Sentence examples for early prospectors from inspiring English sources
During the hour-long tours – which depart hourly each day from 9.30am to 3.30pm, price A$15 £100) – you can handle A$700,000 £470,0000) worth of pure gold bullion, watch the making of a bar from liquid gold and hear about the lives of the early prospectors.
Gold was first discovered at Yogo Creek in 1866, but the small numbers of early prospectors were driven off by local Native Americans.
Making deals with the Native Tlingit and Tagish tribes, the early prospectors succeeded in opening up the important routes of Chilkoot and White Pass to reach the Yukon valley between 1870 90.
It began on July 15 , 1897in San Francisco and was spurred further two days later in Seattle, when the first of the early prospectors returned from the Klondike, bringing with them large amounts of gold on the ships Excelsior and Portland.
Early prospectors named ferrous sulfate "fool's gold".
Originally known as the Gold Range (a name now restricted to the narrow easternmost ridge), the mountains were renamed Monashee, Gaelic for "mountain of peace," by an early prospector, David McIntyre.
Because of the ease of finding oil in the early decades, wells were often not fully developed before prospectors began looking for more productive wells.
Early California prospectors used pans and their hands to find nuggets in freezing cold streams.
He also accompanied early oil prospectors around Abu Dhabi, an experience that made him so curious about western ways that he embarked on extensive tours of Europe and America in the 1950s.When the oil began to flow in the 1960s, impatient members of his family, as well as Britain's Foreign Office, prevailed on him to ease his spendthrift and dithering brother out of office.
These early gold prospectors, patrol officers, and missionaries made the first outside contacts with the Stone Age Gorokan people.
I am the penguin: To conjure the spirit of Frank "Shorty" Harris, artist Fred Bervoets made a two-dimensional steel cutout, above, of the early 20th century prospector who stood just 5 feet, 4 inches tall.
