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It's a big day.

Probably one of the biggest days of my mining career.

Those hummocks are what brought us here.

And by god, I'm gonna mine them.

This is the first time in my career

That we beat the old timers to it.

And now I want it.

It's our gold, and we're gonna go get it.

Got the permits.

We're legal to do it.

The neighbors aren't gonna be happy,

But I've got to do it for my crew.

I got to do it for jesse, his family.

And I'm tired of living in fear.

I got to get that gold out of those hummocks

Before winter hits.

*bleep*

Looks like the belt got cut in the hopper.

It's ripped right back here in the hopper.

It's ripped?

yes, sir.

oh, for *bleep* sake.

morning in box creek, colorado.

As the team prepares to mine

The long awaited hummocks,

A new challenge threatens

To derail their plans.

Okay. Reverse it.

uh, it's just spinning.

rocks have jammed the hopper

Feeder's conveyor belt

For the second time in a week.

put it on kind of slow.

Okay. Stop, stop, stop, stop.

See, like, the roller is stuck

Between the top and the lacing.

we brought this hopper down for a month,

Haven't increased our production,

And it's done nothing but give us problems

Since it got here.

a month ago, dave installed

A hopper feeder to speed up production

And grade the rocky mountain pay dirt

Before it hits the roach.

But the belt has already been replaced,

A costly and time consuming fix.

You can't even drop the roller down, nate.

with tons of gold rich dirt

Expected to pile up from the hummocks

Within hours, they must quickly get

The feeder back on line.

well, it looks like the lacing got caught

On the bottom of the hopper,

Which caused the belt to tear,

So we're trying to figure out how the heck

We're gonna do this.

Okay. Reverse again?

yeah, reverse it.

nothing.

It's gonna take a while to fix this again.

is it worth it?

I don't know.

you know, we should place this belt on it,

You know, it's $4,000. I don't know if we're gonna be

Able to fix it.

Yeah, it helped production,

But when we have breakdowns like that,

We'll lose that 20% real quick.

well, nathan's very good mechanic.

He understands that when something breaks,

It's on him.

I hate equipment breakdown

Because it's out of my control.

I get impatient, I'm like,

"come on. Let's go. Fix it."

And he's like, "just take your time.

Let's do it the right way."

So sometimes, nathan's a lot better

At breakdowns than I am.

I think it's more efficient now.

Let go ahead and pull it out. And let's run

With the excavator the rest of the time we're here.

I mean, seriously. I mean, this is twice now

-It shut it down. - oh, I know.

I'll get the 220. I'll get it back up there.

- okay. -And chris goes back

-To his parts. -Yeah.

*bleep* it.

we tried it.

It worked good for a little bit.

But, uh, not enough to repair it again.

And this ain't cost efficient for us to run.

It's ain't worth it. It's ain't worth it.

if you're just putting a band-aid on it

And you break that scab again,

Then you got to fix it again, and

You got to constantly... And it takes time.

And it takes away from, you know, sluicing.

we're doing good with the excavator.

Let's load the *bleep* plant and just move on.

what the crew now lack

In processing speed,

They bank on more than making up for it

By mining the richest ground

They've ever encountered.

it's been two months since dave

Was denied access to the hummocks.

This land is off limits.

That's the reason we came up here.

but last week, he made a last ditch plea

To the local county.

It's me with five other guys

And it's basically trying to support our families.

finally winning permission to access

The virgin ground that brought the team

To colorado.

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

- damn. -I know. There we go.

- all right. - dave, thank you.

whoo!

Hey, case.

Welcome to the upper hummocks, brother.

It's our new home for however long

They let us stay here.

holy crap.

I can smell the gold here.

this is where we show the old timers

Of the past what they missed out on.

now, with their gold total

Sitting at 255 ounces,

The hummocks could be the answer

To their 400 ounce prayers.

hey, dave. You made it to the promise land.

- how's it going? -So what's the plan, dave?

let's walk up this valley.

