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[dave] it's getting late.

This is the last hole I'm gonna dig.

It's almost the end of the season,

And we're fighting on two fronts.

Got to be some friggin' gold in here.

My guys are mining in arizona

And I'm relying on them to get us to a million dollars.

[rumbling]

My job is to secure our future...

Bigger rocks!

...And find ground for next season.

Hey, rob, I'm at the bottom!

That's the bedrock I'm looking for.

The world's a crazy place right now,

But the price of gold is riding high.

Show me some gold!

That means competition for good ground is gonna get fierce.

This is my best spot so far.

So, I got to get ahead of the game.

Because gold gives us freedom

And grabbing your destiny with your own hands,

That's what it's all about.

I don't believe it.

[narrator] at lynx creek...

I couldn't be happier.

Working a tributary, that's the dream, I mean.

[narrator] ...Team turin is on the gold

In jesse's cut,

Running a four-man crew.

Dave is away right now, prospecting,

But we're the ones here, so, we gotta keep pushing

On that million dollar season.

[narrator] one week ago...

Great to be back in arizona where we all became a team

[narrator] ...Team turin began their first full run

At lynx creek, arizona...

[dave] we shall smash it out of the park, here at lynx creek.

[narrator] ...As dave battled the alaskan winter

To find their next lost mine.

That's it. I gotta keep looking.

[narrator] in the desert, the four-man crew fell short

Of their 20-ounce weekly target.

16.4 for the week.

So, we're not on track.

[narrator] now, with just three weeks of mining left,

Team turin need another 80 ounces to hit a million dollars.

We don't have a lot of time, so every load counts now.

[narrator] they must find at least 27 ounces of gold every week.

Hey, jason, are you seeing a lot of consistency in that material?

Absolutely loving it.

[jason] I'm anticipating jesse's cut is gonna come

Through and put some good gold in our pockets today.

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

[narrator] jesse's cut is an ancient, gold bearing tributary

To the northern edge of the main channel at lynx creek.

Team turin has already worked 1,300 feet upstream

To a sharp turn,

But there's still another 1,100 feet

Of potential pay beyond the bend.

I've been crawling up this cut, deeper and deeper,

So, I'm just gonna make sure that gold's still up there.

So, I wanna be testing all the way up it

To make sure that it just doesn't end.

It's got all of the signs that it should have gold,

But, until you pan it, you really never know.

With any luck, there will be plenty of gold in it.

[jason] we're looking for 15 colors.

How's it looking, kc?

Ah, looking like I don't even see a single color.

[bleep]

Nothing.

[jason] if jessie's cut has ran out of gold, we're done.

We have no place to go.

Everything's peachy when you're pulling

Lots of gold, right? No problem.

But when it's not, there's no gold,

Tell you what, our blood pressure starts going up.

We're risking the gold we made in colorado

To come here to arizona.

Yeah, I'm feeling the pressure.

The boys pushed lynx creek

And the guys are counting on me to keep them on the gold.

[narrator] 1,100 miles north...

[dave] the gold detectors are on the move.

[narrator] dave's chasing down a hot lead on a lost mine

With veteran prospector, rob towner.

My buddy, logan's family, had this ranch

And I've always wanted to get up there.

It has all the hallmark signatures

Of potentially being a dandy little place.

[narrator] after an unsuccessful prospect in alaska,

They're heading deep into montana gold country,

15 miles east of the big belt mountains,

To prospect at the teague ranch,

An abandoned mine turned cattle farm.

[rob] I really think this has a possibility.

[dave] it's got the history, it's got the geology,

Because, if it's on the backside of confederate gulch,

Should be some good gold.

[narrator] confederate gulch has been a hot spot for gold

Since the american civil war.

Exiled confederate soldiers made the first discoveries in 1864

And the area was soon dubbed the richest acre on earth,

With over 18 tons of gold mined in just under 70 years,

Worth over one billion dollars in today's money.

Hi, annie.

[narrator] now, father and daughter, ken and annie teague,

Run a herd of 500 cattle on the historic ground.

[dave] how long has the ranch been in the family?

[annie] it was actually a mining claim in 1907.

It was originally purchased as more of a retirement investment.

[dave] you guys aren't retired.

