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Heading to town right now to go ahead and meet up with Mark.

After an urgent supply run, Dustin Hart

has one last stop before returning to his remote mining

claim.

Mark's the guy to go to if you want

to find out what some gold is worth.

We have a pretty big nugget, and I'd

like to see what he thinks it's worth or on borrowed money

right now, so a lot of payback happening.

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How you doing, what?

Hey, Mark, what's going on?

I'm going to get it.

Yeah.

So this is the one thing that I wanted to ask you about.

We had never seen anything like this before.

Holy s***.

No way.

Oh, my aching ass.

That is great.

Huh, I wonder if that's why they call it nugget.

I'm just saying.

That is 5.8 Troy ounces right now.

That is a beautiful chunk of gold.

Oh, my gosh.

You know, that's kind of an expensive piece of gold there,

Dustin.

What would you sell that one for?

It's got a sort of a collector's value.

Nobody's going to melt that down.

I mean, they're going to put in their safety deposit,

or put it in a case in their house there.

That's the sound we love to hear.

Clunk?

You know, your pound nails were that thing.

Sssssssss.

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I mean, you could go 60, 60 or $70,000.

Damn, that's a lot, man.

You think I get that much, huh?

It's got enough character to it.

It's a solid chunk of gold.

Yeah, shoot for that to begin with,

because that's the largest nugget I've ever heard of that's

out in the whole porcupine area.

It's a pretty unique chunk of gold.

Don't get caught on the street of Chicago with that.

Nobody knows I'm holding it.

And if he did, I can't really go anywhere.

There you go.

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Well, 70 G's would get me through a bunch of stuff.

We need to find more of these.

Yeah, it would make for a hell of a season.

All right, man.

Appreciate it.

Take care, buddy.

70,000 is not going to be enough.

If we're going to do this again, I have to find more.

It's not something I want to do.

It's something I have to do.

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This is a very risky idea.

You got a ball, baby?

Boom.

Look how big it is.

There's a ton of gold down there.

I need this boulder.

A lot of here, I need to see what's on the bottom of the third day.

We're trying everything best, we're trying everything.

Three, two, one.

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Yeah!

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We're going to face the gold.

Definitely chunky.

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In just a few weeks, the harsh Alaskan winter will descend on Nugget Creek, locking out Dustin

and his crew from their claim.

You don't like a rod in a cold.

Are we ready?

The treacherous Serku River is their only way to gold.

So Dustin's airboat is the lifeblood of their operation.

Oh, this thing's cool, man.

Last week.

Oh, ah, ah, you motherf***.

Disaster struck when they crashed both their airboats.

Everybody almost nearly died.

Go! Get a couple clicks!

Oh, see back, baby!

But a bush rescue and repair got them back in business.

Yeah!

F***!

Toronto's stuck.

Holy f***!

I don't know what to do here.

It's for Toronto.

We got stuck.

Oh!

You saved me, Jason.

You stuck under the front seat.

Break that bus s*** away in trouble.

I've got it more than half.

No, I've got it.

Perfect.

Thank you for getting that pedal on stock.

Holy f***!

That was a nightmare.

That could have been bad, right?

Holy f***, man.

I see what you guys doing in the pedals all the way down,

because why isn't it coming up?

I just couldn't get the pedal to come off the floor.

It was bad, bad.

You have to put pedal to the metal all the way down.

And Wes sets back here and look where they have to see.

Pedal's still stuck.

Pedal's stuck.

And Paul was trying to get this pedal up.

Look at this.

Look, see?

You can't.

And let the seat comes up.

It's not like we can call a frickin' auto club, right?

Alright, let's get to work, yo.

Paul went down last and we're getting a little desperate

because we're falling behind right now.

It's getting cold.

So we're trying to beat the snow is what we're trying to do.

Dustin's staking his season on getting to the gold

beneath the large 50-ton boulder that nearly killed them

last season.

This is a rematch and we have to win or else we're done for ya'll.

But during the last dive, the crew discovered a new problem.

This virgin ground is like trying to drink from concrete.

A giant boulder encased in ultra-dense hard pack.

