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My favorite is in the preview for the aftershow. "Nobody comes and tells you where the gold is." Well, gently caress, except he did, he loving walked you to the creek and said "Here's virgin ground, this poo poo behind me is tailings, go nuts."
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| # ¿ Nov 20, 2011 00:14 |
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PowerBuilder3 posted:My niece and her husband are both mining engineers for a large corporation, and I asked them about it. They have no idea how they get away with it, except maybe there are different rules for tiny scale operations. They can't take water out of rivers without special facilities, and they can't just dump it back either! They said in the first episode where they scouted the new claim that they couldn't get water rights to do what they needed to do, so I have no idea where their water is coming from. Unless they got smart, built a holding pond (which they mentioned) to hold permafrost meltings, and just keep pumping that through. They only reason we didn't see them do that is because it wasn't brain dead stupid? Zyklon B Zombie posted:Is there a constant stream of people coming up to Alaska to find gold and going broke? As I watched that driller pull up his truck and set up the drill, I said to my fiancee that at this point the surest way to make money in the Klondike is to provide support services to the miners, rather than do any actual mining.
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| # ¿ Dec 5, 2011 17:00 |
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Dakota Fred just turned into a mustache twirling villain for no apparent reason. He could have easily mined the glory hole before he went for his pay streak. They also played him during the first season as a really competent successful miner, and then he buys this claim and you see him roll up with a truck full of equipment and you expect him to have a better wash plant and the right heavy equipment, and he's got... nothing in the trailer. Welp, time to find a wash plant of some kind. Oh poo poo, never realized there would be boulders, better rent a loader because I'm so god damned poor (how loving far do you have to go to rent a piece of equipment like that? Once again the 16 year old is the smartest guy in the room. And the previews for next week show the Hoffmans actually getting some gold. How will they gently caress it up? Or is this the last episode of the season?
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| # ¿ Dec 14, 2011 05:41 |
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I'm watching the the Behind the Scenes special that aired a few days before Christmas. Producer: I know how you guys can get some extra cash. Todd: Yeah, how's that? Producer: Find some gold 
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| # ¿ Jan 2, 2012 07:13 |
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Has anyone else seen the previews for the Bering Sea mining show? Looks like they're sucking up gold off the sea floor or maybe dredging for it? I'm hoping it's not full of fuckups again like this show.
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| # ¿ Jan 8, 2012 09:11 |
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Is Nome Alaska actually a second world country? We're pulling millions of dollars of gold out of the sea and we can't put siding on our houses? We live in rusty old bus? Doesn't it get a little cold there in the winter?
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| # ¿ Jan 28, 2012 08:26 |
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Universe Master posted:A lot of people probably only fly in for the gold season. That's what I was thinking, but that dude with the medical debt said that he and idiot steve's daughter were lontime friends and Nome natives, and that his father and idiot steve went to high school together (and I assume that means in Nome).
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| # ¿ Jan 28, 2012 18:05 |
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ProfessorGroove posted:I didn't want to watch another gold mining show but yeah, deadliest gold has great comedy potential. I can't believe what a shithole Nome is, its almost post apocalyptic looking. Everything is covered in rust, junk laying all around, people living in half built houses, abandoned buses and tents who then make their living gathering gold with incredibly sketchy looking home made boats. They apparently find a lot of gold but I have a feeling these are the kind of people who then bury the money in their backyard to prepare for the impending world financial collapse they're stocking up the abandoned bus for. I liked how Todd said he didn't trust the economy any more, he only trusts gold. I think he's only going to sell enough of his share to pay his bills, then keep the rest because  RON PAUL
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| # ¿ Jan 31, 2012 14:20 |
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Sly Pistachio posted:I've come to the conclusion that Discovery really needs to quit spamming my screen with stupid bullshit. Maybe it's just the poo poo that my fiancee watches (Bravo, Lifetime, Oxygen, Investigation Discovery) but they all do it. I think they want you to use it has a hashtag on twitter, but #thinkgolditsfriday is too long to be useful, so who knows what they're thinking.
