The Moon holds Helium-3, gold, and rare earths, with 100+ companies racing to mine them. But is lunar mining truly viable, and when is the right time for VCs to bet on it? 🚀
Market volume of precious metals worldwide is about 45,000 tons. While our point on lunar mining case is optimistic, I don't think that its scale of operations will significantly impact market prices anytime soon.
Helium-3 is a different story, though. Hard to predict that.
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A very comprehensive analysis of the potential of the lunar economy, from a trusted team. Thanks for sharing!
Thx! For the analysis. I'm curious if you've estimated the impact on process from the mining itself?
Thanks for the feedback! I didn't quite understand the question - what do you mean by the impact on process?
If it's about adapting raw materials processing tech for the Moon, we didn't estimate that separately
Darnit typo: impact on prices!! I.e. as these rare elements become common what happens to their prices...
Market volume of precious metals worldwide is about 45,000 tons. While our point on lunar mining case is optimistic, I don't think that its scale of operations will significantly impact market prices anytime soon.
Helium-3 is a different story, though. Hard to predict that.
Y I wasn't thinking about the aggregate but about the specific metal by metal prices for the rare ones where it makes sense to ship them back to earth