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00:00Why is it so dark?
00:07When did this s**t start?
00:08Holy s**t!
00:11It's kind of a nightmare.
00:12That's enough to scare you to death.
00:14As soon as that hits us, we've got to get out of here.
00:18You guys get changed up.
00:19We've got to do a clean up, and we've got to kind of secure this place for a flood.
00:23Five months into a six-month season,
00:26the first winter storm has descended on Nugget Creek.
00:30Signaling the end is near.
00:32Everybody's rushing right now.
00:34We're getting out of here, man.
00:35The boot scoot. Weather's coming in.
00:37We can't afford to lose any of our equipment right now.
00:40Because if something happens to that dredge, our season will be done.
00:45Holy s**t! This is steep.
00:47Chill.
00:48This might be dangerous.
00:50Last week, drowning in debt and desperate for a massive payday.
00:55That's the waterfall.
00:57I'm pretty damn sure there's gold here.
01:00Dustin led his crew to a deadly new site.
01:04High up Nugget Creek.
01:06Look, look, look, look, look, look, right here.
01:08Oh, look at that.
01:09Look at the rocks coming down.
01:11This is a Russian roulette freaking of a site, bro.
01:14That pushed his loyal crew too far.
01:17So you guys are saying that you're not going to die for it.
01:20That's it.
01:21That's what I'm saying, bro.
01:23Sorry.
01:23All three of you.
01:24I can't.
01:25Sorry.
01:25I can't do it.
01:26Is it worth the risk of somebody losing their life?
01:31Let's get down, man.
01:32I hate this place.
01:33I'm pissed off.
01:39This is the first time my guys have ever backed out.
01:42In light of this new mutiny, which is, make no mistake, that's what this is, a mutiny.
01:49We're going to have to go back to the Straits and I hope there's gold there.
01:54If there's not, this is a dead season and it's going to cost me a fortune I don't have.
02:07That should be all the concentrates.
02:10There's got to be some good.
02:11There's got to be some money sitting in there.
02:12Oh, yeah.
02:13The crew is desperate to prove the Golden Straits can provide the $100,000 of gold Dustin needs
02:22to avoid having to sell his Nugget Creek claim.
02:27This will pan really fast.
02:38I really like the Golden Straits and I think there's going to be a ton of gold in it.
02:43So I'm going to process in C.
02:45We need to convince Dustin to keep going because right now he's struggling because we're not
02:50on enough gold.
02:56What do we have?
02:59There's a couple of pieces in there.
03:02Oh, wow.
03:03Fine gold.
03:04There's some fine gold.
03:04We're definitely catching the fine gold.
03:07That's good.
03:07That makes me feel much more comfortable that the gold count is going to go up exponentially.
03:12Good job, Liam.
03:13We're there.
03:16Some of it's rusted, but it's starting to show up pretty yellow.
03:21Good job, man.
03:23That small of gold is in that path of water.
03:26What the hell is going to be on bedrock?
03:29There's got to be some big nuggets there.
03:31Yep.
03:38With all the concentrate processed, there's hard proof that the Golden Straits might deliver
03:44enough gold to convince mine boss Dustin to dig deeper into debt.
03:49That's some gold, bro.
03:52Wow.
03:53Oh, man.
03:53There's quite a bit of the straights.
03:55Well, that's a good sign, Liam, because once you hit on the bottom bedrock, there's going
04:00to be an ounce, an ounce and a half per square foot.
04:02I guarantee you.
04:03Probably going to be more.
04:04So we're not on that ancient gold yet.
04:06No, not yet.
04:06Once we get on the bedrock, there's going to be some big nuggets down there.
04:10And I got a feeling by the time we end up the season this year, we're going to have
04:14way more gold than we did last year.
04:15It's just all going to come at the end this year.
04:17I think we're in the right location.
04:19I do, too.
04:19Especially seeing some of those flat pickers.
04:23You know, I'd love to see that.
04:25I feel that, and that's why I'm still here doing this, but that doesn't make me happy yet.
04:32No, not yet.
04:34I'm not feeling so lucky right now.
04:36No, this doesn't do good for my soul.
