"295)\fs28} In the last mining season" "Six down on their luck men from the lower 48 ventured to Alaska to find gold." "I'll be down in a fuckin minute." "They spent a quarter of a million dollars." "Where is the gold?" "Aw frig." "000 worth of gold before the Alaskan winter 294)} Back up." "Froze them out." "I lost the first battle." "Now the crew relives the experience." "This was the summer from hell." "What went wrong?" "There was no plan." "Why they left Alaska with only 14 ounces of gold." "It was chaos." "And how bad things really got on the claim." "I was considering beating the crap out of Dorsey." "The rookie miners reveal the untold stories of Porcupine Creek." "Are we gonna talk about that?" "Never before seen footage reveals what really happened deep in the Alaskan wilderness." "And the Hoffmans lay out a plan." "I really think we can do it this year." "To right the wrongs of the past." "And visit a claim deep in the Yukon." "from here on up." "they know what they are doing." "This is double or nothing." "Success is the only option." "Todd and Jack Hoffman recruited a bunch of friends to go gold mining in Alaska." "You guys know that I've been talking about this for a long time." "borrowing and stealing the money to put this thing together." "and all of that that goes on." "And I'm trying to talk these guys into coming on." "that I believe can help us pull this thing off." "We traveled all around Alaska." "and it's a good claim." "I need to know if you're in." "And I don't mean kinda in." "You gotta be in all the way or you're out." "Corey?" "what the heck." "I don't think I'm in." "It's not for everybody." "It is not for everybody." "can't roll the dice right now." "It's killing me though." "Dorsey." "I can imagine." "I'm on food stamps." "I can't afford to fix my tooth." "of course I'm in man." "I was optimistic." "Um you know." "Here's a chance." "Here's an opportunity." "There's nothing else going on." "and there's no construction going on." "Uh huh." "and this is a way to make a living." "I appreciate it and." "It's gonna be a good time." "I hope we make it." "I had to take a gamble." "I was uh close to bankruptcy." "I'd lost everything because of my health." "I had to close a business down." "I was just at the end of my rope." "You know my story Todd." "you know." "I know your financial situation and" "Hopefully it'll pull it all together for you." "I'll do whatever you need me to do." "Just no work." "There's nothing out there." "and asked if I wanted to go gold mining in the..." "Couldn't pass up the opportunity." "None of these guys went down the primrose path with the Hoffmans." "They went as men." "the crew hit the road." "they hit their first real test." "When Todd had to drive the 400 excavator through the Klahini river." "Here we go." "Here we go." "It's glacial melt." "It's fast flowing." "It's very very dangerous." "I was pretty nervous." "Raise." "Raise raise raise." "I had been warned ahead to watch out for sinkholes." "You hit sand that was over a piece of ice that is now melted and now it just got water holding that up." "and go out of sight." "I could see this one that was really deep." "Hey Todd." "I think this is probably the worst place to come across right here.." "It's pretty deep." "Ah." "I just need to get this across." "I just want out of this friggen river." "and I knew it was gonna go in." "Here we go." "Here we go." "Whoa." "Unhook the gator!" "He needed his bucket to push himself up." "I got this stinking gator hanging off of it." "Unhook the gator." "Hurry up." "UNHOOK THE GATOR NOW." "get the." "He's panicked." "UNHOOK THE GATOR NOW." "Losing the 400 would have meant the end of the season." "He was truly upset." "stop." "Hurry up!" "Unhook it." "I will." "you know." "we got the gator off." "And he stuck the bucket in." "Ready?" "Hang on." "I'm getting deeper and deeper and I'm like uh oh." "This isn't good." "I started climbing back out of there." "Keep going." "Keep going." "Stand back." "Its going." "Dig." "Dig." "Dig." "You got it." "(cheering) we'd have been done." "I would not have the gator." "He needs to listen." "okay." "The camera crew's stuck back there on some island." "These guys are straight city slickers and they see