Some of the hardest dredging I've ever done.

This sucks.

Sucks.

Gold blaster to the rescue.

To bust through the hard pack, Dustin's brought in equipment

that belonged to his late father, Fred Hurt.

Fred's gold blaster.

It's a big pressure washer.

Paul kinda got to a point where the regular pressure washer that we have

just isn't working well enough.

Alright, let's go.

Dustin hopes Fred's gold blaster that delivers an extra thousand pounds of blasting power

could be the key to unlocking the ancient gold.

Be slow, be slow.

Slow, slow, slow, slow.

Slow as fast.

Where do you need this thing at?

A little bit more.

First thing, we need to get Carlos in the water now.

Let's go change out filters if we have to.

Let's get the boat in the water.

All that s***, let's get it going.

That right now, my main objective is that boulder has to come out today.

Has to come out.

We've dropped days behind schedule.

I believe that boulder is in the line of our gold frickin' street.

The gold blaster is a gift for Fred and this is going to speed up everything.

There's no excuse that we can't cut that big boulder loose to drag it out.

But if it doesn't, then we'll crack it.

If we can't crack it, we'll chip it apart with a little hammer.

It doesn't matter, we'll get this rock up.

Four feet below the surface, the crew has hit a monster boulder the size of a refrigerator.

Locked in place by Ultra Dense Hardpack.

If they can clear Mother Nature's grip on it, they could open a vault holding massive nuggets.

There's three ounces of gold for square foot on the bedrock.

That's a lot of gold that's just sitting there waiting for us.

It's imperative that we get this large boulder out.

We get it out and we're getting closer to the gold.

Keep the water as clean as possible so you can see as much as you can.

Running out of time, I need this boulder out of here and I need to see what's on the bottom.

I'm panicking a little bit.

I got you, man.

I've started to freak out.

Alright, guys, let's go. Let's go get this boulder out.

How's it looking down there, man?

This boulder's locked in.

Got a long day, dude.

Okay.

Alright, I just want to prepare myself. Thank you.

I need to get the gold blaster here.

Here we go.

So we're going to leave this on you because if we spray up here, we're going to black you water.

Trying to give you a bit of a bit of a chance today.

That's going to get you fixed, man.

Red, Hertz gold blaster.

Rocket roll.

That's freaking awesome, dude.

Whoo-hoo!

You better get still, freaking open this.

The gold blaster is going to freakin' make sure.

This is kind of like a tribute to Fred.

It works really well.

It's perfect for what we're doing right now.

Thank you, Fred.

Snow is now creeping down the mountains.

They need Fred's gold blaster to get them to the gold before winter freezes them out.

Even though it's gold down there.

I don't know how they couldn't be gold down there, but I've been skunked before.

That's how it is.

This is the biggest damn gamble of my life right now.

Last thing I don't need this boulder here, and there is so much hard-pack under here.

What do you mean, like you got another 3p to go in?

I know that's not what you guys want to hear.

Man, I can't get this in my bench to move now.

It's locked in.

Holy moly, man.

It is packed under here.

The boulder's in hard-pack.

No wonder this boulder don't want to go.

What was that?

Is it no wonder why this boulder don't want to go?

It just stuck, right?

Oh, these rocks are locked in together.

That's getting pasted from 6 o'clock all the way to 1 o'clock in frickin' rocks and hard-packed.

God damn!

It's not going to be the easy dig that we were hoping for.

It's better damn well-pons than gold.

How you doing, Carlos?

Holy moly, man.

He's packed under here.

Jesus.

Two and a half hours into his dive, Carlos has hit an impenetrable roadblock.

Carlos is into something that we like to refer to as rock-locked.

Imagine this.

Got a bunch of rocks piled up on each other like that.

Well, if they offset each other just a little bit, you can't get that rock out.

You can't get that rock out till you get the rock on top of it.

Fred's gold blaster has revealed that the giant boulder is surrounded by a field of smaller rocks, locking it in place.

Until Carlos can locate and remove the keystone, he has no chance of removing a giant obstacle that separates them from the gold.

I just need the keystone. Get the keystone.

