Ore vs Motherlode - What's the difference?
ore | motherlode |
Rock that contains utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems which—at the time of the rock's evaluation and proposal for extraction—are able to be separated from its neighboring minerals and processed at a cost that does not exceed those materials' present-day economic values.
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, title= (literally) The main, central lode of a natural resource, near which smaller deposits of the same ore etc. exist.
(figuratively) The main prize, best cut or pick etc. by far, dwarfing all others.
As nouns the difference between ore and motherlode
is that ore is rock that contains utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems which—at the time of the rock's evaluation and proposal for extraction—are able to be separated from its neighboring minerals and processed at a cost that does not exceed those materials' present-day economic values while motherlode is the main, central lode of a natural resource, near which smaller deposits of the same ore etc. exist.ore
English
(wikipedia ore)Noun
Subtle effects, passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}
See also
* (wikipedia "ore")Anagrams
* * ----motherlode
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- ''Once the Western mining company has exploited a motherlode with state of the art equipment, it often abandons the minor lodes to primitive local enterprise
- ''Luckily the philistine castle-burglars missed the motherlode : his lordship's historical memorabilia collection