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Space mining company AstroForge's Odin launch is suffering from unknown issues as the team scrambles to get in contact with the probe. (www.space.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Those elements may be very prevalent in a very small percentage of asteroids. Yeah, those are probably out there, but you'll have to find them. That'll be a special challenge all on it's own.

But sure if you could find one of those that might be worth bringing back to earth. But as far as dollar value goes, just about any asteroid is probably worth just as much, if you develop the technology to process it in space and then use it for building materials for space stations.

I believe there are three different commercial enterprises currently planning to build private space stations for tourism and science. If you had a company that could only provide 3d printed scaffolding, that alone would be worth tens or hundreds of millions to these companies. If you can do more than just scaffolding, there would be more money in it...