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Right now I'm anxious, nervous, scared.

The whole season, it all boils down

to getting the Eagle across the river.

This is it.

All right. Go ahead, Nate.

We have a problem in that river and that machine gets stuck,

we're up*bleep* creek.

All right, KC. I need you upstream.

10-4.

Okay, Chris. Ride in alongside of him.

Jason, roll it in, buddy.

You're the last line of defense.

I'm not about to take my half-million dollar investment

and get it stuck in that river.

If we screw this up, game over, guys.

Is everybody ready?

Oh, I'm ready.

Ready.

All right, let's do this!

Give me a little pressure down, Jason.

The back end's in the water.

Whoa! Hold on! Oh, oh! Stop, stop, stop, stop!

This is a big morning for us.

This is like Christmas.

We talk about being all in, this is it.

Just north of Valdez, Dave and Nate wait

on a game-changing delivery.

Well, the Eagle's the latest greatest biggest wash plant we've ever had.

This is a big turning point for our season.

This is a big turning point in all of our history of gold mining.

I've seen a picture of it and I'm like, "Wow."

This is where we step up to the big leagues.

Oh, yeah, baby!

Whoo! Look at that.

Big step for us today.

Dave's new half-million dollar wash plant

is built to run over 200 yards of pay dirt every hour.

Sweet, man.

It's a monumental movement for Team Turin.

I think with the Eagle coming in, we're gonna finally see some great gold.

The Eagle's what's gonna set us free. It really is.

I mean, it's a game changer for us all the way.

It's a beauty. Lookit, it's got a gold bar in its talons. You see that?

Oh, she's a beaut. She's a beauty.

Boy, I tell you, I'm pretty happy.

Look at the size of the hopper.

Man, it's huge.

She gonna eat some dirt. She gonna eat some dirt.

The Eagle is actually a prototype of the way we wanted it built,

so it's pretty cool.

Oh.

The super-sized Eagle weighs in at a monster 34 tons,

double the weight of the Roach.

Custom-designed by Dave from a gravel screening machine,

it features an extra-large hopper

with vibrating grizzly bars,

and 60 high pressure jets that use up to 2,000 gallons of water a minute

to wash pay twice as fast as the Roach.

It cost me a hell of a lot of money,

but it's gonna make us money.

We've got the plant. We've got the ground.

Now it's just up to us to perform.

- Ready? - Yes, sir. Let's do it!

Here she comes!

That looks good.

Hey, we got her unloaded!

In Alaska, buddy.

- Get the hell of my baby. - There you go.

- Get off my baby! - It's that one.

- The yellow one is forward. - Yellow's forward?

The only way to move the gargantuan wash plant to the mine site:

an eight-hour trek on foot.

You know, we got a four-and-a-half mile walk,

and it's a hell of a long walk.

I mean, look.

Oh, it's gonna be a long walk.

At the claim, after the crew hit bedrock,

and scored a season best 50-ounce cleanup last week...

Hey, Morgan, you got a copy?

...overnight rain floods the Pappy cut once again.

Yeah, go ahead Jason.

That load right there you got

is the last little bit of pay we have in this cut.

Everything else is underwater.

- Are you serious? - Yes.

I mean, serious.

I'm digging in water.

10-4, man. That's just a bunch of BS, man. That sucks.

See, this is the problem.

This spot right in here, it's responsible for the good cleanup we had,

the best one we've seen.

But I can't send it. It's such a soupy mess

that it won't feed through the Roach.

That's so frustrating.

My job in the front end is to keep us on good gold,

and right now, we got two pumps that can't keep up with the water

and we just pray they make it through the night without shutting down.

The Glacier Creek claim is drained by three 6-inch military surplus pumps,

but they're unreliable.

Added to heavy rain and runoff at this time of year,

it's a losing battle.

They're old. They're tired. They don't pump a lot of water.

The sooner we get rid of this crap,

one less thing to worry about while you're mining.

Well, there's a solution to everything and a lot of times it's money.

I can buy brand new pumps.

With the amount of money that we're spending on that Eagle

I'm about tapped out.

We just got to monitor these things and keep it going as best we can.

