History Series / GoldRush

* CanadaEh: Starting with Dakota Fred kicking the Hoffman crew off the Porcupine Creek claim in Season 2, The series has increasingly focused on the Klondike gold fields in Yukon Territory, Canada. As of season 5, there are no active mines outside of this area featured on screen.

* CameraAbuse: A few cameras do take a beating/soaking, but mostly it's more along the lines of camera man abuse. Though it's not seen until the behind the scenes episode early on in season 2.

* IllGirl: Early in the first season, one of the Hoffman girls comes down with something bad enough she needs to be airlifted to a ''real'' hospital in Anchorage.

* UpToEleven: For season 6, the Hoffman crew set a self-imposed goal of 2700 ounces. They got 3037 ounces.
** Parker wanted 3000 ounces. He got over 3500 ounces. $4 million territory.

* CanadaEh: Starting with Dakota Fred kicking the Hoffman crew off the Porcupine Creek claim in Season 2, The series has increasingly focused on the Klondike gold fields in Yukon Territory, Canada. As of season 5, there ore no active mines outside of this area featured on screen.

*** Tony's power barge is broke down and he still hasn't moved any significant portions of his second dredge.

* JitterCam: Any camera attached to the shaker part of the wash plant. The cameras attached to the excavator arm probably also count.

** Early in the season 7 finale, a significant fight breaks out between Dave Turin and Trey Polson. A cameranan's radio can be heard summoning a camera to film the situation.

%%* BadassBeard:
%%** Todd and Jack Hoffman
%%** Tony Beets
%%* BadassMoustache: Jim Thurber

Began airing in [[TheNewTens October of 2010]] and season 8 is debuting in October of 2017.

* BadassBeard:
** Todd and Jack Hoffman
** Tony Beets
* BadassGrandpa: John Schnabel was 96 years old when he died in March 2016. He had been working his own claim for over 20 years and had 65 years of mining experience.
** Also Dakota Fred.
* BadassMoustache:
** Jim Thurber

** Also appearing during Season 8 is a SpinOff called Gold Rush White Water. It documents the efforts of Dakota Fred and Dustin Hurt attempting to mine an Alaskan canyon-bottom creek. At the end of the season, They have just a single ounce of gold and a sudden storm has washed away their mine. And they owe tons of money to ... Todd Hoffman.

** For season 8, everybody is having a hard time meeting their gold recovery goals.

** Eight episodes in in season 7 and Tony Beets's dredge has been sunk not just once, but twice.

** Near the end of season 7, Tony learned that while he does indeed own his second, larger dredge, he lack the proper land use permits he needs to move the behemoth (or its larger removed components) to the river.

** During the first season, the guys frequently lament that they are in danger of going into foreclosure on their houses back home. Failure to find any gold means going home not just broke, but deeper in debt than when they started. Unfortunately, by the end of season one, they have failed to find more than a few ounces of gold valued in the tens of thousands of dollars. They need more than 100 ounces worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Season 4 saw the Hoffman crew pretty much lose everything in the jungles of Guyana.

*** The next episode, the inspector declares his top-heavy tugboat unseaworthy, requiring him to go out and find another means of pushing/towing/hauling his new dredge upriver.

** It's mentioned that a member of the Hoffman crew works in a family-owned business when he's not mining.

* TheBet: During a season 5 episode, Dave Turin bets against Kevin over the quantity of gold in a particular cleanout. Dave loses and must wear an apron while making pancakes.

Began airing in [[TheNewTens October of 2010]]. Season 7 debuted in October 2016.

A recent RealityTV series on the Creator/DiscoveryChannel detailing the trials and tribulations of a group of down on their luck family men who turn to gold mining in the hopes of finding large deposits of precious metal in order to get out of debt. Originally titled ''Gold Rush: Alaska'', the Alaska part was dropped for season 2 due to Todd Hoffman's decision to add a mine in the Klondike, reinforced by the Hoffman crew being kicked off the Porcupine Creek site.

* SpinOff: Seems to have spawned the series ''Series/BeringSeaGold'', which seems to be ''Gold Rush'' [[XMeetsY meets]] ''Series/DeadliestCatch''. Interseason specials ''Gold Rush: The Jungle'' and ''Gold Rush: South America'' featured the Hoffman crew's [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption exploits]] prospecting in South America. ''Jungle Gold'' featured a totally unrelated group from Utah mining in Ghana in western Africa. ''Series/{{Bamazon}}'' features yet another unrelated group from Alabama, prospecting in [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Brazil Brazil's Amazon Basin]].

* UsefulNotes/{{Alaska}}: The mining was originally only happening in AK, but the Hoffmans' move to the Klondike widened the scope of the show. Season 2 featured 3 different mine crews, 2 of which were still in AK. The same mines are featured in seasons 3 and 4, with only Dakota Fred's crew remaining in Alaska in the fourth season.

* LetMeAtHim: A member of the Hoffman crew wanted to have a 'talk' with Dakota Fred when it was announced that he was kicking them out of Porcupine Creek, and the others had to restrain him to keep him from getting at Fred.
** in the ClipShow:/behind the scenes episode Dave(the guy holding him back) said had the cameras not been there he might have let him go
* MoreDakka: The very first episode of the series features the guys unloading a multitude of {{Handguns}} and rifles from a trailer they had shipped up from Oregon. The [=AR15=] best exemplifies this trope even if only mildly.

* CoolCar: Mike's opinion of Tony Beets's Oshkosh M1070 [[TankGoodness tank]] transporter tractor truck.

** Eight episodes in in season 7 and Tony Beets's dredge has been sunk not just once, but twice so far. 2 weeks later, the bucket ladder return pulley suffers a broken bearing, sidelining the entire machine.

** Eight episodes in in season 7 and Tony Beets's dredge has been sunk not just once, but twice so far.

** The Hoffman Crew is finding mining at the High Bar mine in Oregon's Blue Mountains to be much like their first two seasons and their South American season. The Buckland claim doesn't look like it will be able to fill their 5000 ounce season either.

** For season 6, [[SirSwearsAlot Tony Beets]] wanted to produce 900 ounces or 1 million dollars worth of gold with his decades old dredge. He missed that goal by about 100 ounces. But his high efficiency methods gave him a 50 to 60% return on the digging efforts. (Vs 10 to 30% for stationary washplants.) Operating the dredge taught him and the crew how to do the job correctly and Tony plans on buying a second dredge.

* GoshDangItToHeck: Todd and Jack Hoffman have a habit of using 'frick' (and variations thereof) instead of dropping F-bombs.