The phrase "a source of riches" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that provides wealth, abundance, or valuable resources.
Example: "The newly discovered gold mine became a source of riches for the local community, transforming their economy."
Alternatives: "a wellspring of wealth" or "a fountain of prosperity".
Originally viewed as an inhospitable wasteland and essentially valueless, now with the melting ice it is seen as a source of riches.
The state has been seen as a protector, and as generous, a source of riches that should be taken advantage of.
Indeed, it appears that wool became such a source of riches for the town that when, in 1496, Henry VII needed to raise money to fight the Scots, he called upon the wool-merchants of Shepton to contribute £10 to the cause: In 1625, a House of Correction was established in Shepton Mallet.
Only Scotland, among the established nations, had visited Samoa in the past decade until the All Blacks' turned up for the first time in July – finally giving something back to a source of such riches.
The delta of his title is a vast tract of land between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers, a source of agricultural riches, particularly cotton, and home to a poor black population whose very privation inspired an impassioned musical culture.Mr Gioia's authoritative chronicle interweaves the steamy character of the delta with the hard lot of its population.
Alaska is viewed by many as a source of mineral wealth, but such riches are finite.
Expectations of a windfall have generated optimism in rural areas throughout the state and among opponents of smoking, who until recently had considered tobacco cultivation a source of anguish instead of riches.
When prominent militants agreed to the amnesty plan, President Umaru Yar'Adua was ecstatic, saying the government would do everything it could to ensure that the region's oil riches became "a source of blessing rather than a curse".
If Houston does not rival New York or Los Angeles as a source of political dollars, it is still considered a big pot of riches, and one where nearly all the major corporations play the game.
The extraordinary cultural diversity that is one of this country's greatest riches can all too easily become a source of ethnic bitterness, of long-held grudges and feuds.
Most people who become rich or advance human well-being do so using other peoples' ideas or those that can be observed in nature -- those people may develop the ideas and give them a tangible incarnation in products and the vehicles to replicate them; but the source of the riches they create is mainly the business gene or collection of business genes they appropriated from elsewhere.
