It’s seems to be that gold is pretty common to find in the ancient world regardless of the culture. Statues, jewelry, clothing, etc. However gold just doesn’t seem to be all that abundant. So what happened? Why did gold become so much more rare as time went on, or has it always been this rare? Where were all the major gold mines in the ancient world and are they depleted?
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In addition to what everyone else is saying, yes, mines get depleted. All the easy gold has been dug up already. The gold they’re digging up now is deeper down or otherwise hard to reach, or the individual pieces of gold are microscopic so it take special processing to get it out of the rock.
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