04:45I'm on the hunt for some gold right now.
04:48Wow.
04:49This would be a great plan B if it has gold in it.
04:52Oh, watch out.
04:53Rock's coming down.
04:54Rock's coming down.
04:55Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock.
04:59That weird wall is starting to disintegrate.
05:01It's hard to see anything.
05:03It's tough, so I get stirred up.
05:05Oh, my God.
05:07They've got to be getting close to bedrock.
05:09This is promising.
05:13Please give me bedrock today, y'all.
05:16We know there's gold down there, and, man, we need this.
05:20There's a decent little picker right there.
05:22That looks like gold to me.
05:23Yeah.
05:25You've got to be kidding.
05:26Who's diving today?
05:37It'll be me and James diving.
05:38Okay.
05:38It's just been raining nonstop.
05:41So I don't know what the situation is down there, but we'll find out real quick.
05:46So let's get out there.
05:47Let's see how far we can get back down.
05:49Yep.
05:50Oh, just to spring it on you guys, I've been trying to get into these military doctors for
05:54all military injuries that I sustained, and they need to get checked up on.
05:58I've got at least about 15 things they've got to check out.
06:00And one spot opened up, and I need to take it because these appointments are hard to get,
06:05so I've got to travel all the way to Seattle for this.
06:08So they've got to check me out from head to toe.
06:11So I'm going to be out for a couple of days.
06:14Well, Jesus Christ.
06:20I'm still going to dive, and me and James are going to go it, you know, and try to get
06:24out here at a decent time.
06:28We all do it.
06:30It's just what he's got to do.
06:33I think we'll be all right for a couple of days without you.
06:35Those kind of things you've got to take care of when you get a chance.
06:38Anyway, let's have a good long dive today.
06:41Trying to get these appointments, that's so hard.
06:47And the thing is, if you don't get them, and if you don't take advantage of them, then
06:51they're gone, and you've got to get back on the waiting list.
06:53So it's very, very, very, very, very important to me and my family that I make these appointments.
07:01It's got me pissed off.
07:04Our job is to find bedrock and find gold, and we're not doing it.
07:08Carlos will be going for the week.
07:11Uh, I'm losing faith in this dig right now, so we're having some problems.
07:20Let's go get some gold.
07:22Let's go.
07:22It flooded like crazy.
07:33Aftermath.
07:34This place has completely changed.
07:36Got a bit of gravel down there now.
07:38Look at all that.
07:42Damn, that water's down.
07:44Looks like our weir broke.
07:45What about the dredge?
07:48You can't even put it down.
07:49No.
07:50We can't win.
07:52Everybody wader up.
07:55We're going to be moving rocks today, guys.
07:57Just had a mutiny.
08:03Nobody wants to dive in the damn waterfall, which is my first pick over this.
08:07And if this don't pay up, I don't know what to do.
08:10I don't even know what to do.
08:12So they better find bedrock and they better find some gold.
08:15Well, I might have to get another crew and go work this damn waterfall.
08:21Listen, here's the deal.
08:23You guys have to hit bedrock.
08:25I'm desperate.
08:27All this stuff costs money and it's just running out.
08:30So if there's no bedrock and no gold, that's the end of our season.
08:40Copy that.
08:40Yep.
08:41Let's get the dredge in.
08:43Yeah.
08:43Let's get some shovels and let's start digging this out.
08:46We're going to see if we can recover from this.
08:49Pace yourself because it's going to be a long one.
08:52Plan of the day is to repair all this carnage after this flood.
08:59You can see our dive hole got buried in.
09:04Our weir got blew out.
09:06We have tons and tons of debris where the dredge is at.
09:11So all this has to be repaired before we can start diving again.
09:16The first of the fall storms has breached their dam,
09:19allowing kitty litter to fill in both the dive pool and the dredge's slipway.
09:25First, they need to rebuild the weir.
09:27Next, dig out the kitty litter to refloat the dredge.
09:32Then, start dredging back through 10 feet of infill
09:35to the gold layer they were on last week.
09:38Let's wash, rinse, repeat.
09:49We've been through this a lot of times.
09:51We cowboyed this rodeo over and over and over and over again.
