New great gold discovery during WWII

What do you think what would have happened, if one had discovered
new great gold deposit e.g from Canada or Alaska during WWII.
How much would the Axis have been interested in that gold. Could this have influenced to Japan's military plan so that it would have tried landing to North American.
 

Macragge1

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Whether they wanted to land in North America or not, they couldn't, under any circumstances, even consider it.

Besides, supposing that they SOMEHOW managed this and they found and mined the resource - before the Americans or Canadians beneath whom it sat - no-one would be willing to trade with such pariahs and it be an untold waste of resources for absolutely no gain.

Brings a whole new meaning to the term 'fool's gold'.
 
Japan logistically couldn't even land in Hawaii, there is no way they'd make it all the way to the mainland. The Japanese military was overstreached as it was.
 
A better what if would IMHO be if there was a major oil strike in Libya or Turkey in 1940 thru 42. Libya would see a bigger amount of troops from Italy and Germany and more offensive action from the British to take them.
Turkey would bring German and Russian interest escpecially after the start of Barbarossa. Might see Turkey get preemptively invaded by the USSR and Britain to keep the Germans from invading and capturing the fields.
 
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Wouldn't the gold just cause inflation? Everyone's already producing as much as they possibly can for the war effort. (I suppose the Manhattan Project could use the gold to build more cyclotrons, but then they'd just be limited by electricity...)
 
During the war the US government shut down all US gold mining as a waste of strategic effort. they wanted the miners to dig up copper or lead or iron, things that would be useful to the war effort. Canada or England might mine it to help pay for lend lease but even they would likely leave it till after the war.
 

Shackel

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The rich get richer, I suppose(America).

How much money would come from this gold? If it's enough, we may see the gold standard return in America.
 

Typo

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The rich get richer, I suppose(America).

How much money would come from this gold? If it's enough, we may see the gold standard return in America.
ummmm why?

I don't recall the gold standard being removed due to lack of gold
 
I don't mean to troll or anything, and since it seems that this question is fairly moot, I just wanted to share the first thing to came to mind when I saw it -

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GOLD!! Heee hee!!! GOLD!
 
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