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Originally Posted by JA
So when is an asteroid really valuable: I mean to the tune of 10 Million Trillion Dollars, that's $10,000,000,000,000,000,000? That's many many many times world GDP !!!
It's when it's 220km in diameter and made predominantly of Iron and Nickel and of course you have the gall to mine it. Article follows......
https://za.ign.com/scitech/148347/ne...00-quadrillion
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JA |
At the moment I can't see it ever being economical to mine it.
The Earth has hundreds of years left of iron ore.
Titanium, I don't know much about ,so I looked it up
https://monroeengineering.com/blog/6...other%20metals.
Would it be worth the cost of mining an asteroid
,that is for the future I guess.
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