[NicknamedBob]

"The situation will be large scale shipments of single resources..."

But there is no reason to ship anything anywhere, unless people are there!

In today's inner cities, the resources are available. The demand is there. And the profit potential is high, but the major corporations don't go there because they are risk-averse.

Only the small, tight-knit family grocer is willing to take the risk, and only because his family backs him.

Resources are where you find them. In Coober-Pedy, the mines became the homes, and the homes are the mines. I would suspect the asteroids will be similar.

A hole in a rock may not appeal to an employee, but it might be just the thing for a family which is society-averse, or even a couple of individuals.

[RightWhale]

The Warner Bros movie High Frontier [I think that is the title] with Sean Connery was an excellent attempt to portray space mining as it has been conceived up to now. Most likely, though, such mining and even shipping of the product will be entirely automated.

Where will shipments go?

Some to the moon and Mars, but most to earth. Earth will be the Athens or Rome of the solar system for a long time.