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Hey, man, what's going on?

All right, Dave, I got all the guys together.

You wanted to talk to us, so...

What's going on, man?

I was supposed to fly back, see you guys, but...

I tested positive for Covid.

- Oh. - Ah.

It's real.

It's hit and miss, guys. I don't know when I'll be back.

You guys are going to be on your own until I fight this, kick it,

and I'm allowed to travel again, so...

Dave, we're not worried about our situation right here.

We're worried about you, man.

- Yeah. - We got this handled.

It's you that we got

to worry about now.

I hate to spring this on you, too, but...

you know that prospect

that Lance and I went on?

I'd like Nathan to go with Lance

and do that prospect.

We've got the Beetle and we do a bulk sample. I mean, there's 4000 acres.

Jason, I'd like you to keep things moving.

I have confidence you guys will, you know, forge on.

Hey, go get some rest, man.

Take care of yourself and get better, okay?

I trust you guys. I love you guys.

Alright, man. Bye.

Dave is fit as a fiddle.

He'd outrun my ass any day of the week through these hills.

But with Covid, it doesn't matter.

But the big boss and Shelly's gone?

I don't know what to tell any of the guys.

If we don't get to the gold, we don't get to the gold.

*GOLD RUSH DAVE TURNIS LOST TIME* Season 04 Episode 13

Episode Title: "On the Gold Again" Aired on: August 19, 2022.

I'm at war with myself right now.

I mean, all the prospects I've been on have been with Dave.

No, you're not gonna screw anything up.

I could. I mean, honestly.

But you're not gonna. You know how to pan.

As long as you pan the dirt, you will be fine.

**** ****

We're getting close to the end of the season

and this prospect could be our future.

But also I'm jeopardizing with these guys here

if something breaks and they're down.

And if I'm over there and don't find nothing, guess what? It's on me.

He wants you to go.

We're going to be with five people.

We'll make do.

One way or the other, if something breaks,

I'm sure if we put our heads together, we'll get it going.

If something breaks down here

he's far more beneficial here,

but on the same token,

him and Lance together, if something breaks down there

he can fix it there because Dave's not gonna be there.

This is gonna be the biggest week of struggle

that we may have to come up against

because it's going to be a fight to get everything

back up and going without Nathan.

Let her warm up for just a little bit.

When Nathan leaves the site...

You just don't want to hit hydraulics right away, mess things up.

It falls on rookie miner, Andrew Stefalo,

to maintain the $500,000 eagle.

I'm not expecting you to be perfect. No one is.

So, just know that. Don't... stuff happens.

You know, just try to figure it out. That's all you can do.

I'm not confident I know the machine very good.

I got a crash course on it.

Things are gonna go wrong this week

and there's gonna be things I don't know.

It's a stressful situation

but there's still four more start-ups and five more shut-downs to do

and everything in between that.

He's done a crash course

but that doesn't make him a mechanic overnight.

You know if something happens we're not looking to him to fix it.

We're short-handed and we're short a leader.

There's not many leaders like Dave

but we'll keep it going.

Hopefully it goes somewhat smooth, anyway.

In the gold room...

I don't understand why the gold's not there. This is a weird deposit.

After a disappointing 25 ounces last week

from the Cottonwood cut, Jason inspects the concentrate.

What the heck you got here?

That's a lot of iron.

And when I say iron, I mean old iron that I'm finding.

It's not normal.

Whether you're chasing old timers or virgin ground,

you're not gonna get into any scrap iron

until you get to some place that they did work.

You know, whether it was digging, sluicing, whatever.

A lot of this is ours.

It's coming off of the bucket when I'm scraping in on the rocks and what not.

You know, it's still shiny, it still looks pretty fresh.

But the amount of old iron that I'm finding

tells a story that old timers did a little bit of work.

But the only problem is it wasn't done by hand.

There's no way.

It was done by a piece of equipment

and I think more than we anticipated.

Two weeks ago...

What the hell is that?

Dave and Jason discovered an old ground sluice

in the Cottonwood cut.

I think it was just somebody came in here, tried to get a quick buck,

put that old piece of pipe in here and, you know, tried it.

When we found that ground sluice down there...

we realized we're definitely where old timers have been.

I just don't think we realized to what degree and how much work they actually did.