That's where you found the good pans.

I wanna start there and work our way up.

-Let's take a look. - yeah.

millions of years ago,

A giant ancient glacier

Carves up the landscape,

Leaving undulating hills

Called hummocks.

Rain and melting ice wash gold

From the mountains above box creek

Into the valley, where the hummocks

Become a natural sluice box,

Trapping gold in the lowest spots

Between the mounds.

At the start of the season,

Dave prospected a draw

Between two large hummocks

And discovered a concentrated strip

Of gold rich ground.

It's this draw

Jason and kc will target first.

you know the number one spot

I'm interested in is right there.

Yeah, buddy.

The best pan I've ever done in the lower 48 states

Is right there and it's all of this material

Coming down into this valley.

I wanna know how far up.

I think that you can see it here.

Yeah, right in here?

I think it might be this pay zone,

But we gotta just pan the hell out of this

And see what's good and what's bad.

You know, you'll find out where the pay zone is.

All right, dave. Looks good.

However, it's a two-mile round trip.

Are you gonna fix the road?

Nope. There's a $20,000 bond

To mine this.

Anything we disturb, we have to reclaim it.

The minute we walk these machines in here,

Everybody knows we're here.

We've got to get the gold,

Reclaim it, and get the hell out of here.

the plan, jason will work up the draw

From the test holes with minimal disruption

To the land and constantly pan ahead

To keep on the gold.

With the road not an option,

Kc must drive the forty-ton rock truck

Over rough terrain

On a two-mile round trip to the plant.

Without you dozing the road,

I can just imagine any bit of snow

Or water it'll turn into a nightmare.

We need to be mindful, though, that I'm gonna have

A hard time keeping up with chris on the plant.

That'll slow our production time down tremendously.

if I bring rock in, build you a nice road,

I got to pull the rock out.

Rather than *bleep* off

The neighbors because we're tearing stuff up,

Drive on the sagebrush and we don't even have

To reclaim it.

Give it your best shot and see what happens.

-Okay. - all right.

-Let's move some dirt. -Get some gold.

We're mining the hummocks.

And now, we have to perform.

Jason's gonna have to find the best gold

Up that valley and kc has to get this

To the plant.

It's over a mile one way.

So yeah, is it gonna test us?

You bet it's gonna test us.

And now it's game time.

They've got to perform.

these hills are no joke.

It's extremely dangerous.

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

And it moves around.

But before I was a gold miner,

I was in the military.

I liked the structure that I learned from military

And I applied that into team turin.

Dave's our commander.

He gives out orders and we carry them out

Until the mission's accomplished

And that's usually on my shoulders and jason's.

Let's dig up in this girl and see what she's got.

holy *bleep*.

Winter's definitely here.

Well, that snow knows when we're about to do

Some panning, doesn't it?

This is the top, case.

If it's got gold in it,

Get ready to start trucking, brother.

I'm ready.

this *bleep* right here

Is gonna send us over that 400

In a big way, you watch.

won't know until it gets to the gold room, but...

you got the right color, though.

Look at this pan.

I can remember the first time I saw

A few colors on a pan

And you see it and it just, like,

Triggers it.

It's like, it bites you.

Gold is real money, everything else is credit.

There's just something about it when you see it,

Something in our dna, I'll never understand it.

And you'll be up in the mountains

And you're thinking that, "is there gold over there?

Is there gold over there? Is there gold over there?"

I mean, I love being a gold miner.

Believe me, I wanna hit that life changing gold pan.

This one's going out to park.

We stepped up to the plate, you watch.

over the center field.

oh, I hope you're right.

Hmm.

-Bam! -Holy *bleep*

that's off the top, brother.

that's what I'm talking about

-Right there, man. - look at that.

Whoo!

that'll pay some bills.

we're not just gonna hit 400,

We're gonna blow that gold right out of the water.

Let's hit it.

