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With nearly 40 years of mining under his belt, Freddy Dodge goes on the road to help struggling mine owners to hit the mother lode; he teams up with Juan Ibarra to overhaul washplants, introduce gold recovery techniques and transform operations.
2021
Freddy and Juan rescue a homemade operation in Arizona.
Freddy and Juan discover an easy fix that changes a builder's fortunes.
Freddy and Juan help skyrocket a 23-year-old Oregon man's mining operation.
Freddy and Juan battle Arizona's heat to turn around the "gold devil".
Freddy and Juan help capture Colorado's fine gold and turn a big profit.
Freddy and Juan visit a floating wash plant that is losing gold in Alaska.
2023
A Nevada miner stages a last-ditch mining intervention to save his stubborn mine boss's 30-year-old mine; it won't be easy as they race to convert the rickety old plant into a new fine gold super sluice.
Freddy and Juan face the challenging rescue of father-and-son miners on the brink. But what starts as a water situation leads Freddy to discover an even bigger issue: their ground may contain no gold at all.
A "one-man band" British Columbia miner needs Freddy and Juan to triple his gold to avoid ruin. But once the rescue begins, it quickly becomes too much work for a solo operation — meaning that the miner's reluctant wife must learn to use heavy machinery.
Married Montana miners dream of building a gold mining dynasty on their nugget-rich claim. But the valley's patchy pay and a critical failure at the wash plant lead to Freddy and Juan facing their first-ever failed rescue.
A trio of young Idaho miners struggles to find enough gold; to save them, Freddy and Juan bring new ingenuity to keep their mine alive; Freddy must identify a heavy, mysterious material he's never seen before, hindering their clean-ups.
A 17-year-old mining prodigy, his father and grandfather wrestle with wintry weather to get their season underway in central Alaska. With another snowstorm brewing on the horizon, Freddy and Juan race to complete fixes before it’s too late.
Mining struggles threaten to destroy the deep bond of two mining brothers recently reunited in Montana. Finding a mysterious lack of gold in gold country, Freddy and Juan must successfully execute a high-stakes treasure hunt.
In British Colombia, the Paradis brothers left the oil fields to follow their mining dream 12 years ago, but now they can barely find gold. Juan rushes to modify the wash plant to save their dream while Freddy hunts for completely new ground.
A British Columbia family sold everything to purchase a 150-acre gold-rich property to mine and homestead. But as their families grow, their gold production does not. Shutdowns and broken equipment send Freddy and Juan's plans off track, forcing all-new ingenuity.
In his last roll-of-the-dice, a struggling Oregon miner brings in Freddy and Juan to double his gold, which will convince best friend Terry to invest in his Oregon mine. The duo proposes a radical fix, but they may have bitten off more than they can chew.
Juan finds himself in an impossible situation with two Montana soldiers desperate to find enough gold to retire from the military. But with the winter freeze just days away, he calls in critical help from another Gold Rush legend.
2024
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.
Freddy and Juan face a failing gold mine in the Arizona Desert, run by a nephew and his uncle living on the claim. With their money exhausted, the guys devise an ingenious cost-cutting system with their first-ever solar-powered operation.
Freddy and Juan rescue a British Columbia miner on his final season without a miracle. They overhaul his operation and search for new ground, leading to one of the most shocking endings yet.
Freddy and Juan fly to an urgent SOS from a former Marine's mine in North Carolina. Inherited from his war buddy, the miner's dated operation will be the guys' biggest challenge without using any of their equipment.
In Arizona, a scientist turned miner gambles his retirement to secure a legacy for his son. Against logic, Freddy and Juan must turn up the heat to fix the miner's innovative, self-designed "dry washer" to save the mine.
Freddy and Juan must revive a failing 50-year-old wash plant in Montana's gold-filled mountains, where a mining family must not only turn around the gold mine but also turn a profit to save their aviation business.
Freddy and Juan find a group of rookie miners in British Columbia inspired by what they saw on TV. The guys bring an old wash plant back to life, but things take a turn when a fire breaks out on the mountain.
An Oregon miner calls Freddy and Juan to help save his mine to pass it on to his greenhorn son. They give the son valuable know-how but discover the property has been completely mined out. It becomes an all-out prospecting hunt to save their dream.
Under the threat of severe thunderstorms and floods during monsoon season in Arizona, Freddy and Juan must not only fix the group of friends' operation, but also race to recover enough gold to stop the investor from pulling out.
In California, Freddy and Juan rescue their first-ever hard rock operation; as stakes heat up with big fixes, Freddy makes a million-dollar discovery.
2022
Freddy Dodge and Juan Ibarra attempt to turn Alaskan miner Clay Strickland's struggling hobby mine into a profitable business. With a little help from his friends, Freddy and Juan help Clay fulfill a promise to his young daughter and late wife.
Freddy and Juan head to the Klondike to save an operation from bankruptcy.
Freddy and Juan meet Gold Rush veteran Jim Thurber to help turn a 130-year-old mine site in Oregon into a commercially viable mine. But with a team of rookies and a series of bottlenecks in their operation, it's an uphill battle.
