He was keen enough to walk to the diggings at Yam Creek Reef where he camped with a party of prospectors from Kapunda. |
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By 1874 prospectors had explored the beautiful horseshoe-shaped valley that would become the townsite of Ouray. |
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Snively was likely one of the many prospectors who became disenchanted with the gold fields of California. |
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Instead of panning out gold, several would be prospectors panned out pyrope garnet. |
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These allow successful prospectors to retain rights to mineral deposits which are uneconomical to exploit immediately. |
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But his father also had a fascination with gold, and he grew up hearing tales of miners, prospectors, and grubstakes at the dinner table. |
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In the years after World War II, prospectors went looking for oil across southeastern Utah, hoping for a gusher. |
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These pioneer prospectors practiced surface mining, obtaining gold from the alluvial deposits called placers. |
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A Lasseter's Reef like discovery of 700,000 ounces of high grade gold in an area so remote the prospectors never really got to it. |
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Clipper ships sailed around South America and into the Pacific, carrying prospectors and immigrants. |
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Before long, more prospectors arrived and followed the gold trail up the canyons to the west of the river. |
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My suggestions are intended for the benefit of prospectors and others who have not had a varied experience outside the fences. |
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Here, perhaps for amusement or for practice before entering the gold fields, soon-to-be prospectors panned for gold. |
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But those levees denied the delta replenishing river sediment, just as oil prospectors began to dredge coastal wetlands. |
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Later, traders and prospectors penetrated the interior regions seeking gold and slaves. |
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Then in the 1860s mineral prospectors and railroad surveyors began to disturb them. |
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These chronicles became the handbook for future travellers and ironically, for gold prospectors and desperados planning quick gains. |
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Thanks to Hubby's uber exuberant art as collab co-op For eagle collectors or rock hound prospectors — 48 years later, at last, there's a shop! |
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In late 1854, self-employed miners and prospectors in the Victorian town of Ballarat rebelled against the government and set up an armed camp named the Eureka Stockade. |
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Their atomized position makes them more akin to petty-bourgeois prospectors rather than proletarians. |
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It recalls the thousands of prospectors who risked their lives in search of fame and fortune. |
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Puerto Jimenez, the peninsula's capital, was until very recently an illegal gold town, set up by prospectors needing supplies to explore the untouched jungle interiors. |
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Not a good chance, mind: only a lucky few prospectors struck the mother lode. |
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They will continue to delight collectors, prospectors, museum visitors, and others who marvel at the occurrence of so much gold, in one place, at one time! |
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Depending on the hardness of the rock encountered, prospectors may resort to using rods fitted with diamonds, the hardest substance known to man. |
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They can do things like spotting good places to search for minerals in areas unvisited by prospectors. |
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The lure of gold was too strong, however, and some prospectors headed out on the trail regardless of the warnings. |
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The Corporation also set up Montréal-based teams to serve each of these territories and support the prospectors posted abroad. |
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This international co-operation is facilitated by a network of diplomatic representatives, economic representatives and investment prospectors. |
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Many of these prospectors were also involved in trapping activities in the Bonnet Plume area. |
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So when oil prospectors in the early 1960s stumbled on extensive reserves of fresh water there, the discovery was a sensation. |
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Four prospectors were recruited in the local villages and then trained to do the work. |
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As prospectors flooded Dawson City, the Dominion Government asked the bank to open a branch in the burgeoning town. |
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The restaurant takes its name from a local saloon of the early 1900s, when Winthrop was a thriving frontier town serving trappers, prospectors, and homesteaders. |
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Twelve of these prospectors hold mineral claims in Nunavut, with interesting gold, platinum, base metal and gemstone prospects. |
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With the California Gold Rush of 1848, Strauss set off for San Francisco to supply dry goods for the growing numbers of gold prospectors. |
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He was probably one of the few Canadian prospectors of that time who could have identified the pitchblende mineral. |
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This is the Wild West, the land of cowboys and Indians, of prospectors and ghost towns, coyotes and rattlesnakes. |
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The Atlin goldfields in British Columbia were discovered by prospectors turning aside from the Klondike gold rush. |
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There are concerns which have been brought to our attention from some prospectors who fear that new regulations may have a negative impact on some very small, hard rock operations. |
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Once over the other side of the pass, I pulled off the main highway and followed an unploughed side road that led to the foot of the route the prospectors had taken across the Valdez Glacier in the gold rush days. |
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Many of these settlements were abandoned shortly after their establishment as the supply of gold disappeared and prospectors extended their search into other areas. |
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By the end of the year the area had been proclaimed a goldfield, with the village called Johannesburg as its centre, and many prospectors had moved in. |
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Along with many other prospectors of his generation, Edmund Horne came to northern Ontario at the turn of the century with hopes of finding his pot of gold. |
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Inhabited by peasants, gold prospectors and local tradesmen, Kenoma is one of those villages that still lives primitively, an almost medieval life. |
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There the relatively quiet fur trade of the first half of the century was boisterously supplanted in 1858 by the arrival of thousands of gold-rush prospectors. |
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Mr. Speaker, hardrock mining is the backbone of the Canadian economy thanks to the junior exploration companies and prospectors who take the risks and go after the long shot. |
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Gold miners and mining prospectors destroy animal habitats and the livelihoods of the short-statured people indigenous to this rainforest region, the pygmies, thereby continuing the destruction begun by warring conflict. |
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On Monday December 28, I thus left on the traces of the gold prospectors by traversing the Golden Quest Discovery Trail knowing that here as in Europe the truce of sweetshops closed number of shops. |
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Two waves of migrants populated this immense region, so far from major cities and barely one hundred years old-first came the woodsmen, fur traders and land-clearers, then the prospectors drawn by the gold rush. |
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From then on, dogged prospectors fanned out all across the Shield to make successive strikes of base metals, gold, silver, iron, uranium, and other ores. |
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It is noteworthy that, near Cold Lake in east-central Alberta, prospectors are reported to have discovered G10 pyrope garnets but, as of yet, there is little information available. |
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The College will liaise with northern organizations to ensure their awareness of the prospectors training program and to determine their interest in sponsoring participation in the program. |
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A year later about 140 prospectors and fossickers had been attracted to the new fields. |
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After the initial flurry of fossicking the prospectors were confronted with the task of extracting the gold from lodes. |
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He became California's first millionaire by selling picks, shovels, beans and bacon to the horde of prospectors who heeded his call. Gold fever spread fast. |
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The government suspects that a higher proportion of the oil and gas yet to be discovered will be found offshore, since prospectors have probed the dry land pretty thoroughly. |
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I thank very much in advance all past and present authors, prospectors, miners and scholars that provided the information that I use or quote in the present essay on eluvial and alluvial deposits. |
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They were joined by boat loads of prospectors from China and a chaotic carnival of entertainers, publicans, illicit liquor-sellers, prostitutes and quacks from across the world. |
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These were farming and livestock grazing, plus as a transit area for prospectors. |
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Soon afterwards, a massive influx in immigration into the area resulted, as prospectors and miners arrived by the thousands. |
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Soon after the American takeover, the 1849 Gold Rush brought floods of prospectors. |
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I fully recognize the excellence of the tamal of the gringos. It is a superb standby for picknickers, prospectors, camping-outers, school children, and factory lunches. |
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Around that time many prospectors known as Vandemonians who had served time as convicts took to the mines and staked their ground for the promise of riches. |
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Prospectors arrived by land or sea and usually operated in groups of six to forty, working claims jointly. |
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A group of geoscientists have formed Agricultural Mineral Prospectors Inc. |
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