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You know, Dave sent me to the Forest Service

to try and see what I can do about

getting a couple more holes.

A little nervous about the situation, I mean,

it's hard to talk a government agency

into changing their regulations or guidelines,

but you don't know if you don't try.

We need something to change

because it just isn't gonna be a legit prospect

if we don't get more holes.

Hopefully they're gonna see that as just a minor thing.

So as of right now, how many more holes can we do?

One.

So, what's gonna determine

if we can keep on digging or not, Dave?

Hopefully Jason comes back with some good news

and we can dig more test holes.

The offseason is critical.

This is almost as important as the mining season.

I've got to be prepared

and you've got find the ground

that has good gold on it.

If you don't have ground with good gold on it,

your season is gonna be a failure.

And so, I've got to get with it and find that gold.

With the mining season just weeks away,

Dave Turin is still searching for ground.

Two days ago, Team Turin started

prospecting their last option,

the 80-acre Idaho City claim.

The bucket dredge came back here

between the early 1900s to about the 1950s.

Partly mined by the Old Timers,

Dave hopes there's enough virgin ground left

to make the mine viable.

So there might be bedrock up this high

- that they couldn't get to? Yes.

He's already proved

the gravel bench holds some gold.

That's pretty damn good.

There's at least 20 there.

Remember, we can only dig three holes.

But a bombshell

from claimholder Chris Christman

has Dave's prospect tied up in red tape.

Hey, here's Jason.

Old hotrod himself.

You got some news?

I do, Dave.

They wiped those first two

as if they did not occur,

but we still only get three holes.

So, we have three fresh holes to be able to dig.

- Right on. - Yeah.

- Good job, Jason. - Right on, brother.

I was happy, man.

Let's dig some holes.

It's good news we got three holes.

Now, we're gonna try to figure out

if there's any gold that the Old Timers left.

I've been finding really good gold here.

All... Every time I come up here,

I don't think I've ever been skunked.

We've always managed to find gold.

I think where we can start

is obviously that's all from the Old Timers.

They dredged the hell out of that mountain.

We're pitting our wits against the Old Timers,

our experience, our knowledge, our wisdom.

Look at this. Why is that spot there?

Is that just a ridge or does it flatten out?

It's kinda like an island.

- There's your hand workings. - Yeah.

And why did they leave that plateau there?

Sure.

Why would they leave this, Dave?

What if there was a town?

For some reason, they did not mine this.

For us, I think we mine it right here.

Absolutely.

Dave has discovered a 10-acre island

isolated by valleys and ancient river benches.

If the island is an old town site,

too high for the dredge, it could hold millions.

Boom, bam, hot, damn.

Yeah, see there's some gravels.

That is some damn good looking pay.

This whole chunk is virgin.

Hopefully there's some gold.

All right. Move her into place, boys.

Excited.

Let's get five yards down there,

run some material.

Straighten her out right there

and go straight back and swing her in, brother.

That was quick.

Probably the quickest plant I've ever set up.

I know it.

With a feeder and tailing conveyor.

With a feeder, trommel,

and tailings conveyor.

- And it's level. - It's ready to go.

- Fifteen minutes. Yeah.

Whoo.

We got water. We can sluice.

Hell, yeah.

First bucket, Idaho gold.

That beetle's flying, baby.

Woo-hoo!

Finally we're making some gold.

I like the way the washplant's running.

Juan's got it dialed in.

Tell you what, right now we're doing it.

It's good to see it finally running material.

Hopefully, at the end of the day,

we'll have some gold in the box.

Well, here goes the tedious part.

- How's it look so far, Dave? - Good.

Got some gold, at least 20, good size colors.

That's gonna go right about $20 a yard.

Paying out at roughly $20 a yard,

the island could yield millions of dollars in gold

if all 10 acres is virgin ground.

But that's only one spot.

We got a lot of property ahead of us still prospect.

That was good gold,

but we got two more to go.

My season depends on these prospects.

Right now, the Misfits are homeless.