So much iron in the ground

points to a mechanical operation.

It kind of explains the value of these top gravels here.

We're dealing with a tailing scenario, I think.

It would be nice to get somebody that knows this area.

Maybe see what we can learn.

Trying to figure out what has been hit and what hasn't.

As much as I love history, you can't make a living off of history.

We got to have gold here too.

We got the Beetle from the lower 48 from my buddy.

We got it picked up and now I'm going to meet Lance at the claim.

Nathan drives seven hours north-west of Glacier Creek

into the Alaskan wilderness to a 4000-acre property at Stevensville.

He's meeting with Dave's business partner, Lance Baller.

I'm going to be the mechanic slash prospector slash steerer,

and I don't like being all that.

But we don't know exactly what Glacier Creek's going to really do.

You know, we've been having some ups and downs

but right now we just don't know.

We got to keep looking for future ground.

- Found ya. - How ya doing, Nathan?

So, I just talked to the other claim owner over here.

Gave us some ideas. We'll meet him a little bit later

but we got to find the gold.

Once we find the gold, then we'll bring the Beetle in, set it up,

and see if we can make the same recovery on the bulk sample.

- Cool. - So, follow me. We'll see what we can do.

So, we're doing this without Dave.

He's given us areas we're to do.

But we're looking for the next big one

that could be a 30-year mine is what we're looking for.

Last week, Dave and Lance found signs of good gold

on these lower benches to the north-east of the 4000-acre property.

But before Lance and Nate begin bulk sampling with the Beetle...

This time, Dave wants them to run further hand tests in the north of the property

on benches around the confluence of two historic creeks,

increasing the chances of richer alluvial gold.

And it's going to take all of Nate's limited prospecting experience.

This ain't no rookie 10-acre prospect. This is 4000 acres.

That's the real **** deal.

This one actually has me stressed out

and I don't get **** stressed out.

It takes a lot to make me second guess myself

and right now I'm second guessing myself.

Let's dig here.

So, this is one of the spots Dave wanted us to check

up here on this bench.

What we're hoping is these glaciers came down this valley

and they deposited as the glaciers were going over the top.

So right here at the end,

the other thing is on each of the outside of the benches.

They're small cobbles.

You know, small little gravels.

- They're getting bigger. - Yeah.

I'm starting to get some bigger cobbles now but not anything significant.

Oh, yeah, check it. So I'm assuming we'd find some bigger cobbles,

these river gravels, but river gravels pay, so...

This looks a little different.

I mean, that's clay right there. I mean, look at that.

- Look at it forming in my bucket. - It's still casting.

We just hit the clay layer down there so we pulled it up.

The bucket, you saw the clay drop off.

So that's where gold should go down to the clay and above right there.

Anything?

There's three pieces.

12 microns.

- Nothing big though. - No, nothing big.

I mean, it's the first haul on 4000 acres.

Let's go over on the bench and we'll go see what that looks like

- and go from there. - Okay.

I'm a mechanic, not a prospector.

It's a big property to go out here and prospect.

I really want to, but at the same time is

we got an operation back up out east we got to take care of.

It's stressful but here I am.

We're concerned to gain some confiidence

with this machine. But still stress...

Too hard to brush the chian and keep this piece running

Only way we'are gainers to get fifty ounce gold

if its running in.

I shall hope we're worth at the end of the week we'are back home.

The thing is still we start baby.

Andrew's forced to shut down Eagle

and the crew must collectively diagnose the problem

It appears these belts...

It might have been tght.

This belt has... half side?

_ ...early.

We're gonna try and get the belt track

into the center of this... pulling

Cold... cold...

_

- Pretty loose. - Yeah.

See. This... one scored up full by the week end.

That should be our plan.

Yep. Let me button this back-up.

Ready. Fire up Andrew.

Yes.

Right now, the belt tightened.

For the belt its slow takes warm.

Several revolutions all the way round before it starts really make movement.

So this's going to be the most weight, he's gonna pretty much to bill it.

So, this'll give us our best view...

If it slip it, what? It should have been tightened.

Good job done. Good eyes. Good.

I think, it should go. Guys, I'll be behind...

Guys, you're doing a great job.

I mean, we're mechanics, but collectively

we can work and... it out.

We got some heavy snow starting on the top of the mountains,

so winter's definitely banging on our door right now.

