Bootstrapping for Interstellar - Asteroid Metals Mining

Millions in a spacefaring nation will require millions of job opportunities. One way to provide these opportunities is to mine the metals on asteroids. Industrial facilities by the hundreds of thousands will require humans to alter their work according to their circadian rhythms, adjusting for salaried positions. Most all of the industrial operations being automated, e.g. robotic retrieval of metallic regolith, can be separated according to concentration of primitives, that is, for example, basalts, olivines, anorthosite, achrondite, norite, and troctolite, which are some primary admixtures of the metals on the asteroids.

Regarding prospecting for precious metals and the like, the doctrine of pedis possessio says that occupation of a territory (i.e., asteroid) for the purpose of mining is treated as a licensee or tenant at will; of course, radiometric detection of precious metals using synthetic aperture radar does not require terrestrial mining because erosion does not take place on an asteroid. The location and recording of data regarding surface scans of an asteroid would be difficult to ascertain without first retrieving a sample extraction for proof of telepresence. Thus remote sensing and telerobotics are vital to securing pedis possessio under the General Mining Law.

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