tailings		a piece of land staked out by a miner for working
claim		small chips of gold
no color		supplying a miner with food and supplies
dry diggings		Free loose gold that has been washed down from the gold deposits in the quartz rock
poke		Clay, sand, or gravel with gold in it
placer gold		a person who prospects for gold
see the elephant		the waste left from mining
color		an unusually large concentration of gold in a small area
grubstake		diggings where it is dry such as in the rocks
dead work		seeing gold in the gold fields
mother lode		the amount of gold dust or nuggets that a miner owns
pay dirt		no trace of gold found
pay streak		a vein or deposit of gold
pocket		clearing away over burden to get at the gold- bearing gravel
lode gold		a trace of gold found
claim jumpers		digging into tunnels looking for gold like a coyote
prospector		the bottom of an old stream or riverbed filled with gold flakes or nuggets
wet diggings		diggings where water is found such as in the streams
flake gold		A person stealing another persons claim
coyote hole mining		A place in California with a series of lode gold mines