It could work out for us or it could be a massive mistake. I don't know.

Guess we're hoping for the best.

Dave?

- Nice to meet you, Dave. I'm Jason. - Pleased to meet ya.

Jason calls in a local miner, Dave Strom,

to shine a light on the mining history of the Cottonwood Cut.

So, I've been told you've got a little bit of knowledge of this area.

I kept track of this trail for quite a while ever since high school.

So from high school till now, you've been walking these hills and mountains?

I claimed three claims down the creek here,

down to about the depth that we could handle mining.

Well, throughout time have you have heard of or even noticed larger gold?

Now, well, I know that the mine here had some nice gold.

That must be the gentleman that was before the???

- Yeah. - Okay.

Do you know, by any chance, how deep they were going?

I think they had a couple of front-end loaders in there.

I'll be damned.

That would explain during our clean-ups

the amount of old little chunks of iron that I'm finding

definitely says there was equipment working.

I know that??? Averaged 40 pounds a month cleanup.

Well they didn't leave much here.

At least, not yet.

Initially, Dave panned promising gold in the Cottonwood Cut

so he directed Jason to run it all the way down to bedrock.

But now, Jason's discovery that old timers used front-end loaders

to scoop up the first four feet of gold-rich pay,

depositing a layer of tailings in its place,

leaves the crew facing a thick layer of previously mined ground.

I do believe that it's got to get better somewhere down here

and, from what that gentleman was saying,

I'm all for it.

I'm still on that hunt for the gold.

Now, it's on Jason to make a tough call.

Go against Dave's plan and discard the top four feet of pay.

The way I'm looking at it, Case, is those last two cleanups,

- they were horrible. - Yeah.

Before, Dave wanted to run it all but I can't keep sending that.

So if you get that dozer and take off four feet or so of top gravels

and get it pushed off, that would help cut off some of that dilution.

If that will bring us some better gold.

There is gold in this but not enough to send to the plant.

Bottom line is do the volume and hope for the best, but...

We don't have time to settle on low grade pay.

When Dave's gone, you know,

he leaves me to, kind of, make the decisions,

especially as far as the ground.

If Dave was here right now, I think he'd have made the same decision.

The guys, they're worried about my health,

whether I'm gonna bounce back.

And the same with Shelly and I, I mean the rest of this is...

It's of no consequence. The mining, the, you know...

The company doesn't mean anything if you don't have your health,

so, you know,

without me being there,

without the leader being there things can go wrong.

So I hope and pray that they can keep it together.

Place it in, buddy.

Morning, just outside Denali National Park.

Nathan, why don't you follow this layer? We'll find the exact spot.

Yeah. Ten-four, buddy.

After their first test toll was a bust...

Nate and Lance head to a spot on the south of the claim with local miner, Tod Bauer.

So, this should be the stuff right here, right?

Yeah, this is the stuff that hasn't been mined.

A miner in this region for 40 years...

There's definitely gold here.

A lot of ground that hasn't been mined.

And even, like, some of the ground

that has been mined, you can re-mine it

and still do good on it.

Are we gonna hit a bedrock or what are we gonna hit?

I think we're gonna be about 15 feet before we hit the bottom.

- Okay. - The way it's been looking so far.

And you just run all this stuff?

Yeah, but the smaller stuff on the top and the...

Look at that **** there. See, that's a different layer, right?

I did not see that.

Okay, Nate, you come down grab your pan, let's go do it.

- Yeah, that's good ****. - Yeah.

Finally, virgin crap though.

You know, my ambition is to learn the gold mining from front to back.

Getting out front, these prospects is what I really wanna do.

I wanna know this side of the business.

And I always wanted to prospect, but with Dave,

not by myself or Lance.

It smells like it, too.

- Does it? - Yeah.

- Are you a snake smeller too? - Yeah. When it has that, like, fishy type smell

it's usually the good stuff.

I do not like this pan.

I don't see anything here.

No, I don't.

That's astonishing.

What do you have, Nathan? I have one color.

A couple of microns.

I can't justify turning the Beetle on for a couple of microns.

You know, I'm worried I'll let the guys down,

but facts are we ain't finding nothing right now.

We got an operation back up out east.

I hope the guys can make it happen and keep on mining,

but this week might be a whole, total waste.

