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grubstake program

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a program by which money is provided in varying amounts as an incentive to prospectors to search for minerals in specified areas and over a minimum period of time.

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1964

Douglas H. Rae, field engineer for the prospectors' grubstake program financed by the Provincial Department of Mines & Petroleum Resources, Victoria, reports some fifty men have been grubstaked this year. . . .