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Duane ollinger: This whole place is mystery,

and it's all about finding the truth.

But we're looking for buried treasure.

We've got stories about aztec gold.

Man: According to legend, they stored

it in the uinta mountains.

Stories about the rhodes mine.

Eric drummond: This very well could be

where this treasure is buried.

See this?

We're on the verge of a huge discovery.

It could be worth millions of dollars.

But there's more to this story than what you think.

We call it the energy zone.

Chad ollinger: It's unexplainable,

but it's creating something out of nothing.

[cackling]

I'm gonna have to rethink everything.

Duane ollinger (voiceover): These pieces

are starting to line up.

Duane ollinger: The heck?

Did you hear that?

Duane ollinger (voiceover): But there's risks on this deal.

Charlie snider: Look at this.

He's going into a trance.

Right where chad's camping.

Charlie snider: Right where chad's camping.

My whole family's out there.

This is a whole new ball game now.

There are some places on earth that just don't seem right,

but land feels different.

It acts different.

And this here is one of those places.

Some say the land is trying to hold on to something.

Aztec treasure.

Holy [bleep].

Duane ollinger (voiceover): Caverns of gold.

Look at this.

Duane ollinger (voiceover): Mormon riches.

It'll be a million dollars here.

Duane ollinger (voiceover): Some even

say there's a buried spaceship.

Duane ollinger: Hell yeah.

Duane ollinger (voiceover): Me?

I never cared much about the stories.

I just care about finding whatever

the hell is in the ground.

Eric drummond: Let's get out of here.

[shouts]

[gasping]

everybody needs to grab their stuff now so we

can go catch up with chad.

Eric drummond: I think it's time to start wearing firearms.

Well, why do you think I carry mine?

I think I'll carry mine, too.

Duane ollinger (voiceover): So we

see this trespasser on a trail cam

that charlie set up right next to chad's camp.

I don't like for anything to get in the way of our work,

but safety does come first.

Charlie snider: There's chad, right there.

Duane ollinger: What's the deal?

What's going on?

Everything all right?

Chad ollinger: I checked on the family.

They're ok, but he might still be out here.

Charlie snider: Yeah.

We need to find this guy if he's here.

Where was that camera at?

It was right back over here.

Right over there.

We can check along this bank here.

Duane ollinger: See a vehicle or anything?

No. No vehicles at all.

No lights.

Nothing.

Well.

Duane ollinger: Geez.

Chad ollinger: There's no telling where he could be.

Duane ollinger: No.

Not in this mess.

Crazy son of a buck like that could hide anywhere.

Charlie snider: Well, ok.

Duane ollinger: What do you think, charlie?

I think we probably need to split up.

If you can get your side-by-side and take care of the road--

duane ollinger: Ok.

Chad, if you'll stay within hollering distance of me--

chad ollinger: Ok.

--I'mma push further, deeper into the woods here,

along the creek.

And if we can flush him out, we can get

him up on the road [inaudible].

Ok, I got him.

[tense music]

charlie snider: What's that over there?

Hey!

Hey!

[bleep]

he's not here.

He's probably long gone by now,

but I don't see any footprints or anything.

Chad ollinger: It's just so dense.

There's my dad, right there.

See anything? Duane ollinger: No.

Didn't see anything.

What did you guys see?

Nah, we didn't find anything in there.

Duane ollinger: Well, let's get the hell out of here.

Charlie snider: All right.

It was pretty weird, though, wasn't it?

Chad ollinger: Got my attention, I will say.

Duane ollinger: That was a skinwalker.

Carissa davenport: This area is known for skinwalkers.

There are evil spirits that can shapeshift into whatever

needs be, and they are entities that are not to be messed with.

Pam warner: The people that live here are very afraid of them

and have had a lot of experiences with them.

They've seen people actually turn into different animals,

like a coyote.

The cows-- they'd find them in the morning, all mutilated.

I believe that they've always been here.

It's part of the native american lore of the area.

It's starting to happen more and more.

Just be careful with what you're

messing with, because sometimes it can follow you home.

Duane ollinger (voiceover): I put a huge amount of money

into this project, and my goal has always

been to get into the cavern and find out the truth about what

the hell's down there.

