gold mine

See also: goldmine

English edit

gold mine (plural gold mines)

A mine for gold ore or metal.
South Africa has many goldmines.
(idiomatic) A very profitable economic venture.
This oil deposit is a regular gold mine. We make more and more money every year!
- 1939 December, John D. Hewitt, “Some Notable British Main Lines: II. Salisbury and Exeter, S.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 407:
  The possessors of Salisbury & Yeovil Railway shares had ample compensation for the anxiety which the first few years of the company's existence had given them, for the concern proved a veritable gold mine.
- 2019, Rana Foroohar, Don't Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech‎^[1], Penguin UK, →ISBN:
  [Hal Varian] went to work helping Page, Brin, and Schmidt develop more efficient auction algorithms and build the auction model that became such a gold mine for Google.
(idiomatic) A plentiful stockpile of something sought after.
The Smithsonian Institute is a goldmine of knowledge, but like most mines, you have to dig for the good stuff.

mine for gold

Chinese:
Mandarin: 金礦／金矿 (zh) (jīnkuàng)
Danish: guldmine c
Dutch: goudmijn (nl) f
Finnish: kultakaivos (fi)
French: mine d’or (fr) f
German: Goldmine (de) f, Goldbergwerk (de) n
Greek: χρυσωρυχείο (el) n (chrysorycheío)
Hungarian: aranybánya (hu)
Indonesian: tambang emas (id)
Italian: miniera d'oro f
Japanese: 金鉱 (ja) (kinkō), 金山 (ja) (kinzan)
Latin: aurifodīna f, aurāria f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gullgruve m or f

Nynorsk: gullgruve f
Old English: gyldenweċġ m
Portuguese: mina de ouro f
Romanian: mină de aur f
Russian: золота́я ша́хта f (zolotája šáxta), золото́й рудни́к m (zolotój rudník)
Spanish: mina de oro f
Swedish: guldgruva (sv) c
Tagalog: pakayan
Telugu: బంగారు గని (te) (baṅgāru gani)
Volapük: goldinameinäd

very profitable economic venture

reserve of something sought after