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[dramatic music playing]

[birds chirping]

It's hard going back to work.

We're all thinking about our lost brother.

We feel the pain, it's in our heart

And we're one man down.

It's gonna take some time.

We're not machines.

And for us,

As we go back to work, that's gonna help us heal.

If we sit in our trailers, it's not good.

It's better for us to get out and work,

Be with each other because this team,

This family, that's how we'll bounce back.

So now, it's really... It really is time

To go back to work.

And I think jesse would have wanted that.

[dramatic music playing]

[nathan] all right, chris, go ahead and fire her up.

Give me 1250 on the rpm.

[machine revving]

[chris] it's a long journey

And without your best friend,

Without the joy and the love in that man's eyes

It's gonna make this journey

A little bit longer and harder.

[kc] it's the last thing I ever thought

Would happen this season is we'd lose jesse.

I usually am called the "tin man"

Because I will never cry about nothing. But...

*bleep*

[jason] I am mentally,

Emotionally spent.

The only good part about today is

We're back up and running, and I can put my focus

On chasing this gold for jesse's family.

[dramatic music playing]

[nathan] you know, I think we're all more determined

Than ever to make the season count.

You know, we wanna get the gold for jesse's family.

We wanna get it for our families.

You know, it's supposed to be our season.

Now, it's jesse's season.

We're gonna do whatever it takes.

[chris] this one right here's for you brother.

I love you, man.

[dramatic music playing]

[suspenseful music playing]

[narrator] after a week down,

To mourn the loss of teammate jesse goins,

Team turin gets back to business.

[dave] so we're running from the doodlebug cut

But we're getting some big rocks.

The good news is typically

Big gold runs with the big rocks

Because it takes a lot of energy to move big rocks

And that's where you find the gold.

[narrator] dave's third cut of the season, the doodlebug

Is downstream from the mined out

Bank and vault cuts.

The ground was worked in the 1930s and 1940s

By dragline buckets,

Which fed a floating doodlebug dredge.

But dave believes the old miner's technology

Couldn't excavate all the gold rich rocky ground.

Leaving team turin one last chance

Of a big pay day at box creek.

[dave] you know, the old timers

Got all the easy gold

And they've left the more difficult gold.

The gold that's under a lot of overburden

Or the gold that they couldn't get to,

They've left that for us.

But we have an advantage that they did not have.

We have hydraulics, a lot of horsepower,

And that's what I love about

Chasing these old abandoned mines.

[suspenseful music playing]

[narrator] to deal with the rocky mountain boulders,

Dave's upgraded the roach with last season's

Heavy duty hopper and conveyor.

Boom, drowsy to the freaking bones.

They just threw one into the bed of the truck,

Damn near bounced it up off of the ground, it hit so hard.

It sounded like king kong in the truck.

Rocks are always a pain in the butt.

They create a lot of wear and tear on the machines.

It's hard to try and go up

Against mother nature and that's what we do.

[suspenseful music playing]

[nathan] it's stopped, it's stopped, it's stopped.

- The feeder's not going on the hopper. -10-4

[man]... From the hopper

To the conveyor belt

Is not going.

Hey, davey, coming up this way bud.

[dave] yeah, go ahead, nate.

[nathan] the old hopper on the belt

About a quarter of it got cut all the way off.

I'm gonna shut this thing down.

[dave] it's t he feeder belt?

[nathan] [indistinct]

[dave] something in there cut it then.

It looks like the other side is the same way.

It's got cut mark in there.

There's a big rock stuffed in there

That I might have to get loose.

[narrator] constant battering from the boulder filled pay

Has allowed a large flat rock to slip through

The old hopper's grizzly bars

And jam the conveyor belt.

[tense music playing]

[dave] see that son of a *bleep* right there?

You see how it's jammed in there?

One giant rock got caught in there sideways.

Hope it's not ripped in two right here.

-I think it is. -They're slipping up here.

[dave] yeah, I know, nate. I know.

Come on. You son of a *bleep*

-Keep going. -Yup.

No belt.

Dammit.

[dramatic music playing]

It's completely ripped in two.

Yeah.

*bleep*

Big *bleep* rocks is what did it.

That feeder's out of commission until we buy

A new belt that's about $5,000.

The life of a miner.

[dramatic music playing]

[nathan] we just got something *bleep* and going,

And now, we're down again.

So, from a hundred thirty yards an hour,

Back down to ninety yards an hour.

