Already the Turquoise Hill, where the colour of the soil first betrayed the presence of copper to prospectors decades ago, has vanished.
DURING the gold rush of the 1850's, Placerville, Calif., about 60 miles east of Sacramento, was known as Hangtown, for the violent justice meted out to prospectors and other fortune seekers who ran afoul of the law.
About 200 local firms have taken advantage of new legislation that has opened up swaths of the country to prospectors, establishing operations across eight states, according to Sudan's ministry of minerals.
With a gray beard, a mouth of missing teeth, intense blue eyes and a Marlboro Red dangling from his lip, the 57-year-old Shock is a throwback to prospectors of yore.
Officials say they owe a "moral debt" to nature after living off game during decades of fighting a bush war for freedom from the Arab north.Whether they will keep such a large area off-limits to prospectors is harder to say.
For a short time after its christening in 1849 by a hapless party of emigrants who endured intense suffering while crossing it, Death Valley was little known except to Native Americans (primarily Shoshone) of the area and to prospectors searching the surrounding mountains.
The New Yorker, May 29, 2000 P. 48 Talk story about former Wired Books chief Peter Rutten, and about Internet domain names that he and others have reserved... To prospectors in the race to stake out rich territory on the Internet, the domain name is a deed of sorts.
It was from there that Friedrich, fleeing army service and poverty, emigrated to the United States in 1885, settling first in New York, then in and around Seattle and then up in the Yukon Territory, supplying food (including horsemeat), liquor and women to prospectors.
More than a few people have made the analogy that these companies are doing the smart thing, selling shovels to prospectors rather than getting in on the digging themselves.
George Custer's opening of the Badlands to prospectors in 1874 began the chain of events that ultimately led to the massacre at Wounded Knee.
