Synonyms of prospecting

prospecting

verb

present participle of prospect

as in searching

to go into or range over for purposes of discovery

soon all manner of people had arrived in the valley to prospect it for gold

Synonyms & Similar Words

• searching
• exploring
• hunting
• probing
• scouting
• discovering
• skirring
• reconnoitering
• disclosing
• plumbing
• revealing
• unearthing
• sounding
• fathoming

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of prospecting

The city tries to keep its idiosyncratic businesses going while prospecting for newcomers. — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026

When existing pipeline gets heavy, prospecting is the first thing that drops. — Jeff Winters, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

Northern Nigeria boasts commercial-grade lithium deposits that have attracted investment interest from global firms prospecting for green energy minerals. — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 8 July 2026

That means prospecting for lunar helium-3 starts by simply making mineralogical maps of the moon’s surface. — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 14 May 2026

The price of the precious metal has skyrocketed—briefly surpassing a record five thousand dollars an ounce earlier this spring—and, as Jennifer Wilson reports from the American West for this week’s special issue, this has led to a boom in prospecting not seen since the days of the forty-niners. — David Remnick, New Yorker, 11 May 2026

From a robot that can handwrite hundreds of real estate prospecting cards in minutes to a digital consultant that can narrow down thousands of mortgage options for a client, artificial intelligence has finally arrived in the real estate industry. — Amancai Biraben, Oc Register, 6 Apr. 2026

Elements of the vision unveiled by Isaacman and other NASA officials last week, such as deep space nuclear propulsion, nuclear reactors on the Moon, and prospecting for lunar resources, will require significant investment in new space technology. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 3 Apr. 2026

The telegraph-poling parties found traces of gold in the stony hills around Pine Creek, south of Darwin, and in 1872 gold-prospecting parties began to arrive through Port Darwin. — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026