-Just tired. -[all laugh]

-[annie] hey, speak for yourself! -[all laugh]

[dave] do you know how much gold came off the ground?

It was mined pretty heavily in the 30's.

[ken] we kind of guess it was about 67,000 ounces.

Whoa!

-Could be a dandy, man, I'm telling you. -[annie laughs]

[dave] can we go for a drive?

[narrator] teague ranch was first mined in the 1860's

By hand and hydraulics

And then by a dragline dredge in the 1930's,

The area producing over a 126 million dollars worth of gold

At today's price.

Almost a century on from when the old timers worked the creek,

Dave and rob are on the hunt for gold

The old timers missed.

Are you excited yet?

Yeah! I'm excited, buddy.

There might be some easy friggin money up there, dave.

[dave] it's been a rough season.

We've all faced some really tragic things this year,

But I'm more determined than ever to get my guys some gold

And I can't make a mistake now.

It's too late in the season.

See where they cut down through there?

This here is what we're looking for, it's bedrock.

It's not a dredge tailing's pile.

You can see it right there, that's bedrock.

And so, what we're looking at, this has probably not been mined.

When you see this kind schisty rock,

All this is natural sluice boxes.

Water runs over this, gold is in this stuff.

This stuff will collect gold like a [beep].

This has really only had one serious miner on it.

Now, the guys who came in and hand worked it,

They were serious, but they would take a real tiny little spot

And then the dredge came in and we're the third miner.

I've never been just the third miner. That's what excites us.

[dave] it's pretty amazing.

[chris] kc better find some ground real quick,

Because this pile of pay is gonna last about half a day.

[narrator] at lynx creek, the roach is hungry for pay.

We were scraping by, but we're gonna be screwed here real, real soon.

[narrator] in jesse's cut,

Kc and jason have lost the pay streak

Around a sharp bend in the tributary.

So, my thought process, kc,

Is that the reason that we're getting bad pans right now,

Is because we have a really hard s-curve here,

And I'm hoping that the start of this s-curve

Stopped the gold.

That way it's not jesse's cut ran out,

We just have to advance forward a little bit.

That's what I'm hoping.

[narrator] jason's theory,

A sharp turn in the tributary stopped any gold

From being deposited on the s-bend,

But if they move up 30 feet, where the channel straightens out,

They could be back on the gold.

[jason] see how it widens out, flattens out...

[kc] this spot would have been dump out point for gold right here.

So, let's go here.

[kc] come on.

[splashing]

[jason] how's it looking?

[kc] it's marginal.

There's the gold, but it's not a lot of it here in the mountain press.

[jason] I'm only seeing about five pieces.

[kc] it's time to move on.

Before we pull out of jesse's cut and call it done,

We got to at least punch a hole with that ex.

Let's see what happens.

[jason] when you're already behind,

Then you have to stop sending pay,

So you can actually find the pay.

You start to work backwards.

To stay on the gold,

It actually engulfs your mind.

If you don't stay focused, it's no money.

And that wears on you at the end of the night,

Especially towards the end of the season.

Nathan, I'm trying to scrape around as much as possible.

Yeah, I'm seeing it over there.

They're gotta find something quick, and I mean, quick,

Because by lunch time, if there ain't a truck rolling in,

We ain't running nothin'.

[narrator] coming up...

Ooh!

[narrator] team turin hits the skids.

[nathan] we need some gold, kc. This is on you.

[narrator] but kc makes a discovery...

[kc] this pans out, god bless america.

[narrator] ...That could change their fortune.

Weigh it up, shall we?

Right now, we're running very, very low.

[narrator] at lynx creek

Team turin is 80 ounces short

Of a millions dollar season.

[jason] nothing like being under the gun.

[narrator] almost out of pay,

Jason desperately digs a test hole

30 feet past the s-bend in jesse's cut.

The hope and the theory I have,

Is that the pay is gonna thicken up

Just around this bend over here.

And if I'm right,

We'll be sitting a lot better off.

If I'm wrong...

[kc] I'll be damned.

[jason] I'm liking the color we're starting to pull up.

[kc] I'm liking that color too, you see that?

You got the reddish in it, means it's got a lot of iron.

