When watching 'Gold Rush Alaska' I didn't know if I should cry in frustration or laugh my ass off. All that useless equipment (except the trommel), all the money spent digging a great big expensive hole in the ground for 22 oz of gold? Ye gods! Then they brought in a so called expert 'Dakota Dave' who's mined for gold in all 50 states? My mine boggles as I watched him help dig an even deeper hole, smiling all the time. (I Begin to wonder if his didn't have an ulterior motive here - Oh well, guess I'm just a little suspicious of his motives) Having mined for gold in the Amazon I have some experience placer gold mining, but didn't any one of those normally intelligent men connect the dots? Gold very deep, 80 to 90 feet down on bedrock - D8 Bulldozed. Question, which would be faster digging down to bedrock, a track hoe at 1 cubic yard per bucket at the time, or a bulldozer moving hundreds of cubic yard per sweep? - No kibitzing from the audience please). I kept waiting for someone to jump on the 'dozer and start moving dirt so they could start processing the material on bedrock. No such luck, they just kept on digging with that damned track hoe. I hate to say it, but I've seen better organized 'Chinese fire drills'. Hopefully they will get their act together and start gold mining next (or this) season.