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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
- ˈgold-ˌminer, noun
- ˈgold-ˌmining, 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
Resolute, which owns a gold mine in Mali, said on Sunday it would pay $80m immediately from existing cash reserves, and the rest in the coming months.
The men own a Scottish-made brick recovered from an old gold mine in Washington state, USA.
At least one person has died and 12 remain trapped in a disused Colorado gold mine after an equipment failure, officials say.
Unrest had been brewing near the Porgera gold mine in the country's central highlands ever since members of the Sakar clan settled on land owned by their rivals, the Piande, sometime in August.
The RSF controls some of Sudan’s most lucrative gold mines, located in the Darfur region.
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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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