Trillions in Platinum Await Mining on the Moon

Recent findings suggest that lunar craters may contain trillions of dollars in platinum and other valuable metals left by asteroid collisions. This indicates that mining the moon could be more economically feasible than traveling to and extracting resources from asteroids, although the legal implications of lunar mining are still unclear.

Jayanth Chennamangalam, an independent researcher based in Vancouver, Canada, along with his team, investigated the potential presence of commercially viable amounts of platinum group elements (platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium, osmium) resulting from asteroid impacts…