh, come on. -That bad?

It was that bad.

There was nothing.

Son of a [bleep].

So what are we going to do?

We promised dave 50 ounces.

We're running out of options, man.

We gotta scrape every little corner of that bank cut,

Get every little bit of gold.

I don't know exactly how much gold is left down there, man.

You still have a day or two before he gets back

To prospect from rest of the bank cut.

Jay, we got faith in you, man.

Dave's gonna be here in two days,

And I don't really want to be the one that's gonna tell him

We didn't hit that 50 ounces.

Now I have an idea of where to look,

But I don't know if there's any pay left until I get down there.

Come on down.

[narrator] to find more gold in the bank cut,

Jason has only one option left...

This is where we lost that main channel.

...Return to where the channel tapered off

And scrape a final payday.

What I'm hoping is she slivered down

Under that clay wall

And I just... I mean, yeah, it's got

Some of the bigger river cobbles.

Panic.

Maybe we'll keep us running a full day.

We need something.

[narrator] jason and kc chased their last gold channel

Around the edge of the clay wall until it tapered off,

But the clay is sitting on a layer of sediment

Deposited by the ancient river.

Jason's theory,

This settlement could have carried

Some of the gold channel underneath the wall.

[kc] see what she's got.

I'm hoping to see ten to 15 colors,

Good particle size.

If I don't see it, then we have a big [bleep] problem.

Speak to me, goose.

One color.

That's all she wrote right there.

[bleep]

That's it.

There's nothing else to it, the bank cut's done.

[jason] I got to make sure. I'm going deeper.

Kind of got some anxiety going.

I don't do failure very well.

Okay...

Better material.

That's bottom.

She isn't very thick,

So she better be [bleep] rich.

Give me something.

Now.

What you got going on, kc? I'm serious.

Just hold on to that. This is a [bleep] horrible place to pan.

Take that. Just look at the top.

Whoa!

We're sitting with color in the pan.

I'm at two, four, six, eight, 10, 12,

14, 16, 18, 20.

I can keep counting, but she's mineable.

That's a relief.

What do you think? Just go after it

And hog and dog it, right?

That's a lot of overburden, but you know what?

It's all we got, it's all we got.

Jason, you're a hell of a prospector.

We are on the gold again.

That right there, man, is a lifesaver for us.

[narrator] with the clay wall above the channel

30 feet high,

The team will have to shift almost 900 tons of worthless dirt.

[kc] gonna start flinging some dirt.

[narrator] to hit dave's target before he returns,

They must do it in a single day.

[jason] nate swinging right alongside me.

Kc's pushing right behind me.

Oh, yeah, keep pushing that dirt, baby.

This is the definition of team turin.

Whatever it takes,

We will all step up,

Step in and get it gone and get it done.

And that's what we're doing.

I mean, for goodness' sakes, they got the mechanic in an excavator.

The only time he's supposed to be in an excavator is

When he's fixing the damn thing.

[nate] it would be killer if we could pull another 50 ounces of gold.

It's gonna be more than a success.

It's gonna be a victory.

[narrator] in the gold room,

Seasoned miner jesse goins is processing

Every bit of pay he can to hit dave's target.

But I don't know what's going to happen.

We've worked our butts off,

To try to make that 50 ounces work.

The whole team really wants to hit it hard,

And they're counting on me.

I can't have no screwups here.

Whatever we've got to do.

If I have to clean the jigs,

A little sluice back there to hit that 50,

We're going to hit it.

Keeping my fingers crossed, but it's going to be tight.

[kc] looks like pay to me, brother.

Let's fire this puppy up, big boy.

[narrator] as the first load of pay comes in,

The team can finally fire up the plan.

There's no "I" in team,

But there is in w-I-n, win.

Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go.

Gotta turn and burn here, get more pan up there.

We're on our way to get 50 ounces.

Dave's dad has been a big inspiration to us.

Flat out said, you know, never give up on your dream,

And, uh,

We're not about to give up on ours.

[narrator] if they have any chance of hitting their goal,

Nate must run the plant at full speed.

[chris] it's all about production.

The more we push through here, the more gold we get.

[nate] it's leaking quite a bit.

I've got a leak over here,

So I am going to go ahead and get some pan

And see exactly

There's water leaking.

We'll pan it up.

See exactly what we got in here.

[narrator] the roche's new sluice box is built

From a series of interconnected sections,

Which allow it to be more mobile.

To stop water and gold escaping,

Each part of the box is sealed with expanding foam,

But vibrations have caused the ground

To shift beneath the sluice.

One side has raised higher than the other,

Tearing the sealant open and causing it to leak.

[nate] we're losing gold.

Quite a bit.

We got to get this fixed.

Every little bit counts right now.

What's going on?

We gotta shut down. We have no choice.

[dave] with dad passing,

I'm going to continue to live my life

The best way I know the way that dad taught me.

Through many, many years,

We built that rock quarry up.

I think my dad and I both have that pioneer spirit.

People that came out to the gold rush,

They were all regular people, you know?

You think about my dad. He was a teacher.

I mean, they were all searching for that american dream.

I think it's just like any gold miner.

Just around the corner is where the gold is.

[narrator] almost 10,000 feet high in the colorado rockies,

Team turin fights to hit an ambitious goal...

50 ounces in a week.

