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I still believe there's great gold in Alaska,

waiting to be found,

but this place takes a certain person

that's willing to risk it all.

So much water coming into these canyons, all summer long.

From the moment we stepped on this property,

we have fought water.

This is gonna be an uphill battle.

This is an extreme environment.

*bleep*

Dave, you got copy?

Go ahead.

Gotta see it to believe it.

This is what nightmares are made out of.

Oh, *bleep*.

*bleep*

It's not good.

Can't mine underwater.

You know, the old-timers kept moving north,

because that's where most of the gold was.

You know, we own the ground,

we own the claim,

and we're on ground that's never been touched before,

so we get to be the old-timers here on this ground.

Already ten weeks into the mining season,

as well as Old Dan,

the crew also has its 100-yard-an-hour wash plant,

The Roach,

to help push ahead with Dave's 600-ounce season goal.

Hey, guys, meet me over at the equipment.

I need to talk to you real quick.

We don't have much time here.

We're so far behind.

Yeah.

You guys know. I mean,

we've been prospecting for three or four months.

Now it's go-time, so...

This is our best opportunity to get a lot of gold.

The way I see it,

- let's run both plants. - Yeah.

I think if we can run both plants,

that's one way to increase our volume.

If we go up to 130,

140 yards an hour,

- we're getting a third more gold. - Whoa!

These three guys get Old Dan going.

But, Dave,

at 130 tons an hour,

that's gonna be quite the haul.

It's gonna be tough.

It's gonna be a flat-out "just grind."

- I mean, you gotta make some quick trips. - Yeah.

You've gotta keep him loaded.

You've gotta keep that pay coming,

'cause we're gonna be running two wash plants.

That's the only way we're gonna get over 50 ounces a week.

Let's give it a try, man.

We'll give it all. You know us.

All in, let's do it.

- All in! - Go!

All right, here we go. Fire it up!

There we go.

Now we're cooking, boys!

To feed The Roach

and Old Dan...

That's two! We got two of 'em going.

...the six-man crew must dig and heave pay

three times faster than ever before.

Jason digs pay in the Pappy Cut

and builds a pay-pile that Andrew collects to supply Old Dan.

But Andrew must also load Casey, who hauls out to The Roach,

where Chris feeds the hopper.

Get that *bleep* going, Casey!

Start hauling some pay!

USA!

USA!

All right, Chris, whenever you're ready.

Let's do it!

Put those rocks in the box, Nate. Let's go.

Let's see if those boys keep up with it, Chris.

You got that right.

Yeah, this is gonna test the crew, no doubt about it.

You run two wash plants, you know it's double trouble.

You gotta keep your eyes on this,

keep your eyes on that one.

We'll see how good a crew we really are right now.

We're down for the challenge.

Challenge accepted.

We're just gonna run it until it pukes.

Looking good, looking good!

We got two plants running, boys!

Whoo!

Nater, Nater. You got a copy, buddy?

What's up, buddy?

How's that pretty little Roach doing over there?

Oh, she's eating it up, buddy.

She's eating it up!

We're turning and burning on the Old Dan side.

Yeah, ten-four, buddy.

Hopefully, we can all keep up.

Wing and a prayer.

Let's just do it to it and see what we come round with at the end.

Overnight,

rain fills creeks in the river around the claim.

Come morning,

a break in the weather leaves the crew facing the fallout.

So, here in Alaska,

especially where we're at,

it's basically a rainforest,

and we're down below the river,

so we're gonna be fighting groundwater.

That first pond is where our cut's at,

so we gotta pump so we can mine.

Right now, as you see, it's all underwater.

Hey, Jason, we got a problem down here.

We're getting some overflows pretty bad.

We gotta get those pumps going.

We don't wanna be running soup.

Everyday life of a miner.

If it's not one problem, it's another.

We're running on one prehistoric frickin' pump,

trying to suck this *bleep* down.

I'm not draining anymore.

I need this water to go away.

