Spoiler Alert!!! Some of my views on the show are, 1st the men should have not mistreated Dakota Fred. They should have looked at the situation with him as largely needed help and valuable input on the mining process since he had mined before and apparently successfully. 2nd the guys found the old hole that Earl had mined before and started working with the soft dirt 1st witch yielded almost nothing. No one stopped to think it had been mined before to at least 20-30 feet and Earl said he couldn't go deeper than that due to limitations in equipment back then. They started getting gold once they got deeper than Earl was able to mine. 3rd they should have sat down and talked to Dakota Fred and let him know his input was very valuable to them but don't overstep his boundaries or on their toes since he is not the one paying for the operation. And that the men have much to lose and that they may be on edge or even confrontational. Then I was shocked at the fact that Dakota Fred to the claim out from under them the way he did after they had done all the hard work. What bothers me is I have a feeling that Dakota Fred is of well financially and what he did boils down to greed as he was able to cough up $80,000 with almost no questions asked for Todd's equipment. The men where all down on their luck and didn't deserve that. The thing is, to me what ever he gets from that mining area is dirty money and when we do things like that in life it always comes back to haunt us and bites us or even our children in the butt later on down the line. And if it was Earls land why did he wait till someone else did the hard and dirty work??? If it was my land I would have been mining it every year that I owned it.
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