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The process or industry of obtaining inorganic resources from a location.
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Possibility of forced labour on a comet
Depends on the style of prison
You could quite reasonably have a setting where comets (or asteroids) are mined for water ice and other elements. Say the lunar water turns out difficult to exploit, th …
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Can humans survive using only minerals as food?
No
Humans must consume complex organic chemicals, like proteins and amino acids. A more advanced technology might be able to synthesize them, but so far we need plants to provide them at all, and we n …
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Using a quarry as a water reservoir
If it was possible to mine the quarry out, the flooding during the mining operations must have been manageable. …
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How would an underground civilization that mines deal with mine tailings?
A Zero-Sum Game
You have an initial volume. As you dig a new mine shaft, the tailings go into an old mine shaft and the metal goes into the living areas. If the tailings have roughly the same density …
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What role do chain gangs play in a technologically advanced iron mine?
Different scenario, and possibly incompatible with your desired look-and-feel: The company is open-pit mining and it promised the government to leave exhausted mines in a proper state. … Not mining work, technically, but possibly better suited to people than to robots. …
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How to decide if a Planet is better off to be Terraformed or Stripmined?
If it is a planet, terraform.
Sure, hollow habitats are neat, but if you have the tech and energy budget that there is a genuine choice to strip-mine a planet, you are rich enough to afford the luxur …
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How could an alien mine exist under a planet's surface without humans detecting it from above?
Planets are big. Incredibly big.
Sure, the colonists would have advanced sats in orbit, and advanced expert systems to analyze the imagery for clues, but there are likely many false positives to check …
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