And hopefully, that's a truckload of gold.

But part of the reason that we haven't got accomplished what

we need to is some of these weird things that

are happening to us on this ranch,

and they take up a lot of our time.

[beep]

ah, [bleep].

Duane ollinger (voiceover): So it's my job as the boss to keep

everybody's eye on the target.

We found a box in the bottom of these caverns.

And people don't go around burying a box of nothing.

It has to be something that's valuable.

And right now, we still don't have a good entry point.

If we could bring a rathole rig in and drop right down in

and see if there's a dry entrance that we can walk into,

that's just better.

It takes the risk out of it.

Duane ollinger: We will bring that drilling rig back in,

but we have to get some better target points.

Eric drummond: What about running some geophysical?

You guys have mentioned you having er survey equipment,

like electrical resistivity?

Yeah.

We have the resistivity.

Use something like that.

Maybe that can pinpoint.

You go closer to the source where you know

you've broken into it before.

Chad ollinger (voiceover): We've been throwing everything we got

to try to get into the cavern.

We've tried gpr, dyeing the pond, the boring machine.

We're down to the last couple of things in our toolkit.

Chad ollinger: Yeah.

We'll get that tester out, the resistivity tester,

and just five different spots around here.

Great.

Eric drummond: I'd really be interested in going back

to check out that unmapped fault.

Chad ollinger: I think so, too.

We never really ruled that spot out.

Duane ollinger: Well, that sounds like a game plan there.

Chad ollinger (voiceover): This unmapped fault zone is

a spot where we tried to punch in with the boring machine,

and the bedrock was so hard, the bit just slid up the mountain,

parallel to the ground.

Chad ollinger: It's a [bleep] drill stem.

Chad ollinger (voiceover): So we're

gonna go back and see if we can punch

through with a rathole rig.

But first, we need to pinpoint the right spot to drill.

We know there is a cavern here, but we don't know

exactly where to drill into it.

So what we're doing here is called resistivity testing.

So, the first thing we do is put metal stakes in the ground,

equally spaced out.

After that, we hook an electrical wire up

to two stakes at the same time, and we send

a charge through those stakes.

The material between the stakes allows the wires to talk.

Charlie snider: 3.87.

Ok.

Chad ollinger (voiceover): When we get lower readings,

that means we're on bedrock.

Low resistivity, high conductivity.

Charlie snider: 6.06.

Chad ollinger (voiceover): Whenever we increase

the distance between the stakes, it also increases the depth

that we're going down.

The hope is, when we get past 30 or 40 feet down,

we'll start seeing some big numbers.

That would suggest a void with nothing

conductive between the two stakes.

Chad ollinger: That's at 20 foot in depth.

Charlie snider: Good.

6.06.

Still only 6.

[bleep]

I don't know if it's working.

Eric drummond: Chad and charlie, like I said,

this technology generally doesn't

work well in bedrock unless you can get the stake through it.

Chad ollinger: All right.

Let me show you something.

This is a broken drill bit from a while back.

They couldn't get it back out, because it got stuck,

and it ended up breaking.

But we think it's all the way through the void, and if it is,

it'll give us a reading of what's below the bedrock,

right?

Right.

Let's check it.

Sure.

All right, we're good?

Yeah.

That's 40 foot in depth.

Charlie snider: 18.68.

It's higher than we're used to.

That's not-- there's no period on there.

Oh, really?

Hey, come look at this, eric.

Eric drummond: What you got?

Look at this.

That's 1,800.

Eric drummond: Oh, wow.

That's significant.

Chad ollinger: Totally open.

If we get through the bedrock, we get to the cave.

Chad ollinger (voiceover): The test

results were so exciting because the higher the numbers,

the bigger the void.

So it might mean some huge cavern below us.

Might just be this whole area is a huge cavern.

Eric drummond: Good deal. [laughter]

[bleep]

chad ollinger: You owe me a beer, eric.

Eric drummond: That's ok.

Duane ollinger (voiceover): I promised the guys

we'd bring the rathole rig back in if we

found some promising targets.

Bring it in!

