A reality show following a family-owned mining company drilling for jade in the B.C., Canada. In the series opener, Robin follows his instincts after test drilling provides no clear evidence of jade deposits in the area.
The team attempts haul their heavy equipment up to a remote mining site before the snow melts.
The crew navigate their equipment up a muddy trail to a jade mine at the top of a mountain.
A raging river is crossed with heavy equipment.
Alan looks for jade under a pit filled with water; Josh works to get a boulder to a buyer.
Robin moves a bunkhouse onto one of the claims; an accident shocks everyone.
After a streak of bad events, the crew comes up with different methods of turning their luck.
Green boulders are found and the team is excited that they could be worth millions.
The investors show up at the mining site unexpectedly causing tension between the crew members.
The crew realize they may have breached their claim lines on the Wolverine mine.
The mining season comes to an end as the team scramble to find a good haul.
The crew works in subzero temperatures as they hunt for enough jade to impress their investors.
Claudia and Robin's untested machines start breaking down on the brutal trek up to the Wolverine mine site.
The crew tries to cross swollen rivers as they march their machines up to the mine, but Josh falls behind in his trouble-prone excavator.
When more bolts come loose on his excavator, Josh is stranded 20 kilometers from the Wolverine mine and out of radio contact. At camp, Claudia sends Guy to help her son get the excavator going so they can start mining.
Mining season starts and, while the jade proves elusive, a trucking accident turns into a bonanza for Jade City.
Guy is left in charge of Wolverine, where breaking in a new worker threatens to derail his mission to find the first jade of the season.
A fatality on a nearby jade mine serves as a wake-up call for the crew at the Wolverine mine site. But before they can revamp their safety procedures, new guy Jay collapses in terrible pain.
Josh is stranded walking in the new excavator while a stockpile of worthless rocks prompts Claudia to consider a new mining strategy.
Alan brings a group of buyers to Jade City sending Claudia's team into a panic to find the first sell-able jade boulders of the season.
While the crew slogs through mud to find a million dollar boulder, Josh risks losing half a million dollars of equipment trying to pull his truck out of a sinkhole.
The team finds the best jade boulder of the season, but risk undermining its value as they try to cut away all the fractures.
Claudia's son Justin shows he has a nose for jade, while Scrappy Larry, Robin and Josh struggle to tow their broken truck off the trail to Wolverine.
A run of duds force Robin and Justin on a last ditch quest to go prospecting for jade rocks to salvage the season while Scrappy Larry rushes to get a diesel tank converted into a hot tub in time for a community party.
Claudia's venture to house a work crew in Jade City is threatened when the septic tank backs up into the drinking water.
With cold weather settling in early and debts piling up, the crew pushes, pulls and drags a mammoth and potentially season-saving boulder to camp.
With the most promising boulder of the year under the saws at Wolverine, Josh and R2 crash their truck, leaving Claudia and the crew reeling.
The race is on to get out of Wolverine camp before the snow buries everything. With R2 back on the trail, driving out the most valuable jade of the season, Alan tells Claudia and Robin that he's opening a jade store in Beijing.
Claudia is forced to drive the rock truck as her crew struggles up the rocky trail to their mountaintop jade camp, Wolverine.
Tensions come to a boil as Claudia, Robin and crew attempt to get people and equipment to their remote jade camp.
Claudia and Robin try to impress their new business partners, but the first days at their new claim, Bullion Creek, are frustrating.
The season's first huge boulder is brought back to camp and put under the saw; a first-aid emergency forces Josh into action with his newly-minted training.
Justin races to stake a claim after he stumbles onto an amazing jade find that other miners are circling in.
Claudia's new partnership suffers as Justin and the crew are distracted trying to move a gigantic boulder that could be worth a fortune.
After falling out with her business partners, Claudia and Robin race to restart mining at Wolverine, but get shut down by a surprise obstacle; Justin and Mike try a new approach on an old site.
The crew scrambles to get the Dynasty jade quarry going despite failing equipment; Claudia rushes to find sellable jade for a buyer.
Justin and Mike fight fractures and each other trying to prove their methods to impatient investors; Scrappy Larry wants to finish his diesel-tank hot-tub project.
Alan returns from China and gives Justin and Mike a dose of reality about the jade they're mining; as snow threatens to shut down the mine, the crew starts up a night shift under lights to beat the winter deadline.
Justin and Mike fight through snow and frozen water to get to the one potentially high-value slab of jade, the Big Fin; in Jade City, Claudia cuts open a tourist's 700-year-old dinosaur egg.
Winter arrives at Dynasty and the crew struggles to mine up to the last possible minute; Claudia and Robin are worried Justin and Mike are pushing themselves too hard.
Funding her mining season alone and determined to start her hunt for jade a month early, Claudia is forced to rethink her strategy when snow and high water stops the crews in their tracks.
