The Map of Dragaera
Chapter 1 -Steve's Map
Chapter 2 -Speculative Cartography
Chapter 3 -The East
Chapter 4 -The Grand Canal
Chapter 5 -The Eastern River
Chapter 6 -The Kanefthali Mountains
Chapter 7 -Northport
Chapter 8 -Harata
Chapter 9 -Greenaere
Chapter 10 -Elde Island
Chapter 11 -The Southern Coast
Chapter 12 -Daavya
Chapter 13 -Arylle and Luatha
Chapter 14 -Newmarket
Chapter 15 -Whitemill/Gatehall
Chapter 16 -Mistyvale County
Chapter 17 -The Southeast
Chapter 18 -Dragaera City
Chapter 19 -Fornia
Chapter 20 -The Collier Hills
Chapter 21 -Castle Rock
Chapter 22 -The Pepperfields
Chapter 23 -Castle Redface
Chapter 24 -Burz
Chapter 25 -The Ash Mountains
Chapter 26 -Daeld Mountains
Chapter 27 -Kliuev
Chapter 28 -Zerika's Point
Chapter 29 -Miscellaneous Locations
Chapter 30 -The Lay of the Land
Unresolved Issues
Chapter 31 -Blackchapel
Chapter 32 -The Pepper Road
Chapter 33 -The Massacre in Tirma
Chapter 34 -The Holdfree Mines
Chapter 35 -Other Missing Locations (A)
Chapter 36 -Other Missing Locations (B)
Chapter 37 -Other Missing Locations (C)
Chapter 38 -Other Missing Locations (D)
Chapter 39 -Other Missing Locations (E)
Chapter 40 -Other Missing Locations (F)
Chapter 41 -Other Missing Locations (G)
Chapter 42 -Other Missing Locations (H)
Chapter 43 -Other Missing Locations (I)
Chapter 44 -Other Missing Locations (J)
Chapter 45 -Other Missing Locations (K)
Chapter 46 -Other Missing Locations (L)
Chapter 47 -Other Missing Locations (M)
Chapter 48 -Other Missing Locations (N)
Chapter 49 -Other Missing Locations (P)
Chapter 50 -Other Missing Locations (R)
Chapter 51 -Other Missing Locations (S)
Chapter 52 -Other Missing Locations (T)
Chapter 53 -Other Missing Locations (V)
Chapter 54 -Other Missing Locations (W)
Chapter 55 -Other Missing Locations (Y)
Chapter 56 -Other Missing Locations (Z)
Index

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Chapter 34 - The Holdfree Mines

We are told that the only people that live in the central northern portion of the Empire are "hardy" or "foolhardy":

[Winterfish] is used in the region around Finger Cove, east of the Twisted Forest--that is to say, too far north for any but the most hardy of folk, and too close to the Great Sea of Amorphia for any but the most foolhardy ... in the winter when the fish had all gone so far west
The Baron of Magister Valley, Chapter 9

And there are at least two ("various") counties here that engage in mining:

certain pockets above the Great Sea of Amorphia claimed allegiance to the Pretender ... a previous Phoenix Emperor ... took mining rights from various of the counts of the district.
Sethra Lavode, Preface

These mining rights were probably taken from the mines mentioned here:

the mines to the North ... depend on trade with the West to feed the laborers
Five Hundred Years After, Chapter 1

And we are even given a name for these mines:

the Holdfree Mines to the north [of Dragaera City]
Five Hundred Years After, Chapter 11

Here's what the area to the north of the former site of Dragaera City looks like on Steve's Map:

The North
The North

In Release 2 of the Map of Dragaera, I thought the Holdfree Mines were the source of the Adrilankha River, but on Steve's Map, the source of the Adrilankha River is south of the Greater Sea of Chaos and quite a distance to the east.

I was unable to make a convincing argument for where to put the Holdfree Mines, so I have left them off of Release 3 of the Map of Dragaera.


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