Duane ollinger (voiceover): They held

up their end of the bargain, and I'm gonna hold up mine.

Chad ollinger: Stand out from there and get right here.

Duane ollinger (voiceover): So we're back

at the unmarked fault zone that we

could not bust through the bedrock

with the boring machine.

Chad used the resistivity test to find out

where there's a void, so we're gonna

drill that with a bigger rig.

Go a little more.

Duane ollinger (voiceover): Chad says

there's a void 30 foot down, and that's an expensive hole.

The little [bleep] better be right.

They're gonna try to get as close to that drill stent

without hitting it, so--

eric drummond: Ok, cool.

It's gonna be just right over here.

That's where the scans on that resistivity

were huge, showing a void right there.

This is my spot that I think is the one, just from the test.

Pressure's on.

Kind of nervous, actually.

[laughing]

yes!

[laughing]

water's a great sign, yeah.

Woo-hoo!

No water's a bad sign.

Look at that.

There's water right there.

Charlie snider: Wow! Eric drummond: Yeah!

See it? [clapping, laughing]

there we go.

What are we?

Charlie snider: 17.

17.

Ok, awesome.

Let's go.

Duane ollinger: That's a good sign right there.

[inaudible] , baby.

Eric drummond: Yeah.

Let's drill that [bleep].

[chuckling]

chad ollinger: So, the scans were

showing about 24 to 30 feet.

That's where the cave is.

So we've got about 10 more feet or a little bit less.

Duane ollinger: The bottom's dryer.

Wet up here and dry down here.

Eric drummond: Yeah.

It's a small seam up top.

Duane ollinger (voiceover): Even though we're

looking for a dry entrance, the water is a good sign at first.

It means that where we're drilling

is connected to the flooded entrance.

Then, if we break through to some dry stuff,

we will have that dry entrance we're looking for.

Yeah, baby.

Come on, baby.

Here we go.

This is it.

Just wait.

We'll go up another 6 foot.

It'll be there.

[bleep]

no pressure, right?

No pressure. [chuckling]

no pressure.

Eric drummond: 29 and 1/2.

29 and 1/2.

This should be the one, yeah.

29 and 1/2.

Yeah.

Chad ollinger (voiceover): So, whenever

you punch into the cavern, the drill

should have zero resistance.

The sound should change.

It'll be obvious by looking at the drill

and feeling the machine that we're in the cavern.

- That's wet. - That's the water line right

yeah, that's completely--

chad ollinger: Still digging, though.

Eric drummond: Got at least 7 feet of water

in the bottom of the hole.

Of course, the last bit of that section of drill pipe

going down--

the sound became a lot less.

And so, I don't know if it took pressure off the bit

or if it was falling down.

We'll ask the driller about that.

Were you taking pressure off the bit, or--

so we're at 32.

Chad?

Chad ollinger: Yeah?

You notice the sound got quieter when the [inaudible]

was almost down?

He says that he has to put more pressure on it--

chad ollinger: Oh, he is?

Eric drummond: --To drill more so that--

yeah.

It's not a void.

That water--

it may be clay, and it may be the effects of the water.

That water will probably knock it out, too.

Yep.

Yeah, ok.

Hey, chad!

What do you say let's shut it down?

One more.

Duane ollinger: That's it. One more.

That's all.

[bleep] [bleep].

[bleep] [bleep].

Let's go home.

Man (on radio): Copy that.

Let's go home.

Duane ollinger: Well, fellas, it's coming in,

and it will just flat-ass dump on us, and we know that.

What we do have is a little window here

of maybe one to three days--

enough time to do one more drill with that rathole rig.

So, one at a time, you guys tell me

what you think is the best scenario,

'cause we got one more drill.

One more drill.

And we'll work our way around, and I

respect all y'all's opinion.

Chad, you want to start?

I think we should go to the energy zone.

The way those gpr guys were freaking

out about whatever's down there might be worth checking out.

Ok.

Eric drummond: I kind of agree with that.

I've run hundreds of those gpr surveys in my line of work,

and I've never seen this equipment react like that.

Right.

And so, it's always a crapshoot when you're drilling.

You never know what you're gonna find.

But I want to see what's going on there.