If we can't make something happen here,

we may not be mining this season

and that's something I really don't

wanna think about right now.

Four hundred miles south, Fred Lewis' back

is also up against the wall, tracking down a claim.

Prospects in Nevada and Arizona proved disappointing.

And just like Dave Turin,

Fred still has no claim to call home.

It's the fourth quarter and I'm calling Lovelock as our Hail Mary.

Three weeks ago, Fred's Misfits

tried to prospect Lovelock.

Man, it's wide open.

That's almost 500 acres.

This canyon was just riddled with Chinese diggings.

Fred tested the old Chinese miners' tailings.

That's probably about 100 times more

than I thought I would see.

So, we know we could do a test there.

And pinpointed two spots at the north

and south ends of the claim

to dig to bedrock and test.

Juan, what's going on?

With no equipment...

...Fred abandoned the prospect.

Lovelock is my white whale.

Right now, it's just gonna have to be

the one that got away.

So, this time, we have our excavator being delivered.

We have eight hours allotted to dig holes

and to get down to bedrock.

And eight hours is quite a lot of digging.

Is it enough? I don't know,

but it's better than nothing.

With time already ticking on the rented excavator,

Fred, wife Khara, and Kyle Pletzke

are returning for a second roll of the dice.

- Well, look who's here.

I'm back.

This is gnarly.

We can't even see the mountains up there

- for the snow. - Hi.

We got time now to go and find the spot

and maybe beat this weather before it gets gnarlier.

Fred and Khara definitely see the potential here

and we got nice lode deposits up in the mountains up there.

We got tunnels, we got mines,

and everything flows right down through here.

Mother Nature is throwing a big FU at us

with this snowstorm that's more like a blizzard,

but either way,

we're gonna punch some holes down here

and see if we can get to bedrock.

This is the area right here.

So, if we get this hole down, the other hole's up there.

Yeah, we got another one way up north

where the two canyons come together.

The canyon to the north, Fred, the Chinese,

- they weren't even on bedrock. Really?

Let's get that gold.

Beginning at the south end of the claim,

Fred plans to dig 20 ft down to bedrock

to bulk test the pay.

I'm pretty excited about this spot.

Fred's been thinking about it nonstop

since we left the first time.

We have more equipment than they did a hundred years ago,

so we might be able to reach locations

that the last miners here weren't able to.

Things are going pretty well.

Definitely not bedrock yet.

Probably about 15 ft down.

How's it looking?

We're almost maxed out on the depth of this.

Damn.

What are you thinking so far?

I'm thinking we gotta go deeper.

I'm at the point where I'm maxed out.

It's gonna take a hell of a long time

to dig a step to be able get down

just a few feet lower.

So, if wanna take the time to do that

and start moving on.

With a maximum reach of 20 ft

on his excavator arm, to hit bedrock,

Kyle needs to dig out

over a hundred tons of overburden

to build a step and lower the machine.

The step will enable the excavator to dig deeper,

but will cost precious time.

It would be nice to get down lower,

but I also don't wanna us

and only check one hole.

I don't feel like abandoning this.

What if you hit bedrock?

I would kill myself to not know what's below it.

Yeah. All right.

- Sounds like we're set. Let's do it.

I'm just wondering how much deeper we got to go

to get on some real gold.

There's quite a bit of stuff to get ready for the spring.

- I mean, the list is ever-growing. - I don't know. Hey,

we keeping up the way we're going right now,

we might get to a year where we just show up

and jump up in the equipment and start running.

- Nah.

Never happens.

This season, Rick Ness is targeting

a 2000 oz gold total

with half a million dollars to invest.

He's already upgraded washplant Monster Red.

This thing looks good.

And discovered experimental drilling technology.

It worked.

This is what we're gonna do at Duncan Creek.

With $200,000 left,

Rick's going shopping for the final piece

of his offseason master plan.

We're gonna see this guy named Cody.

I'd like to test out a couple of his dozers

and maybe making a purchase today.

- Oh. - I wish Carl could've stuck around

but he does have a lot of stuff

to do back up in Canada

and I've also got him

looking for some more equipment for us too.

