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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rick, post: 50940, member: 1235&quot;]yes and no.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Already there is tons of gold and (especially) silver out there, ready to be mined.&nbsp; In the case of silver, the cost of mining and refining actually exceeds the value of the silver, or so I have heard, so it sits in the ground...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Same goes for gold.&nbsp; There are companies out there who could probably mine gold so fast it would make the market price of gold TUMBLE - but they don&#039;t, because that would ruin their company in the process.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>These materials are vastly more cost effective than mining on an asteroid...&nbsp; Think about the billions of dollars it would take to finance that sort of project - at today&#039;s prices, you would have to mine 2,352,940 ounces of gold for every billion dollars the project costs you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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