Charlie boy, what do you think?

I'm inclined to go with chad.

You guys don't think there's any other place

that might benefit us more.

We've already drilled quite a bit,

and we've got one last shot.

And so, something a little bit different

could help us find significant information, and there you go.

Charlie snider: That's a good thought.

Well, let's do it.

That drill's on track, so we can take a little bit of snow.

But we don't need no ice getting under them

metal tracks, so we better do it now, and we better do it fast.

Sounds good.

Cool.

Duane ollinger (voiceover): Winter's coming in,

and we're running out of time.

It won't be long before it shuts down.

So we decided to dig at the energy zone.

That's been ground zero for all the weird stuff that's

been happening on this project.

I've never seen that.

[beeping, whirring]

the control is all [bleep] up.

Duane ollinger (voiceover): We know

that there's something that's causing all

these magnetic interferences.

Eric drummond: We're at about 6 feet.

Duane ollinger (voiceover): But so far, the drill's just going

easy and not hitting anything.

Eric drummond: 18 feet.

So I don't know.

Eric drummond: 25 feet.

50 feet.

75 feet.

Duane ollinger (voiceover): And then we

get to the end of the bit at 85 foot, and nothing.

So far, we missed on all the targets that we drilled in.

It's frustrating.

But I'll tell you what.

There's something going on here that's creating a huge energy

zone, and come hell or high water,

we will get to the bottom of it.

So if we can't find the access point to get ourself

underground to find the answer, maybe it's time

to bring the answer up to us.

Dang!

Damn.

Duane ollinger (voiceover): Eric thinks

if we get a sample of that dirt down there,

it might tell us why the equipment's

been screwing up and not letting us get down into the cavern.

And if we happen to scoop up a little gold down there,

that sure would be all right with me.

We're building the deal to scrape the walls on that hole

over there in the energy zone.

This device will go down and bring up whatever's down there.

We'll put scrapers on the side of it,

and then we'll use two winches-- one

to let it down, the other winch to tighten it up.

And then that'll make these scrapers go out

and scrape the wall as we raise it up.

Eric drummond: I'm real impressed with what

he's done here.

Duane is somewhat of a mechanical genius.

We can do multiple holes on it, right?

Yeah.

We can just back up, release it, drop it back down,

and scrape it again.

That looks great.

Duane ollinger: So now the plan is

that we're gonna put the scraper in all the way

down, around 85 foot, scrape the walls,

bring it up, and see what's down there.

At that board right there, we want to be at 75 foot,

and then we'll give it another 5 foot,

and we'll know we'll be scraping it, all right?

Ok, yeah.

Ok, chad.

Let's send it down.

Eric drummond: We got 20.

30.

We got 40.

50.

50? Eric drummond: Yup.

Damn, that's pretty as a picture down there, fellas.

Eric drummond: Yeah, it is.

Duane ollinger: We're at 100?

Eric drummond: 70.

80.

Go 2 more feet.

Of 83 and stop.

Chad ollinger: 83.

There it is.

God, that is down there.

Eric drummond: Yes, it is.

Let's deploy the scrapers.

We'll bring it up to 78, and I'll call it out.

Charlie snider: All right. It's tight.

Eric drummond: It's tight?

Charlie snider: Yep.

[whirring]

[impact, silence]

[whirring]

[whirring]

[grinding]

[whirring]

duane ollinger: Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

[bleep]

ok. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Chad ollinger: It's stuck.

Too tight, chad. Let her down.

[interposing voices] eric drummond: Let her down.

Duane ollinger (voiceover): It seems like every time

we make some progress, something else steps

up and starts fighting us.

Let's loosen this one a little bit.

Ok.

Let both of 'em down.

Chad ollinger: All right. She's free.

Duane ollinger: There you go. There you go.

Chad ollinger: She's free. Duane ollinger: Ok.

We're free.

Ok, come on up here.

Let's take it all the way up.

Let's see what we did.

We have a hell of a sample on our side.

Eric drummond: I think so.

20.

Here we go.

Ooh.

Look.

That's blue.

Interesting.

Chad ollinger: [bleep],, that's blue.

Eric drummond: Wow.

It is.

