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3 unusual facts about prospecting


Evelyn Temple Emmett

His father was a pioneer farmer, prospector and track-cutter, a colourful and multi-faceted personality.

Gold Strike

Gold Strike is the term used when a prospector finds gold.

Prospector

Prospecting, exploring an area for natural resources such as minerals, oil, flora or fauna


Coso artifact

The Coso artifact is an object claimed by its discoverers to be a spark plug found encased in a lump of hard clay or rock on February 13, 1961 by Wallace Lane, Virginia Maxey, and Mike Mikesell while they were prospecting for geodes near the town of Olancha, California, and long claimed as an example of an out-of-place artifact.

David D. Bogart

In December 1912, Bogart was killed in an avalanche in Saltese, Montana while prospecting for gold.

Freek Vonk

In September 2012 Vonk defended his PhD, with a thesis entitled Snake evolution and prospecting of snake venom at Leiden University.

Gilbert LaBine

At the end of March 1930, LaBine traveled to Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories to do some prospecting.

Granville P. Swift

Swift returned to prospecting, this time for quicksilver in the mountains between Berryessa Valley and Knoxville, but on April 21, 1875, he was riding on a mule and suffered a fatal fall from a steep mountain path.

Mamu

In the late 1870s and early 1880s, European redcedar cutters and Chinese that were prospecting for gold arrived in the region.

Ocimum centraliafricanum

It is well known for its tolerance of high levels of copper in the soil, and is even used by geologists prospecting for precious metals.

Ødegården Verk

While the Norwegian government was officially neutral during WWI, they saw the need for increasingly efficient food production, and as such they attempted to run several similar mining and prospecting operations in the district.

Pauline Weaver

A year later Weaver later led the Peeples party on a prospecting expedition up the upper Hassayampa River to what are now the Weaver Mountains, where they found placer gold at Rich Hill, near present-day Yarnell, Arizona.

Paynesville, Western Australia

Gold was discovered in 1898 in the immediate area by the prospectors Thomas Payne and Waldeck.

Phillip Darrell Duppa

He attended Cambridge University and learned the classics and five languages before moving to Prescott, Arizona in 1863, probably related to prospecting in the region at the time.

Rampart, Alaska

Novelist Rex Beach moved to Rampart during the Klondike Gold Rush; although his prospecting efforts were of little success, the experience led to the publication of The Spoilers, one of three novels written by Beach that made it to Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1900s.

Rudall River

The river was named by the explorer Frank Hann in 1896 after the surveyor William Frederick Rudall whom he met in the area while Hann was prospecting and Rudall was searching for men missing from the Calvert Expedition.

Saltese, Montana

In December 1912, David D. Bogart, the 6th mayor of Missoula, Montana, was killed in an avalanche in Saltese while prospecting for gold.

Searchlight Rag

It was named after the town of Searchlight, Nevada, where his friends had gone prospecting, inspiring the title.

Sifto Canada

Sifto was founded by Sam Platt who was prospecting for oil in 1866, and instead of oil encountered rock salt in Goderich Harbour on Lake Huron.

Sydney Church of England Grammar School

The site of the school's first building stands on that of the Victorian mansion of the famed gold prospector Bernhardt Holtermann, a German migrant who discovered the Holtermann Nugget in the Australian gold fields.

The Far Arena

It chronicles the adventures of Eugeni, a Roman gladiator from the age of Domitian, who, due to a highly unlikely series of events, is frozen in ice for nineteen centuries before being found by the Houghton Oil Company on a prospecting mission in the north Atlantic.

The Jackals

A remake of 1948's Yellow Sky, it stars Vincent Price as a South African prospector named Oupa (grandpa) Decker and contract Fox star Robert Gunner.

The Little Colonel

He has lost everything in his prospecting venture, but the family is saved from complete ruin when the Union Pacific Railroad requests right of way across Jack’s western property.

Tiburón Island Tragedy

The Tiburón Island Tragedy occurred in 1905 when three members of a small American gold prospecting expedition went missing in the Sonoran Desert near Tiburón Island.

Uncle Fred

He was a younger son, and therefore not expected to inherit his present title; he spent much time in America, working variously as a cowboy, a soda jerk, a newspaper reporter and a prospector in the Mojave Desert, before a number of deaths in the family left him heir to the Earldom.


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