Fossickers spent the afternoon sifting through the creek bed in search of garnets and tiny gold nuggets.

Every weekend she fossicks along the riverbed looking for semi-precious stones.

We fossicked along the creek for hours and found a few small garnets.

The fossicker spent the afternoon sifting river stones for a promising speck of gold.

She tried to fossick for information about the project's funding during the informal lunch.

After the rain, we went fossicking along the riverbank, hoping to find a small nugget.

His fossicking in the abandoned creek bed finally rewarded him with a cluster of semi-precious stones.

Their fossickings along the creek yielded a few small garnets and a story they'd tell for years.