Look at that.

Eric drummond: That's definitely blue.

I see the blue.

Charlie snider: Wow, that's cool.

Eric drummond: I see it.

Charlie snider: Look at that.

Duane ollinger (voiceover): We brought that scraper back up,

and all of a sudden, we pulled up blue dirt.

Eric drummond: Wow.

Duane ollinger (voiceover): It was

a bluest dirt you ever seen.

And what it is, I just don't know.

Eric drummond (voiceover): I've seen some really weird things

in my career as a geologist, but this blue dirt

we're seeing here is really, really interesting.

So I want to explore it more.

What could the blue mean, eric?

Eric drummond: Well, from a geologic standpoint, it's rare.

Eric drummond (voiceover): First thing

that comes to mind is an interesting mineral called

iridium.

It can be worth as much or more than gold.

Iridium is so rare, and the demand is so high.

It's used in electronics and microchips.

The price fluctuates, but right now it's around $3,000

an ounce.

But usually you only see it in small particles.

It's not normally found in massive deposits,

because a lot of it comes from space impacts.

So, when the impact occurs, it spreads it

all out in very fine particles.

A deposit of iridium is really not something

you normally see on earth.

Eric drummond: Iridium-- just highly conductive.

This could be the element that's causing everything to go wrong.

This could be the explanation for this energy.

I think that's a success. Chad ollinger: Yeah, it is.

Duane ollinger: Hell yeah.

[laughing]

eric drummond: All right.

We'll set her down.

[bird hooting]

yeah.

Let's just walk up this draw here.

Ok.

Eric drummond: We've been experiencing really

weird things going on here.

Eric drummond (voiceover): Well, a huge deposit

of a blue mineral is just so strange,

and I think we have to explore more to see if there's

iridium on the property.

I know our main focus is finding out

what's underneath the ground here,

but maybe the answer is it's a huge deposit of iridium.

So if that's true, these deposits could be worth

more than any buried treasure.

I think it's worth taking a sample here.

It looks like, when this is flowing,

you got a little waterfall right here,

and the heavy materials are gonna sit right at the bottom

here.

Chad ollinger: Gotcha.

Grab me that sample bag?

Yep, yep.

Eric drummond: We'll get some of the digging tools out.

Iridium is heavier than gold, so we're

hoping to find it right in the bottom of this trap right here.

Nice.

Eric drummond: That's some nice-looking material.

If we find iridium in this sample here,

we'll go all throughout this gully here.

Chad ollinger: Yes.

If we found a legitimate, minable deposit,

that could be worth a lot of money.

What is this?

Oh my goodness.

Whoa.

Grab me that sample bag?

Yep, yep.

Eric drummond: We'll get some of the digging tools out.

Iridium is heavier than gold, so we're

hoping to find it right in the bottom of this trap right here.

What is this?

Oh my goodness.

Whoa.

[bleep] it's super heavy--

eric drummond: What is that? Chad ollinger: --Whatever it is.

It's heavy?

Yeah.

Oh my god.

I think we got a meteorite.

What the heck?

[laughing]

eric drummond (voiceover): Iridium is often

associated with meteorites.

It's more plentiful in outer space than it is on earth.

And so, meteorite on site here could

be a very good indication of high concentrations of iridium.

Eric drummond: Very interesting.

Can you catch that?

[laughter]

duane ollinger: That is a heavy son of a buck.

Eric drummond: Isn't it?

Doesn't that feel good in your hand?

That's crazy.

You can just tell how hot that son of a buck got.

[inaudible]

the speed that that thing got up to is just--

it's nice holding something that came from outer space.

Chad ollinger: Yeah.

Eric drummond: This could be a major, major discovery.

Yeah.

Duane ollinger (voiceover): I've said since day 1

that I want to know the truth.

I always thought that that search would lead

me to gold in those caverns.

But if there's a super valuable space mineral on this property,

we will look into that, also.

Maybe it's all connected somehow.

Eric drummond: I'm heading upstream, getting samples,

and I'll bring 'em back and see what we've got.

This looks like a perfect spot.

Eric drummond (voiceover): If I can get enough samples to show

that there are significant amounts of iridium on site,

it could not only be worth a lot of money.