09:58How did that rock get right there?
10:00Oh, it came off of the weir.
10:02It flooded hard.
10:03Holy .
10:04Good thing we got out of here.
10:09It's amazing how fast we can actually make things change by hand really quick.
10:16Go!
10:17Oh, yeah.
10:18Beautiful.
10:19Holy crap, you guys dug that out already?
10:28Good job, Danielle.
10:29I'm sweating.
10:30Holy smokes.
10:31Looking better.
10:33Hey!
10:37Hey, coach.
10:42Look at that.
10:43Hey, God dang, James.
10:54Is that in?
10:57No.
10:58Yeah, it looks like it.
10:59We don't got much of a dive hole, dude.
11:02It's a freaking birdbath, dude.
11:03It's a puddle.
11:04Is that all the way across, James?
11:05You can walk out there?
11:06It filled in.
11:08Oh, .
11:08This is one of the most difficult digs I've ever been on.
11:13That's hot.
11:15It's going to take us almost a whole day to get the kitty litter out of the hole.
11:18We're about to get run out of here.
11:20Winter comes real fast in this place.
11:22But I need this to pay off before we go.
11:26With Carlos departing tonight and winter about to hit,
11:29the crew knuckle down in their fight for the bedrock gold they need to save their claim.
11:36Time to go kick some ass.
11:40We're almost out of town.
11:42And if we don't get to the bottom, this will be all for nothing.
11:47Just a lot of wasted damn money.
11:52How does that feel?
11:53Yeah.
11:54Good?
11:54Did you test your air?
11:56You're good?
11:57Yeah.
11:57All right.
11:58All right.
12:06That's frustrating.
12:12We got a ton of digging to do.
12:16Up ahead.
12:18Oh, watch out!
12:19Rocks coming down!
12:20Rocks coming down!
12:25Wow.
12:25I'm on the hunt for some gold right now.
12:28This could be it.
12:29Oh, my God!
12:31That's the biggest nugget I think I've ever seen.
12:33Oh, my God.
12:52That's frustrating.
12:54We got a ton of digging to do.
12:59But the visibility is awesome.
13:00I can see through the whitewater.
13:03There's some pretty good-sized rocks in here.
13:13I'm going to get a pile of them behind me and get under the whitewater.
13:17Just seven days ago, before the storm, they were 10 feet down, blasting through hardpack.
13:23With bedrock gold just inches away, now the entire dive hole is chocked with debris.
13:30I'm going to dig as hard as I can.
13:33Find gold.
13:37It's like playing a board game, you know what I mean?
13:40Ah, you landed on red.
13:42Take a hundred steps back and start again.
13:46Son of a gun.
13:47All right, so you've got to get as deep as you can.
14:00Just pace yourself.
14:01This is a marathon with a sprint on the last day.
14:05I'm all good to go.
14:11Rock and roll.
14:12Come on.
14:13Let's go.
14:14Ah, just copy that.
14:20Oh, my God.
14:22A lot of kitty litter.
14:23A lot of kitty litter.
14:25Trick is, is not to overfeed this thing.
14:28Well, at least you have really good vids.
14:31Keep up the good work.
14:32Okay, copy that.
14:34Letting it drink.
14:35Letting it drink.
14:37Hey, man, you think, uh, I don't think they need us for this.
14:41I've been looking for an opportunity to go check out some other claims just upriver from here.
14:45Yeah.
14:46And I was, I wanted to go just get eyes on them.
14:49This operation's here, and I don't know.
14:51I'm losing faith.
14:52Huh.
14:55I know we're so close to being on bedrock, but I guess if everybody else is game to have Danielle 10, I'll, I'll make a run with you, check it out right quick.
15:08Do you feel comfortable working with just Danielle for about two hours?
15:13Yeah, no problem.
15:14Yep.
15:14Yep, yep.
15:16We got it.
15:17We're going to go check out some land upriver.
15:19I thought I'd take this time while they were doing a pretty easy dive.
15:23Okay.
15:24If you can handle this, we can go and check it out.
15:27I, I, I can.
15:28I can handle it.
15:29All right.
