Prospecting Terms:
 

Black Sand---“Magnetite“

Classifier or Grizzly – A screen or strainer to get rid of larger material.
Material – “Dirt”

Dredging - Dredging is the mining of placer gravel's to beneath local water levels employing mechanical excavation and a floating plant. The material is sucked from the riverbed with a gas vacuum and circulated through a floating seclude box. Very efficient.

FLAKE-----A FLAKE is larger in size. A FLAKE is too small to pick up with your fingers, but can be removed with a pair of tweezers.

FLECK-----This is like a SPECK, but flatter in shape.

FLOUR---- Fine Fine powder GOLD

Hand Sluice - A portable box with built in riffles that obstruct the flow of gravel's being moved by the water.

Nugget --- That the big shiny chunk of gold we are all hoping for!

PICKER----This is a piece of GOLD big enough to pick out of your pan with your fingers.

Placer – A deposit or accumulation of rock waste formed by process of sedimentation, mass wasting or weathering in which natural processes have mechanically brought about a relative concentration of GOLD or other heavy minerals.

Sniffer Bottle – A suction device “vacuum bottle” used to suck the desired material out of your pan.

SPECK-----bigger than FLOUR GOLD, but still too small to pick out of the pan.