the water coming up and they're starting to freak out." "The 400 is there." "This river is here." "And we..are here." "Aha ha ha ha." "They're from London." "(Laughs)" "My dad's yelling at me to go back." "You can't hear A.." "He's screaming at me to come back." "Put your big boy panties on and just wade across there." "That's what I'm thinking you know." "Then we went back and got 'em." "up to this side over here." "you'd better get on." "Let's go guys." "Hurry up." "Hurry up." "Getting up there." "good." "Ya ha." "(Laughing and cheering)" "People were upset that we crossed that river." "And they don't understand." "I had a permit." "I did not crush fish beds or anything like that." "It was a great place to cross." "the crew made it to the claim on Porcupine Creek." "after all the stuff that we had done for the last year." "(Exhales) It was kind of emotional." "I got out." "They kept driving and left me there." "not knowing where we were gonna be." "And the beauty is just insane." "Like being on another planet." "Like an extreme sense of freedom." "There's not even any kind of smell of car exhaust or anything out here." "It's beautiful." "Ha ha ha ha ha." "Oh ho." "Whoo." "Alright man" "Clean it later." "This is nuts.." "We've never seen anything like this before." "We did it. we did it." "We did it." "Did it." "Todd?" "Get up buddy." "Yeeah." "(chatter) hey." "This is the opportunity that we've all been talking about." "We're gonna take it right here." "We're gonna make it." "the hair on the back of my neck stood up and I got the chills." "you gotta get it out of the ground." "did a double take." "you're gonna get paid." "this could be something that changes the rest of my life." "I could come back with enough money to get my back fixed." "Be completely out of pain." "This is crazy." "very emotional." "how hard it would be." "I had no idea what was coming up." "295)\fs28}Up ahead." "She's bleeding." "The shaking and the tremors." "She'd stopped breathing." "The full story behind the mine's darkest hour." "Everything just went Click." "I'm dead." "I'm done." "How gold fever drove Jimmy Dorsey to the edge." "I've been here for 3 months without any fuckin money." "There's no gold." "There's nothing." "And Todd reveals his game changing plan for the next mining season." "We're gonna go north from Porcupine." "There's some secret mine." "We're gonna get gold." "Todd Hoffman and his crew of rookie miners quickly made a new home for themselves in the Alaskan wilderness." "I'm super excited cause all our stuff's here." "We're ready to rock." "John Schnabel." "Todd." "I'm John." "Good to meet you John." "That's what you get down at the bottom." "Schnabel basically shows us nuggets that dame from our creek that we're mining on." "because we know it's there." "That is awesome." "Then it depressed me when he told me that he had dug in this one hole for 2 years." "See in the area of that hill there." "We went down 100 feet to the bottom." "It took us 2 years to get the heavy gold." "000 dollars and a couple years to dig his hole out." "And we're gonna have to set up everything." "In one summer." "Other people have come here." "They've all gone with nothing." "Nah?" "Not a one of them survived." "No." "we realized that we were in trouble." "that's as close to depressed as I get." "It became apparent that striking it rich in the Alaskan wilderness was not going to be easy." "The rookie miners first built their wash plant." "I didn't find out how any of this stuff even went together until we got it up there and started putting it together." "cause we're all just crazy enough to hope so." "the crew started running dirt." "this is fantastic." "But just as they got underway." "Let's go." "Disaster struck." "something happened to Olivia." "And so I just run." "First guys on the scene were the TV crew." "I get there." "I saw cameras laying on the ground." "and she's bleeding. and you know." "She was having a seizure because of the shaking and the tremors." "I'm trying to make sure she's breathing." "Cause her jaw was clenched so tight." "just everything." "now." "Go." "Go." "Go." "We drive like hell." "Try to get her into town." "The doctor yelled out that she'd stopped breathing." "right then." "Everything