• Diggings:
  represents areas previously worked by miners fossicking for gold by digging holes.

• Specking:
  picking gold up with the naked eye.

• Surfaced Area: top layer of soil processed for gold.

• Dead Ground:
  detector, surface noise negligible.

• Hot Ground:
  highly mineralized ground.

• Reef Line:
  Quartz and Slate extending North and South.

• Side Feeder:
  A Gold Shedding coming into existing diggings from left or right.

• Sheddings:
  When the Gold has diffused away from its original origin, mainly from the Quartz Reef and traveled to a lower destination where it then becomes embedded.

• Country Rock:
  Commonly known as Sandstone and Slate, which are Sedimentary Stone.

• Alluvial Digs:
  Where miners have previously dug down in search for gold.

• Bony Ground:
  Ground area with little or no soil.

• Puddler:
  Circular mound of gravel shaped like a doughnut, with another mound in the Center for a post. As horse walks around outside dragging a beam with chains and weights suspended from it, which helped break up the clay and free the gold.

• Cement or Conglomerate:
  A mass of clay, pebbles, and other matter fused together forming a solid mass of stone.

• Quartz Reef:
  Silica Mineral in crystalline form, mostly white in color, but with a variety of other colors and sometimes can contain either small or large amounts of gold.  These reef lines mainly run or point in a North and South direction, but have been known to have been pushed out of alignment over Millions of Years.

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