The crew relies on three military surplus, six-inch pumps

that Dave purchased with the claim.

One pump supplies water to The Roach,

a second to Old Dan.

But the third, that drains the Pappy Cut, has failed overnight,

leaving the team's pay swamped with water.

I mean it's so funny.

It goes back all through history.

Miners fought with water,

whether it's a lack of water, or too much water.

I've had a job

where I was genuinely starting pumps at 3:00 in the morning

and running 'em all day long to be able to dig,

but I didn't have this fossil of a pump.

Think that rock might be a little younger than this pump.

Before mining,

I was a roughneck. I drilled oil.

The toughest environment I ever had to work in was one where,

my first day on the job,

there were still people picking up body parts on the ground,

because the guy had gotten blown into pieces

on the oil rig the day before.

I'll take water over having to see that on a regular.

That's a pretty nasty environment.

Nate, you got a copy, Nater?

Go ahead.

We're no longer pumping.

Just letting you know.

Hey, Jason.

- You got no flippers. - I love you.

Now we're talking!

Charged with keeping the old equipment running,

Kentucky-born mechanic, Nathan Clark.

Just these older pumps are hard to get going sometimes.

And, uh, just part of 'em.

I mean, they're pieces of *bleep*.

We'll give it a little shot of some go-go juice.

You know, I've always been a very calm and collected person

when it comes to machinery and breakdowns

and what we've gotta do to fix it.

Some people are like, "Oh, crap, oh, crap," you know?

Just calm the hell down.

I mean, it's nature of the beast.

It's gonna break. Everything breaks.

Even rocks break. Everything breaks!

Even a horse break.

Some of these older ones, I don't like putting ether in 'em,

but you know what?

You just gotta do it right now.

Let's go, Casey!

Nate to Jason.

Go for it, Nate.

Okay, pumps are pumping, buddy.

Right on!

Until the pump drains the cut,

Jason and rookie operator Andrew

must scavenge wet pay from the pit edges.

*bleep* me!

So, every time Andrew comes in,

and he's grabbing a bunch of this pay,

what he's ending up with is pay that's so wet,

it's like a damn soup.

Alaska is growling at us,

spitting at us with this water issue.

Located in America's northernmost rainforests,

deep in the Chugach Mountains,

Glacier Creek is drenched in over 70 inches of rain every year.

Tell you what,

the way it looks like around in these parts,

dry isn't going to be part of our vocabulary here now in Alaska.

Hey, Nathan, we got a problem down here.

- Yeah. - Here it goes, Nate. Nate, Nate, Nate, Nate,

Nate, Nate, Nate, Nate, Nate!

Shut it down!

Coming up...

Can't be running soup.

Press... Okay, bypass! Cut the water.

I don't know if we'll be able do it. I'd lying if I said I wasn't worrying.

I'm worrying.

Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Hold on!

She'll catch up, she'll catch up.

Deep in the Chugach Mountains,

wet pay wreaks havoc with the Roach.

So, right now, the front end's sending us more soupy stuff.

If it's soupy, we can't run it fast.

It slides up that belt, I mean, it's like noodle soup.

Now, these, these rock jams, they can cause the belt to rip.

The Roach can process over 100 yards of dry pay an hour.

But now the material is wet, it slides back to jam the main conveyor.

If uncorrected this can seize a pulley, tear a belt,

or even cause a mechanical burnout.

We want to catch up we can't be running this stuff,

we got to run drier material.

It's just sliding down the belt. We do not like that at all.

Jason.

I'm gonna start calling y'all the kitchen, sending me some soup.

Is, right now, when they strain it, are you straining the pond?

Yeah, she was, about, three feet deep.

What we're gonna do is go ahead and power up the feed water,

drop it down.

I mean, I'm running right now.

Until the Pappy Cut can be fully drained,

Nate calls time on the Roach.

Kill the pump. Kill the pump. Kill the pump!

All the way down.

And the crew runs the rest of its pay pile through Old Dan.

