A deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks.
(Mining) A limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
1 The lode strikes to the north-north-east with a dip of 47º west.
2 They are almost entirely supported by the gold which the lode supplies.
3 The strike, or course, is the direction which the lode takes lengthwise.
4 When the lode ran dry in 1970, the mining companies moved out.
5 You see, I met Strange's daughter and she believes in the lode .
6 So the lode of poetry failed for the present from Robert's life.
7 By chance I have hit upon an extremely rich lode of gold.
8 I reckoned if there was a lode , it would never be found.
9 I aim to keep you till you locate that lode for me.
10 George must have a share, but I mean to work the lode .
11 The ironstone outcrop may cover a gold, silver, copper or tin lode .
12 Then he called out, You've hit the mother lode this time, Luke.
13 Now, after all this time, he might have found the mother lode .
14 He had driven his pick into the mother lode of the world!
15 Those in search of transformative music have just hit the mother lode .
16 Only you're sure now this here lode ain't no blind, are you?
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