Gold always rides an iron horse.

[jason] I'm absolutely loving it.

Without a doubt, virgin.

Take some of that red, buddy.

[kc] okay, let's go find out the good news or bad news.

That's a better pan, bro.

Makes the situation a little better.

-[jason] we're in business. -[kc] yep.

That's a good pan of gold right there.

For a test pan, awesome.

That will keep the plant fed.

We don't quit, that's why we find test pans like that.

[nathan] kc, I'm gonna hurry and get you loaded.

[kc] yeah, I'm gonna have to haul ass down here and get this done.

[honking]

[honking]

Hee-ho, here we go.

[narrator] with the roach feeding on scraps,

Kc races to the plant

With over 40 tons of fresh pay.

Here it come, nater.

There he is!

Whoo!

You are a good sight to see, kc.

Here's some pay for you, big sugar.

[nathan] thank you, kc!

I know you're working your butt off. You will

Be running in the coming days, buddy.

[kc] hauling a living right out of the ground.

That's the american dream.

We're here to get a lot of gold,

And go home proud.

[narrator] it's day two at teague ranch.

Dave and rob form a plan for their prospect.

[rob] they shoveled here, atlanta gulch

With the dragline that was left there.

-[dave] the black, that's what's been mined. -[rob] yep.

[narrator] in the shadow of the legendary confederate gulch,

Teague ranch is made up of almost 4,000 acres of pasture land,

Wide glacial planes and narrow ravines.

They will focus this prospect on atlanta creek,

The tributary hit hardest by the old timers.

[dave] all right, let's go up there to atlanta,

See if we can find some gold.

I've never been on a property that's this vast.

From the research that rob and I have done,

Atlanta creek took a lot of gold out,

And they worked it pretty hard, the old timers,

And so, that's where we're gonna start.

[narrator] first step, retrace the path of the old dredge.

-[dave] so, this first pile, you think it's dredge? -[ken] yeah.

They did something here?

[ken] yeah, they had a dry land dredge in here.

[dave] there's their pile, they kicked it over there.

Yep, then they ran right up the gut.

The good thing about that, is, usually they leave the side pay.

Yes.

[dave] this is a hunt.

What we're looking for, is where the dredge went.

It's like this big, huge area

And we've gotta figure out what happened here.

Look at that pile of over burden there.

Here's one of his old lines.

They use this for tying off on a dragline or a boom.

Or even a winch.

So, what he did, is he came up the middle,

Cast all of the over burden up there.

That's those big piles.

And then he mined basically about 40, 50 feet wide,

And, really, what rob and I are looking,

Is what he did, but what he didn't do.

[narrator] dave believes a dragline dredge

Worked half a mile up atlanta creek,

Throwing out its tailings on either side.

If he can find gold in the side pay, past the tailings piles,

The ranch could be hiding a fortune.

Just snooping a little bit,

Taking a little sample.

I'm seeing bedrock here.

This stuff's got my curiosity piqued.

When they were dredging this,

What did they put that up there for?

You gotta be a gold detective.

You look for every little clue.

Hey, dave.

I got a pan that [beep] I got my pocket--

You already pulled some dirt?

Yeah. Come out off one of those piles.

[rob] I'm trying to find first blood.

[dave] let's do it.

Got some black sand in there.

[splashing]

-[rob] oh, [beep]. -There we go. One piece.

[rob] first blood.

[rob] good job, buddy.

[dave] we've got some gold in a pan and that's a good sign.

The only thing we need to do now,

Is get an excavator, figure out how deep they went,

And really, if they left us anything.

'cause I like it. This is amazing.

[nathan] hoo-wee, look at that red.

Ah, I mean, it's red red.

[narrator] in jesse's cut,

Team turin chase a pay streak of iron rich dirt.

We got this false bedrock all through this area right here,

But then it goes from that tan false bedrock

To one heck of a blood red pocket.

Look at that.

[chris] this red material looks really good.

All is well here at lynx creek.

[beep]

[rumbling]

[nathan] got dirty water!

It's starting to change colors quite a bit.

[narrator] with a limited desert reserve,

The team must recycle their water,

Sluicing into the same pond that feeds the plant.

[nathan] it was clear, but now it's starting to turn into like an off color.