We aren't gonna hit our goal,

Things like this keep on happening.

Okay. Chris, back to your perch, buddy.

[narrator] to keep the operation running,

Chris must go back to feeding pay

Directly into the roach

With the 220 excavator.

[chris] all right. Nate, I'm in.

Firing her up.

So dumping everything.

[nathan] dump, dump, dump.

[upbeat music playing]

[chris] well, as I'm sitting up here on a... On a perch,

Takes a toll.

We're doing this for jesse and his family.

And then, I started thinking about my family.

Your heart starts aching for the ones you love.

I've got a new wife.

We'll be married for six months

And I've been here for three

So that makes it hard.

We start weighing out the options,

Is this... Is this worth it?

We dig down deep inside to find the energy

And the positivity to keep begging,

Keep going, keep beating.

[dramatic music playing]

[nathan] woo, big old rock.

[dirt rumbling]

[nathan] man, chris is so grizzly up there

On that hopper on the roach, man,

That ain't looking the best right now.

[narrator] without the old hopper,

The roach is taking a full force

Of the doodlebug's boulders.

There's a reason why they call them colorado rocky mountains.

And, I believe we found out, it's already done damage

To our belt on the... On the old hopper.

So they bounce off this grizzly

And bend it all to hell.

[kc] gold mining is all about controlling our environment.

We can't control mother nature.

It's a rollercoaster.

It's hard on equipment, it's hard on human beings.

And as miners shouldn't just weigh out.

[man] all right. Chris, go ahead and kill it, buddy.

Go ahead and kill it, buddy.

[engine revving]

[suspenseful music playing]

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

[narrator] after a tough day of battling big rocks,

The team pulled the mats.

-How's the box look? -Like *bleep*.

[dramatic music playing]

[jason] our gold count is dropping, dave.

You know what that does to a miner's emotions?

[chris] especially whenever we got to go

To keep getting further from the source.

Our next cut is gonna be further down.

[jason] this is definitely not a *bleep* hammocks box.

It's hard to see boxes like this

Knowing what we prospected right over that hill.

[kc] we need those hammocks, dave.

We need them and we need them now.

-[man] yeah. -[dave] I know. I understand.

[narrator] two months ago,

Dave brought his team to colorado

On the strength of the gold he found

-In the untouched hammocks. -[dave] check that out.

Do you think you can live with that?

-Yeah, I can live with that. -[chris] I'm looking forward

To getting to those hammocks. Let's get it.

[narrator] but land owner, lance baller sent dave

The wrong maps.

[lance] we have a prospecting permit,

But that doesn't mean you can mine it.

This land is off limits.

[suspenseful music playing]

I know this is not the map that I saw originally.

We'll try to help you out the best we can.

[narrator] leaving team turin in limbo.

I trust lance, but he made a mistake.

[narrator] now, seven weeks on

And dave is no closer

To gaining permission to mine in the hammocks

From the local community.

You know what's sitting over there.

You've seen it. It was the best pan

You ever had in the lower 48 states, dave.

I've told my wife, my son, my daughter,

We brought these guys, your family, all know.

Everybody knows what's sitting over there.

You know what, jesse's *bleep* dead,

That hammocks is for his *bleep* family.

We got to get that before we get the hell out of here.

I ain't gonna mine three weeks.

I want the damn hammock.

[suspenseful music playing]

Hang on a minute. Everybody, listen up.

One thing we cannot allow is that let this divide us.

Give me a couple days.

I'll talk to lance.

If he doesn't give me the answers,

I'll start looking into it myself.

If I have to March down there and find the person

That's writing the permits and get answers,

I'll do that, okay?

[tense music playing]

That was a tough meeting.

I don't like meetings like that.

You know, when those guys call me out

And it gets pretty serious, intense...

I know the guys are frustrated.

It's been a difficult year.

What we need is the hammocks, that'll give us some hope.

I got to put the pressure on lance.

[upbeat music playing]

[narrator] coming up.

Oh, *bleep*.

[chris] nate, flipped the loader.

I got to get that bypass.

[narrator] despite rocks...

[dave] if that gets into the roach...

[nathan] it's done.

We're gonna destroy the roach.

-[nathan] yes. -...And local resistance...

[dave] so far our presence has not been welcomed.

And now, I have to prove myself.

[narrator] ...Team turin fight back for jesse...

Now, it's all about getting all the ground that we can,

Getting all the gold we can.

[narrator] ...And the future...

For the week's total of...

