The phrase "as a prospector" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to someone who is searching for valuable resources, typically in the context of mining or exploration.
Example: "He approached the mountains with the determination of a prospector, hoping to strike gold."
Alternatives: "in the role of a prospector" or "as someone searching for resources".
At the onset of the Depression in 1929, he moved to California, where he earned a meager living as a prospector.
With a steady enrollment of 4,000 pupils, Edwards has a well deserved reputation as a prospector of crude talent; be found champions Bob Hewitt (at 12), Fred Stolle (at 17), Martin Mulligan (at 15) and Jan Lehane (at 11).
Mr. Clark earned millions upon millions in copper mining out West, and after stints as a prospector, farmer and United States senator, he arrived in New York in the 1890s, when the choicest patches on Fifth Avenue were going, going, almost gone.
After spells in the timber trade, the scrap metal business and as a prospector-miner, he found it as a professional hunter organising safaris.This book, which has yet to be published in English, became an unexpected bestseller in Poland after it was read in full on the radio in January.
After an education in France, London, and Geneva, Angell spent several years (1890 98) in the United States, working as a cowboy, a prospector, and finally a journalist for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and San Francisco Chronicle.
As you said, a prospector in 1849 might "conceivably find enough gold to retire on" or go on to invest their riches in say, Stanford University.Workers on the oil fields today have much more in common with Irish and Chinese laboorers on the railroads in the late 1800s.
As far as I understood, I was a prospector who had just kicked the rock, and it was lying there at my foot, all sparkly and gold.
In Moab, Utah, where he was born, his father worked as a surveyor and a prospector of gold and uranium.
Most stampeders were men but women also travelled to the region, typically as the wife of a prospector.
Her father, who retired as a mineral prospector, manages commercial and residential real estate in New York.
Cessna worked as a farmhand, prospector, threshing-machine operator, and automobile salesman until he saw a flying circus in Oklahoma and decided to be a flyer.
