Jade Fever

- Season 3

(2017)

Claudia is forced to drive the rock truck as her crew struggles up the rocky trail to their mountaintop jade camp, Wolverine.

Claudia and Robin struggle to lead their crew and equipment across rivers and over boulder-strewn paths to reach their Wolverine jade camp. Claudia has a meltdown driving the rock truck. Gary runs out of gas in the middle of nowhere.

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 but other miners are circling in.

While Claudia and Robin try to prove to their new business partners there's good jade on their claim, Justin and the crew becomes obsessed with finding a way to move and cut a 40-ton boulder that could make them instant millionaires.

When Claudia's business deal collapses, she struggles to restart mining at Wolverine, but finds out her mine site camp is out of bounds. Meanwhile Justin and Mike decide to reopen the Dynasty mine before the season ends.

Everyone scrambles to help Justin and Mike set up a new jade quarry at the Dynasty mine. Scrappy Larry mutilates the highway moving the excavator down the highway. Josh cuts boulders around Jade City that Claudia tries to sell to a buyer.

Tensions run high between Justin and Mike as impatient investors force them to abandon their quarrying plans and prove there is sellable jade at Dynasty. The community pitches in to help Scrappy Larry's diesel tank hot tub dream a reality.

Cold weather, frozen water lines and the threat of snow force the crew to set up lights and work all night to get the jade slabs quarried. Alan Qiao returns from China to assess the jade.

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 struggle to mine up to the last possible minute. Claudia and Robin are worried Justin and Mike are pushing themselves too hard.