Tin in America
This mod adds historical-ish Tin deposits to the Americas. After all, EU5 is a historical sandbox, right? Surely we wouldn’t sacrifice historicity for balance…
Compatible with everything. Does not affect saved games.
Adds Tin to the following locations:
Huaxcama (Zacatecas, Mexico)
Cumaribo (Colombia)
Oruro (Titicaca, Bolivia)
Salta (Argentina)
Koliaganeq (Alaska)
Enjoy your cannons and ships! It complements the vanilla ones pretty well in south America but makes for better North / Mesoamerican and Inca gameplay.
Sources: a 2 hour deep dive in Google Scholar.
Discussion:
The Mexican, Bolivian and Argentinian deposits have definitely been excavated by the Aztecs and Inca respectively. I put in Salta because west of it was a tin mine that may have been a factor for Inca expansion in Argentina.
Colombia had tin mining in the pre-Columbian era but I did not find exact locations. So I picked one where Indigenous peoples perform artisanal mining today.
These civilizations did have metalworking, including making metal tools and weapons. They were, more importantly, status symbols, and were often reserved to the elites.
I’m not sure about Alaska, but I read the region has deposits that were easy to access, so I picked one.
No deposits in Canada and the US were exploited during the time period as far as I found. Same for all the other Bolivian deposits.
