gold mine

Example Sentences

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Are the Dodgers baseball’s version of a gold mine?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Dead batteries yield lithium, cobalt and nickel; LED screens contain germanium; circuit boards hold platinum and palladium; hard disks store rare earths -- e‑waste has long been described as a "gold mine" for critical minerals.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

Thomas Kaplan is pushing ahead on what he’s dubbed America’s gold mine.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

Greenlandic officials quietly concede that, in the short term at least, anyone running this island is more likely to find themselves staring down a money pit rather than a gold mine.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

The thing Eisman had found was indeed a gold mine, but it wasn’t true that no one knew about it.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis