From James Wilson spacetrader.net/ Hi all, I have 3 meteorites on hand for analysis. anybody interested?...
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From James Wilson spacetrader.net/ Again I have 3 nice sized meteorites on hand if anybody wants to try to analyse them. Question, in this forum (Neamines)...
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... That is in fact the first question to be answered. What do we need? Does it exist? Then how do we get it? Is it viable to proceed? .... Debi-Lee -- ...
... Cool beans, or maybe hot rocks. Someone else offered some too. I expect that it will be a year before we are ready to do that. We need to decide what...
Here's another issue we would need to figure out. We are still collecting topics and issues before digging into one or the other, right?: a) How do we get...
I guess we will be using the Mond process on the M-asteroids. I wonder what exactly will it be that we boost off from there. Pure bullion in inconel aeroshells...
Hi all, We're already digging into some issues. Very good. However, I would like to go off working on an issue while having a rough overview of the many...
You know, the more I look at CVD aluminum deposition the more I think we need to forget all this, just melt and mix the alloy and push into a mould like a...
Ueli, To answer some of your questions: 1) Precious Materials spot prices futures history, etc www.kitco.com 2)Processes are different for different metals,...
Ueli, Just on the database of the NEAs, we need to talk about grades of material (grams/tonne, or %) and recoverable reserves. We would also need to know our...
... From James Wilson spacetrader.net/ 2 meteorites from Diablo Canyon 35 miles east of Flagstaff Arizona Iron with microscopic diamonds, flaky. I also have...
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James Wilson Spacetrader currency exchange rates and silver gold and platinum prices http://www.xe.net/ucc/ Why are we doing this? To expand humanity into...
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I agree, gold really isn't valuable enough to our first priority. Though I am not sure what is. Gold mining is the examples that I know about because that is...
What to go after? Platinum group metals: platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, irridium, osmium They can all be extracted using the modified Mond process....
Being a related group are they often found together? And detected by similar means? ... -- _____________________________________________________ Debi-Lee...
Rob, Is it possible to detect them remotely, say be sprectrum from a laser or something like that? Or is it a general assumption that all type M NEAs will be...
I'm really researching existing knowledge. I have a paper on extracting platinum group metals using a modified Mond process. The normal Mond process uses pure...
Hi I was just thinking about how the ores/allows etc will be brought down to earth. This could turn out to be a major problem. For safety reasons a large...
Hi Shaun, Read the paper I wrote for the 2005 Mars Society convention. http://www.marshome.org/files2/Asteroid-Mining.ppt We can't afford to send a space...
Rob, Couldn't we use an inflatable heat shield design and bounce the package, or use a tail with maybe a couple a retros, etc. I also agree, expect to pay a...
... Now you're getting completely away from the principle of making in space everything you return to Earth. I'm not comfortable with sending a little...
Guys, Looks like others have thought a bit about it, to the point of keeping unpublished databases of significant details, like DeltaV, composition, and...
Damon, (Sorry folks, this is a long one on organizational strategy for us, because I think this is important. I hope it helps) Thanks for your ideas on how to...
... Taking this one step further and considering that the bullion may be riding the gravity contours I referenced over the weekend. We may want to /have to...
... <snip> ... It always surprises me when people get concerned about security when no one is around. Stuff doesn't walk off by itself. The remoteness gives ...
Thanks for the replies I think Robert's idea of trying to simplify the system using aeroshells is great, but I am not sure that we can use genesis as proof...
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