Season 5

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 Chasing gold fever, miners take big risks on poor ground with outdated equipment.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."