It's starting melting up the box

And start carrying gold out.

[juan] that's rushing pretty good,

But I think just the amount of heavies that you have...

Gonna grab a sample from out here

And we'll pan it out and see.

We're in really good gold now,

We just don't wanna be [beep] out.

See what's in there.

Yeah, look at that.

There's gold in this pan.

We're losing gold at the end of the sluice.

[nathan] what the [beep]?

It's your call, but I think we gotta shut this plant down

Until we figure the water situation out.

[narrator] running dirty water through the roach,

Clogs the sluice with mud,

Causing gold to wash straight off the end of the box.

[nathan] at jesse's cut,

We've got a lot of heavies in it.

All of our tailing is kind of fanning out everywhere.

Our suction's over here and the material's going into it,

So we got to move some of these tailings over,

Direct the water out to the right,

Make it circulate round the pond.

Hey, jason. We got a pretty big problem down here.

The pump is starting to suck up some dirty water

So, we gotta figure a plan out.

Maybe move some of these tailings around.

[narrator] nate's plan to save the pond...

Jason will dig a channel

To change the flow of the sluice water.

The deep channel will slow the dirty roach tailings

And force them to the opposite side of the pond from the pump,

Allowing time for the heavy materials from the pay dirt

To settle to the bottom.

If it works, by the time water circulates to the pump,

It should be clean enough to send back through the roach.

[jason] when I get a radio call from nater,

Telling me I need to get down here

Out of the cut.

I know it's something serious.

[narrator] to dig the channel, jason must carefully manoeuvre

The 50-ton excavator onto the sandy pond wall.

[jason] there's a lot of weight right now,

Sitting on basically just sand.

[beep]

[engine roaring]

Whoo!

See, wrong move, I'm going in.

We're gonna back up a little bit, as a matter of fact.

I already took a shower today.

I don't feel like taking a bath.

Normally, dave's the one doing this stuff,

But right now, I'm next in line to do the risky [beep].

Gotta get in, gotta get it fixed and move on.

We gotta do something now before it's too late,

Or we're gonna be [beep].

When we get to the point of no return, there's no return.

Definitely not the smartest [beep],

But it's gotta get done.

[narrator] at lynx creek,

Team turin's 27 ounce weekly target

Is on the line.

Jason must dig a channel to clean up the water system.

When you don't have clean water,

You create viscosity,

And viscosity will wrap a membrane around the gold

And it floats it right out of the box.

[jason] but, hopefully, if we can reach down and dig this channel,

It will direct all of our dirty water

To the other side of the pond

And give that water a chance to settle out.

[narrator] over the next two hours, he excavates over 80 tons of dirt.

[jason] all right, so, I now have this channel

Out as far as I can get it.

It's amazing what you'll do

To bring home money for your family.

[nathan] ready, chris. Hit it.

Full speed!

[bubbling]

You know, the water looks good. It's good and clear.

The tailings goes out to the right.

All right, boys,

Let's haul some pay up.

[narrator] to prove the channel works,

Nate and juan pan the tailings a second time.

[nathan] if there's only a little bit in here,

Not too worried about micros or floaters.

You can't catch it all, but we sure damn wanna try.

-Nothing. -Nothing.

That's good.

My water looks fantastic,

So, you know what, it's time to run some material,

Get some more of that lynx creek gold.

Let's shake and bake, baby. Let's do it.

[jason] I'm back to go get us on some gold, man.

Back to the cut.

[dave] rob, we got an excavator.

Now we can dig some damn holes.

[narrator] at teague ranch, with gold detected,

Rob calls in a favor from local miner, logan olson.

-Hey, logan. -Hey there, rob.

-How are you doing? -Good.

Good to see ya.

-I'm dave. Dave turin. -Logan olson.

Nice to meet you.

-Thanks for bringing the excavator. -Not a problem.

What's the plan? Where are we going first?

[dave] we're gonna head up to atlanta creek.

I'd really like to get about 20 pans in today.

Maybe four, five, six holes would be nice.

-Okay. -[dave] ready to go?

[dave] we're looking for some virgin ground

That hasn't been dredged.

