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This season's been about man versus nature,

about us versus Alaska.

And this is the final battle.

We still need 49 ounces to hit our target.

And I don't know if we're gonna win

but I do know that we're gonna battle

to the bitter end.

We got a big storm moving in,

that'll dump five to six feet of snow.

And there's already five to six feet of snow up there.

So it's the tipping point.

Yeah.

Avalanche is gonna start hitting the road

and blocking access.

It's a high consequence

and loss of life with how big these avalanches are.

Yeah.

Think I got much time left?

I would highly recommend

getting out of here in the next few days.

On the season finale

of Dave Turin's Lost Mine.

All right, boys, let's do this.

It's the final push.

Here we go.

Alaska has been trying to kick our ass

but we're gonna do a little kicking back right now.

We ain't stopping until we hit 450.

The guys are actually banking on it

to get through the off season.

But Alaska pushes back.

It doesn't look good.

The Cottonwood is starting to drop out.

I don't have time to open another cut.

Holy crap...

I mean, this could happen again tomorrow.

****.

We're all tired, we're all pushing hard.

How much is the crew prepared to risk?

They call this place Avalanche Alley.

And we're right in the center of it.

And we're on borrowed time.

To bring home the gold.

Back a little bit, Nate.

- Back? - A little more.

Good.

It's getting dangerous.

I don't wanna be stuck behind an avalanche.

We need to get out while we can.

Boy, we got to go, we're getting the hell out.

We've been on the road for ten months,

eighteen different properties, about five, six states.

And it all comes down to this.

7:00 a.m. at Glacier Creek.

- Good morning. - Good morning.

Right now, we're at 400 ounces.

We could walk away

and it's been an amazing accomplishment.

I'm very proud of all you guys.

But I'd like to finish strong.

I really wanna hit 450 ounces.

- Let's do it. - Do it.

We're in Alaska, winter's coming.

Three or four days is all we got

before the snowstorms.

The warnings I've gotten is that

you don't stay till the snow is here

but we're on the verge of kicking ass

with five guys.

And I think we need a few more days.

I'm here till the end. I want that 450.

We need to push hard.

- Let's keep churning away. - Right.

- We all in? - Hell, yeah.

All in!

The season is open

and we're still prospecting.

Four months ago, Dave Turin and his crew

had nowhere to mine.

We're just having a hell of a time.

After 16 failed prospects across five states.

Show me the promised land, Turin.

I got to move on.

No gold.

They abandoned civilization to seek fortune

in the wilds of Alaska.

This place will chew you up and spit you out.

For the first time, Dave purchased a claim.

It's Shelly and my money on the line.

Huge risk, it's what we got to do.

Starting eight weeks late,

they set up three different plants.

Right now, Old Den is the only wash plant we have.

The roach is gonna live again.

The Eagle's about twice the size, look at that.

The crew battled the Alaskan elements.

This is what nightmares are made out of.

And work ground

nothing like they'd mined before.

We have no idea

why there's not a lot of gold down here.

You got to be **** kidding me.

But they beat the odds,

banking 401 ounces in just 12 weeks.

These guys have really picked up their game.

We're going faster, more production

than we've ever gone.

It's an amazing achievement.

But last week came the shock departure

of loader operator Chris Taylor.

I hope Dave Turin hits that 450 but to me,

it's time to start a new chapter.

Five guys left.

It's tough.

Now, the five-man crew

has just three days to find forty-nine ounces

before the weather shuts them down.

We're gonna buckle down,

work longer, work harder,

more than we ever have before.

Nathan's got that thing turned up to about

200 yards an hour.

Jason and KC are busting their ass to keep up.

As long as we got weather and the plant runs,

we're making money.

Gotta get our 450 come hell or high water.

It's the only way you can justify

being away from your family

is you damn well better bring home the money.

The team mines the Cottonwood cut.

My teeth are clicking big rocks,

which means good gold.

