Conference Proceedings
Third International Future Mining Conference 2015
Conference Proceedings
Third International Future Mining Conference 2015
Resource Recovery in Space
Asteroids contain an abundance of valuable resources such as: nickel, cobalt, gold, platinum and rhodium. Whilst the consumption of mineral resources on Earth continues to deplete, meteoroids have the potential to become a significant source of minerals. Even though the minerals content of asteroids may be relatively high, the valuable minerals are more likely to be only a small portion of the total ore present in the main body. The ores must, therefore, be processed to extract the metals of interest from the waste. Existing terrestrial technologies rely on manipulating the physical and chemical properties of minerals. The application of these techniques to asteroids processing, however, is not straightforward due to the presence of different conditions such as zero gravity and lack of water in space. This paper discusses potential separation and extraction techniques that can be used for processing of asteroids.CITATION:Ata, S, Bournival, G and Manefield, M, 2015. Resource recovery in space, in Proceedings Third International Future Mining Conference, pp 275-280 (The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Melbourne).
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S Ata, G Bournival, M Manefield
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