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Meanwhile, back on earth, the Post fronts an interesting piece revealing that "the last great oil rush of the 20th century--targeted at a potential $4 trillion patch in Central Asia's Caspian Sea region--has lured a prestigious group of U.S. prospectors: former high-ranking government officials bent on winning a stake in the bonanza for themselves or their companies."
flash in the pan This phrase sounds as if it derives from the way that prospectors pan rivers for gold.
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.
By 1852, at the peak of the mining boom, there were over 100,000 prospectors in the region, all fiercely individualistic, working away at their personal, private stakes rather than banding together in organized syndicates.
Despite the fact that the local land was rich in silver, by 1865 most of the mining traffic through Las Vegas was of prospectors headed to California or Northern Nevada in search of gold.