Asteroid mining gets sold as a trillion-dollar gold rush, but the economics point the other way: hauling platinum back to Earth would crash its price, so the only prize that adds up is mining water and burning it as fuel in space

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The trillion-dollar asteroid fortune collapses the moment you do the math on bringing platinum home. The post Asteroid mining gets sold as a trillion-dollar gold rush, but the economics point the other way: hauling platinum back to Earth would crash its price, so the only prize that adds up is mining water and burning it as fuel in space appeared first on Space Daily .