GOLD MINES Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

gold mines

noun

plural of gold mine

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an abundant source the estate sale promises to be a gold mine for antique dealers

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Recent Examples of gold mines China has acquired major gold mines across Latin America, Africa and Asia, according to S&P Global Ratings. — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2026 Its purpose was to serve the silver and gold mines of the San Juan Mountains, but almost immediately the road also began to attract tourists. — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026 The ministry described its copper resources as equivalent to several large copper mines and its gold resources as exceeding those of 10 large gold mines. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026 More than 900,000 people have been displaced, while the region’s gold mines draw workers from a wide area. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 28 Aug. 2026 The governor said armed groups could be using the fires to distract law enforcement from a strategic area where criminal groups profit from gold mines. — ABC News, 25 Aug. 2026 Hollywood sees Reddit and YouTube as gold mines, Shirley Li writes. — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026 Behind the story Ituri, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, is a remote province of forests, green hills and gold mines where weak state institutions and decades of armed conflict have displaced nearly 900,000 people. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 21 July 2026 Streptomyces are bacteria that live in soil and are known as gold mines for antibiotic molecule discovery. — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2026

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That's more in line with tasks that use multipage documents, code repositories, or scientific datasets.

— Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026
Now, agents remove that constraint by searching across repositories and pulling relevant data into the workflow on the user’s behalf.

— Nick Burling, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026

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The impoverished Reds work as slave labor in the mines of Mars, while the super-strong Golds rule the solar system and war on each other.

— Jordan Moreau, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
For example, largely because of the environmental disaster that is Weikuang Dam, the country doesn’t permit the development or operation of stand-alone monazite mines—that is, mines where nothing is mined except monazite ore.

— Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026

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