Something I should have mentioned earlier is just how good gold prospecting is as a family hobby.

Gold prospecting is the act of searching for new gold deposits.

Gold prospecting has begun on a serious scale.

Gold prospecting may also frighten these large catfishes in the areas where they spawn.

Although traditionally a commercial activity, in some developed countries placer gold prospecting has also become a popular outdoor recreation.

Serious gold prospecting is not allowed.

Between 1923 and 1935 he led 14, mainly gold prospecting, expeditions through inland Australia; he wrote several books about his experiences.

Gold prospecting is wonderful.

However, McGrath's gold prospecting seems about to bear fruit and he is loath to leave Africa.

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"Miners are very, very secretive," said Ralph E. Shock, 65, the owner of Gold Prospecting Expeditions here.

There, Ralph Shock, of Gold Prospecting Expeditions in Jamestown, kits visitors out for $10 a day with boots, pan and suction gun.

Returning to Madang at the end of December 1929, several of the party went back to Sydney to obtain instructions from the Akmana Gold Prospecting Company.

Beazley also prospected the Arrabundio for gold and on his promising report to Freeman, Akmana Gold Prospecting Coy was floated in 1928.

The Akmana Gold Prospecting Field Party made contact with many peoples they called: grass country people, head hunters, pygmies, wig-men, Kanakas, Poomani.

By 1988 licences for gold prospecting had been issued not only for Connemara but also in counties Cavan, Kerry, Monaghan, Tipperary and Wicklow.

Gold prospecting occurred around the park in the late 1800s Seminoe State Park has a picnic area, shelters, beaches, a boat ramp, playgrounds, and 61 campsites in four campgrounds.

Other places in which gold prospecting is taking place include Tory Island off Donegal and Conary near Avoca in Wicklow (Rio Tinto in both cases).

For $15 an hour, Gold Prospecting Expeditions takes tourists out panning on Woods Creek, a 16-mile stream that winds around Jamestown, on trips that can last from 30 minutes to several hours.

The first reaction to the gold prospecting came when a group of concerned people formed the group Mining Awareness following press reports in March 1988 of gold finds in Conamara and Mayo.

An exception is the record of the Akmana Gold Prospecting Company's Field Party which carried out two expeditions from September to December 1929 and from mid February to the end of June 1930.

In the UK, gold prospecting can only take place with the explicit permission of the riparian owner, and any activities that cause or permit pollution of a watercourse, even re-suspended silt, could result in a criminal prosecution by the Environment Agency.