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To: Robert DeLong

“No I understand perfectly, but if large quantities are found close enough to make it profitable then a glut would become the reality. “

You don’t understand. The only quantities close enough are under your feet.


17 posted on 05/13/2019 8:57:07 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: TexasGator

I did a project at a very rich gold mine in a remote area of Indonesia. The stuff they were putting in their waste piles was at the same percentage of what we mine in the USA!

But - it was so expensive to get it from the mine down to the port, and then onto ships to the processing plants (in Japan??) it wasn’t worth it. Only the high-grade stuff made it.

Even if one-pound nuggets of gold were scattered across the surface of the moon it probably wouldn’t be cost-effective to bring it back to earth. For sure not if they were on Mars.

I’m guessing a pound of water on Mars would be worth more than a pound of gold too!


20 posted on 05/13/2019 9:14:10 PM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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