Mother lode (disambiguation)
# 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 (film), a 1982 adventure film directed by and starring Charlton Heston
* "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