[narrator] the old dredge mined a 50 foot wide channel up atlanta creek,

But rob's test showed signs of gold

Along the banks of the tributary,

Pointing to side pay missed by the dredge.

Dave's plan,

Punch a series of holes at rob's test spots

And dig down, looking for hidden gold bearing channels

Missed by the old timers.

[dave] big rocks.

Tell you what, it's got everything you're looking for.

What do you think about that right there?

[rob] I like it.

[splashing]

Nothing there.

Zero, not a single speck of gold.

Moving on.

[narrator] the first hole a bust,

Dave and rob continue to hunt for gold rich side pay.

I've gotta get to their edge,

Because I don't wanna mine something that's already been mined.

[narrator] over the next eight hours, they dig five more holes...

That's what I'm looking for.

If there is gold, it would be right here at this level.

[narrator] ...Run 25 pans...

[dave] I know it's here.

Everything is screaming gold to me.

[narrator] ...But still can't find a single flake of gold.

Nothing. Nothing.

Nothing.

Not a speck.

Un [beep] believable.

[dave] I'm just not finding any gold.

When I come on to a piece of ground like this,

Everything looks great,

And then you put a pan in the water and there's no gold in it.

Time and time again.

But it doesn't make me wanna quit.

What keeps me coming back, is the thrill of the next pan.

[narrator] dave continues to work over half a mile of atlanta creek.

I mean, you got everything here,

You got schisty bedrock, big ass rocks,

Lot of old workings,

And the only thing missing, is gold.

It's got all the root network,

So this...

I'm thinking is virgin.

[splashing]

What the hell?

Not a single piece of gold.

Hiding from me, pocket.

You're hiding from me, pocket! I'm gonna find you, pocket!

[narrator] after ten hours and seven test holes,

Dave's prospect is a bust.

I'm not understanding it.

That should hold gold.

Where is it, is the question.

My guys aren't gonna be very happy.

I've been out almost two weeks now,

Alaska, and then here.

But I'm gonna keep looking. I'm not giving up.

[jason] all right, kc,

This channel doesn't seem to be deepening up.

Way thinner than I thought.

[narrator] morning at lynx creek,

Jason chases a lucrative seam of red dirt up jesse's cut.

[kc] jesse's cut had great pay to start out with,

But these tributaries only last so long,

And they can quickly thin out.

[jason] I'm starting to clear up this channel.

I'm seeing how thin it is.

The problem is, this area has only this much pay.

My pay is minimal, so, we'll be out of this drainage by the end of the day.

Jesse's cut is a done deal.

[nathan] hello!

[jason] hey, bud. Whatever pay you have on deck,

That's it, man.

[nathan] all right, bro.

All right, guys. Looks like jesse's cut is done.

So, what we got, is what we got, guys.

All right, this right here is the last bucket of jesse's cut.

[jason] there's never a deposit that lasts forever.

One moment you're bringing in gold,

And then it's like you just hit a brick wall,

And you realize, I don't have much pay left.

But I don't have quit in me.

It's just not in my dna,

And when we achieve a million dollar season,

That's more money we're taking home to our families.

[narrator] but for chris, the end of jesse's cut, is a moment to reflect.

[chris] it gets me thinking about how special that man was

And how dear he was to my heart,

And uh, what sucks, is he's not here.

And we gotta name a cut after him. That sucks.

I'd rather not be naming cuts after my friend.

Damn it!

[sighs]

[sniffs]

[narrator] coming up...

There should be good gold here.

[narrator] dave refuses to quit...

Show me some gold!

[narrator] ...As team turin races to find new ground.

[kc] I gotta go find us some [beep] gold.

[jason] hey, kc.

I hope you got some place to go, brother.

[narrator] at lynx creek, team turin is out of ground,

Their 27 ounce target slipping away.

[nathan] you know this area, kc.

This-- this is on you. We need some gold.

[kc] I gotta plan, so...

-Well, let's get out, then. -All right.

I'll ride with you, man.

[narrator] with the roach sitting idle,

The pressure is on kc to get the team back on the gold.

[nathan] they just gotta find it. This is kc's stomping grounds.

So, hope they find something good,

'cause, uh, I'm ready to start sluicing.

[kc] so, there is the plant.

There is jesse's cut.

