A mother lode is a principal vein or zone of veins of gold or silver ore.
Mother lode or motherlode may also refer to:
Music Motherlode (band), a Canadian pop rock group formed in 1969 Mother Lode (album), 1974, by Loggins and Messina Motherlode (James Brown album), 1988 Motherlode (Sara Hickman album), 2006 "Motherlode", a song by Howe II on their 1991 album Now Hear This "The Mother Lode", a song from Thom Yorke's 2014 album Tomorrow's Modern Boxes
Other uses The California Mother Lode, the main gold deposits of the California Gold Rush Mother Lode (1982 film), an adventure film directed by and starring Charlton Heston Mother Lode (2021 film), a docufiction film "The Mother Lode", an episode of the TV series Prison Break Mother Lode (Methow Mountains), a mountain summit located in the North Cascades, in Okanogan County, Washington The Motherlode, a climbing area in the Pendergrass-Murray Recreational Preserve of Red River Gorge, Kentucky
See also "The Motherload", a 2014 song by Mastodon Super Motherload, a 2013 video game developed by XGen Studios "Mother's Load", an episode of Motherland