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that was dave yelling, right?

that was dave yelling.

This better be a test.

oh, here we go.

Damn medic.

This ain't no drill.

Scares me if it's shelly or jesse.

Dear lord, we don't know the situation.

We ask you to send your angels to guard over whoever's hurt.

Time to open up a new cut.

You just hope and pray that it's better gold than the last one.

Because we need it right now.

two months ago,

Dave staked team turin's future on colorado.

Welcome to box creek.

his goal? Mine the hummocks,

An exceptional virgin ground where tests went through the roof.

I found the best pan I've ever panned in the lower 48

Right out there.

but the game changed

When a permitting mix-up took the hummocks off limits.

We prospected right here.

We have a prospecting permit.

Prospecting is just taking samples,

Just taking pans, figuring it out.

But that doesn't mean you can mine it.

team turin would not be denied.

Come on, dig!

mining two cuts in six weeks.

you hear that?

is that money? now we're talking.

and extracting almost $4,00,000 of gold.

Come on, baby.

-Yeah! -Right here, guys.

it's the most gold I've seen in a long time.

then, last week, the crew ran out of pay.

This is the last of the ball cut.

We need to get on to better ground.

Some place that has gold in it.

but a chance encounter with an old-timer

Whose father mined box creek in the 1940s...

-I'm dave. Donny. -Donny.

...Put dave on the trail of gold rich pay

Missed by a vintage doodlebug dredge.

If you have the equipment

And want to move this much overburden,

I think you stand a pretty good chance of getting into some gold

-Right under here. -Right here?

You bet.

dave and jason hit it big

Just 15 feet below the surface.

I say this is our next cut.

Sign me up.

now, team turin's future

Rests on finding shallow gold in its brand new cut.

All right, boys, the doodlebug cut is officially open.

Yeah! Whoa!

Right on. Right on.

This doodlebug cut is named after the doodlebug dredge,

And I know it pulled some good gold.

The one thing I do hope

Is that they left enough for us though on this dredge edge.

It's clear to see there's less overburden

When you're looking from the surface.

But once again, you never know

What that pay zone does underneath all this overburden.

jason is on the trail

Of ground left by a 1940s dredging operation.

A floating wash plant known as a doodlebug

Was fed by a dragline on the land,

Targeting gold in the steeper banks of box creek.

Up to the 1950s, operations like this

Pulled in tens of millions of dollars of gold every year.

The ground jason is working

Lies downstream from the vault cut.

Last week, he found gold just 15 feet from the surface.

But the old timers refilled their holes with tailings.

So to uncover the pay zones,

Jason must constantly read the changes in the ground.

I mean, you look at the difference between the old timers and us.

We've got hydraulic power. We've got diesel engines.

We're talking 600 horsepower.

Some of those dredges were using steam power.

A lot of times the old timers win.

But this one, I think I'm going to win on this one.

So bad for them, good for us.

Doesn't that start to look like pay, jason.

more big rocks.

I think we ought to take a couple feet off and then pan it,

See if we're getting any gold in it.

Only a pan will tell.

This isn't going to pay the bills. This isn't minable.

It don't make dollars, it don't make sense.

Dig deeper.

Jason and I really thought there'd be less overburden here.

It puts a little more stress and strain on us as a crew.

I got to keep on digging down,

To get down to that great load.

The deeper you go, hopefully more gold.

in the gold room,

Veteran miner jesse goins processes the last scraps of vault cut concentrate.

Oh, you've got to be walking around this thing constantly.

Oh, this is beautiful.

That's some nice looking gold right there.

I've been chasing gold for quite a few years.

We've got an opportunity here in colorado to get some good gold.

We've been taking everybody's crumbs for the last few years,

But we're going for the main course this time.

All right, I think I'll dump it in there and let that thing cook.

Hey guys, come on out and see the camera.

Yeah, they're more my buddies.

Alvin, simon and theodore runs around here.

My little chipmunks keep me company.

Dave said this year that I was going to take on some more responsibilities

And get a break from the gold room.

I wished I could jump out on a piece of equipment and help the guys.

