| Adit | A horizontal exit or entrance from the mine |
| Ante | Rubbish; rocks containing little or no ore |
| Assay Office | Where the ore is analyzed by an assayer |
| Cage | A boxlike structure that transports miners to different levels along the shaft |
| Doghouse | The lunch and break room |
| Drift | Horizontal underground road |
| Incline | An angled drift |
| Lode | A regular vein producing minerals |
| Motherlode | A very rich vein producing a wealth of minerals |
| Mucker | One who shovels loose rock |
| Nipper | One who delivers drill steel |
| Placer | A pile of rock deposits washed to settle out the gold |
| Outcrop | Ore above ground |
| Powder Monkey | One who delivers the dynamite |
| Prospector | One who explores an area for rich metals |
| Shaft | A hole straight down into the ground |
| Skip Hoist | Machine that hauls ore up an incline |
| Stamps | Large cylinders containing iron ballsor steel rods which crushed the ore to a fine sand |
| Stope | The excavation of a large ore body supported by timbers |
| Sump | The bottom of the shaft where water collects |
| Sump Pump | Pumps the water in the sump out of the mine |
| Tipple Building | Where ore is transferred from tram buckets to rail cars |
| Widowmaker | The name given to the early pressurized drills that churned up silica dust causing the deadly lung disease, silicosis |
| Winze | An internal shaft |
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