It could maybe explain some of the anomalies that

have been happening out here.

Chad ollinger: If it's not one thing,

it's another out here, all the time.

Eric drummond: It looks like thunderstorms are brewing.

[bleep]

I don't want to be on the mountain

when it starts lightning.

Chad ollinger: This weather is killing us.

It's like it has a mind of its own, trying to shut us down.

Eric drummond: This is what you have to deal with when

you're out in the field.

You're dealing with weather.

You're dealing with terrain.

[shouts]

charlie snider (voiceover): We have these quite often.

All of a sudden, you get this lightning and thundering going

on, and you don't even know what's

gonna happen till it happens.

Chad ollinger: It's getting close.

Now it's really time to go.

Charlie snider (voiceover): We don't

have any control out here.

We have to go with what mother nature gives us.

And right now, it's not giving us a lot of opportunity.

Here we go.

I think I beat it.

I think I cheated death one more time here.

[panting]

ok.

I made it.

Eric drummond (voiceover): Duane brought

me onto this project to try to help him get into this cavern.

Obviously, after chad found that box,

I started to like this treasure angle.

Can you get that underneath there?

But not all treasure is buried in underground caverns.

Iridium is a naturally-occurring mineral that's more

valuable than a box of gold.

Charlie snider: Come on, eric!

[laughing]

eric drummond: First, we'll do a surface sample.

This is nice, red-looking material here.

Chad ollinger: Yeah, it is, isn't it?

Eric drummond: It's got some iron in it for sure.

They say that iridium has an affinity for iron.

Is that right?

Yeah.

Hopefully it shows.

Eric drummond (voiceover): We've got three samples

from all over the ranch.

We've got a surface sample from yesterday's hike.

We got a sample from the meteor site.

And we have a sample of the blue mineral

that we pulled out of the energy zone.

I used to always be hoping for gold,

but now I'm hoping for iridium.

All I can do is give them options, basically,

and I'll give them that option to mine for iridium

if we find it in significant concentration.

So, next, this is the blue zone, so we'll do the same thing.

Eric drummond (voiceover): We're looking

for evidence of a meaningful concentration of iridium--

something that may explain the anomalies

that go on around the property.

And if it's that big, that means we can mine it.

I like that.

The last is just a small sample,

but ok, this is the meteorite wash.

Do the honors.

Go ahead.

Chad ollinger (voiceover): We know,

whenever we get that first snow and the weather

starts kicking up, that we're getting

close to the end of the season.

I obviously want to go into the cavern and back to the box,

but if we can find something else of value

before we get snowed in, that'd be huge, too.

Eric drummond: So we got our sample there.

That's our concentrate, which we'll pan out.

Nice.

So, first we'll do the surface sample we took.

Ok.

[suspenseful music]

eric drummond: Right off the bat, I'm not seeing anything.

Now we'll do the meteorite sample.

I don't see anything there.

Now we'll look at the next one.

This is the sample from the blue zone.

I'm really hopeful for this sample here.

Look at that.

Yeah, you can definitely see that.

It's a shiny, metallic, bluish thing.

Yeah, yeah.

Eric drummond: Interesting.

It could be iridium.

I think I mentioned to you the extinction of the dinosaurs

was caused by a huge asteroid that hit down in the yucatan

peninsula in mexico.

Not only did it kill pretty much all life on earth,

but it had shot iridium into the atmosphere.

And there are clay layers, even around here,

that have a hundred times more iridium,

and that naturally occurs in soils.

So that's real exciting.

This is the sample from the blue zone.

I'm really hopeful for this sample here.

Look at that.

Yeah, you can definitely see that.

It's a shiny, metallic, bluish thing.

Yeah, yeah.

Eric drummond: Interesting.

There's two of 'em.

Two pieces right there.

Two pieces.

What is that?

It could be iridium.

If it is iridium, it's coming from somewhere,

and so there could be a big deposit up there.

If we find this load source of that, oof, that's huge.

Depending on the size of the deposit,

it can be worth millions, tens of millions,

hundreds of millions.

It's that valuable.

Yes, they're small, but having that many pieces in one spot

is really, really significant.

