Gold Rush Season 4 premiere

[jeff of pa]

'Gold Rush' Season 4 premiere

well against my better judgement, I got up this morning & watched the 2 hour premier
on my DVR
before coming online.

I didn't watch their 1 Hour spoiler talk show before,
I just deleted that.

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Looks to me like Parker Schnabel is going to be the New Todd for comedy relief.
working with nothing to go on. Best drill holes showed "Trace".
I'm thinking his so Called friend Tony Beets is laughing through his scruffy beard,
behind his back.
I hope Parker didn't pay him for the land. Parker said it right,
Tony wont mine the land.

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although the attempt at Drama failed, the Hoffman crew just may have
their crap together this year. not quite as Much "Waa Waa Waaaaa"
& no crying poverty yet,
when they needed something done, They coped & did it.
Fixed a Bridge, Hired a chopper to rush them a Diesil Filter, Crawled under wires
with their heavy equipment, with no mishaps

They actually looked like semi-Pro

BS on the diamonds though imo, I still think diamonds are for Chumps.
I hope they are only mentioning them, for show filler.

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the other crew with Fred the claim jumper, was a waste of space to fill a 2 hour show
IMO
just driving in snow, getting stuck , & trying to add drama.
:Add Yawn Gif here

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now, unless next week is a 2 hour behind the scenes recap show.
and another 6 week hiatus till the next episode

I guess I'll stick around

?Gold Rush? Season 4 premiere: Todd Hoffman on the run for riches in Guyana - Zap2it

 

[Meep]

Id kinda like to see some of the hard work behind this. Show us some character of the people the shows are following. I feel like the camera crew and the miners are out there, putting in work, and handing footage off to editors and producers who cut out all the real stuff in order to create a terrible story they think people like it more.

I feel that, with all the footage they don't use, they could easily create a season that isn't all preview, recaps, and talk show episodes.

 

[Jason in Enid]

That's actually a common format for not only TV shows, but most
public speeches. They tell you what they're going to tell you, then
then actually tell you, and followed up with telling you what they
just told you.

That's the same format we use to teach classes in army training. It's geared toward the lowest common denominator of the audience.

 

[Ordell]

It is rather convenient that Parker can get these guys at a moment's notice. But that was a sweet cleanout.

 

[Peyton Manning]

How can it be true that ol turd hoffman has no gold and only a couple diamonds? I thought he was gonna kick butt this year!!

 

[Ordell]

Nice to see grandpa show up. And the kid sure found a hell of a new cut.

 

[jeff of pa]

It is rather convenient that Parker can get these guys at a moment's notice. But that was a sweet cleanout.

yes this is why I think they are inventing drama
& working plots in reverse ( scripted after the fact)

 

[jcazgoldchaser]

yes this is why I think they are inventing drama
& working plots in reverse ( scripted after the fact)

Big part of why I think the actors are "working" someone's claim.

 

[crazywolfminingco]

i have this notion that in the next season or so itll be dave turin starting his own crew back up north or joining the parker crew.

 

[Goodyguy]

No one is commenting about Dustin and his small test mining operation at Cahoon creek.

I like his setup and I hope he finds the source he's looking for. Going to be hard since he's pretty green when it comes to prospecting. He's not real good at solving mechanical problems in the field either but he sure makes up for his short comings with enthusiasm and a willingness to persevere.

I would think digging a few trenches across the slope would have been the way to find the main channel of the pay streak. Have to get very lucky the way he is going at it.
Lucky as in whether or not the runoff creek they are prospecting ever even cuts through the main lode.

Oh well it's pretty easy to second guess from the vantage point of a recliner

GG~

 

[Peyton Manning]

yeah and that's what they did at the old place. His dad had a feeling and dug there. After turd's dad started digging there on his hunch.

 

[crazywolfminingco]

im hoping to see how it gos at cahoon too. that mini washplant he has is pretty cool.

 

[Jason in Enid]

No one is commenting about Dustin and his small test mining operation at Cahoon creek.

Yeah, I hope that this isn't just a wild red hearring. Coming up dry in your first hole doesn't mean there isn't gold there, it just means you need to make some more test holes.

 

[Jonsered]

You are taking a scripted show WAY too seriously

LOL I taped a segment for an episode of Sons of Guns for Discovery. They were all excited, couldn't wait to have me there, paid a king's ransom for my time, and then ignored all my input. Basically told me what to say. I get a little testy, but we taped it anyway. Upon arrival home, I called the guy who had contracted me to start with and unloaded on him. In the end, I didn't make the show, but my firearm did.....for about 10 seconds! I suppose they thought they were punishing me. Hey, I'd already been paid and I'm out of the guns for sale anyway. If Gold Rush is similar, its ALL total BS.

 

[bill-costa rica]

No one is commenting about Dustin and his small test mining operation at Cahoon creek.

I like his setup and I hope he finds the source he's looking for. Going to be hard since he's pretty green when it comes to prospecting. He's not real good at solving mechanical problems in the field either but he sure makes up for his short comings with enthusiasm and a willingness to persevere.

I would think digging a few trenches across the slope would have been the way to find the main channel of the pay streak. Have to get very lucky the way he is going at it.
Lucky as in whether or not the runoff creek they are prospecting ever even cuts through the main lode.

