"I want hilarious gold." "314)\fs36.883}On this Gold Rush" "We got a chance to prospect the richest creek ever found in North America." "you go for it." "right now." "That's ugly." "in 20 minutes." "I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to be like that." "Geez." "What the fuck." "You got us ___." "Stop." "We didn't add any more water" "We are kicking ass." "Nice job bud." "Spirits are high on the Hoffman claim." "A ha." "A ha ha ha." "That just happened." "I didn't put one scoop in his truck." "A huh." "A hah." "Didn't get any dirt in there." "Fuck." "Got to be kidding me." "00 dollars." "You know what I'm gonna ask you now Dave." "I'd like to take my dad and Hunter and Freddy to take a look at ELDorado." "What do you think?" "three generations of Hoffman men scouted the legendary ELDorado Creek." "with claim owner Peter Tallman." "This is the richest documented creek in North America." "miners have pulled over a billion dollars worth of gold from the area." "Oh my gosh." "But no one has ever found the source of all of the gold." "I want to do it." "while the Hoffmans prospect ELDorado." "everything's running smooth." "now's the best time." "364)}We got a chance to prospect the richest creek ever found basically in the history of mankind." "Be careful." "Love you." "See you in a bit." "you go for it." "Their shortest route up to eldorado is a muddy dirt track." "To be able to go out prospecting with my dad and my son." "This is one of those times where you kinda dream of." "People may laugh at us but in the end." "We do the things that people talk about." "Hey Freddy." "We got a tree in the way." "We're gonna have to stop." "hook the winch on." "I'll back the Polaris up and I'll just pull it." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on." "Looks like we got it." "We got an opportunity of a lifetime." "Let's see what we can find." "can gold be up here this high?" "Wherever the fault is." "Gotta start at the top and then if it's not there." "We have to work our way down." "there is a gold rich quartz vein." "carrying gold down into the valleys below." "the highest gold they find should reveal the location of the vein." "The source of the gold." "We're almost to the top of the mountain here." "then the gold could be dang good right here." "there may not be squat here." "Let's pan some." "Let's check it out." "Pretty dang hard to find a fault line or a vein." "364)}We're looking at feet." "Feet of black muck on top of who knows what under us right now." "Finding a fault line is like finding a needle in a haystack." "Looking for some rounded gravel." "Hopefully close to bedrock." "Probably one of the better spots to hopefully find the source." "We are in the right area." "We just gotta find the right spot." "Nothing." "364)}Nothing." "No gold here." "We're above the source." "We gotta go downhill below the source cause gold follows gravity and goes down." "and we'll see if we can find it." "ELDorado Creek has been mined by thousands of prospectors." "But Jack has faith in his quest." "Careful dad." "They worked this place hard." "but they missed the source." "Water's not getting any warmer." "dude." "You can do it." "No." "You put your hands in there." "You can do it." "Don't puss out." "Justin Bieber of the north." "Here." "Quick pan." "color." "I'm not seeing what'd I'd like to see yet." "Yeah." "I don't see anything." "Same result as the last pan Todd." "Nothing." "So far we haven't had very good luck." "Let's keep moving." "Let's go try another spot." "There's gotta be virgin back in here." "Freddy." "Yeah." "I brought that drone up here." "may be a little virgin patch up there." "You can cover more ground with that in an hour than we can in a week walking around in this thick stuff." "(whirr whirr)" "Hunter is bringing prospecting the legendary ELDorado Creek into the 21st century." "Take it as high as you can get me." "The drone allows the Hoffmans to survey the valley from 200 feet above the trees." "good." "Something the old-timers could only dream of." "Up here." "Look at that." "Huh." "Want to see." "That's an old bench up there." "An old bench on the side." "where the creek used to be." "000 years ago." "It may have been up there a million years ago." "See where those spruce trees are on the bench?" "We know that's virgin." "Those spruce trees are 150 years old." "It hasn't been mined there." "Let's go for a little hike and see what's up there." "The Hoffmans may have just found the last virgin ground in eldorado Creek." "This it you think?" "That sure looks like that bench you had on that drone." "See where it goes up." "You can just see it starting to flatten." "We're right up from where we were flying the drone." "It was just to the left of us up the hill." "A couple hundred yards so." "Okay." "Jack's dream is alive." "All we gotta do is find one place that they missed." "it could have all the gold." "This could be the fault!" "Tell you what I not climbing." "Pretty steep right here." "Yeah." "Well this is definitely virgin ground." "Those trees are 150 years old." "Let's punch a hole right here Hunter." "See what lives under this." "But in the Klondike" "That's not good." "Virgin ground never comes easy." "Ooh." "Feel that." "Ice cold." "Could try a