[dramatic music playing]

[narrator] at box creek...

My crew is restless.

They're fed up.

They're done.

[narrator] ...Dave is under pressure

To get his team access

To the gold rich hammocks.

[dave] it's disheartening when...

You try to do the best job you can.

You provide jobs, you provide leadership.

You start to feel like everybody is against you.

[nathan] you know, we've come here for the hammocks,

You know, and that's what we wanted to get.

You know, all we keep on hearing is another day,

Another day. It ain't dave's fault,

Ain't no one's fault in the team.

You know, lance gave us a wrong damn map,

But we need something. We need something now.

[dave] I need to go to the hammocks

Because that's the reason we came here.

But I have to go talk to lance and say, "look,

I think if I get in front of that community,

I can talk to them about my crew,

Our philosophy,

And hopefully, they'll let us mine the hammocks."

If nothing else, hopefully, we get it for jesse.

[suspenseful music playing]

[narrator] at the roach,

While chris keeps the operation running...

[chris] those are the type of rocks

We're dealing with right there.

[narrator] ...The rest of the team attempt

To pull the ripped belt

From inside the old hopper.

All right, dave, we're turning the conveyor on, okay?

-Jason, are you ready? -[jason] yup.

[suspenseful music playing]

-Seems to be working. -[metal clanging]

[jason] we're not tearing the belt.

[suspenseful music playing]

-Come on, baby. -There you go.

[man] come on.

[jason] without a doubt,

We're gonna need a brand new belt.

There is no patch kit getting this *bleep* together.

[upbeat music playing]

[dave] damn, son of a *bleep*.

That's a damn good finder out there.

[dave] so, nate, we got to be careful.

That big a rock right there,

If that gets into the roach...

[nathan] it's done.

We're gonna destroy the roach.

Yes.

[dave] so we got to make sure

We should probably fix up those grizzly bars

Because those grizzly bars are getting spread.

It's not designed for that big a rock.

Mother nature just dealt us a huge blow.

Those big rocks are just beating this plant up.

Problem is if I get one like that big

Into the roach, it's done.

Season's over.

So I'm shutting everything down

And fixing it the right way.

[engine revving]

[nathan] shut it down.

It's better to shut down for a couple hours

Than a few days.

You got to do maintenance.

If you don't do it,

It's gonna bite you in the ass.

[narrator] as nate makes repairs to the conveyor,

Dave drafts in help to fortify the roach

Against rocky mountain boulders.

[dave] what we got to do is, those are all bent.

So we're gonna replace the bent ones with straight ones.

We got them all cut,

Lay them in here, weld them up.

It should be good to go tomorrow.

We're gonna put a deal on the end,

So that they sit... They sit in here

And they're... They kinda move a little bit.

Problem is they're so rigid

That every time a rock gets in there, it bends it.

So if it could slide a little bit.

I think that should help it from breaking.

We hope.

[narrator] the bent grizzly bars leaves space

For larger rocks to enter the roach,

Potentially causing catastrophic damage.

In a bid to protect the machine,

Dave will remove the old bars

And weld in a new set

Leaving the bottom edges loose,

Sitting in a u-shape nudge.

This should allow the bars room to vibrate,

And not bend under the force of the rocks.

[nathan] you know it's nice having boss like dave.

You know, he gets in there and works right beside you.

You don't find many bosses like that.

[dave] I think a good leader is somebody

That leads by example.

If it's a difficult job, if it's too hot,

If it's too dusty, whatever it is.

If I won't do it,

Then I don't expect anybody else to do it.

[dramatic music playing]

-[man] it's done. -[dave] you're done?

-Did he fix my welds? -[man] no.

[laughter]

[dave] well, we got the grizzly fixed.

New bars,

We got the belt off,

So all in all it's not a bad day.

We'll be running in the morning.

All right, nate, pack it up and go home.

[upbeat music playing]

[narrator] morning at box creek.

These sturdier grizzly bars are making my life

A whole lot easier.

[narrator] as chris puts the new setup to the test.

There's not any rocks getting caught up,

We're not getting any clogs.

The dirt is feeding really well.

It was a great fix.

[narrator] in the gold room.

-[dave] hey, shel. -[shelly] hi.

[narrator] dave has a mission for wife shelly.

So we've lost the belt on the feeder,

I'm gonna need you to run to denver...

-Oh, wow. -...To pick-up the belt.

Okay. Well...

We got to spend it to make it.

All right.

-Okay. -Okay.

