DCHP-3

prospect hole

Placer Mining
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a shaft sunk in searching for minerals.

Quotations

1897
It takes about 30 days to sink a prospect hole to bedrock, say about 25 feet deep.
1900
The grabbing of a half of all diggings discovered after a certain date by a Government which "has never dug a single prospect shaft" and is doing nothing whatever to help the prospector, is deeply resented.
1962
. . . the prospector . . . will . . . study and locate the creek wash, the formations and surface indications, so as to know where to sink his prospect holes in the winter.