Ground that in the past five weeks

has produced $340,000 in gold.

We're moving in the right direction and that's deep.

I genuinely freaking hope

this gold stays good going down,

might as well have a crystal ball...

trying to see down in the ground.

Doing some nice moves there, Sanchez.

Yeah, buddy.

Here we go.

The Eagle runs at high speed

and demands 240 tons of pay every hour.

I'm the guy loading the plant

until the end of the season.

And this Eagle is very, very hungry.

We're all tired and been working 12, 14-hour days.

Pain is temporary, gold is forever.

It's true. True.

After 12 hours running Cottonwood pay,

it's time to check the mess.

Yeah, turn it off.

Go to the box.

What's it look like?

To hit their goal,

they need at least 17 ounces of gold a day.

Like ****

There is no way in hell, not with this box.

I'm not impressed with what I see.

All right, let's get this cleaned up.

It doesn't look good.

I don't know what's going on.

I think the Cottonwood cut is just like the Pappy,

the deeper you go, the **** it's gonna get.

Over today.

It's not exactly what we wanted to see in the box.

But tomorrow's another day,

and gold miners are eternally optimistic.

A new day dawns at Glacier Creek.

I'm gonna go down and see what Jason's got going.

You know, maybe between the two of us,

we can figure something out.

With minimal gold

showing in the box last night,

their season goal hangs in the balance.

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

What's going on down here?

You know, Dave,

you know, you look over across at that wall,

and you see nothing but nice river gravel, shingles.

That upper five feet, it's carrying good gold,

but everything below that.

I mean, it's like all sand.

Yeah, it's just weird.

It's just not paying out.

Well, it's like this across this whole cut.

Well, you can see the big rocks down there

a little bit lower level.

There really should be a pot of gold down here.

Take a pan.

Some... We're in this big stuff.

See if it gets any better on this side.

I got to clean it up a little bit but you got one and two.

I mean, that's top gravel gold, Dave.

Which is not normal with the placer mine.

****.

****.

Normally, any deposits, the deeper you go

or right above bedrock,

that's where you end up with your best gold.

Not the case here. It's all towards the surface.

The only theory I can really come up with

is the fact that it's a younger deposit.

Nearly all gold deposits modern miners chase

are hundreds of thousands of years old,

enough time for gold to collect

on impenetrable bedrock.

Jason's theory,

the crew has now hit ground

containing relatively young placer gold

that hasn't had time to settle.

So the deeper they mine, the less gold there is.

The question is,

how much gold we're gonna get out of this cut?

I know you said, "Stay on the gold,"

but I don't think I can do it here in Cottonwood, Dave,

because this isn't gonna cut it.

I've got to find freaking glory hole,

you know, or something to hit us at that 450.

We can't be stopped, but we're running out of days.

You're right.

Could I have a little time to go check around,

punch a few holes?

No, now's not the time to go on a wild goose chase.

I don't have time to open another cut.

Maybe we just run the top gravels,

at least it's paying the bills.

I mean, we can hope...

but I don't know 450 is gonna happen.

You wanna have a good season ending, just didn't wanna...

do all this for the last 10 months for nothing.

I can't make gold just appear in this stuff.

I wish I had that superpower but I don't.

With season-ending snow now just two days away,

Dave faces a critical decision.

You know what?

Those guys are busting their butts for this.

It's a really risky gamble.

But there's not a gold miner on this planet

that hasn't taken a risk.

And that's the same way with this crew.

These guys are all risk-takers.

So if Jason wants to go find another spot,

I should let him, maybe that will get us over 450 ounces.

You got to let him go.

Hey, Jason...

Jason, you got a copy?

Yeah, go ahead, Dave.

Go for it.

Go do your prospect.

Yeah!

Let's roll the dice.

Get over 450 ounces.

It's on you, buddy.

Go get it.

Coming up, will the hunt for gold...

I hope Jason finds something that saves us, I really do.

You know what? It might be our Hail Mary.

