Desperate to run more pay dirt, Todd fires up Big Trommel. The plant is so worn-out that Todd nicknames it 'Hot Mess'. The team chases fix after fix to keep the plant running and chase its million-dollar goal.
It's Jack Hoffman's birthday, but if the crew wants to achieve its goal, there's no time for cake; Todd and his crew must solve why the Big Trommel is leaking out more than half the gold in the pay dirt.
Gold is still there for the taking in the heart of America's Wild West; a drought's end in the Black Hills of South Dakota has replenished the gold in its waterways, giving better access to everyday miners for the first time in years.
Dave Turin welcomes viewers into his own backyard -- the state of Oregon; from the Rogue River rapids to the sands of the Pacific coastline, he shows viewers where the gold is and how to get it.
The historic Dahlonega Gold Belt is the Deep South's best-kept secret among miners; Dave takes viewers through Georgia and Alabama to showcase everyday miners using backyard ingenuity to find riches.
Dave Turin visits the Carolinas to show America's rarest, most valuable gold; ingenious everyday miners, a moonshiner looking to cash in on a family's claim, and a gold nomad show Dave that the site of America's first rush is still rich with gold.
A widowed Colorado mine owner and her foreman face a last stand to save her gold-rich, inherited claim; Freddy and Juan scramble with ingenious fixes and point them towards a pay streak before winter closes them out.
A familiar miner in Alaska desperately needs 150 ounces of gold to save their operation; when Juan learns that their landowner's mine is halfway to $1M in the hole, he and Gold Rush legend Dave Turin face their first-ever double rescue.
The fate of a rookie mountain miner lies in the balance after he sinks his life savings into a British Columbia placer claim; with fine gold proving tricky to capture, Freddy and Juan must develop all-new ideas to boost recovery.
Competing companies team up to recover a fully loaded cement truck leaking natural gas. Big Jon heads into avalanche country to rescue a stuck semi carrying hazardous goods. During a sudden blizzard, a crash in Salt Lake City leaves a semi in pieces.
As a record-breaking windstorm hits Wyoming, recovery crews work side by side in hurricane-force winds to right rolled semis and clear the interstate; an icy path around Utah Lake overturns a loaded dump truck.
Big Al's Towing races the clock as a semi carrying an expensive frozen load overturns on I-80. Stauffer's Towing faces a marathon rescue mission for a propane truck on a steep mountain road. Mountain Recovery clears a hauler blocking mountain traffic.
Freddy and Juan face a failing dry mine in Arizona run by military veterans; when a monsoon wreaks havoc on the rescue, they create their first-ever pay dryer system to quadruple the gold yield.
After losing his job, Fred Dickinson enlists the help of Freddy and Juan to rescue his homemade operation, tap into one of Arizona's richest gold veins and provide for his young family of seven.