Hey, Chris, do you copy, bud?

10-4.

To guarantee success in the morning

the pump must be fired up at night.

My suggestion is, we're gonna have to get

someone out here to fire up that pump

and let it run while everybody's still sleeping.

We'll take volunteers, or whatever.

Hey, guys, I don't hear no volunteers for this 4:00 a.m. pump fueling.

Hey, Jason, yeah, you old knuckleheads don't wanna do it,

so I guess I will.

Attaboy, Andrew!

Yeah, we gotta do what we gotta do.

You gotta work hard for a few months

and then we can go home and sleep.

There's plenty of time to sleep when you're dead.

The early light of an Alaskan summer.

All right, it's 4:00 a.m. just woke up.

It's just the way it is, being a new guy at a mine site.

Those *bleep* jobs, just gotta do them.

Then old guys need their beauty sleep

and I'm the young buck that's already beautiful.

And it's the way I'm gonna prove myself with this team

and we're gonna kick ass this year.

Starting at 4:00 a.m.

- That's good. - Oh, yeah!

Four hours later...

Casey, come look at this, now.

Water levels in the Pappy Cut

expose enough dry pay to restart the Roach.

Whoo-hoo, yeah!

Good job, Andrew. One team, one dream!

Maybe the guys will buy me a beer next time we go to a restaurant,

for saving the season.

I'll dig down as fast and deep as the water'll let me.

Just wish I had a real *bleep* excavator.

She's hot.

So hot, yeah.

Are you *bleep* me? It shouldn't overheat.

Let it cool.

Hey, Casey, how's that pay pile doing over there?

They're eating right along and we're, kind of, coming up shorthanded, um...

Yeah, she's gonna be, probably about, ten-minute cooldown.

It's not getting bigger, it's getting smaller, Jason,

we'll have to, have to speed it up on that end.

Ten-four.

I'm very limited with the ability on this excavator.

It overheats. Old Red's not cut out for this.

You know, the frustration is just building.

We got good ground and, uh, in theory,

it should be even better the deeper we go but,

because of this old equipment we can't get down there.

We can't do everything that you need to *bleep* do for a big mining operation.

I mean, I'm definitely not the most athletic of specimens.

But I could dig with the best of them.

This machine can't.

*bleep*

- What's up, Dave? - Hey, how's come you're not running?

Now, Dave, you know, this excavator, it likes to overheat.

If you had a decent excavator, you think you could keep these two plants going?

If I had a decent excavator, I could keep these two plants going.

- Water pumps too, Dave. - Yeah.

The problem is, after COVID nobody fired back up to produce

and there's no new pumps available.

So we're, kind of, screwed.

What if we can't get out hands on some water pumps?

I don't know. I'll have, I got to find them.

- Whatever it takes, right? - Yeah.

All right, buddy.

Jason's, kind of, in, uh, in a jam.

He's got an old machine that's, uh, can't keep up.

I came here with not enough pumps, need more excavators,

you know, I need all of these things.

When I first got here I thought we had the machinery to do the job,

but we don't.

I don't think the pumps, that are here, are sufficient.

But when I started gold mining,

at Porcupine Creek with the Hoffmans,

we battled water.

That's quite a bit of water.

Porcupine Creek was a narrow valley with lots of water.

It took a lot of pumps.

It's a very similar, kind of, valley.

Who said gold mining was easy?

Well, I'm going down here, this is my, uh, new neighbor. His name's Clay,

and I'm just gonna get some advice from him.

Hopefully, he's got an idea about water.

This whole valley's just flooded with water.

And I'm not keeping up, so I want to talk to Clay

and see if he's having the same problem and see if he has any ideas.

Maybe he's got some pumps, I don't know.

A month ago, Clay Strickland called in

gold recovery experts Freddy Dodge and Juan Ibarra...

Well, let's have a look at the wash plant, huh?

...to turn around his operation.

Clay, there's your gold, guys.

Make more of it.

- Take care, guys. - Bye.

