prospector

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who searches an area for valuable minerals, oil, or other natural resources

   The prospector collected rock samples from every exposed vein.

Formed from prospect + the agent suffix -or. Prospect comes from Latin prospectus ("view, outlook"), from prospicere ("to look forward or into the distance"). A prospector literally looks over land for signs of valuable deposits.

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