Get all the rocks and boulders should just come apart.

Can you find the place?

He's looking for the keystone right now.

But his search is all about.

It's frustrating. I know it is.

I'm in there. I've had to leave the water.

It's not as great as you can quit.

I think of this one right here.

Yeah, yeah. All right. I've got the boulder right here.

Copy that. Save you break the brain.

Carlos attempts to drill into the keystone, using their old pressurized underwater drill.

Holy moly, man. Not under water drill. It's a nightmare.

We can do the Fred day.

They've been cool from up here.

Are you drilling? I can be down there.

Classic, you know.

Kind of like what you used to do in the old day.

Red style?

Red style.

We can try.

Yeah, we can definitely try it.

Four years ago.

Hey, we haven't fun yet.

Dustin's father, Fred, pioneered a new technique.

A super-sized bin allowed him to use a more powerful drill from the surface.

It is working.

Now, Rock was hiding some gold. I know it.

Right there, buddy. Drill, drill, drill.

You remember when Fred used to take those rods and weld the drill bit on the end?

I remember drilling from 10 feet up on the bridge.

Remember? Oh, y'all lined it up on the rocks. See if I can get it started.

What about when they made the 20 foot one?

I thought that was hilarious.

Yeah, we've got some interesting things over there trying to learn how to do this.

Alright, Carlos.

As far as I can go.

Okay.

Let's see. Hold on.

We're trying everything, man. We're trying everything.

Alright. Take it out.

Oh, there. That was pretty cool.

What are you doing?

Another one, please. Thank you, sir.

I'm sick of this rock.

Alright, everybody in.

This is the second time we've dredge around it.

We've got to get it out.

What's up, Brian?

Oh, okay. Oh, I think that's it, man.

You got two?

That's something to say.

Alright, buddy.

We're already getting in.

Alright, buddy.

Alright, buddy.

Alright.

Am I ready?

Alright. Good hot, rigorous crust.

Fire in the hole. 3, 2, 1.

Oh, smoke.

Wow. Y'all feel that?

This is flopped pretty good.

Yeah, yeah, I'm just broken free.

Hell yeah, man.

Nice.

Hey, he's nice.

I like Keystone.

Whew!

That's a pretty good size boulder already.

Yeah, I don't want to jinx you, but does it feel like you just broke the Keystone?

Yeah, man.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, good job, man.

Wow.

Ha ha, yeah.

The battle with the Keystone may have been won, but it's custom a full day.

You got to get dark on it.

Get in long enough.

You want to work some more?

You done?

Yeah, I've done it.

Alright.

Yeah, good dive, dude.

That was a low dive, so stay on your feet if you can.

You said it before, it's nothing that we ever encountered.

Holy crap, man.

One little speck.

Pretty little piece of gold.

Definitely chunky.

No nuggets.

There's a speck of gold in there.

And that came from the boulder.

The only thing I can hope for is just more and more and more to come.

We need more than that.

And I tried and tried my best to get around that boulder, but no wonder why that boulder

would move.

It was encased.

In case, with hard pack of boulders and all that, now I threw you up to good 75%.

They're going to have to continue right left off.

The boulder gots to go.

Whew.

Didn't get the rock out.

Pissed me off.

This rock is that important right now.

Hey, rock.

And you're a big dig.

My dig is pivoting on the wall.

It's pivoting on the A rock.

We move hundreds and hundreds of rocks every day, and now one rock is in my way.

One rock between me and go.

Up ahead.

Most of the spawners exposed.

I don't see a low.

You can't break it up.

Whoa.

Oh, whoa.

I don't know if one engine's enough.

I have crazy in my eyes all.

Just take more thoughts.

We're going to try.

This is a very risky idea.

This is a very risky idea.

It's going to be a wet one today.

It's going to be a wet one today.

As fall gives way to winter,

Alaskan storms come thick and fast.

I saw on the weather forecast that's not looking good.

They've got us under flood warning.

That's definitely not good.

Making getting down to bedrock gold.

Even more urgent.

It doesn't look horrible.

I mean, except for the snow up there.

It's not.

It's all the termination dust.