15:29Sounds good.
15:30We're going to head out.
15:31We're going to get on the airboat.
15:36Paul and I are going to jump on the boat, and we're going to go find some land that possibly we could prospect and find some gold in.
15:45This is what we do.
15:46We're gold miners, prospectors.
15:49There's supposed to be some creeks up there that may be untouched.
15:54Let's get out of here.
15:57Losing faith on their current dive site at the Golden Straits.
16:01All right.
16:02Systems check.
16:04Desperation is pushing Dustin to explore deeper into the Alaskan wilderness in search of a plan B.
16:12Let me check the oils.
16:13Oh, yeah.
16:16We got one.
16:17One?
16:18Yeah.
16:19Oh, yeah.
16:19That'll, that's all we need for this now.
16:21What is this?
16:24Oh, my God.
16:25Ammunition?
16:26Why do I have so many bullets?
16:27Did you bring a gun?
16:29No.
16:30I meant to.
16:31Dumbass.
16:32I'll be right back.
16:33All right.
16:39All right.
16:39Let me warm this thing up.
16:43Going and checking us out of the creek.
16:45Right now, I don't think it's a good idea.
16:47We need to be focused on all our effort right now at Nugget.
16:50We're almost to bedrock.
16:52We're starting to get gold.
16:54And just, you know, up and leave right now is just kind of weird, but it is what it is.
17:00Took yours out of the chambers.
17:03I'll put a shell in it when we get over there.
17:04Yeah.
17:05No sense in carrying it on the boat like that.
17:08Sounds nice.
17:10It does.
17:11That's a good sounding engine right now.
17:14Hell, yeah.
17:16Plug's in.
17:18Yeah.
17:19Just go take a ride around and see if there's any creeks up here.
17:25You ready?
17:25Yep, yep.
17:26Let's go.
17:35Somewhere, high in the mountains above Nugget Creek, lies the motherlode, the source of all
17:41the nuggets in the region that has so far produced over $200 million in gold.
17:47Dustin now heads deeper into the wilderness in the hope of finding an untouched deposit
17:52to dredge its incredible riches.
17:58Woo!
18:00Do you see that?
18:01Right there.
18:02Right here?
18:04Do you see that there's only one waterway, right?
18:06No, s***.
18:07What do you think?
18:08You want to go check this out?
18:09This one looks really good.
18:11Definitely looks like it's worth checking out.
18:20That's a hard run.
18:21Yeah.
18:22All right.
18:26Let's go see what it says.
18:32Do a little prospected here, see what it's all about.
18:37We got a machete, too.
18:38We need to bushwhack a little bit.
18:39Okay.
18:48Holy s***.
18:50Is that what I think it is?
18:53Moose tracks.
18:54Look how big that guy is.
18:57He's bigger than my hand.
18:58Yeah.
18:59Well.
19:00Come right through here.
19:01Weighing in at 1,600 pounds,
19:04with antlers up to 5 feet wide
19:06and capable of speeds of around 35 miles per hour,
19:10the unpredictable nature of a male moose
19:13can make them more deadly than bears.
19:17There's a lot of traffic here, man.
19:19Look at all the prints.
19:21Oh, no s***.
19:23How do you get up there?
19:26Well, should we just follow the water up or...
19:28We might just have to go right up that hill.
19:31Yeah, I think you're right.
19:45Holy s***.
19:47I can hear it.
19:49Hey!
19:50Let's get out of here.
19:51Yeah.
19:52He's f***ing huge.
19:54You're not going to want to f*** with that.
19:57Keep moving.
20:01See it?
20:03Oh, wow.
20:04It's a two-stage waterfall.
20:09This is a pretty little waterfall.
20:12Man, this would be a gorgeous spot to mine.
20:16A good waterfall with a good punch pool
20:18is going to give us the most gold that we've ever got.
20:22It's beautiful.
20:23This would be a great plan B if it has gold in it.
20:28Get deep.
20:28Watch yourself.
20:30Yeah, that does look deep.
20:33Wow.
20:34This could be it.
20:35Wow.
20:35This could be it.
20:37This would be a gorgeous spot to mine, but...
