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