I don't think the hummock is gonna take us

Over our season total, I know it is.

Today's the day, baby.

Whoo!

- coming up.

I can't see. *bleep*

a massive snowstorm engulfs box creek.

I mean, we got icicles hanging down already.

Holy crap.

nothing ever comes easy for us.

I ain't see *bleep* in here.

and the crew discovers the true value

Of the ground they've bet their season on.

We say we weigh it up.

Thirty-three, thirty-four.

oh, my god.

it's crazy, working at 10,000 feet.

Two days ago, it was seventy-four degrees,

But now it's snowing.

You never know what you're gonna get

Up here in these colorado rocky mountains.

winter fires a warning shot

As a cold snap hits box creek.

I'm nervous. We gotta get

All of that gold out of the hummock

Before winter kicks us out of here.

Ain't no fun to work in a mine in.

But we gotta do it.

But *bleep*

How much time we got?

it don't get no better than this right here.

Good gold, shallow ground,

This is a miner's dream right here.

The only way it could be better

Is if it wasn't blizzard-ing right now.

out in the hummocks,

It's all on jason and kc to identify

And deliver the pay that will make

Or break team turin's season.

It's snowing pretty damn hard.

I can't see.

Got no *bleep* windshield wiper.

Nothing ever comes easy for us.

*bleep*

this here kc is the first load

Of the hummock's dirt. Whoo!

that has got some good gold

And it ain't no doubt about that.

Yeah!

Colorado is the hardest state

I have ever mined in,

And it has nothing to do with the ground.

It has everything to do with the government agencies

And the freaking neighbors.

We fought our asses off and stressed out

Over getting those hummocks back.

We're gonna hit that 400-ounce goal

And go over it.

I really believe it.

all right, jason, first load of the hummocks.

Here I go.

two miles, brother. I'll be back.

All right. I'll be getting set up for you, baby.

the snow's really coming down.

When you have a lot of snow and ice on the road,

It's just a matter of time before you start sliding out.

If something happens to me out here,

I don't think I even have any radio contact.

at the roach,

The weather worsens.

Nate must play a waiting game

For the first load of precious pay dirt.

so we got the hummock's coming in now,

But we got a long-ass haul road to go down,

He's got about a mile trip.

So, it's gonna take a little bit to get there and back,

Kc can unload them.

Kc, you close by?

*bleep*

kc, you got copy?

clear the whole road. Clear the whole road.

-I'm coming up.

Kc.

To haul down like to the water pump,

Back up against chris to see the whole dugout.

Yeah, here we go.

Okay, you two. There's your first load

Of hummock's pay dirt.

Good deal, kc. Good deal.

Keep it safe on that road, brother.

as the mercury drops

To 10 degrees fahrenheit,

Nate must keep the roach running

With no hopper feeder to grade the rocks.

Mother nature don't give a damn about you,

Don't care about me, don't care about gold.

This weather's not gonna help at all.

I mean, we got icicles hanging down already.

Icicles building fast, holy crap.

winter's here and we're definitely

Gonna be fighting the elements from here on out.

I just hope the equipment can keep up.

chris, chris.

Hey, hey, hey!

so we got this rip right here

In the conveyor belt, I see it spinning around,

Keep running and it took the belt all the way in half.

hey there, chris.

Oh *bleep*

The rocks keep falling in this conveyor

And ripping it.

The problem is we don't have somebody

That can stand here and watch

Every rock that falls.

with no hopper to catch them first,

Large rocks fall into the roach

And catch under the tailing's conveyors.

Subzero temperatures harden the rubber,

So trapped rocks can easily tear

The stiffened belts.

where are they coming from?

if you have one that bounce out

And they'll caught under here, they got caught in the frame,

That stops the whole belt.

You got one right here, too.

oh *bleep*

that's where it's coming from right there.

oh *bleep*

-Good. Shut it off. - all right, dave.

You go ahead and kill the fresh water.

