“You put a gold asteroid in orbit to mine. The price of gold plummets”
“Four People Who Single-handedly Caused Economic Crises”
https://smartasset.com/insights/four-people-who-singlehandedly-caused-economic-crises
Mansa Musa is there along w/ Charles Ponzi, Nero and Jay Gould.
Funny thing about Musa is that, while this article states that he inadvertently caused tremendous inflation by dropping so much gold into Egypt & the MidEast, it doesn’t note that at the same time he enriched Italian traders who operated beyond the inflationary impact.
The dude may well have created modern Europe, lol.
SunkenCiv, you may have fun w/ this one.
The entire pile of gold ever mined on Earth, if made into a cube, would be about 70 feet on a side. It would be astonishing if a single particularly rich in gold asteroid didn't exceed that. However, history shows that there's never enough gold -- large gold strikes (including the first place to make coin, ancient Lydia) result in rising demand.