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She had permission to use it, but she didn’t want visitors to think someone was prospecting for buried treasure at the hallowed resting place of 400,000 Americans.

From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2020

California-born, Doolittle spent his boyhood in Alaska, where his father was prospecting for gold.

From Time Magazine Archive

People living in the same boarding house with him understood he was prospecting for gold, came from "up Kentucky way."

From Time Magazine Archive

He said he was prospecting for uranium with a Geiger counter on the Mojave Desert, and found a rich strike on top of a little rocky knoll.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1767 and 1770 Boone was "prospecting" for Judge Richard Henderson, a land speculator of North Carolina.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene