Fictional Commodities

Commodities included here have a meaningful relationship to mining or extraction within their setting — this is not a general database of fictional substances. See Fictional for how these are kept separate from the real archive.

Discworld

• Schmaltzberg Fat
  Its own myth of origin is a fifth elephant that fell off the back of the World Turtle and crash-landed on Überwald

Middle-earth

• Mithril
  It was worth ten times its weight in gold while the mine was still working, and 'beyond price' the moment it stopped

Star Trek

• Dilithium
  Whether it's a scarce resource worth fighting over or something you can simply synthesize has changed as the franchise itself has aged
• Latinum
  It is currency specifically because a replicator cannot make it — the one thing in a post-scarcity economy that still has to be dug up