Matthew Gialich

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812 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 23 Jun

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But if you wanna have your way of life and you wanna have technology and we wanna live in a modern society, you need it.

So we need a solution to that problem.

And we can look at it a myriad of different ways.

We've chosen to look at it of, hey, there's a whole bunch of this material floating around us in space.

Why don't we go try to mine that?

I mean, is there a potential site?

Sure.

You have a ton of money that's gone into exploration of mines.

I mean, we do this in gold all the time.

There's a little bit of a difference in platinum.

Platinum is not at a really high concentration in the Earth in the Earth's crust, period.

Where platinum is a high concentration is in the Earth's core.

And to be clear, when we talk about M-type asteroids or metal asteroids, what are we talking about?

We're talking about the core of a planet.

We're actually talking about what we expect to see in Earth's core.

This is where it gets a little crazy.

The largest mines in the world, specifically the ones in South Africa, we think are just ancient asteroid impacts.

And that's what we're actually mining.

In fact, a lot of the mines we think are ancient asteroid impacts.

And that's what you're mining when it comes to the higher grades of platinum.

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