Monthly Archives: March 2019

Moon Mining Could Become A Reality By 2025

The mining industry has been struggling to innovate for a while, with many major companies failing to meet analyst expectations over the past years. While 2019 is seeing a slew of major, multi-billion-dollar acquisitions in the sector as companies look … Continue reading

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Moon Mining For Helium-3 Might Gross Trillions Of Dollars For The Miners

Asteroid mining could be the next big thing humans would do in space, but moon mining is also profitable. A group of European scientists announced that they plan to mine the Moon, but not for gold, platinum, or other precious … Continue reading

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Russia To Join Luxembourg As Leaders In Future Space Mining Industry

Mining the moon and the surrounding asteroids in our solar system has long been a science fiction topic, but industry experts expect the next ten years will see an emergence of these extra terrestrially focused mining companies. Motivated by the … Continue reading

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Mining The Moon

If you were transported to the Moon this very instant, you would surely and rapidly die. That’s because there’s no atmosphere, the surface temperature varies from a roasting 130 degrees Celsius (266 F) to a bone-chilling minus 170 C (minus … Continue reading

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Up, Up, And Literally Away; Helium Shortage Impacts Many

It is used in brain cell research, by the military and in magnetic resonance imaging machines, but when most people think of helium, they think of balloons. But these days, the price of helium is soaring faster than the balloons … Continue reading

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