So if it floods tonight, today's our last chance to get to the bottom of that sucker.

Are you going to get that rock out?

We're going to have to.

We have to get that rock out and see what's on the bottom.

One boulder is keeping us from touching bedrock right now.

And we know bedrock bottom is where the gold's at.

So the main miss today, get that boulder out and see if we can't find some gold.

Hey, it's a 12 hour day.

I'm sorry, but that boulder is coming up.

Whatever we got to do, that's our only goal.

Today's that day, everybody cross your fingers at this goal down there.

All right, everybody know what we're doing?

All right, let's get to it.

We're at a bit of a time crunch.

Tonight it's supposed to get two to four inches of rain.

This place floods.

All this goes away.

The ground takes away.

We're in for a ride.

So we have to move the stand boulder and clean off a set of bedrock today.

It doesn't happen today.

We're going to start over.

Check your air.

Oh, that's fine.

Yeah.

Have a good dive, man. Get some more gins.

Oh.

It feels like a little bit of kitty litter in here.

Oh, come on, more butter.

Equalize.

Damn, but it's like Carlos got most of this boulder exposed.

I can't believe it won't move.

Yeah, well, we got to expose it more, don't we?

Actually, I think what he's got.

I don't see low. He can't break it up.

He's got enough of an explosion.

We shouldn't be able to expand it.

All right.

Well, I'm working on the underwater trail right now.

I didn't think you needed this soon, but...

Yeah, do you want to pop it or what?

I think that's going to be our best bet.

If you think you can crack that thing, we can get it out of there.

That would...

Yeah, that would be a big deal.

I'll be that as thick as this is.

I don't know if I can use the three foot bit, but I think there's one underneath the three foot bit.

I might be able to drill people.

And maybe four to five boosters might break this in half.

Okay.

I'm in, man. If you can break up that rock, I love it.

It's, uh, I'll lose the sleepover right now.

Yeah, I think we all are.

All right, we got a drill ready for you whenever you're ready, man.

Thank you, sir.

Make it count. Make it count.

Ahh.

All right.

You got one for a power hit.

Yeah, yeah.

That was quick.

That drill kicks off, man.

That was rough, wait.

I hope that you can break this rock so we can get it to hell out of there.

I hope so.

So all the boosters are in.

Power hits, man. Hopefully just take this one.

One pop to break it. Do it. Break it half.

And I probably need to get out of the water for this one.

I thought she's like really big concussion.

All right. Somebody's on the trigger.

All right. Three, two, one.

All right. Let's see if that's any, man.

Let's see if we busted the damn rock.

Well, they're broken in a bunch of pieces.

Oh, well. That's not what it is.

Whoo!

Finally!

Yeah!

I think there's at least three big pieces of how many small pieces, but...

That went way better than I expected.

Awesome, man.

Oh, my God! You've got some slings. I'll have to put some slings around this.

All right. Here's the joker right here. Grab them up. See if we can get them hooked up.

All right.

Sounds like he broke it into a couple pieces.

We call that a center punch. You try to hit the middle and it'll break in different directions.

That's awesome.

This is exciting.

So what you're gonna have to do is take a minute,

figure out which ones to bar this that way.

Yeah.

I got one right here, but...

Can I get a prime heart? I have a prime heart.

Well, that's a little...

What's up there?

Open your bed. Open your bed.

What was that?

I think there's at least three big pieces of how many small pieces, but...

That way way better than I expected.

Awesome, man.

Here, let's wrap them up and see if they're hooked up.

At Nugget Creek, after a successful blast,

the crew can finally clear what's left of the huge boulder

that blocks their path down to gold.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Open up here.

Open your bed. Open your bed.

Open your bed.

God damn it.

God damn it.

In this **** up.

Stop it.

Hit the ****.

How are they all this ****?

What was that?

Oh, it's seized.

It blew up.

It's seized.

It's lost a motor.

It's seized.

All **** things we lost a motor today.

All **** things today.

It's seized, man.

Couldn't break it to the end of the day after the gold box was full of gold, huh?

**** ****.

Stay as warm as you can.

I'd keep that water if I were you.

