r/goldrush May 01 '26

EPISODE DISCUSSION Gold Rush Season 16 Episode 23 SEASON FINALE "Klondike Shoot-Out" Show Discussion

23 Upvotes

8:00pm-10:01pm Gold Rush Season 16 Episode 23 SEASON FINALE "Klondike Shoot-Out"

Parker battles Tony in an intense showdown for the year's top gold haul.

Rick grinds at Lightning Creek and expands his operation to save his season.

Production Code 16A1A23

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Quick reminder: Discovery is in full rotation mode with the mining crews in these episodes now. There will be three of the four crews in each episode with one crew getting skipped. 


r/goldrush May 01 '26

EPISODE DISCUSSION Gold Rush: Mine Rescue with Freddy and Juan Season 6 Episode 12* SEASON FINALE "Forty Days to Fail or Fortune" Show Discussion

9 Upvotes

10:01pm-11:01pm Gold Rush: Mine Rescue with Freddy and Juan Season 6 Episode 12* SEASON FINALE "Forty Days to Fail or Fortune"

A widowed Colorado mine owner and her foreman face a last stand to save her gold-rich, inherited claim. Freddy and Juan scramble with ingenious fixes and point them towards a pay streak before winter closes them out.

Production Code 509

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*A quick note about Mine Rescue this season: The episodes Discovery is calling Season 6 in their promo material are really Season 5. This is not speculation, I have confirmed this from multiple sources. And as has been the norm for a few seasons, Mine Rescue might not show on your streaming platform until the season is over.


r/goldrush 1d ago

Dave Turin’s Lost Mine

5 Upvotes

any one know where i can download Dave Turin’s Lost Mine season 1-4 i cant find any place to download or watch it in Australia


r/goldrush 2d ago

Parker

139 Upvotes

I've watched Gold Rush since day one. At this point, Parker is the main reason I still watch. It's been incredible watching him grow from a young miner into a highly successful businessman right before our eyes.

I fast-forward through most of the other crews. If you're in here, Parker, much respect. You've built something impressive, and your Grandpa John is smiling from above.


r/goldrush 3d ago

Spoilers: Rick's Water License Spoiler

48 Upvotes

Rick just got probably the 2nd worst news he could get. His water license renewal wasn't denied, but the Yukon Water Board at the request of a very late received letter from the First Nations (months past the deadline), has decided to have a public hearing. On top of that, they're also going to have 2 pre-hearings. The actual Public Hearing has been scheduled for August 28, 2026, and I am not sure how long it will take for them to make a decision after that. It is possible that he will have no season on his best claims.

The only possible saving grace is that one of the public filings that has a line item "17 November 2025 PM14-066 - Extension granted by Director of Mineral Resources" However, that extension is not available online so I do not know what that is an extension of or what it allows. There are several mentions in the filings of the lack of reclamation being done so it couple simply be an extension just so reclamation can be done, or it could be a full extension for mining activity.

For those who are interested in seeing all the filings, you can go to this site: https://apps.gov.yk.ca/waterline/f?p=127:LOGIN and click on "Guest". You can then do a search for: PM24-068 That will get you to all the filings under the Exhibits tab.


r/goldrush 3d ago

What are the chances that Rick sells?

34 Upvotes

I was just thinking about Parker "Getting the band back together" by hiring Brennan.

It got me thinking that Parkers is running a much more professional company than, honestly, any mine we have ever seen on the show. He has really grown as a manager, and Brennan seems like he is genuinely happy to be working for Parker again.

Now, since Tony and Parker have both offered to buy Ricks claims, I wonder who he would go with, if he decided to sell.

My thought is that Rick actually has some very good ground, but his company lacks that capital to absorb the high cost of operation. While the potential is there, Rick has too many single points of failure that completely shut down production. One machine goes down, and they are cooked.

Wouldn't it be interesting if Parker bought the company, kept on all of his crew, sent them a bunch of new equipment and hired Rick to be the foreman.

I could also see, basically the same thing happening, but Parker becoming an investor, and co-owner in Rally with Rick as a partner.

Ricks claims are far enough away from the rest of Parkers land that they really have to be treated as separate entities anyway. It's too far to just decide to more rescues between them like they can do with Dominion and Ken and Stuarts claims.


r/goldrush 3d ago

Surveillance camera on wash plants?

12 Upvotes

Hey guys,
I have always been keen to know why there are no surveillance cameras mounted on each wash plant.

These cameras could be connected to tablets or screens that the wash plant driver, for example, has with him.
We know that Starlink is already mounted on some of the wash plants, which could be used to establish network connectivity.

Wouldn’t that help decrease downtime on the wash plants by a lot if problems were noticed faster?


r/goldrush 4d ago

Will there be a gold rush season 18?