Any further down, man, not gonna be able to stay up with the plant.

So, instead of going down further,

How about we cross the north side?

There's been reports of good gold through there,

But we won't know before we put a pan in the ground.

So, why didn't we go over here in season one?

[kc] this was all off limits back then.

[narrator] for two seasons, the team has focused on gold bearing tributaries

To the eastern end of lynx creek.

But with unrestricted access from the land owners,

Kc has spotted a 1,500 foot long tributary,

North-west of the main channel.

If it holds gold,

Kc could've discovered enough ground

To push the team over their million dollar goal.

[jason] let's go pop some holes, brother.

[kc] I'll grab the 220.

This tributary looks real promising,

Probably hasn't been touched in a 100 years.

But, when you're chasing gold, it's never a perfect science.

I think the guys like my prospecting skills

As long as it's filling up their box with gold.

I've had prospects where we don't fine a lot of color in the pan,

And I can see it in their eyes. Respect changes a little bit.

What you thinking, morgan?

I just swing across and scratch, and let's see what happens.

All right. I'll trench you right there, brother.

Kc has definitely become a better miner this season.

It's one of two things. Either he's starting

To figure out how to explain things better,

Or we're starting to understand

His wack-a-doodle thought process.

[kc] well, the material looks good.

[jason] oh, you see that layer? Lookie, lookie, lookie!

[kc] yeah, I see it.

[narrator] at the first test hole

Jason hits a double pay layer.

[jason] so, this little section here

Is basically a secondary false bedrock,

So, whatever gold is in this,

Is gonna be right here and up,

And right here, and down.

We get two shots at hitting it right here.

Twice the opportunity.

[kc] come on, big money!

Come on.

[splashing]

I don't see anything here, jason.

You're not seeing anything?

Well, let's check the next one.

This is coming out of the bottom.

[splashing]

Brother, I ain't seeing no gold in this.

-What do you mean? -Like not even a flake.

Nothing?

[beep]

[kc] you start second guessing yourself about everything.

We did so good here our first season,

I figured we'd just kick ass.

It's been tougher than we thought,

But we don't quit, we don't give up.

So, clock is ticking

And I gotta go find us some [beep] gold.

[dave] I think we gotta go up

To where they kinda quit dredging

And there's a lot of evidence of ground sluicing.

Okay.

[narrator] in montana, dave has one last chance to find some gold.

[dave] I wanna check upstream to see why the dredge quit here.

We believe that it was all hand workings,

Because the trees are all bigger.

[narrator] after striking out along the edge of the old dredge workings,

Dave shifts focus to a site worked by the first miners in the 1860's.

[dave] maybe the dredge figured they got all the gold by the hand workings.

I don't know, until we put some holes in the ground.

Look what they did here.

-See this hump? -Yeah.

They built a dam.

Probably routed the water around

And then that allowed them to work in here.

They would've had a sluice right here

And you'd have one guy shoveling in,

And then one guy picking rocks up out of the sluice blocks

And pitching them up here. That's why that hump's there.

Wow.

And then they'd start panning it down, and drink till it's gone.

-Yeah, drink till it's gone. -[both laugh]

-Now that tree is pretty old tree. -Yeah.

I think we should poke a hole in that little rise.

[narrator] dave's last roll of the dice,

Dig under the hand workings

In search of a layer of bedrock the old timers couldn't reach.

So, we dig one more hole,

See if we can get under their stuff.

If we find some of that schisty bedrock,

We may have a chance.

I faced a lot of personal tragedies this season,

But I know the two guys that I lost,

Would want me to keep moving on.

And that's what I'm doing. I've gotta find some ground.

Hey, rob, I'm at the bottom.

[narrator] fifteen feet down, dave hits bedrock.

So, here's what I'm looking for

When I call it schisty bedrock.

Right in there, in those cracks is where the gold will ride.

That's the bedrock I'm looking for.

By all evidence, there should be good gold here.

If there's not,

I should take up another living.

Show me some gold!

This is my best spot so far.

I mean, I got everything.

Got schisty bedrock, washed rocks,

You got old timers who'd been in here, hand working.

There should be some doggone gold here!

[dave] I don't believe it.

[chris] thank god you're here, juan.

