The Turin crew mined 803 ounces of gold, earning them over $1.28 million. Parker Schnabel returned to the Big Nugget Mine site with larger and more efficient equipment, while "Dakota" Fred Hurt and his crew returned to the Porcupine Creek site. But, with Hoffman having delays and equipment trouble at his site, they decided to merge with Dave Turin's team at Indian River. The Hoffman crew returned to the Klondike to once again mine the Quartz Creek site but also brought on additional crewmen to simultaneously work another site in the area. The gold recovered by each team for the season was: The season explores the Hoffman crew's new mine at Quartz Creek, in the Klondike region of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, as well as "Dakota" Fred's operation at the site of the original Hoffman mine, Porcupine Creek, and Parker Schnabel's attempts to mine his grandfather's property at Big Nugget Mine. In season 2, with the show renamed to Gold Rush, Todd misses a lease payment on Porcupine Creek and "Dakota" Fred Hurt buys the claim from owner Earl Foster, not needing to honor the lease due to the missed payment. By the end of the season, the Hoffman crew had recovered 14.64 ounces. Most of the people on the show have little or no previous placer gold mining experience and must learn on the job. They decided on an all-stakes gamble-travel to Porcupine Creek, Alaska, and prospect for gold. The show was named Gold Rush: Alaska in its first season, and featured six men from Sandy, Oregon, a small town 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Portland, who, due to the economic downturn, have lost their jobs. ( March 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve this section if you can. The specific problem is: lack of information, expansion needed. This section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. In its 12th season as of early 2021, prior seasons also included mining efforts in South America and western North America.
The series follows the placer gold mining efforts of various family-run mining companies, mostly in the Klondike region of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. Gold Rush (titled Gold Rush: Alaska for the first season) is a reality television series that airs on Discovery and its affiliates worldwide. Gold Rush: White Water, Gold Rush: Parker's Trail, Gold Rush: Dave Turin's Lost Mine, Gold Rush: Freddy Dodge's Mine Rescue, Gold Rush: Winter's Fortune, Bering Sea Gold, Bering Sea Gold: Under the Ice, Ice Cold Gold, Jungle Gold Shaun Dooley (season 12 present) (UK broadcast) Paul Christie, Dean Lennox Kelly (season 1-11) (UK broadcast), Rick Ness, Parker Schnabel, Tony Beets (from left to right) and Fred Lewis (not pictured) of season 12 For other uses of the term, see gold rush (disambiguation).
Can they tough it out long enough to find any gold? You May Also Like.This article is about the Discovery Channel reality TV show. Every day they have to contend with breakdowns, bug bites, extreme weather and grizzly bears. Living off the grid in one of the wildest and most unforgiving wildernesses on earth, they hope to rekindle the American Dream and start a 21st Century Gold Rush. In a last ditch effort to provide for their families, they've sold everything they can and invested in a gold claim and the machinery to mine it. GOLD RUSH is a documentary series for Discovery Channel about a group of unemployed men from Oregon who have set out for Alaska in search of GOLD. Rick Ness and his father, Rick Senior, battle together to open a new cut Parker struggles with mechanical breakdowns, and a crew member suffers a terrible injury Tony races to dismantle the final sections of his million-dollar dredge.