20:57This would be a great plan B if it had gold in it.
21:10Hey, here's that rusty layer.
21:12Yeah.
21:13There's some of that here, too.
21:17You brought a pan, right?
21:18Yeah.
21:18High in the uncharted wilds of the Serku River,
21:25Dustin and Paul are looking for a new claim
21:27if Dustin is forced to sell Nugget Creek
21:30at the end of the season.
21:32Looking for just a sign of gold.
21:35Any sign of gold.
21:37We don't know what might be in here
21:39or if it's viable at all.
21:43I like that color that's coming out.
21:46That's a good sign, I think.
21:47Anytime I see that rusty layer,
21:49it's usually gold with it.
21:50Let's see if there's gold in there.
21:55Please let this be it.
21:57Please let this be it.
21:58How deep would you say you are, guys?
22:15I would say...
22:17My ear starts to bump around 7 or 8 feet.
22:227 or 8 feet again.
22:23Wow.
22:24That's pretty remarkable
22:25considering you're only a couple feet to start with.
22:28I'm taking the China.
22:32You're taking the China?
22:36Knowing their future depends
22:37on making the Golden Straits pay,
22:40Carlos and James are determined
22:42to get back down to the hard pack at 10 feet
22:45so they can break through to the bedrock gold.
22:49That man, I'm still taking it.
22:55Yeah, we move.
22:56Oh, no, it sure helps.
22:57Yeah, we did.
22:59Holy ****.
23:01And we still haven't got to the spot
23:03that we left off.
23:08They're making quick work
23:09of all the kitty litter.
23:11It's hard to see anymore.
23:13The main goal, the only goal,
23:15is to find bedrock bottom
23:17and in a hurry.
23:19See anything?
23:29There's black sand, but
23:31I don't see any...
23:33No colors.
23:40At least you got some black sand.
23:42I didn't get any.
23:43I think that's where you'd find
23:47your best ****.
23:47Get it out of the bedrock right there?
23:49Yeah.
23:51Kind of wreck that bedrock.
23:53Right here?
23:54Get it there, right here.
23:56Maybe.
23:58The material just don't look right.
24:00No.
24:02Just ground up bedrock.
24:04There's black sand where there's gold,
24:24but there's not always gold
24:25where there's black sand.
24:26Yeah, yeah, yeah.
24:27I don't think there's any gold here, man.
24:30****.
24:31I was so hoping this was going
24:33to turn out to something.
24:35Well, this isn't going to be it, man.
24:37All right.
24:37We're going to have to keep on looking.
24:40Not a single fleck,
24:42not a single speck.
24:44So that kind of leads us to believe
24:46maybe this isn't the right place for us.
24:50There's no signs of gold.
24:51It's a gorgeous, gorgeous waterfall,
24:54but there was absolutely no colors.
25:00With darkness closing in...
25:02Start our hike back out?
25:03Yeah.
25:04Dustin heads back to the Golden Straits,
25:07knowing it has to pay out.
25:18All right.
25:19I got two baskets and a headache hole.
25:21Copy that.
25:24You're getting there.
25:34That's pretty cool.
25:35I found our pack.
25:38Is our pack cool?
25:39I am.
25:40Yeah, upstream.
25:41You're really?
25:42Uh-huh.
25:44Oh, watch out.
25:45Rock's coming down.
25:46Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock.
25:47Oh, man.
25:48Ah, I just...
25:49Ah, I just...
25:50Ah, I just...
25:51Ah, I just...
25:52Ah, I just...
25:53Oh, watch out.
26:05Rock's coming down.
26:06Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock.
26:07Ah, man.
26:10James!
26:11James, you all right?
26:12Ah!
26:16You all right, James?
26:17I just had a rock hit me in the face.
26:25Holy crap, dude!
26:27That was scary.
26:29Yeah.
26:29That noise, come on.
26:31That rolled all the way down and hit me in the face.
26:36That's scary.
26:38Is there somebody walking around up there?
26:40Uh, nobody's walking around.
26:44You want to come out?
26:46I got it.
26:47I'm exhausted.
26:49But determined.
26:51This is a day for the gold hound to do what the gold hound does.
