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- DictionaryMoth·er lode/ˈməT͟Hər lōd/
noun
- 1. a principal vein of an ore or mineral.
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In the United States, Mother Lode is most famously the name given to a long alignment of hard-rock gold deposits stretching northwest-southeast in the Sierra Nevada of California, [2] bounded on the east by the Melones Fault Zone. [3] It was discovered in the early 1850s, during the California gold rush. The California Mother Lode is a zone ...
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The meaning of MOTHER LODE is the principal vein or lode of a region.
The phrase “mother lode” is a well-known idiom that refers to a rich source or abundant supply of something valuable. The origins of this idiom can be traced back to the California Gold Rush in the mid-1800s, when miners would use it to describe a particularly large vein or deposit of gold.
noun. Mining. a rich or important lode. a major or profitable source or supply: New York City is a mother lode of actors. mother lode. noun. mining the principal lode in a system.
: the place where the largest amount of gold, silver, etc., in a particular area can be found — usually singular. a gold miner who struck/hit the mother lode [=who found the place containing the largest amount of gold] — often used figuratively.
a place that has very large supplies of a mineral or other natural resource: The Pacific Northwest has been the motherlode of the nation's aluminum output for 60 years. Cairn Energy recently struck the motherlode of oil fields in India.
Mother Lode Country, gold rush belt, stretching through the Sierra Nevada foothills in central California, U.S. About 150 miles (240 km) long but only a few miles wide, it extended north and northwest from the vicinity of Mariposa through Tuolumne, Calaveras, Amador, El Dorado, Placer, and Nevada.
