Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day and people will spend roughly $5 million buying the precious metal for their loved ones. We know what it looks it and where to buy it, but do you know where it comes from?
Discovery’s Gold Rush follows the men who find it and there is reason why it is so expensive. It is a lot of hard grueling work to find the metal and tonight at 9p you can see arduous task it is to unearth it.
The show follows two crews in north-western Canada as they use different types of machinery to dig up the gold. Working in freezing temperatures, long days and in the elements leads to things going wrong. Things you can anticipate. Just because you get the machinery working, doesn’t mean you have found gold. They think they literally have struck gold, but they come up with payless dirt.
On tonight’s episodes, they are weeks away from concluding their season. The pressure is on the crews to reach their goals. The Hoffmans are hoping to find 1,000 ounces (which is worth $1.2 million dollars) of it before it’s over, but they haven’t even discovered 800 ounces yet. Then there is 20-year-old Parker who wants to double what the Hoffman’s goal is. So far he has found over 1,500 ounces worth $1.8 million, and with 25% of goal left he has his work cut out for him.
The Hoffmans depend on Big Red to sort the gold out from the elements, but when a boulder accidentally gets stuck in the machine, their work comes to a grinding halt. They need to figure out a way to get the jammed rock out before everything is a complete wash. Will they be able to get it out in time so they can get closer to their goal? Or will their goal be stuck inside the monster machine with that huge rock?
Parker keeps coming up empty with his searches, and he is more determined than ever to find the gold. There’s only one problem, his bulldozer needs serious repair and it will be out of commission. One of his employees thinks he found a place that has a lot of gold, only problem it is under a river. Will they be up the creek? Or will they find a way to move the water to get to the gold? Then if they do move the water, will they be fools because there is no gold there?
At the end of the day, one crew will find $40,000 worth of gold, while the other one will find almost 6X that. Want to see $250,000 worth of beautiful gold looks like, then you will have to tune in tonight at 9p to find out.
While us women love wearing gold, men love watching this show that is in its fifth season. It has been the #1 show on television among all men for the last five weeks. In fact, it is also Discovery’s #1 show. When you check it out, you will see why. Even though it is called Gold Rush, it is a true adrenaline rush. These men are up against the clock. They don’t know if they are going to find any gold in the dirt. If they do find it, will the machinery work so they can separate it? If the machinery does work, does that mean they found a lot? There is so much that can go wrong and so much that can go right at the end of the day. It is all of those things that leads to a very thrilling ride in a bulldozer. A ride you want to be on every Friday at 9p.