Robin follows a hunch to a new site at an old claim; Josh's high expectations and short fuse test Gary's patience.
Guy struggles with the excavator to expose a massive find; Josh's dissatisfaction with his position in the crew causes family conflicts to boil over.
The crew faces a dangerous recovery on the banks above the Turnagain River; Guy and Gary continue to stumble over jade at Dynasty; Josh searches around Jade City for his missing dog.
Cutting a potential million-dollar find is put on hold when old equipment fails; a new saw could reveal an unexpected windfall from a decades-old family heirloom.
Cutting finally starts on the giant jade lens at Dynasty, but big fractures slice off the lens; the Jade City community is on edge when two trucks roll over on the same stretch of highway.
Downpours threaten the crew's safety and shut down mining at Pit 3; Josh gets a chance to prove himself on the excavator, but a breakdown tests his patience.
When an important jade buyer isn't impressed with the Pit 3 lens, Claudia is forced to make a difficult decision that disappoints her crew.
The race to pack up camp at Wolverine becomes a nightmare when heat, sickness and a forest fire descend on the crew.
The brutal trek to a new mine site separates the family and pushes Josh to his breaking point; scrappy Larry struggles to keep his extra-wide army truck on the steep and narrow road.
Claudia chomps at the bit to break ground on the new site, but progress is stalled by a series of unlucky incidents at their old mining camp, Wolverine.
Small luxuries in camp cheer up a disgruntled crew, and surprise visitors raise Claudia's hopes for her future at 2 Mile.
Gary and Josh fail to return from a routine fuel run; drill cores cast doubt over the quality of jade lenses at 2 Mile.
The crew finally hits it big, but with winter descending, Claudia worries that the big find may have come too late.
Claudia is desperate to start mining, but brutal road conditions have her questioning whether the crew will even make it into their claim.
While Guy and Gary race to fix the torn-up road into the claim, Claudia's hoping a new crew member will be the lucky ticket she desperately needs to turn this make-or-break mining season into a success.
Robin's surprise shopping spree stresses Claudia out when his purchasing blunders delay their mining season. Scrappy Larry shares some unexpected news of his own.
Claudia tries to keep the peace when Robin and her Dad butt heads, while the crew struggle to fix one problem after another on their mine truck.
Gary and Josh are frustrated by a series of breakdowns, while Claudia makes a shocking announcement that derails Robin's plans and causes conflict between the couple.
Tensions boil over between Robin, Josh and Steve about how to mine and when Claudia steps in, things get downright explosive.
Plagued with truck troubles, Robin and his crew race to get a fuel run done before the equipment runs dry. Claudia hires Scrappy Larry to clean up the Jade City yard but he makes a bigger mess.
Robin clashes with Claudia and Josh over the quality of jade coming out of their pit, while Larry's attempt to help get the crew bunkhouse to camp goes sideways.
Bad brakes, frazzled nerves and a rough road have Claudia doubting her crew can haul their huge bunkhouse to camp in one piece.
Claudia and crew are determined to keep mining despite wildfires burning around their claim, until things take a turn for the worse and they have to race to get out.
After losing two weeks of mining to the wildfires, Claudia and Robin take the risk of returning to Two Mile and gamble on the opening of a new pit. Scrappy Larry heads into the burned area in hopes of rescuing his abandoned skidder.
Claudia gets stressed out trying to get their best jade ready for buyers, while her crew's morale is tested as they battle the cold to finally start cutting the 90-tonne boulder.
Claudia pulls out all the stops to try and make a big sale to jade buyers, while up at the mine Guy and Gary struggle through the first snowstorm of the season.
Claudia pushes her crew to keep mining despite freezing temperatures and deteriorating road conditions, but her biggest obstacle could be Robin who wants to pack up before it's too late.
Moving a massive jade slab tests the mines old equipment and Joshs patience.
Hauling a 20-ton boulder on the treacherous road out of the mine proves too much for their old truck "6-Pack."
Robin uncovers a massive jade lens at Two Mile, but it might be too big for their small operation to dig out.
When a freak August snowstorm strands Claudia and Robin at Two Mile, Gary and Garon try to save the day by driving through the storm to bring them supplies but they wind up needing rescuing themselves.
Robin makes a difficult decision about his beloved mine truck 6-Pack after another expensive breakdown, while Claudia makes a desperate call for help to get their jade out of camp before winter shuts them down.
With winter closing in, Claudia pushes her exhausted crew to their breaking point, causing tempers to flare and forcing Claudia to finally take one for the team.
The crew encounters endless trouble trying to cut out a chunk of the 60 foot lens.
Claudia brings in big drilling equipment and has just four days to find the best jade, but she and Robin can't decide where to look.
The boys butt heads as a late season push has them working two mines at once.
The crew pulls jade boulders off the J lens but a big snag with the road threatens everything; Scrappy Larry finds a new way to make a quick buck but finds it's not so easy.