Word: prospectors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stan Hilditch, a manganese prospector, stumbled across an iron-ore outcropping near Mount Newman that assayed at almost the maximum possible purity. Australians had long known that iron ore could be mined in their country, but not until finds like Hilditch's did they suspect that it existed in such phenomenal abundance − an estimated 20 billion tons, about one-twelfth of the world's known reserves. Three years later, Australian legislators repealed a ban on iron-ore exports once enacted in the belief that there was only enough for domestic needs. Two big iron-ore mines opened...
...large city, Perth. In just 14 months, U.S. and Canadian companies laid down 265 miles of railroad track to connect the site with Port Hedland, which until the iron boom had been a decaying northwestern port on waters swarming with deadly stonefish, sea snakes and sharks. When a despondent prospector blew himself up on the front porch of the Esplanade Hotel a decade ago, he disturbed only half a dozen people...
Until the past year, little was known of Tanzanite. Among the first to realize its value was a Goanese prospector named Manuel de Souza, who stumbled across a pocket of crystals in Tanzania in the summer of 1967. Samples were sent for appraisal to German lapidaries, who recognized the stones' potential for use in jewelry. Other prospectors dug in, and the area of that first find is now pockmarked with holes. "It is all rather like the Klondike," says Dr. John M. Saul, a New York geologist with three claims in the area...
...coined the phrase later attributed to the legendary Algoma prospector Old Sam Martin: "Any man who sez he's been et by a wolf is a liar...
...could not fully accomplish, inner dissension did. Some Wobblies-including Helen Gurley Flynn and John Reed-drifted toward Communism. Others slowly eased their way back into society. Ralph Chaplin, as great a labor poet as Joe Hill, turned both conservative and Catholic. English-born Charles Ashleigh became a gold prospector in Mexico...