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Originally Posted by icarus
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The amount of resources in a single asteroid is enormous, especially if you pick the right asteroid.
However there's a couple of problems that I can think of, the most obvious one being mining... every method we use has been developed over a looong time and with gravity and atmosphere. Mining in microgravity with no atmosphere is so different, I mean you can't even use the same tools because metals will weld to each other in a vacuum (for example).
So there's a lot of work to do just to be able to mine the resources.
And the other thing is if you all of a sudden bring as much platinum into the world market as there already is platinum in the world market, the price isn't going to stay the same.