Wherever they need me, I'm going to float around this year.

This is a new part of our zone.

You know, by now we should've hit pay.

at 25 feet, jason digs nearly double the depth he expected.

That's that money right there.

That's that boat, baby.

We just finally fricking hit babe.

You can tell that it's virgin ground

By the rock makeup, by the compaction of it.

Right here, was the doodlebug.

Dragline operator would cast out, he would scoop up.

You can see a perfect line with the slope

And the curvature of his bucket and everything as he dragged it back.

It doesn't get any more defined than this.

This is pay.

Rocky, sandy, gravelly.

This is doodlebug tails.

This is what came back in from their wash plant.

the dragline that fed the doodlebug dredge

Lowered and then dragged a bucket across virgin ground,

Delving deep into the creek banks.

Its bucket had no teeth, and the arm had a limited amount of cable.

So sometimes struggled to break into

The rocky or pockets of gold-rich pay.

You start seeing a change in your rocks, a change in the ground,

You gotta pan it.

Whoo-hoo!

This pan is looking like,

"I'mma be shipping all that beautiful dirt right down to the plant."

dave turin. Dave turin you gotta copy.

I'm about halfway back to that other corner

And at that level I finally click pay.

we're back on the gold.

Sounds great.

Bring us some dirt.

Generator's on. The incubator coming on?

Okay. Here we go, boys, let's this a whirl. Firin' up!

Say hello to the doodlebug cut.

Yeah!

We're gonna get paid.

we finally got the hopper up and going

And we're running smooth.

chris loads the recently installed hopper,

A feeder that filters out large rocks

And increases production by a third,

Vital for processing the densely-packed pay.

we upped production but it's taken a beating with these big rocks.

Chris and I gotta keep an eye on the hopper

Doodlebugs' got these big-ass rocks,

Piling on top vigorously,

That pay can't penetrate into the hopper and get to the roach.

So we got to keep a close eye on it.

Make sure they don't pile up.

I'm coming in behind you, quickly.

with rocks blocking the hopper,

Chris attempts a fast rocky mountain fix.

hey, hey, hey! Stop, stop, stop!

Half of that fell over there.

so I'm gonna have to shut down the plant.

I know!

coming up...

big day today.

j esse steps out of the gold room...

I'm excited.

That is sweet.

...And straight on the gas.

I believe jesse drives that haul truck faster than his own truck.

Way to go, jesse.

and the doodlebug cut reveals its true worth.

no way.

whoo!

at box creek...

I want to go placing all the weight of the back tip to right over.

Got a little hairy for a second.

...The large hopper is out of action.

it just got started and now it's off the blocks.

We'll have to fix it.

Level it up. Put some concrete blocks under there.

chris must go back to using his 220 excavator to feed the roach directly.

it's a good thing that we've got the roach and its hopper.

Unfortunately, we're not gonna be able to run it at max capacity.

We need to get that thing fixed. Get it fixed quick.

in the cut,

Jason make short work of the doodlebug pay zone,

So kc needs to open up more ground.

With a small family organization like what we've got,

You've gotta cross-train.

It's good to have guys doing multiple jobs.

Jason can run the gold room.

He can run an excavator.

He can run a loader.

Kc now can run a dozer. He can run a loader.

And chris is running two pieces of equipment.

It's time for jesse to elevate.

He's been running a gold room,

But I got shelly trained. She's doing a great job.

Now it's time for jesse to start running some equipment.

They said I was going to be in the rock truck, and I'm excited about that

Because I've always wanted to get in one of those bad boys.

big day today.

Getting out of the gold room,

Get in the big machine,

Come out and play in the boy's sandbox.

Hey, jesse.

-Hey. -What's up, brother?

I'm ready to run some equipment.

We'll check it out.

the rock truck I've been running

The last three seasons.

This is an articulating truck.

You don't have just a straight lock bed.

It's gonna twist and move on you.

Intimidating piece of equipment, isn't it?

Yeah, it's a big piece.

kind of nervous, you know?

First out the gate.

Glad that I get to do it.

I'm honored to do it, in fact.

