Their gold mines had already been mined out, and now Robb would've had extended supply lines he'd have to defend. ... but I think the Lannisters would have been severely damaged by it becoming public knowledge that the mines were dry. ... setting up the assault on Casterly Rock in the beginning of The Rains of Castamere was a brilliant move as ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Yeah but casterly rock in the show is just a regular ass castle. They couldn't really do the version from the books, kinda like the iron throne itself. The castle that the unsullied take from Jaime and Bronn in season 6 is the canonical casterly rock, and there's no way in 7 hells that thing is taller than the wall.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The Lannister's mines close to Casterly Rock are rich in gold, but so are/were the mines of Castamere, Golden Tooth, and a few other places. The Iron Islands are rich in iron (hence the name), but the natives believe most of the mining of it should be left on thralls. KermitMudmaven • 8 yr. ago Yeah, its the smallfolk who do the actual mining.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Casterly rock is home to a gold mine which is where the lannisters get/got their wealth. It may be all but mined out but if its not then the capital is benefiting from it and therefore taking it is of strategic value if not only morale value. ... The mines being dry only means no new gold is coming in. Chances are Casterly Rock still contains ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377THEY ARE LANNISTERS OF CASTERLY ROCK. Sons of his father. They would NEVER let Casterly Rock, the visible head of House Lannister's power fall. And as Tywin did, they would NEVER let the realm know the mines have run out cause they would lose a great deal of respect and ability to command respect and loyalty.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The castle is, also literally, a gold mine — one of the bestproducing mines in the country, in fact. That gold mine is where the Lannisters get all their money from. But there's a key...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Tyrion didn't know that Casterly Rock's mines had run dry. Even Cersei didn't know before Tywin told her in Season 4. ... "The Rock" may have had gold mines, but that's not the only thing that made it valuable. There's lotsa keeps scattered throughout the kingdoms that don't produce gold, either. There are plenty of other advantages to owning it:
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377In a key scene, Tywin Lannister tells his daughter Cersei the family's real dirty little secret: they're broke. The family had once mined gold as a source of its wealth. Not anymore. "Our last ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The gold of the west has traveled far, and the maesters know there are no mines in all the world as rich as those of Casterly Rock. We unfortunately have no information on how much gold Casterly Rock produces, but the best gold mine in our world, the Grasberg Gold Mine in Indonesia, produces roughly 2 million ounces of gold per year.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Dave Hill " Casterly Rock " is the third short of the seventh season of Histories Lore. It is the hundred and tenth short of the series overall. It was released on December 12, 2017 in Game of Thrones: The Complete Seventh Season. It was narrated by Nikolaj CosterWaldau as Jaime Lannister and written by Dave Hill . Contents 1 Premise 2 Narration
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Casterly Rock came into view over the horizon on a . It would only be swift travel from here, and wheels found better footing among the holdfasts that littered the valley dubbed Pride's Rest. Watchtowers loomed over the goldroad, and no doubt a hunded down from their pastures to watch the glimmering wheelhouses passing by and the ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377There is no strategic value. It's the gold that's in it. There is so much gold in that mountain that it has been mined for thousands of years and still hasn't run out of gold. The Rock is literally famous even in the Slave Cities, and maybe even Yi Ti. Whoever holds Casterly Rock has access to the best gold mines, arguably, in the whole of ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Casterly Rock has been measured at three times the height of the Wall or Hightower of Oldtown. ... They haven't been the richest in years according to Tywin since their gold mines haven't been giving any gold and are in debt to the Iron Bank. I hope we see a run down castle. ... Unless they let go the rock (since its dry of gold anyway) for the ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377You'd have find the mass of the Rock from its dimensions and density of the rock that forms it. Keep in mind it should be a rock type that commonly bears gold. So 2200' x miles 2 = 12,000,000,000 m 3. Times the density of granite a common gold bearing rock = 13 kg.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Not knowing about the gold mines running dry, Tyrion never expected that Cersei would abandon Casterly Rock as a worthless target, instead shifting the bulk of the Lannister forces to take Highgarden from Olenna and seize their food and wealth. Olenna laments that her prize mistake was being unable to imagine what Cersei would be capable of.