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Definition of Prospectors
1. prospector [n] - See also: prospector
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prospectors
Literary usage of Prospectors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue by Nevada. University, Vanderbilt University, Adelaide Circulating Library (1921)
"Time—The prospectors' Short Course will begin on Monday, January 16, 1922, ...
Registration—Those who desire to attend the prospectors' Short Course should ..."
2. Annual Report by Geological Survey of Canada (1906)
"EARLY prospectors. For three or four years after the placer diggings were first
discovered on the Klondike river, prospectors crowded into Dawson by every ..."
3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1897)
"Pending such determination, the company is not using these bricks in other furnaces.
The Assay by prospectors of Auriferous Ores and Gravels by Means of ..."
4. Northmost Australia: Three Centuries of Exploration, Discovery, and by Robert Logan Jack (1921)
"INTERESTS AFFECTING REPORTS OF prospectors. IN 1876, a party of fifteen men went
out to prospect the Peninsula, and split up in the neighbourhood of the ..."
5. History of Washington, Idaho and Montana by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Frances Fuller Victor (1890)
"INFLUX OF prospectors—CONTINUED MINERAL DISCOVERIES—ALDER AND LAST CHANCE ...
It drew eager prospectors from Colorado, Utah, and Idaho, who overran the ..."
6. History of the Pacific States of North America by Hubert Howe Bancroft, William Nemos, Henry Lebbeus Oak, Frances Fuller Victor, Alfred Bates (1890)
"It drew eager prospectors from Colorado, Utah, and Idaho, who overran the country
on both sides of the upper Missouri, and east and west of the Rocky ..."
7. The Crest of the Continent: A Record of a Summer's Ramble in the Rocky by Ernest Ingersoll (1888)
"... of antiquity seem to gather about it—did not enter that way, but came over
the range from the south. prospectors for precious metals, they ascended ..."
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