Appreciate you for coming up.

Thanks, man. I'm pretty good with this water truck.

I'm pretty good stalling up this excavator.

You know, I'm pretty good at sleeping, boys.

[laughs]

It's been great to be out here with team turin.

You know, these guys went through a lot this year.

They lost dave's dad,

And jesse, but they've picked each other up

And they've done that with humor.

I'm pretty good at eating, too.

I think juan had like four hamburgers last night.

Two pieces of fish, a hot dog,

And two pieces of chicken and a hot wing.

[laughs]

Yeah, that no carbs is gonna really do it.

[laughs]

Dave has assembled a great team here

And, honestly, now they got a spot in my heart,

I'm willing to help them in any which way I can.

[narrator] five days ago, dave hit montana.

[rob] there might be some easy money up there, dave.

I'm excited, buddy.

[narrator] his desperate search for new ground...

I'm gonna dig one more hole.

[narrator] ...Is down to the wire.

[dave] show me some gold!

[narrator] in arizona his team overcame a water crisis.

It's starting to carry dirty water to our plant.

[narrator] but jesse's cut ran out of pay.

This area has only this much pay.

[kc] it should've been a slam dunk for us,

But right now it's starting to turn into a wild goose chase.

[narrator] now, kc and jason are prospecting an untapped tributary

In the north-west of lynx creek.

[kc] I'll keep prospecting till I'm blue in the face,

The old timers didn't get it all.

[narrator] but every minute the roach sits idle...

[kc] hopefully this creek is loaded full, 'cause we need it.

[narrator] ...Their million dollar season slips further away.

You know, old kc is definitely one of the driving forces to come back to lynx creek.

So, he does have a lot on his shoulders.

Right now, the wash plant is doing nothing.

The ground's gotten thin, our pans aren't panning out,

But I'll test anything,

Because I'm that desperate to find gold.

I'm not finding gold, I put stress on everyone.

We all got family, we all got kids,

But we wouldn't be betting on lynx creek

If we didn't think we could hit it big.

Looks small right here,

But you could have a lot of material

That has good gold in it.

Jason, you got a copy?

[jason over radio] go ahead, kc.

[kc over radio] hey, can you uh,

Bring the 220 excavator up here,

So we can punch a hole?

No problem.

This is as real as it gets right here.

We are so under pressure, so under the gun.

If there was ever a time

For kc and I to really need to come through and shine,

This is it right here.

[kc] yeah!

Yeah, this hasn't been touched.

[jason] huh-uh. I'm loving what I see here.

-[jason] it's virgin. -[kc] oh, it is.

[kc] I didn't expect this much material to be here.

About four and a half feet of pay.

So, if this has got the good stuff in it, we're in business.

A lot rides on this pan, brother.

[kc] if this pans out, god bless america.

[tapping]

[jason laughs]

I got every bit of 15 colors

And that is some damn good size.

[kc] makes us so much happier.

[jason] I think we just found our tributary.

Pan like that, dude, we did it!

-We're in business! -We're in business.

[narrator] after seven hours of dogged prospecting,

Kc has put the team back on the gold.

[kc] our stress level, when we were out prospecting this morning,

Put us in our darkest hour.

But we stuck with it, and guess what?

We're sitting on our finest hour.

I'll go grab the 480, you grab the truck.

Let's get some pay to the damn plant, finally.

[narrator] with three hours until sundown,

Team turin pushes to get back running.

Hey, jason.

What do you think about calling this the north cut?

[jason over radio] sounds good to me, man.

So be it. The north cut it is.

[jason over radio] here we go.

[kc over radio] okay, brother, first load from the north cut.

Dump it right here, kc.

Looks like it's gonna be pretty good.

[clanging]

Hey, chris, do you care if I start turning the plant up a little bit?

Go for it, buddy. Rev her up!

[nathan] we finally got some good, steady pay coming in

From the northern cut.

So, we gotta play catch up now.

It feels good to be running again, don't it, nate?

It feels damn good.

[laughs]

[dave] this is it. Got all the indications.

It should be here.

[rob] this is the best ground we got.

[narrator] after a week of relentless prospecting

For the team's next lost mine,

It all comes down to one last pan.

