adj. not surveyed by prospectors; not investigated for minerals.
- 1898  Within a radius of fifty miles of Dawson there is practically no little unprospected territory, and much of this ground has been thoroughly prospected.
- 1901  (1953)  As yet there are between one and three million square miles of country in Canada practically unprospected. . . .
- 1958  The territory is still relatively "unprospected" . . . .