To get a big bunch of gold this year

Would be so nice to, you know,

Spread it out amongst the family.

'cause I have a grandson.

It would be nice to get him set up.

College fund, whatever.

You know, give him a jump start in life.

I know how it 'cause grandma raised me

And I'd just like to build, to do what she did for me,

Except give him a bigger leg up in life.

start her up.

the 900-yard round trip

From the cut to the wash plant

Forces jesse to reverse, tip and negotiate

The tight bends of the haul road.

jesse's gonna come down.

gotta get a move. Gotta get paid.

You're loaded.

Thank you.

So far, I'm sure he's probably

*bleep* his pants right now.

This big, it turns sharp real fast.

I don't want to screw up right away.

Jesse's first run of pay.

Come on, jesse!

keep going, keep going, keep going.

A little too wide, brother.

Okay, go ahead. You got it.

Jesse and I have stepped it up this year,

Doing stuff that we've never done before.

It's a high-pressure situation.

Jesse and I room together,

And he's got to drive to work harder

And get it done right.

jesse knows that it's important

To be multi-skilled.

If he drives a rock truck like he cleans gold,

It'll be to perfection.

You're right on course, buddy.

need to straighten her up and come back.

There you go. A little more. Come on.

there you go. Straighten her up.

Hey, slow down now. You're going up on the side.

come on. Come on, come on, come on.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

just hold on.

Chris, you got copy?

I want you to get him over some more.

Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.

Chris to jesse.

Yeah, it's scary. This is the real deal here.

that was a heck of a landing.

he's not working in a very

Beginner-friendly environment.

You gotta remember, it's a 40-ton haul truck.

Takes some balls to get in a truck like that.

Right now, it's all hands on deck.

I gotta get as much dirt moved as possible.

Run her up all she's got

'cause we'll all need that water.

with production down by a third,

The team pushes the roach to its limits.

It's that all the way up?

that's all she's got.

Look! Look! Look!

That first bar on the second deck,

It was hardly spraying anything out,

It's spraying now.

The one that has a bunch of precious stone out.

Is the bar closed?

yeah.

a vital spray bar that cleans the gold

From the rocks is blocked.

If the rocks can't be cleaned,

Gold will be lost.

chris is going to kill the water.

We got rocks all over

In this son of a *bleep*.

We got rocks in here now, I think.

I gonna kill that roach.

we need two things.

We need the rocks washed,

But we also need enough water to run this sluice box.

This is the most important thing right here.

You know, if we don't get this right, we're losing gold.

I'm going to drain this hose.

I'm going to show you what I'm pulling out.

-Look at that. -Oh, my gosh!

this hose is packed solid.

*bleep*

So this is our problem.

It's kind of hard to pump water through that.

after seven weeks of mining, the hoses on the roach

Are choked up with gravel and silt.

You get one of these in that,

One sits sideways and all the little ones that come after it

Just start stacking up on top of it.

So we're going to have to take each chose off.

That'll do her.

All right, chris, go ahead and fire the water on.

Ten-four.

we got one problem fixed.

I don't think we have the rocks in the system

That we had before.

That one's plugged...

That one's still got it. I'm going to tap on.

You have that one that's plugged all the way up.

Here she goes!

Whoo!

Whoo!

we got water now!

Nice go!

right now, she looks healthy.

But in this game,

Might last a minute might still last an hour,

Might last *bleep* season.

Fingers crossed.

The more experience you get in this equipment,

The better it is for the whole team.

60-year-old jesse goins,

Is on "day two" of his new job hauling pay

Brought out of the gold room for the first time.

It's a trial by fire.

Running that rock truck, it's scary, it's dangerous,

And it's one of the most important pieces we have.

The nice thing is, he has a team around him

That completely understands what he's going through,

And we'll be there to support him.

-crank your left.

-hard left, hard left. There you go.

Now come straight back.

just try to remember to do all the things

Right until I get a rhythm going.

hurry back, sweetheart.

I have no doubt

In that man's capability in any kind of piece of machinery

That's on the mine site.

He'll shine wherever you put him.

Am I back far enough, chris?

yeah, you're good right there, my friend.

