After watching the www videos ive noticed something rather strange in the commerce window, spain did not have any kind of tungsten production while Portugal have more than anyone! For starters china was the top producer at the time but that line of commerce was cut down for Germany once they went to war with USSR so they had to take it from Iberian peninsula.
Second, even if Portugal had more production of tungsten ore than Spain, Spain itself had a sizeable amount of mines during the war. This was not because Spain lacked tungsten reserves but because there weren't any intensive extracting activity. That changed fast tho, from 6 at the start of the war to more than 100 mines in 1945. Spain accounted for roughly 30-40% of all the tungsten imported by Germany and that's without counting the mineral that came from Portugal through Spain.
Geologically there aren't any differences between Spain and Portugal and both should have roughly the same kind of resource potential with minimal differences. Gibraltar controlling whole Cadiz and parts of Malaga and Huelva is insulting enough but giving to Spain literally no resources? Where you get your data from?
According to this : https://www.google.fi/url?sa=t&sour...CDIwCQ&usg=AFQjCNFTTDWpwIUhsrrANq9_O6aLifNUDw
Portugal production peaked at 500.000 kg and spain production peaked at 250.000 in 1943. Also states that spanish deposits are similar to those of portugal and in the same belt.
So the main difference between both is the scale of operation, which should be much higher in the game, being a major player in tungsten production in europe. Right now its non existant.
Second, even if Portugal had more production of tungsten ore than Spain, Spain itself had a sizeable amount of mines during the war. This was not because Spain lacked tungsten reserves but because there weren't any intensive extracting activity. That changed fast tho, from 6 at the start of the war to more than 100 mines in 1945. Spain accounted for roughly 30-40% of all the tungsten imported by Germany and that's without counting the mineral that came from Portugal through Spain.
Geologically there aren't any differences between Spain and Portugal and both should have roughly the same kind of resource potential with minimal differences. Gibraltar controlling whole Cadiz and parts of Malaga and Huelva is insulting enough but giving to Spain literally no resources? Where you get your data from?
According to this : https://www.google.fi/url?sa=t&sour...CDIwCQ&usg=AFQjCNFTTDWpwIUhsrrANq9_O6aLifNUDw
Portugal production peaked at 500.000 kg and spain production peaked at 250.000 in 1943. Also states that spanish deposits are similar to those of portugal and in the same belt.
So the main difference between both is the scale of operation, which should be much higher in the game, being a major player in tungsten production in europe. Right now its non existant.
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