The word "prospecting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the process of exploring for minerals, oil, or other natural resources, or it can be used more generally to refer to a search for potential opportunities or resources. For example: "The new company spent the summer prospecting for investors to help finance their business venture."
"With no adult birds defending these territories, they are an absolute magnet for prospecting birds trying to set up their own territories," he said.
South Africa, home to the greatest mineral wealth in the world, estimated to be worth $2.5 trillion, is considering imposing a swingeing 50% windfall tax on mining "super profits" and a 50% capital-gains tax on the sale of prospecting rights.
The price has fallen back a bit, but is still over $900.Mr Herschbach's annual order of prospecting gear shovels, dredges, gold pans, sluiceboxes, metal detectors and the like sold out in March, months before the season generally gets under way, and he has since put in a second order.
Imaginative prospecting for data, together with great ingenuity in drawing warranted inferences from them the Levitt hallmarks can reveal far more than you might suppose.Mr Levitt's research on crime has earned him occasional spells of petty notoriety in the wider world.
Small-time local miners, little more than licensed freelancers prospecting by hand, were disappointed to find that most of the mines near the surface had been exhausted.
He keeps his fingers crossed that one of the two oil groups prospecting on and off shore will strike oil in commercial quantities.
Russia is prospecting for minerals beneath the seabed there.
On completion in 2019, the dam will flood the gold-prospecting area and displace more than 10,000 people.
Membership in gold-prospecting clubs and associations has surged.
Another approach is "bio-prospecting"—looking for natural enzymes in unusual places, such as in the stomachs of wood-eating termites.Treethanol has particular appeal in countries that have a lot of trees and import a lot of fossil fuel.
Today the centre makes money in areas such as ecotourism, timber-extraction, forest-products such as honey and oils, bio-prospecting and forestry research.