Perfecto.

Way to go, jesse.

Good job jesse. Let's do that 500 more times.

Let's do it.

with a large area of pay opened

In the doodlebug, jason and jessie

Set about stockpiling dirt for the ravenous roach.

I'm excited.

Been waiting for this a long time.

in just four hours.

Jesse hauls 28 loads of pay dirt.

I believe jesse drives that haul truck faster than his own truck.

-He just goes. -I have to agree.

it'd be nice to prove to people

That we can find the gold and to prove ourselves as a team.

casey's site record stands at 49 loads

Of pay in a single shift.

To beat it, jesse needs just 15 more loads.

never a doubt in my mind

That he could get in that truck

And be able to run it's like nobody's business.

I just didn't think that he could keep closing in on

Casey's record on his second day.

we're not stopping get 50, buddy.

Hell, we're going for 60.

I like the way you think.

Jesse! That's the way to do it out there!

Kick casey's... *bleep*

Shut up.

Jesse's been flying in a rock truck.

Kind of feels weird turning her over, but he's been kicking ass.

49. One more after this one.

right on, jess.

that's number five.

Go buddy. Way to go.

way to go. You broke kc's record

That is sweet.

Jesse, bring it up to me, the number 50.

Good job jesse. I knew you could do it, buddy.

He broke kc's record in two days.

The student surpassed the instructor.

Fifty loads, atta boy.

I'm super happy for jesse right now. Broke my old record.

Pretty damn good.

Proud of a lot of gold and proud of him.

Man I kept telling myself, "come on, I gotta make it, I gotta make it. "

But I made it.

These guys do their job.

I'm proud to be on this team, you know,

They're just a great bunch of guys and there's no quit in them.

For the roach to devour over fifty loads of stockpiled pay today,

The crew must bring the hopper feeder back online.

Right now, I'm going to try to raise it up,

Level it out with big concrete blocks.

So that as we push the rocks off the top of the grizzly,

That feeder stays there and it's stable.

Each one of these blocks weighs about four thousand pounds.

That's two tons.

That's a lot of damn weight to be suspended and swinging through the air.

There you go.

Jason lifts the feeder with the 480 excavator,

While nate uses to twenty to slide the first block into position.

I'll level it up re-slinging that block in there.

We've got to do it right.

yeah. Send forward, send forward.

Nate's my boy.

If I was going to be alongside somebody, I'm glad it's nate.

He's a strong part of this team.

Okay, jason, go up.

Curling your bucket out a little bit.

Yes sir.

Up a little bit, jason.

That's good.

Now, in a little more.

Yes, sir.

Go up a little bit.

Right now, we got the first of two blocks set.

We're going to slide in the second block.

Each block weighs two tons and jason is flying blind.

I can't see the block.

I'm not even looking at my bucket.

Just following directions.

Now stick out.

Okay now, go toward you.

Stop! Stop!

Stick it out, down, down.

Good job. Jason. Jason laughing]

Attaboy, cowboy!

With rocks and tailings giving additional support...

Yeah, baby.

Ready to fire this thing up?

Give it a try. See how she works.

Team turin returns to ramping up production.

Here we go.

Pay dirt. Nathan, you are in the hopper day

In a bid to stay on track for their four hundred oz season gold.

Oh, it feels so good, dave.

It feels so good.

The team is finally coming together.

We are on good gold.

We're doing new jobs.

Really, this is the best. This team has run,

This is the best plant. We've had the best equipment,

And we're doing it, so I'm excited.

Just hurry on chris.

There's dave yelling right?

That was dave yelling.

This better be a test.

Kind of no duff. What else?

-I don't know. -Okay.

He got me here, though.

They ain't a drill.

- no. - no.

I heard it in his voice.

Hope everyone's all right.

What scares me...

Where's jessie?

It's no use to think about what could be 'cause we don't know.

We can't get ourselves wound up.

Still nothing, guys, in radio.

they should be coming up shortly.

Damn, medic.

Ambulance.

Have an ambulance and round sounds like

Here we go. There's three of them coming right now.

there's dave.

