prospecting

The stupendous floods of 1938 — floods so profound that they marooned movie stars on their San Fernando Valley ranches and delayed the Oscars by three days — sent whole prospecting families hustling back down the mountains.

Fergusson has been prospecting as a hobby for about a decade, and finally bought his own claim after searching around for five years.

That money's up to over $100 million today, but the point is that with all of the negotiations, all that prospecting, the guy that was bussing the table had the most money in the room.

"Pathogen prospecting provides not only an opportunity to reconstruct malaria's historical epidemiology, but it also informs pathogen/vector evolution and climate-based predictive modelling of malaria distribution."

The alleged investments include everything from road construction, pharmaceuticals and medical equipment to tourism, mining, gold prospecting and luxury real estate projects.