prospector
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Picking individual gold or silver miners is like betting on which prospector will find the nugget.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 19, 2025
"People would go in as a prospector, to flip bottles for two to three times the value."
From BBC • Aug. 9, 2025
Years later, the Azusa Herald quoted an old codger of a prospector — aren’t they all codgers? — that the Eldoradoville inundation “never stopped until it brought up in San Pedro Harbor.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2025
“A commentary on the expulsion of the Greek banks from Egypt in 1961,” reads one note beneath the image of a gold prospector tunneling into a bank.
From Salon • Jan. 16, 2024
Yes, and what he had told Dick was true: He did know the ins and outs of hunting gold, having been taught them by his father, who was a professional prospector.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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