How To Use Prospector In A Sentence
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It was land that had at some point been trenched and mined for gold by a prospector.
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Both scientific and commercial biodiversity prospectors should pay fees, as mineral prospectors do.
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It's an ingenious hybrid where true believers provide the cannon fodder while an elite cabal of generals, arms merchants, land appropriators, oil prospectors and slave traders, muscle their way into the profits of war.
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Clipper ships sailed around South America and into the Pacific, carrying prospectors and immigrants.
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Lyra is wonderful as an independent prospector who learns from being burned; while intriguingly he does not regrets his actions but is burned more so as his obsidian and her amethyst is a fiery PSI heart and soul matching .
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Prospector George Tannihill christened it in 1866 as a mining district, saying he chose the name to commemorate the fierce battle he and twenty-three settlers led by a Captain Pierson had heroically won against marauding Indians there in 1857.
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The prospector was the late Captain Richard E. Lawlin, of New York, who was employed by
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Snively was likely one of the many prospectors who became disenchanted with the gold fields of California.
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These pioneer prospectors practiced surface mining, obtaining gold from the alluvial deposits called placers.
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Both scientific and commercial biodiversity prospectors should pay fees, as mineral prospectors do.
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Not every prospector was grubstaked by a large company or criminal consortium.
Flinx In Flux
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They stumble across a ghost town inhabited by a rascally gold prospector.
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Currently, some of the known deposits (mainly bar placers with easily recoverable gold) are mined by prospector cooperatives.
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I think of these vehicles as a low-cost 'prospector' looking for information and valuable data.
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The restaurant takes its name from a local saloon of the early 1900s, when Winthrop was a thriving frontier town serving trappers, prospectors, and homesteaders.
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He had ridden past a tiny, partly caved-in dugout, months ago, where some wandering prospector had camped while he braved the barrenness of the hills and streams hereabout.
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Having an apolune closer to the Moon would increase the efficiency for lunar mapping at higher resolutions than carried out by the Clementine and Lunar Prospector probes.
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So Rankin Inlet wasn't surprised when prospectors exploring the area recently announced a promising find of kimberlite, a volcanic rock that often contains diamonds, 20 km from town.
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The prospector panned off bits of sand and gravel scooped from the bed of a stream.
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Founded c . 879 by silver prospectors, it is a fashionable ski resort. Population , 5 , 049.
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The prospector is a man of small pretensions, of peaceful disposition, indomitable will, boundless perseverance, remarkable endurance, undoubted courage, irrepressible hopefulness, and unlimited hospitality He is the friend of every man till he has evidence that the man is his enemy, and he is the most respected man in the mining regions of the West.
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Four years later the Clementine spacecraft orbited the Moon, and NASA's Lunar Prospector mission followed in 1998.
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Both the letters and the Bulletin contain descriptions of the whalers, prospectors, government agents, and other missionaries who lived in Alaska at that time, as well as depictions of Inupiat life.
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These chronicles became the handbook for future travellers and ironically, for gold prospectors and desperados planning quick gains.
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Gold prospectors had long been moving anti-clockwise around the continent from the first fields in its south-east corner, and in the 1880s they reached the north of the colony.
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Think of these vehicles as a low-cost 'prospector' looking for information and valuable data.
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‘Cuvee inherited his great speed from his sire, Carson City, and his grandsire, Mr. Prospector,’ Beck said.
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A prospector named Jake Snively panned gold in a bend in the river about 20 miles east of Yuma.
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In the old days, women wore so many girdles, corsets, pantaloons, bloomers, stockings, garters, step-ins and God knows what all that you had to practically be a prospector to get to first base . . . to even find first base.
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Before long, more prospectors arrived and followed the gold trail up the canyons to the west of the river.
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Think of these vehicles as a low-cost 'prospector' looking for information and valuable data, as well as the companies constructing the shovels and picks on the bleeding edge of this potential boom.
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Gold prospectors had long been moving anti-clockwise around the continent from the first fields in its south-east corner, and in the 1880s they reached the north of the colony.
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The nineteenth-century prospector had been a rugged individual who explored wild mountains to plumb the mysteries hidden beneath.
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Our prospector was a little uncertain as to his plans.
The Mountains
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The discovery of gold brought a flood of prospectors into the Territories.
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One of'em said if you say a man's a prospector, you don't have to say he's a liar.
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One of the most enduring images of early Arizona is the solitary prospector seeking his fortune in gold in the inhospitable Sonoran Desert.
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I'm a cowman and a prospector, but I'm sure tender-footed on water, an 'they don't know punkins.
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The prospector panned off bits of sand and gravel scooped from the bed of a stream.
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Prospectors arrived by land or sea and usually operated in groups of six to forty, working claims jointly.
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He argued that rich parent alluvial fields, such as the Victorian fields in the 1850s and Coolgardie - Kalgoorlie after 1892, grubstaked large numbers of prospectors and so quickened the rate of discovery of new deposits.
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Later, traders and prospectors penetrated the interior regions seeking gold and slaves.
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But his father also had a fascination with gold, and he grew up hearing tales of miners, prospectors, and grubstakes at the dinner table.
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Photographs and film of the period are evocative, and the thin but endless line of prospectors struggling up the snowbound Chilcoot Pass is as powerful an icon of human endeavour - or human greed - as any ever made.
