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Asteroid
3554 Amun
| The NEA Asteroid 3554 Amun is two
kilometer in diameter and is about the size of a typical open-pit mine. It
has a mass of thirty billion (30,000,000,000) metric tons. Assuming the
composition of a typical iron meteorite, the following metals could be
obtained:
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$8 Trillion |
Iron and Nickel |
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6 Trillion
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Cobalt |
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6 Trillion
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Platinum Group including: platinum,
osmium, iridium, palladium, etc |
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Platinum Group including: platinum,
osmium, iridium, palladium, etc |
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Non-Metallic: carbon, nitrogen,
sulfur, and phosphorus |
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$20 Trillion
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Total Market Value based upon values on
earth |
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This is a small asteroid. There are
millions of asteroids that can be mining. |
There are thousands of other asteroid
waiting to be mined.
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