To keep the mine operational until the cut drains,

Jason and Dave must find dry ground to mine.

This bedrock's going up because the mountain's going up.

I mean, look at that steep angle.

This is all bedrock.

- And it goes up. - Yeah.

Yeah, I think you're gonna just start there and work your way out

cleaning the bedrock.

- For now, I'd start chasing it. - Sounds good.

To keep the Roach fed and stockpile pay for the the hungry Eagle,

Jason removes the thick surrounding layer of organic material

on the hunt for the gold-rich pay

he hopes is collected on the higher benches.

Hey, Morgan, you got a copy?

Go ahead, Jason.

I'm gonna load you with the organics,

have you take it to the front end for reclamation,

and then a load of pay.

A couple loads of organic, and then some pay and try and keep that Roach running.

Yeah, 10-4.

Organics. It's our dirt that we use for reclamation.

I wanna save it for later in the season.

We've got twice the demand on our shoulders now.

I don't know if it's gonna work, but we'll do our best.

We gotta move fast if we're gonna be able to stable the plant.

The pressure is now on haul truck driver KC Morgan

to deliver the emergency pay to the Roach

in its final week of running.

These guys are bringing in this Eagle and we got an existing plant right now

that's still trying to stay operational.

For every load of pay delivered to the plant,

KC must remove and dump two loads of top soil for end of season reclamation

on the other side of the claim.

Only so much one truck can do.

And on top of that, I'm also fueling the pumps.

10-4, that fuel truck's up here.

Yeah, 10-4.

It's a hell of a lot of responsibility keeping this mine site running.

I take pride in making sure everything's working,

so other people don't have to work as hard.

That's how it is.

The pay pile is shrinking very quickly.

Chris for Jason.

What?

We're running out of pay. It's getting low.

- Better start bringing some pay and pay quick. - 10-4.

Oh, I'm hating my life right now

as far as the front end man.

I genuinely do not have the ability to keep up with the pay of the Roach,

let alone with that Eagle.

We're dealing with a lot of groundwater,

but that doesn't matter.

The plant's gotta run and the feed's gotta go in it.

Jason, I'm coming in on your right.

You're clear, Dave.

I'm moving organics and trying to ship pay.

And it's not working out too well.

I see what you're struggling with, man.

I know why you're frustrated now.

If we can't get our pumps,

this is gonna be an uphill battle that we will not win.

Yeah, I get it.

Chris for Dave, there's no water at the plant.

No water at the plant.

Oh, *bleep*. I gotta go.

Kill the plant, please. Kill the plant, Chris.

Just hit the All-Stop.

Ah!

He's not gonna be happy.

*bleep*

We just ran out of fuel in the pump.

Yeah, copy that. Uh...

It got slipped by.

Oh, don't make *bleep* excuses.

It's just a dumb thing to do.

The Eagle's coming in.

It's up to us now.

We gotta start getting a*bleep* plan.

Somebody needs to*bleep* figure it out.

*bleep*

If we're all gonna succeed,

we all have to take ownership and responsibility.

At Glacier Creek, the 30-year-old pump that feeds the Roach

is out of fuel.

*bleep* me!

Plant kept going but there wasn't any water

to carry it down to the sluice, so she plugged up.

With no constant water supply,

the Roach clogs with pay dirt and sluicing stops.

Jason should have told Andrew 'cause I still have to keep moving this truck. So...

you tell me what's going on with that piece of *bleep*

See how it's easy to pass the buck?

We're all *bleep* worn out.

Nobody takes responsibility. They all just make excuses.

We've got to figure it out. The season's too short to make mistakes like that.

It's unacceptable.

Let's *bleep* face facts.

You can't run a gold mine on old army pumps.

They don't realize the stress that I'm under.

It all goes on me.

And we're not gonna get enough gold to pay the bills.

They will look at me at the end and go, "We're not gonna make it."

Then *bleep* gonna hit the fan.

Yeah, it's cleaned out now. It's getting out.

Okay. We're back going.

All right. Let's get some pay.

Copy that.

There will be breakdowns and there will be mistakes.

I thought 6-inch pumps would handle everything.

