Matt Gialich

We use it in your cars.

We use it to treat cancer.

Like, it's used throughout our lives.

The honest truth is, Sean, it's just not a sexy metal.

Like, if you ever look at this stuff, it's kind of boring.

It looks like some gray, like, iron shavings.

You're like, cool, what is this shit?

Don't care.

But it's a pretty important metal to our way of life.

So how abundant is it on some of these asteroids?

I mean, look, we got examples of asteroids that are extremely rich in the platinum group metals.

We have one that's just above 1% platinum group metal by mass in the office.

Now, that is an N of one, right?

As a general part, they're probably going to be about two orders of magnitude lower than that as a general concentration.

But compare that to what we have in South Africa.

We have a mine in South Africa.

It's eight parts per billion.

Like, it's a very, very thin margin of what we have on ore quality here on Earth.

So these things on average are about five to 10,000 times better than the best ore mines we have on earth.

Wow.