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shut her down, nathan!

Whoo!

Okay, kc, show me the gold, buddy.

got some color on top,

But you don't know until it gets in the gold room.

it's at the end of the season

Because we're out of ground.

So there's a lot riding on this.

If we don't hit 400 ounces, it's gonna feel like we didn't succeed.

Kc morgan, you got a copy?

yeah, dave, go ahead.

Meet me in my office right now.

I don't know what dave wants.

Could be getting fired, could be getting promoted.

I got something I wanna talk to you about.

I'm not done. I wanna keep going.

We're out of ground. So, what are we gonna do?

Oh, my god. You're crazy.

late fall in box creek, colorado.

Right back into swinging and singing on the overburden.

with no new ground to mine,

Team turin reopens the doodlebug cut.

So we're out of the hummocks and it was kinda bittersweet.

We had the best cleanup we've ever had.

But now we're out of there. Too much black sand,

Too much hassles from the community.

So this is really our last chance

At hitting our target of 400 ounces.

last week...

Oh, *bleep*!

...The dream of hummocks gold was washed away...

Stop feeding, stop feeding! We gotta shut down!

...When heavy sand clogged up their operation...

well, here's our *bleep* problem.

*bleep* black sand.

3.25, that's terrible.

...Forcing dave into a 180.

Is everybody in agreement? Hummocks are dead?

hummocks are dead. We're all in on moving forward.

all in!

We have no pay right now exposed on the doodlebug,

So we're trying to haul ass. Clock's ticking.

now, to hit their 400-ounce goal,

The team must mine over 62 ounces in a week.

The bar has never been so high.

we got a lot of sand,

So we've got the rock truck hauling the sand out,

And then I'm pushing off overburden on the main part of the cut.

I'm very tired of all this overburden.

It's something that never seems to end,

From one cut to the next.

over three months,

Dave has prospected every area

Of permitted land on box creek,

Mining out gold missed by the old-timers

From the bank and vault cuts

Before discovering the doodlebug.

Now, with the hummocks a bust, they return,

And jason attempts to locate an ancient channel

Of gold 60 feet down,

Their last chance of finding the mother lode

They've been searching for.

*bleep*.

ah! The zone keeps dipping down deeper and deeper.

I honestly don't know why there is so much sand right here.

We're trying to strip this overburden to get down to the pay.

So the stress level is pretty high right now.

It's been a tough season.

We lost a friend and dave lost his dad.

It's been... It's been a *bleep* mess.

But we're still mining, we're still trying to put gold in our pockets

And jesse's family's pockets.

Hey, dave turin, you got a copy?

I have not hit pay yet.

do you want me to keep going?

if I don't think through things

And make the right decision, I affect the whole team.

And I let dave down, too.

That's a lot of pressure to put on somebody's shoulders.

So, just bounce over there, show me that edge.

So, here's the sand, dave. Watch.

It's as deep as I could go, dave.

There's nothing down there.

Pull this straight and just show me where the edge is!

Yes, sir!

we have to be better detectives

To actually go find that gold.

So a lot of these old-timers have already done a lot of work for me.

If they were here, there was gold.

So a lot of the prospecting is already done.

Now, for me, I have to figure out where they quit.

- yee-haw!

Boom! There it is, baby!

there it is.

There is absolutely no question

When you hit it, is there?

It's like christmas morning the first time

These teeth clicked the rocks down on that pay.

When you hit it, when I drag my teeth across it,

It rattles this whole machine

And it just shakes me to my bones.

There you go, kc. First pay headed to the plant.

*bleep*. He hit 60 ton on that one. Whoo!

right on, right on.

Well, at this point, I don't have any extra ground.

Hopefully, there's enough gold there

To put us over our 400-ounce goal.

hey, chris, here I come!

Doodlebug! Here it is, brother.

Right on, kc.

Start the plant up. Rev it up!

It revved up!

We're gonna turn the plant up,

So we're gonna turn it up to the sluice box and see where we're at.

now as chris loads the rocky doodlebug pay pile into the plant...

making a last push on colorado.

It's been a hard long season for us all.

...Nate cranks the roach up to 110 yards per hour,

Over twice the speed they were running in the hummocks.

it feels good through here.

