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		ianai on Nov 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The new 'gold rush' for green lithium Going there, I wonder whether there’s any nearby to earth rocks with large amounts of lithium. That could be a potential big thing for space industry.

CyberDildonics on Dec 1, 2020 [–]

I am going to guess that using 100 year old salt mining methods are cheaper than trying to mine asteroids. Also if asteroid mining were possible, I think gold is going to be first.

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