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Opinion: Mining on the moon is no longer a loony idea, and Canada can capitalize ...

TheNewsHOOK 23 Feb 2023
Opinion. Mining on the moon is no longer a loony idea, and Canada can capitalize on it ....
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Would you believe, they’ll put a mine on the moon

Business Day 24 May 2022
The lack of co-operation between the US and China on space exploration is particularly dangerous in an era when the cosmos is becoming more crowded ... Their inability to co-operate on space risks not only an arms race, but also clashes over extracting potentially hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of resources on the moon and elsewhere.
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Mining on the moon: Will UK firm's new deal to extract oxygen from lunar rocks ...

The Daily Mail 27 Feb 2022
A British-based company is working on technology which could pave the way for humans to live on the Moon ... If the project proves a success, it could lay the groundwork for astronauts to base a space station on the Moon for the first time ... Moon for the first time (stock photo used).
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Bacteria from Earth could potentially be used to mine on the moon or Mars

Gwinnett Daily Post 10 Nov 2020
Experiments performed on the International Space Station have suggested that bacteria from Earth could be used to extract useful minerals on the moon or Mars ... .
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Extraordinary popular delusions: Endless bull markets and mining on the moon

Resilience 31 May 2020
Mining the moon ... to bring countries into an agreement for mining the moon ... Some might say that we could refine the ore on the moon ... I suppose we could extract the oxygen from the lunar surface but that is yet another expensive and difficult process given conditions on the moon.
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Trump administration drafts pact for mining on the moon

TheNewsHOOK 06 May 2020
Trump administration drafts pact for mining on the moon ....
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US President Donald Trump signs executive order to mine on the Moon

Moneycontrol 14 Apr 2020
The signing, experts have said, has to do with the depletion of resources on Earth ... Because it is difficult to source materials from different suppliers with different rules, countries like the US are looking at the moon, according to Sovacool."Mining on the Moon, with one entity, might be easier," he said.
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Mining on the Moon by the US, will Space Militarization follow soon?

Yahoo Daily News 14 Apr 2020
According to Kulshreshtha, "Any ambition to setup mining activity on the moon shall involve Moon colonization as the first step, along with Moon mining requiring an operational infrastructure with storage setup on the Lunar surface itself.
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Why does President Trump want to mine on the Moon?

BBC News 12 Apr 2020
The US president signed an order this week stating Americans had rights to use resources in space ... .
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No Digging Required: Space Mining on the Moon and Beyond May Be Solar Powered

Space 04 Sep 2019
The best way to extract water from the moon and near-Earth asteroids involves hitting the stuff with sunlight or other forms of radiation, if three NASA-funded projects are any guide. ... .
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Mining on the Moon could help save humanity, says last Apollo astronaut Jack Schmitt

The Daily Telegraph 21 Jul 2019
When Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison 'Jack' Schmitt left his final footprint on the Moon he could not have imagined that his one small step would be followed by a giant pause in space exploration.
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The elements we might mine on the moon

Popular Science 04 Jun 2019
The elements we might mine on the moon ... Mine in the moon ... But this global flotilla is also nudging us closer to when we’ll mine the moon ... The stuff makes up 20 percent of moon dirt ... In spots rich in potassium and phosphorus, the moon could host REE mines on par with the best ones we have at home.
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Mining on the moon could be a reality as early as 2025

New York Post 23 Jan 2019
Rocket maker ArianeGroup announced on Monday that it had landed a one-year contract with the ESA to develop a gameplan for mining lunar regolith. Regolith, which is the material covering the surface of the Moon, could be a rich source of both water and oxygen and being able to ...
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Russia unveils £30m plans to start mining on the Moon

The Sun 17 Nov 2017
Russian leader Vladimir Putin has instructed his space chiefs to make a first landing on the moon within 15 years ... A key task for Fedor will be to "assist in construction and use of bases" on the moon and potentially other planets, said its Russian designers FPI ... Meanwhile rocket technology is threatening the peace on terra firma.
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The Trump transition team reportedly asked NASA about mining on the moon

Business Insider 14 Apr 2017
Donald Trump's transition team asked NASA for details on its for-profit partnerships, and sought information about the potential to mine resources on the moon, according to a trove of internal documents obtained by Motherboard ... Whether Trump will actually push for mining on the moon remains to be seen, of course.

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