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gold mine

noun
 
 

Definition

[C] a place where gold is taken from the groundMining and quarrying [S] something that produces wealth or information: The archive is a gold mine for historians.Profits and losses
(Definition of gold mine noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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