I'm gonna turn it up some more and see how it does with that,

Make sure chris is okay with it.

As long as he keeps up and the box keeps up,

Gold in the box!

hey, nate, something ain't looking right with this belt.

what the hell? Okay, I'll come over and check it out, chris.

*bleep*.

yeah, chris, we're gonna have to shut it down, man.

Belt got folded over somehow.

It's just doubled over.

-Oh, it's doubled over? -Yeah, look up there, dude.

This is where it's starting to rip.

Right here. Pulling threads out.

hang on, nate. There's a big old rock.

so, it must have rolled back and fell in there, then, huh?

yep.

I'm getting somewhere, dave.

I ain't quitting now, buddy.

Got it!

- got it, chris? -There it is, dave.

So we got the rock, and that belt should fold back up

-And go back into place.

There it is.

that sounds good.

if we'd have left that rock in there much longer,

We'd have had a torn belt.

Hey, nate, turn on the fresh water.

You know, we're getting too close

To the end of the season to have major problems like that.

Normally, this being down for an hour

Might cost an ounce of gold.

We're too damn close to our goal to miss one ounce.

If we come up at 399, I'm gonna be one pissed off *bleep*.

morning at box creek.

Jason is now 80-feet deep in the doodlebug cut...

It almost looks like it's turning.

...Chasing the gold channel

Along the boundary of the claim.

holy, *bleep*!

Hey, dave, could you come down to the cut?

I wanna run something by you.

all right, be right there. On my way.

Right now we've hit a spot where the pay

Which was eight, ten feet thick

Is now about four-foot thick.

And this is, like, the bend of a river channel,

Which would explain all the sand.

I think we're starting to lose this channel.

what's going on, jason?

I got two problems, dave.

One, the channel is actually turning

Underneath this county road.

And the second one,

The county road's turning the opposite way.

So no matter what, we can't progress.

so you're thinking this is the outside

And then that channel's turning?

I think it's turning.

'cause the road's right there, right?

We can't dig up a county road.

Oh, *bleep*, jason.

jason believes the gold-rich channel

Makes a sharp turn

And heads out under the county road

Outside their mining permit.

You gotta go down into that clay bedrock,

Get every speck of gold that's out of here.

That ain't gonna get us 62 ounces.

Well, that's it. The doodlebug cut's done.

You know what? We rolled the dice, it didn't pay off.

But we've gotta move on, and I'm not looking back.

coming up...

Hello, hello. Let me see what you've got in you.

as team turin fight to hit their goal...

damn it! *bleep*! It's done.

...Dave digs into the past...

Do you know if they ever mined this out here?

I don't think so.

I'm looking at this map. This might be something they missed.

...To secure their future.

I hope it's enough.

we need 62!

Come on!

-Come on! Come on! -Big money, baby!

at box creek, team turin are out of options.

here we are

Back-scratching the last end of the doodlebug,

And we're scratching our way to the goal.

all cuts are mined out,

And the last gold channel

Has turned under the county road.

All right, buddy, bring her on back.

jason squeezes one last truckload

From the doodlebug

In a desperate bid to find the 62 ounces they need

To reach their 400-ounce goal.

I have scraped together every little kernel

In this cut just to get you this load.

This is the last of the doodlebug, kc morgan.

Hell, yeah. It's been a long bit of hauling.

Last load of the doodlebug! Here it is, brother.

Bring it to me and I'll put it in the box.

hell, yeah.

This is it. We're gonna get every bit

Of pay off of that deck that we have there.

I'm not leaving anything behind.

We've been through a lot here in colorado,

And if we can walk away with 400 ounces,

It'll make us feel better.

but for loader operator chris...

...It's a hollow victory.

As I sit here and load the last bit of pay,

Huh, I'm honestly not thinking about our goal.

I tend to think about...

...The loss of a friend.

So my job right now is just to get through this

And pray to god that we've got enough

So we can go home to our families.

the doodlebug cut might be finished,

But nate and chris still have 500 tons of pay

To run through the roach.

damn it!

what's that?

Chris, what happened?

conveyor belt.

*bleep*, it's done.

dave, we cut the belt in half.

*bleep*.

Look at the size of this *bleep* in here.

Look at the size of this *bleep*.