At least something to be working on

- while we're still off. - Yup. Exactly.

The dry desert climate of Arizona

prevents rust on big machinery.

- Cody, Rick. - Nice to meet you.

Making it the perfect place

to hunt for a secondhand dozer.

We got big ones, little ones,

and we got a little bit of everything.

You mind showing us around and see what you got?

No problem. Lead the way.

Okay.

To double his gold total

and hit a $3.5 million payday,

Rick needs a midsized efficient dozer.

You got anything bigger?

Yeah, we got bigger.

That can rip through

the frozen Yukon ground.

There we go, D8.

This looks like a dozer to me.

- New rails. - Yeah, new, all new.

The engine's been rebuilt. Oh, yeah.

Looks pretty anyways now. - Yeah.

- Got the old five gallon overhaul.

What kind of hours are we looking at on this thing?

- Twelve thousand. Twelve thousand, that's nothing.

That's barely broke into the Yukon.

This machine is probably worth $200,000.

All right.

One hell of a sweetheart of a deal.

Dozers are the most expensive machines

to run on a mine with the big models

burning over $2,000 of fuel per shift.

I was kinda thinking a D9 but, you know, an 8 could work.

So, it's just an expensive game.

I hear it all, yeah.

- Yeah. That's always the thing. - That's it.

If you wouldn't mind, you know...

- Yeah. -...I'd get in and see if she goes.

More than welcome.

Oil and everything is good in it?

Yes. Yeah. - All right.

That's a good sign. Fired up like it

just got shut down or maybe it did though.

It's a tight responsive machine.

It ain't stuttering, it ain't...

it ain't coughin', it ain't none of that.

Stuff like this, this size could be what I need.

Small and agile, the D8 can efficiently

push over 11 yards of dirt in a single pass

and burns only $600 of fuel a day.

Nice. Real nice.

I cleaned the tracks off for you.

Hey, do you need me to shovel those real quick?

- Yeah. - Because I can handle that.

Yeah. That is a hell of a machine.

I've never seen one in this nice a shape.

My worry is now we found this

and are we gonna be able to find something as nice?

- Carl Rosk.

Down here in Arizona with Kruse.

We're just, uh...

just test drove a nice little D8N.

It's a tight machine, a little small,

but, uh, man, she's a beauty.

You-you... Wait.

You did a deal on a dozer?

A 475, wh-wha-what did that cost?

Holy... Are you serious? I mean,

that's-that's the whole budget, Carl.

Like, that's everything I got to put in.

Holy I mean you're kinda

counting on me to cover that then.

Yeah, but I mean we got other we need to buy.

I mean, that blows the whole budget at one machine,

I mean we... I need... I need a second process this, man.

I, uh... Let me, uh... I'm here with Kruse,

let me, uh, let me jump off the phone.

I'll talk to you in a bit, all right?

- All right.

what?

Dude.

A 475?

How is it gonna get into the valley?

They're gonna drop it from a helicopter?

I mean, am I wrong in saying

it's gonna almost double our fuel bill?

No, you are wrong.

It will quadruple it.

The Komatsu 475 - A is one of the largest dozers

in the world with a 900 horsepower engine,

it can push four times the amount of dirt as the D8,

but comes at a price

of nearly $1,500 of fuel a day.

That's just dollars

flowing out of that exhaust pipe.

Something goes wrong in that,

I mean, transmission, quarter mil.

Blow the motor, quarter million.

I mean, there's nothing on the thing

that it ain't worth less than a quarter million dollars.

We're screwed.

I don't know what to do.

I think right now, it's in the 20s.

It doesn't feel like it's getting any warmer.

Water in my bucket's starting to freeze.

Fred Lewis is taking a second shot

at prospecting Lovelock.

Before he can pull the trigger

on mining it next season,

he needs to find gold bearing gravel on bedrock.

But after five hours of digging,

they've still not hit paydirt.

Well, we can still get down there a little bit.

I'm pretty much maxed out at my arm again.

