Avoiding Conflict in Asteroid Resource Extraction

Asteroids are brimming with critical and strategic minerals considered vital for the economic well being of the world's major and emerging economies and are seen by many as a solution to these minerals' terrestrial depletion.' Solar panels, electric car bat teries, and new advances in technology all increasingly rely on these rare minerals; new mines in space could provide a much needed new source of the rare elements required to assuage Earth's current environmental crisis.