0 a place where gold is taken from the ground
1 something from which a person, company, etc. can earn a lot of money or that can provide a lot of something that people want:
Manufacturers of computer-aided design systems are competing to take advantage of this potential goldmine.
a goldmine of sth There's a goldmine of multimedia information at the site.
List archives are a goldmine for the specialist tracing his or her memory in vain at the moment of need.
These pages are a goldmine of examples and references to the usage of indefinite pronouns in some well-known, but also many lesser-known languages (244-317).
The bibliography is a true goldmine for future researchers on negation, and there are few inadvertencies.
As most of its historical contributions are based on archival research this volume is a goldmine for new information on specific issues.
This freely available well-organised information is a goldmine resource to those from this region who are new to music technology in general.
It is hardly surprising, then, that this pioneering book demands extremely careful reading before the threads connecting one goldmine of new information to the next can be properly perceived.
It is a must for people aiming to write their own grammar compiler for speech applications, for it contains a goldmine of experience in grammar compilation.
Evidently the author must still be sitting on a goldmine of field research material and one hopes that these riches may find more extensive use in future publications.