And our time is starting to get short,

so do you want me to keep going on this

or do you wanna go somewhere else?

Final call is on you.

Just three hours left

on the excavator rental,

every second counts.

Cover it over and we'll move on,

we don't have much time.

Right now, the priority is getting another hole dug

so we can get some more results.

The south hole a bust,

the team move out

and head to the second test location

at the north end of the claim.

Feeling kinda low actually, it's not what I wanted.

It's really making me nervous.

I feel like this is that moment

towards the end of our trip,

the end of our prospecting season

that this could all just slip away.

Fred has his heart set on gold, so we're going to,

uh, take him north close to the source,

where we think the gold is coming down from.

Uh, I'm waiting for you in a spot right here.

Sounds good.

This looks like a nice spot overall,

so I'm gonna get to work.

How much time is left on the meter?

- We're only looking at a couple hours. - All right.

I'll get out of your way, you hit it.

Do your thing.

He's gonna have to do some kind of ironman

digging over here and just dig, dig, dig, and punch.

We've been going on this next hole, you know,

it's looking pretty interesting so far,

it's got a whole lot of different colors

and the, uh, the content is quite different too.

We're looking at bigger boulders,

a little bit more dirt. The last time

we're looking at quite a bit of gravel.

I'll be curious to see where it goes the deeper we get.

Starting to get more rocky for sure.

Running through some pretty heavy rock.

Ouch.

It's not moving.

Caliche.

That's already caliche?

Caliche is a natural concrete-like

sedimentary rock layer formed by dirt,

gravel, sand, and clay.

For a smaller excavator like Fred's rental,

it can be nearly impenetrable.

damn.

It's freaking looking like it's pretty tough.

If I don't feel the pressure of time right now,

this layer of dirt is gonna make it even more tough,

knowing that we only have an hour.

These teeth just aren't made for going through

some harder layers of rock like we're dealing with.

We've only got, like, probably less than an hour left.

He's about a quarter of the depth we want him at

and he's moving probably about an inch every three scoops.

If we can't get past caliche layer,

how are we gonna know what's below it?

We need to be digging a lot faster than this.

It's important to get an early start this year.

The test went really well. We can't rest now.

We got to get two more testing.

Dave Turin is on his last prospect of the offseason,

testing an 80-acre Idaho City claim.

Could be good.

He's located a 10-acre Island

on the property with good gold

at one test site.

But with only two more test holes permitted,

Team Turin are under pressure

to prove there's enough gold to stake an entire season on.

All right. That happened so quick

that I can't stand around.

I gotta get on to the next one.

Right here.

Jason digs a second test

at the southernmost tip of the island.

That looks like tails.

Yup.

Well, that doesn't look good.

I'm barely scratched in.

What happened? You're supposed to be on the gold, man.

- I'm on it. - It doesn't look like it.

Yeah, I'm just like,

I don't know, 80 years too late.

Is there anything you can salvage here?

There's no gravels in there,

you think this is all just work?

Dave, this is nothing but the tails.

Team Turin have hit the boundary

where the dredge has mined the island.

This is our second hole and it's a bust,

there's nothing here.

I may not even get a full bucket full.

Well, fill it out.

If the claim is to be viable for next season,

the team must hit virgin ground on their final hole.

Well, I'm a little bit pissed off right now.

That was our second hole. Now we've got one left.

I don't wanna go home without running that plant another time.

I've got a half a million dollar dozer

pounding on the back of my skull

that my mechanic went ahead and bought.

Uh, I keep getting texts from Carl here,

he's worried that Rick's stressing out about this,

uh, half a million dollar purchase that he made,

which I don't blame him.

I know, uh, Rick's, uh, reaction to those...

That news wasn't exactly the greatest.

Two pretty big things on my mind.

First and foremost is the race today

that I'm extremely excited about.

Second is the fact that Carl has, uh,

spent half a million dollars,

uh, on one piece of equipment, one dozer.

It's a big problem. Um, but regardless,

I'm gonna put that out of my head,

um, because today, I've got a race to win.

