Fans of “Gold Rush” know that the art of digging for that shiny treasure isn’t as glamorous as it sounds. People who are unfamiliar with the business may think that these teams are digging through chunks of rock to find large nuggets of profit. However, the truth is that a portion of a crew’s bounty comes from tiny specks of gold found in what’s known as pay dirt. Pay dirt is the loose ground material in gold-rich areas that these dedicated workers sift through for hours on end. It’s a painstaking process but it’s necessary if the teams want to truly cash in. When Greg Remsburg made the decision to get rid of a significant amount of pay dirt, his boss was furious.
This all plays out in Season 4’s “In Too Deep.” Parker plans to fix up Little Blue, Todd Hoffman’s former wash plant. The plant still has some pay dirt, though Remsburg decides to simply get rid of it without checking it, apparently convinced that it contains no gold. To Schnabel, throwing away the dirt is the same as throwing away money and he rips into Remsburg for making that call. It turns out Schnabel is right to be annoyed. He pan tests a sample of the discarded pay dirt and finds what he estimates to be around a thousand dollars worth of gold specs, proving that the decision cost the crew thousands of dollars. He tosses the pan to the ground during the heated argument that follows. Remsburg would ultimately apologize for his actions and they both got on with the job in hand.
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