180 miles southeast...

This place is a volume game.

But sometimes you're getting gold and

you're not seeing any of it in a sluice box, I don't know.

I can't make heads or tails, it's so damn sporadic.

After removing top gravels from the Cottonwood cut,

the five-men crew hits full speed

as it runs the deeper layers of pay dirt.

You're in **** ground with **** gold

becomes a lot harder than it should

because you're feeling beaten up just by the ground.

So, hopefully, this gold's a little better down here.

It'll keep the morale up.

- Hey, Chris, do you have copy? - Yeah. Go ahead.

We have a hole in the upper screen

because we're starting to get a little bit bigger material in the small tailings.

Really?

I'll come down and look at it.

We may shut down and patch her.

See, this is our problem right here.

It's letting big rock through.

And that big rock will beat the ever-living hell out of that three eights,

and we've already got holes in the three eights.

We don't need to add any more. We're gonna have to patch up the screen right here.

So let's go ahead and put a little plate here. We'll just bolt it in.

The Eagle houses two levels of steel screens.

Rocky pay dirt constantly beats the top screen

and eventually punches holes in the steel

so bigger rocks slip through and break the weaker lower screen,

carrying some through the plant that end up packing the sluice box,

leaving no room for gold to settle.

With new screens seven days off and mechanic, Nate, 180 miles away,

Jason and Andrew must attempt to patch the holes

using any materials they can find on the site.

Andrew's definitely doing a good job looking at the plant.

He caught a hole in the top screen deck, which is your bigger rock.

And the last thing you want is that bigger rock to go through

'cause it'll beat the hell out of that three eight screen on the bottom

and then we'll be down two screens.

So what Andrew and I came up with

is to just sandwich these two pieces of iron

one on the top part of the screen,

the other on the bottom part of the screen.

Bolt this. Just plug in those larger holes.

Oh, that will work.

It's a good thing we're not getting judged on the beauty.

That's some ugly-ass cutting.

- Yeah, there we go. - That works.

- Yeah. - Got her.

The problem is that you're gonna have to hold that up.

Okay, I'm on it.

Okay, I'm not going to torque it up till we get the other ones.

Give me a nut.

Yup.

She's taut.

Good? Happy with it?

I'd genuinely like to have more bolts in it,

but fire it up and see what's up.

All right, Jason, they're coming up.

We're rocking the box. That's what's up! Good job, Andrew.

Snow's coming quick.

That's why any downtime sucks this time of year

'cause we're trying to make a good push

to get as much gold out as possible.

When we shut down we're not making gold, so...

Hopefully it gets us by for a little while.

You know, right now, Stevensville is not working out.

We're digging fine enough. These old timers are good. They miss very, very little.

They could have washed this whole freakin' hillside down, for all we know.

We don't know.

So, we're gonna meet Michelle. She has lots of information.

And, you know, the more information we get,

the more clues we get to finding where the gold's at.

After striking out in two locations,

Nate and Lance head to Dave's final spot

to meet with landowner, Michele Stevens.

Yep, here she comes.

- Hello. - I'm wondering what the hell you're doing on my land,

digging.

You must be Michele, then.

- Hi. - I'm Nathan.

- It's a pleasure to meet you. - Pleased to meet you.

Yeah. Davis would've been here. He's down with covid rigt now.

- Too bad. - Yes.

He asked me if I come out here and help now.

Um. You know this's a huge area. 4000 acres.

Yeah. It' big.

Oh. How long you've been here?

I've been on this creek for the 28 years now.

Wow! Oh wow!

So, personal mind you're here' or you're coming here mind some...?

I had people coming in mind. I helped them personally mind.

I've got 28 years in operating engineering as

operator. So I operate equipments.

And I got experience for Mining.

So years, you're here all the way then

Oh yeah.

- Oh... - All my life...

My mother was a miner before me.

My father, my step-father they had

claims on the other side of the valley there.

And they are all, um...

I guess... the minings since...

Wow! Awesome!

So, the history of this place, what actually brought people here to gold mine?

I think in the early 1900s, Henry Peters

discovered one of these creeks out here.

As the gold got known, other people came in

and more women have owned my mining claims and leases than men.

That's phenomenal.

The Klondike Gold Rush

saw a handful of pioneering women take to the tundra.

