DCHP-3

prospect ((v.))†

Mining
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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search an area of mineral deposits.

Quotations

1859
The coast was prospected for some sixty miles . . . but without success, except finding in the interior an old pick where some former explorers had been blasting for quartz gold.
1953
Last summer, six parties prospected in northern Saskatchewan under that province's prospectors' assistance plan.