The word "prospectors" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to people who search for minerals, oil, or other valuable natural resources. For example: The prospectors in the nearby field were determined to find the hidden ore.
The topic of his thesis is listed as "Oxygen Gas".The gold rush following the 1848 finds in California took most prospectors west.
Its legacy includes San Francisco and America's thriving Chinese population (which exploded during the gold rush, as boatloads of Chinese prospectors arrived).Brands, the historian, goes further, arguing that gold transformed the American dream.
He became California's first millionaire by selling picks, shovels, beans and bacon to the horde of prospectors who heeded his call.Gold fever spread fast.
Prospectors who made their way overland went "at the pace of the slowest oxen [pulling their wagons], no more than two miles [3.2km] per hour".
Not a good chance, mind: only a lucky few prospectors struck the mother lode.
Diamond prospectors found the deposit near the coast of Canada's easternmost province of Newfoundland and Labrador in 1993 (see map); the mine, which is operated by Vale of Brazil, opened in 2005.
The government suspects that a higher proportion of the oil and gas yet to be discovered will be found offshore, since prospectors have probed the dry land pretty thoroughly.
Critics have noted that the two Moroccan shareholders in the oil project, Moulay Abdellah Aloui, and Mohammed Bensuleiman, are both cousins of the king and under the terms of the contract, the prospectors get 75%% of the profits, Morocco just 25%.The jibe is harsh.
In July eight died in Honduras.Gold is not the only commodity to lure unlicensed prospectors but it has a particular appeal.
But past pollution and accidents such as at Choropampa make farmers scared of new mines and of prospectors.
It was first detected in the 1970s by oil prospectors, who mapped its geometry by listening to the reflections from its various rock layers of explosions they let off at the surface.