Rick Ness is momentarily stepping away

from mining preparations

to focus on his other passion,

rally racing.

Last offseason in his professional racing debut,

Rick teamed up with Evolution Powersports

to race the Iceman 500.

Rick Ness, third place for the Iceman.

Five hundred miles of racing is no joke.

I'm hurting but so excited.

This year, they're backing him again.

Holy... Oh.

In the Best In The Desert 250.

Wow.

It's official, man.

Yeah, man.

It's got my name on it.

- Good stuff. - Dude!

Oh, my

I thought I was excited before

but dude, this is...

I don't even know what to say.

It's like a dream combo for me,

the mining in the summer and the racing

in the desert in the winter.

Like, I don't think it gets much better than that.

If I can pull this off, I could probably race

the whole series next year.

I got moosebumps.

Seriously, I'm like emotional about this.

This is something I've always wanted to do

and it's a big step up.

These guys, they're like catapulting me forward.

It's like...

I don't know what to say.

They went on their way to build this car for me

and they're gonna let me drive it.

I'm taking it very seriously, you know, I got to win.

I don't know why I'm so...

I can't get it together.

Welcome everybody to the Best In The Desert.

It's gonna be a long grueling day.

I plan on being competitive here.

I wanna be on the podium, so we got to take off that.

The grueling off-road race

consists of 250 miles

through dangerous desert terrain.

Nearly half of all racers

failed to complete the punishing track.

Being on my own and starting my own business,

um, you know, I-I developed some anxiety.

But with racing, I calm way down.

You know, once I get behind the wheel,

in my head, it's nothing but calm.

Go.

Well, they just went off the line,

everything was good.

There's really not much we can do now

until they come around once.

Hey, Kyle, this is a caliche layer.

Time running out,

Fred Lewis is racing to hit bedrock

at their north test hole.

Me being brand new to this,

it's not helping my feeling of unease knowing that,

uh, honestly the clock is against me

and against my limited skills.

Novice operator Kyle Pletzke

is blocked by a concrete-like layer

of soil called caliche.

So a caliche layer is like nature's concrete,

it could be a false level of bedrock

when you hit it with your excavator,

you're like, "Oh, I hit the bottom."

But if you break through it, it starts getting into

that good consistency of soil again.

Thank you, sir.

Dude, this could be a bank vault, this...

You could be breaking through the door right now.

It's the time to really take this excavator to the max,

but I'm trying to beat this hole into submission

before this time runs out.

Wow. That's how to do it.

We got a little bit of a smaller excavator

than we probably want but, uh, we'll punch through it

and we'll get there.

If you give an excavator to an infantryman,

this is what happens.

I think we're just gonna have to do

what the infantry does best and ground pound, dude.

I literally just said that.

My father was a bass fisherman,

he used to drag me out bass fishing all the time,

and if he hadn't caught that big fish

by the end of the day, it was always one more cast,

one more move around the corner,

let's get a look, maybe the big fish is over there.

And this feels exactly like that.

But we don't have a lot of time.

Ah! There we go.

Beat that thing out of here.

Oh, he's through.

Looks like Kyle broke through the vault.

The caliche layer breached, Kyle has just minutes

to stockpile the exposed paydirt.

I'm like a schoolboy over here,

I can't contain myself.

Couple more scoops, that's it.

Always... Oh, now it's two more.

- I thought it was one more. - Two more.

You're getting greedy.

Kyle scoops the last buckets

of pay off bedrock,

so Fred can sample for gold.

We put effort a hundred and ten percent

into getting this place some good results.

And now it comes down to the last two tests.

If the gold in Lovelock is not good enough,

I honestly don't know what my next move is.

Taking a break from planning

his mining season, Rick Ness is competing

in a 250-mile off-road race,

hitting speeds of over 70 miles per hour

through dangerous desert terrain.

With racing, there's just certain things

that come natural to me, like tight corners

trying to pass somebody.

That freaks people out, and for some reason,

I don't have that.

