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Asteroid mining value and profit estimates for most cost-effective asteroids

Published by M. Garside, Jan 14, 2020
This statistic shows the estimated profits from the asteroids that are considered to be the most cost effective to mine, ranked by the profit as a share of the overall value of the materials present in the asteroid. The economically valuable materials present on the asteroid Ryugu have a total estimated value of 82.76 billion U.S. dollars, and is estimated to have a profit of 30.08 billion U.S. dollars once the costs of mining are taken into consideration.

Value and estimated profit of the most cost-effective asteroids to mine (in billion U.S. dollars)*

Asteroid nameValue (billion U.S. dollars)Estimated profit (billion U.S. dollars)
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Release date

January 2020

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2020

Supplementary notes

* Cost effectiveness measured by the estimated profit as a proportion of the value.

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