Amusingly, “rare earths” are actually concentrated in the crust compared to universal abundance and thus would make awful candidates for asteroid mining, while “tellurium”, literally named after the Earth, is an atmophile/siderophile element with extreme depletion in the crust and one of the best candidates.
Amusingly, “rare earths” are actually concentrated in the crust compared to universal abundance and thus would make awful candidates for asteroid mining, while “tellurium”, literally named after the Earth, is an atmophile/siderophile element with extreme depletion in the crust and one of the best candidates.
Thanks for the pro-tip! I’m not much of a geologist, more of an ideas guy[1] myself.
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