It's just like everything we do around here

Seems like it turns against us.

so how was your first two-mile round trip, bro?

it's bad.

The road are pretty icy, can't see a lot.

This truck is, uh, sliding around a lot.

It's got a lot of weight in her

But that's a lot of good gold.

Ain't no snow gonna stop us from getting our fortune.

10-4.

as kc and jason haul out the hummock's pay,

Dave and nate fight to repair the roach.

We have a cut right here.

That's a pretty good size, so we gotta patch it

And also, we have another cut here we gotta fix too.

These are the clips for it, so you have a clip

That goes on top, clip goes on the bottom.

And they just basically bite into the belt

And these little teeth, they just lock in

Kind of like alligators.

So it's kind of like, uh, stitching up a cut.

It's gonna look like frankenstein's bride

After I get done.

It's a real specialty belt.

So if we mess this up,

It's season over.

I've been around conveyors for 35 years

And they are the weak point of any gold catching system

Because they're made out of rubber

And it's catastrophic at times.

That one's done.

do you wanna turn it?

yeah.

Two rips in one hole, so we gotta fix it,

Losing time.

- that's it, you guys. - all right, man.

- all right. -Let's fire this thing up.

let's get some gold from the hummocks.

woo wee.

It's about time.

do you want me to rev it up,

-Switch on the conveyor? - yeah.

the belts frozen to the conveyor.

The rubber is stuck.

Hand me that shovel.

let's do it, nathan.

let's try this again.

whoo! Yeah, baby.

All right.

It fired up no problem at all.

It went through the shaker.

it went through the shaker?

-It went through the shaker.

Anybody got a copy? Testing, testing.

-Yeah. Yeah, yeah. - you can hear me?

plant running, the roach can finally feast

On hollowed hummock's pay.

Rocks are in the box.

boys, we are sluicing in the winter.

Whoo! To hell with the snow, let's get to gold.

Everything's running right now,

It looks good.

Belts are all going, time to run some dirt

From the hummock.

coming up.

kc, I know you struggle on that road,

But I'm running out of pavement.

as the thaw brings chaos.

Oh *bleep*

the hummocks reveal...

holy *bleep*

...The enemy within.

there's a lot of black sand.

what the *bleep* is going on?

high in the colorado rockies,

A new day dawns at box creek.

you gotta pull up, chris.

Put your bucket down, just track forward.

-Yeah, yeah, yeah. - now, pull.

today's the day.

Great ground, great gold, what could go wrong?

there you go. You're good.

You got it. Just standby.

There's a little bit of snow, but when you know

You're chasing gold like that, snow don't matter.

you ready, dave? Okay.

Turn it on real slow.

Water's always above 32 degrees,

So we'll try to unthaw things with the water.

Uh, we're not gonna stop because it's cold.

All right, guys.

Fire up.

firing up!

let's get the gold from the hummock.

she's alive.

as the snow melts, the roach gorges on pay dirt

And team turin pushes to extract

Maximum hummock's gold.

we're finally loading the hummocks,

We're a hundred and fifty ounces away

From getting our goal and the hummock's

Going push us right over.

There ain't nothing gonna stop us now.

that's a rough *bleep* road, brother.

that's a big 10-4.

But she's doing it, she's definitely doing it.

I could feel the way this truck

Is struggling hauling it.

Little tire spinning, that ain't nothing.

Keep driving on.

to stay on the gold,

Jason pans ahead,

Checking for changes in the ground.

almost feel like I could reach in

And pick out gold.

Holy crap.

I'll bet money this is holding gold.

The biggest responsibility I have to deal with

Is making the right decisions to keep us in the gold.

I have to make this work.

This is how I provide for my family.

This is how I'm gonna end up putting my kids

Through college.

My actual gravel layer is down here.

And this would be where you normally

You wanna chase your zone, you wanna stay

In the gravel zone and in the rocks.

But here, mineralized zone,

That means gold and that's what we're after.

