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noun

Pay rock, Pay dirt n.

(Mining) Earth, rock, etc., which yields a profit to the miner. (Western U. S.)

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pay rock" Quotes from Famous Books

... you had made friends, that you were on pay dirt at Diamond Gully, and that the good Australian sunshine had warmed your heart.' She ...

— In the Roaring Fifties • Edward Dyson

... good diggings at Circle City in Alaska, but nearly all the miners have left for Klondyke, not being satisfied with the pay dirt which they were working. I know at least 20 good claims ...

— Klondyke Nuggets - A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest • Joseph Ladue

... windlass and a pole bucket track. From beneath the windlass issued a cloud of smoke which mounted in billows, as if breathed forth from a concealed chimney—smoke from the smothered drift fires laid against the frozen face of pay dirt forty feet below the surface. Evidently this fire was burning to suit the partners; after watching it a moment, Tom took a buck-saw and fell stiffly to work upon a dry spruce log which lay on the saw-buck; ...

— The Winds of Chance • Rex Beach