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gold mine
noun
- a mine yielding gold.
- a source of great wealth or profit, or any desirable thing.
- a copious source or reserve of something required:
a gold mine of information about antiques.
gold mine
noun
- a place where gold ore is mined
- a source of great wealth, profit, etc
Derived Forms
- ˈDZ-ˌԱ, noun
- ˈDZ-ˌԾԲ, noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of gold mine1
Idioms and Phrases
A rich, plentiful source of wealth or some other desirable thing, as in That business proved to be a gold mine , or She's a gold mine of information about the industry . [First half of 1800s]Example Sentences
He described how difficult it is to ensure ballots and voter lists get to every community - including to workers at remote gold mines.
The video reportedly depicted two women with dollar signs in place of their eyes staring at a player who had just emerged from a gold mine.
Women’s sports has been an untapped gold mine for sponsors and investors for years, but only recently have those sponsors and investors begun to wake up to the potential.
Fighting in eastern DR Congo has been concentrated in the provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu, home to many Chinese-run gold mines.
One of the cases heard by tribunal judges related to a gold mine proposed in eastern Serbia by the Canadian company Dundee Precious Metals, and another centered on uranium mining within Canada.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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