I don't believe it. Nothing.

Not a doggone speck of gold!

-It's not even enough for a beer. -No.

Well, if we were old time miners,

We'd be pretty hungry tonight.

It's blown my mind that there's not more gold in the ground.

You have as much evidence here of gold that I've ever seen

In any of the prospects that I've done.

There's hand workings, there's dredge.

Maybe the old timers got it all.

Wouldn't make any sense if they did all this work for nothing.

-Hi, annie. -Hey, how's it going?

We're just not finding the gold.

I mean, it had all of the evidence that we're looking for.

The-- you know, the dredge was here,

There's hand workings.

It's not here.

Well you don't know if you don't look.

We gave another whack at it. That's all we can do, so...

-Thanks, annie. -Thanks a bunch, guys.

[dave] this is so far from what I expected.

I came out here with such high hopes,

But unfortunately, the old timers got it all.

It's been worth bank to bank for several miles

And all the way up the canyon.

[rob] you win some and you lose some.

It's just the way it goes. You just soldier on.

[annie] now we know there isn't a whole lot of gold.

I'm gonna keep ranching.

Not sure I'll ever get rich, but I'll be happy doing it.

[dave] this is one of the worst prospects I've ever been on.

But that's how you get kicked around in this business.

As a miner you do see more failure than success,

But you just keep putting your boots on, you keep going to work.

So, I've gotta keep looking and keep prospecting,

And I'm gonna find some.

[chris] expectations are high on this north cut,

And uh, wait and see what it weighs out.

[narrator] at lynx creek, after running dirt from the jesse cut,

And opening up the north cut,

It's time to pull the mats for the final time this week.

This is the first load of the sluice box from the north cut.

Our anticipation's high.

Those pans look really, really good,

But, you never know. Sluice boxes lie.

[narrator] in the gold room, shelly preps for the weekly weigh in.

What I'm seeing on the table right now,

Is looking-- looking really good.

Hey, guys. Come on in.

That was pretty stressful, finding that north cut, I'll tell you that much.

-Hey, shelly. -Hey, mama shelly.

Hi, guys. How was your week?

-It's been a good week so far. -Yeah, it was good.

A lot of prospecting, but we found a good cut, north cut,

So, hopefully, this has got a good gold weigh in.

[narrator] to stay on track to hit their target of a 100 ounces,

Team turin needs to see at least 27 ounces of gold.

-Let's weight it up, shelly. -All right.

[kc] well, there it goes.

There's five.

There we go!

Come on!

Nineteen!

[shelly] twenty four.

Twenty five.

Twenty five point zero five.

[all cheer]

-There we go! -Oh!

[narrator] with gold at $1,900 per ounce,

Team turin has now mined $896,000 in gold this season.

Just over $100,000 short

Of their millions dollar dream.

[nathan] we're an ounce and a half sky from our goal,

But you know what? We'll take that

To keep us in the running.

[chris] we've got 55 ounces to go

And we've got two weeks to get it.

Let's get it, boys.

[kc] we're close, but we're still short.

The pressure is mounting.

So, we've got two weeks

To basically pop out 55 ounces.

That's gonna take every little bit

Of what we've got in us to make it happen.

-Great job, guys. -[shelly] yeah.

The north cut is paying out.

Kc and jason knocked it out of the park.

I'm hoping there's enough pay there to be able

To keep us in the pay for the rest of the season,

But who knows?

[shelly] I think they can do it.

Dave has total faith in them, and so do I,

And if we keep going this way,

We're gonna reach our million dollar goal.

Do I think lynx creek has that much gold in it?

Sure it does.

Question is, am I gonna be able to find it.

-One, two, three... -[all] all in!

[narrator] on the next episode...

It all come out of the earth's center.

[narrator] dave grasps a once in a lifetime opportunity.

That's a billion dollar mine.

[narrator] but as the end of the season nears...

[nathan] you can't just send [bleep] kc!

[narrator] ...Cracks begin to show...

[kc] excuse [bleep] me!

Our living depends on this!

Oh, god!

[narrator] ...As team turin goes all out

For a millions dollar season.

I will gamble that engine.

If you say do it, [beep], we'll roll the dice.

[all] all in!