-We'll beat it. -Yeah, all right!

Come on, dig.

[narrator] ...And prove they can run the operation

With dave away.

It's going to take every one of us,

But we'll get it.

[all] all in!

[narrator] but with pay dirt running low...

[bleep]

[jason] our pay just went from about 8-foot thick

To about 2.5, 3-foot, tops.

[narrator] and jason's search for new ground a bust...

[jason] unstable ground,

It ain't worth putting a man's life at risk.

[narrator] ...They battle to keep their 50-ounce promise.

Now, with dave set to return,

They put all their effort

Into the remaining gold in the bank cut.

We just... We just gotta fix this right here.

[narrator] ...But nate is forced to shut down the plant

At the most critical time.

[nate] that's a catch-22.

I don't want to shut down,

But I don't want to run and lose gold.

I don't know, dude. I mean...

We ain't got time to run to town,

So this is crucial. We gonna get this done.

[nate] weatherstripping. I think it'll work.

We got to use whatever we could find.

[narrator] nate's plan is to bootstrap new seals

Using weatherproofing sealant...

[nate] you boys gotta put it under there, then we squeeze them together.

[narrator] ...Then glue them with silicone and duct tape.

[chris] hopefully it works, man.

You know, sometimes just gotta jerry rig things, you know?

And, look, let's go ahead, get it fixed.

But you know what? If it works, that's all that matters.

[narrator] if it holds,

The team still has a chance

To run the remaining dirt from the bank cut.

Forehead of river running out of this thing.

I know.

Just a little leak over here, nate.

A little bit of sand get packed in there, I think we'll stop it up.

I think we're all right.

I think we'll be good.

These little leaks here are just minor.

As soon as we start running material,

It will pack up those little holes

And we'll be able to run.

So, not worried about these.

The flood stopped.

There's no more mississippi river underneath the sluice box.

-Let's get it going. -Rocks the box!

[narrator] after a grueling ten hours of digging...

All right, kc.

We got maybe one, two loads.

All right, man.

[narrator] ...Jason has followed the pay zone

To the very edge of the cut,

But it disappears under the road

And into the next county

Where they have no permission to mine.

He's diving back under me.

That's frustrating.

You know, you look at everything you moved

And all the [bleep] that you did to get the pay that was in there.

Now, you know you could feel the pockets dipping down.

She's getting deep again,

But it's in the property we ain't supposed to be on.

Cold day in hell, I'm going into it.

[narrator] the last bucket of pay dirt from the claim boundary

Marks the end of the bank cut.

Okay, nathan and chris, this is the last load out of the bank.

The bank is officially closed, brother.

Let's run this through. Let's run her up.

Mother earth's casino is basically, uh,

Tapped out.

Just about everything real we can on this cut.

We kicked the bank cut's [bleep].

We pulled every bit of gold

That she has to offer, that's for sure.

Surreal. I mean, it's like, wow.

It's hard to believe we moved that amount of dirt

In this amount of time.

I hope dozer dave would be proud of this.

I sure know I am.

[nate] all right, chris, we'll get ready to shut down, buddy.

[narrator] as the roche grinds to a halt,

It's time to find out if the big push has paid off.

This has been the toughest week

We've ever had as a team.

It felt like we were at points wanting to give up.

But we stuck with it.

We just want a lot of gold in the box.

[nate] I don't know if we're gonna hit the 50 or not.

You know, that's a lot,

But hopefully jesse can pull his magic off.

This is make or break right here.

So, uh,

Sure hope it's in there.

I don't see nothing up here yet.

[kc] look at this nugget right here.

Look at that nugget.

Yeah,

That is a fatty, bro.

That's a good one.

That is all gold.

-See that? -Yeah.

-There you go. -Look at all that.

Yeah! [bleep]

Look at all that! [exclaims]

-Look at this piece of gold. -Look at that piece.

Holy [bleep].

We got to get to 50 ounces.

That's what we told dave we'd have.

It is a good-looking box.

We might just hit it.

And if we don't, it isn't going to be for a lack of trying.

We've worked our [bleep] off.

[narrator] morning,

Just hours before dave begins his journey back from oregon.

It's the moment of truth in the gold room.

Looking good.

This is looking really good.

[narrator] to reach dave's 50-ounce target,

Team turin will need one of the best cleanups

They've ever had.

We've had one heck of a week.

We need good news.

Now did we hit it?

-Should we do it? -Let's do it.

All right.

I don't think this little scale is gonna count our gold anymore.

We used to go on grams.

[nate] yeah, moving on up.

And we're bringing in...

[all cheering]

[jesse] the moment of truth is coming.

Here goes.

Oh, boy,

35, 36.

-[chris] there's still a bunch in that jar. -There is.

Oh, man.

Come on, boys.

-Come on. -Forty-three.

Come on, big money. No whammy. Let's do it.

Forty-seven.

Come on!

-[indistinct cheering] -I'm getting goosebumps.

Fifty,

In a week.

Fifty one and a half ounces.

[all talking excitedly]

-That's good, guys. -Yeah!

[nate] five guys in a week.

I'll tell you what, man. All that praying in the morning,

And you guys doing double workloads and stuff,

That right there, man, makes me proud to be on this team.

-Yeah, it's a lot of gold. -Without a doubt.