...be enough to keep the Alaskan dream alive?

This is it.

You think we got 50 ounces in here?

See what we got in that bag.

We got to get something that's gonna hit and hit hard,

otherwise we're not gonna make it.

Jason's mission,

recover 50 more ounces of gold

before mining in Alaska is shut down by winter.

First stop, Valdez Museum.

Really on our property,

there's historic hard rock operations up above us.

I need to do some research.

I phoned ahead requesting any mining info, maps,

anything that may help me out on the ground.

- Hello. Are you Jason? - Yes, ma'am.

Hopefully that will provide you what you need.

Thank you, ma'am. You have a wonderful day.

You, too.

Jason scans for historic hard rock mines

in the Glacier Creek area.

Let's see where we...

His plan, open a new cut

close to a hard rock gold source

in the hope of finding more gold near to the surface.

Glacier Creek is right there.

Probably the closest mine is...

Golden Sunlight,

I'll be damned.

That would have been a good percentage of the source

coming into that Cottonwood

and further on down river as well.

You know, this report actually is

going back as early as 1898.

I mean, right here this talks about...

Yeah, three to four foot quartz vein outcrops.

The largest of which is three inches in thickness.

The Golden Sunlight Mine

was one of hundreds of small operations

open during the far northern gold rushes.

Between 1906 and 1942,

mines like these contributed to hard rock gold

pulled from this region totaling 55,000 ounces.

If I can get right on the mouth

where that Golden Sunlight opens up

and lays out into that drainage,

might be one hell of a payday sitting there.

Back at Glacier Creek...

Yeah, we are shorthanded right now.

I'm on my own.

We got to jump from vehicle to vehicle,

it takes way longer.

Just doing the best I can.

The bottom line is I got to keep pay to the plant.

I'ma grab one more of these

and then I'ma go up there and I'ma jump on in the dozer.

As far as you can turn.

We all got to be very

efficient on machine.

I've learned more, uh, than any other year.

We dealt with four plants this year.

I mean, I've worked on little machines

and I worked on big-ass machines,

you know, I got to go on the prospects.

Getting out front these prospects

is what I really wanna do.

- There's three pieces. - Just little microns.

It means a lot to me. It makes me feel more whole.

They see me as more than just a mechanic.

What I set out to achieve, I'm achieving now this season.

For Nathan, this season is a huge confidence builder.

He really stepped up another level.

We're running. Let's just find the gold.

I hope that Jason finds something that saves us,

I really do.

Now, back on site.

Golden Sunlight Mine should be right about here right now.

The question is where the hell the opening is.

Jason puts his mining theory into practice.

You can almost see a dark spot.

I think that's the opening,

correlates with the map really well.

So if you follow that down,

it's gonna put it right over there.

I'm gonna pop a hole there.

See if we can find some gold.

Jason identifies a spot

where he thinks the adit or entrance

to the Sunlight Mine was made.

Tracing the drainage channel,

he lands on an area of organics

just beyond the Cottonwood cut.

Now, he must prove his theory.

All right.

Let's get into this stuff, huh.

Roll the dice and dig a hole.

Hopefully not let the team down.

As Jason searches for Sunlight gold,

Dave must push even harder in the Cottonwood cut.

Right now, it's just late in the season.

I don't really know the answer

whether I, uh, open up another cut

or try to just accept this cut for what it is

and how it's producing.

By the time I strip with that little dozer,

it could be snowing and I'm kicked out of here.

This year is the learning year,

and we're gonna be back next year.

If we hit more than 50 ounces,

it would prove to me

that we have figured out how to mine the ground

and we're gonna kick it next year.

Oh, my God.

****.

I didn't know that was back there.

Are you okay?

Yeah, I'm fine.

That thing could have gone over backwards.

God, dang it.

****.

It just goes to show how fast accidents happen

and, uh, when you're tired,

you know, it makes it worse.

I'm pushing hard right now.

