prospector

Example Sentences

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Picking individual gold or silver miners is like betting on which prospector will find the nugget.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 19, 2025

"People would go in as a prospector, to flip bottles for two to three times the value."

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2025

Years later, the Azusa Herald quoted an old codger of a prospector — aren’t they all codgers? — that the Eldoradoville inundation “never stopped until it brought up in San Pedro Harbor.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2025

“A commentary on the expulsion of the Greek banks from Egypt in 1961,” reads one note beneath the image of a gold prospector tunneling into a bank.

From Salon • Jan. 16, 2024

He swilled the contents of the Pensieve as Harry had seen him swill them before, much as a gold prospector sifts for gold.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling