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To: Red Badger

If they captured it, mined the platinum thus creating a surplus amount of platinum on Earth....wouldn’t the price of platinum plunge to near zero thus making the whole episode worthless????


49 posted on 07/17/2015 5:11:14 PM PDT by terycarl (, COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL)
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To: terycarl

Precisely. The price of the metals would plunge, unless they hoarded it off planet and kept it off the market the way DeBeers does with diamonds.....................


59 posted on 07/20/2015 6:12:19 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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