silver mine
Comstock Lode type
A silver mine is an excavation site where silver ore is extracted from the earth, either through underground tunnels or open-pit operations.
The term extends to anything that generates wealth reliably: That rental property has been a silver mine for us.
Compare gold mine, which carries the same figurative sense but is more common.
- argentiteSilver sulfide ore
- precious metalValuable metallic element
- ghost townDeserted former inhabited place
- oreMetal-bearing rock
- ore veinMineral deposit in rock
Comstock Lode · boomtown · deposit · assay · prospecting · Spanish colonial · extraction · bullion · shaft · underground tunnel · lode · conquistador · bonanza · smelting · motherlode · colonialism · tunnel · pick and shovel
- Mining Heritagecolliery, coal town, coal dust, pithead, minecart
- mining townsgold rush town, boom town, boomtown, ghost town, company town
- treasuretreasures, treasure trove, gold coins, jewels, doubloons
- mininggold, coal, oil, shafts, iron
- silver
- gold sourcesore deposit, vein, lode, nugget, seam
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Excavation for precious ore
copper mine · iron mine · coal mine · diamond mine · lead mine
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