gold strikes
Prospectors' lucky finds
Gold strikes are discoveries of gold deposits, especially ones significant enough to attract prospectors and miners.
The term evokes the dramatic finds that sparked rushes—the California Gold Strike of 1848, the Klondike.
A miner who strikes gold has found a valuable deposit.
Figuratively, to strike gold is to achieve sudden success or find something valuable: We struck gold with that new hire.
- nuggetsSmall solid lumps
- prospectorOne seeking valuable deposits
- mineOre excavation site
- mining townSettlement serving ore extraction
- rushQuick sudden movement
bonanza · stake a claim · claim · vein · mother lode · pay dirt · panning · sluice · pickaxe · Klondike · California · discovery · ore · rich · fever · boom · dust · creek
- Gold Rushgoldfield, prospectors, sluice, forty-niners, Sutter's Mill
- mining historyminers, pickaxes, silver mining, prospectors, mining claims