paydirt
Miner's ultimate goal
Paydirt is earth or ore rich enough in minerals to make mining profitable.
The figurative meaning now dominates: to hit paydirt or strike paydirt is to find something valuable or achieve success after searching.
After months of research, we finally hit paydirt.
Usually written as one word, sometimes two.
Accumulated gambling prize
- windfallUnanticipated lucky gain
- bonanzaSudden large windfall
- treasureValued wealth or keepsake
- bountyReward for capture
riches · wealth · fortune · goldmine · motherlode · payout · dividend · gain
Metal-bearing rock
- veinVessel toward heart
- prospectingSearching for mineral wealth
- goldmineRich ore deposit
- excavationAct of unearthing
shaft · miner · pickaxe · sluice · panning · claim · strike · nugget
Discovery triumph cry
- findLocate through effort
- unearthExcavate or reveal hidden
- strikeForceful impact or stoppage
- jackpotAccumulated gambling prize
locate · detect · uncover · reveal · serendipity · breakthrough · realization · identify
jackpot
Accumulated gambling prize
bounty · riches · wealth · fortune · goldmine · motherlode · payout · dividend · gain · return
ore
Metal-bearing rock
- veinVessel toward heart
- prospectingSearching for mineral wealth
- goldmineRich ore deposit
excavation · shaft · miner · pickaxe · sluice · panning · claim · strike · nugget · deposit
eureka
Discovery triumph cry
jackpot · locate · detect · uncover · reveal · serendipity · breakthrough · realization · identify · encounter
earth
Soil or electrical grounding
loam · clay · silt · topsoil · subsoil · alluvium · substrate · terroir · bedrock · overburden
- striking goldjackpot, eureka, bonanza, windfall, mother lode
- windfallsjackpot, windfall, grand prize, found money, big win
- gold mininggold pan, pan, panning, nuggets, gold nugget
- hit paydirtAchieved sudden success
dirty, payment, repayment, dirtied, dirtiness, payer, dirties, payee, nonpayment