Thanks.

- Howdy, Dave. - Hi, Clay.

What brings you downstream?

- How you doing? - Good, good.

Came down to talk to you a little bit about, um...

We're struggling to get, get our water out, you know, we've got

- three six-inch pumps... - I believe it.

...just dewatering and really not keeping up.

What are you doing for dewater?

Nothing right now, I don't have any pumps.

I'm doing the best I can with what I got.

Any ideas on any pumps in town or anybody I could talk to?

- No, not much. - Dang.

- I been struggling since day one. - Yeah.

Eleven years of struggling, yeah.

And, uh, it's, basically, like a lake, right here, that's filled in.

The old timers, they didn't, hardly, do anything, in this valley.

How late do you guys stay in here?

Do you think I could make it to October?

You think?

There's been times where it starts getting questionable

mid-September.

- You're kidding me? - No.

In southern Alaska, winter hits early and hard.

North of Glacier Creek,

the City of Valdez is the snowiest in the United States,

with an average of 25 feet, every year.

Twenty miles away, on the Thompson Pass,

the record winter of 1952-53 saw snowfall of 81 feet.

Taller than the White House.

No, it'll start freezing up and, sometimes, uh,

once things freeze they don't thaw out, in the shade.

- Dang! That makes it a short season. - And so...

All right, I'm gonna head off.

- Good luck, Clay. - Thanks.

I like Clay, he's a good guy.

But, what really concerned me was,

he said some years you gotta get out of here in September

because of the snow.

That really makes it a short season.

That's... that's pretty scary.

Right now, the pressure's really on.

We've got to start handling the water better.

That way Jason can get down to bedrock

and that's where the good pay is.

Deep in the rainforests of the Chugach Mountains...

It's alive!

...Jason is reunited with the type of excavator he had last season.

Whoo! Yeah, baby!

Man, look at that miner work.

I love it. I finally got a decent machine.

I got 380 Katy, she's ready for business.

I ain't gonna be overheating every truckload.

To keep both wash plants running,

Jason must dig, almost, 400 buckets of pay, every day.

Next step, we're gonna need pumps though.

We're already starting out wet.

It's just not ideal, by no means.

380 Katy don't like to get her nails wet if she don't have to.

Nothing worse than digging gold out of a pond.

- You like it there? - Yeah, you're good.

- Actually, it's gonna work pretty good. - Yeah.

Hey bypass. Turn it all the way on, Chris, bypass.

Cut the water!

Oh, man!

- Well, this is jammed in there good. - Huh?

We sure didn't need this, did we?

No, Chris, we don't.

Hell, look at all the gold in there.

It's all the way down to here.

Is there anything down at the very, very bottom?

I don't like the way this is carrying down.

*bleep* those are pretty big pieces.

They're not whole pieces down here.

I just hope nothing got washed out the end.

Wet pay causes a rock to jam a belt in the Roach.

But if the wash plant is shut down

with the water supply still running.

It risks washing the gold out of the sluice,

a gold miner's nightmare.

Chris, Taylor, when *bleep* like that happens,

I know your first instinct is to call him.

First instinct should be, open that.

Bypass, first thing.

Very first thing.

Bypass first, before I stop the plant?

- Yes, sir. - All right.

I'd rather have gold.

Whenever I see a belt smoking, I see a plant smoking,

my first move is to go to turn off what's smoking.

But, uh, you know, I'll hit, I'll hit the bypass first next time.

We make mistakes, there's no doubt about it.

But that's okay, that's the best way to learn.

If you make a mistake, and you learn from that mistake,

you won't make that same mistake again.

The Roach, most likely, lost some gold out of the box,

so Dave and Nate must quickly get the beast back up and running.

There's, probably, a big rock in the back.

- That's-- - That's what I'm saying.

It just got jammed by bedrock on the backside.

- Fire it up. - Go ahead.

There's one right here.

- Think that's the critter. - Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's it.

She caught on the lacing, right there.

