With three days left in the season, miners push themselves to the brink. Sleep, safety, and sanity are out the window in order to dredge maximum gold. Shawn Pomrenke's ma ...

With nine days left, desperation and opportunity set the tone in Nome. A double sluice and lack of divers mean that Emily Riedel must confront her deepest fear if the Cla ...

With two weeks left in the season, the window to mine gold is closing. Zeke's experiment with a double length hose puts his brother in danger. The High Noon's water heate ...

With the ice season in high gear, a flu hits the dredgers like a plague threatening to knock every operation out of the race. For the Pomrenkes, a mistake by father Steve ...

The epic 2015 summer mining season has come to an end. Steve and Shawn Pomrenke, the Kellys, Zeke Tenhoff and Emily Riedel, Derek McLarty and Vernon Adkison come to the h ...

After a month out on the ice, one day remains in the 2015 ice mining season. For every miner, that's one more day to prove that a season full of risks was worth the cost. ...

Through the halfway point of the ice mining season, every operation is pulling out all the stops to make it pay. But they'll have to contend with the weight of the past b ...

With a shortened ice mining season, every second counts. But just as the fleet seems set to dial in on the gold, equipment problems cause setbacks, costing each crews pre ...

This winter, strict deadlines force the fleet to take extreme measures. Vern gambles on a state-of-the-art dredge while Shawn ventures into the harsh wilderness in search ...

While Hank tests Mother Nature by staying out dredging in the storm, Shawn races to bring his dredge home. Emily and Glen head far inland to river dredge. Her crew sews s ...