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Having said that if you have no source of iron ore and no self sufficient energy production you’re stuffed anyway. The UK ran out of both a fair while ago

• lazide 3mo ago
  Notably, things like that is why they had their colonies.
  • t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
    In fact, during the age of empire Britain exported coal all over the world. That was one resource it did have. Cotton was another matter.
    • lazide 3mo ago
      It still has 3+ billion tons of coal reserves - no one wants to burn them though, apparently.
• t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
  Britain didn't run out of coal, it's just in deep seams that are uneconomic to extract compared to strip-mined lignite. Newcastle is proverbially built on top of the stuff. Although renewable energy sources and electric arc furnaces that consume scrap are preferred these days.