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Time to put my chemistry to use for something other than covering up the ugly spot in the wallpaper!
Prussian white isn't really a thing a thing you dig up, it's a thing you make in a lab or a factory. The nice thing is that you can make it from basic components and basically at room temperatures It's just sodium, iron, carbon, nitrogen and manganese. Those are incredibly common elements and easy to find anywhere on earth.
Synthesis probably involves some solvents and acids, but nothing overly dangerous. You can make this stuff in a very basic lab with moderately basic precursors.
(although industrial size synthesis is very different from what people publish papers on, so take all this with a grain of salt)
A surprisingly large number of "chemical reactors" are literally that, but with metal instead of glass beakers.