The second season of the Discovery Channel reality television show “Gold Rush” debuted Friday, with “Dakota” Fred Hurt buying a Porcupine mining district claim and kicking Todd Hoffman’s Oregon crew off the property.

Hoffman appears headed to Dawson City, Y.T., to continue his mining venture.

A Discovery news release this week, titled “Men Find Gold Friday Night,” said the episode “Twist of Fate” averaged 3.33 million viewers. The show trailed only the seventh game of…