If a work site is placed on a gold mine, such as the one at GB8, would you consider that a Luxury or Ore commodity during the resource collection?
I feel like gold, silver, platinum and gems should be luxuries. Whereas iron and copper would seem more appropriate to be considered ore.
What do you guys think?
SH6 mentions that gemstones are mined as luxury items. GB8 doesn't say the same, so I imagine it's still Ore. The Silver in TL1 also says the valuable ore is still just treated as Ore.
I would consider it ORE, because a silver/gold mind does not produce coins, or pieces of fine art. Rather the mine is going to produce gold/silver ORE. ORE which then has to be smelted down.
Now that ORE could then be made into coins, luxury items, etc. But the mine itself is simply making ORE.