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prospect ((v.)) † Mining 
search an area of mineral deposits.
- 1859 The coast was prospected for some sixty miles . . . but without success, except finding in the interior an old pick where some former explorers had been blasting for quartz gold.
- 1953 Last summer, six parties prospected in northern Saskatchewan under that province's prospectors' assistance plan.
- 1859 The coast was prospected for some sixty miles . . . but without success, except finding in the interior an old pick where some former explorers had been blasting for quartz gold.