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On Fri, 2/26/16, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Salvage Operations (and Submarines)
 To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Friday, February 26, 2016, 2:01 PM

 On Feb 26, 2016, at 4:06 AM,
 Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 wrote:

 On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 3:43 AM, Tim <xxxxxx@little-possums.net> wrote:

 . . . should drive the Traveller cost of refining gold to at
 most

 about the current price of copper; something like 1 Cr/kg. .

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 Sure makes buying all those
 primitive potentates a lot easier for the followers of the
 Zhunastu School, don't it? :) 

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 The worlds all those primitive
 screw heads are living on had been colonized by the Vilani
 for at least a couple thousand years, at a significantly
 advanced tech level. 

 Any readily accessible supplies
 of valuable metals had probably been mined out for a long
 time. 
 -- 
 Bruce Johnson

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Yep, esp when you consider the canon '1st Contact' 'tween TerranConfed & 1st Imp.

An terran exploration party encountered an Imp *prospecting* party...

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