Totally agree with G0lddigg@, these guys aren't miners they are just diggers. They seem to know nothing about gold, nothing about a lot of their equipment and nothing about the local terrain and what to use there. They make a huge mess and tick off heaps of people. The only guy in the crew that has any clue about gold is their prospecting guy(he's the smart one by the end of the season). The guy running the second crew always seems to be way better at running the show than Hoffman and his dad, pity he couldn't go solo and see what he could do without all the stuff ups the Hoffmans cause.
By the way this came out in America last year I think, great to see how quickly we still get a lot of shows here in Oz... Think it's probably listed as Gold rush season 4 if your looking for it, the south america listing seemed to get dropped(possibly because the Hoffmans were less interesting than Parker and co.).