Look at the rubber on it.

took the rubber right off.

the main feed belt on the roach

Is ripped beyond repair.

so close to our freaking goal.

so close.

Disheartening. Damn.

she's all yours, chris. Keep swinging on around.

there it is.

yeah, it sucks.

You know, I mean, we gotta measure it out,

Try to see how long it takes to get a belt.

We got a problem.

This is a metric belt.

We are 31-and-a-quarter inches wide.

That's what happens when you buy a plant from northern ireland.

Everything's in metric.

It's a metric belt.

So, in america, this should be a 30-inch

Or you can go 36 or 42,

But not 31-and-a-quarter inches.

You know, it's one thing when you rip it early on.

You just fix it and you move on,

But I don't know if I can get a metric belt.

The worst thing that can happen, though,

Is we leave without hitting our goal.

out of ground

And with the roach out of action,

Team turin's only option...

...Is to pull the mats.

it's got some color on top,

But you don't know until it gets in the gold room.

All right, here we go!

Three more totes going to shelly there.

Last of the doodlebug.

we are so close.

338 ounces. We need 62 ounces.

If we don't hit 400 ounces, it's gonna feel like we didn't succeed.

So there's a lot riding on this.

twenty-four hours later...

this is the last gold-weigh,

And it's one of the hardest seasons I've ever had,

And it's not just the mining.

as shelly cleans the final gold,

The team raise a glass to their fallen comrade.

this jar right here of moonshine is one of the last jars jesse made.

We're gonna toast to jesse today, gentlemen.

We got a little bit of shine to remember him by.

So, we're gonna make some golden shine.

yes, sir.

thank god, the carrot's in front of me.

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

I need to go home to my family.

So...

Hey, guys. Come on in. We're ready.

-Whoo! -I have done everything I can

To get every speck of gold, and this is what we got.

I hope it's enough.

this is it, you guys.

Shelly.

- come on. -There's ten.

ten.

we need 62!

-Come on, big money. - 22!

-Come on. -30!

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

44.45.

so, what's that put us at?

383.

We're 17 ounces short, you guys.

Short.

so, now what, dave?

Chris, what's left on deck?

it don't make a *bleep* what's on deck. We have no belt.

Yeah, we ain't have no belt.

maybe we should call it a day.

All we need is 17 ounces. It's not much.

I'm not giving up.

Maybe ask for some help,

Whether it's locals, look at the history.

We've come a long ways this year,

I don't wanna give up yet.

No. I'm not leaving until we hit 400.

-You gotta find a belt. -No problem.

I love your drive, dave.

You go out and find it, I'm all about it.

I wanna hit our goal for once.

-There you go. For jesse. -Let's do it for jesse.

Now get the rest.

-Let's get it! -All in!

all in!

I'm just kinda looking at some options.

We've mined everything that we can find here.

Hopefully, I can do some research

And find out what the old-timers

Didn't mine is what I'm looking for.

as dave hatches a plan to extend the season,

One team member is looking to the end.

There ain't no amount of gold that makes

This season a success for me in my heart

'cause I lost my friend.

If we get 3,000 ounces, 7,000 ounces

Or 600 ounces...

...I will never be able to look back and...

...Smile at this season.

I've retracted, I've detached because of missing home,

Missing jesse.

The team's good, it's fun to joke around.

You know, I can play around a little bit,

But I've got to get through this...

...And get home to my family...

...Because that's what matters the most in my life.

Plain and simple.

coming up...

whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

the team rallies...

Jason, that could be $90 a ton.

I'll be damned.

...For a final shot

Here we go.

...At their rocky mountain golden goal.

-Little bit more, little more.

-Holy crap. - whoo!

in colorado...

just another day.

Another gold mining day.

without pay.

with production at a standstill...

Hey, ken, I'm looking for a belt for a conveyor.

It's 31x25 wide, 49 feet long

nate is on the hunt for the right belt

To fit the roach.

Yeah, 31.25. It's a metric belt.

We gotta figure out how to get a belt and get it done right.

It's a little narrower than american standards,

But trying to find somebody that does that quickly.

You know, this is a kick in the nuts.

while nate continues his search for a belt...

...Dave's on a hail mary mission

To find more ground.