Yeah, sure did.

There you go.

What happened is, the stuff was coming real soupy.

It slides up that belt. It takes one little rock,

even this big,

it'll come right down here, skate down,

and get caught right here and stop the belt.

All it takes is one little rock.

Okay, coming on.

When we run dry material it's never a problem, never.

You know, I don't know what was causing the smoke.

I don't know if it was a, you know, I thought it was a bearing,

maybe starting to seize up, but it wasn't.

You know, we got away with it this time but, we might not get away with it next time.

We don't need any more problems.

But the Pappy Cut now fills up faster than the pump can drain it.

Leaving the team with yet more wet pay.

Hey, Nate, you got copy, Nater?

Yeah that same stuff, Jason, I thought, running about,

probably, uh, 20 yards an hour.

We just cannot run soup at all.

I'm headed your way.

Copy.

We have no choice right now, we have wet pay

and now we gotta slow way down,

slower than we ever ran before.

The water is creating such a soupy material and in order for it to climb

he's slowing the plant down to, like, 20 yards an hour.

Well, that's working backwards when you got the Roach, you know?

We need to be hitting

that 80-100 yards an hour.

Forced to cut the Roach production by 80%,

the team runs two plants at only 55 yards per hour.

There ain't nothing else we can do right now till we get some drier pay.

Didn't they say they slowed down to 20 yards an hour?

That's what he said he could run at, it's what I heard. I don't know for sure.

We can't make money doing that.

- We can't make money at 20 yards an hour. - Yeah.

This day couldn't get any worse, man!

Morning at Glacier Creek.

Dave, you got copy?

Go ahead.

Gotta see it to believe it!

Well, this is a horrible way to start your morning.

The pump that drains the Pappy Cut failed overnight,

leaving Jason's excavator stranded.

This is what nightmares are made out of, really, for a miner.

I mean, this right here is a nightmare cut.

From the moment we stepped on this property, we have fought water.

Hey, Dave!

Oh, *bleep*.

She's on red, that thing won't pump.

Yeah, it's just a lot of water in this valley.

I thought we were ahead of it.

And then we lose a pump. Not good.

We're kind of in a tough spot right now.

Can't mine underwater.

Yeah, she's blowing air.

Right now, we're just trying to get the pump to prime.

If we can get water to feed back in,

we can get this thing to start pumping water out.

This is, by far, the most water I've ever had to deal with in mining.

It's Alaska, it's the wild like no other.

And that's a big statement from a Montana boy.

Case, we're turning it on.

- Okay, go ahead. - Firing up.

Here we go!

We got it!

We're in *bleep* business!

Copy that.

- Ready, big guy? - Get me right over to them tracks.

What the heck happened?

Pump issues.

And we just fired it up too, baby boy.

The pump looked fine when I checked it.

Must've just had something go wrong.

Sorry, buddy.

I love Alaska, but right now I'm...

just having a hard time seeing its beauty.

Tired of water.

We can't send wet pay to the damn Roach.

Should've brought a snorkel.

Even with the broken pump back online...

Hey, Dave, do you got copy?

...Nate is still only able to run the Roach at just 20 yards an hour.

Go ahead.

Hey, Dave, come over here just a minute. Talk about some stuff.

Well, you called me.

- I know. Um... - What's up?

You know, it's gonna be a struggle to keep things going.

You know, you gotta have pumps in the water.

There's no ifs and buts about it.

So, Dave, why don't we shut Old Dan down and free up that pump?

We shut Old Dan down, we'll have two pumps to drain the Pappy Cut.

No, I get it. I get it.

Is there any way you can get a bigger tank on there?

Well, we have that truck over here we're not using at all.

It's got a fuel tank on it, it's probably 200 gallon or something.

- Yeah. - We'll grab it, hook a twin tube and plumb into it.

And make sure both of them are running off of one tank.

We can run that 24/7, not worry about it?

- Do it. All right, buddy. - Can't wait. Thanks.

Kind of mixed emotions.