- what? Who is it? - jesse?

*bleep*

-What? -Heart attack.

is he okay? Is he pass?

Didn't help and...

oh, my god, man!

Oh, my god!

Oh, my god.

what happened to jesse?

You went over to him and he was on the floor?

I went to the gold room and I looked in there.

I turned around and looked and he was laying right there.

I immediately yelled. No duff, no duff.

They called for an ambulance, is called for the medic

Started cpr immediately.

We never got nothing.

*bleep*

I don't get it, man. I still don't get it.

I don't get it, man.

No, man.

morning, guys.

-Hey, dave. -Morning, dave.

I just want to let you know that we've got the coroner's report

And jesse died of a massive heart attack.

The sheriff, the corner, the ambulance

All said that we did everything

That we possibly could have

To save jessie's life.

We lost a brother,

Truly a family member

That meant so much to us.

It was god's time.

There was nothing we could have done, you guys.

He was the most humblest, genuinely good person

I've ever met.

I just wish he was an ass*bleep*, so it wouldn't hurt so much.

he was so the opposite of an ass*bleep*.

He loved everything about what we were doing.

He just wanted to be a part of a team.

And he felt complete.

He felt meaningful with us.

It changed his life and he changed our lives.

He made our team.

We all grieve differently, we all mourn differently.

I need some input on what's the best way to move forward.

Whenever your father passed, we hit 20 ounces that day.

Jesse was so excited

That we were able to deliver that to you

In your time of need,

To help you get through that moment of time.

it's what you do for a brother.

That's what you do for family.

And right now, jesse was our brother,

So his family's our family, too.

I want to honor jesse by going to work.

I would like to give jesse and his family

Their share of the gold all the way through.

And so from here on out, this is jesse's season.

You guys in on that?

- all in. - that's right.

all in.

all right, guys.

Oh, lord, I think you've put these men in this circle.

Thank you for placing jesse in our circle.

Lord, I just ask you to give us the strength,

The peace and the joy to get through this.

Let us live better lives because of jesse in our life.

-Amen. - amen.

It's hard to accept he's not around here no more.

That little white-haired beard and this old toboggan,

You just miss him, you know.

we've got to move slow, pick each other up as a team.

We have to come around each other

And help each other get through this.

Well, we're here to celebrate jesse's life.

It's been a rough time losing jesse.

It's kind of nice to get to see his family

And all of his friends, get to know jesse's past.

This is a circle of life necklace,

And it's got some of jesse's ashes in it.

That way, when I'm feeling lonely or down...

...I can touch it and feel closer to him.

You know, jesse impacted me more than I impacted him.

He was loved by us.

He was a happy man.

And he enjoyed what he was doing.

And we had the blessing of knowing jesse

In the last three years.

First time I met jesse was on grasshopper creek.

hey, jesse.

you must be dozer dave.

I am. How are you doing, man?

- good to meet you. - you, too.

We immediately formed a bond.

He impressed me with how hard he worked,

And he loved gold mining.

Whoa, look at that. Starting to get goose bumps.

That's a lot of gold. Good job.

in lynx creek, we needed

A good, reliable guy in the gold room,

And we immediately knew who we were going to call.

dave, he's given me a great opportunity,

And I'm not going to let the guy down.

Just instantly, he was part of the team

And he was a perfect fit.

You want to go say hi to everybody?

-Yeah, let's do it. -Let's go.

This is my bodyguard.

-How are you doing? -This is nathan.

It's good to meet you, man. What's your name?

-Jesse. - that's awesome.

I'm just glad you're here,

'cause I'm not the shortest one now.

Oh!

Just don't call me frodo.

-Frodo?

jesse found a way

To enjoy the company of others around him,

And in doing so, by god, we enjoyed our time.

If he decided to do something, he was all in.

pretty funny, jesse.

Jesse, what have you been doing?

You look like papa smurf.

I haven't had my medicine yet, so I'm a snowman.

jesse was very passionate about mining.

He was passionate about every single pan.

He loved this crew and he loved the job

That he was doing.

I trusted him with the gold, I trusted him with everything.

