Right now, as you read these words, there’s a galactic gold rush brewing that will make 1840s California look like a rehearsal dinner. At this very moment, a handful of billionaire-backed companies are planning to mine outer space for ungodly reserves of precious metals and other untapped treasures. On the moon alone, quadrillions of dollars of interplanetary paydirt are at stake.
Source: Billionaire space prospectors are racing to mine the moon, and that’s a good thing