Around 850km from Adelaide in South Australia’s outback sits the mining town of Coober Pedy. The fields of opal were discovered in 1913 and there were 70 individual opal fields, which produced more...
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Asteroid mining might bring back memories of action movie star Bruce Willis who played a miner in the 90s blockbuster film Armageddon, on a space mission to blow-up a doomsday asteroid headed for...
Alice Gorman, Flinders University and Steven Freeland, Western Sydney University With interest in the prospect of mining the moon and asteroids gaining pace, it’s time to take a hard look at what’s...
