Crossword clues for prospecting
prospecting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prospect \Pros"pect\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prospected; p. pr. & vb. n. Prospecting.] To look over; to explore or examine for something; as, to prospect a district for gold.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who prospects. vb. (present participle of prospect English)
Wikipedia
Prospecting is the first stage of the geological analysis (second – exploration) of a territory. It is the physical search for minerals, fossils, precious metals or mineral specimens, and is also known as fossicking.
Prospecting is a small-scale form of mineral exploration which is an organised, large scale effort undertaken by commercial mineral companies to find commercially viable ore deposits.
Prospecting is physical labour, involving traversing (traditionally on foot or on horseback), panning, sifting and outcrop investigation, looking for signs of mineralisation. In some areas a prospector must also make claims, meaning they must erect posts with the appropriate placards on all four corners of a desired land they wish to prospect and register this claim before they may take samples. In other areas publicly held lands are open to prospecting without staking a mining claim.
Usage examples of "prospecting".
My grandfather knew this country better than I shall ever know it - driving his cattle up to the gold camps at Nullagine, opening up new territory, prospecting, mining, fishing.
Much of the prospecting was fruitless, but some of it brought forth riches, not in gold or silver, but in liquor and cigars, which at that stage of uncertainty meant more to a GI than a bankful of dollar bills.
Finally, very much later, when the heat of the afternoon had dwindled and the lethargy of a well-spent day enveloped the occupants of room 202, the only Absarokee prospecting for gold in Diamond City left the soft bed and warm woman and headed north out of Virginia City to his cabin on the mountaintop.
John traveled with them for a while as they roamed the great dune sea, doing areology and a bit of prospecting.
Tuonetar War, but a hundred and fifty-eight years ago a prospecting party had discovered rich gem seams and shortly afterward a group of Oceanian and Archipelagan refugees had settled in the area and founded a new clan.
I see they have come across these workings again lately in prospecting for gold, but I knew of them years ago.
Bantu, who only probably arrived in the area about AD 300 suddenly conceive of a brilliant prospecting talent which enabled them to locate the metal lodes where not a scrap of it showed in the ore as visible gold or copper?
Behind the creeper two trailers followed, one containing reserve supplies, and the other automatic mapping and prospecting equipment such as magnetometers, radar topological plotters, laser-spectroscope samplers, et cetera.
A fleet of the little robot prospecting craft had been amassing compositional data on the Apollo Amour asteroids for nearly a decade.
As one of the youngest Bridgers, prospecting had been assigned to her, and she had found a good root.
Triv went prospecting in an area where the radiation counter had begun chattering at the end of the previous day's swing.
But when we drew near, we saw that the goggles were nothing but a camp meeting of flies assembled around each of the child's eyes, and at the same time there was a detachment prospecting its nose.
It had been worth all the frustration and singed fingertips to see Cash's expression when he walked into the line shack after a day of prospecting and found fresh biscuits, fried ham, baked beans with molasses and a side dish of fresh watercress and tender young dandelion greens waiting for him.
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In law, however, such an ex parte dispensation cannot be construed as allowing of the reverse, namely, that the grant of a prospecting concession by the previous German regime should have force and effect in law.