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GOLD RUSH VOCABULARY

Alluvial - Gold deposited through water movement is called alluvial gold.

Ballarat - Significant gold rush era boomtown, yielded high amounts of gold for many decades. Eureka Stockade armed rebellion occurred in Ballarat in 1854.

Bedrock - Solid rock underlying loose deposits such as sand or soil.

Bendigo - Gold was discovered in the area in September 1851. The boomtown grew rapidly from a tent city into a major urban centre with many grand public buildings.

Castlemaine - Former gold mining town. Years after prosperous mining days passed, Castlemaine established itself as a town with a thriving agricultural, tourism and arts industry.

Claim - A piece of land with high valuable mineral content which has been claimed by a miner who has obtained legal permission to occupy and mine the land.

Crusher - A machine that grinds or pounds rock to break it up and release the gold trapped inside.

Deposit - A layer of a mineral that is left in soil or rocks through natural process.

Digging - Gold diggings – a region where digging or seeking for gold is carried on.

Discovery - When a prospector finds gold.

Dredge - Machine that extracts gold from sand, gravel and dirt using water and mechanical methods.

Excavation - To expose or lay bare by or as if by digging.

Fortune - Great wealth or assets.

Gold - A yellow precious metal, the chemical element of atomic number 79, used in jewellery and decoration and to guarantee the value of currencies.

Historical - Of or concerning history or past events. Belonging to the past.

Luck - Success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one’s own actions.

Maldon - Gold rush town. First place in Australia to use an air powered rock drill, imported by the Mount Tarrengower Tunnelling Company in 1867.

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Maryborough - A former gold mining town, the last mine in Maryborough closed in 1918. In 1924 the Maryborough Knitting Mills opened, establishing the town as a centre for the wool industry.

Mill - A machine that grinds or pounds rock to break it up and release the gold trapped inside.

Miners - People mining for gold.

Mining - The process or industry of obtaining minerals or coal from the ground.

Nugget - A naturally occurring piece of gold.

Ore - A naturally occurring solid material from which a metal or valuable mineral can be extracted.

Ounce - A unit of weight equal to 28.35 grams (1/16 pound).

Panning - Use of a gold pan to extract gold from fine deposits. One of the simplest methods of extracting gold.

Paydirt - Ground containing enough ore to be extracted profitably.

Prospecting - The act of searching for new gold deposits.

Quartz - A hard mineral consisting of silica, found widely in igneous and metamorphic rocks and typically occurring as colourless or white hexagonal prisms.

Reef - A vein of ore in the earth.

Shaft - A deep, narrow, vertical hole that gives access to a mine.

Sluice - Long sloping trough with grooves (riffles) on the bottom, into which water is directed to separate gold from gravel or sand.

Stope - A step-like excavation made in a mine to extract ore.

Strike - Discover gold while mining.

Tailing - Materials left over after the process of separating the gold from the rock.

Vein - A distinct sheet-like body of crystallized minerals within a rock.

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