DCHP-3

unprospected

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj.

not surveyed by prospectors; not investigated for minerals.

Quotations

1898
Within a radius of fifty miles of Dawson there is practically no little unprospected territory, and much of this ground has been thoroughly prospected.
1901
As yet there are between one and three million square miles of country in Canada practically unprospected. . . .
1958
The territory is still relatively "unprospected" . . . .