音标:[ˈprɔsˌpektəz] ;
n. 勘探者, 探矿者( prospector的复数形式 )
n. someone who explores an area for mineral deposits

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What Makes White Gold White? Many people associate the metal gold with the color gold. But, some gold jewelry is not golden at all: its white. Golden Color Gold is one of the heaviest and softest metals. Pure gold, called 24-carat gold, is so soft th

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179. The prospectors and rocket propellant采矿者和火箭推进器 proof-protest There were a couple of prospectors, Clem and Jake, sitting around a fire at their camp after a hard days prospecting, just shooting the breeze. Clem, did you hear abo

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By June Soh Washington, D.C. 24 November 2006 watch Gold Prospecting report Gold has a glittering appeal that fascinates people generation after generation. While the famous gold rush in the middle of the 1800s, in the western U.S. state of Californ

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This mining school, complete with sled dogs, was set up in Seattle as a training site for potential Klondike prospectors. Lots of Americans have heard of the Klondike because of a popular ice-cream bar named after the place. It's in Canada, so we cou

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Let's take a look at the financial markets and the tumbled US amid those concerns the congress may not meet the dead line to raise the debt ceiling. A business editor Peter R says if the US does go off the fisical cliffs with risk sparking another re

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With the price of gold at all-time highs, a familiar fever is once again sweeping Alaska. Everybody has their own reason why they are into it. Some people, you know, you find what you got and you try at once to find a little bit of gold. This is kind

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August 17th, 1969. Hurricane Camille slams into the gulf coast, making landfall just east of the mounts of the Mississippi River. The Category 5 storm kills more than 250 people, more than 35 years before Hurricane Katrina devastates the region. 1998

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