So, the museum has arranged me to meet a local resident

Who has a real connection

To the derry dredge and box creek,

And that's where we're mining.

the nearby town of leadville

Is home to the national mining museum...

-Hi, bob. -Hi, dave.

-Nice to meet you. -Nice to meet you.

...Where 89-year-old local, bob roeder,

Has agreed to meet with dave.

So what's your connection to box creek?

My father was born out there.

According to his books, he was dredge master

From about '24 till they shut down in '27.

-Okay. -That's all in those books.

-These? -Yes.

You have the dredge master logs from your dad?

-Yeah, that's in there. -Is that in here?

Yeah.

So, is this your dad's writing?

yeah.

"on the 13th, broke the upper tumbler shaft.

Been working one week and just as bad off

As when it broke."

So that's it. July 21st, 1926.

He gave up because probably too expensive to fix that shaft.

That's the way I understand it, yeah.

-But they were still getting gold? -Yeah.

-This is out of box creek here? -Yeah.

- what's that? -They were drilling to test the soil,

Take samples, see where to move to dredge.

He'll have drill logs for that?

Yeah, he kept track, seems like.

in the early 20th century,

Bob's father, joseph martin roeder,

Was the master of the derry dredge,

One of north america's most profitable mining operations,

Pulling in $75 million of gold at today's value

Before work ceased at box creek.

Key to its success were drill crews

Who worked ahead of the dredge,

Testing the ground for the richest spots.

your dad was meticulous.

now dave has dusted down

The 100-year-old drill logs.

Ooh, that's nice. 425 colors.

He hit some pretty good stuff.

Do you know if they ever mined this out here?

I don't think so.

the logs show a gold-rich drill hole

Unmined before the dredge broke down.

it's good news for me.

It shows that there's probably gold still there,

Waiting for me to dig it up.

You wanna go mining with me?

if I was younger, I would.

I'm glad somebody's interested in ancient history.

-I wish him good luck.

Nowadays, you have to put a little work

Into it to get down to where it's at.

well, that was cool.

If I can make the connection between those old drill holes

And where we're mining,

It could be... I mean, that could be huge for us.

It could help me find more ground,

And that's exactly why I came here.

back at box creek...

Hey, chad, you don't by chance have any metric belts, do you?

Yeah.

Being a metric belt, it's not the best.

So, I don't know if somebody can rip one

Or if they got capabilities of ripping one.

Hey, I'm trying to find a belt here.

It's 31.25 inches wide.

Do y'all have anything close to that?

Really?

yeah, it's not a problem.

It's right here on the shelf.

Done. Okay.

-All right. Good luck to you, sir. -Thank you, sir.

You know, it's big relief to be able to find a belt,

You know, and, hopefully, dave can find something

To gets us past the 400.

with a new belt sourced...

I'm looking at this map. It's got some old drill holes on it.

This might be something they missed.

what up, dave?

...Dave uses the old drill logs

To try and locate virgin ground.

so this right here is where the dredge went through,

But it looks to me like they missed a spot

That looks like it's right over there.

I'll be damned.

We're standing right here.

See that drill hole to the right of it?

What does that say?

0.56 grams to the ton.

That's top to bottom.

That's including the overburden.

How did they miss that?

Jason, that could be $90 a ton.

That could be our saving grace.

using bob's father's records

To narrow down his search,

Dave's identified a small patch of open ground

At the very edge of the old dredge tailings.

If he's right, team turin could be sitting

On top of the mother lode,

Enough to knock their 400-ounce season goal

Out of the park.

I think we ought to get an excavator over there,

Pull a sample, prospect it, and then if it's good,

It's our next cut.

-Right on, man. -All right.

nothing's for certain in this game. It's still luck.

It's just one drill hole, but it's worth checking out.

Right now, I'm walking the 480 in

To a spot I think has some gold.

If that gold was there, this could change the end of our season.

Here we go. Let's find some gold.

I've got one piece of gold

And one tiny little piece of gold.

I think I've missed my zone.

Two pieces of gold isn't worth mining.

I'm gonna dig another hole.

All right, here it is.

I'm starting to get into the pay gravels,

So let's hope it has some gold in it.

I think this is right on the drill hole.

Man, it's definitely pay. You can feel it.

If I hit 15 or 20 colors, I'd mine it.

