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Pay streak   Listen
noun
Pay streak  n.  
1.
(Mining) The zone, parallel to the walls of a vein, in which the ore is concentrated, or any narrow streak of paying ore in less valuable material.
2.
(Oil Boring) A stratum of oil sand thick enough to make a well pay.





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"Pay streak" Quotes from Famous Books



... salt water and the world. Pentfield went back to his Bonanza mine, which was many times more dreary than before, and faced resolutely into the long winter. There was work to be done, men to superintend, and operations to direct in burrowing after the erratic pay streak; but his heart was not in the work. Nor was his heart in any work till the tiered logs of a new cabin began to rise on the hill behind the mine. It was a grand cabin, warmly built and divided into three comfortable ...
— The Faith of Men • Jack London


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