Loading ...re. The foreign miners from Canada that branched out to other countries, before the natives bothered to dig.
Its like an apartment where you had cheap rent for a very long time, ($800/mo) and suddenly the land lord finds out he’s too cheap, and can get more, so jacks it up to $1800/mo.
I think we will see a lot of this as populism or independence moves grow. The possible side effect might be less over all production, to keep supplies tighter. Then higher prices, and better profits and higher share prices for the other miners.