Like, I just go completely deadpan calm

and, like, no fear.

That is something that I've had to draw from

and bring to mining, you know,

bring to everything in my life,

like that calm and that trust in myself.

It looks like Rick is, uh,

11th overall right now.

You know, I've got a long ways to go

to where I wanna be, but if I look back

to where I was when I was 30, I also never thought

that 40-year-old me would be where I'm at

and would have given everything for it.

Pits to 970, copy?

Pits, 970, copy?

Rick's got to be happy with the way things are going right now.

Probably half these cars out here will not finish.

It's a big deal that he's going on the final lap.

Rick just moved into fourth place.

Woo! - Sounds like we're headed

for the podium.

- Let's do it. - Yeah.

Feeling real, real good.

Last we heard, he gained a few more minutes

on the third place.

Unofficially fourth place.

I heard unofficially fourth place.

I think we're both pretty happy about that.

Started at 22nd place, took 4th.

It feels pretty good.

Out here, setting up for the mining season

and, uh, this was the big fun.

It almost killed me, and I could barely stand

but it's one hell of a success.

And, you know, what's next is another

successful mining season.

Just wanna thank everybody for being here right now.

- Spot on, man. - This was like kind of

the culmination of a long year of redemption

- and proving stuff. yeah.

Well, should we go drink some beers?

Uh, let's drink a lot of beers.

It's been a tough prospect, man.

But this being our last hole makes it rough.

Dave Turin is testing a 10-acre island

isolated within the 80-acre Idaho City claim.

After hitting mined out tailings

with his second test hole, he's down to his last shot

to find enough virgin ground to sustain a season.

What are we thinking?

What does Dave see?

I'm just looking...

at the humps here.

This is probably work down here, don't you think?

Oh yeah, I do.

Got some decent rock right there, huh?

We got some rocks here.

This does look interesting.

We got gravel shown right here.

- We do. - It's worth a try.

I'll get her set up right here.

- We'll dig this out and... All right.

...hopefully there's gravels.

I'll get one truck, you know.

Sounds good. - All right, man.

Dave previously found gold on the bench

and in the first test hole on the island.

For the claim to be good enough

to mine for a season,

the third and final hole must hit rich paydirt.

Hey, J, I'd stay this way and maybe around.

Hey, we got some gravels.

Hey, that's the best looking dirt I've seen here.

This is a way better feeling zone.

The rocks are bigger.

This is our third hole and at least appearance-wise

looks like we made it count.

Yeah. Now you're in it.

Look how red it is.

Hey, you're on the gold now, baby.

- Yeah, buddy. Woo!

Where's Juanito?

Well, we found some gravel, that's a good thing.

That red gravel should carry gold.

The crew fire up the beetle

to process the dirt and see if the claim

will pay out big.

Last chance, huh, Dave?

Yes.

She's a runner.

Feeling good about this one, Dave.

All right. Are we ready?

Finally get to feed the beetle.

Rock and roll, baby.

Load her up, Jason.

A little bit of a pain in the ass

getting the material here, Dave.

I didn't expect to be that far away.

Yeah, that was 12 loads in that little shift steer,

- that sucks. - I know.

It takes you longer to get the material here

than it does to run through the plant.

I know Dave likes Idaho,

but it's a very tough prospect.

We need to find how much is in this island.

That's awesome.

Well, this has been one of the hardest grounds

I've ever decoded.

Really, this is make or break.

If there's no gold in this, I got to pack up

and get my butt out of here.

Last season didn't end on as much of a high note

as we would have hoped.

- Um, oh goodness. Turn around.

Horses running right by them.

There's easily about 70, 80 wild horses

out here all the time.

Nevada is home to over 50,000 mustangs,

more than any other state in the US.

Direct descendants of the horses introduced

by the Spanish in the 16th century,

mustangs have been tamed throughout history

and were used as workhorses by the old-time miners.

There's a cool horse skull over there.

Oh yeah. Big one.

What... It's a horse. It just died?

They occasionally pass away or get eaten

by a mountain lion.

