hit/strike paydirt
Meaning of paydirt in English
(Definition of paydirt from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of paydirt
paydirt
Conflict issues include choppy seas, poor underwater visibility, inconsistent fuel delivery, personnel issues, mining location rights, sufficient paydirt discovery, diver safety, and ocean-damaging equipment failures.
Heavier minerals, principally gold and fine-grained black sands (various iron minerals) are separated from the paydirt and reconcentrated by this means.
The fleet each typically consists of a sluicing apparatus, a means of paydirt collection (dredge), and a cold-water-diving life support system.
The bandits, thinking the gold dust is just worthless sand used to make the bundles of skins they were hidden in seem heavier, scatter the paydirt.
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