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Yeah really. Look at how the Spanish took so much gold from south America that their economy tanked.
It's impossible to assess the worth of a commodity in terms of its scarcity without the extraplanitary cache added in.
Like the price of very rare baseball card would come down a bit if a couple of thousand of that card where discovered.