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Title: Anyone Here Watch Gold Rush?
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Published: Jan 7, 2013
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Post Date: 2013-01-07 09:47:32 by James Deffenbach
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I have watched Gold Rush since the first show of the first season. Some of it is pretty good when they have actual miners who know what they are doing (like the young kid, Parker Schnabel and his grandpa) and the big guy from Sweden or Norway or wherever it is he's from. But I thought, and have for a while, that there was just too much about the show that was "off." I learned a bit more about it last night. There is a group on facebook called the Gold Rush Alaska Gossip and it pretty well lays out that the group the show centers on, the Hoffman crew, really don't know what they're doing, have sponsors (like Volvo) and leave when the producers get the footage they want. And Todd is always talking about "the American dream" yet now they are in Canada and using equipment made by a foreign company. And when the show started out the storyline was they were all down on their luck and about to lose their homes and how they were going to Alaska and try to get rich mining gold. Well, the mechanic in the first season, James Harness, apparently wasn't all that broke. Here is a car he owned at the start of the first season (and may still for all I know). Does THIS look like a car owned by someone who is "broke"? James Harness owns this 2004 GTO Banshee built by PFYC. Besides the body modifications the engine can put out 570 to 590 horsepower. This car was featured on the cover of Pontiac Enthusiast March/April 2005. Outside it has; over 1/3 carbon fiber and fiberglass to lighten it up (bumpers, skirts, hood, fenders, deck, & spoiler), Wilwood 6-piston Calipers with oversized slotted rotors, 4-piston rear Axis Milano wheels, and Toyo Proxes T1-s tires. Interior Color: black And, while Todd claims to have gone to all these colleges and everything the records indicate that he attended one semester at one college. Anyway, if you watch the show you might want to check out that facebook page. I will probably keep watching it because I like Parker Schnabel and his family but now I know more than I ever cared to about the rest of the show and won't be seeing it through the same eyes. 
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Comment from one of the posters on the Gold Rush gossip page: Here we go. Volvo is the big sponsor of Gold Rush in season 3 and "Volvo contruction Equipment is supplying the crews with Loaders, Articulated Haulers and Excavators." I'm assuming thats all 3 crews and not just the Hoffman's. So this is part of Todd's American Dream, to get a Swedish company to give free them equipment, so they can mine gold in a foreign country, Canada? Where exactly does America fit into this dream, Todd? The pic is at the Volvo booth at the MineExpo in Sept. RAW is fiming it for the show. Parker was there too.
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August 25, 2012 Pay close attention to this. Todd is at the Indian River section of the Yukon, thats where Quartz Creek is. Quartz Creek is not even in the top 25 streams that produce gold in the area. In 2011 it produced less than 300oz from all the placer mines in the area. And Todd supposedly accounted for 90oz of this? I'm highly skeptical, I think they were lying thru their teeth. The real question is, how is Todd's little operation of recreational miners going to find 1000oz of gold on a creek that year after year produces less than 300oz for all the miners in the area added together? The entire Indian River Basin, which includes scores of mines, some of them huge operations, the whole area produced 14,000oz last year. Are we supposed to believe hobby TV miner Todd Hoffman is going to find 7% of all the gold in the whole area on a little claim on a creek that produces under 300oz a year? If they try and make us believe they did, it a total lie. There is no way on earth this could be where Todd is mining. Just be prepared for some real BS when the show starts this fall.
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Replies to Comment # 1. another interesting post from last August
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