- Does it still think? - Yeah, that...

I got a little whiff of that one.

He needed some dental work.

But it's pretty cool.

All right. Fire it up.

All right. Here comes the water.

After a race against time

to reach bedrock, Fred and his crew

are both testing the pay from the north test hole

of the Lovelock mine.

Right now we're all in on this cleanup.

And to be honest, if there's no golden this hole,

this claim is just not gonna be good enough for us.

We need a home.

All we wanna do is mine.

Last bucket right here, guys.

I'm kind of nervous, man. This is it.

We're gonna know, like, if we've got a home

down here or not.

Looks like it's coming pretty clean.

Yeah, it's looking really good.

Okay. Cut it.

So in my heart,

I really want this to work out.

Gotta hope like hell that, uh, there's pretty good layer

of gold in this pan when we're done.

So our future right now is gonna sit in one pan.

Yeah.

You guys ready?

Everything's riding on this.

Yeah.

I'm not seeing the kind of gold I want.

That's disheartening.

So that final pan is...

Uh, I like to see more gold than I saw.

I saw a little fine gold.

Fines can be great,

but they're a lot harder to get.

And I really didn't see that chunk of gold

that I'm looking for.

This ground shows it's consistent

with the flower gold.

I'm not willing to bet and gamble another season on it.

I don't know where we're gonna go from here.

I feel like we're stepping away

with not the results we wanted to find.

I am gonna have to make a decision pretty quick

because if this isn't gonna make me money,

I got to go find something that will.

We put a lot of effort, a lot of time

into this prospecting trip, and we don't really have

anything to show for it.

It's not the claim we're looking for.

So right now, we're homeless.

Look at that. Look at that.

Look at that piece you just washed down.

All right.

As Fred strikes out 400 miles away,

Dave Turin is on the gold in Idaho.

Already got some golden sluice.

All we got left to do is weigh the gold

and see what we got.

If the results of their final test are good,

Team Turin could be mining in Idaho next season.

Let's weigh it up and see what we got.

All right.

Need over 2g.

We're up three grams, dude.

No way.

- That's pretty damn good. - I'm impressed.

With an average of 1 1/2 oz of gold

for every 100 yards of dirt,

it is the richest ground Dave has ever prospected.

And you got to figure, it's through almost

- that whole island. - Oh, I think

- there's mining there. - Yeah.

This snow will all be gone.

Everything will be dried up.

We'll really be able to hit some holes up above us.

And they also look $20 a yard to me.

You add that to that, and we got some volume here.

With the bench and the island combined,

the claim has the potential to yield millions.

Hey, Chris.

Holy Over three grams there.

So what we're thinking is, uh,

we'd love to mine it.

Maybe make a deal with you.

And see what it takes to get permit.

From what I've seen over the last couple days

how your team works together, I would be more than happy

to work something out like that.

- Cool with that? - Sounds great.

We got a deal. - Hell, yeah.

All right. Thanks, Chris.

Yeah, thank you, guys. It's been great.

Team Turin have a new home

for their most ambitious season ever.

I got land, now it's just a matter of putting

all the pieces of the puzzle together.

We found our property, we're sitting at three grams.

That's really, really good gold

on some really damn good ground,

with really good benches and a lot of material.

We might just start digging, man.

Yeah, I'm excited.

We got the ground. It's early.

We're gonna get off to a good start this year.

What's... What's going on with the dozer?

It's not what I wanted.

Coming up on the season finale.

- That thing is huge. - Yeah.

We only got a couple days to get this thing assembled.

Oh, yeah.

Fire it up.

He's alive.

Down to the last shots.

There's everything riding on this.

That's the best pan I've ever seen

- in my life. I'm excited.

With the next season on the line.

I'm telling you right now,

you were trespassing on my property.

You guys need to get out of here.

Let's go.

Against winter's toughest obstacles.

J, see you at the top.

Whoa, whoa.

out of the way.

Everyone is all in...

This world we entered in is cutthroat.

...to find their fortune.

It's a lot more than I bargained for.