Yeah, there's pressure to get us over that 450 mark,

so you we just got to be careful with it.

I'm clicking some damn good river gravels there.

Over in the new Sunlight cut.

Listen to that.

That's that money.

Please be the money. I need it to be the money.

See, this came right off that mountain.

Some of the ore that the old timers kind of threw out.

Let's run a pan of that.

All right.

If I can pan 15, 20, then I found what we need

and we're in the money.

****.

That is a little bit of a fresh

right out of the damn source nugget.

This is genuinely out of the hard rock.

22, 24, there's like 26 freakin' colors there, man.

I don't have to go back to Dave empty-handed.

That's 450 ounces is what that's gonna equal.

Dave, you got a copy?

Go ahead, Jason.

I'm looking at two little nuggets

that are wrapped with quartz and bedrock.

What's up, Jason?

The little nuggets.

That's a nugget right there?

A little nugget there.

Yeah, but look at all the fines in there, too.

Yeah, that's the other one.

Woo, you might have found something.

Well, we got to get some to the plant and find out.

Let me clear off some of the topsoil,

clear some of this brush, get a road back here.

You know what? It might be our Hail Mary.

Great job, Jason. Woo!

He's out there hustling, he's working his ass off

to make sure he's getting the best gold as it gets

and I admire that.

I tell you what. I'm pretty proud of that guy.

He did the research and guess what?

We found some gold.

I think Jason is becoming a very good leader.

He's learning and conquering and adapting.

He's willing to take those risks.

If you don't have gamble in your blood,

you're never gonna be able to make it as a gold miner

because there's a lot against you,

there's a lot that you can't control.

I've learned that.

Alaska's thrown us a lot of curve balls.

Right now, we need a break.

Maybe this is the break we need.

All right. Sunlight cut is open for business.

Let's go get that freaking gold, dude.

At Glacier Creek...

I'll load as fast I can.

You find that pedal on the right and let's get it.

All right. There we go.

Jason and KC race to deliver pay

from the newly opened Sunlight cut.

I got to get as many loads up there as fast as I can

and, uh, safe as I can.

Rick got up to 61 loads,

if we can beat it, that would be great,

record-breaking time.

Here comes the Sunlight cut.

This is always that last push.

It's best when you give yourself a good

kick in the ass and keep going,

dig down deep and see what you're made of.

There goes load number one out of the Sunlight cut.

While I'm out here mining, my family has struggled.

My wife is missing.

They got search and rescue looking for them.

I have to get back there. This is horrible.

It was the most horrific thing I ever went through

and I knew we had a mission to do.

Once I knew they were safe,

I came back to finish out the season

all the way to the end.

It's been a rough year for KC.

You have to have courage and determination

to live up here and KC has that.

But that's what it takes to make money in this business,

that you'd be willing to work that hard.

KC, man, he's such a good guy.

His heart is a solid piece of gold.

He will would do anything for this team, anything.

I'm out checking the roads out.

As the weather deteriorates,

Dave assesses the five-mile dirt road,

the only way in and out of the mine.

I'm a little worried about

getting our equipment out of here,

getting people out of here before the snow falls.

We're in a avalanche zone.

Avalanche Alley they call this.

We've got to pay attention to that.

Six feet of snow

already blankets the slopes above.

With more forecast to hit tomorrow,

the entire mine site is at risk of avalanche.

The steep slopes of this valley

are known as a terrain trap.

When an avalanche hits, there's nowhere to run.

Look, Den Dempsey showed me pictures

of avalanches coming right down to this road.

We were mining up here in the winters.

- You mined in the winter? - Yeah.

It was the most dangerous thing I've ever done.

- Holy cow. - I mean we'd watch avalanches

come out of this and we had one come right behind us.

I thought I was gonna get buried.

- Oh, my goodness. - And you could see...

- It's got to be 30 feet, doesn't it? - Oh, yeah.

Holy ****,

that wasn't here yesterday.

