How to Use gold mine in a Sentence

gold mine

noun
  • The library is a gold mine of information.
  • The look of the restaurant’s speakeasy evokes the black and gold hues of Incan gold mines.
    Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
  • For decades, Swazi men have worked in South African coal and gold mines.
    Sewell Chan, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The next Monday, Church returned to the Elko gold mine.
    Meg Bernhard, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The zinc, copper and gold-rich mine is the first gold mine in Michigan since the 1990s.
    Deasia Paige, Detroit Free Press, 6 June 2018
  • In the film, three bandits try to force Cooper to hand over the map to a gold mine.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2019
  • In 2016, the gold in the world’s e-waste equaled more than a tenth of the gold mined globally that year.
    New York Times, 5 July 2018
  • But the small nearby lane called Soi Nana is a gold mine of new bars.
    New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The supply has not been used up, like a gold mine stripped of its last nugget.
    Peter Greene, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • From the algorithm’s point of view, flat earth is a gold mine.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, Vox, 26 July 2019
  • This two-day marathon is a bona-fide gold mine for discounts and deals.
    Grace Smith, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 July 2023
  • Smartphones, in fact, are 30 times as rich in gold as ore dug from a gold mine.
    Peter Ford, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 July 2018
  • There is an active gold mine near the largest city in the area, Val-d’Or, or Valley of Gold.
    Jack Ewing Brendan George Ko For The New York Times, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Crumbs on your kitchen counter and a buildup of garbage are like a gold mine to various pests.
    Leah Napoliello, Houston Chronicle, 31 Aug. 2019
  • In one Nevada case, a group of new hires was touring a gold mine in late 2017.
    Mark Olalde, AZCentral.com, 26 June 2019
  • Law firms are eyeing mesh used to treat hernias as the next gold mine.
    Matthew Goldstein and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Modernization hit the state’s silver and gold mines, among the largest in the world.
    Nina Shapiro, The Seattle Times, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Beer was the gold mine, before selling booze in the stands was outlawed.
    Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 4 July 2018
  • The one small bit of uplifting news here is that as far as land costs go, the Moon is a gold mine.
    Mike Wehner, BGR, 18 Mar. 2021
  • And seating her next to Ice Spice for most of the night was a gold mine of social content.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2023
  • His grandfather had a farm of 215 acres and a senior job in a gold mine.
    Lynsey Chutel Joao Silva, New York Times, 28 May 2024
  • Compelling was too weak a word for this gold mine of self-awareness.
    Wired, 24 Sep. 2019
  • The Globe and Phoenix gold mine was condemned and forced to close in 2007, the outlet reported.
    Fox News, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The laptop, on the other hand, was a gold mine of evidence.
    Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The 2021 draft ended up being a gold mine of standouts.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2022
  • Here, Murray Millwood has built and runs his own gold mine.
    New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
  • But that same speed is proving to be a gold mine for those engaging in fraud.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Apple’s late co-founder Steve Jobs and his team came to realize that the store could be a new gold mine.
    Tim Higgins, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2021
  • In a vast stretch of Central Washington’s high desert, the farms and small towns of Grant County sit on nothing short of a gold mine.
    Lulu Ramadan, ProPublica, 28 July 2024
  • Maduro's administration did not comment on Arana's death at the time, but the United Nations warned about the violent groups that control gold mines in the country.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2024

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