Actually the number in Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining is even larger than that: $20,000,000,000,000 .
This amount seems so large that I would expect metal prices to decrease substantially, but even if they would do so, the potential value is huge when someone finds a commercially viable manner to extract and especially fetch the ore.
I hope the front page would be utilize some graphics. See this image for AGI risks: http://lesswrong.com/lw/mid/agi_safety_solutions_map/
If there would be similar graphics which you can press on, that would be great.