I've put it inside.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

Okay.

It's not steaming or nothing.

It's not locked up good.

Always **** up, man.

****.

The dredge has two motors that supply hot water to the diver

by passing it around the exhaust pipes.

The motor that provides poles vital air supply is still working.

But without the hot water supply from both motors,

his core temperature will plummet in the 34 degree creek.

What the **** do I do?

I'm black.

We got it broken to some pieces, but I can't get hot water in here.

Kind of a waste of time.

It's a little depressing.

It's cold to you.

Get a **** cold.

Always **** something, man.

What's going on, James?

It turns over, but then it automatically stops like is this something's restricting it internally?

It sounded like a festive blue or something like that.

I want that rock out of there.

I agree.

What I'm going to ask you right now is we're going to turn that pump all the way up to air pump

and see if I can get you enough heat to go down there and hook those things up as fast as you can.

How do you feel about that?

As long as I got air, I can probably try to get those motors hooked up and out.

This is really important to me.

We're only giving the diver half hot water.

So that should be good enough for Paul to go down,

hook up the rocks real quick and come back out.

We need to get those boulders out.

So right now he's on the time limit.

This is a very risky idea, very risky.

Okay, Carlos, let's get you primed up as hard as you can.

And as full blast as you can, I'm going to see how much hot water we can get to him.

Fully open.

Copy.

I don't know if one engine's enough, but we're going to try.

Maybe, just **** maybe.

We get him warming up to wrap these rocks up.

I need these rocks out.

It's a day.

If Dustin's plan fails, Paul will suffer hypothermia.

And with the nearest ER several hours away, any error could be fatal.

Just going to get cold really damn fast.

Right now it's snowing on top so it makes the water a little bit colder than it was two days ago.

And now he's running with half of the hot water.

It turns into, well he'll be shaking here in a minute.

It doesn't take long.

Oh god, that is cold water.

Alright, I got one ready.

Alright, here we go.

Alright, I'll catch up.

There he goes.

Come on.

Stay hooked up.

Ooh, that's got some tension.

Oh, there goes, there goes, Paul, baby.

Stay on there, stay on there.

Oh ****.

Yeah!

Look at that thing.

That's a beautiful sight.

That's one part of the rear.

That's one part of the rear.

That's a big piece.

We'll try to lift that sucker, man.

Oh, leak out, look how big it is.

And that's one part of it, huh?

Yeah, that's one of them all in part of it, actually.

Get the **** out of here.

Holy ****.

Is that cold?

Yeah, I'm not about to keep up with cold water.

Absolutely not enough.

I'm feeling some weird **** right now because we got the rock out finally and we can't go drenched out there because we don't have an engine.

The rain is forecast to only get worse, increasing the pressure to get down to bedrock gold.

This is our last chance to find out what's down there.

If it rains two to four inches tonight, this is all going to be 100% covered up with big rocks that, well, right over his head right there.

It'll take us another week and a half to get back down to where the hell we're at right now if we let this go today.

Not what we needed.

All right, so let's brainstorm right quick while he's warming up.

Would it work if we stabbed the motor on there and just bolted on for the moment, not permanent, just stab it, make it work?

Do we have anything that's together with heaters on it?

Maybe we have to go look if we let this go today.

It'll take us another week and a half to get back down to where the hell we're at right now.

We just got to go look.

We just got to go look. I have nothing in my head, but I think we have stuff there.

We just need to go to camp.

If the crew have any hope of getting to the bottom of the creek today,

Wes needs to come up with a solution before Paul succumbs to the frigid temperatures.

This is the right one.

Is it?

Yeah.

Who is part plugging this one though?

Make it fast. Make it real fast.

You're going to get cold really quickly.

All right.

We got a hook.

Oh, this is on.

Yeah, another one.

There's another one. It's coming up, man.

I'm happy that this brick of motor is finally coming out.

Let's get out of there, man. I know you're cold. Come on up.

Paul must surface to avoid hypothermia as his core temperature plummets.

Sorry, man. I don't know what to tell you about this one. This is way out of bounds.

Yeah, it is.

The timing couldn't be worse, man. Holy ****.

