Hoffman Family Gold

This could be the week

where we really decide which plant is better.

It's halfway through the season,

and the Hoffmans have only reached

284 ounces of their 1,000 ounce goal...

Nothing good comes easy.

...but with both plants

finally running full tilt...

We got water pumping, baby!

...will the competition

push them towards their goal?

I guarantee you, this thing here

is gonna be hard to beat.

It's game on.

But will they push their equipment too hard?

Holy .

Holy cow. That is not good at all.

It's father versus son...

It's gonna be a little bit of a bitter surprise

when they see how much gold we get out of this cleanup.

Whether they can beat us or not, I doubt it.

- Clear! - ...and it's all on the line.

Let's get it on, baby!

Damn, we're putting the flag up!

You ready?

Yeah.

Nice and easy, boss.

Heads up!

Look at that, boys!

Looking good!

We're right behind the generator.

-You can see the bolts there, right? - Yeah, I see it.

-I'll turn it right on, there. -Okay.

I just don't want it to fall and hit one of you guys.

Oops.

You all ready?

So, now we're in a really precarious position.

Yep, we're .

Hold it, hold it, hold it,

hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it.

- Now, that was just hot! - Oh, jeez!

Our flag is flown for our faith,

our patriotism towards our country,

and we tip our hat

to the people of the armed services.

Let's fly this bitch.

You got it?

What's up, baby?

Here she is, boys.

Money. Oh, dude, that's sick.

Let's hook her up.

We're the bad guys this time.

Okay, this is gonna look sick.

You know, we're using

this old, pirate ship-looking wash plant,

we're here to get treasure,

and this is a good way for me to prove myself

as a gold miner.

I wanted to prove a point.

I wanted to prove, you know, to my dad and to these guys

that we could take this on, and we could do it.

Oh, hey!

Oh, they got the Pearl flag up.

Yeah.

The Jolly Roger.

Their flag flies over pirate ships

that go around and steal stuff.

That's pretty cool, though.

It does look dope, you know?

Yeah, it does look dope.

They're gonna fly their flag,

we're gonna fly ours, and then,

it's game on.

You know what's funny is that was us three one day.

Uh-huh.

Full of piss and vinegar.

And then, someday, they'll be standing over here,

and their kids will be

over there smart-mouthing them.

And they'll be like, "Yep."

And that'll be sweet justice.

I do want to see gold through that plant,

but whether they can beat us or not, I doubt it.

You got two plants, father-son,

running side by side,

so naturally,

there's gonna be a little competition.

Age and treachery

always beats out youth and beauty.

All right, guys!

Are you ready to get it on?

Let's get it on, baby!

Fire it up!

We'll see,

see how much gold we can get here,

'cause I guarantee you,

this thing here is gonna be hard to beat.

Fire up the generator!

This could be the week

where we really decide which plant is better.

This might be kind of fun, this week.

Hopefully, we start hitting some of our gold here,

and we'll see what happens.

Let's fire up.

-All right. Let's do it, man. - All right.

My dad's running dirt.

He's weeks ahead of me.

They already have a head start,

so we need to make up for lost time.

So, this is gonna be

the first time we're doing a full day's run.

We're gonna get her fired up, and run until it gets dark.

We just don't really have a choice at this point.

We gotta get the gold, we gotta run the yards,

and my guys are with me.

You ready, Sparky?

Yes, sir. I'm ready whenever you are.

Hopefully, I'm gonna be able to catch up,

and start beating these guys.

We're about to get it right now.

Clear!

We got water pumping, baby!

I've always been competitive.

I played sports growing up.

But there's a lot of times where I could let things go,

and let somebody else

be right, or think that they're right,

but when it comes down to me and my dad,

I got a lot of pent-up stuff inside.

The only reason that this plant is running

is because I needed to prove him wrong.

My dad, Andy, and Tater,

I know that they didn't really think

we were gonna be able to do this

on our own like this,

but me, Sparky, and Cub

are gonna keep plugging away,

and I think we're gonna prove the Black Pearl

is an instrumental piece in us actually getting to our goal,

and I think, in the end, everybody's gonna be happy

that we put in the work we did.

With both plants running at full capacity,

Andy and the rest of the crew work to deliver

twice the amount of paydirt from the ancient river cut.

Now, it's our job

to go get the gold out of the ground.

That's what we're here to do,

so we're gonna run both plants, some paydirt.

I think we're going in the right direction.

We keep feeling like we're getting closer

to the source of where this gold is coming from.

A lot of this gold is so jagged and rough,

and it doesn't have a smooth edge on it,

so it didn't travel from very far.

It just indicates that you're getting closer

to where it came from,

so the more of that material we got,

the more gold's gonna be in it.

We're just gonna keep digging,

and keep working our way upstream.

One of the first cuts that we did up here,

it was literally

the richest gold pan we'd ever seen.

You could actually make a living

panning for gold here.

I'm really excited to see

what kind of gold we can do with the Black Pearl.

We can run a lot of stuff

that the Holy Roller just can't.

Ours was built for this material, custom.

Nome is known for having a lot of clay,

so The Holy Roller,

they can't handle that amount of clay.

Their trommel is like a Slip 'N Slide.

Ours is like a torture chamber,

so it'll beat the crap

out of anything we put in there.

I don't think these old guys know what's coming.

We're gonna go back in here.

Dakota and I are scraping this.

I'm slinging it all to Dakota,

and I'm scraping all this bedrock,

and getting it cleaned up,

and we're gonna get it to both plants.

Right now, everything looks good.

I want to keep putting pay into it.

If we have no breakdowns,

we'd have a good idea

of how well this thing's actually working.

I think we'll have some good gold in the box.

We ran the Holy Roller eight hours today.

Andy literally was able to bring us

2,000 yards of pay.

Were gonna go ahead and shut down,

and Hunter's gonna go ahead and run into the night.

Go ahead and shut down.

You want to kill the, uh, generator?

My dad, and Andy, and all those guys,

their plant's off, and we're getting gold, man.

Kind of feels nice.