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Probe to be launched into space to mine ASTEROIDS

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Channel: Healing Frequencies · 2016 · Entertainment

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Probe to be launched into space to mine ASTEROIDS for trillions of pounds worth of metals

A PROBE will be launched into space to mine ASTEROIDS for trillions of pounds worth of minerals.
The small European country Luxembourg – which has a population of just 543,000 – says that it wants “to stimulate economic growth on Earth and offer new horizons in space exploration”.

Many asteroids are rich in a mineral called platinum, of which there isn’t that much of on Earth.

Platinum is extremely valuable and costs around $1million (£686,982) per one thousand cubic centimetres. To put that into perspective, an asteroid recently passed Earth that had £3.7trillion worth of platinumLuxembourg’s Deputy Prime. 

Minister and Minister of the Economy Etienne Schneider said that his government will work alongside satellite operator SES and two US companies – Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries – to make the challenging feat possible.

Planetary Resources, which is backed by Google co-founder Larry Page, said that asteroids are “the low-hanging fruit of the solar system."

They added: “A single 500-metre platinum-rich asteroid contains more platinum than has been mined in the history of humanity.”

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