He was just that kind of guy.

Now it's up to me to clean the gold

And hopefully reach that number.

-We hit 225.1!

225.1.

I just want to let you know that he was...

He was loved and he touched us and impacted our lives.

And I feel like he made us better people

Just knowing him.

The world needs more people like jesse.

I've buried parents and I've buried grandparents,

I've buried best friends,

And this one here is the hardest.

He was a good man.

he was becoming my best friend,

My son's best friend,

And seeing my son next to him with that gold pan,

And hearing my son saying,

'I'm going to go and find gold with grandpa.'

that's the toughest part.

Team turin made him a better man, a better father,

A better husband, a better friend.

today was a difficult day, but we did it.

It's good to be here,

And I just feel like this is healing for all of us.

two weeks ago,

Gold room operator, jesse goins,

Helped team turin stay on the gold,

Driving a rock truck for the first time.

That is sweet.

Good job, jesse! I knew you could do it, buddy.

but all work ceased after his sudden passing.

In the days after his memorial,

Shelly cleans up the gold

From jesse's record-breaking 50-load haul of pay dirt.

Now the results are in.

I've got it all clean and dry, and it's ready to weigh.

Could you guys meet me down here in the gold room?

I'd like to weigh up the gold that jesse brought us.

-Hey, guys. -Hi, guys.

It's what jesse hauled.

You guys ready to weigh it?

-Yeah. -Yeah, before we weigh up,

I know jesse would do the same for one of us.

So I'm going to take my percentage of this weigh-in

And give it to his family.

- I'm good with that. - that's a great idea.

- I'm good with that. -Yeah.

One other thing,

He always had a funny disguise

And always picked the right time to bring it out

And it was usually whenever the gold was down.

-'cause he...

He never... He never got to worry

'cause the gold was never down,

So I'm gonna use this time to make us laugh

'cause he would try to make us laugh

-In a time of need, and... - yes, he would.

...We're in a time of need.

I know it doesn't look much different than...

it feels about the same.

But, to you, jesse.

-there's jesse's gold.

there's one, two, three...

-They're over double digits. -Right on.

13, 14, 15.

No way.

- 15.65. -15.65.

-Good. - that's good.

- good clean-up. - that's good.

For just the dirt that jesse brought up.

jesse's haul of gold

Is worth almost $30, 000,

And will be given to his family.

Let's do this for jesse.

jesse!

jesse's family will also receive his 5% share

Of the entire season total, which stands today

At 219 ounces, just six ounces short

Of what the crew made all last season.

15.65 is very good.

I wouldn't expect anything less from what jesse does.

He broke the record with the haul,

Brought us some good gold,

And for me to be able to clean it up,

Because I know how to do it now

Because of jesse, it was just a great honor.

It was the toughest gold weigh we'll ever have.

We're getting gold, but...

...We're missing one fine soul.

I know we're supposed to be big, tough miners, you know,

Just big, strong men, but...

...It's hard when you lose a brother.

I'm gonna work my ass off for the rest of season

As hard as I can to get as much gold

As I can for his family.

he's got a wife, and he's got three sons,

A grandkid that he leaves behind.

We gotta step up.

Moving forward,

I think it's best for us to show jesse honor

And respect, help his family,

And that means to continue to mine.

I just think that he'd say, "dave, it's okay.

You go back to work." I think that's probably what he'd say.

Jesse's family needs this gold,

And that's what motivates us to get as much gold

Out of this ground as we can, so that's what we're gonna do.

get out there, search, hunt, work hard.

Get off the couch, throw that phone away.

You know, he started doing this stuff,

All of them worries

In the back of your head just disappear.

I don't know. It's just a whole different world.

It's awesome.

on the next episode...

It's hard going back to work.

We're all thinking about our lost brother.

...The crew puts its boots back on.

We're back chasing this gold for jesse's family.

but the immense pressure starts to tell...

This box, I don't see much gold in it.

our gold count is dropping.

The one thing we cannot allow is let this divide us.

...As team turin pushes to make jesse's season

Its most successful yet.

nate's flipped the loader.