just went like Click." "I'm dead." "I'm done." "LifeFly her to Anchorage." "They do a whole battery of tests on her there at the hospital." "And they can't really find anything." "it was just incredible." "Hi baby." "Daddy." "How you feeling?" "you just don't know." "Tiger." "Farwee." "Sorry 'bout all this hon." "you know." "Was I responsible for any of this?" "I'm gonna have my family up there next season." "295)\fs28}Up ahead." "James Harness is forced to go off painkillers cold turkey." "anything like that yourself." "His body gives out." "I had this fear go through me." "Is I'm gonna be stuck here for sure." "And Jimmy Dorsey's frustration boils over." "Todd Hoffman has let me down." "Of course he has." "or I'm waking away." "Todd Hoffman and his crew of rookie miners still haven't found any gold." "The pressure was mounting." "Put it back." "We're going to run." "You saw us getting ready." "Been getting ready for 3 hours." "the crew lost the key piece of their wash plant." "destroyed itself." "My heat sunk because there was just so much damage." "It needed to be completely rebuilt." "The shaker needed hundreds of welds to it's frame before the team could mine again." "I gotta send Harness down there to fix up the shaker." "Harness got degenerative discs in his back." "He has plates in both ankles." "You can imagine the stress I have." "You're in a pretzel position for hours and when you have muscle spasms pulling your spine in different directions you get pinched nerves." "He having to live his life on morphine." "for James." "calling him morphine addict and all this kind of stuff but." "taken care of." "Harness's morphine prescription ran out." "who were drug addicts on heroin and stuff going through withdrawal." "(heavy sigh) Stuff like that." "290)}(voice quavering) anythingf like that yourself." "and work." "I couldn't let 'em down." "Then Dorsey cut the exit tube to the jig." "100)}This is just common sense." "there was no gold in it." "100)}This is just basic plumbing." "100)} This is basic plumbing." "tighten things up." "seeing him down there struggling and getting around I really got mad at Todd." "I said "Todd." "What in the hell is he doing down there in that hole"." "Easy." "Easy." "And then like (snap)." "Boom." "Down he goes." "James has fallen." "I had this fear go through me." "Is I'm gonna be stuck here for sure." "Hang on James." "my legs are shot." "It's kinda scary because you don't know if your legs are gonna come back." "You don't know if you're gonna get out of the hole." "Eek." "And it just kinda puts you in shock." "and I knew I had to get out of there." "You hold on I'll pull you up." "Ah." "Got down there anyway." "Something pop?" "Yeah." "There we go." "I got you." "(gasping in pain)" "I spent the next 24 hours" "With every single muscle in my leg and feet cramped." "have it sent up to Alaska." "went the extra mile." "I couldn't believe it." "You are the friggen best mechanic in the world." "and I don't want to let you down." "and you never have." "Finally" "We regrouped and went back." "Just pushed as hard as I could." "Get this thing back together and start rocking." "Was just driving myself to a point where" "I even got the go." "And I proved I could." "ah." "And he gets it done." "He's just friggen awesome." "We're mining tomorrow." "man." "Realtor Jimmy Dorsey eventually lost faith in the dream." "I've given Todd Hoffman 5 months of my life and he's let me down." "uh a child." "a child." "Um." "He's demeaned me in front of National TV." "I mean. the um" "I don't have much respect for him." "you know." "He was going to do his own thing." "And you just can't do that." "Dorsey?" "Absolutely a likeable guy." "Funny." "Is he your gold mining partner?" "I don't think so." "I don't mean this in a mean way but I don't think" "Jimmy really had a mechanical sense." "Get off." "Whoa." "Whoa." "He was out of his element." "Stop." "Stop." "My god." "I just want to shoot him." "the seriousness goes up." "which is not getting crap done because you're so focused on safety all the damn time." "he's not killed himself." "He's gonna do one of us in." "We had lost faith in Dorsey." "but he really didn't know what that meant." "Dorsey threatened to