I doubt very seriously that ‘asteroid mining’ will ever become an profitable venture. Even if they were to find an asteroid of solid gold, it would be too expensive to get there, and then get it home...............
“I doubt very seriously that ‘asteroid mining’ will ever become an profitable venture. Even if they were to find an asteroid of solid gold, it would be too expensive to get there, and then get it home...............”
... assuming that human technologoies remain static and nothing new is invented or discovered ever.
Much of the value of anything derived from asteroid mining would come from the fact that it is already out of Earth's gravity well.
Metals can be sued to build structures, water can be decomposed into hydrogen and oxygen for rocket fuel, etc. Even rocks have serious military value as projectiles.