Holy cow, there's over 40 colors,

Maybe close to 50 colors in there.

Now that's a good pan. Damn!

You know what? It's nice that the old-timers missed this.

They left us one little piece,

And I think that's gonna make the season.

Back on the gold.

Nice. Whoo!

Let's go mining!

dawn at box creek.

Time to move some dirt!

team turin has one last shot

To keep their season alive.

We're gonna call it the pioneer cut

For all the people that came here before us.

The old-timers finally left us something.

they need just 17 ounces to reach their goal,

But if the pay runs dry, box creek is done.

so this pioneer cut's gonna be a small cut,

And what I'm doing now is I'm just starting to open it up.

I've got about 25-foot of overburden to move.

All I'm looking for is scraps and little pieces

That the old-timers left behind.

with the new cut now opened up...

hello, hello, mr. Pioneer cut.

Let me see what you've got in you.

...Jason and kc stockpile pay.

I think we're gonna get it, man.

I can smell our goal right here.

That's what I'm talking about.

We need to hit our goal, finally.

pioneer cut, it's got a lot of sentimental value to it

Because I met bob roeder,

And he's the guy that steered me right here.

His dad put these tailings right here.

And right there was the drill hole,

And they missed it.

Let's hope it's got our 17 ounces in it.

as the pioneer pay pile builds up...

There it is, the belt.

...Nate's new belt finally arrives on site.

All right, I guess we'll the belt off of here

And get it to the roach, get it put on.

We got jason down from the pioneer cut.

I need all hands on deck right now.

Okay, chris, I want you right here,

Lined up.

And then, jason, you bring your 480 over here

On the perch, and we'll pull this belt on.

Bring it on in, guys!

All right, chris, swing over this way some, bud.

first step, line the belt up

With the roach's rollers.

-Okay, now hook jason up. -Yep.

And we'll start pulling.

Jason's gonna pull on the rope now,

And it'll pull the belt all the way around.

then, using the rope as a guide,

Jason carefully pulls the new belt through...

-Am I okay? - go ahead, a little more.

Looking good, buddy.

When you start this up you got the head pulley.

It moves,

So it'll help pull it around.

...While nathan uses the motor

To slowly wind the belt onto the rollers.

-All right. - okay, it's pulling it.

Watch the next roller, yeah.

Down, down, down, down, down.

Chris needs to come up.

down, down.

Watch yourself, guys. Hey, hang on.

whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Whoa, whoa! Hold!

There's a lot of pressure on this rope right now.

It's stretching right to its breaking point.

If it snaps, that belt's gonna just go, whoop!

And we're gonna start back over,

Only it's gonna be worse.

Little more, j.

Okay, hold there.

Sandwich it.

finally, both ends are spliced together

And secured with lacing.

That's it. Splice looks good, belt looks good. It's on.

- yep. - right on, man.

good job, you guys.

but before the roach fires up,

Dave's got a bush fix to protect the belt

From the rocky mountain pay.

So, what happened is we had some of these big rocks

Come down,

Two big ones got caught under this belt and this belt,

And that's what ripped the belt.

So what we've done is added this piece of steel,

It's almost like a dam,

So that these rocks won't get to the back of the conveyor.

All right, boys, she's all welded up!

Fire this thing up. Let's start getting some gold!

All right!

We've got the belt on, we've fixed the roach,

Sluice box is good.

Now we should just cruise. We're ready to go.

after a two-day shutdown,

Team turin can now run doodlebug

And pioneer pay.

we need to get 17 ounces,

So we gotta have it on the deck,

Ready to be put in the box.

we're rocking and rolling.

With that going, we'll hit our 400 goal.

next morning...

...As the roach devours

The last of the pioneer stockpile...

Good job, kc.

Come on, pioneer cut!

...Jason and kc hunt down the gold they need

To smash through their season total.

this pioneer cut is perfect

To be ending our season with

Because it's such a small cut.

Take it away, mr. Morgan. Take it away.

That's a little bit of a change

In the rock makeup.

Hey, case, we've got a little bit of change

In the dirt,

So I'm thinking we're gonna run a pan on this

And make sure we're still in the pay.

jason is chasing a narrow strip of pay

In an ancient tributary of box creek,

Missed by the derry dredge.