Well, I was wrong.

If we can't dewater cuts, we're not making any money.

And that Eagle's a hungry bird and it wants to eat.

Hi.

I got something to talk to you about.

We're really struggling with the pumps down there.

I mean, we can't keep up. They're not working.

I think we need to go look for some pumps.

We were just talking about we need to curb the spending, you know?

- I know. - What are we talking?

Like $100,000, Shel.

- Oh, my gosh, Dave. That's a lot of money. - I know.

I feel like that's the way we're gonna survive.

With these old pumps, I don't know if they're gonna keep running.

Hi, I am calling to see if you have any 8-inch pumps available.

What are you asking?

Wow.

I can tell he's been under a lot of stress.

We've been spending a lot of money.

I see the bank account dwindling.

But at some point, we have to pay more to get what we need.

I am wondering if you have some 8-inch pumps in stock.

Got probably another four hours or five hours to go.

One mile away from Glacier Creek,

Nathan slowly steers the Eagle towards camp.

Kinda getting hungry.

I know these are sandberry bushes.

I might have to try to find me a berry.

Gotta have your energy for walking, you know?

The American dream as a gold miner is Alaska.

It's an incredible adventure we get to do.

Oh, yeah, there we go.

Yeah.

Anybody would probably give their left nut

to come out here and do this.

That was a good one.

Yeah!

It is steep, steep, steep.

After a 7-hour crawl,

the Eagle reaches the claim perimeter,

but now faces the steepest incline yet.

Come on, baby. Come on. Come on, baby.

Come on. Come on.

Come on, baby!

Dig in.

We're almost there and she got this freaking hill.

Oh, *bleep*!

Ah, we got buried. *bleep*

Hey, Dave. You got a copy.

Go ahead, Nathan.

I kinda got the Eagle. She's dead as a doornail.

Are we okay? Anything broke, Nathan?

This kinda scares me. What's up?

I don't know.

You think you can get the loader and some chains and we'll yank her down?

All right. I'll be right there.

He's very calm about it.

Calmer than I am because I own the damn thing.

I'm gonna see what the hell the alarm is real quick.

On the steep dirt road, 500 feet from the Glacier Creek claim,

Dave Turin's Eagle has tipped back and cut out.

I look at his investment like my own investment.

It hurts when something does happen.

I feel horrible.

He hit a hill that's really steep and it bucked on him.

He can't get back going.

I'm trying to figure out what the *bleep* is going on.

Low coolant.

- *bleep* It tripped a sensor? - Yeah.

So, this way this inclines here, when we came up the hill,

it just got too high and the sensor's up here.

All it takes is one little pocket.

A little pocket of air and the sensor goes, "Shut down."

These things are made to be real level.

Look at what we're doing. We're climbing mountains in freaking Alaska.

I mean, as you can tell, she teeter tots. She's right there at it.

Well, what we're gonna do is we gotta get the front end down.

It's very back heavy.

Hopefully that sensor that's sensing not enough coolant comes back to normal,

he can start it, and we start up the hill.

Dave chains his loader bucket to the front of the wash plant

to try and right the angle.

What I'm worried about is I got a three-eighths chain.

We're pulling 66,000 pounds. We could break it.

I'd advise everybody to stand clear. Stay behind him.

Okay, here we go.

Whoa! Watch yourself. Get down here.

Hold it, Dave.

Hold it right there. Hold it right there.

Can you bring it down just a little more?

I'm gonna go back here to the back.

We'll fire it up and we'll get moving.

*bleep*

Are you okay?

Are we okay?

Yeah!

Come on, baby!

There we go. We got it.

Looking good!

We got it, buddy.

I think you're past the worst of it.

I'll be honest with you. My heart sunk

when he said he was in trouble.

Oh, man. I see the promised land.

After an 8-hour road marathon,

the Eagle closes in on her new nest in Glacier Creek.

Whoo, boy!

Holy Mary, mother of God, would you look at that?

That'll get us closer to the gold right there now.

That thing already looks hungry. I better get more pay rolling.

Now we just got to figure out how the hell we're gonna cross the freaking river.

We can't cross that bridge. It'll collapse.

