Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-34633327-20180125034140/@comment-27144409-20180213032134

No. That's not the case.

They never said anything about Yale's deposits running dry, just that Roman was stealing so friggin' much that prices were skyrocketing, and fear could do most of the heavy lifting there.

Vaccuo has suffered from over-mining, but that's been hurting the environment more than anything. The known deposits are still producing, without evidence to the contrary, and who's to say there isn't more Dust to be found beneath the sand?

Atlas is the only one stated to have depleted a deposit.

The bigger problem would be the loss of their preexisting stockpiles, which would have already been mined and refined, their infrastructure, for manufacturing materiel, and their troops.