like gold dust
mainly UKsaid about something that is very difficult to get because a lot of people want it:
Tickets for the concert are like gold dust.
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Geology: mineralogy
- concentrate
- crude
- crystal
- crystalline
- deposit
- fool's gold
- gold dust
- golden
- graphite
- magnesium
- mica
- mineral
- mineralogist
- mineralogy
- nugget
- pyrite
- seam
- silicate
- silicon
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Scarce, inadequate and not enough