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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 731 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FOSSICK (probably an
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English dialectical expression, meaning fussy or troublesome)  , a
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term applied by the
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gold diggers of
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Australia to the
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search for gold by solitary individuals, in untried localities or in abandoned diggings . A " fossicker," or
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pocket miner, is one who
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buys up the right to search old claims, in the
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hope of finding gold overlooked by previous diggers .

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