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| # ¿ Feb 13, 2012 08:14 |
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CVagts posted:Something I forgot to mention: after the first ep, I thought that Ian might give Idiot Steve a run for the idiot crown, but he kinda took himself out of the running when he brought on his buddy to help him (and they ended up selling their gold to tourists and made a profit over what an assayer would have given them). Yeah, that was a stroke of loving genius right there.
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| # ¿ Feb 14, 2012 17:32 |
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I need to get this girl out of my yurt, but since I'm in love with her I'll bring her dad with.
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| # ¿ Mar 12, 2012 01:21 |
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Philthy posted:So that one guy that got all paranoid. They gave him about 17 ounces of gold for two months worth of work? That really isn't that bad if true. Almost 30 grand for basically digging with a backhoe. I find it mildly amusing that they paid him in straight gold, when every other clean out has been turned straight to cash. It's like a tiny "gently caress you" in a sea of giant "gently caress yous"
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| # ¿ Mar 13, 2012 02:54 |
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Space Crabs posted:At least they have all that "overhead" that keeps them from paying their crew for months while getting 500 ounces of gold for just digging with a backhoe from a seat and having unpaid workers do that the majority of the time while Ole' Knifewound Mc Barfight was laid up for weeks. Well to be fair the Christine Rose's break even point is what it takes for that dude to keep up the boat and live until next season. The Hoffmans are only worried about covering their mining costs. But I'm gonna go ahead and call total bullshit. I bet their contracts say that get their whatever cut at the end of the season, and he just became a pussy bitch almost at the end of the season for no reason in particular.
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| # ¿ Mar 13, 2012 03:20 |
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PowerBuilder3 posted:I'm guessing they are also making high interest payments on the $1 million they probably borrowed to build the boat. They said he was a land gold miner previously (hence why he built the boat, go with what he knows) so I bet he cash financed.
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| # ¿ Mar 14, 2012 16:51 |
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I'm watching the After the Dredge specials now. A little bit into the first one, and holy poo poo E: gently caress FISHMANPET fucked around with this message at Apr 3, 2012 around 01:34 |
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I glanced at the ScyFy thread, and apparently they've got some show where some miners are reopening an old gold mine in E: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...ht-down/130700/ quote:Ghost Mine – In the remote woods of Oregon lays one of the richest gold mines in the United States. For the last 100 years, it has remained abandoned -- until now. Soon to be re-opened by a scraggly group of miners, these hardy souls will battle the elements to find their fortune. But with a rich history of paranormal activity surrounding the mine, they may just find something else. Production company: 51 Minds. Executive producer: Mark Cronin. FISHMANPET fucked around with this message at May 5, 2012 around 04:56 |
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So how much of Under the Ice is the producers going to the Christine Rose crew and Zeke and saying "Hey, wanna give this a try?" The Lazy whatevers that are doing well sounded like they were doing this anyway, which is probably why they're doing so good. But holy gently caress Crazy Steve is 58? I hope I look that good and can do loving under ice diving when I'm 58.
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| # ¿ Sep 6, 2012 04:02 |
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I couldn't even make it through Under the Ice, it was like "OK, they're diving again, sweet."
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| # ¿ Sep 28, 2012 16:52 |
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Was the title of that special The Long Road?
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2012 23:04 |
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So whose fault was the tiny engine on Todd's trommel?
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| # ¿ Jan 10, 2013 15:07 |
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At some point around 500 ounces they said Todd's crew had broken even, so they made the most "profit" I think, but no idea what it works out to when you split it amongst the 10 or 15 guys they had working there. I would have liked to have seen a scene where Jack gives them their take, like last year when they got like 3 ounces each or something pathetic like that.
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| # ¿ Feb 25, 2013 19:22 |
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They said it was going to be something they aired in the summer. My guess is instead of hunkering down in Portland for the 7 months when Alaska is frozen solid, he ran off to South America to become a year round gold miner. Good on him I guess?
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| # ¿ Feb 26, 2013 18:06 |
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Parker thought he had tons of pay dirt, But he was going on what his Grandpa told him and intuition, and it wasn't until he drilled that he realized there wasn't any gold there, and by then it was too late.
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| # ¿ Mar 4, 2013 15:46 |
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| # ¿ May 21, 2013 20:37 |
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Holy poo poo Scott. I haven't watched this season, but Scott is the guy with anger problems?
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