It is the responsibility of the prospector's state to ensure his compliance with the relevant provisions of the convention.
Most prospectors will have to obtain a licence from the department.
Co-ordination among prospectors is a matter for the prospectors themselves.
In the meantime, diamond prospecting is proceeding, and the prospector has undertaken to report to the administration any occurrences of other minerals which he finds.
That is the hazard that faces the prospector of oil on land and, even worse, beneath the sea.
There, in the last few years they have invited mineral prospectors from all over the world.
We all know that among the majority of honest litigants lurk a few unscrupulous prospectors.
It has been of assistance to the small prospector in every conceivable way, and is a precedent for other branches to follow.