The only way to get the Eagle across the river

is through the water.

What do you think?

This is the mighty Mississippi right now.

Yeah, she's raging. We get it out there and it swamps the electronics,

then there it is. It's a great big boat anchor.

I'm not about to take the nicest plant I've ever owned

and get it stuck in that river.

Right now, I don't wanna risk it.

That river is still raging.

The following day, snow melt from the surrounding mountains

keeps river levels high.

The Eagle's sitting there and that's so frustrating.

From what I've seen, the Eagle's not gonna be walking across that river.

At least not today.

The Eagle is still stranded,

but across the claim, Nate has a shot in the arm for the entire operation.

All right, boys. We got an 8-inch pump.

Let's hope we can get down and see some bedrock.

Nater, Nater, you're my hero. Dave, you're my hero.

Yeah! Happy, happy, happy.

Nate tows the first of the three new 8-inch pumps,

Dave's 6-figure gamble to drain the mine

and get to the gold.

Finally something's going our way.

Getting these pumps in is gonna help us out a ton.

They have big fuel tanks. Belt will run faster.

I mean, it's a game changer for us.

We're gonna double up on the amount of water per minute that we're pumping.

That pump is gonna get us to the goal

that we all dreamed about.

We'll set her right there. What do you think?

- You wanna hook it all up? - Yeah.

Right now we gotta get the old pump out of here.

Up we go!

You watch, all this water will be sucked out before the end of the day,

and I'm gonna have that excavator sitting down at the bottom.

There she goes.

Able to pump up to 300,00 gallons an hour,

the new pump should be capable of keeping the Pappy cut drained.

Once we get these set up, we're ready to start pumping.

There, there, there. You got it. Yeah!

Come on, come on.

Okay.

Fire it up.

Fire in the hole. Let's go.

This *bleep* needs to start now.

*bleep* It ain't pumping.

No. We got a problem.

Take her off, Dave, and see what she's doing.

Oh, it's not priming,

and I don't know why.

It's got a suction line on it. It creates a vacuum and it pulls the water up.

And right now it's just not pulling it.

To operate, the pump must be filled with water, or prime.

This creates the pressure required to start the pump.

Once primed, the impeller rotates

and centrifugal force draws through the 4,500 gallons of water per minute.

But if the pump can't be primed,

it won't work.

This thing's gonna start filling up with water again, turning into a lake,

which it's already doing.

- Should be pulling that *bleep* thing down. - Nope.

No, why *bleep* would it? Nothing else works.

Hang on.

- Nathan! - Yeah?

Come here.

- Look at the bottom of that *bleep* thing. - You gotta be *bleep*

Kiss my *bleep*

Mother *bleep*

There she goes.

Now, you want me to tell you what happened?

They had the drain open.

We couldn't see it. The drain was wide open,

so it could not suck any water with that drain open.

Anyway, it's working now.

*bleep*

Oh, I'm so excited to see that new green machine over there.

I'm elated, man, because we've really exhausted

the amount of pay that we have right in this area.

Pretty soon the water should start to disappear.

I'm gonna get down to bedrock.

Hey, Morgan, now the Eagle's on its way in,

I'm pumped, man. I mean, stressed, but pumped.

Yeah, it's pretty good.

Just gotta be able to stay up with it. That's gonna be the trick.

The Eagle's coming. We gonna fly high!

Just gonna sit back and watch the show.

Okay, everybody ready to go?

We're on our way over.

Big morning, really big morning.

We're up early because that river is the last hurdle

for the Eagle to get there and start sluicing.

It's 5:00 a.m.

The river is at it's lowest point of the day.

Team Turin must get its new wash plant across

before the rising sun continues to swell the river with more glacial melt.

Right now it's now or never. We gotta get moving.

All right, let's do this!

Right now I'm anxious, nervous, scared.

The whole season, it all boils down

to getting the Eagle across the river.

This is it.

I got all my money, all my savings wrapped up in that Eagle.

I'm just hoping and praying we get it across.

It's not gonna be easy.

You guys are basically a mobile dam.

KC's upstream, Chris, Andrew.

In the middle of that will be the Eagle.