One of the most successful was Ethel Berry.

Known as the Bride of the Klondike,

Ethel spent her honeymoon travelling through the treacherous Chilkoot pass

and made a fortune by staking and mining claims in the Klondike.

By the 1900s, she became one of the region's first millionaires.

And by the time of her death,

she'd earned, in today's money, over $100 million.

Now, we don't have a whole big window

to search, we can't afford...

It's-It's massive and the history shows us here

I men, ...reports and some are of charts...

and you know we.. There's no GPS codes.

...gives you a drawing and your eye.

- What the hell that... - Yeah. Ther're some 70s,

you've to actually navigate the land.

As this whole... is used to be glaciers

So, you look for the glaciers...

and now you'll see lots of gold on the ground

But you get things... glacier channel.

Where do you think we should start at?

I'd like to find a place here about 50 feet off the creek,

and dig a hole, and see what we get.

All right, let's go find some holes and get some gold in the pan.

Let's dig.

You know, Michele knows this area better than everybody.

She's been here for 30 years. She's an Alaskan woman.

She's lived out here. She's an old biller.

I mean, you name it, she's done it.

She's a rough-ass woman.

Right there.

In the Northern area of the claim,

Michelle points Nate to a spot 50 feet off the edge of the creek.

Oh! That's some mucky stuff with clay.

You know, the ground looks a little bit different

than the ground we have punched holes in.

It's got a lot more different makeup.

It's got a really reddish material across the top

and that could be, actually, freakin' pay dirt there.

Nathan, can you wait a second? I'm coming up on the pile.

- Michele, where do you want me to grab? - Right there.

- Okay, right here? - Yes.

You know, right now, we haven't seen anything.

We really wanna see something good.

But, we gotta find that gold first.

If this is gonna be a bust we've got to move on.

What do you got, Nate?

We got gold everywhere.

Good particle size, small particle size.

This is **** good mine. That's very encouraging.

Whoo-hoo!

You know what, we've finally found something, thank God.

Let's get the Beetle fired up and let's get going.

Oh!

Water's glacier cold.

With half a day's run time lost to patching the screens,

Team Turin pushes towards it's weekly gold of 55 ounces.

The Eagle's not in perfect working condition right now.

The top screen has a hole but we're getting by,

and it's running, and we're still getting gold.

We're the reason why the screens are going out.

We can be faster, but we're damaging our screens faster.

You know, it's a real delicate dance. And...

You know, it takes a while to find the rhythm.

This spot we cut is way different than that papicut.

And it's consistent, man.

There's a lot going on right now, lot of **** isn't working right,

there seems to be a little something everyday.

But the one thing is the team...

handling it like superstars.

Just breezing through it, going through it with stride, you know?

Chris to Jason.

Sluice boxes give me big rock sitting on 'em.

Ten-four.

So I'll meet you at the sluice box, brother. We'll go from there.

That is really bad.

That big rock that's coming through that damn screen,

jacking up our sluice boxes.

These gon' pack up in the sluice box

and they'll hold more, and more, and more,

and then it redirects the water and it makes a dead zone.

So this fills up.

Essentially, the ripples down this side are doing nothing.

We're gonna shut down 'cause this is not gonna be good.

- I don't wanna waste the ground. - Yeah.

This and that, that's not a box recovering.

No.

Now, everything close will be recovered,

but once it splashes up and gone, I mean, this is the particle size

that's already down here and it hasn't even dried yet.

Oh! Come bring your knife down here, Jason.

Got more for you right here, brother.

Oh, dude, did you see... did you see the size right here?

- Look at this. - Oh! **** gold.

We're packed with gold on the very, very bottom of the box.

We can't keep doing this once, you know, the rocks get like this.

Probably losing more than we're putting in.

Yeah! Well, we're not trying to recreate a creek,

but putting rocks like that in there,

guess we're recreating a creek.

Chris, before you do anything,

- I want to show you something. - You talking to me?

Yeah. See in here?

Yeah.

Look. There's gold all over the place in here.

- Man! - You see, it's all over the place.

- We didn't lose it all. - That's good.

Just makes me more **** off that we're shut down.

Nature of the beast, you know?

Some of the best gold we've been on all season

and we're shut down because of a screen.

- Hello? - Hey, Dave.

Hi, Jason.

