Matthew Gialich

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Thinking On Paper · Mining Asteroids For Platinum | Matthew Gialich, CEO Astroforge · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

So from a geological perspective, like no, we we really don't expect to see a really rich ore vane of platinum discovered somewhere in the Antarctic.

Now it could happen, obviously, right?

We could find something.

We might find something even better.

We've tried really hard and spent a lot of money and haven't found it yet.

So let's go let's go to the metals.

Let's talk about you referenced.

I mean look it's

You can get very philosophical here and say, like, well, what's the difference between an asteroid and a planet?

It's just how much gravity happened at the formation and the accretion disk of how much was stuck together to form a planet.

So like there isn't really a net difference there.

What I well say is when planets are first forming and all our simulations of them, when these are hot balls of liquid, um, all the heavy elements are gonna go to the bottom.

And all the lighter elements are gonna go to the top.

It's pretty much just how it works.

So when you look at a planet the size of Earth or larger, you'll have the crust be made of lighter materials and the core be made out of the dense materials.

It's really all there is to it, right?

Now, that being said, there is other geological processes that move these materials around.

For instance, gold.

Gold is always moved around in the presence of water.

When we go mine gold veins, what are we actually mining?

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