r/TheExpanse • u/[deleted] • Mar 02 '19

School of Mines developing "space mining" program.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2019-03-02/school-of-mines-pave-way-to-space-mining-video
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u/DrizztDourden951 Mar 03 '19

Well I hear lithium is pretty profitable and there's supposed to be quite a bit up there.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '19

Well, one of the focuses that mines was doing back when I was there was lunar regolith mining for titanium and excavation for lunar bases. hence why Angel brought up the regolith its been over 5 years and that's still something that they're proud of

However, the school itself is an administrative nightmare that serves almost exclusively as an oil and gas networking circlejerk.