Oh, not ideal,

Not ideal at all.

We got all this concentrate sieve

And run through the table

And it's gonna put us behind a little bit,

But in order to keep working and operating,

We're gonna need that belt.

It's just been one struggle after another for dave

And I'm very proud of him

For overcoming all he's had to overcome.

Whatever the team needs I'm willing to help

However I can, that's what I'm here for right now

Is to support dave, the team,

Try to do what jesse had done.

Big shoes to fill, but I'll do it.

[dave] we're just short of people,

But shelly is filling in the blanks.

She's doing a great job,

She's a hard worker.

And that's hard work working

In that gold room.

But I need that belt, so she's gonna go get the belt

And we'll try to get her caught up with the clean-up.

[upbeat music playing]

[jason] I'm anticipating some damn good gold

Out of this doodlebug cut.

Just as long as the gold keeps coming in

That's all that matters.

[narrator] with the roach back up and running...

[jason] easy there.

[narrator] ...Jason chases pockets of pay

In the doodlebug cut.

[jason] I don't understand it.

You know, by now we should have had pay.

It's kind of crazy.

That's quite a change and I don't understand why.

I mean, bring your flip-flops and a mai tai

That is straight-up beach sand.

The gold is never just all over

Throughout the pay zone.

It's very sporadic and sometimes it lays

In certain areas or certain depths within that zone.

And if I don't find that,

That's just one of the sickest feelings.

Hey, dave, you got a copy, dave?

[dave] go ahead, jason.

Hey, if you're not too busy

Could you come down in the cut?

Holy cow, jason.

How deep is that sand?

Dave we usually have *bleep* foot,

Two-foot of sand directly above our pay.

At least the two previous cuts is been that way.

I'm 10-feet in and I still haven't hit pay.

[dramatic music playing]

Dang, jas. There's no gold in this.

There's no way the gold will hold in that.

No.

Here's the thing, jason.

We've spent how much money to get to here?

-A lot. -A lot of money.

A lot of money.

We've got to figure out if there's enough gold

To make any money.

So if it's, you know, 10 bucks a yard,

-I think we still mine it. -Yeah.

[dave] if it's three bucks a yard

And that's all there is, maybe we cover the hole up

And pack up and leave.

[dramatic music playing]

[dramatic music playing]

[jason] how do you go from pay right here

To an 18-foot deep sand bed.

[narrator] at box creek.

[dave] yeah, because we got a pay, what,

-30-feet away? -Yeah.

[narrator] jason's lost the gold bearing channel

-In the doodlebug cut. -Less than that.

[dave] I think this is the lake bed.

Slow moving water drops all that sand out.

You know, the faster moving water

Moves the big rocks, moves the...

-Yeah. -...Gold.

I just think its many geological events

Happening over time.

Somehow the glaciers slowed the water down

And all the sands stacked up on top of our pay.

[narrator] dave's theory millions of years

Of glacial movement carved water ways rich in gold

Throughout the valley.

But overtime, ice dams the rivers

Forming lakes that filled with sand.

The heavy gold travels down through the sand

And settles on bedrock.

But dave and jason have no idea

How deep the sand is

And if the gold at the bottom

Is even worth the cost of moving it.

How much deeper are we then...

What we're mining over there?

So, I mean, this section dave,

It's got another 18, 20 foot of dirt

-We got to move off of it. -[dave whistles]

I think what we should do before you start

Excavating all this, we better get a pan.

You better try to punch down, see if there's pay,

Stop opening this big area up

And let's find...

-Gold. -[jason] I agree.

There's no gold then we're leaving.

[jason] the majority of the skills that I bring

To team turin,

All comes from a background of mining

Or drilling oil, run almost every machine.

But I can only really operate one

And that's the excavator.

[dave] the cost of moving an acre of overburden,

18-feet deep,

Just isn't bad enough if there's no gold down there.

[suspenseful music playing]

Grab me one more a little deeper

-And I'll grab a pan. -[jason] 10-4

[dave] the old timers took the easy gold,

Right here in the middle of this valley.

It was very little top soil,

They hit the grave bone

Within three or four feet, piece of cake.

Now what we've got is that side pay.

And that's the problem. We're chasing it,

Trying to find them and stay on them,

And we hit a big pocket of sand.

[narrator] around 20-feet into the sand

Jason starts to hit ancient river gravels.

[dave] got a lot of quartz, a lot of granite.

So, we'll see.

I hope it's carrying gold.