You know, it was cold last night,

froze, you getting a little bit of moisture,

freeze-thaw action and you end up with this.

I mean you look around, look how steep this valley is.

We got a lot of snow up top, you know,

we get an avalanche or something,

blocks the road, we're stuck in here.

But we got a lot of work to do,

try to beat winter.

It's time to kick ass.

Our season is coming down to hours.

KC is going back and forth like a crazy person.

We're running hard.

Back on the mine...

I got a short window to get as much pay

out of this Sunlight cut as I can to that Eagle.

The team runs the plant all out

at 200 yards per hour.

I'm trying to kind of feather the material into this plant

because we don't wanna put a big jolt of weight at once

on the belt.

Thank you, Andrew, for your attention,

I appreciate it.

I mean, Andrew's fed the plant

hundred percent correct.

It's not overfilling it.

Doing good. Doing real good.

You know, Andrew has definitely grown

for his first season with Team Turin.

I've never seen somebody show so much interest.

He wants to learn.

I've never operated an articulating

haul truck before.

There's a lot of buttons in here.

We'll figure it out.

Nice and easy, Andrew.

All right. I got this.

There you go.

Now I just need to learn how to operate a dozer.

I believe by the end of this,

I'm gonna be a lot better miner

that I was on day one.

Dave took a chance with me

bringing me on to this crew.

Being a trusted crew member,

it's an accomplishment.

You never really know how good somebody is gonna be

until you actually put him to work.

As far as I'm concerned, I hit a home run with Andrew.

He's been great.

All right. Jason, 61 is equal in Rick's load

so everything after this is gravy.

The next one is a record.

Hell yeah, dude.

Attaboy, Morgan. Way to go, my man.

Woo!

Good job, KC.

Come on, big money.

I got this truck pedal to the metal.

I'm talking full speed ahead. I'm hauling ass.

**** carnage.

****. Ahh.

Nate, Nate, you got a copy, dude?

Yeah. Go ahead, KC.

Dude, I think I just clipped a rock.

****.

Clipped something.

Let's go backwards some, I hear it.

Ho, oh, oh. ****.

It's got definitely a hole in the tire.

It must've got right in there. It must have hit something.

Like, I didn't see anything. Just bam.

Hit me.

Well, we ain't got **** your tire with.

If it's got a hole and it's that bad,

I mean, it's blowing out pretty good. Yeah.

****.

- Hey, Dave. - Hey.

- There you go. - ****.

Well, that's a hell of a hole.

Look at the air coming out of there.

Why don't you go get on the phone,

and I don't care if you wake somebody up.

We gotta find a tire guy because this is our last hope.

If we don't have a front tire on that

**** we're not running.

This is not what I need right now.

That's the one piece of equipment I can't do without.

I mean without a haul truck, we're done.

Let's dump it.

Okay.

A burst tire cripples the rock truck.

Hey, Andrew,

sorry about the pile in the middle of your road.

But I had to get this truck out of here.

He's got a flat tire.

Go ahead and put it in the plant.

Copy that.

The crew mechanic makes a last ditch call

for a replacement.

Hey, it's Nathan. Hi, I'm trying to find

a frickin' tire guy.

Tire guy the number I have, he didn't answer his phone.

He stops in October.

****.

Do you know anybody else?

Anybody at all around Valdez?

In late October,

Team Turin is the only operation

still mining the valley.

The end might be nearer than we thought.

- Tell me what you got. - Nothing.

Oh, man.

- We got nothing. - We've been

I mean, I can't run that material up with loaders,

- that's not gonna do any good. - Right.

If we run what's left in the pay pile

and let's just pack it up.

End of the season, boys.

When that pile is gone, we're done.

Well, that sucks.

- Party's over. - That's it.

Hopefully, we got over our 450 ounces.

I think we really pushed our luck here.

I mean, you know, we had a truck tire go out

and we have weather coming in.

Maybe it's God's way telling us it's time to go home.

