Prospecting

Prospecting is the physical search for minerals, fossils, precious metals or mineral specimens. It is also known as fossicking or, on a large scale, as mineral exploration.

Prospecting Media

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  Prospector and burro, western Colorado, USA, circa 1900

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  Schoolchildren learn to pan for gold, Denver, 1972

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  Rich specimen from a 2009 gold discovery by a prospector in southeastern Yukon Territory. The gold, deposited along a fracture, appears rusty-orange in this photo.