From a geology aspect, that's huge.

Duane ollinger (voiceover): Well, eric found four flakes

of something, and it might be iridium,

so we're gonna test 'em with the xrf gun

and see how pure they are.

But it's gonna have to be a high concentration

before we want to get into a iridium mining operation

out here.

Duane ollinger: We're ready?

Eric drummond: Start her up.

[beep]

parts per million, iridium, minable--

it's considered 10 parts per million.

So anything above 20 would be amazing, right?

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

Come on, iridium.

[beep]

hey.

Eric drummond: That's 50 parts per million?

- 61. - Yeah, there--

[interposing voices]

eric drummond: So it's still running.

It's still running. It's going up.

It just got 87.

Eric drummond: 80 parts per million?

Oh, my.

Eric drummond (voiceover): The early stages of the process--

it's coming up 80 parts per million.

We've got iridium, guys.

Eric drummond (voiceover): That was significant in itself.

If it had ended at that point, I would have been very happy.

Uh-oh.

This is the full scan here?

This is the final? - Yep.

[beep]

eric drummond: Oh!

804,000?

And those specs are pure iridium.

It jumped up to 800,000.

Like, what?

That's amazing.

Charlie snider: That's unbelievable.

Eric drummond: That's fantastic.

You got it, man!

[laughter]

duane ollinger (voiceover): It's amazing.

It shot high.

It shot huge.

I think eric's on to something here.

We may have an iridium mine here.

That'd be all right.

That'd be real good.

Eric drummond (voiceover): We're still

a long ways from finding a minable deposit,

but that's very significant.

That's awesome.

Duane ollinger (voiceover): I'm not giving up

on the treasure in these caves, but we could be sitting

on a huge iridium deposit.

Eric drummond: We're on the trail, boys.

Duane, you ready to become an iridium magnate?

That'd be a "yes."

[laughing]

all right.

I'll second that motion.

There you go.

Charlie snider: One beer left.

Gonna be hard to split.

Eric drummond: I'll tell you what, guys.

I can feel the chill in the air.

Our season's almost to the end, but I'm real happy.

I'm happy about what we found.

I'm happy about the potential.

I'm a prospector.

And so, what I'm seeing are indications that you have

something significant here.

We have a minable deposit of iridium.

It could be worth millions.

It could also explain why we've been seeing these weird things,

the equipment malfunctions.

Iridium will do that, then?

Eric drummond: Well, it's a very dense metal, just like gold.

So, with a gpr or even resistivity, it

can affect the instruments, is what I'm saying.

Charlie snider: So you think it would

cause a lot of interference?

Eric drummond: It could, yeah.

Eric drummond (voiceover): There are still some question

marks out there, but I think we've

answered one very big question.

Why are all of our electronics--

drones, gpr, sound engineering equipment--

[interference]

--in the basement--

eric drummond (voiceover): --Camera system gone haywire?

It's a very distinct possibility that iridium

is causing this interference.

Well, I think we solved one part of it,

but we still got a long ways to go.

Eric drummond: Yeah, there's still a lot

of discoveries to be made.

Not only the treasure aspect, but the mineral.

We know it's connected somehow.

Charlie snider: That's the mystery of this place.

Eric drummond: Yeah.

Duane ollinger: So here's the deal, fellas.

It's high risk out here, but the reward is just overwhelming.

And no risk, no fun.

[laughter]

I hate to admit it, but I'm one of those junkies,

and I think I raised one just like me.

Chad ollinger (voiceover): We've answered one big question,

which is [bleep] awesome.

But for the next six months, I'm gonna

be dreaming about that box in that cavern, man.

Eric drummond (voiceover): Sometimes,

to do something very significant,

you have to deal with a little bit of risk.

But once in a while, you get that big payday.

Yeah. It's coming.

We're close.

Yeah.

Duane ollinger (voiceover): I'm telling you,

there is so much here, and where this will lead us,

I'll never know.

Man, that's what life's all about--

the journey.

Duane ollinger: What a ride, man.

Eric drummond: I'm all in.

Charlie snider: Let's go for it, 100%.

Chad ollinger: I'm ready.