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Governor Frederick Weld (1880–1887) extended the residency system to Negeri Sembila n and the more recalcitrant Pahang, where the Sultan Wan Ahmad was forced to open the Kuantan tin mines to British prospectors.
flash in the pan This phrase sounds as if it derives from the way that prospectors pan rivers for gold.
In a subarctic land of soaring mountains and elongated glacial lakes beside the great Yukon River, today’s tourists can thank yesterday’s prospectors for using part of their paydirt for some essential creature comforts.
The town grew up as the terminus where prospectors transferred from the Skagway train to the Yukon River steamboats and is now the junction of the Alaska and Klondike highways.
He had found flakes of 23-carat gold in the river gravel and, in the following year alone, 6,000 prospectors poured in from Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, Mexico, Peru, and Chile, and proceeded to dig up $10 million worth of the precious metal.