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>A mine can deliver so much it deflates prices and drives itself out of business.

Couldn't the owners just ...hoard the extra/throttle the delivery of the supefluous amount to keep prices up?



Yes, but... storing stuff costs money, keeping a mine open and unflooded, etc... costs money, even if you're not doing any mining, etc... Also markets will adjust prices if they know about your stockpile, too.


this is what OPEC does with oil


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