Gold Rush: Mine Rescue with Freddy & Juan
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.
Episodes
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.
