The headline made me think that this person should be surrounded by hundreds of jabbering and giggling, yellow minions. :P
Mining the moon will make it lighter, and the Earth’s gravitational field will suck it closer and closer, until it crashes into us! Run!
What about the Amazon Women who live there.....
The Moon is the perfect spot for heavy industry. No concerns about pollution, radioactivity, etc. Given nearly unlimited energy (coming soon one way or the other), a lot of goods could be manufactured there and then shipped to Earth, as was portrayed in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
The Moon is also a natural spaceport, and the logical jumping off point for the rest of the Solar System.
If he sends too many people up there for the harvesting operations, it may capsize.