{"id":57309,"date":"2017-05-12T00:42:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T07:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/a-single-asteroid-could-contain-50-billion-worth-of-precious-minerals"},"modified":"2017-05-12T00:42:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T07:42:31","slug":"a-single-asteroid-could-contain-50-billion-worth-of-precious-minerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/a-single-asteroid-could-contain-50-billion-worth-of-precious-minerals","title":{"rendered":"A single asteroid could contain $50 billion worth of precious minerals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-single-asteroid-could-contain-50-billion-worth-of-precious-minerals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IN AN effort to mine precious metals potentially worth trillions of dollars and aid interstellar travel, China has unveiled plans to build a base on an asteroid, likely to happen \u201cin the near future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ye Peijian, the chief commander and designer of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, revealed details that could potentially put an unmanned craft on an asteroid and mine the rock for metals like palladium, platinum and others that are used in items such as smartphones and cars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the near future, we will study ways to send robots or astronauts to mine suitable asteroids and transport the resources back to Earth,\u201d Peijian said in comments reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/china\/2017-05\/09\/content_29259980.htm\">China Daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/technology\/science\/space\/china-plans-asteroid-base-for-interstellar-travel-and-mining\/news-story\/00e9cd1bcab89f2736734074a602ea47\">http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/technology\/science\/space\/china-plans-...74a602ea47<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN AN effort to mine precious metals potentially worth trillions of dollars and aid interstellar travel, China has unveiled plans to build a base on an asteroid, likely to happen \u201cin the near future\u201d. Ye Peijian, the chief commander and designer of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, revealed details that could potentially put an unmanned [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6,8,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-space","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}