At $2,000/oz, that’s nearly $143,000. Not a season-saving score, but enough to pay for the reclamation, fix The Maverick , and keep mining for two more weeks.
“It’s not the paleochannel,” Dave whispers, examining a chunk of quartz. “It’s a placer pocket . The freeze-thaw cycles over 10,000 years pushed the heavy gold right up into the top three feet of the clay. It was under our noses the whole time.” Hoffman Family Gold S03E12 The Gold and the Glo...
This is when Jack Hoffman video-calls in from Oregon. “You’re thinkin’ too big,” Jack says, his voice crackling. “When the big machine dies, you go small. You got a high-banker? You got a couple of dredge hoses? You got a will to freeze your fingers off?” At $2,000/oz, that’s nearly $143,000