I'm certainly no Elon Musk, but why can't we just send some spaceship bees to mine gold, silver, nickel, lithium, cobalt, et alia and toss it back to earth with some parachutes? Didn't we just land a rover on mars? I don't see what the problem is.
I suggest you watch the 2009 movie Moon - they were mining Helium-3 on the Moon and sending it back to Earth.
we could make gold in the lab synthetically. Is it cost effective? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesis_of_precious_metals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_transmutation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_T._Seaborg#Return_to_California It's cheaper to mine the ocean floor than pipe dreams of space mining.
extremely strong movement during today's Asian session. bid offer spread widened to > 5 ticks. This is extremely rare. Something very very big is happening.
COVID-19 related. Copper kills viruses. So instead of Stainless Steel for appliances people are going to prefer Copper.
If copper kills viruses, copper doorknobs and light switch touchable surfaces in homes business and the ever infectuous hospitals wouldn't be a bad idea. Coppa. So what country, companies, have control of what shares of known coppa reserves?