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Pay rock   Listen
noun
Pay rock, Pay dirt  n.  
1.
(Mining) Earth, rock, etc., which yields a profit to the miner. (Western U. S.)
2.
A discovery, especially after an exploratory process, which yields a profit or sought-after benefit; used especially in the phrase "to hit pay dirt".





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"Pay rock" Quotes from Famous Books



... of this excitement, but if you think so, you are mistaken, so I will clear your mind and vindicate myself. A year ago last spring my brother, myself, and five other men came out here to prospect for gold. After we had prospected all over the country, we discovered this gulch, and we struck good pay dirt in the first hole we sank. We fixed up a couple of rockers and went to work, and the first week we took out a hundred dollars to a rocker. I told the boys that this was good enough for me, so each one of us staked off ...
— Chief of Scouts • W.F. Drannan
... the only thing there is to believe. If it weren't true, Marthasa and his wife would have laughed it off as nonsense. Getting all huffy and talking about deportation for cooking up lies is the best proof you could ask for that we hit pay dirt. Don't ask me how I think the Ids could do it. That's what I'm ...
— Cubs of the Wolf • Raymond F. Jones
... can do so if you like, and we will allow you an hour off every few days during the season to work your claims enough to keep possession, and of an evening you can do a bit of washing down below. You will find it good-pay dirt everywhere. At least we did as far as we ...
— In The Heart Of The Rockies • G. A. Henty
... business man in that pretty town took me round the old alluvial diggings and pointed out the most celebrated claims. These (in 1879) were, of course, deserted or left to an occasional Chinese "fossicker," who rewashed the rejected pay dirt, which occasionally has enough gold in it to satisfy the easily-pleased Mongolian. I went with my friend that same day into the Black Horse Mine, and saw quartz crushing for the first time; but, naturally ...
— A Tramp's Notebook • Morley Roberts


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