You know, Alaska tried to break us. It didn't.

It broke a tire before it ever broke Team Turin.

When you think about what we've been through,

you know, overcoming things

that... are almost insurmountable

and I feel like that's what we've done this year.

It's about a group of guys coming together

and doing something extraordinary.

This is the last of the pay.

Season over.

Last bucket, boys.

Woo-hoo!

Good job.

That's it, boys. Last bucket. Woo-hoo!

Last of the Glacier Creek gold for 2021.

Good job, you guys.

All right, KC, let's kill that pump.

Woo-hoo!

Yeah.

Good job, baby.

Three months ago,

I didn't even have a place to mine.

So for us to be where we're at right now,

I think it's an amazing achievement.

Hopefully, the Sunlight cut gives us what we need.

You know, our season comes down to this box right here.

That's where our answers are.

- What's up? - Hey, dude.

How's she looking, brother?

Under cover of darkness,

it's time to see if their Sunlight cut gamble

has paid off.

There ain't **** down here, Nater.

You got some pickers.

A picker up there.

The middle is looking pretty good.

Yeah.

- There's some down there on the left side. - Oh, yeah.

That's so much better than...

Because I wasn't seeing **** at first.

You think we got 50 ounces in here?

Well, I guess the gold room will tell.

You know, this isn't really the way we wanted

to end the season on a flat tire,

- but I think it's time. - Yup. I agree.

You know, the snow's right there.

We've been warned and...

I feel really proud of what we've accomplished.

We're in Alaska and you guys, you figured it out.

You managed it. You conquered it.

- I'm **** proud of everybody. - Amen.

- Yes, we are. - It looks pretty good in the box.

- Yup. - We'll clean it up. Get it up to Shelly.

See if the Sunlight cut put us over the top.

I've been doing this for a while but I have to say

that this year stands out

to me as one of the most amazing accomplishments.

We've overcome Alaska.

If it's there, great. If it's not **** we tried.

Morning in Alaska.

Snow's here. She's here.

Pretty big flakes coming down, boys.

Mother Nature finally issues

her eviction notice.

Winter's here, a hundred percent.

Ten inches of snow can fall in an hour.

The team must collect the essentials

and get out.

Anywhere else in the Lower 48, I'd be okay with it snowing.

But this place, you know, is Valdez Alaska.

We have one road in, one road out.

We don't need to be getting trapped here.

You know, this is an eye opener.

I just hope we can get everything cleaned up

and get the hell out of here before we're sitting

under 30, 40 feet of this.

Jason.

Back a little bit, Nate.

A little more.

- There you go. - There, we got it.

Alaska throws snowballs at you,

it ain't a snowball, it's an avalanche.

And that's it. Mine's shut down.

Just at the right time.

I'm not being caught with my pants down.

No way in hell.

If you'd asked me eight months ago,

I'd be in the position that I'm at,

I would have never expected this.

It's crazy how we started and I had nothing.

No prospects. Had no ground to mine.

Now, I'm mining in Alaska.

And now, I've got an opportunity

to have a great mine in Montana.

I've never been in a place where I'm doing good mining,

but I've got great ground in the future.

It's a really good place to be.

If you try to balance it all out,

I've got so much wrapped up in Alaska,

you know, Alaska I own the claims

and, you know, the amount

of effort and time that we put in there,

all my equipment's up there, the guys are there.

But great gold in Montana,

we can get permits.

Could be great. What do you do?

We've got some big decisions to make.

But as problems go,

this is a great problem to have.

The Sunlight cut, I mean it can make or break us.

I mean, that's the truth. It's a make or break.

Believe me, I know because I'm sweating that break.

Either you're gonna make it, or you're gonna break it.

After a five-month season,

but just 13 weeks spent mining...

I think you made the right decision taking the gamble,

even if we don't hit 450.

We'll see.

It's time for the crew to discover

if its epic Alaskan gamble has paid out.

