Mother lode (disambiguation)

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