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A moment passed, and Hargrove, the Hudson prospector of middle-age gathered an armful of cherry kindling after he had brushed away the embers.
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They stumble across a ghost town inhabited by a rascally gold prospector.
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With a pick and shovel, and a pan to wash gravel dug from the riverbed, a prospector with no previous experience might gain more in one day than a skilled mechanic earned in a month.
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Rover 4x4s may no longer be the choice of aid agencies and oil prospectors, but the Freelander successfully avoids the stuffy and slightly horsy image while promising off-road possibilities.
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In the years after World War II, prospectors went looking for oil across southeastern Utah, hoping for a gusher.
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Mark Creasy, a veteran prospector who now employs 10 geologists and staff, made at least A$130 million when he sold his Bronzewing and Jundee discoveries north of Kalgoorlie in 1994.
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An avid fisherman, hunter, outdoorsman and adventurer, Hendryx was a 'salty' character who based much of his writing on his experiences as a cowboy and as a prospector at the tail end of the Alaskan Gold Rush.
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Maybe the medieval paleosol was bulldozed by the big LIA glacial advance so that the vein was exposed when the LIA glacier retreated and is visible to a modern prospector, but would not have been visible to a medieval prospector.
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These allow successful prospectors to retain rights to mineral deposits which are uneconomical to exploit immediately.
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Here, perhaps for amusement or for practice before entering the gold fields, soon-to-be prospectors panned for gold.
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Henry, their eldest child, grew up on their small selection, witnessing his father's unavailing struggle to make a living as a farmer and prospector, and the slow disintegration of his parents' marriage.
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BRIEF SYNOPSIS: An angry prospector is forced by aliens to hunt someone down.
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The idea that women actually want to have sex with men is one I regard with grave mistrust this mistrust peaked right after I had a sigmoidoscopy so hearing them whooping it up like a couple of prospectors on the way to the whorehouse was a real eye-opener.
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Prospectors equipped with picks, shovels, and the ubiquitous gold pans searched for placer deposits - loose flakes and nuggets that have eroded and washed into streams.
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Like the legend of the snake-shaped genie who protects the gold from prospectors and holy men trying to exorcise it with tricks and prayers.
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Let it "grubstake" its intellectual prospectors and send them forth where
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When a prospector struck a vein, he'd load up his burro and high-tail it to town to register his claim before his rivals got there.
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In some areas this would solidify and subsequently be mined as pig treacle, or hokey-pokey, great sticky seams in the rock, but your real prospector would surely comb the wilderness for signs of the true liquid gold.
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By 1874 prospectors had explored the beautiful horseshoe-shaped valley that would become the townsite of Ouray.
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Reimbursing the prospectors and small operators who were blackjacked out of their holdings by our super-corporation.
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But those levees denied the delta replenishing river sediment, just as oil prospectors began to dredge coastal wetlands.
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If a prospector finds a new gold mine or the wildcatter brings in a rich oil well, the probability of other prospectors and wildcatters making equally valuable finds diminishes, however slightly.
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After all, how different is the $5 million in first-round venture capital financing for a cyber start-up from the silver prospector's grubstake?
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The prospector is the advance agent of progress, civilization and prosperity.
The California Birthday Book
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The discovery of gold brought a flood of prospectors into the Territories.
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These pioneer prospectors practiced surface mining, obtaining gold from the alluvial deposits called placers.
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There are two ways of employing it: one when it appears on back and front of the trunk, so that the trail can be run both ways; the other when it appears on but one side of each tree, making a _blind trail_, which can be run one way only, the blind trail is often used by trappers and prospectors, who do not wish anyone to follow their back track.
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Although Krajick's book about a pair of wildcatting prospectors is set mostly in Canada's Northwest Territories during the 1990s, the hostility and paranoia on display are the same as at the Namibian mine.
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Howitt himself became interested in geology through his activities on the goldfields as prospector and mining warden.
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Doubtless a dairyman is a more valuable citizen in the long run than a prospector or miner, but he does not so easily appeal to the imagination.
A Daughter of the Middle Border
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The son of Mr. Prospector, a $4-million yearling purchase, was angled to the outside leaving the backstretch and made a powerful run on the turn to reach the leaders.
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He is a yaffler, but also a dedicated semi professional prospector with a wealth of knowledge and experience.
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Instead of panning out gold, several would be prospectors panned out pyrope garnet.
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We knew that he was not a large man, because we had seen him; and we didn't believe that he was a prospector or a miner, because his soles were not hobbed -- or a cow-puncher, because he had no high heels to sink in; he may have been a rancher, out looking about.
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It was here, in 1977, that Louw Schoeman, a former diamond prospector-turned-tour operator, started Namibia's first fly-in safaris, exploring a region he knew better than anyone.
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He was keen enough to walk to the diggings at Yam Creek Reef where he camped with a party of prospectors from Kapunda.
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In late 1854, self-employed miners and prospectors in the Victorian town of Ballarat rebelled against the government and set up an armed camp named the Eureka Stockade.
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But potential prospectors shouldn't take a pick and shovel - it's now illegal to fossick for gold in the Egmont National Park that embraces the Kaitakes.
