Why Mine C-Type Asteroids?

Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Why Mine C-Type Asteroids?

# 12067 bysraj99@... on Aug. 2, 2011, 7:55 a.m.
Member since 2021-10-03

Because of their composition, C-Type asteroids make ideal sources for
strategic metals. Besides iron (which makes up about 22% by weight of a
typical C-Type asteroid), most have high concentrations of such important
and/or valuable materials as aluminum, magnesium, nickel, cobalt, platinum,
and titanium ...
http://www.goldprice.com/detail.asp?id=platinum199

(Surely a lot of these asteroids would have crashed on the Moon.)

Selvaraj