black gold
Noun
Meaning
(informal, idiomatic) Raw petroleum; crude oil.
Black pepper, in the context of being a historically valuable spice.
Black-coloured gold, variously produced by patination, deposition, oxidation, etc. and used in jewellery or in high-technology applications.
Coal.
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Examples
To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
Added to this, the API reported a crude build of inventories for the past week, leading the black gold to fall through the $45 handle.
And apparently they have had their own environmental disaster long before all that "black gold" started spilling into the Gulf.
There's your cup of black gold, and you didn't even need mess with a tangled sleeping bag.
The “Kirill Lavrov” is one of two giant tankers that ferry the black gold to land.
Ultimately, IS is a cancer of modern industrial capitalism in meltdown, a fatal by-product of our unwavering addiction to black gold, a parasitical symptom of escalating civilisational crises across both the Muslim and Western worlds.