prospecting

Prospecting for his illusion, his last journey was over the Peruvian Andes into Colombia.

Prospecting to find out just how much that hundred thousand or two or three you've sunk in me is worth.

"Prospecting" included the searching for gold in almost any way that was experimental.

Prospecting for valuable metals by electricity has been recently introduced in Wales with remarkable success.

Prospecting generally was done by organized parties numbering anywhere from five to fifty men.