Someone who explores an area for mineral deposits

Usage examples of prospector.

She and James had done well in California, not from panning gold but from selling beef to the prospectors in the blossoming gold rush towns.

Pinacate the old prospector had located the dim blue Gulf, and the mountain, San Pedro del Martir, and then, away to the southward, three round hills.

By use of the pedometers we had retraced our way to the prospector with ease and accuracy.

One night Quath passed a gang of miners and prospectors as she returned alone to the communal webbing, down the inert gray arterial corridors.

I dwelt in the drear expanses of the Cactus Mountains, employed as a common labourer at the celebrated Norton Mine, whose discovery by an aged prospector some years before had turned the surrounding region from a nearly unpeopled waste to a seething cauldron of sordid life.

And so it was decided that I should return in the prospector, which still lay upon the edge of the forest at the point where we had first penetrated to the surface of the inner world.

Away out in the backblocks in the borderland of savagery, the skin-hunters, drovers, station-hands, prospectors and other adventurous vagrants heard the rumours of the invasion which spread like wild-fire to the loneliest camps.

Thus it came that after the little affair on Barcoo racecourse, Red Dempsey, the shearer, who had seconded Spider Ryan, nearly came to blows with Bluey Cavanagh, prospector and ex-prize-fighter who had seconded Brand.

New Spain, prospectors who ventured north into dangerous indio country, where the savage Chichimeca were unconquered.

Shortly after Jerkline Jo left the beauty parlor of Lucy Dalles, mischievously bent on giving Ragtown a harmless little shock, Al Drummond sidled up to the old prospector at the bar in the Palace Dance Hall.

Its lights, glowing circular globes floating weightlessly near the ceiling, shone down on traders, prospectors, adventurers, bounty hunters, whores, gamblers, all the flotsam and jetsom of the Inner Frontier, as they gathered around the burnished chrome bar and the gaming tables.

There was no gap between their pegs into which another prospector could jump.

In March 1912, Frank Chettleburgh, a prospector, was staking claims in the Stikine country aided by a Kispiox Indian guide.

In 1938, the Yellowknife Prospector published it and attributed it to a riverboat crew in 1919.

Nobody was likely to come visitingthe next nearest rogue comets would be on the order of tens of astronomical units awaybut if some prospector equipped with a blinker program did happen to come blundering by, all he would see would be a piece of property that some other developer had got to first.