gold mines
Veins of fortune
Gold mines are excavations where gold ore is extracted from the earth, ranging from small-scale operations to massive industrial complexes.
Figuratively, a gold mine is any source of great wealth or valuable resources: That website turned out to be a gold mine of information.
The singular gold mine is more common than the plural.
- JohannesburgSouth Africa's economic hub
- wealthAbundance of valuable resources
- excavationAct of unearthing
- oreMetal-bearing rock
- prospectingSearching for mineral wealth
staking a claim · lode · El Dorado · extraction · shaft · pay dirt · goldfields · vein · forty-niners · strike it rich · boom and bust · nugget · motherlode · tunnel · claim · sluice · treasure · underground
- Ancient Egypt economygrain storage, taxation, granaries, tribute, foreign trade
- Gold CountrySutter's Mill, forty-niners, prospectors, Columbia, Sonora
- Gold Industry
- Northern MexicoChihuahua, Ciudad Juarez, Juarez, Sierra Madre, Sonora
- Ancient IberiaHispania, Iberian Peninsula, Lusitania, Iberians, Celts
- GautengJohannesburg, Pretoria, Soweto, Centurion, Alexandra
gold minesmoney pits
Things requiring endless spending
white elephants · bottomless pits · dry holes · loss leaders · boondoggles
gold minesslag heaps
Mining refuse accumulations
coal mines · salt mines · quarries · gravel pits · landfills