Sentence examples for prospecting expedition from inspiring English sources

It told the story of a man who gains a fortune but loses the love of his life on a "prospecting" expedition aboard an alien spaceship, one of many left behind by the mysterious Heechee, who have taken refuge from even more mysterious aliens inside a black hole.

Between 1902 and 1904 he was employed by the East Africa Syndicate, for which he led a vast mineral prospecting expedition in the East Africa Protectorate (Kenya).

In April 1929, Brain was selected to take part in a search for lost aviators in northern Australia, having gained experience of the area while flying over the Tanami Desert to assist a gold prospecting expedition some years earlier.

A sum of £4,000 (out of a target of £6,000) was subscribed to finance the costs of a detailed prospecting expedition during the summer of 1909, in a chartered vessel with a full scientific team.

On our prospecting expeditions, whatever doors we closed stayed shut.

Our prospecting expeditions examined critical areas for wild peach palm in the Arc of Fire in Mato Grosso, Pará, Maranhão and Tocantins, as well as areas not previously examined in Amazonas and Amapá states.

The American industrialist John Munroe Longyear visited Spitsbergen as a tourist in 1901, where he met with an expedition prospecting for coal.

Already he was being drawn to the idea of joining an expedition to prospect for gold in New Guinea, and for the price of five shillings she told him: "I think you're going to make your living by your voice".

The team's ambition was expressed, above all, as a rather stern negative: the Dodo Expedition was not prospecting for dodos.

The result was the 1908 Ryan-Guggenheim Expedition, a rubber and mineral prospecting party funded by American capital and accompanied by a member of the US Geological Service.

There must be a reasonable prospect of success: fishing expeditions are not justified".