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Re:Mining asteroids: Going platinum by Lambdanaut on Friday April 27, 2012 @02:18PM (#3900366)
Planetary Resources will have a virtual monopoly on the platinum, so they can charge just about whatever they want for it, perhaps only slightly lower than the current selling rate.
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Re:Mining asteroids: Going platinum by swalsh on Friday April 27, 2012 @02:28PM (#3900424)
Just because they have a market value worth of 20 Trillion dollars worth of platinum doesn't mean there's demand for 20 Trillion dollars worth of platinum.

On the other hand, there's probably a very large demand for cheap platinum.

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