Got us gold but it just can't keep up with two wash plants.

So... that's it.

Old Dan's shut down.

After a decade of service

processing thousands of yards of gold-rich paydirt,

Dave retires the Bush-built wash-plant, Old Dan.

You know, it's one of those decisions you gotta make.

We shut down Old Dan, we get an extra pump to de-water with.

We're doing good, man!

So, with two six-inch pumps, we should stay ahead of the water.

- Am I free? - Yeah, you're free. Go ahead, slick.

So, hopefully, we get down to the bottom, see what's down there.

You know, we're fighting a lot of water at this point.

And I don't know if this is gonna be enough until we try it.

Proof that man evolved from cavemen.

Moving the pump from Old Dan to the Pappy Cut

doubles the drainage.

To double it again,

Nate plans to run both pumps 24/7,

replacing their 30-gallon internal fuel tanks

with one single 200-gallon external tank.

But for this to work, he must construct a new fueling system.

So, what I'm thinking we're gonna do

is this fuel-cap right here.

We can drill four holes into it.

And then the fuel hose will actually hook to right here.

This is gonna help us to get both pumps going, run 24/7.

Now I just gotta find all the damn parts.

Being so remote, there's a lot more pressure on you, you know.

I can't look at it and go, "Dave, we gotta order this."

It's like, no. We gotta make this work.

You know, it's a different world out here.

And that's what I really enjoy.

My daddy was king of rigging.

Made all kinds of *bleep* work.

You know, he was a cool-ass, old-school dude.

So, somehow you just gotta make things work.

Sweet Mama Jimmy. All right, let's get over there.

Get her strapped up.

It is, it's cute.

Good job. That gonna work?

It might look like it looks like something that's made in a meth lab.

But you know what? It's gonna work!

Two pumps, one tank. We're getting down to bedrock, baby!

All right, boys. The pump's gonna work fine. Got the one tank.

And we can all sleep at night.

Let it run all night long, baby!

Ten-four. Good job, my man!

The two pumps move almost 100,000 gallons of water an hour.

So by midday,

the pond level drops four feet. And the pay is dry.

Definitely feels like Team Turin is making some real progress.

If we can keep these bad boys rolling,

you'd be able to call me Barney Rubble.

I'll be on fricking bedrock in no time!

No 4:00 a.m. tonight, Andrew. No 4:00 a.m. tonight, buddy. You can sleep in.

No, no, no. It's a foot rub. We discussed this already.

Okay.

So, now the Roach should be back up to full speed.

Should be good.

Everything's going well. We're at 100 yards an hour.

I'm happy. I'm happy, happy, happy, happy.

You know, Alaska is beautiful.

But then there's these damn flies.

These *bleep* flies.

Swarms of biting flies.

- Flies, more flies and flies! - That's what we've got.

You know what, if we were mining flies, we'd be the richest *bleep* on Earth.

They land on you, their little ass goes up in the air and bam!

All of a sudden, there's a chunk out of you.

Look at that one.

Yeah...

*bleep*. That one went right down my throat.

Still running and gunning.

Haven't missed a beat yet, so...

A-okay.

In the southern Alaskan mountains,

the crew goes all guns blazing in a race to hit its weekly target of 50 ounces.

Hey, Andrew, Jason, check this out.

We're keeping up with Nate and Chris

on 100 yards an hour we're running the plant.

We're kicking ass right now.

That is very, very good to hear.

God bless America right there.

Well, we're coming down to...

the end of our day. Numbers getting closer to the bedrock.

Numbers of gold should be going up, so we'll see.

After a week operating two wash plants,

Team Turin pulls mats...

from the Roach...

and for the last time ever, from Old Dan.

Up in the front end, it's been a struggle.

I spent most of the week fighting water and in, you know, the high gravels.

But, you know, each day we're slowly starting to get a grasp on the water.

But right now, I don't know if I made the right decision coming here yet.

I like the guys I work with but, financially, it might have been not very smart.