pick." "Even the roots are froze in." "Hey Todd." "Yeah." "Ground's froze solid." "We sure as heck aren't digging it with a shovel." "when the wash plant goes." "You know we're not getting any gold." "Parker's Schnabel's tailing's conveyor is jammed." "And his wash plant is shut down." "It's probably gonna take us a couple hours to get it going but." "Let's get it cleaned up and back together as fast as we can." "I must have did something wrong yesterday to deserve this." "That's for sure." "000 dollars." "Half what he had this time last year." "Hey guys." "Parker and his foreman Rick call a meeting with mechanics Mitch Blaschke and Carl Rosk." "we're spending it." "We need to start making it." "the berm cut." "We didn't get the numbers out of it we hoped for." "we've all been working hard but the gold just hasn't been there." "Need all the trucks on the road." "We need to keep this bitch running." "you know we'll start seeing some gold." "We need to start doing over 100 ounces a week." "Just be on it." "You guys can handle it." "Betcha." "We'll do whatever we can." "Mitch and Carl have to fix the wash plant." "I think we'll be able to get it back up and going." "Yeah." "which has jammed the conveyor and dislodged the drive bearing." "people should be shoveling them under." "They lined up?" "Yeah." "We got our new bearings installed." "We're gonna fire this conveyor up." "We're back to sluicing." "the pressure's on to keep the plant fed." "Yeah." "Let's get that stuff up to the plant." "Parker is in trouble." "364)}So we know what we're shooting for now and that's 100 ounces a week and the only way we're gonna get there is if everybody just pushes harder." "Just start running more dirt." "you got a bank of ice right here." "that is a big chunk of frost." "Hopefully I can break that up a bit." "I'm sending it." "We gotta get fuckin done." "This is ridiculous." "Solid ice." "Just fucks everything up." "Hold it!" "Ooohh." "that sucks man." "That thing fucked the tailgate right up." "Ripped the thing clean off." "That's ugly." "Yeah." "That's U G L Y." "keep moving dirt." "These trucks are our biggest part of that." "So we gotta keep them running." "Parker needs 100 ounces a week to turn his season around." "each rock truck has to haul over 2000 yards of paydirt to the wash plant every week." "Hey Mitch." "I got some bad news for you." "The rock truck has a flat on the front left." "Ah." "That sounds about right." "Cause this one's almost fixed." "And now we're gonna go change tires." "well." "You can take this one and we'll go take a look at that other truck." "a rookie driver." "Fuck." "They did this one in good." "Let's start breaking the wheel mount." "we're gonna end up losing pay." "And none of us want to do that." "Done all the work to get to it." "We want to get it outta the ground and up to the plant." "Mitch brings in the last spare tire from the yard." "All drivers." "You guys need to start watching for each other." "so just keep an eye on things." "Come in a little bit." "Perfect." "Good." "Tyson limps back with yet more damage to his new truck." "Two tires in fuckin 20 minutes." "Same guy." "Like obviously he's driving over where the fuck he shouldn't be." "Asshole." "Say adiós to a new tire." "They did that one in good." "These guys just think these trucks are invincible cause when they break 'em they park 'em and grab another one." "They're breaking 'em faster than we can fix 'em today." "right?" "right." "Take care of it as if it's your own." "now I'm on my last straw." "dump the dirt and take it back to the yard." "Yup" "These guys keep this up we're gonna be hurting." "and they're all out of spare tires." "but I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to be like that." "Mitch heads back to the yard." "back up to my truck." "Your left rear tire's about flat." "saw one of the tire's on it's almost flat." "We've gone all season without blowing a tire." "That's our third tire today." "he has to improvise." "quit leaking." "then we're out of tires and we're gonna be parking this truck." "we're definitely not getting all this pay out." "should hold for awhile till we can get a spare tire." "you make money." "Throw some air in there." "See if that'll hold." "you go broke." "and try and get that 100 ounces." "Here we go." "This one's good to go." "Roll on buddy." "One more fixed." "that our machines hold up." "How ya doing pup." "How ya doing." "What a good dog." "I'd pet you but I got my hands full." "barely a dent in his million dollar investment." "Gene Cheeseman and crew have to get the 75 year old dredge dialed in." "Fire it up." "What the fuck." "Whoa." "Stand back." "Shut 'er down." "okay that's enough water up there." "No." "You got way too much." "I was gonna go shut that one valve down." "You gotta be kidding me." "Didn't change anything." "You shouldn't have any more fuckin water." "Gold should collect in the first 3 feet of the dredge's sluice." "But if too much water hits the sluice too fast the gold will be swept down into the bottom mats and out of the dredge." "Yep." "arrive for a cleanup" "They'll pull the mats to find out if gold is blowing out of the end of the sluice." "Hey hey cleanout." "Sounds good." "Yeah." "Ow." "it's a shitty job." "You can be