Matthew Gialich

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

Nobody's ever gonna remember that or even know what it looks like.

Right.

They they really do because the reality is from an economic standpoint, they're they're not that good.

Um, I'll give you some numbers here.

Like if we look at consumed material per year of these resources, gold is gonna be the largest.

It's somewhere in the range of two to three hundred billion per year used in manufacturing.

I'm not talking about store of wealth, I'm not talking about like your grandpa's gold coins, right?

That's used in manufacturing.

Platinum's gonna be somewhere between six hundred sixty to a hundred billion dollars used.

All of the rare earths are between four and six billion.

So like when we talk about market cap levels here, I mean platinum group metals is an order of magnitude larger pro problem than the rare earth metals.

Yeah, planetary resources, like Peter, Peter was a big part of that.

There was, you know, the CEO of that was a guy named Chris Lewicki who came out of JPL.

That was an awesome team.

Like I want to be very clear, that was that was a great team.

And any of these companies that start like whenever you're gonna go start a frontier company, and especially in the area of people think are are not believable, when you first hear about asteroid mining, you just think about like how many drugs did those guys take and what are what are they on?

Right.

So there's this this

The ability of that early team to leave their jobs at JPL, they're probably secure forever jobs.

go take a stab at planetary at at doing something commercially.

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