26:55All right, good.
26:59Boy, this is a lot of digging.
27:02Determined to get down to the gold layer,
27:05James ignores the danger above and digs deeper.
27:09I'm right up against the wall.
27:10Okay.
27:11I'm all in the hard pack, too.
27:13That's good to hear.
27:15You have to be close.
27:17Real close.
27:18So, that's awesome news.
27:21I mean, they're not even done with their dives.
27:23We weren't even expecting them to get it all done today,
27:26but the guys are almost back down to where they left off.
27:33Oh, look who's back.
27:35What's going on, fellas?
27:37How deep are you?
27:38I'm saying about 10 feet.
27:41Holy cow, you got down 10 feet in one day?
27:43Yep.
27:45No sign of that rock once you were back.
27:48Nothing.
27:49Certainly nothing.
27:51Nothing, man.
27:52We're back down to the park pack.
27:55I can't see it being much further.
27:58Seriously.
28:00If you have to go more than 5 feet, man,
28:02there's 10 rocks doesn't exist here.
28:14All right, come on up.
28:18I've got to crawl up.
28:20I've got to crawl up.
28:29Wow, what a dig.
28:31Good job, man.
28:32That was a job, man.
28:37Back to where we were.
28:40Man, there's so much pyrite on this other side.
28:44I know, right?
28:44No gold in the inspection, Matt.
28:49No, we're not deep enough yet.
28:51There was no gold in the box today.
28:53You know, the four of us, we busted ass today.
28:55Oh, man.
28:56James and Carlos, they moved a ton of kitty litter.
28:59Danielle, she killed it, man.
29:00She fits right in with us absolutely perfect.
29:03I think she's a harder worker than most of us are.
29:06Even being shorthanded, we still got a lot done today.
29:09So you guys made it back, huh?
29:12You guys made it back.
29:14Did you find gold?
29:15No.
29:16It was a bad spot.
29:17Dude.
29:21Awesome dive, man.
29:23Hey.
29:23Impressive.
29:24Yeah, man.
29:25James kicked some ass, man.
29:26He was like a dick.
29:26He was like a dick.
29:27He did.
29:27He both did.
29:30Woo!
29:34So is it getting too dangerous on the sides,
29:38or do you think they get a hole?
29:39You just got to watch the sides.
29:41That brown rock, that comes down.
29:44Everything's coming down.
29:45But they stick to the middle.
29:50They just got to be careful, man.
29:51They just got to check their man every once in a while.
29:54You guys are throwing out some interesting rocks.
29:58There's one here.
29:59It's just solid red.
30:02Oh, wow.
30:04Check this out.
30:08Oh, my God.
30:10That's one of the heaviest rocks I've ever lifted.
30:13That's heavier than those green rocks,
30:15and I thought they were the heaviest ones.
30:17I think that's 100% pyrite.
30:21It could have some gold in it.
30:22Yeah, we'll take that back, clean it up, see what it is.
30:25Yeah.
30:26All the heavy stuff settles down to the bottom.
30:29And with it being that red, that has
30:33to be from underneath that hard pack.
30:35So we've got to be within inches of being on bedrock.
30:39The Golden Straits is showing signs
30:41that it could deliver the gold needed
30:44to pay for their future at Nugget Creek.
30:47That's the biggest pyrite nugget I think I've ever seen.
30:50I take that as a good sign.
31:03I am in a rush.
31:06After all the progress,
31:08the crew is about to lose veteran diver Carlos
31:10to a medical appointment.
31:12James is going to taxi me to town
31:17in his personal boat.
31:22We can't be out in the dark.
31:24We've got to go now.
31:25This rock looks like it came out of that rusty red layer,
31:42which that's the layer
31:42that we're normally getting gold out of.
31:46Holy s***, I think Dustin's right.
31:49I think that's just one big chunk of pyrite.
31:51Wow.
31:55For a big old heavy piece of pyrite
31:56to fall out right there where we're dredging,
31:58that's a good sign.
32:00Pyrite's heavy, not quite as heavy as gold,
32:02but if this is settling out where we're dredging,
32:05there's got to be some good gold right there.
