Still waiting on this to happen. This article is from 2012. Hope - TopicsExpress



          

Still waiting on this to happen. This article is from 2012. Hope to see asteroid mining become a reality within my lifetime. Platinum-group metals — ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum — are found in low concentrations on Earth and can be tough to access, which is why theyre so expensive. In fact, Anderson said, they dont occur naturally in Earths crust, having been deposited on our planet over the eons by asteroid impacts. Were going to go to the source, Anderson said. The platinum-group metals are many orders of magnitude easier to access in the high-concentration platinum asteroids than they are in the Earths crust. And there are a lot of precious metals up there waiting to be mined. A single platinum-rich space rock 1,650 feet (500 meters) wide contains the equivalent of all the platinum-group metals ever mined throughout human history, company officials said. - space/15395-asteroid-mining-planetary-resources.html
Posted on: Mon, 19 May 2014 00:25:02 +0000

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