That looks pretty good.

Now let's go freeze our hands off.

whoo!

That's ice cold literally.

a lot of them are real fine,

But there's 50, 60 colors in this pan.

Holy *bleep*

See that is a lot of black sand.

And if there's that much black sand

In the bottom of my pan, that actually creates

A problem over at the sluice box.

If you put too much black sand in the sluice box,

You basically plug up your recovery system.

This is gonna be an issue for a wash plant,

There's no doubt in that.

But you know what, I need to get this loaded

Into that truck and get it to the plant.

despite the conditions

And loaded with heavy black sand,

In eight hours, kc makes thirty-two round trips

To the plant,

Running over a thousand tons of hummock's pay.

defeat is not an option for this team.

running the hummocks, hope it does well.

We just don't know until we see what's in the box.

It makes me nervous.

Always makes me nervous because you never know

What's gonna happen.

as a full 12 hours of running comes to an end,

Another snowstorm rolls in.

And the crew gathers for the first hummock's mat pull.

well, there's a lot at stake.

That sluice box is the telltale sign.

There's no second guessing.

What's in the sluice is in the sluice.

what do you think?

a lot of black sand, that's for sure.

I need to see *bleep* in here.

What the *bleep* is going on?

see that?

These are packed.

heavy black sand clogs the ripples,

Allowing gold to travel down

And out of the sluice.

we do not wanna see that right here

On our last ripple.

That means we're not catching it up on top.

Gold should not be there at all.

This is our first gold of the hummocks.

This is where we figure out what we gotta do, right?

well, maybe it's too much black sand

And it's...

you know, with this amount of black sand, man,

I'd be disappointed if there's no gold in there.

this is an important cleanup.

I'm nervous, kind of a little bit scared

Because the hummocks is really what's gonna save our season.

Let's let the gold room tell us.

that's what I say, let the gold room tell us.

- get those mats out. - okay.

obviously...

You know, we're expected to look in,

See one hell of a nice golden box

But unfortunately there was a lot of black sand

And that can hide the gold.

But every chunk of plastic is a little different.

You gotta run it before you can figure out

How to get the best recovery out of it.

morning at box creek

And with the temperature climbing.

what degree are we at right now?

we're about 30.

team turin's hopes of extracting

Life-changing hummock's gold

Rests on some simple engineering.

we're trying to capture every bit of gold that we can.

Now that we're on the hummocks,

There's so much black sand that it's packing our ripples.

So if we steepen it up, the water is moving faster,

Causes more turbulence, washes that black sand out.

dave's plan, alter the angle

Of the sluice to speed up the water,

Flushing the majority of black sand

Off the end of the box

Making more room for gold to settle.

one, two, three.

- yeah. - I like it.

okay, do I fire it up?

yeah. Let's fire it up.

let's hummocks.

well, let's see what it looks like

At the end of the day. If that don't work,

Then go plan c and I don't know

What that is quite yet.

jason told me

Some unreal numbers in the hummock.

So, I'm expecting some really good cleanups.

Dave and jason prospect the hell out of it.

They said some damn good gold there.

So, I'm ready to see those big numbers.

with a mile long haul to the plant,

The roach is chewing through pay faster

Than it can be delivered.

hey, nate. I'm running out of pay, buddy.

I'm over here doing the hem packing.

I got couple more scoops and that's about it.

We got to let kc know, he's gonna have

-To hump it over here. -Sorry. I mean, you're...

Are you for that truck just about?

It's going down faster than it's coming.

-That's the problem. -10-4.

We'll get something figured out here.

hey, kc. My baby's hungry, man.

So you gotta hurry up and get that thing to us.

about time, buddy. I know you got a long haul,

But you're gonna have to do it a little bit quicker.

outside, everything is going great.

Plant's running, we're sluicing.

The thing is I got to have pay dirt.

I ain't got no pay dirt.

I'm dealing with a ton of pressure on me

To get this hummocks pay down to that plant.

