[ExI] Space Mining

[Adrian Tymes]

There are firms trying to make it happen today.  Even I have developed a
bit of relevant tech.  The main barrier is, of course, the continued high
cost of launching hardware to survey and then to mine.

On Sun, Mar 31, 2024, 4:15 AM Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> So nearby they are reopening a gold mine using cyanide to bleach the
> miniscule amounts of gold out of the ore in open top but lined pits.
> As I think through whether this is a good or bad thing for our part of
> the country, I wonder when does the EXL community think asteroid
> mining might actually start to happen.
>
> Personally, I can't imagine it being more than 24 years out, the
> lifespan of this locally proposed mine.
>
> -Kelly
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