The Untold Truth Of Gold Rush's Dave Turin

Dave Turin wasn't always a gold miner, but he had been in the mining business for quite some time before he found himself on reality television. His father, Jim Turin, bought an asphalt company in the 1980s and then purchased its neighboring quarry business a few years later, per a 2018 interview with Volvo. Since then, the business, named Mt. Hood Rock, has grown into a large supplier of "high-quality construction materials" and is still run by the Turin family in Brightwood, Ore.

While Dave was well-educated in the quarry business, he actually left home to study to become an engineer at Portland State University, per the Democrat-Herald. However, he had some poor luck landing a job after college and decided to return home. "That's when the rock quarry we had an asphalt plant set up in came up for sale. I told my family I would manage it. That's how I got my start in mining," he told Hollywood Soapbox in 2016. Plus, he admitted to Volvo that he wasn't sure if he could "sit in an office and design things" after being so used to working outside with his hands.

While mining and digging for gold is clearly his passion, Dave's reality television fame has allowed him to make a living in other ways as well.

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