As the snow starts to mount,

The road gets muddier and muddier.

It's super slippery.

It starts sliding everywhere.

I'm engaged with a six-by-six,

Just doing everything it can, but I got 50 tons

Worth of pay in the bed of this truck.

When you start sliding, like I'm doing right

*bleep* and start sliding

And flip the truck over.

Oh *bleep*

Oh *bleep*

hey, dave turin. You got a copy, dave?

what's up, kc?

dave, I'm having a hell of a time staying up

With chris and the plant.

Is there something we can do to fix that road?

I'll come over and take a look at it

And see what we can do.

This trip has been taking me up fifteen,

Maybe twenty minutes,

When normally it would take me about three minutes.

we're out of pay, that means no gold.

That's not an option.

So dave's gotta get the road fixed.

Kc can haul ass, give us some pay,

So we can make some damn money.

with kc struggling to keep

The plant in pay, dave inspects the road.

kc is barely keeping up with the plant right now

And he's... He said it's getting worst.

I told him to drive on the sagebrush

So we don't have to build a road,

And then do reclamation, and I got a real dilemma.

The main thing is keep the plant going.

Yeah, this road is bad.

Oh, this is really bad right here.

You know, if I come in here and rock this road,

I'm gonna have to take all this rock out

Because when I'm done, I have to reclaim everything

That I touch.

I'm fixing the very worse spots.

Hopefully this will work for kc.

the next morning, with temperatures on the rise

And the roach hungry for pay,

Dave gambles on repairing the road.

go on and raise it up.

Okay, leave your bed right there and go.

Up just a little bit.

Now, off a little more. Right there.

Now, go.

There you go. Just leave it right there.

Keep going. Keep going. Now, up.

Up, up.

Go.

Good job.

Thanks, dave.

go get some hummocks dirt.

It's like yes. New haul road.

Yes. Kicking ass.

Now we're flying.

attaboy, kc. Keep it coming.

with the road holding firm

And the weather on their side,

The roach devours nonstop hummocks' pay.

load of pay dirt from the hummock.

Actually, I'm shocked.

It's like a happy shock

That nobody's yelling and screaming at us.

I thought we'd have a lot of, uh, opposition

To mining the hummocks, but so far,

We haven't heard anything from the community.

so already with the road improvement,

Saved a couple of minutes off my trip,

I'm happy as can be.

Now, I can increase my, uh, haul speed

And get some gold to the plant.

Everyone's happy.

Oh *bleep*

hi there.

Is there something I can help you with?

We got a problem down here.

so you guys doing good? Doing...

we're doing good, yeah.

doing good.

Did you get the card and flowers over there?

- yes, thank you. - you bet.

- thank you very much. - god, I understand.

I feel sorry for you guys. It's crazy. Crazy...

it kicked our ass, man.

He was such a gentle soul and he loved people.

Everybody that ever met jesse was like,

-"wow. He's a great guy." - yup. Real good guy.

well, that was a surprise.

That guy wanted to know if everybody was okay.

He heard about jesse.

Finally, there's a neighbor that,

You know, was concerned about us

And had, uh, some good things to say.

So that was kind of nice.

if there was ever moment that our team

Would've ever given up,

It would've been the moment jesse passed.

but we didn't.

We knew he'd want us to carry on.

Helps his family and ours.

we're a man down and not only just a man,

But a friend, you know.

You just don't get over stuff like that.

I think jesse would've loved to be here

While we mine the hummocks because he wanted to see

The gold come out of the hummocks.

So, if nothing else, hopefully we get it

For jesse and his family.

we talked about it many nights

On how it was gonna change his life

And the hummocks was gonna do that for him.

He didn't get the chance to see the hummocks

Go across the table.

So, uh, we're doing it for you,

Hope we make a difference in your family's life,

Like you've made a difference in mine.

Love you, man.

coming up.

this has been an amazing team effort.

