poor man's gold

Placer Mining

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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gold-bearing gravel.

See: pay dirt(def. 1)

Quotations

1921

Quartz . . . lacks the romantic interest that attaches to "poor man's gold," that is, "pay dirt" on a river bar.

1938

Gold! Lots of it! Placer Gold! Poor man's Gold!