guaranteed." "It's me and Monica that's gotta do it." "Ohh." "That was great." "364)}I don't get days off so days don't matter." "Weekends don't matter." "7 months out of the year." "Go Kevin." "I get the fun part." "Haul them all the way to the truck." "Yaaay." "Normally we don't a full bottom cleanup." "We only do the top two mats." "the water is not working the way we'd like." "we got to clean up everything." "It's a pain in the ass." "they'll know it's getting blown right out of the dredge." "Back." "This is one place Tony and his kids don't want to see gold." "Huh." "Look at this chick." "do I want to?" "There's gold in it." "See the flake." "Right there." "Yeah." "There's definitely gold in there." "I can see it." "Ideally there shouldn't be anything in there." "there's gold all the way to the fuckin bottom." "Jack's dream is hanging by a thread." "like up in this area." "is frozen solid." "and Todd has a rock truck on the way from McKinnon." "This is what we saw from the air huh." "We come up here earlier." "We made it to there before." "this is virgin over here." "that's virgin." "take it back and see what we got." "I think one rock truck's gonna be about 5000 gold pans." "That's a heck of a test." "Absolutely." "right now." "Damn." "Let's get started." "to get down to pay gravel." "This is our last hope." "we'll find it." "I'm seeing some interesting stuff." "Gold is where you find it and it just might be right here." "I don't want just a little bit of gold." "I want crazy gold." "I am chasing a dream." "And I know that." "I've got reasons for it." "It's not for me." "It's for my family." "It's for everybody." "welcome to eldorado Dave." "Hey." "I know you didn't want to bring this." "But the only way we're gonna find out what we got here is just take a big bulk sample." "one way or another." "I'm tired of chasing his dream." "It's one truckload." "But you haven't showed me anything yet." "Well I haven't seen any evidence" "Hey." "What do you think?" "Think there's any gold here?" "take one truck load of it and let's see what's in it Dave." "You never know until we run a sample." "It's 25 yards." "We'll get it to the plant." "So that's it." "We do it for Jack." "Do the sample for Jack." "Alright." "Alright." "We're good." "Straight back." "Hunter helps his grandfather load the truck." "He's one of the coolest grandfathers a kid could have." "Jack wants to run some dirt." "we're gonna run some dirt." "Just the way it is." "First bucket Todd." "That looks good." "Lots of bedrock." "The 25 yard test takes just 10 minutes to load." "But then Dave has a long slow drive back to McKinnon creek." "the crew has to stop running valuable paydirt from the supercut." "Kevin." "Last bucket." "We're shutting down." "We gotta pull the mats." "Yes sir." "Here's the last scoop you guys." "Alright." "Here we go." "Tony's dredge is shut down." "There was too much water in the sluices." "they've cleaned up the lower mats." "huh." "I think getting rid of some of that extra water is the first step." "Kevin." "with fixing their water problem." "is a lot of problem solving." "right." "So we gotta go to the boneyard and see what we can find." "There's a piece." "Holy shit." "That should give us our length." "This is pretty much just a simple bypass." "So I cut into the main water line here." "gonna be discharge out the side." "So I'll have a valve right here so we can control it." "The water pump only runs at one speed." "divert half the water out through a bypass pipe before it reaches the sluices." "Well we got our bypass in there." "We know we got it all welded in it's ." "We're ready to fire up the water and see if it made a difference." "I like the looks of that a lot better." "Matt's simple bypass works." "and the water in the sluice is now under control." "Yeah I know." "It does." "and oil and grease clear to my elbows." "I'm all wet." "to run a test on Jack's paydirt from ELDorado Creek." "they shut us down." "They're having us pull the mats." "384)}Because they want fresh mats." "They want all these mats clean." "So we can run 25 yards from ELDorado." "but we're doing pretty good." "Seem pretty grumpy to me." "Who?" "You." "I am grumpy." "Let's finish this dream." "Alright." "Then we move on to the next one." "The ELDorado test is doubling the workload in the gold room." "Today's a little different here." "I'm short handed right now." "It's a lot of killjoy." "I hope they do find something big." "it's a dream." "and just hope it doesn't turn out to be a nightmare." "It's finally time to run the ELDorado dirt." "okay." "Let's run ELDorado." "Let's find out if there's gold." "Here it goes." "I hope it's good." "This has been my dream." "Something that we could do together." "uh." "Feel the pressure on us." "ELDorado going through right there." "Just seems like a lot of work." "nothing." "I'm gonna get the with roughly 25 yards run through the plant." "the 25 yard ELDorado test takes less than 15 minutes." "leaving the wash plant shutdown for over 3 hours." "364)}A lot of work to pull these mats for 25 yards of dirt." "putting it in one rock truck." "We were actually here getting gold." "So this cleanup." "It's gonna be a big deal." "It's a big one for us." "It's a big one for my dad." "We don't