I read a book a few years ago called Asteroid Mining 101 that was a pretty technical dive into the minerals in each type of asteroid and how to get them back to earth. It doesn’t talk about the societal impacts as such, but some near earth asteroids have so much value it would radically change the equation on the value of each kind of metal. Super technical book.
Naive_Moose_6359 t1_j1xi7cd wrote
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I read a book a few years ago called Asteroid Mining 101 that was a pretty technical dive into the minerals in each type of asteroid and how to get them back to earth. It doesn’t talk about the societal impacts as such, but some near earth asteroids have so much value it would radically change the equation on the value of each kind of metal. Super technical book.