So, you guys are blocking the water away from the Eagle.

If we screw this up, it's game over, guys.

- Everybody got it? - Yeah.

Part them waters.

All in!

We have a problem in that river and that machine gets stuck,

we're up*bleep* creek.

All right, KC. I need you upstream.

- Get over there. - 10-4.

Okay, Chris. Ride in alongside of him.

All right, Andrew. Bring it in.

There you go.

If you look behind those machines,

the water's quiet.

It's kind of diverting the water out in front

and makes a dam for the Eagle as we try to cross.

Jason, roll it in, buddy.

Hooking up the final piece right here.

Get her across this river.

Nate's in the back of the Eagle.

He can't see a lot, so I've got to be his eyes.

All right, is everybody ready?

- Oh, I'm ready. - Ready.

All right, let's go.

Jason, you're the last line of defense,

the biggest machine we got.

Jason must keep the Eagle's nose down

to stop her tipping back for the second time in two days.

My biggest concern is the water floods into the engine compartment,

kills the electronics,

We make the wrong decision at this point, we're screwed.

Now turn upstream, Jason.

KC, roll ahead.

Down a little bit, Jason.

Whoa! Hold on! Oh, oh! Stop, stop, stop, stop!

The back end's in the water. Give me a little pressure down, Jason.

Give me some down on it, Jason. Down on it.

Good. All right, now roll.

There we go. We got it.

You got it.

Keep that tension on it, Jason.

Come on, baby. Come on.

Turn to your left. Whoa, oh! Whoa, whoa. *bleep*

Get out of the way, Jason.

Get out of the way, Jason.

Let's get that thing out of the water.

Whoa, easy, Jason. Jason.

Hold on. We're too tight.

Swing over that way.

Turn into your left.

Come on, Nate. Turn.

Turn a little bit left, Nate. Now left.

Just about there, boys. Just about there.

Straight ahead. You're getting ready to about level out.

Yeah! We're there, boys. Good job.

Good job, Team Turin!

She's high and dry. The Eagle's high and dry, ready to fly.

Oh, it feels good. This is what we were waiting for.

We got everything to make our dreams come true.

Whoo!

I was a little nervous when the water was going up over the back.

Scared me a little bit, but we did it.

Executed a plan and it worked, so I'm pretty happy.

Alaska really presses the limits of this team.

We've struggled a lot, but...

no goal is worth it unless there's a struggle.

With the Eagle safely across the water...

Light it up, Chris.

...the team stands down,

free to celebrate the life of their mining brother, Jesse Goins.

It's been a year

to this exact day when Jesse passed.

Jesse would have loved to have seen the Eagle cross the river.

He'd have loved to have seen it land on the other side.

He'd have loved every moment that we've had here.

- To Jesse. - To Jesse.

- To Jesse. - We miss you, buddy.

In memory of their friend,

Chris commissioned a new batch of North Carolina moonshine

made to Jesse's own recipe.

For me it was an honor to know him.

He would have been right there with us when we said

that we'd risk it all and, you know, and come to Alaska

He would be right there with us. He was always...

You know, when we all say, "all in," Jesse was always all in.

- Always. - Yeah.

I'll tell you what that is, that's a diamond in the rough.

And that's what Jesse was.

Yeah.

I miss my friend.

I miss him every day.

He would be in his heaven on Earth if he was with us today,

but instead, he's in heaven looking upon Earth on us

as we mine.

And, uh, never will be forgotten.

Here's to Jesse.

- Love you, Jesse! - Yes.

- Wish you were here. - Sure do.

You know he'd have swam across with that Eagle, right?

Oh, he'd have been I don't know where he'd have been,

but he'd have been swimming with it.

He's been up there helping break water.

Papa, where's the place you guys got the best gold at?

Dave finds time to pass some of his gold smarts

down to grandson Micaiah.

Now I'm gonna show you how to pan.

You wanna get it clean and working the light stuff off.

Take the big rocks off and you just really agitate it.

There you go.

Good, good.

The gold's settling in the bottom.

I like gold mining just 'cause you get to see all the gold.

- You got a little bit of gold fever, you think? - Yeah, a little bit, probably.

