Hey, here's Jason.
Ol' hot rod himself.
You got some news?
I do, Dave.
They wiped those first two as if they did not occur,
but we still only get three holes.
So we have three fresh holes to be able to dig.
Right on!
Good job, Jason!
Right on, brother.
I was happy, man.
Let's dig some holes.
It's good news we got three holes.
Now, we're going to try to figure out if there's any gold
that the old timers left.
I've been finding really good gold here.
Every time we come up here, I don't
think I've ever been skunked.
We've always managed to find gold.
I think where we can start is-- obviously,
that's all from the old timers.
They dredged the hell out of that mountain.
We're pitting our wits against the old timers--
our experience, our knowledge, our wisdom.
Look at this.
Why is that spot there?
Is that just a ridge?
Or does it flatten out?
It's kind of like an island.
There's your hand workings.
Yeah.
And why did they leave that plateau there?
[BLEEP] Why would they leave this, Dave?
What if there was a town?
For some reason they did not mine this.
For us, I think we mine it right here.
Absolutely.
Dave has discovered a 10 acre island isolated by valleys
and ancient river benches.
If the island is an old town site too high for the dredge,
it could hold millions.
Boom, bam, hot damn.
Yeah. See?
There's some gravels.
That is some damn good looking pay.
This whole chunk is virgin.
Hopefully, there's some gold.
All right.
Move her into place, boys.
Excited.
Let's get five yards down there, run some material.
Straighten her out right there, and go straight back
and swing her in, brother.
That was slick.
Probably the quickest client I've
ever set up with a feeder and a tailing conveyor.
With a the feeder, tramell, and tailings conveyor.
And it's level.
It's ready to go.
15 minutes.
Yeah.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Got water.
We can sluice.
Hell yeah!
First bucket!
Idaho gold!
That beetle's flying, man!
Woo!
Finally, we're making some gold.
I like the way the wash plant's running.
Juan's got it dialed in.
Tell you what, right now, we're doing it.
It's good to see it finally running material.
Hopefully, at the end of the day,
we'll have some gold in the box.
Here goes the tedious part.
How's it look so far, Dave?
Good.
Got some gold, at least 20 good sized colors.
That's going to go right about 20 bucks a yard.
All right, that happened so quick
that I can't stand around.
I got to get on to the next one.
Jason digs a second test at the southernmost tip
of the island.
That looks like tails.
Yeah.
Ah, [BLEEP].
Well, that doesn't look good.
I'm barely scratched in.
What happened?
You were supposed to be on the gold, man.
I'm on it.
It doesn't look like it.
Yeah, I'm just like--
I don't know-- 80 years too late.
Is there anything you can salvage here?
There's no gravels in there?
You think this is just all worked?
Dave, this is nothing but the tails.
Team Turin have hit the boundary where the dredge
has mined the island.
This is our second hole.
And it's a bust.
There's nothing here.
I may not even get a full bucket full.
Well, [BLEEP].
Fill it up.
If the claim is to be viable for next season,
the team must hit virgin ground on their final hole.
Well, I'm a little bit pissed off right now.
That was our second hole.
Now, we've got one left.
I don't want to go home without running
that plant another time.
Dave previously found gold on the bench
and in the first test hole on the island.
For the claim to be good enough to mine for a season,
the third and final hole must hit rich pay dirt.
Hey, Jay?
I'd stay this way and maybe around.
We've got some gravel.
Dang, that's the best looking dirt I've seen here.
This is a way better feeling zone.
The rocks are bigger.
This is our third hole.
And at least appearance wise, looks like we made it count.
Yeah.
Now, you're in it.
Look how red it is.
Hey, you're on the gold now, baby!
Yeah, buddy!
Woo!
The crew fire up the beetle to process the dirt
and see if the claim will pay out big.
Last chance, huh, Dave?
That's it.
She's a runner.
Feeling good about this one, Dave.
All right.
We ready?
Finally going to feed the beetle.
Rock and roll, baby.
Load her up, Jason!
It was a little bit of a pain in the ass getting
the material here, Dave.
I didn't expect to be that far away.
That was 12 loads in that little [INAUDIBLE]..
That's [INAUDIBLE]
I already got some golden sluice.
All we got left to do is weigh the gold and see what we got.
If the results of their final test are good,
team Turin could be mining in Idaho next season.
Let's weigh it up, see what we got.
Need over 2 grams.
We're at 3 grams, dude.
No way.
That's pretty damn good.
I'm impressed.
With an average of 1 and 1/2 ounces of gold for every 100
yards of dirt, it is the richest ground
Dave has ever prospected.
And you've got to figure it's through almost
that whole island.
Oh, I think there's mining there.
Yeah.
This snow will all be gone.
Everything will be dried up.
We'll really be able to hit some holes up above us.
And those look like 20 bucks a yard to me.
You add that to that and we've got some volume here.
With the bench and the island combined,
the claim has the potential to yield millions.
Hey, Chris?
Holy [BLEEP].
Over 3 grams there.
So what we're thinking is we'd love
to mine it, maybe make a deal with you
and see what it takes to get permit.
From what I've seen over the last couple of days
how your team works together, I would
be more than happy to work something out like that.
- Cool with that? - Sounds great.
- We got a deal. - Hell yeah.
All right. Thanks, Chris.
Yeah, thank you, guys.
It's been great.
Teen Turin have a new home for their most
ambitious season ever.
I got land.
Now, it's just a matter of putting all the pieces
of the puzzle together.
We found our property.
We're sitting at 3 grams.
That's really, really good gold on some really
damn good ground with really good benches
and a lot of material.
I'm ready to start digging, man.
Yeah, I'm excited.
We got the ground.
It's early.
We're going to get off to a good start this year.