leave." "We're gonna get it done in 72 hours or I'm walking away cause I have no more money." "Then I'm walking off of here." "I'm going downtown." "I'm gonna get a job." "I'm serious about that." "You just walk away every time you have a problem." "Don't give me that shit." "Come on." "Whose team are you on anyway?" "I'm on your team." "he starts losing it." "265)\fs28}Up ahead." "I've been here for 3 months without any fuckin money." "Dude." "You wanna go." "Fuckin go." "This crew reveals how the drama on the claim reached a boiling point." "This is serious." "I was considering beating the holy crap out of Dorsey." "And exploded into a fist fight." "He put his hands on the wrong guy for the last time." "314)}He hit him first." "And we're going to the police first." "So you're not gonna stop us.." "I'm going to the hospital." "Are we going to talk about that?" "I don't know." "Are you showing it?" "Realtor Jimmy Dorsey was ready to blow." "you know." "I don't know what it was." "it was just building and building." "He pushed all the wrong buttons in all the wrong people." "I was considering beating the holy crap out of Dorsey." "Hey Jim." "What are you doing?" "Getting this rock out of here." "What are you doing?" "I'm gonna pull this thing out." "Let's go ahead and put the jig down where it's supposed to be." "faster than anyone else." "he has a long fuse." "Dude." "You're fuckin psychotic." "I am." "Cause I been here for three months without making any fuckin money." "254)} Don't talk to me." "trust me." "I didn't feel good about it." "Dude." "You wanna go." "Fuckin go." "Lost all composure." "and make some sense." "He'd taken me to where I didn't want to go." "I'm not gonna put up with it." "Just stop it." "You'll drive yourself fuckin nuts." "I am going nuts." "that's obvious." "I am totally going" "I'm coming apart up here." "he needed a way out." "And he opened the door the hard way." "for the last time." "they were in a fight." "I just unleashed on him." "I wasn't gonna take it." "the cameras caught up with the Dorseys just as they left the claim." "we're not going.." "Gotta come with you." "We gotta come with you." "to the police." "What's going on ma'am." "294)}Say that.." "He hit him first." "And we're going to the police first." "So you're not gonna stop us." "And we're pressing charges." "Okay." "You're getting in the car." "May I come in?" "Thanks." "We're getting in the car with you." "We're not gonna slow you down." "I promise." "We are definitely not ever coming back." "Don't want anything to do with them." "It was time for them to leave." "the only thing was happening was his straight negativity." "What a waste of time that is." "What a waste of my time." "is what it was." "I'm just really glad to be leaving." "Really glad to be leaving." "was sour." "I think we need to rebuild this little area of town over here." "The rest of the crew decided they no longer had any need for Dorsey's cabin." "Got a little diesel?" "Got a little bit." "Are we gonna talk about that?" "Are you showing it?" "This is gonna be fun." "What did Todd say." "We got to get rid of this piece of crap." "(laughter)" "We lit it on fire." "Ha ha ha ha ha." "You know I don't really care to have somebody gloat over somebody's ill fortune." "I just didn't want to stand around and watch that go on." "They just want it gone." "I basically walked over with the 400 and tore the place down." "It gave me no great joy." "it was an end to the situation." "Dorsey was replaced by another controversial figure." "Dakota Fred." "Dorsey just left." "and here we got Fred in there." "the claim owner sent in his own man to whip the Hoffman crew into shape." "Earl." "I liked the guy." "in his memo "Hey." "Don't mess with James"." "Then Fred blew a hose on the excavator bucket." "Todd." "I was gonna fix it." "James came." "it looked to me like the threads were messed up." "in his opinion." "It's my choice to do it the way I want to do it." "He wouldn't let it go." "He wouldn't go off and do something else." "Think you could roll that in?" "I would have already if I could." "You want to do this?" "Sure." "I took the hammer." "Just called his bluff." "That's like giving me the middle finger." "he is exploding behind me." "You're