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.

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.