It was rough.

emotions run high.

This one's for you, buddy. Wish you were here.

first cleanup of the hummocks,

It's bittersweet.

as the hummocks finally reveal their secrets.

look it, look it, look it, look it, look it.

This is nathan's guide the southern fried food.

damn good sandwich.

You know it's high quality bread right there.

You got chicken fried steak, chicken fried chicken.

Some people like steaks. Some people like chicken.

Oh, we got chicken on the grill.

what are you gonna serve with it?

chicken. That's it.

Well, you got chicken fried chicken

That's chicken deep fried,

And you got chicken fried steak

That's actually piece of steak

That's battered and deep fried.

You don't mix them together.

You don't have chicken and steak.

That'd be kind of weird.

Why do you guys all standing around here?

They're doing some social media thing,

I'm trying to eat my sandwich.

Wow.

You better hurry up. It's 'bout done, boys.

Now check the temperature of chicken.

And I got a hundred and sixty.

I want chicken fried chicken.

You know, it'll be all, like, steak,

Kind of deep fried chicken, gravy on it,

Mashed potatoes, and corn.

Afterwards, you have a little bit

Of apple pie moonshine as dessert,

Beverage all in one.

We think smarter out in the south.

one week ago, team turin finally broke

Virgin ground on the promise land.

this here kc is the first load

Of the hummocks dirt.

but mother nature mounted an attack.

I can't see.

and black sand terrorized the sluice.

see that is a lot of black sand.

I ain't see *bleep* in here.

what the *bleep* is going on?

so dave tried every trick in the book.

steepening the angle increases the velocity

And it'll wash out more of the ripples.

to keep the dream alive.

keep going. Keep going, now, up.

Go.

Yes.

now, as the day draws to a close,

The team race to complete the first week

Running hummocks pay.

it's definitely way more of a treasure hunt.

I got to be on my game, man.

I'm not just moving a bunch of all the burden,

Praying there's a pay zone down below.

I gotta actually find and taste

That pay zone here in the hummocks.

by hauling all that pay, the pans looks pretty good

But, uh, every pan that I saw out of the hummocks

Had a tremendous amount of black sand.

I'm not gonna lie, I'm a little concerned.

since we've been here in colorado,

We always wondered what hummocks is gonna be.

We didn't know, you know, how good or how bad

It was gonna be, but that's what all brought us here.

Is it really that good? Who the hell knows?

with so much riding on the gold

From the hummocks,

Dave checks on his sluice box fix.

so when we started sluicing the hummocks,

We had a lot of black sand.

We made an adjustment, we steepened the slope,

It increases the velocity,

Gives us more turbulence in these ripples.

If you look behind each one of these ripples,

There's room for that gold to settle in.

So the adjustment that we made worked.

- oh. - there we go,

-Right there. - bam, baby.

yup, that's it.

Cornflake gold from the hummocks.

- hey, we caught that. - whoo!

in the gold room,

Shelly wrestles with the poison in the pay dirt.

usually, we count on the gold to be in heavier

And it's easier to separate the product from the gold.

But the black sand wants to travel with the gold

And get up in this line.

And this line should be nothing but gold

If we got everything adjusted right.

there's just so much that it pretty much doubles

The product, it doubles the time,

Uh, just very frustrating.

It... It's a mess.

nine weeks ago,

Dave staked team turin's season on the hummocks.

It's time to find out if his gamble has paid off.

first gold on the way, let's do it.

I wanna see what the hummocks got.

- hey. - hey!

- hey, guys. - hey.

this has been, uh, an amazing team effort.

It was rough, but we pulled through.

And you know what, we're still a man down.

Jesse goins.

He will forever be with team turin.

that's right.

yeah, I was gonna say chris made up hummocks bags,

One of those bags was being buried with jesse.

yeah.

Jesse and I, every night we talked about the hummocks

Just about whenever we were leaving together.