Oh well it's pretty easy to second guess from the vantage point of a recliner

GG~

what I don’t understand is how Dustin and the geologist find good , good gold in a test pit. then they get blanked digging 10 yards and running it….. I would have started digging where I found the good gold….. its TV drama or there test was contaminated by previous gold in there sluice carpets and clean up table and jig

 

[JohnnyFlake]

what I don’t understand is how Dustin and the geologist find good , good gold in a test pit. then they get blanked digging 10 yards and running it….. I would have started digging where I found the good gold….. its TV drama!!! or there test was contaminated by previous gold in there sluice carpets and clean up table and jig

YES!!!

 

[specksandflecks]

No one is commenting about Dustin and his small test mining operation at Cahoon creek.

I like his setup and I hope he finds the source he's looking for. Going to be hard since he's pretty green when it comes to prospecting. He's not real good at solving mechanical problems in the field either but he sure makes up for his short comings with enthusiasm and a willingness to persevere.

I would think digging a few trenches across the slope would have been the way to find the main channel of the pay streak. Have to get very lucky the way he is going at it.
Lucky as in whether or not the runoff creek they are prospecting ever even cuts through the main lode.

Oh well it's pretty easy to second guess from the vantage point of a recliner

GG~

I'm finding the Cahoon creek exploration to be one of the more interesting segments of the show, to the extent that I find myself tuning in on a more regular basis.

Personally, I still find the useful content a bit lacking though. I would like to see more on their general location. If they are focusing in a specific area of the Cahoon drainage and why. Are they going by their initial sampling only? What influenced their initial sampling locations? Were they determined by the Geologist? If so I wonder to what extent was the Geologist taking into account any mining history or reports like the OFR 89-86, USGS bulletins 0699,0662b, etc?

I always get curious about things like the supposed abandoned channel upstream from the confluence of Cahoon and McKinley creeks that's mentioned in OFR 89-86.

I'm kind of inferring that, at the very least, Fred, Dustin and probably anybody else directly involved with the Cahoon exploration is privy to a few interesting details about the Geologic and mining history of Cahoon. IMO, if they were willing to share some of that it would make for a more interesting viewing experience.

I'll be the first to admit my research abilities/results on this area are pretty much lacking. I'm finding bits and pieces though which is interesting, in my opinion anyway.

The equipment,logistics and operation footage is great. I'd rather see footage of things like old workings in the area, if they have discovered any, instead of clogged pump and spraybar issues though.

A 5 minute history lesson involving John Schnabel or Fred Hurt and a nice topo map would be more entertaining than the occasional equipment failures Discovery seems to obsess on. I like seeing the miners solving problems with that 'in the field' ingenuity but comon. Seems like there could be so much more to this show.


Think I remember some of the reports saying that due to the supposed high concentrations of magnetite, a magnetometer? survey could help indicate locations of old channels buried by glacial till and/or avalanche debris.

How about an an auger attachment like this for sampling?



I wonder how many extensions you could get on that thing before the tail started wagging the dog.. I'd think something like that would be good for at least 10-12' depending on auger width though.

 

[Meep]

I let a lot of things slide knowing its a dramatic, largely scripted show... but if they dont even give Cohoon a fair representation Im gonna be bummed. The dakota side of things seemed like the most honest portrayal. But good sampling, no gold in the sluice, and the "we need to find better gold" routine has happened so many times in this series that I dont hold much hope.

Is it that hard? You find good gold samples, you dig there, you get gold in your box!? I know Im pretty new at this too but that is the way it works ain't it? Viewers HAVE to know how much bullshit happens on this show by now.

 

[specksandflecks]

what I don’t understand is how Dustin and the geologist find good , good gold in a test pit. then they get blanked digging 10 yards and running it….. I would have started digging where I found the good gold….. its TV drama or there test was contaminated by previous gold in there sluice carpets and clean up table and jig

Been wondering the same thing myself. Doesn't seem to make sense unless like you said, there was contamination. I don't think there would really be any motive to salt the samples either.

The next drainage over, on Glacier creek, the drill results were salted apparently. Says 250k spent in development, ouch.

"Glacier Creek and its tributaries were orginally prospected and staked in 1899 and 1900 but were undeveloped because of the great gravel depths and low ore grades. A keystone drill was used to prospect lower Glacier Creek in 1911, apparently with encouraging results. A mill was erected and a 2,000-ft-long flume constructed. Mining operations began in 1916 and continued into 1918. Recovery was poor and the operation closed down after working a quarter mile of stream channel. Beatty (1) reports that a quarter of a million dollars was spent to develop the property based upon the drilling returns which later proved to have been salted."

In one episode I saw Fred breaking open some ore and kind of assumed Cahoon was going to involve ore crushing. In the last episode it looked like a placer operation, but the Wiki said crushers would be involved so yeah it seems we are being mislead. Plot twist I guess.

 

[Ordell]

That was one ballsy move by Parker, buying out Tony like that.

 

[jcazgoldchaser]

That was one ballsy move by Parker, buying out Tony like that.

Man, you're killing me here.