The great secret of mining is that it is the only 100% correlation in economics: when nations mine, they prosper; when they stopped mining, they declined.
The reason is both because a nation needs considerable strength to mine, and that mining creates an economic ripple effect strengthening a nation’s economy.
Ironically, it is almost unheard of for a prospector who discovers a mine to become wealthy. Everybody else benefits, but prospectors don’t.
Interesting Biblical Hebrew tie-ins Edom is the land where Esau settled and the name is related to the Hebrew word for red- A close reader of the Bible might have predicted that the red metal that was essential to the bronze age would have been found there.
Really? Kind of sad.