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Casterly rock had no value since the gold mines had run dry. I don't believe Tywin would have sent Jaime there. Well the mines of Casterly Rock running dry is a show only invention but even with that Casterly Rock is still the capital of the richest realm in the seven kingdoms (that is a lot of tax) and overrules the nearby Lannisport while ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Adaptational Wimp: Tywin reveals that the last of Casterly Rock's mines have run dry, meaning the Lannisters have lost their reputed source of power. No such case happened in the books. ... Mock Millionaire: Tywin reveals in Season 4 that the gold mines ran dry three years ago and the family has been forced to take loans from the Iron Bank to ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Even if Casterly Rock mines and treasury are dry (we have no indication of this as far as I can remember), the Lannisters would still be massively wealthy in land, liquid assets, and tax income. And loans, such as the crown debt of 3 million gold dragons owed to the Rock.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377And inside? Yes, the Lannister stronghold has all the passages, halls, stairs, caves, mines, galleries, tunnels, chutes, and wells that Gibraltar has. and more, and more, and more. It is thousands of years older, after all." And as all of you know the Lannister gold is all but gone so to me that means that The Rock is now hollow.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377261 Posted September 3, 2014 Gold Mines, lots and lots of gold mines in the west. Casterly Rock is on top of a Gold Mine, Castamere was a gold mine. Matter of fact I think it states that the majority of the gold mines in Westeros reside in the Westerlands. aryagonnakill#2 Members Posted September 3, 2014
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Casterly Rock. Second largest city in Westeros nearby, a literal gold mine, massive and impregnable, somewhat more central than Oldtown, none of that spooky ancient bullshit that's going on with the Hightower, more distance from the grey rats' nest. ... Gold mine ran dry
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Casterly Rock's famous gold mines had run completely dry. Even the most experienced miners and groundlisteners emphatically stated that the mines were empty. Unknown to Tyrion at the time, his father had subsequently, and covertly, executed every miner and supervisor they employed in their mines so as to not spread rumor at the loss of their ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Mr Smith Gender:Male Location:Australia Members 574 Posted May 5, 2014 Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember nothing in the book that suggests the mines under Casterly Rock were running dry. Probably not a terrible change to make, and a nice metaphor for the eventual disintegration of Lannister power, but a radical change none the less.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377But now the mines are dry and Casterly Rock just that; a rock. Our gold has passed into legend just like the merciful huntsman and Lann the Clever. Are the Lannisters broke in the book? Well, GRRM's reading from The World of Ice and Fire confirms that the Lannisters aren't broke. The mines haven't emptied, and are considered the best in ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Although it's incredibly important to the politics of "Game of Thrones," there's a major location we have yet to see in the HBO show: Casterly Rock. The seat of House Lannister, Casterly Rock was referred to by Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) as the true seat of power in Westeros. The Lannister homestead is the site of Lannister wealth, and House Lannister has been lending all kinds ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The stone has been mined for thousands of years, so there are hundreds of mineshafts in the depths of the Rock, as well as yet untouched gold veins. [3] The face of the mount has windows and arrow slits scattered all over, they look small from the outside but it is only an illusion due to the huge size of the Rock.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377GRRM's New NotABlog Post on Casterly Rock. Recently (December 23, 2022), ... Me pet theory until we see otherwise is that those mines have been tapped out and empty of gold for a few generations now and the family lives on collected taxes and their reputation/perceived wealth. George gives us a taste/hint of this with Xaro's empty vault in Qarth.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The gold under Casterly Rock is said to be Corlos Casterly's reward from the gods. Whether this is true or not, it doesn't stop it from being an incredible stroke of good luck that whoever controls the castle basically controls the economy of Westeros. ... (Though Tywin's talk of the mines running dry back in season 4 certainly raises some ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377House Lannister is one of the Great Houses of Westeros. Their lands are in the far west of the continent. Their seat is Casterly Rock, a castle on a rocky promontory overlooking the Sunset Sea. It overlooks the thriving city of Lannisport and sits atop the most productive gold mine in the Westerlands. [3]
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