prospecting

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of prospect

noun

  1. The act of one who prospects.
    He declared that the country was an intellectual desert; that he was famishing for spiritual aliment, and for discourse on matters beyond mere nuggets, prospectings, and the price of gold. 1858, William Howitt, Land, Labour, and Gold; Or, Two Years in Victoria, page 54

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