We're having hell with these screens. They're only getting worse.

Obviously, we were throwing patches at it, but I really need screens.

We're not gonna make it through the week.

- Oh, boy. That's no good. - No, it's not.

It's crazy that the patches are what's helping that thing come apart.

So I don't want you to take a risk of, you know,

ruining the structural integrity of that screen.

I-I get that.

Gotta get it fixed right and drive Nathan back.

Are you sure you wanna pull Nate off that prospect?

Right now, we've gotta finish the season strong.

Get some gold.

Okay. We're gonna pull the screen.

It's one hell of a setback and it's just **** all the way around.

Sure does get quiet when everybody's panning.

It does.

Hey, Dave. What's going on, man?

Hey, Nate.

- We got problems back at Valdez. - ****

Jason's kind of in trouble.

He's got worn out screens and I need you back there.

Help Jason out at least for getting gold at Valdez.

So why don't you see if you can wrap things up there

- and head back as soon as you can? - All right, man.

I'm kind of worried about leaving.

We're not gonna be down longer than we are.

I mean, they're down for a day.

I mean, it's gonna take me a day to get back. I mean, seven hours.

It's time to get back to Valdez.

- Hey, Lance. You got a second? - Yeah.

- What's up? - All right.

- The guys need me back there at the site. - What do they need you for?

Freakin' plant.

And we spent days doing this, working our butt off,

and right when we're getting to the exciting stuff.

- I know. - Trust me.

It tears me up to leave that pan behind, not knowing what's there.

But if we're gonna be down, I gotta go figure something out.

The whole thing about this prospecting was to come with a yes or no.

We don't have a yes. We have a maybe.

All right, buddy. See ya.

If we had another week,

we would just leave everything here and come back here,

but we don't have that luxury.

No, it's just irritating, you know?

We got the Beetle all the way here,

you know, been prospecting our asses off.

Finally find a good spot and what do we have to do?

We have to pack it up and head out of here.

I mean, we really wanna prospect this area. We already have a Plan B.

But, you know, with Jason saying how good the gold is,

maybe this Plan B needs to be put on a back burner.

But, you know, our Plan A is the operation and we're down.

I hate the fact that we're shut down. Hole in the screen.

But we can't be run into the ground.

That's the best we've had all season.

This is getting stuck on these bars. I gotta keep...

Yeah, go ahead.

Here you go. Wait. Oh, you got it.

What's going on?

- Go, here. - Okay.

You go on.

- We are here... - Oh, Oh, Oh.

Oh, Oh, Oh.

- ...off. - Release the tension.

- Relase tension. Okay. - I am.

_

There we go.

- Ha, Hah. - Slow.

Ow and slow.

_

You got it. You got it.

Yeah, removing these screens is the right thing to do, right?

Only thing to do.

Sucks 'cause the Eagle's not running but...

we're losing some gold at the end of the sluice box at this point.

- Is that it? - Yeah. That's it. All the screens are out.

Whoo.

- Hey, J. - What up, Nate?

Holy ****. They're beat to hell.

The screens are shot. Jason did what he can do.

That's the thing is. He tried.

We gotta patch 'em right way, get 'em done right, and get up and going.

We would basically put screen material,

old screen material to make it **** work from

and put over the whole thing.

Everything around this is weak.

So, you just put a patch here. This is real thin.

That's gonna crack up and break.

No, I get it and it makes sense.

This is why your happy ass don't leave.

As pay dirt eats the screen,

it places huge strain on Jason's small sheet metal patches

and stresses the already weakened areas.

Nate's Plan,

patch each hole with a much larger light weight piece of screen

to increase the surface area and spread the impact.

Okay, Andrew, lift that mat up.

- You got it? - I got it.

You sure?

The team must re-fit both of the Eagle's screen layers.

I'm on it.

Yeah.

You ready?

Good.

All the patches are on it.

Just radio ahead and see if we can fire it up.

Get back to getting some gold, dude.

Well, between all of us, we got her cinched up, tightened down,

ready to turn and burn.

- Turn it on. - Good.

- Let's run until she pukes, bro. - Ready.

- On the water. - On the water.

Full RPMs whenever you're ready, Jason.

We got a clean box so we're ready to go.

After losing 18 hours of running,

the team finally gets back to business.

