The survey included eight major mining centres. These are listed together with the Chinese names used by the miners.

• Bendigo             大金山, 品地溝
• Balarat                巴拉辣, 叭拉辣, 巴辣, 孖辣
• Beechworth    茵陳坑, 必自活
• Castlemaine    加市哏
• Ararat                 亞辣
• Daylesford
• Maryborough 陜慎
• Avoca

As gold fields are scattered over a geographic area, the survey had grouped these into districts. Please note that

• Beechworth included all Buckland Ovens river area.
• Balarat statistics also included Smythesdale.
• Dalyesford district also include the Blackwood, Hepburn area.
• Mopoke, Baker’s Creek, Golden Point and Diamond Gully were counted as Castlemaine.
• Bendigo was then referred to as Sandhurst.

There were other gold fields that were not recorded in the survey. These included Stawell, Nine Mice Creek, Maldon, Yackandandat and Geelong.