In the last episode Tywin Lannister mentions that the mines of Casterly Rock have run dry. I am currently in the middle of ADWD and I don't remember.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377A major goldmine is located under Casterly Rock. It is one of the most productive mines in the realm and provides House Lannister with their wealth.
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Yupp, this is a much better style, it has dialogue, and it isn't dry to read either, keep going. Felixx, Feb 21, 2023 #9. Venyr4434 likes this. kaazmiz Waiting ... Steeling my nerves, I responded, "I can only assume this is a gold mine after all, Casterly Rock has the largest reserves in Westeros, if not the known world. This is where the ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377In a major change from the book, Tywin Lannister confided to Cersei in Season 4 that Casterly Rock's gold mines had run dry, relying on the Iron Bank of Braavos to fund their wars. This seemed like a major revelation, one that threatened the power base of the Lannisters and imperiled their dynasty. Instead, this detail faded into the background.
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 18203695377So, I was reading a fic, like, a month ago, and there was this plot point in which Casterly Rock falls and is occupied for a while. So, I know that in the show the gold mines have run dry, but I don't recall something like that being ever mentioned i the books. For all we know, there is still a thousand yearsworth of gold in Casterly Rock.
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 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...
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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 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 18203695377It was said that Casterly Rock overlooks Lannisport, so it must be up high. The castle was also described as having a gold mine underneath it. So I imagine it being a huge mountainous goldmine next to Lannisport with a large castle on top.
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 18203695377natassia74 • 8 mo. ago. For something truly extreme, Tyrion leads a dragon attack on Casterly Rock during which he uses his knowledge of the sewers and tunnels to direct the heat and fire through the very foundations of the bluff/castle. The structure is weakened and collapses, perhaps plummeting into the ocean.
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 18203695377Casterly Rock has been occupied long enough that it's no longer viable as a mine. Frankly Casterly Rock's mines probably went dry long before even Aegon's Conquest. I have a personal theory that there is a store of gold the Lannisters keep locked as a wellspring of money they occasionally tap.
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 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 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 18203695377What if there are no gold mines underneath Casterly Rock. In today's episode Tywin mentions this to Cersei that the last working mine ran dry 3 yrs ago. Was this mentioned in the books? I don't seem to recollect reading this interaction. This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast 226 376 376 comments Best
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 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 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 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 18203695377In the Westerlands: Casterly Rock has a unique modifier. The Golden Tooth, Castle Pendric, and Nunn's Deep all have mining settlement modifiers which give lots of gold. Silverhall does too, but the modifier bonus gives 10% less holding taxes than the others. Castamere is a ruin which can be restored. In the Iron Islands:
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Their 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 .
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Tyrion the Drains of Casterly Rock. Background. While the below might have a little propaganda, Casterly Rock is an extremely strong castle that has never been taken by force (only by Lann the Clever): Casterly Rock has never been taken by storm or siege. No castle in the Seven Kingdoms is larger, richer, or better defended.
WhatsApp: +86 182036953773. lakomadt. • 8 mo. ago • Edited 8 mo. ago. Well you can take it a few different ways. One way with an obvious and straight siege of it. Start by taking Lannisport and cutting off all supplies to Casterly Rock by having your fleet besiege it by sea, this way will take time, but in time it would be forced to surrender.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The Lannisters Of Casterly Rock . ... Midway through Game of Thrones season 4, Tywin informed Cersei that the gold mines had run dry, forcing him to keep the rich Tyrells close. He arranged Cersei ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377So Olenna knows that the Lannisters have No gold. And she doesn't see fit to tell Tyrion. ... If he knew that Casterly Rock ran dry, would he have wasted the Unsullied on taking Casterly Rock? Where would the Unsullied go instead? Jump to content. E03: The Queen's Justice; A Forum of Ice and Fire A Song of Ice and Fire Game of Thrones.
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