This is a good sign,

The red staining means iron,

Gold, rides an iron horse.

So it's an indicator

That where there's iron staining,

There could be gold.

[suspenseful music playing]

-[dave] four or five. -Oh, yeah.

Now, there's a whole bunch, a little fine

-Right in here too. -[dave] oh, yeah.

[jason] two, four, six, eight, 10.

Basically, dave, that's our grave bone

-Don't you think? -Yeah, I agree.

I think that's our pay.

I say we move the sand,

We'll mine it.

I agree.

Well at this point, we're trying to get

Through this doodlebug cut.

We don't know what's coming up.

I don't have any extra ground,

This is a setback.

That much sand is gonna be hard

To deal with, and it's gonna slow us up.

[jason] it's time, we need those hammocks.

[dramatic music playing]

[narrator] with gold rich ground

In the doodlebug cut running low.

-[dave] hi lance. -[lance] hey, dave.

[narrator] dave calls a meeting with claim owner

Lance baller.

[dave] I need your help.

My guys are frustrated with the hammocks.

If I can speak to the community,

I can reassure them

That I'll take care of their land.

And I think that would help get the permits.

[lance] you know it's gonna be hard.

Dude, somebody just shot at us out on the road.

[narrator] dave knows firsthand the problems

Between miners and the local colorado community.

[man] everybody off the mine.

[narrator] four years ago, his old crew,

The hoffman's, were run out of town.

[man speaking]

[narrator] now to have any chance of mining the hammocks,

Dave needs lance to setup a meeting with local leaders.

If we quit mining responsibly there's gonna be

-No mining in america. -[lance] I agree.

We can see what we can do to do it.

All right. All right. Okay.

Thanks for coming out.

I like dave, worked together in the past with him.

He really knows his stuff.

He's got his work cut out though

And hopefully we can cut a deal.

[dave] this ground is complicated.

The neighbors don't like us here,

The community obviously has a problem with us,

But if I can convince them that I'm here,

And I'm gonna mine it the right way,

There's still a chance to do the hammocks.

[upbeat music playing]

[narrator] next morning.

I'm peeling off the nice six inches

Worth of clay to make sure I'm getting all the gold

That's been sitting on it.

[narrator] jason and kc are back on the pay at the doodlebug.

[kc] and now we're finally down,

We got the overburden out of the way.

Hopefully there's a lot of gold in this box

I'm hauling right now.

[narrator] and dave finally receives

The news he's been hoping for.

[dave] I confronted lance,

I have a little bit of hope,

He said he's gonna setup a virtual

Town hall meeting with everybody,

And if I could win them over,

There's still a chance to do the hammocks.

[nathan] oh, *bleep*.

Damn it.

Hey, chris get over here.

Now, now.

[chris] nate, flipped the loader.

I got to get that bypass.

[man] *bleep*

What the hell.

[chris] your back tail is on the ground.

Yeah.

[suspenseful music playing]

I'm really hoping, wishing I had the 480

But it's gonna be okay.

[chris] you think the 220 can handle this?

[nathan] I would just grab the bucket.

[man] yeah.

[jason] ... Kc.

[kc] thank you jason.

[dave] jason's got to move quick.

You know what, it's not ideal using the 220,

But he's got to get that thing on its wheels.

I got faith in him, jason is a great operator.

[jason] keep your wheel to the left.

Don't let it come right your steering wheel,

Because if you come right,

I've got all of you then.

[narrator] nate must remain in the cab

To control the loader.

-[man] mmm-hmm. -[nathan] oh, *bleep*.

[jason] put your brakes on nate.

[narrator] one wrong move could flip it

In the opposite direction.

[jason] pull him, pull him, pull him, there you go.

-[nathan] whoa. -[jason] whoa.

Great freaking job. You all right, nate?

Oh, yeah, I'm fine.

Whoa, right on shiny side up now.

[nathan] had the loader tip over on me.

I mean, it's one thing after another

So you got to stay in tune,

You got to keep watching things,

Make sure things are going good.

You never know what you gonna get

Kinda what forrest gump said,

Life's like a box of chocolates.

[upbeat music playing]

Woo-hoo, it early.

Yeah, let's get some gold mining going.

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

Doodlebug cut,

Let's earn some pay from it.

[narrator] team turin gets set for another day of mining.

[nathan] dave have stolen the rocky mount this morning

*bleep* because winter is coming.

And then, we're gonna wake up with 10-feet snow

On the ground, it's gonna suck ass.

