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Gold Rush: Mine Rescue with Freddy and Juan dropped season 5 episode 4 on May 30, 2025. The episode featured them going to visit a duo who have spent almost $150,000 on mining equipment and have yet not see any results.
This place is located at the Chicks with Pics Plain and historically has resulted in a gold turnover of $30 million adjusted to current value. Thus, the investment makes sense. However, to have the operation up and running, the ladies have invited Freddy and Juan over.
As the Gold Rush: Mine Rescue with Freddy and Juan episode starts, the gold miners are relaxing in front of their house, which is in the middle of a desert. Freddy remarks that they are very close to the Grand Canyon with their current location in Arizona.
As for Juan, he reminisces about the 1880s when the first time prospectors got to this place and found the gold. As they decide to start their car and head over to the place, the narrator of Gold Rush: Mine Rescue with Freddy and Juan explains,
"Freddy and Juan are en route to the Chicks with Pics Plain, which is owned by Jamie D'Anna and Christine Crnek, who in the last two years have spent thousands of dollars on a new wash plant to turn their to turn their hobby mine into a professional operation."
They also describe the key equipment used by the ladies as a 'Reverse Helix Trommel.' The narrator then continued,
"The hostile desert conditions and a lack of water slowed down the first wave of stampeders in the 1880s. But those who were hardy enough recovered 18,000 pounds of gold worth nearly $30 million in today's money. Now, with gold at a staggering $2300 and ounce, Freddy and Juan have one week to decode this operation and turn it around."
Gold Rush: Mine Rescue with Freddy and Juan season 5 episode 4 recap - Who are the mine owners?
Jamie and Christine, when asked about their driving force behind mining gold, answered that it all started during the COVID pandemic. Jamie happens to be a hairdresser, but due to the lockdown rules, her salon had shut down, and she was getting no business at all, and the same financial issues were with Christine.
Thus, in light of their struggles, the latter's father, who owned this land for more than 30 years, decided to sell it. However, the two had heard about the old stories and wanted to try out their luck themselves.
This made them invest in professional equipment to start their business however, life threw challenges at the two in terms of their health when Christine got diagnosed with arthritis, and some days, it is really hard for her to move at all.
Juan and Freddy then decided to test out the setup, and the machine began working. It had two outlet belts, one with the waste rocks and one with gold.
However, when Juan tested out the waste section of the rocks, he found out that finer gold particles are being missed by the machine, which might not seem like a lot when seen individually, but eventually adds up at the end of the day.
At the end of Gold Rush: Mine Rescue with Freddy and Juan, the two then got to analyze the situation and found the problem in a narrow pipe, which is used to save water.
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Gold Rush: Mine Rescue with Freddy and Juan season 5 drops new episodes weekly on Fridays at 9 PM Eastern Time on Discovery. Later, they can be streamed online via Discovery Plus.
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