Sources of Hydrogen and Oxygen for settlements

I seem to recall a website that listed NASA data regarding the
chemical properties of Ilmenite, the most common mineral on Luna
(Earth's moon).

If heated in a vacuum, it gives off Hydrogen. However, if heated in
an atmosphere of Hydrogen, it gives off water vapor. Even further
heating would smelt out Aluminium, Titanium, and Silica slag. It is
not certain whether the silica would be useful for making sheets of
glass, but Lunar mining is certainly an option.

By launching these into Earth orbit from the surface of Luna, it will
require only 1/36 the fuel that launching from Earth would require.

It takes a while to dig up the info, but I think I originally found
it at www.asi.org

The whole point is not only souces of hydrogen, but oxygen, water, as
well as metals for building stations, habitats, and space ships in
orbit as opposed to building on earth.

bottom line is the only way we can do this is as a corporate effort,
with some way to generate profit at each stage. Lunar mines would
sell materials for the first true space station to be built in earth
orbit. The station would in turn offer ship construction as well as
scientific returns. The ships, once built, would mine the asteroids
for minerals not common on earth ( for the earth market) and
everything else for the colonial market.

As long as there is a good chance of decent returns, investors can be
found to fund our vision step by step.

-Kimo