[jason] something isn't right, are your rpm's up?

[nathan] it might just be cold.

[dramatic music playing]

[jason] there you go.

[nathan] definitely gonna get colder outside.

First time we're gonna do this here.

The sun hasn't hit the side yet.

So, it froze up a little bit.

Started flipping.

So we got to watch in the morning

Probably gonna wanna anti- freeze those belts.

I got a lot of pressure going on, you know, it's...

The gold is good, but, you know,

We wanna hit our goal.

The hammocks is still not there yet

So we don't know if we're gonna get it or not.

Well, we'd really like to.

I mean, that's where the motherload is.

[upbeat music playing]

[narrator] across the claim.

[dave] shelly.

Thanks for going and getting the belt.

[narrator] shelly returns from denver with the belt

For the old hopper.

[dave] remember that trip that I promised you to hawaii?

[shelly] oh, yeah. You did?

Oh, that's it.

[dave] that's the trip to hawaii right there.

-[nathan] what about me, dave? -Oh, does that mean

-I'm going by myself? -[dave] no.

-No. -[laughter]

[shelly] you got to stay home and work.

So nate, we got to make enough money

To pay for this belt.

Yes, you do.

All right, see you later.

[nathan] thanks for going shelly.

Yup.

-[dave] thank you, shell. -[shelly] okay.

[dave] we needed this belt. Now that we got it,

It means more dirt to the plant, more gold.

The other thing that it helps,

It's gonna protect the roach.

No more torn belts.

[kc] I'm glad it's ready to go.

And I'm glad we're getting a new belt on it.

And once that belt gets in place, uh-oh,

Now we're gonna go back up to full production speed.

I don't see how this doodlebug cut

Is gonna be able to hang on.

Good. Nate, back up a little bit,

I'm gonna start feeding it through.

[narrator] dave and nate have just one shot

To thread the new belt

Through the belly of the hopper.

[nate] go real easy.

So, this rope

Is gonna pull the belt through

Over the top all the way around,

So we'll end up with one-end here

And one end up underneath,

We'll have to put it together,

And then, use the flex code

And we'll tighten it up right here.

[narrator] if this delicate operation succeeds

The plant will finally be back up to full capacity.

You know you've got to be real careful working

With heavy machinery. You got to make sure you don't

Get yourself in the wrong position.

Just watch the hell you're doing, you know.

It's not for everybody,

Someone's got to do it.

Looking good, really good nate.

A little more pressure.

[dave] a thing I like about nathan,

He's very calm.

He's very logical, he's very methodical

In the way he approaches those breakdowns.

Now we just pull this up

And we start lacing it.

[nathan] I think me and dave work together really well.

I mean, we both think alike.

You know, he's a friend

And brother and I trust him.

[dave] looks good, nate. Turn it on

And we'll see how it tracks.

[nathan] okay. Are you ready, dave?

[dave] yes, sir. Turn it on.

[nathan] okay. Going forward.

Conveyor coming on.

[whirring]

[dave] yes, sir. Looking good.

Looks good, nate. Looking real good.

I'm good if you are.

-[nathan] yeah. -[dave] great job, guys.

[nathan] it can be our first whole day

The hopper will be running so I'm pretty excited

About it. Our production 20- 30%.

Gonna be a good day in the rocky mountains.

Hopefully no more problems.

Chris, you wanna grab your loader

To go and throw a bucket in it.

[chris] well, it's a good day.

Everything looks good.

Come off the perch.

[dave] now it's all about, you know,

Getting all the ground that we can,

Getting all the gold we can

And with this feeder, we're gonna up production

Until we get in those hammocks.

[chris] all right.

First load of the day,

Hopefully, we'll run all day long.

Everything looks good. Hopper is working fine now

Belts on it.

Glad to be back going.

We'll be back at full tilt now.

That's the important part, still getting gold.

[dave] with this team, it's really not about

How many times you get knocked down.

It's about getting back up,

Putting your boots on and going back to work.

That's what this group of guys is all about.

We keep fighting.

I love this group of guys.

And I feel like we're a better team

Because of all of the adversity

That we've gone through this year.

[upbeat music playing]

[narrator] after two months of waiting,

Lance has finally come good

On his promise to dave.

So this is a community meeting.

I hope that I can convince 'em that we're good neighbors,

Good stewards of the land and we're good miners

And we're gonna do everything the right way.

