Sovi3t: There is, in fact, a great big vein of mineral wealth buried underneath one of the prime National Parks. Everyone knows it's there, but nobody dares to mine it. Well, nobody [i]respectable[/i] dares to mine it. Illicit and covert mining operations have been going on for years. Many Robotic Intelligences, in fact, owe their lives to this deposit, as it's where the silver that made them came from.

Other than that, there are a couple of much less enticing deposits scattered about. Feel free to mine in Pratchapadri, just beware of the extensive legal environmental impact paperwork that you have to do. Or at least, have to half-heartedly "adhere to" while inspectors are around. Oh, and I expect that I'd be a fairly large customer of yours, heedlessly burning through valuables like my nation does.