Jesse's celebration of life set the bags up

To go with his ashes.

-I didn't know that. - yeah.

oh, my gosh.

Love you, jess.

miss you, brother.

What do you say we weigh it up?

-Let's weigh it up, man. - yes.

-All right. -Let's weigh it up.

-Check that out. -Hey.

- oh, man! - man!

how'd you get those black sands out of there?

whoo! A lot of work.

Today we're gonna start weighing in one of these.

-Oh. - now we're talking.

come on, mama shelly.

we need 10 for the bond.

Come on, we need 10... There's 10.

There's our bond.

hey, there's our bond.

hey. There's our bond.

There's 30,

33, 34, 35.

There's 40. Chris, what's our biggest cleanup?

50.1 ounces.

-Come on, let's get over 50. - that's pretty.

- I think so. - come on, now.

That is so pretty.

look it, look it, look it, look it, look it.

- oh, yeah. -Forty-eight.

-Fifty, fifty... -Oh! Hey!

Over our best cleanup.

-We got more. -Whoo!

she's still going.

it's 53, 54.

-Come on, 60. - come on, 60.

- come on. - fifty-five.

-Come on. - are you kidding me?

it's getting at 60, 57, 58...

-So close. So close. - ...59...

we're over 60,

-61, 62... - two.

- wow. -Oh, my god.

-Yeah! -Yeah!

-Sixty-four tons. - 0.4.

- nice job. - oh, man!

Well, that's like about a hundred

And twenty thousand dollars sitting right there.

- holy crap. - good job.

You know what, we rolled the dice.

$20,000 was on the line.

We got over a twenty thousand dollars there.

- there we go! - whoo!

Are you glad we rolled the dice?

Good stake on that one.

shelly, what's the total now?

-Three nineteen. - yeah.

- oh, man! - oh, man.

You know what, $600,000, we're gonna break dance here.

We just beat what we did in the first two seasons.

The first two years was 305,

-319, boys. - whoo!

you guys are killing it.

- you know what, 81... - mmm-hmm.

eighty-one ounce is all we need

To get to our 400-ounce goal.

If we keep going like this, we're going way over 400.

Yeah. This is why we came here.

this is just the beginning.

- mmm-hmm. - I mean, we got a lot

Of ground left in the hummocks and if it keeps

Paying like this, boy, we're on our way, boys.

well, I think jesse would be pretty happy.

This one's for you, buddy. Wish you were here.

- amen. - whoo! Whoo!

-Good job, boys. -Yay.

-All in. -All in.

one, two, three.

-All in. - all in!

whoo!

I still think we're gonna get 600 ounces this season.

We get to 600, will make up the last 200 from last season.

Lotta bing, lotta bang, baby.

You know, we had a little bit of an issue with black sand,

But nate stepped right up, right in, him and dave,

They dialed that son of a gun in.

And I mean, look it, 64.4 ounces.

You know they dialed that sluice

To be able to get a cleanup like that.

it's bittersweet.

Um, first cleanup of the hummocks,

Jesse had 64 ounces.

For you, buddy.

Miss you.

64.4, our biggest cleanup ever.

The hummocks is paying off.

And what so fun is, it's nice to have a partner.

- yeah. Yeah. -You know,

She's been through a lot with me.

- mmm-hmm. -She's, uh,

Always been there for me and to be able

To get our largest cleanup ever together...

-Yeah. -...Is nice.

-It's a good feeling. -Hey, nice job.

-Hey. Mmm-hmm. -All right.

Let's get out of here.

- whoo!

-That's what

on the next episode...

we're not gonna let those locals

Stop us from mining.

hey, who's that?

team turin is under the microscope.

who's the main man in charge up here?

and a tidal wave of black sand.

stop feeding, stop feeding, stop feeding, chris.

Shut her down.

threatens to engulf their season.

-This isn't enough. -What?

we're never gonna hit our 400-ounce goal.

It's all on the line over there on the hummocks.