Gold Prospecting Terminology Index
Gold prospecting has a whole language of its own. The following are words that can be found in a lot of sites, sites, magazines etc all related to gold prospecting and a lot of them are directly related to looking for gold with a metal detector.
- All Metal Mode
- Alluvial Gold
- Automatic Ground Balancing
- Bedrock
- Bench Testing
- BFO Detector
- Black Sand
- Claim
- Classifier
- Concentrates
- Discriminate Mode
- Discrimination
- Dredge
- Dry Panning
- Electronic Prospecting
- Elliptical Search Coil
- Float
- Flour Gold
- Ferrous
- Gold Pan
- Gold Panning Kit
- Grizzly
- Ground Balancing
- High Grade Specimen
- Hot Rock
- Magnetic Black Sand
- Manual Ground Balance
- Metal Detector
- Metal/Mineral
- Microprocessor
- Motion Detector
- Non-Ferrous
- Non-Motion Detector
- Nugget
- Null
- Ore
- Placer
- Riffles
- Scanning
- Signal
- Search Coil
- Sluice Box
- Sniping
- Suction Dredge
- Suspension
- Tailings
- Threshold
- TR Disc
- Wet Panning