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[โ€“] jaykrown@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

The mountain gold itself has no value until extraction begins and the gold is applied to help benefit someone's life. The value of something is derived from a human directly benefiting from it. Only until the lithium is mined and used to do something that helps improve someone's quality of life then it hasn't realized its value yet.

[โ€“] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

So if you are that dude with the mining rights, you would sell them at the same price before and after discovering the gold right? Since the discovery of gold hasn't changed its value.