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How to use prospecting in a sentence

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The argument that the Russians are successfully prospecting for oil in unlikely places is dubious at best.
The search for biologically active natural products is sometimes referred to as biodiversity prospecting or bioprospecting.
Around the same time, the price of gold rose and Hawk took up gold prospecting, living in tents and mining shacks from the southwest to Alaska.
The birds prospecting for nesting sites were most attracted to areas where other birds had large broods of robust infants.
Any individual or company with a valid prospecting licence can apply for a prospecting permit.
Haig was taking full advantage of the bright conditions at night for prospecting expeditions.
He also argued that economic depressions stimulated goldmining by lowering costs and releasing labour for prospecting.
Almost every NBA team has one or more people prospecting in the statistical mine, and many NFL teams do, too.
He returned occasionally to South Australia but eventually went back to the west, surveying and prospecting.
Then Joseph finds gold in a creek, first hides this from his family, then abandons them to go prospecting.
Refraction seismic prospecting concerns itself with the first longitudinal wave front impetus to reach any point by any path.
The Siniktarvik Hotel, which also houses one of the few restaurants in the community, has already seen an impact from prospecting.
Diamond drilling bits were used in prospecting, and thermal ore processing allowed winter panning in placer mines.
World War II brought a tungsten boom, and the bright fluorescence of scheelite made it an obvious target for night prospecting.
Thus ended my career into the field of justice, and I had retired my spurs to pursue the more gentile path of gold prospecting.
Males that had been reared at site A suffered fewer attacks when prospecting at site A than birds originating from other areas.
In recent years there has been a flurry of headlines about prospecting companies coming to the Highlands in search of precious gems.
Before that, he had spent six months with Antipodean cousins, in an old prospecting town, panning for gold.
The Rockies are home to several campgrounds, ghost towns, gold prospecting sites, and national parks.
Surveyors, prospecting for a new railway line between Hamley and Ashcombe, discover Dunster's body and an incriminating knife belonging to Dixon.
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A prospecting engineer in Mazatlan took me along with him to help look after the waggons.
The stylized 'T' of the word Timmins, takes the shape of a rock pick, symbolizing the early days of prospecting and the discovery of gold.
I went to sleep, and what does Skookum Jim do but try his hand at prospecting.
The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New Mexico.
His prospecting led him through the Dakotas, Idaho, and eastern Oregon, and on into the mountains of British Columbia.
I see they have come across these workings again lately in prospecting for gold, but I knew of them years ago.
They were evidently coming down the creek from some prospecting trip.
Bulgarian environment protection activists protested on Wednesday against prospecting for shale and coal gas and their extraction in Bulgariaas northeastern Dobrudzha region.
We were prospecting and it was our intention, if we found nothing, to push through to the Gila river at some point near Big Bend, where we understood there was a settlement.
They grew weary prospecting, and at the same time carrying their rifles and the heavy cartridge-belts, and the practice began of leaving their weapons behind them in camp.
This was bad news for him, and he was thankful that they had not carried out their first plan and commenced their prospecting at Bekwando village.
First prospecting for the best launching-place, he found where a huge cake of ice shelved upward from the river that ran fifteen feet below to the top of the wall.
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