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Prospector

noun

Someone who explores an area for mineral deposits.

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"Prospector" Quotes from Famous Books

... said McCann, disdainfully, as he got into his boat, "he wasn't nothing but a prospector doing the lake for one ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... unfold. Its history's written round and bold— Brave buccaneers upon the "Spanish Main", The army's march across the lenght'ning plain, The lone prospector wandering o'er the hill, The hunter's camp, thy ...

— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers

... me the story. He had been an old prospector in the Klondike, but not a successful one, as he was too honest. On his return, from Alaska, he had to stop in Denver and work for his fare back to the East where he came from. Being a splendid engineer as well as a mineralogist, he found a place with a crew of mining ...

— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy

... he said coolly. "I found out that it was one thing to go down there as a skilled prospector might go to examine a mine that was to be valued according to his report of the indications, but that it was entirely another thing to go and play the spy in a poor devil's house in order to buy something he didn't know he was selling and ...

— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte

... fashion, as will be related in the next volume of this series, to be called "Dave Porter in the Gold Fields; or, The Search for the Landslide Mine," in which we will learn how Dave went West with some of his chums, and joined an old prospector in a hunt for a lost mine that had been willed to ...

— Dave Porter and the Runaways - Last Days at Oak Hall • Edward Stratemeyer

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