Hancock began prospecting while managing his family's sheep station in the Hamersley Range.
An Australian mining company began prospecting for copper in the Crown Prince Range at Panguna in the early 1960s.
Mining companies began prospecting for gold in Lombok in the late 1990s, and 17 have been granted mining licenses by the local government, Mr. Ispan said.
He bought two cargo ships (with two more on order) and began prospecting in Australia, where he bought a mine and, this year, the Abbot Point port.
He set up the first American Chamber of Commerce in Hanoi and began prospecting for business ideas that would capitalize on Vietnam's obvious need for new infrastructure.
After two initial vineyard experiments, one in his own backyard in the foothills and another with neighbors on an old Christmas tree farm, he began prospecting in the mountains for sites that would permit balanced, fresh, complex wines that required minimal intervention.
Still, the Iowa caucuses are a test of organizational strength, and no candidate has invested more time in Iowa than Mr. Edwards, who more than five years ago began prospecting for his first presidential race, which ultimately ended in a second-place finish here.
In autumn 1871, Cope began prospecting farther west to the fossil fields of Kansas.
He then began looking for a new place to settle, and two of his partners from the 1638 purchase, Samuel Hutchinson and Nicholas Needham, began prospecting the region to the northeast.
Miners began prospecting for gold in the watershed, including a Bear Creek tributary called Jackson Creek, where they established a mining camp in 1851 at the site of what later became Jacksonville.
