gold veins
Subterranean precious threads
Gold veins are narrow deposits of gold-bearing rock running through surrounding stone, formed when mineral-rich water filled cracks in the earth's crust.
Prospectors and geologists seek these formations as indicators of mineable gold.
The term extends metaphorically to anything valuable running through a larger mass: The manuscript had gold veins of insight buried in pages of tedium.
- pay dirtValuable ore deposit
- prospectingSearching for mineral wealth
- fault zonesAreas of crustal breakage
- underground tunnelsEnclosed routes below ground
- metamorphic rocksStone altered by heat/pressure
mineral deposits · hidden treasures · mineralization · assaying · glittering · smelting · bonanza · drilling · extraction · shaft · pickaxe · ore · claim · prospectors · mining claim · panning · rich · strike
- mining termsopen pit mining, underground mining, drilling, blasting, mining operations
- Gold Rushgoldfield, prospectors, sluice, forty-niners, Sutter's Mill
- Gold CountrySutter's Mill, forty-niners, prospectors, Columbia, Sonora
- Gold Industryopen pit mines, underground mines
- mineralizationcalcification, crystallization, fossilization, petrification, precipitation
- hydrothermal mineralspyrite, quartz, galena, calcite, barite
value/richness of deposit
gold veinscountry rock
Rural-electric musical fusion
gangue · overburden · fool's gold · tailings