Definitions for mother lode
moth·er lode

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1. mother lode, champion lodenoun

   the main vein of ore in a deposit

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1. mother lodenoun

   A large or rich vein of gold or of another precious mineral from which other branches extend.

2. mother lodenoun

   Any source of valuable or useful material.

3. Etymology: Probably from

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1. mother lode

   A mother lode refers to a principal vein or zone of veins of gold or silver ore. The term is also used in a more general context to refer to an abundant source or principle supply of something.

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1. Mother lode

   Mother lode is a principal vein or zone of veins of gold or silver ore. The term probably came from a literal translation of the Spanish veta madre, a term common in old Mexican mining. Veta madre, for instance, is the name given to an 11-kilometre-long silver vein discovered in 1548 in Guanajuato, New Spain. In the United States, Mother Lode is most famously the name given to the long alignment of hard-rock gold deposits stretching northwest to southeast in the Sierra Nevada of California. The California Mother Lode is a zone from 1.5 to 6 kilometres wide and 190 kilometres long, extending from Georgetown in El Dorado County on the north, through Amador, Calaveras, and Tuolumne counties, south to Mormon Bar in Mariposa County. It was discovered in the early 1850s, during the California gold rush. Following the elucidation of the theory of plate tectonics, the Mother Lode was found to coincide with the suture line of a terrane, the Smartville Block. The zone contains hundreds of mines and prospects, including some of the best-known historic mines of the gold-rush era. Individual gold deposits within the Mother Lode are gold-bearing quartz veins up to 15 metres thick and a few thousand feet long. The California Mother Lode was one of the most productive gold-producing districts in the United States. Now it is known as a destination for tourism.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of mother lode in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of mother lode in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of mother lode in a Sentence

1. Casey Sherman:

   The treasures that this shipwreck has revealed since 1984, since Barry Clifford discovered the wreck, has been enormous, the mother lode of treasure still has yet to be found.

2. Martin Lockley:

   The concentration of mammal tracks on this site is orders of magnitude higher than any other site in the world, i don't think I've ever seen a slab this size, which is a couple of square meters, where you have over 70 footprints of so many different types. This is the mother lode of Cretaceous mammal tracks.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=mother lode
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mother_Lode
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=mother lode