1. People who search for valuable minerals, gems, or gold, typically in small quantities and often in areas already worked by larger operations.
Usage: chiefly Australian and New Zealand English; plural of fossicker

1. To search or rummage through something, often in a disorganized way; to hunt for something by turning things over.
Usage: chiefly Australian and New Zealand English; third person singular present tense of fossick

Examples

• The fossickers spent weeks panning for gold in the creek bed.
• She fossickers through old boxes in the attic looking for family photos.
• Many fossickers have found small gemstones in the abandoned mine sites.
• He fossickers around in the garden shed for his lost tools.
• The fossickers worked alongside the larger mining operations, hoping to strike it rich.
• She fossickers through the thrift store racks to find vintage clothing.