But surrounded by worthless tailings

On all sides,

He must keep testing ahead

To make sure they don't lose the pay streak.

Hey, case, my rock size is really starting to go down.

I don't know if it means *bleep*,

But if there isn't any good gold in this pan...

we're completely out of ground.

what we're looking for here, though, case,

25, 30 colors.

Seven colors.

Dave turin. Dave, you got a copy, dave?

Go ahead.

So, I just ran a pan, senor. It was seven colors in it.

I don't think I could send any of this to the plant now.

no, that's it.

We knew it was gonna be a small cut.

Let's just hope and pray we got our 400 ounces, jason.

So, it's the end.

Whatever is at that plant, that's our season,

That's whether we make our goal or not.

Let's hope it's 17 ounces sitting in that damn box.

alfred nobel.

He revolutionized mining. He developed dynamite.

Jesús garcia.

He drove a train carrying four tons of burning,

Burning dynamite...

...Away from the town.

Wow.

And he's memorialized here in the mining hall of fame.

Oh, for heaven's sake. Are you kidding me?

Who put those up?

one week ago...

First dump of the doodlebug!

...Dave returned to the doodlebug cut,

Hoping to scratch out one last big payday.

yee-haw!

Let's turn this puppy up and get going.

Rocks in the box.

but when the channel of gold disappeared...

Look at this sand, jason.

That ain't gonna get us 62 ounces.

...And colorado rocks killed the roach...

*bleep*, it's done.

...Dave dug up a treasure map...

that could be $90 a ton.

That could be our saving grace.

...To keep their mining season alive.

hello, hello, mr. Pioneer cut.

Let me see what you've got in you.

now, with all permitted ground mined out,

The crew is just 17 ounces short

Of their 400-ounce target.

we're at the end of the end, my friend.

Nothing but the perch left to put in the box, buddy.

whoo! End of the season.

We're out of pay once I get this perch ate.

let's get in, boys! Let's get this cleaned up!

Get the hell out of colorado!

Last bucket of rocky mountain earth!

Here we go, jason sanchez!

Whoo!

Whoo! That's right!

We made it, dave.

It's been a hell of a year.

Kc!

Hey, dude.

Hell of a long, freakin' season.

We did it, man.

Don't start. Don't start, okay? Okay?

Look. We gotta get through this.

Good job, buddy. Good job.

You loaded, what...

...99% of the dirt that went through this *bleep*?

Shut her down, nathan!

Okay, kc, show me the gold, buddy.

We finished up what we came here to do.

We didn't get kicked out of colorado

Like we thought we would,

And now here we are, hopefully, gonna reach our 400-ounce goal.

And then we get to go home.

That's probably the best thing about it all.

-let's say a prayer of thanksgiving.

Dear lord, we just thank you for all the blessings

You've given us.

It has been a... Whoo! It's been a tough season,

But you carried us through.

Thank you for blessing our lives with jesse.

We miss him. We loved him.

And, lord, we're doing this for him and his family,

And we want you to bless them and take care of them.

-Amen. - amen!

-All right, guys, good job. - whoo!

- that's it. - sun setting on colorado!

next morning,

As shelly cleans up for the last time

In colorado...

kc morgan, you got a copy?

yeah, dave, go ahead.

...Dave looks to the future.

Hey, meet me in my office right now.

yes, sir, 10-4. I'm on my way.

I don't know what dave wants.

Could be getting fired, could be getting promoted.

I've just gotta find out what the hell he wants.

Not good. Doesn't sound good.

I got something I wanna talk to you about.

I'm not done.

I don't feel like this season is over.

I wanna keep going.

we're out of ground.

This is a wild idea. It could be a long shot.

We're close to 400 ounces, kc.

If we pull another 150 ounces,

We could do a $1-million season.

So what are we gonna do? We're gonna stay here or what are we gonna do?

We need to go elsewhere because winter's gonna set in.

We need to go somewhere where it's warm.

Okay.

Is this what I think this is?

This looks awfully familiar, dave.

Should look familiar.

That's lynx creek, kc.

Oh, my god. You're crazy.

two years ago,

When team turin first started out...

-Come on, man. -All right, buddy.

