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If you think that market prices are a good equalizer for natural resources... you are naive. Companies, moved by the desire of quick profit (and that is true, any accountant of finance manager can tell you that), will not stop increasing the price of actions.
The price will go down when is HARD to obtain a resource. Most of the time, when prodution is low, the speed of extraction increases. But price has no direct relation to the abundance of a resource, only the extraction capacity.
Market != Nature, no matter what ignorant economists (who think they know about ecology) says.