messing with the threads down there." "You're messing with me." "And you're about to get a hammer in your ass." "Oh sweet." "That'd feel so good." "He wants to shove that ball pein hammer where the sun don't shine on Fred." "That's...not good." "You been in my way since I started." "Now just fuck off and don't argue with me." "Ha." "I wish that had gone on camera week." "Sitting there beating on the thread." "Don't argue with me." "Don't" "I said" "Don't push him." "Don't push anybody." "You're messing the threads up." "Okay." "Okay." "Cause your fuckin nose is in my way." "Get out of my way." "Hey hey hey." "Let's walk." "Let's take a walk." "I just asked you to roll it in." "You know what." "I'll roll something in." "No no no no no." "James." "Stop." "James." "Come here." "He was fortunate that the fellows came between the two us." "the man may be in pain." "it's not a safe situation whatever." "To have a man that is on heavy medication on your worksite." "I know you're in a lot of pain." "I'm not gonna push your buttons"." "directly." "I think I'll step out on a limb." "I'll guarantee you that." "Ha ha ha a ha." "Whooo." "Yeah baby." "295)\fs28}Up ahead." "The Hoffmans head north in the dead of winter to find a new location for their big comeback." "This is drop dead killer claim." "The crew gathers back in the lower 48 to discuss the future." "My heart's there." "I want to go." "next season." "I'm gonna bring my own crew." "you go and do stuff like this." "Jack Hoffman chose a high risk strategy." "was find what is called the glory hole." "From the start of this whole expedition has been the talk of a glory hole kinda." "I'm seeing some little specks." "Earl." "it's folklore." "right here." "Who the frig knows." "and I got gold." "So I finally went for it." "The first few weeks of digging weren't promising." "They didn't have" "Oatmeal size gold." "It was...just dust." "But Jack was convinced he was on the gold." "We needed to go for the depth." "We had to go down." "Jack was just digging." "Jack is digging." "Where's Jack." "He's digging." "And I went down another 30 feet." "it was like the size of a football stadium." "What's to say that that bottom of that waterfall wasn't 300 feet." "We were chasing dreams." "We don't know how deep that bedrock is down there." "Jack hit 50 feet." "And the dream suddenly looked like a reality." "We got our first real nugget." "That was just awesome." "(cheering) in the history of mankind has been to this bedrock." "We're gonna be the first." "We're just seeing more gold line up in that sluice box." "(cheering) 000 dollars in debt." "Now we got the weather moving in overhead." "Finally I reached 75 feet." "just that last little bit." "Next bucket." "It's gotta be the next bucket." "It's gotta be." "the big freeze hit." "they were frozen out of Porcupine Creek." "000 worth of gold." "14.6 ounces." "Pitiful." "He he." "There's no reason they couldn't had 80 to 100 ounces out of that whole season." "basically where we're digging." "You know." "Did I screw up?" "Did I screw us up?" "it doesn't happen quite that way." "I don't think that Jack knew any better where to dig than any of the rest of us." "but that's kinda unrealistic for a bunch of guys who didn't even know what they were doing." "One other dream shot down." "Ta hum." "trying to put their lives back together." "Dad I feel really bad." "I screwed up a bunch of things this last year so." "This next season we needed new equipment." "I need a new wash plant." "And I gotta bring in somebody who knows what the frick they're doing." "Yeah." "I might be able to scrape enough money together to do it one more time." "The rest of the crew struggles to get by." "Right now there's no steady jobs out there." "It's pretty bleak." "So I'm doing what I gotta do." "so I gotta scrimp and save where ever I can." "I know for a fact I can't put myself through what I went through last year." "I don't know what I'm gonna do." "the Hoffmans are planning to do it right." "move." "Ho." "Whoo." "Yeah baby.." "They're lining up bigger and better equipment." "This is one friggen bad boy." "I need a deal." "the Hoffmans still have to convince their crew to risk it all in Alaska." "Again." "we gotta come in