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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.