Without Germany, and even unable to attract European immigrants, the Southern German Kingdom cannot replicate the success that East Africa has experienced, let alone the fact that Southern Germany's other conditions are much worse than East Africa's.
Moreover, although the Southern German Kingdom's resources are relatively abundant, its ability to develop and monetize them is still much lacking. East Africa was able to rapidly accumulate initial development funds largely because Ernst was aware of the general distribution of many minerals in East Africa.
Thus, the early mineral resource exploration in East Africa could be described as a semi-open-book examination. Within the general range defined by Ernst, hiring professional mineral exploration personnel from Europe made it easy to find some sizable mines, the most typical being the copper mines on the Katanga Plateau.