with better equipment." "my head." "I'm gonna go out and see if I can get an investor or figure out how I can get the cash." "we're gonna come in with some better stuff." "I really think we can do it this year." "We have to do it this year." "Who's in?" "my family needs it." "I'd like to throw in." "Dream's still there." "I'm going." "I want to be there with you guys." "But Dakota Fred drops a bombshell." "by myself with my own crew." "you go and do stuff like this." "I understand" "A few guys at this table are real pissed off." "they're all big boys here." "You're throwing the gauntlet down." "we're not gonna take this." "in private." "Not in front of the guy." "One way or the other" "I'm gonna be at Porcupine Creek next year." "Fred wants our claim." "And I don't think he wants to pay anything for it either." "to take Porcupine Creek for himself." "We'll talk about it." "and the millions in gold that they believe is still buried at Porcupine Creek." "is in doubt." "Todd Hoffman has to consider other options." "I know you want to go back to Porcupine dad." "You know and I know." "you know." "274)}I tell you what." "I know we're all set up." "I get it." "It's just I worked my heart out." "274)}I know." "I know." "And I don't want to go set up something new either man." "I know." "I think we ought to go look north." "I think there's other places." "We gotta do it pretty quick." "I'm willing to try." "into the Yukon to look at new gold mining claims." "That's it man." "That's the end of the Dalton Trail." "Yeah." "That is where the gold rush is landing we gotta do it." "We gotta try to cut a deal while we're up there." "You're right." "Okay?" "You're right." "Yeah." "Alright." "Let's do it." "Let's head out." "We're going north." "We gotta get up there quick." "We gotta find a claim." "and lock it in." "Success is the only option this year." "This is double or nothing." "home to some of the richest gold fields on earth." "The Hoffmans have come to meet some local miners who know the area." "Are you Marcel?" "Todd." "How are you doing?" "man." "Ah." "Oh." "and trying to find a claim." "And everybody said you're the man." "A lot of people have come and gone from Dawson." "and they're gonna get rich." "that's not how it works." "There is one guy." "Okay." "that you're interested." "so." "Yeak." "It's gonna be tough." "yeah." "Okay." "Todd and Jack have several leads." "ah." "it's 40 below zero." "And the roads are buried beneath four feet of snow." "all the good claims seem to have been taken." "Frigg." "It isn't virgin ground." "I think we're wasting our time today." "that's it." "The dream is over." "Todd is almost out of options." "The Hoffmans reach out to an old mining buddy of Jack's." "Klondike Steve is their last chance." "So this is Klondike gold?" "Yeah." "(CLUNK)" "Holy crap." "huh?" "Look at that big guy." "That's different than what we been getting." "Really." "Klondike Steve has agreed to show the Hoffmans one of his 50 claims." "so." "you know." "You've come to the right place." "why this one." "Special property." "It's all virgin ground." "Never been worked with machinery." "Right there we found 50 million ounces." "Really?" "Where does your claim start?" "Think we're coming up on it." "Okay." "We're on the property here now." "That's Ready Bullion Creek." "That's really nuggety nice coarse gold along this hillside." "Virgin ground that way." "So all that?" "Start mining." "All virgin from here on up?" "Yup." "and move right up this valley." "You're probably getting a lot of phone calls on this place." "I get that." "We got a major gold rush going on." "But I'm hoping that we can put a deal together on this." "We gotta make it work." "Gotta make it work." "I still don't want to walk away from Porcupine." "Cause I'm sitting right on a bucket of gold." "you know." "we're supposed to be." "our future starts right here." "But the Hoffmans still have to strike a deal before they can mine the new claim." "and good guys don't necessarily bring in the cash." "and the season is short." "the rewards could be huge." "We're gonna need a minimum of 300 ounces to make this thing pay." "I honestly don't know if I can do it." "So" "We're gonna friggen find out." "274)}Subs by JacksonT"