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