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Defiant-Peace-493 t1_ix8crjw wrote

And plenty of silicon and modest amounts of rare earths, so chips, solar, and glass are easy enough.

Regolith mining offers hydrogen and nitrogen, at around 100g per m3. Carbon is scarcer, but significant deposits exist in polar ice.

Note that there are some designs for aluminum - LOX rockets, which ought to be perfectly adequate for surface cargo runs.

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