gold

https://www.mining.com/web/uganda-says-exploration-results-show-it-has-31-million-tonnes-of-gold-ore/ Assuming this extraordinary claim is true, Britain will have access to 12 trillion dollars in today's prices worth of gold. I expect the logistical technology, extraction, refinement, etc will...

The Mining Act of 1872 established American citizens' right to stake mineral claims on the public domain - something that had previously been ambiguous-to-illegal on the federal level despite a few decades' worth of gold rushes in the West. Recently I've come across suggestions in a few sources...

What if there was not a gold standard in the early 1900s US (it was a hybrid gold/silver system or the modern fiat currency?) I've heard that the gold standard made the Great Depression worse.

The Dutch explored the western part of Australia in OTL and found it pretty uninmpressive and didn't do anything with it. What if Abel Tasman instead of ending up in New Zeeland maps the southeastern part of Australia, the coast of modern day Victoria. The pleasant climate and huge natural...

OTL, to say America has been the most powerful nation in the new world goes without saying, and giving DC a rival is a popular discussion on this thread. For me the idea is usually Mexico or Brazil, but i wonder, could Argentina become a latin american rival to the US? Here are the factors i...

What if, for some reason, Spain never conquers the Aztecs or Inca? (Most likely POD, Cortez dying, and no conquistadors come for some ASB reason), and the Spanish never gains the Large amount of New World wealth of Gold and Silver? There can be those countries who can still get rich off of...

In order to shore up the problem of outflow of gold and silver to pay for silk and spices from the east, would it be plausible for an emperor to move away from a gold/silver standard currency? Would the users accept it? How difficult would it be to persuade people to see past the intrinsic...

Jan Pieterszoon Coen was an officer of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Indonesia in the early seventeenth century. He was the founder of Batavia, the capital city of the Dutch East Indies. Coen was known in his time on account of strict governance and harsh criticism of people who did...

Simply put, if gold and diamonds hadn't been discovered in the 1800s, what impact would that have had on the Orange Free State and Transvaal? Would the British still have fought two wars to exert authority over them if the mineral discovery had been delayed until the 1900s? Would the two...

After researching on economic matters in WWI I've lost a little sanity and gained a headache. So perhaps I would ask you. 1) What were advantages and disadvantages of bimetallism? 2) How come fiat money are better in crisis times (for governments)? Was it so when the coast is clear? 3) Was there...

For those who don't know, @King of the Uzbeks is doing a really good TL on how the Tawantinsuyu Empire might have avoided conquest by the Spanish (at least in the 1530's). OTL, one of the biggest consequences of this conquest began about a dozen years after Pizarro's Conquest (or 1545), with the...

The main goal for colonization of the Philippine archipelago was to gain access to China for importing porcelain for American colonies and Spain and exporting silver to China. What if the Spaniards explored more the archipelago and settle in areas like in Mindoro or Butuan and there, stumbled...