Somebody needs to be offering legitimate and affordable mineral claims to help fund this sort of thing. Obviously the primary financier of the mission would get the biggest share. Its a shot in the dark but lots of people play the lottery.
Yup.
Here's the Big Problem: there is already a treaty covering space and everything in it, signed by the globalists and socialists in your government that considers all the mineral wealth in space to be the property of "all mankind". So in order to "legally" do anything like mine an asteroid, you'll have to pay off the criminals that run the U.N. I can't remember the treaty name, but it is written very similar to LOST. There are folks out there with very long time horizons who have been planning for just this type of thing, and they are going to want their cut.