get 100 ounces" "I don't know." "I know." "I mean." "That's the only virgin ground we found so." "If we had ground like that we wouldn't have to go mine it." "We'd just go pick it up." "Yeah." "My basic dream is to just find some crazy gold you know." "you know." "just hilarious." "I want hilarious gold." "How's it look?" "Dave joins the Hoffmans to find out if they discovered the source of the gold in eldorado Creek." "How much we got?" "After running 25 yards this is not what I expected." "What I'm used to is these 2 troughs right here." "having so much gold in 'em that they kinda start spilling over." "I'm not seeing that at all." "Is that it?" "That's it." "There's nothing." "Zip." "Nothing." "There is absolutely nothing here." "but not happening man." "we didn't get anything." "I'll go on a treasure hunt with you anytime." "You guys are forgetting something." "We pulled the mats this morning." "Dave has already cleaned up the concentrate from their week at McKinnon." "How much?" "We did 138 ounces while you guys were prospecting at ELDorado." "Wow." "this is where it's at." "000." "Jack's bulk test from ELDorado produced nothing." "focus on this." "Keep going." "what's the plan for ELDorado?" "ELDorado is dead." "At Scribner Creek" "That's called a run flat." "Ha ha ha." "the rock truck driver who blew two tires in one day." "Can I go and get that guy to start shoveling around the plant?" "Next I'm bad on that one." "Dude." "I don't care if he breaks shovels." "We got plenty." "Go put him on a shovel at the wash plant." "Yeah." "Watch him get the shovel stuck in the tailings." "He'll learn something and make him do his fuckin job." "The standard punishment when a truck driver messes up his truck is to go shovel out the wash plant." "Rick said I was to come over here and shovel this out for the next hour until the rock trucks are fixed." "You having fun?" "364)}Oh yeah." "Always." "Great fun." "Till I came up here." "I better get back to it." "Lucky day." "It's going." "with the new bypass reducing the water flow in the sluices." "and out of the dredge." "Looking pretty good." "I know." "It's a big improvement over what we had." "They're not losing gold." "Tony checks the top sluice to find out if they're catching any." "I can see it." "Please look at this one." "Yeah." "I never seen" "Only cause you asked so fuckin nice." "What have you got for me?" "Yeah." "I think you haven't learned to count." "That's more than 15." "That's okay alright." "Our poor mechanics have been being run ragged." "We've had trucks breaking down." "We've had problems with the plant." "Treasure Island." "Morning youngster." "How're you doing?" "Looking good." "Yeah." "Real good." "Want to see something cool?" "We have gold puddle after gold puddle after gold puddle." "Ha ha ha ha h ha ha." "Come here Carl." "Watch this." "Holy fuckin wow." "That looks good eh." "Ha ha ha ha ha." "I think we found a treasure." "Parker has only mined 171 ounces of gold this season." "it'll be a big step towards getting his season back on track." "Hey boys." "What's up." "How's it going?" "Are you good?" "Good now." "Let's see." "That looks pretty nice." "chef." "Should have a table?" "100 ounces a week" "At least not this week." "Wow." "And we've been having a lot of breakdowns." "We've been fighting equipment and tires and all that kinda stuff and it's been hard to keep things running." "a few hours there but it looks like it all paid off." "good job cause it kept the plant going and it was not an easy week to do that really." "that's for sure." "So that's a hundred right there." "That's what we're aiming for." "Alright." "Yeah." "There's still a lot more in there." "good mechanics are priceless." "Mitch and Carl proved their worth this week by keeping Parker's operation running." "So we're at 200" "I got another thirty one point five two five." "If they keep spinning off like this I'll change tires all day long if that's what it takes." "And that's another twenty five point two." "So what's the total?" "Two fifty six point eight two five." "Ha ha ha." "000 dollars." "Parker's crew has not only exceeded his 100 ounce a week goal." "they've more than doubled their gold total this season." "Treasure Island is living up to it's name." "We're moving forward now." "We're back on track where we should be." "Hopefully the rest of the season goes like this." "oh no" "Yeah." "Got a few tires in there." "We'll order some tires." "That's just the beginning." "There's more dirt than we thought on Treasure Island." "You know two fifty six off the first one." "307)\fnLucida Calligraphy} Subs by {\fs42.153\b1\i1} Jack T" "We're gonna go get the rest of it." "Good job." "Good job man." "Good job." "Fuckin unreal." "Geez." "More of that." "Keep 'er going." "Yup." "304)\fs36.883}On the next Gold Rush" "Gentlemen." "I got good news." "Wanna run this thing nightshift." "12 hours isn't what I was promised." "We don't give a fuck what you guys think." "shit like this is gonna happen." "All friggen mud." "Shut down." "Last bucket." "We got problems in the cut." "I think we might have just screwed ourselves guys." "I'm not arguing with you but that's pay." "Either you trust me to get the job done or you don't." "That's a pretty good little haul huh."