Freddy and Juan head to southwest Colorado to help a father and son team turn their hobby mine into a commercial success – and fix their fractured relationship.
In one of their toughest challenges to date, Freddy Dodge and Juan Ibarra fly to a remote mine in Alaska to help three miners struggling to make a profit. Without their trucks or tools, their ingenuity is pushed to the limit.
Freddy and Juan face one of the toughest wash plant rebuilds of their careers as they battle a horrific clay problem in Montana rescuing the Scott family.
Freddy and Juan race to the depths of the Yukon to help prospector and family man Derek Brown increase his gold recovery. If they succeed, they secure Derek's family's future, but if they fail, their reputation could be at stake.
When Juan's wife has a baby, Freddy faces a solo rescue to save the father-and-son M&M mine in the Yukon. With the family unable to mine another year if they can't capture more fine gold, Freddy's fixes become do or die.
Expert gold miner Freddy Dodge helps struggling mine owners. If he can increase the owner's gold haul, he gets a cut of the profits but nothing if he fails.
Freddy and Juan help their own operations in the off-season. Plus, they reveal how they got into gold and why they teamed up to help struggling miners.
2026
In the Yukon, Freddy and Juan tackle their most extensive treasure hunt yet: 288 claims across 6,000 acres and double the breakdowns. As the seconds tick away on the miner's season, the duo teams up with a local expert to find the gold.
Hoping to right the mining mistakes of his father, a rookie Idaho miner closes his failing 30-year-old auto business to chase gold in the remote Idaho Hills. But with a failing hobby plant and no gold, a desperate rescue turns into a tough reality check.
After buying a wildfire-ravaged mine in British Columbia, a family relying on a greenhorn crew while other members work second jobs sends out an SOS to Freddy and Juan to fix the broken equipment and find gold before it turns to ash.
Freddy and Juan get an SOS from a group of young miners in Montana after they go $1M into debt with no gold to show for it. Facing nonstop breakdowns and a crew mutiny, the guys must resurrect a 60-year-old conveyor and divide forces to save this plant.
With a family facing ruin, setbacks, and soaring debt on their BC mine, it's up to Juan and prospecting experts Jeff and Sophia Bond to save them. Using 6,000 pounds of steel, Juan creates his largest-ever hopper build to get a massive gold increase.
In California, a miner with 75 cents in the bank faces ruin at his failing hard-rock mine. When a pivot to placer mining fails, Freddy makes an incredible discovery, and Juan builds their first-ever hard-rock mill hammer system to save this desperate dad.
Gold Rush legend Dave Turin joins Juan in Alaska for an impossible mission: a full plant rebuild.
A familiar miner in Alaska desperately needs 150 ounces of gold to save their operation. But 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.
Freddy and Juan find a struggling miner who put his entire life savings into 288 claims in Arizona to create a legacy for his grandson. As temperatures soar, Freddy and Juan race to fix the miner's Franken-built wash plant and recover life-changing gold.
Freddy and Juan face a failing dry mine in Arizona run by military veterans. But when a monsoon wreaks havoc on the rescue, they create their first-ever pay dryer system to quadruple the gold yield.
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.
Freddy Dodge
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Juan Ibarra
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Paul Christie
Narrator (voice)
2025
Freddy and Juan face off at a hard rock mine spanning three elevations at 4,000 feet in the Cascades; battling impenetrable rock, the guys devise an innovative 180-foot chute featuring a spiral concentrator in their first Washington state rescue.
When nuggets dry up on a couple's mine, the guys must crack the case, is it the miners or the mine?; battling a faulty operation, they build a new shaker table and a never-before-seen sluice scissor mechanism, making everything out of nothing.
When Freddy and Juan get an SOS from an Oregon couple's mine, they must unravel an underground mystery buried beneath a dried riverbed; facing misleading dredge tailings and a faulty homemade wash plant, the guys call in all-new tech as a final hope.
With gold prices surging to new records, the modern-day rush is on. Chasing gold fever, miners take big risks on poor ground with outdated equipment. Gold recovery experts Freddy Dodge and Juan Ibarra are back, turning those pitfalls into profits.
Two rookie miners in MT desperately need to double their gold after a disastrous start to the season. Battling a personal crisis, Juan rejoins Freddy as they follow signs of old mining tunnels and use new technology to uncover ancient river channel gold.
A BC miner fights to set up a legacy mine for his son, located beside the gold-rich Fraser River. With his money exhausted, Freddy and Juan resurrect a boneyard shaker and Franken-build an entire wash plant to triple production, saving a father's dream.
Constant shutdowns and an overly complicated wash plant threaten to destroy a BC family's $1.2 million mining investment. When a personal crisis turns the rescue into a one-man mission, Juan must pull off a masterclass in jig upgrades to get the gold.
Despite sitting in the epicenter of a famous BC gold rush, a mining couple's ground yields no gold. Freddy and Juan's limits are tested as the rescue becomes a two-plant upgrade; they face off against an overcomplicated wash plant nicknamed "The Octopus."
Expedition Unknown
2015
