mother lode

English - Turkish

Definition of mother lode in English Turkish dictionary: ana damar; anne maden damarı
mother lode country: anne maden damarı ülke

English - English

Definition of mother lode in English English dictionary: A large or rich vein of gold or of another precious mineral from which other branches extend
Undeterred, reasoning from the coarseness of the gold that it had not traveled far, they had set out in search of the mother lode.; Any source of valuable or useful material
It is also letting them probe the genomes of other organisms for DNA that could turn out to be a mother lode for medicine.; the main vein of ore in a deposit
Mother Lode Country: Former gold-rush belt, Sierra Nevada foothills, central California, U.S. It was about 150 mi (240 km) long but only a few miles wide. The gold rush was sparked by the 1848 discovery of placer gold on John Sutter's property. The term mother lode evolved from the miners' concept of one main quartz vein with subsidiary offshoot veins. Exhaustion of the main gold streaks and a government-enforced price structure for gold caused mining operations to cease there in the 1930s. The area is dotted with scores of ghost camps and old mining towns
mother-lode: Alternative form of mother lode
motherlode: The main, central lode of a natural resource, near which smaller deposits of the same ore etc. exist
Once the Western mining company has exploited a motherlode with state of the art equipment, it often abandons the minor lodes to primitive local enterprise.
motherlode: The main prize, best cut or pick etc. by far, dwarfing all others
Luckily the philistine castle-burglars missed the motherlode: his lordship's historical memorabilia collection.