| But his father also had a fascination with gold, and he grew up hearing tales of miners, prospectors, and grubstakes at the dinner table. |
| But those levees denied the delta replenishing river sediment, just as oil prospectors began to dredge coastal wetlands. |
| By 1874 prospectors had explored the beautiful horseshoe-shaped valley that would become the townsite of Ouray. |
| Snively was likely one of the many prospectors who became disenchanted with the gold fields of California. |
| He was keen enough to walk to the diggings at Yam Creek Reef where he camped with a party of prospectors from Kapunda. |
| These allow successful prospectors to retain rights to mineral deposits which are uneconomical to exploit immediately. |