32:07That's got to be the perfect gold catch.
32:10That's a good sign.
32:12Look how heavy that is.
32:18That's heavy though, huh?
32:19Man, it's insanely heavy.
32:24Do we have a scale big enough to weigh that?
32:26I've never seen a piece of pyrite that big,
32:28so I've got a feeling that we may get on
32:29some of the largest gold that we've ever seen.
32:31Imagine finding a gold nugget that big?
32:33What do you say, 25 pounds or more?
32:35I was thinking maybe 15 to 20.
32:38A gold nugget this big
32:40could be worth in excess of $3 million.
32:45See, that came out of the hard pack conglomerate.
32:48You can see it's all stuck to one side on the back.
32:50That's the protective layer
32:52that's protecting that ancient gold.
32:54We just got to bust through that.
32:55That's it.
32:56There's got to be some gold nuggets in there.
32:58There's got to be some big gold nuggets in there.
33:00Big, bigger than we've ever imagined.
33:03All right, let's go check on the site, guys.
33:05Yeah.
33:05Please give me bedrock today, y'all.
33:14Wow.
33:14It's shallow.
33:16The water level went down, didn't it?
33:17Yeah, you can see everything.
33:19I want no excuses.
33:22The water's perfect.
33:23It's crystal clear.
33:25We've got to be careful, though.
33:26The walls are getting a little dangerous,
33:28but we're going to keep going.
33:30Carlos warned us, yet it was looking kind of hairy and scary.
33:34I think Paul's going to get in the water first,
33:37do a good perimeter check.
33:38At 10 feet, this will be the deepest dive Danielle has undertaken,
33:44and after yesterday's rock fall, the most dangerous.
33:47Definitely concerned with rocks falling on me,
33:50falling on my head, trapping me underwater,
33:52but that's not the type of thing I like to think about,
33:55and I'm still very hopeful that we're going to get to the bottom of this hole
33:58and find a bunch of nuggets.
34:02That's good.
34:04Sounds like we've got good comps.
34:06Oh, yeah.
34:07All right.
34:07Okay, make sure you do a perimeter check before you go around.
34:11Yeah, copy that, after what you and Carlos were saying.
34:20So, there's one big one that's undercut a little bit.
34:26Stay away from that one and work forward, and it should be good.
34:30Upstream right now, there's a few boulders overhanging.
34:35This one might be loose.
34:36Oh, yeah.
34:37Let me get those down.
34:39Try not to mess with them too much if you don't have to,
34:42because you've got a big pile of rock sitting on top of all that stuff.
34:47I think we are safe to go.
34:51All right.
34:52Don't pull on anything that's touching this wall right here.
34:56All right?
34:57Okay.
34:58Hey, Paul, she's coming in.
34:59Copy that.
35:00I think there's a 95% chance we may see bedrock today.
35:07So, Danielle, what's it looking like down there?
35:11Um, well, it's clearer than most times I've been down here,
35:17so I can see a little bit.
35:21Are you good, Paul?
35:22Yeah.
35:22Okay, well, I'm up.
35:30Over the next four hours...
35:32It's starting to get some depth going again.
35:34...chasing the bedrock gold deeper,
35:36Danielle and Paul clear another two feet of material.
35:40The hard part down here is like a greenish-looking flame.
35:44Sounds like the layer we've been trying to get to.
35:46There's a lot of heavy, small rocks.
35:48They're all green.
35:50That's a good sign.
35:51They look real nice, too.
35:53We just got to be within just a couple feet
35:55of being on bedrock bottom.
35:59Where you get a bunch of green rocks falling out,
36:03you typically see some gold.
36:05That's just how it is.
36:06I hate signs, but I know this is a good one.
36:09It's starting to look good.
36:13Now, 12 feet deep,
36:15the divers have hit a layer of ancient green clay
36:18and heavy rocks known as serpentine.
36:22These rocks are formed deep in the Earth's crust,
36:25and miners often find them next to big deposits of gold.
36:31Right now, this is promising.
36:33It's very promising if we actually make it to the bottom.
36:36We've got to be really close to bedrock.
36:38Hell yeah, man.
