Yes, the position of strat resources is determined when the map is first generated. Yes, you can chop down trees and jungle to your heart's content--the resource in question will still appear once you have discovered the requisite technology, even if the land square has been changed from forest/jungle to grassland.
Luck...
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
-- C.S. Lewis
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