The Fairplay mine has the most gold-rich paydirt of any of Todd Hoffman’s claims on Gold Rush, but there’s a hitch — he’s hardly allowed to dig any of it! In our exclusive clip from this week’s episode, Freddy Dodge explains how he’s only been left a postage stamp-sized parcel of land to mine relative to what the claim used to be. Most of the 40-acre area has been rezoned by the county as residential land for housing, while much of the rest is either too steep or has already been mined. That leaves only a 75ft by 75ft square....read more