31 Upvotes

r/goldrush 3d ago

Cast Instagrams?

6 Upvotes

Do people have links to cast instagrams to follow progress in the Yukon?


r/goldrush 19d ago

Mine rescue question

16 Upvotes

Hi all i am from europe and really enjoy the series. But what i dont understand when miners put 10k or 100k into a mine site they bought or started up. Why dont they hire a specialist that helps them understand the trade. Or is that not a thing?


r/goldrush 20d ago

Just started watching Season 1: why do they bring their young kids to the hazardous mining expedition?

0 Upvotes

Shouldn't the kids be in school and being around heavy equipment is dangerous, especially with people who don't know what they are doing as they have crashed the excavator into cars multiple times and done other safety violations. Plus who is protecting the kids from bears when the adults are preoccupied with finding gold?


r/goldrush 22d ago

Mine rescue best spin off?

51 Upvotes

Was just watching all these new episodes after they dropped on HBO MAX.
Even though every episode is:

Hi hello.
We have everything invested in this.
Let's see some of your gold...not a lot of fines in there.
Talk to a local.
Mine here, not there.
Juan's cut trailer
Freddie teaching a newbie welding
Signature riffles.
And sometimes a test plant rebuild.

I love this freaking show first time I've felt a show not making up drama (even though it probly is). Best spin off?


r/goldrush 22d ago

So was last week...

11 Upvotes

...the end of both Gold Rush and Mine Rescue? There was no MR this week. Anybody know of there's anything planned for the summer, like Parker's Trail?


r/goldrush 25d ago

Oft-repeated Gold Rush quips now part of my everyday speech...

36 Upvotes

I find myself using these quips endlessly, add to the list!!:

Shut it down!

Make it happening!

Get it done ASP.

We're all millionaires just gotta dig it out of the ground.

And, from other reality shows:

Nickels holding up dollars.

Wait a minute!

The wow factor.


r/goldrush 29d ago

Season 6 Gold Rush Mine Rescue on Discovery+

31 Upvotes

Not sure if everyone is aware, the new season of Freddy and Juan is finally available to stream on Discovery+


r/goldrush 29d ago

Who actually created Gold Rush ??

24 Upvotes

Been watching Gold Rush from the beginning, who actually created the show originally? Anyone know the real deal?


r/goldrush May 02 '26

On frozen dark nights, there is nothing on TV that looks as cool as Gold Rush

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r/goldrush May 02 '26

Parker's Trail

19 Upvotes

Has there been any publicity about where Parker went this winter? There was a little tease at the end of the episode, but no solid info.


r/goldrush May 02 '26

Who knew Parker….

42 Upvotes

…had an airplane and Pilot?? 🤣🤣


r/goldrush May 02 '26

Buzz

20 Upvotes

I was glad they mentioned Buzz briefly last night, and he got Kevin back up an running again, although they never really showed him. We hadn't seen nor heard much from him since he returned several weeks ago.

Google searches about about Buzz point to some Facebook group claiming he'd died suddenly from a stroke, but the AI summary says that's unconfirmed. His supposedly official FB and Instagram sites have only months-old posts.

Anybody have any news on Buzz that doesn't point to that same, possibly fraudulent FB "stroke" post?


r/goldrush May 02 '26

Whose team are you in ?

9 Upvotes
569 votes, 26d ago
75 Team Tony aka King of Kondike
410 Team Parker aka mining mogul
71 Team Rick
13 Team Kevin

r/goldrush May 02 '26

Season 16 Episode 24 (5/1/26) Spoiler

7 Upvotes

When the episode first opens up in a bar Rick’s hair is up to his shoulders. Later in the episode when he’s in the cut his hair is short. So was the bar scene just added for tv and they already knew the results?


r/goldrush 29d ago

Bonuses?

0 Upvotes

So what do we think the workers are getting in gold bonuses? % on rickshaw team must be different than the formen on Parkers team.


r/goldrush Apr 30 '26

How do they remove rock truck drivers personalities?

10 Upvotes

If they are going to have a random rock truck drivers talking, could they say something else than "We are not going to reach x ounces if y keeps happening" -line every time? Feels fake and makes people seem like bots.


r/goldrush Apr 30 '26

"We went from 0.02 ounces to 0.08 ounces, huge success", what is this ridicules nonsense?

0 Upvotes

I love Mine Rescue, but some of these episodes and assumed successes are just absurd. Half of the mines they "rescue" are recovering so little gold that "300%" increases is pocket change. You make more money collecting bottles on the street. Juan and Freddy are great people but this is mostly bullshit TV and only a fraction of these mines have a future.