[Pikachu_Dad]

Once that much metal becomes available, the price will drop to cheaper than water !

[dfwgator]

Earth First!

_{We'll mine the other planets later}

[HamiltonJay]

Exactly first movers might make some serious cash... but just like Aluminum used to be costly to produce and rare... today it costs 1/10th the cost of tin, because it is plentiful and an easy inexpensive way to produce it was created.

[Red Badger]

A Cartel of Space Miners will withhold much of the metals to keep the prices high.................

[Leaning Right]

Once that much metal becomes available, the price will drop to cheaper than water ! <

Yep. At one time pure aluminum was more valuable than gold. Then some clever fellow figured out how to cheaply extract aluminum from aluminum ore.

[freedumb2003]

>>Once that much metal becomes available, the price will drop to cheaper than water !<<

The cost of retrieval and processing, as well as quantity manipulation, will keep that from happening for quite some time.

[neverevergiveup]

Yep.

[tom paine 2]

Re: A Diamond as Big as the Ritz.

[Boogieman]

Yes, unfortunately you don’t have to understand Econ 101 concepts like “supply and demand” in order to be a science writer or a pop culture “science expert”.