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Hi, this is what I've been using. Comments at the bottom.
Austria: Horn: 9 Oil, Vienna: 7 Oil, Graz: 10 Oil: New fields were brought on during the war. Source US Strategic Bombing Survey
Canada: Fort George: 30 Rubber: Bauxite
Chile: Antofagasta: 35 Rubber: Phosphates
France: Tafilelt: 30 Rubber: Phosphates
Hungary: Debrechen: 10 Rubber: Bauxite
Jamaica: Strike local Bauxite here, the mines were post-war development.
Mexico: Hermosilla: 20 Steel & 5 Rubber: Copper & precious metals
Portugal: Porto: 18 Rubber: Tungsten
Spain: Villacisneros: 25 Rubber: Phosphates, Burgos: 20 Rubber: Tungsten
USA: Cheyenne, Helena, Boise, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas: 2 Rubber each (alloy metals, precious metals and uranium), Denver: 10 Rubber rubber (alloy metals and precious metals), Miami: 50 rubber (phosphates), Phoenix: 50 steel and 10 rubber (copper and precious metals)
USSR: Magadan: 10 Rubber: Komsomoltsk na-Amure & Tahe: 5 rubber each: Bologur, Norilsk, Dalnegorsk, Birobidzjan, and Borzja 2 rubber each (alloy metals and precious metals)
Comments:
- General & overarching comment is we have pretty hard conversions for the basic materials. However, how many tons of tungsten or bauxite or molybdenum = 1 ton of rubber and the rest of the conversions are pretty soft.
- This makes the USA and USSR stronger with some rubber. That is an adverse play balance effect. However, it puts resources in what had been mostly empty provinces so if the game gets into those regions, there is an extra and historical reason to be fighting there instead of just occupying territory. That's a plus.
- Better research makes for better numbers. Some of the data above suggests that the bauxite numbers ought to be re-balanced. Some brief googling I did this morning showed that some Bauxite was mined in metropolitan France, but then deposits in French Guinea were found. I don't know when those were exploited.
- Phosphates mostly go into fertilizer which is about as far from Rubber on the industrial tree as you can get, but it is critical for artificial fertilizers which keep the yield up per acre. All the rubber in the world isn't any good if you don't have enough to eat.
Thanks for the US metals link. This is a good breakdown for the 1930s. I've found other data tracking coal, oil, and other macro statistics that paint a picture where the Recession of '38 dramatically depressed US economic activity and once re-armament took off in 1941, the raw material production statistics in the US rose by 20% to 50% to support the massive GDP increases that went along with the war effort. In the specific case of the Arizona copper industry, it peaked just before the Depression and took a dramatic tumble in the 1930s. The war then brought new production highs before the shift to lower cost, non-domestic sources started to erode the industry in the 1950s.