So this is a town hall

Community meeting about,

I'm not sure exactly what it's all about,

However they've invited us as miners to participate

And hopefully explain that we're here to do

The right thing, put the ground back,

Do some reclamation, get the gold out

And be good neighbors and good stewards.

We need those hammocks.

[nathan] you know, since we got to colorado,

It's been a headache, you know.

All we're trying to do is get the damn gold

And get the hell out.

This is all about community relation

And so far, our presence has not been welcomed

And now you have to prove myself.

[woman 1] thanks for your patience

Everyone calling.

Let's go ahead and get started.

[man] dave, I didn't know if you wanted to speak first

-Or I can... -[dave] sure.

-[man] ...Just jump in. -I consider myself

A professional miner.

My family has been in the rock quarrying business

For... I worked at a quarry and mining

For over close to 40 years

And with that said, I've always been

An advocate of reclamation.

I believe in community and giving back to communities

And also giving back to the land

And that was something that my dad instilled in me

A long time ago.

[nathan] dave probably have a meeting

With all the community

And trying to get things smoothed over, but...

It's colorado, it's not a mining friendly state,

So I don't know.

[dave] it's me with five other guys

And we're a tight-knit group

And it's basically trying to support our families.

It's, kind of, a cliche but it's the american dream.

[woman 1] thank you very much for taking the opportunity

To meet with us today.

We really appreciate it.

And I know that our community will appreciate it as well.

Thank you all. And at that, we will adjourn at 1:52 pm.

-Thank you. -Thank you.

[woman 1] yup.

-[man] bye-bye. -[woman 1] bye.

[woman 2] thank you.

[suspenseful music playing]

Oh, man.

Woo. I think it went well.

It's just hard. I'm sweating.

There's sweating, you know, everybody was good.

It was... It was encouraging.

I got to share my heart.

I hope they can help me get up to the hammocks

And help this permit process

Because I need some more ground.

[suspenseful music playing]

-[dave] hey, shell. -[shelly] hi.

I just called jason.

So these are the two I sieved

[dave] I'd add them to your course.

[shelly] it's kind of weird that you're,

Kind of, my boss now, aren't you?

-How do you like that? -Well, you've always been

My boss, so finally, I give one up on you, okay?

-[shelly] uh-huh. Okay. -Just while I'm here,

Make it look like I'm the boss, okay?

To everybody else...

Just act like I'm your boss.

But we know when we get home and the doors close...

-[shelly] okay. Okay. -...You wear the pants.

-Yes, boss. -[dave] all right.

[upbeat music playing]

[narrator] after tragically losing teammate jesse goins

One week ago, team turin got back to work.

We wanna get the gold for jesse's family.

We wanna get it for our family.

We'll do whatever it takes.

[narrator] but huge colorado boulders...

[jason] it sounded like king kong in the truck.

[nathan] it stopped, it stopped.

[narrator] beat the old hopper

Into submission.

Those big rocks are just beating this plant up.

[narrator] and with the pay in the doodlebug cut

-Running low... -[dave] how's the box look?

[jason] I *bleep*.

[narrator] the team reached breaking point.

-Jesse's *bleep* dead. -[dave] yeah.

That hammocks for his *bleep* family.

[narrator] now, their future at box creek

Rests on the results of dave's meeting

With the local community.

[jason] hey, man, first part of September,

We already got snow up on the peaks.

[nathan] I know *bleep* is,

We ain't heard nothing about the hammocks yet.

Nothing, freaking nothing.

I don't even wanna think about it, nate.

Because that's the best ground I've ever prospected

Starting to bring me down, bro.

[dramatic music playing]

[nathan] you know, the hammocks has been a no go

Since we've been here, you know, it's always

Another day, another day, another day.

Well, I'm, kind of, getting pretty damn tired

Of waiting for another damn day.

I want the damn hammocks now.

I mean this is colorado, 10,000 feet elevation.

*bleep* it's gonna get real real damn quick.

[suspenseful music playing]

[narrator] at the end of another tough week...

[kc] come on, let's go.

You know, the rain is gonna wash all our gold away.

[narrator] the team pulled the mats.

[chris] it's all we got.

[nathan] hopefully, we got a lot of fine gold

And *bleep* of it.

[jason] look at that *bleep*. Woo-hoo.

Dude.

[kc] but right now, it's looking good.

That doodlebug is gonna make me do the jitterbug.

[jason] look at this.

And a nuggie.

This box looks absolutely beautiful.

It's not real big chunks and that's okay.