We need that **** motor.

Yep.

I think we can get the next sparkling out of there.

I think that's all we need, and we'll be ready to go.

Put a little fuel in to see the fire up.

See if it'll fire.

Yeah, just see if it'll pop.

All righty.

There you go.

Fire.

Good to go. All righty.

Back to business.

Back in business.

Woo!

Got another one in you?

Yeah, I got you.

It's important that you don't get like shook, shook.

I'm okay with you getting like cold, but you start getting at her internal shake.

You're done. The energy level drops so hard you can't move.

All right.

So ****.

We're exposing bedrock.

We gold on it.

Yep. The place that we guess I'm covered.

This is our last chance before it floods, I think.

We need that **** motor.

How you doing? You got me?

I have rings in my eyes all.

Down to a single dredge engine.

Diver Paul is now experiencing early stage hypothermia.

We got one more to go, baby, huh?

Yeah.

Just get warm. Just take warm thoughts. I don't know what to say.

Okay.

Ha ha ha.

More thoughts there.

So ****. This was our only chance.

This was it. This was our shot.

Yep. The place that we guess I'm covered.

At Nugget Creek, a weather front inbound.

Dustin and his crew must get down to bedrock gold before the storm sends rocks and debris into their dive hole.

**** car, little again.

Alright, no dude. Where are they?

How long do we go without gold?

Or it just cost us to be here?

Whoo!

We got an engine.

Luckily we had another engine. Everything's the same, so we just snagged it off and it was good to go.

I'm going to take that engine all the way over.

This is a head-neck way of doing this, but it should work. Engine in place.

Oh, thank God. Thank God.

Get that motor on there. Let's see if it works.

Let me get to dark here at about 7.30 right now, I think. Something like that.

We can get this up and running.

We get about two hours of digging. I want to be able to get down there, clean up everything you can, get some gold,

and get out of here before it's actually dark.

This is a dangerous place.

Alright? You got it.

Look at that. Perfect, man.

It's got a good flow.

Oh yeah.

Yeah, fellas!

Hey, Paul!

So, man.

Got some gold, baby.

No, don't forget your bit.

Hello, and welcome to your second chance.

How you doing, man?

I feel good. That's not bad right now.

Alright, let's do this, Danny. You ready?

I'm ready. Get out the gold!

It wasn't a dig. Everything underneath that rock.

We beat the weather. That'll be amazing.

I mean, really amazing. It has taken us a long time to dig this from up here to down there.

Let's go going down.

It's still going down.

It's still going down.

Well, you made it.

It's not a bedrock yet. It's still going down.

What is it?

What I'm seeing is right now we're just boulder locks again.

That's it, but boulder's down here.

Everywhere.

Holders are everywhere.

What about the bedrock?

I haven't seen bedrock on the side yet.

That's still got boulders right here.

There's boulders here.

Holders there.

Holders here.

Holders all over the bottom.

Oh, ****.

Sucks.

I know we had an easy dig today.

I'm hard to get it that way.

We removed what we thought was a cap over the top of the bedrock.

Sure enough.

It just keeps going and it's a lot more boulders.

Got the dredge up and running.

That's a cool thing, but

just needed to see what was on the bottom and it doesn't look like I'm getting there.

This is going a lot deeper than I thought it was.

A lot deeper.

There might be a trouble here.

On the next, gold rush, white water.

We were ahead.

Now we're not.

At this piece, we won't finish.

Got a new plan.

James is a beast, man.

We're going to drain out the dig site to see what's at the bottom of this thing.

All right, let's get it going.

All right, up.

Oh, ****.

This is a race against time.

How big is that thing?

Is that connected?

Is that bedrock?

I bet.

This is an ancient water.

Holy ****.

What is that?

That means there's going to be a lot of damn gold right there.

All right, let's do it.

Let's find some gold.

Yee-haw!

I want to see this thing.

This is why we do it.

Double down right now.

Check the clock.

Put this feeling right now.

Look at it.

Oh, yeah.

Wow.

This adventure is in us.

Wow.

Look at that.

Those are big pieces.

Finally, today, we made it.