...Kc helped dave to secure a five-week season

In arizona.

but landowners, the fains...

-Brad fain. -Hi, brad.

...Put restrictions on where they could mine.

Listen, you confine yourself between the red lines.

and after a slow start...

I may have made a huge mistake coming here.

...They finally got on the gold...

oh, we did it, dave!

...On the last day of the season.

I've been doing this for a long time

And I haven't seen a sluice box packed like this before.

-Eighty ounces total, guys! -Yeah.

we did it.

Y'all ought to be proud of yourself.

now...

...After running out of ground in colorado,

Dave wants to give lynx creek another roll of the dice.

I had planned on mining the hummocks

Another four or five weeks.

So I've got four or five weeks left

In this mining season.

If the guys are willing to keep mining,

We've got time.

I just feel like we didn't get everything

That was there.

I think we have unfinished business here.

Do you think we could pull 100 to 150 ounces

Out of lynx creek?

I could talk to the fains.

If we were to get these restrictions lifted,

Yes, we probably could.

There's a lot of gold left there, dave.

I don't want you telling the guys.

If we get this locked down and they agree to it,

-Then we'll tell the guys, okay? -Yeah.

-All right. Thanks, kc. -Bye, dave.

I mean, the possibility of going back

To lynx and getting a $1-million season,

I'm pretty pumped up.

But I gotta make a lot of phone calls,

I got a lot of work to do right now

And keep it on the down low,

So we can see if that's a possibility.

But why not go out with a bang?

Hey, I was wondering if I could propose something to you.

as the sun sets on the season

At box creek...

All right, got some good news for us, shelly?

...In the gold room,

The final results are in.

As far as gold goes, colorado's been good.

It's our biggest year ever.

Pretty close to doubling up on last year,

But it's been rough.

- yes, sir. - yeah.

We've overcome two deaths. My father passing.

Our fallen comrade, jesse, our brother, our friend.

-But here's the coolest part of it all. - yeah.

-We did it for jesse and his family... - mmm-hmm.

...And I think he's smiling on us.

But our 400-ounce goal could be right there.

-Now we need 17 ounces. - mmm-hmm.

-Come on! - come on! 17!

-All we need is 17. - 17.

all right.

Oh, I like the sound of that.

-Nuggets. Nuggets. - one!

-Come on, 17. - 11, 12.

Little bit more, little more.

-Little more. -17!

Whoo!

yeah! Yeah!

Oh, and there's still more.

-There's still more. -There's more!

Now it's gravy!

18, 19, 20!

-29. - put it in, shelly! Come on!

35, 39, 40!

42, 43, 43.75!

Yeah!

So, shelly, what's our total?

426.8.

Yeah!

-That's awesome. - whoo!

for the first time in their history,

Team turin blows past their season goal.

And with gold prices at $1,900 per ounce,

They've found over $800,000 in gold.

-Oh, my goodness, guys.

-Holy crap. -Whoo!

I can't believe we actually hit

Our goal for once, you know.

I feel like a miner now.

Twenty six pounds of gold. That's unbelievable.

I've never ever held that much gold in my life.

That's over 200 ounces more than we did last season.

And that's more than the first two seasons

Combined, you guys.

Jesse's still taking gold home

-To his family this season. - yeah.

He is, isn't he?

Son of a gun, he's taking home a good chunk, too, man.

When you see that on the table, it's rewarding.

Jesse's family will be blessed for our hard work.

Proud of everybody.

Unbelievable.

426 ounces.

-It's been a success. - whatever.

And I have a happy heart

In spite of all of the tragedy.

So, yeah, we pulled it off.

I feel like my job in colorado is now complete.

-There's just not enough ground.

- yeah! -All right!

but if we got access to lynx creek,

I really believe we could have a $1-million season.

later this season on dave turin's lost mine...

You wanna gamble?

let's go.

But what if we turned it into a $1-million season?

-All in! - yeah.

$1 million, baby.

Whoo!

...Team turin double down in the desert.

-oh, I love that sound!

Boom!

and dave heads north to find their future...

I like it. I think we're in virgin ground.

There we go.

Maybe this is the future for me and my guys here.

...As they chase down...

God bless america.

...A million-dollar dream.

Dig down. I had to dig deep.

-Oh, my god! - yeah!