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| Well seeing as gold is extremely polluting to extract, the ecological cost is very high, and it isnt as if they can pass the bill to the consumers. The equipment to extract gold is quite expensive and takes awhile to recoup. Many gold mines in the U.S. go bankrupt so as not to pay the huge cleanup.
New mining operations in the U.S. have to work with environmental laws that make the profit margin quite small if any.
I got that info from a book i read recently: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or [ en.wikipedia.org ] |
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| Yeah but some people say that the price of an ounce of gold would go up to 5000$ in the long run (currently 1100$)
I'm not sure what to think about that. If it does though it is more than likely that extracting gold will be a good industry unless the raise in the price of gold is combined with a similar raise in inflation.
I'd like to understand the view that those people have really but I don't Update » DonLouis wrote on Wed Dec 30, 2009 @ 4:30pm Does your book talk about this a little? |
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| If the price of gold where to quadruple because of the factoring in of ecological norms, it would make gold mining ventures less risky, but would the industrial demand for gold at those prices follow if inflation didnt? I'm not so sure...
The book i mentioned isnt so much about the economic weight of gold vs. currency. It has a chapter about the reasons why gold and mining all together is a failing investment in the U.S. though. |
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