It's a healthy gold fever.

Got these two bigger colors. A couple of micros.

Let me see. Look at that.

You did good, man.

Hey, Jason, he's a way better panner than me.

He got about seven good-sized colors.

Way to go, Caiah!

Yeah!

- Good job, buddy. - Thank you, Peepaw.

It was really good to see it get across the river, but this is even better.

At Glacier Creek, the Eagle awaits setup at the mine.

So, we're moving it into place

and then hopefully we'll be sluicing in a couple days here.

Today's gonna be a great day in the cut.

The water's down. I can get out the pay.

Put some gold in our pockets and life will be good.

All three new pumps are now on site and operational,

draining the cut and drawing the crew closer to bedrock.

I'm absolutely loving that pit now

because there's just pay for as far as the eyes can see really.

That's all dry pay.

Things are looking up.

As long as there's pay on the deck

and the Roach is running,

there'll be rocks in the box.

Right now she's running good. I'll keep an eye on it,

'cause the Roach likes to eat.

Now it's all hands on deck

to get as much pay as possible to the Roach

for its last week of running.

We got a good run today, boys. We ran all day today.

Yeah!

That was the last bucket.

That's all she wrote this season.

She's done me well.

Oh!

She's golden just right out the gate!

That looks good.

There's a nice little puddle of gold right here.

Whoo! Let's go get drunk.

Ooh, yeah.

Find something? Look at that.

Whoo-ee!

Oh, look at this little piece of gold right here.

Isn't it cool?

In the water.

Oh, yeah. There it is.

The box looks awesome on the Roach right now.

You know, we're getting down lower to bedrock.

It's really starting to show.

It's nice, you know, to be at a mine and to be mining.

It's fun.

Hey, now wait a minute. Tell them who taught you how to mine.

He did right there. He taught me how to mine.

He's the best goldminer I've ever met.

Right there.

The Roach gave us good roll.

Time to move out, make room for the Eagle.

But that Roach, love it, man.

- All right, we should massage the jigs now. - Yeah.

At the gold room, Shelly and grandson Micaiah

run the concentrate from the Roach's last full week of running.

Yeah, this next cleanup that we are working on today is pretty important.

It goes along with the first year anniversary of Jesse's passing,

and we just hope it's a really good one.

- Mama Shelly. - Hey! Hello, guys.

- Hi, Micaiah. - Hey, guys.

Well, it's been quite a week.

Good news is we got the Eagle across.

Yeah, man.

That was cool to see it land on the other side.

You don't know how nervous I was.

You got us some pumps.

- Yeah, Mama Shelly. - Shelly, you were my lifesaver.

So, Micaiah, you get the honor of pouring this.

All right.

There's one, two.

Nine, 10, 15, 20, 28.

Thirty-three, 36, 40, 40.6.

Whoo! Not too shabby.

Worth over $73,000 gives Team Turin

a total of 134.5 ounces.

Forty ounces with the week we had...

I'm just happy we was able to keep enough dirt to that plant to get that.

You know, things are looking up.

I'm excited for the Eagle, but I'm nervous.

I think all of the pieces to the puzzle are now in place.

Now there's no excuses.

I mean, it's onwards and upwards and flying like an eagle.

- Yep. - We all in?

All in.

All in!

- Whoo! - Whoo-hoo!

The Eagle's gonna double everything we do.

You know, we can double material.

Double material means double the gold,

so we're just getting started.

We're about to really show everybody what Team Turin's made of.

I'm always eternally optimistic.

We're still in the game.

We're still fighting.

We're fighting the Alaska wilderness.

And I feel good about our chances.

On the next episode...

I can't wait to see her soar, man.

...the Eagle takes flight...

It's a beautiful sight.

...as it pushes the crew to its limits.

The plant just died. The plant just died.

When you run 200 yards an hour,

you start figuring out where your weak spots are.

Oh, *bleep*.

*bleep* sake!

And shocking news...

- My wife's missing. - Oh, my *bleep*

I don't know where the hell she is.

...rocks team Turin to its core.

- They got search and rescue looking for them. - Oh, *bleep*.