It can not be gold in Alaska, Oregon, but the men hunting in the last season of "gold rush" does not exactly strike pay dirt.
And judging by the first episode of season 2 - which premieres Friday night on the Discovery - the search can not be easier.
The first season premiered in December 2010. Viewers met Todd Hoffman and his father, Jack Hoffman, who live in sand, where they own and operate the airport in river sand.
As the spectacle frame, the Hoffmans and a handful of his friends were suffering tough economic times and went to Alaska in search of gold as the old adventure reaction to the recession.
The show was an instant hit for the discovery, the episodes were seen by an average of 3 million viewers, a good number for Friday, a night of low ratings.
While Jack Hoffman had mined gold in Alaska 25 years ago, the Oregon team problems with his inexperience and resisted criticism.
Some viewers objected to what appeared to be careless treatment of the environment. But government regulators Alaska Hoffman said the crew had won the necessary permits and generally were not in violation of the policies of land use.
At the end of Season 1, the Hoffman team had spent $ 250,000 in the search, but found only $ 20,000 worth of gold before the winter in Alaska forced to stop operations.
As a special episode tonight, "off-season," said Todd Hoffman spent the first half of this year, making arrangements to return to Alaska.
In the first episode of the new season, which continues the special, Todd, Jack and his crew chief back to Porcupine Creek, only to find a rude awakening.
Among the crew is David Turin, which appeared in several episodes last season as a consultant to the miners. This year, Turin joins the crew time complete.
With the end of the Alaska mining season, Turin is back in the sand, working in his family business. We talked about the challenges of taking time off to go to Alaska and the desire for adventure that brought him there.
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