David Turin graduated as a civil engineer. Turin started his high school as a football player and a star athlete. Continuing this trend into college he decided to complete his civil engineering degree. After his graduation, he joined his family quarry business with his father and three brothers. He managed to run his business successfully for about 25 years.
In the First season of "Gold Rush", David did not mine with the group but instead worked in his family quarry. However, he was brought in on some occasions by Todd Hoffman for consultancy. David joined as a full-time miner in the second season of Gold Rush Alaska at Quartz-Creek Claim. During the 3rd season, he ran the 2nd claim with Greg Remsberg and Chris Doumitt for the Hoffman crew at Indian River Claims. During the 4th season, he supervised the crew for Gold mining efforts at the Q.O.D Claims and then started to work with the Dodge Crew bur to frustration because of lack of success in the 5th season. With them, he worked at Carmacks Claims working on wages same as with the Hoffman. As an incentive to rejoin the Hoffman crew at the McKinnon-Creek Claims, Dave asked for a 50 % ownership stake, of which Todd accepted provided he raises half a million dollars as buy-in. David mined in the sixth season for the Hoffman crew and in the seventh season, he run the Buckland claim. Failing to find Gold and after he had a fist-fight with Trey Poulson, he left Hoffman crew.
In 2019, Dave appeared in a new Discovery show called "Gold Rush: Dave Turin's Lost Mine". With a new crew, Dave searches for a lost and abandoned mine to resurrect, and chase the gold the old-timers left behind.
