Prospecting's the physical search for minerals, fossils, precious metals or mineral specimens, and's also known as fossicking. Prospecting's a small-scale form of mineral exploration which latter's an organised, large scale effort undertaken by mineral resource companies to find commercially viable ore deposits. Prospecting's physical labor, involving traversing (traditionally on foot or on horseback), panning, sifting and outcrop investigation, looking for signs of mineralisation. A prospector… (More on Prospecting)