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The process or industry of obtaining inorganic resources from a location.
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What are some examples of minerals that Earth might require in the future from space?
Some quite rich people are very interested in the possibilities of mining huge quantities of precious metals but, y'know, there's only so much platinum the world needs and one big find could crash the … The benefit in asteroid mining is that the resources you are harvesting are very easily shippable around the solar system, and don't need to be dragged out of a huge, deep gravity well. …
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How would iron smelting work in a planet with no oxygen?
would the ore itself be different in such an environment?
Pretty much all the iron ores on Earth are oxides and hydroxides. No oxygen, no water, no conventional iron ores. (I listed a few of the …
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Logistics of how to mine an asteroid
Someone else will do the mining, and will probably sell you the raw metals on the cheap. … The value of metal will just plummet, so there's simply no reason to worry about mining anything else. …
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Reality Check: Meteor Shower buried supermetal in the earth's crust, that is now being mined...
One magic search phrase you might find useful is strewn field.
The term strewn field indicates the area where meteorites from a single fall are dispersed.
For a real world example, consider the Gibe …
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Where would an interstellar society mine phosphorous and rare earth metals?
If you can afford to fly between stars looking for metals, then you can definitely afford vast solar-powered mining facilities that can do the concentration economically for you. …
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SFR Breeders on Small Mars Moon feasibility
Most (probably all) reactors designed for use on Earth basically require a decent gravitational field in order to stop Unfortunate Things happening like all your coolant floating away, or gravty-assis …
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How do you get steel outside Earth?
You've got more than enough solar power to keep you going, other elements in the asteroids you mine will provide for the rest of the material of your deathstar and for your mining fleet and there'll be … Parallelising your mining, refining and fabrication facilities should be straightfoward. …
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Can cold thrusters be improved for work in space
so why not use sunlight, mirrors, and Al2O3 heat pipes and do heat
You will probably be unsurprised to hear that solar thermal rockets are things that people have thought about before. Most designs …
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Economy of hardened wood versus metal in medieval times
Ironworking requires quite a long and complex process... you need to obtain iron ore somehow (and it needn't always require what you might consider "mining"... consider bog iron, for example) which is …
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