| This province is among the leaders in lode gold production and is also a significant source of placer gold. |
| The total production for the entire lode amounted to 1,080,628,993 pounds of copper. |
| The vernacular provided Shakespeare with a mother lode of new words, and he used his imagination to build up his vocabulary. |
| The mine is well known for the rare secondary copper minerals that occur in the lode, including paramelaconite, cuprite, malachite, and dioptase. |
| That final resting place of ponderous pachyderms would be, for the unscrupulous and disturbingly clean bad guy, the mother lode of ivory. |
| By 1952 an improved grade of ore was encountered, and the lode was mined until 1956, when ore reserves were exhausted. |
