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The thing about mining that everyone forgets, is that its not enough for the desired element to be present, you also need an energy gradient to drive natural processes to concentrate it into ore.

Mars has this. Actually ALL the same processes as Earth.

Ceres and Luna had radioisotopic heat gradients and hydrothermal systems, so maybe.

Europa and Ganymede have tidal heating and hydrothermal systrems, plus fractional crystalisation of brines in ice diapirs. So maybe, but a bit weird.

Most asteroids are poorly differentiated and probably worthless.

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Daniel Wigton 1y ago

Yup. Just the few that were part of proto planet cores that got blasted are useful, but those very much so.

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Low Information Voter 1y ago

My boss would love to dissolve Psyche in carbonyl. He has done some unpublished research on this, proving the practicality of separating iron, nickel and cobalt carbonyls.

Don't try this at home, though!

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