"He sings around a song, sort of into it and out of it, like a prospector knowing there's even more to discover.
Here's how it works: A prospector goes out on public land, pickax, gold pan or, preferably, some more advanced technology in hand, and locates a valuable mineral.
It was called Densmore's Mountain in 1889 by Frank Densmore, a prospector.
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.
The attraction of the Klondike to a prospector, however, was that when gold was found, it was often highly concentrated.
But Gollner has a prospector's eye for the absurd, and can mine it from most any terrain.
The town site and surrounding area were acquired in 1892 by a prospector, Ross Thompson, after whom the town was named Thompson; it was renamed Rossland in 1894.
Once a boomtown of nearly 10,000 inhabitants, it sprang up during the Cariboo gold rush and was named after Billy Barker, a prospector who made an important strike locally at Williams Creek in 1862.
For example, the rules attempted to balance the rights of early arrivers at a site with later arrivers; a "claim" could be "staked" by a prospector, but that claim was valid only as long as it was being actively worked.
"I'd be a prospector of the prospectors.
