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2 unusual facts about prospector


Prospector

Transwa Prospector, a passenger train operated by Transwa which runs between Perth and Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

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


All Saints Anglican Church, Henley Brook

The cemetery that surrounds the church includes the graves of a number of individuals who were significant to the development of the colony: William Mackie, Frederick Irwin, John Connolly and Richard Edwards are all buried in the graveyard.

Chapel in the Hills

The site includes an authentic log cabin museum that was built in 1876 by Edward Nielsen, a Norwegian immigrant gold prospector from Hole, Ringerike, Norway.

Charles E. Fipke

Charles Edgar (Chuck) Fipke (born 1946) is a prospector who discovered the existence of diamonds around Lac de Gras in Canada's Northwest Territories.

Climax mine

The prospector Charles Senter discovered and claimed the outcropping of molybdenite (molybdenum sulfide) veins in 1879, during the Leadville, Colorado, Silver Boom, but he had no idea what the mineral he found was.

Danie Craven

The family farm was named for Steeton in West Yorkshire, home to Craven's paternal grandfather, John Craven (1837-90), who came to South Africa as a diamond prospector.

Doc Willing

George M. Willing(c. 1829 – 1874), American physician, prospector, and political lobbyist.

Evelyn Temple Emmett

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

Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon

After a series of failed enterprises as a gold prospector he became involved in a conflict in the Mexican state of Sonora.

Gold Rush Daze

The scene cuts to a hosiptal, where the seriously injured prospector is under the care of the doctor, but his stethoscope instead turns out to be a telegraph, from which he gets news that they have now found gold in Virginia City (an apparent reference to the Comstock Lode).

After an anachronistic gag in which an illegally parked horse identifies himself as Seabiscuit, the young prospector is seen stepping into the scene.

Gold Strike

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

John Bremner

Frederick W. Fickett, Sgt. Cody Robertson, and fellow prospector Peder Johnson, through previously unexplored territory along the Copper, Tanana, and Koyukuk Rivers.

John J. Rowlands

From 1910 until 1916 Rowlands worked as a prospector and surveyor in the Cobalt and Porcupine Mining regions in Northern Ontario.

John Poe

John Poe (prospector) was a prospector, and in 1870s founded the mining town Poeville, Nevada

Merensky

Hans Merensky (1905–1992), a South African geologist, prospector, scientist, conservationist and philanthropist

Nuclear industry in Canada

Originally owned by the gold prospector Gilbert Labine, Eldorado began to prospect for pitchblende ore in 1929 and set up the Port Radium mine in the Northwest Territories four years later.

Pacificanada

# 26 February 1975: "David and Bert" (Peter Jones producer; Daryl Duke director), featuring the friendship between David Frank and Bert Clayton, the former a First Nations chief and the latter a prospector

Patrick Hannan

Paddy Hannan (1840–1925), Irish-born gold prospector in Australia

Paynesville, Western Australia

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

Percy Douglas, 10th Marquess of Queensberry

He went as a gold prospector to Kalgoorlie, Australia, during the gold rush beginning in 1893, and later managed a road house in Canada.

Pilbara

Family clans in the Pilbara who were supported by mining prospector, Don McLeod, developed skills for mining and the concentration of rare metals.

Presidio San Augustin del Tucson

Famous military figures, prospectors, outlaws and warriors would all become part of Tucson's culture more than ever before.

Prospectors Delite

Bred back to A.P Indy, Prospector's Delite produced another stakes winner, Rock Slide, who is currently standing at stud in Woodbine, Maryland, at Shamrock Farms.

Rameauite

It was first described in 1972 for an occurrence in the Margnac Mine, Compreignac, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France and named after Jacques Rameau (1926–1960), French prospector at the "Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique", who discovered the deposit where the mineral occurs.

Schieffelin

Ed Schieffelin (1847–1897), an Indian scout and prospector who discovered silver in the Arizona Territory, which led to the founding of Tombstone, Arizona.

Selwyn Dewdney

Their children were: Donner Dewdney, a child psychiatrist, known for discovering the facial distortion effect among schizophrenic children; Alexander Dewdney, a mathematician, author, conservationist, environmental scientist and naturalist; Christopher Dewdney, a Canadian poet; and Peter Dewdney, a photographer and gold prospector.

Silver Mountain Station

The history of the Silver Mountain area dates back to 1881 when prospector Oliver Daunais discovered silver southwest of Thunder Bay.

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 Grizzly and the Treasure

It is narrated by an elderly man (Scott Beach) with the accent of an old woodsman or prospector of 19th century gold rushes, much in the same style as early Disney nature specials.

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 Luminaries

The plot follows Walter Moody, a prospector who travels to the fledgling West Coast of the South Island settlement of Hokitika, near New Zealand's goldfields in 1866 to try and make his fortune.

The Sunless City

The Sunless City had been read by Thomas Creighton, a prospector who had been exploring in the area of what would become the town of Flin Flon.

The Tradition

In 2002 the tournament was held at the The Prospector Course of Superstition Mountain Golf & Country Club Superstition Mountain, Arizona.

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.

William Simmons

Chuckawalla Bill, born William Simmons, Spanish-American War veteran, prospector, and vagabond

Yarnell, Arizona

Rich Hill in Weaver was the richest placer gold discovery in Arizona, discovered in 1863 by a party led by the mountain man Pauline Weaver and the prospector A. H. Peeples.


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