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See also:FOSSICK (probably an See also:English dialectical expression, meaning fussy or troublesome) , a See also:term applied by the See also:gold diggers of See also:Australia to the See also:search for gold by solitary individuals, in untried localities or in abandoned diggings . A " fossicker," or See also:pocket miner, is one who See also:buys up the right to search old claims, in the See also:hope of finding gold overlooked by previous diggers . |
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