Let's do it, buddy.

We're up and running and that makes me happy.

Looks good.

This is all fine stuff.

You don't see a bunch of big rocks going down. It looks really good.

All right, guys. We got a mountain to pay, we got rocks in the box,

and it's a damn good pay going through.

It's gold, baby.

You know, it's probably the right idea sending the prospectors

driving right back here.

I know care what **** weather comes in.

I could give a **** less what Alaska has to throw at me.

Plan A is paying out. We gotta keep running.

On days like this that are beautiful and sunny,

we gotta run this **** like no other.

Nate's been back on the site for almost 24 hours,

and the Eagle now runs at 190 yards an hour.

You know, I briefly looked at those past streams this morning

and that was what Nate's been saying.

And, well, it looks like it's gonna make a couple of days

to, you know, carry us through.

After deciding to discard hundreds of tons of top gravel,

Jason continues to dig deeper into the Cottonwood Cut.

We're on the best ground.

We fought screens like a son of a gun.

You know, you just gotta take every situation as it come.

Very excited we're up and running and Nate's back.

He gets to have the reins over the Eagle again.

I'm happy to just go back to my job and be back in Betty here.

It's been running half a day now and everything looks great.

No oversized rocks going in our small tailing.

It takes some two days out of our run time to fix this screens.

I just hope the ground base is good or gets better.

All right, Chris, go ahead and kill it, buddy.

Come take a look. Let's see what we got.

Ah, there's little bit of gold here.

I see some.

Is there anything down at the bottom?

Oh.

No, I haven't seen anything down at the bottom.

But you never know.

All this gold right here. Oh.

Oh, oh, oh. Yeah.

- Well, let's get to it. - That's all for today, boys.

With Dave's wife, Shelly, away, Jason runs the concentrate.

I'll be genuinely happy if we can even reach

what our normal goal would have been.

You know, that 40.

Considering we were short-handed and broke down.

But to hit the 55, that we actually need

to get back on track, that one's gonna be hard to hit.

A plaster deposit is never consistent.

So you gotta enjoy the highs,

'cause you gonna get smacked upside the head by the lows.

All right. You got some good news for us, I hope?

Well, let's take a look.

- Y'all got to see our gold. - All right.

There's three.

There's six.

17.

26.

There's 32.

Oh. 46.

Come home.

There we go. 53.4 ounces. Oh, that's pretty good.

That's worked on it.

Almost a $100,000 in gold

leaves them a 130 ounces short of their season goal.

I'm mean, that's a lot of freakin' gold.

- Good job, guys. - Good job.

- That's what I'm talking about right there. - Oh.

- Good job, guys. - Good job.

Hell, yeah.

If the ground stays how it is, and if the Eagle keeps running,

450, we can hit it, and maybe get a little bit more.

The gold's getting better, you know. And stuff like this

makes it all worth coming back.

Hey, Dave.

Hey, Jason. How you doing?

You know, we're doing.

For being a short crew, broke down,

we did 53.4 ounces for the week.

Oh, my gosh. Well, done. In four days?

- Boy, we are on the gold at this rate. - Yes, sir.

Good job.

Can you imagine firing on all cylinders with all hands on deck?

We can just be killing it...

- Oh, we're gonna. - with that kind of gold.

We're gonna.

Losing two key guys and still pulling 53.4 ounces?

It just feels good. Gold makes everything better.

We'll talk to you later He sounded way better.

Yeah. He's good.

Yeah. Well, and then he sounded way better after we gave him that number too.

- After that one... - Definitely.

- One, two, three. - All in.

Let's go, boys.

I wanna learn, I wanna grow.

But there's a time to learn, a time to grow. Having that kind of gold,

I'm not leaving that plant.

No matter what, we're gonna beat the **** out of it.

We're gonna get a lot of gold.

What the **** is happening?

On the next episode,

the Eagle is pushed past the brink.

If I could jam it up a little bit...

It's had a lot of wet material on it.

- It's not the material. - Yeah.

And tensions rise within the team.

I mean, he might be right. All I know is...

I make calls all day. They're just not heard.

As Dave hits Montana...

Feel like I'm on sacred ground.

Ground virtually gone.

For the deal of a lifetime.

They were very apprehensive.

You just can't trust any miner.

Oh, you son of a gun.