Long as we get bunch of fines, they add up real quick.

This is actually been way better

Than we ever thought it would be.

So right now, I'm pretty happy.

Pay some bills with that, huh?

[dramatic music playing]

[suspenseful music playing]

-Hey, dave. -[dave] hi.

-How are you? -So am I the bearer

Of bad news, I might have some good news.

Come on. You got some good news finally

After all the bad news we've been having?

So we were able to do what's called a, um,

A bulk sampling...Permit.

You're telling me we can go up to the hammocks?

We have to mine and reclaim

-At the same time... -[dave] okay.

...So we're not gonna be able to leave the this open,

It's going to be different. So we dig a hole,

-We fill the hole back in. -[dave] where can we do this?

We can do it on everywhere outside the boundary.

Finally, I get to mine those hammocks.

Boy, the guys are gonna be excited.

Great news.

-Well, I'm glad you like it. -Great news.

-All right. -[dave] thank you, buddy.

Good job. Take care, dave.

[dave] thanks, lance.

Woo.

We got the hammocks.

Great news.

Now I gotta go tell my guys.

[rock music playing]

[narrator] at the gold room,

With 219 ounces

Already in the bank this season,

The team gather for the gold weigh in.

[dave] we're one man down since jesse left.

However,

You know, we've been through this

And we want to celebrate jesse's...

Part in this team.

And so the doodlebug cut's paying,

But we didn't come here to mine the doodlebug cut.

-We came for the hammocks. -You guys put

Some pressure on me at the hammocks,

I put pressure on lance, I got some good news.

Lance said in a couple days we will have the permit,

We're gonna have the hammocks.

Best damn news I heard this season.

Best news I've hear all year.

In a couple days, we'll be able to mine it.

Damn, yeah.

That's what we're talking about.

We got the freaking hammocks.

That what I come to colorado for.

I've been passionate about it since I got here,

I've been worried about it, upset about it,

Sick about it, finally,

Got some good really damn good news.

-Good job, man. Good job. -[jason] dave, thank you.

Thank you.

I'd hate to mine colorado

And not mine that hammocks.

It was something that jesse wanted to do

And we're gonna be able to do it for him

And get it done and bring some gold to his family.

[dave] I'd say we weight it up,

See what the week's total is.

[jason] that's what I'm talking about.

[narrator] team turin need just over six ounces

To beat the two hundred and twenty-five

They made all last season.

For the week's total of twenty-nine...

-[shelly] over thirty. -[dave] over thirty.

-[shelly] over thirty. -Thirty-two, thirty-three,

-Thirty-six. -[jason] thirty-six.

-[cheering] -[overlapping chatter]

We are 30 ounces over last season.

-Good job. -It's nice, nice.

[dave] it's our best season ever.

It's come at a cost.

Boy we've had some adversity.

-[jason] yes -[nathan] yes, we sure have.

You know what? You guys,

We keep putting our boots on

And keep going to work

And we keep getting gold.

[chris] jesse would be proud of that.

Our team needed that.

We've had a lot of adversities this year

And missing crew member and a friend

And a brother and,

You know, we needed a pick up, right?

-And we got it. -Down a man,

But we still are doing it

With six, a six-man team now.

Five men, one woman now.

We already blew last season out the water.

I mean we're 30 ounces over last season.

How does that not put a smile on your face?

And we haven't even touched the hammocks.

And in two days,

We're gonna be messing it up in the hammocks, man.

[dave] been a rough week, you know,

But we're bouncing back.

Thankfully, I've got a team around me,

A family that were working through it

And we did work through it.

I think we could pull four or five hundred ounces

Out of here if things go right.

I believe the gold is in the ground.

I would love to walk out of here with a pile of gold.

But my goal is bigger than that,

It's really about my crew.

That's what I'm talking about.

-Woo. -[dave] one, two, three...

[all] team turin.

[dave] it's for jesse,

It's for his family.

And we're doing it.

[dramatic music playing]

-[narrator] on the next episode. -[chris] damn.

-[laughs] -[chris] that's off the top.

[narrator] as winter hits hard...

[jason] woo.

This is what we came here for.

[dave] it's a matter of getting this much gold

As we can before winter shuts us out.

[narrator] team turin reaches the promise land.

Here comes first load at the hammocks.

Here we go.

That has got some good gold

And ain't no doubt about that.

[narrator] and the hammocks finally...

[kc] it's still going.

[narrator] ...Revealing their secrets.