We'll see.

It's a relief running just one plant

'cause now we don't have to do double clean outs.

I'm good with this.

Well, we've gotta get our gold numbers up.

Oh, look at that! Bam!

Look at that.

That's a good sign.

Found a nug nug nuggy!

Here, hold your hand out.

Oh, yeah.

It's kind of cool. Gold's getting better, getting bigger.

So can't wait to see what this weighs out this time around.

Oh, yeah, there she is. Oh, yeah.

See that, Dave?

Little bit of gold there, guys?

Jefito!

Look there.

Every little bit of gold helps.

Whoo!

Now, look at that. It looks really good.

Good to see.

I don't care how pretty it looks,

we've been burned before.

It doesn't mean *bleep* until you get it on a gold table.

Next morning, Dave runs the final concentrate

over the gold wheel.

So, I'm determined to get to bedrock 'cause I believe there's...

a lot of gold at the bottom.

There's just so much water...

I just gotta get the pumps to do it.

The week's sucked.

- It was a rough one. - It was a rough one, dude.

- Hey, guys. - Hey, Dave. What's up, Dave?

Well...

Well, we got a gold weigh.

All right.

- And, uh... - You got good news, right?

Well... I got news.

I don't know, it doesn't look great.

You know, we've been here for three weeks now.

I think we're overcoming a lot.

We're doing, you know, we're getting a lot better.

But, I mean, I know that if we're gonna hit our goal,

we need 50 ounces a week.

We had issues.

The problem we're fighting is the water.

- I need pumps. - Yeah.

But now, this is the last gold we're ever gonna get from Old Dan's wash plant,

so let's weigh it up and see what it is.

This is what came out of there in a week.

How many yards did we run this week?

- About 900. - About 900.

There's one... Two...

Three...

Four...

*bleep*

440.

4.4 out of 900?

- That's not great gold. - No, it ain't.

Man, this is tough.

This is... We've come a hell of a long ways and we're not seeing a lot of gold.

I'm disappointed, you know.

The thing is, I know it's there.

It's probably a little deeper, but these guys are thinking,

"Did they really bring us out here on a wild goose chase?"

Well, let's see what we did in the Roach.

How many yards did we run? To the Roach?

About 2,700.

One, two, three...

four, five,

six, seven, eight, nine,

ten...

11...

12... *bleep*, 13...

- 14... 14.2. - Yeah, that isn't gonna cover it.

14.2.

We've gotta keep improving.

We've gotta hit over 50 ounces a week from here on out.

The week's 18.6 ounces

brings the crew's season total

to just below a pitiful $72,000.

The front end, our job, is to keep us in the best gold possible.

And that right there shows we're not.

The only thing I can say is, both plants put out the same ounces per hundred.

It's not a plant issue, 'cause they've both come up the same.

You're right.

You're right.

That just shows how bad we need to get down closer to bedrock.

Not only do we need to dig deep individually and as a team,

you need to get us to bedrock. That's where the gold is.

We've come to Alaska.

There is great ground obtainable.

I mean, the type of ground that could be life-changing.

This is Alaska. This is where the big leagues go. This is it.

This is where Team Turin's future is.

- All right, guys. Are we all in? - Yeah.

- All in. - Always.

- One, two, three. - All in!

Alaska's a tough place to mine and it takes a solid team.

We are constantly being pressed to the limit.

It's a difficult place to mine. A lot of water

that we have to overcome as we dig deeper.

But miners are eternally optimistic.

"The next cut's gonna be the cut.

The next clean-up we're gonna hit it big!"

On the next episode...

Gotta go, go, go!

Mother Nature unloads...

I gotta go, we're about to lose camp.

- You talking about evacuation? - Yeah.

- Yeah. - This could really wipe us out for the whole *bleep* season.

...forcing the team to fight back...

Our lives sit just below this.

...and reach towards their 600-ounce season goal.

Thirty?

- Yeah. - Come on, big money.

High five, yeah.