36:40Some more of that clay.
36:44It must have got pretty warm
36:45because the water came up a little bit.
36:49If it gets too bad,
36:51I think the wall has the potential to be dangerous
36:53because it's unstable.
36:55See what's happening to the weir right there?
37:05Oh, yeah, it's blown up.
37:06So it just keeps doing this hard surge,
37:08and now it's going to bust the weir completely.
37:10Look at it.
37:10It's got four feet over the top of it.
37:15It must be doing something upstream.
37:16It's starting to bust through in weird places, too.
37:22Hey, how's things looking down there, guys?
37:24It's hard to see anything.
37:26It's possibly getting stirred up.
37:28I'm over here.
37:29Copy that.
37:31Nothing bad.
37:32Yeah, we're getting a little stirred, you call.
37:34Copy that.
37:34We're not going to get to the bottom today.
37:50The weir is starting to become engulfed in water.
37:54Gold's not worth anything if you're dead.
37:59Sorry it's so frustrating.
38:01I feel it, too, man.
38:01The water had come up, and it's actually
38:04washing through the weir.
38:06Seeing that now, that's a little bit more concerning
38:08because every bit of that's going to be in the hole.
38:13It's getting out of hand, isn't it?
38:15Yeah.
38:15It's getting dangerous.
38:17We can't be that far from bedrock, though.
38:20When I got to that bluish-green clay,
38:22that's when I thought I was close to bedrock.
38:24We'll get dried up, man.
38:25All right.
38:27Okay.
38:28I'm going to get my land legs back.
38:32Welcome back to gravity.
38:34It sucks up here.
38:36How you feeling, Danielle?
38:38Good.
38:39That was a long dive, by the way.
38:41It really was.
38:42It did feel like it.
38:43Well, things started getting dangerous,
38:45and we didn't find bedrock again.
38:50Let's get warmed up.
38:51We're running into some trouble
38:54with some dangerous rocks coming down on us.
38:58Dustin pulled the plug.
39:03I can't believe this is happening.
39:06We're just...
39:07We are fighting hard pack forever,
39:10and ever, and ever,
39:11and it feels like the bedrock
39:13is absolutely beating us right now.
39:19The entire season,
39:21the only thing that's beat us is that.
39:24It's not our attitudes.
39:25It's not our digging.
39:26It's not our equipment.
39:27It's...
39:28I'm not clever enough to get through the hard pack.
39:32I don't know what else to do.
39:36All right.
39:37Let's see what's in that box.
39:38There's a decent little picker right there.
39:48That looks like gold to me.
39:49That's definitely gold.
39:51What?
39:52We've got gold.
39:53You're kidding.
39:54No, for real.
39:55I'll go grab the container.
39:56There's still a lot of material in the box,
39:58so it's hard to really tell.
40:00But if we got those two little pickers in there,
40:02there's got to be some more in this box.
40:04Golden straights.
40:05There's gold.
40:06The closer we get to bedrock,
40:09the better it should get.
40:10We might even be a foot from the bottom
40:12if we're seeing s*** like that.
40:13Yep.
40:15S*** yeah.
40:16Oh, yeah.
40:16You've got to be kidding me.
40:18A good start.
40:19We know there's gold down there.
40:21It's just taking longer than we thought.
40:23We're late in the season,
40:25and man, we need this.
40:27But this was a big win for us.
40:29Once we hit the bottom,
40:30this is going to be amazing.
40:32This day, to me, is beautiful now.
40:36Finally, something to celebrate.
40:38This is f***ing awesome.
40:45On the next gold rush,
40:47Whitewater.
40:48I am banking on bedrock today.
40:51Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
40:54Oh, s***.
40:54Winches on fire.
40:56I made a lot of mistakes.
40:59I don't know if you're just afraid of being down there,
41:02or there's an actual problem.
41:04I couldn't do anything.
41:06This year, it's a financial disaster.
41:09That little piece came up
41:13from whatever Danielle did.
41:14Awesome.
41:15There's got to be more.
41:17Federal physics there.
41:19I'm for it.
41:21Next up, gold town.
41:23Holy cow.
41:24It's about to start.
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