- Hey, guys. - Hey, Dave. Hey, Shelly.

- What's up, guys? - Woo-hoo!

I think you're carrying quite a heavy backpack there.

Well, that's a good sign.

- Bring it over. - Yeah.

Sweet.

Oh, oh.

You know what, you guys, three months ago,

I didn't think I'd be here.

I didn't think we'd have this...

bag full of gold.

I didn't think we'd have any gold at all.

The world says success is 450 ounces.

But I view success as this team

and what we've become.

And I feel like regardless of whether we hit

450 ounces after this year,

I think we can conquer anything.

- Five guys and a gal. - And here we are

still standing strong.

And let's hope that it shows

- in that gold total. - Yeah.

- I believe that... - Oh, there's a hundred.

So...

So this is 401 ounces.

Right.

Well?

- Oh! - No way.

- Here's what's left. - Wow.

The crew needs 49 ounces

to hit its 450 ounce target.

- Okay. - Come on, Shelly. Let's see what we got.

- All right. - Come on, Shelly. Pour that gold.

KC, read the numbers.

- You see them? - All right. Seven.

There's 10.

Going 14.

- Come on. - Come on 20.

Come on 49.

Now, there's 24.

- Twenty-eight. - Come on.

There's 30.

- Come on. There's 33. - Come on. Please, come on.

- Thirty-six. - Whoa.

- Forty-seven. - Here we go. Here we go.

Forty-eight.

- Woo! - That's 50.

- Yeah. - All right.

We're over.

Oh, that's the big money.

- Come on, Shelly. - Keep on pouring.

Keep going. Oh, big money. Come on.

- Come on. - Sixty. Woo.

- Look at that. - 61.9. We are in business.

- Here we go. - That's what I'm talking about.

- A beautiful sight. - That is good **** right there.

- Outstanding. - Yup.

Their high stakes gamble in the Sunlight cut

pays out a record 61.9 ounces.

We worked our asses off for that.

You know, starting when we started,

and to come up with 463 ounces,

- it's a hell of an achievement. - Yes. Yes.

In just 13 weeks,

the crew extracts a total

of 463 ounces of gold

worth over $833,000.

You put your heart and soul into something,

you accomplish anything.

That right there proves it.

I feel like the future looks good right now.

This is the first year I've been able to return.

So I'm excited to be back next year.

Where we go from here,

this is our hub,

we're gonna branch out.

This is just a starting point.

This is just the beginning of my dream.

I got to come out here and experience Alaska,

and I don't take it for granted.

Alaska has definitely put me to the test.

But next season, to take this operation

to whatever heights we possibly can.

For my future, I've got to make sure

family first, mining second.

But one way or another, I'm gonna stay a gold miner.

It's always been a dream of mine to be a gold miner.

I'm just gonna keep building to be better for the future.

All right, gentlemen. Drinks are on me.

- Hey, I'd like that. - Let's go have a drink.

- It's all good. - Love you, guys.

Love you, guys.

You got everything? Yeah.

- Everybody's got their bags? - Yeah, man.

I got something for you, boys.

- There you go. - Yeah. Now, we're talking.

- Nathan. - Hey.

That's what I like to see, right there.

- Andrew. - Thank you.

I put some nuggets in there, you guys.

- Oh, sweet. - That's cool, man.

Jason.

- KC. - Thank you.

- Here you go. - Thank you.

- Go see your families. - Thank you, brother.

- Love you, guys. All right. Good job. - Love you, man.

Good job, Andrew.

Jason, good job, buddy.

- Good job. JC. - Let's catch that jet plane, boys.

- Let's go see our family. - Yeah.

Good team.

Yeah, great team.

I believe the American Dream is getting enough gold

to start looking to the future.

I'm gonna miss 'em.

- Yeah, I know. - You will too.

- Oh, I'll miss those guys. - Yeah.

There's great gold in Alaska

waiting to be found.

Next year is the season that's gonna change.

It's gonna change everything.