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The process or industry of obtaining inorganic resources from a location.

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What would be the most expensive material to an intergalactic society?

All in all it depends on what materials they use the most of. If the galactic strip miners use more carbon than they produce then you can bet it will become expensive in very short order! However, if …
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Is it easier to mine asteroids than planets if teleportation technology exists?

When mining in space you’ve already engineered for hard vacuum and presumably varying degrees of sunlight. …
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