Before humans send probes to space to mine for precious metals on asteroids, they could find vast quantities of minerals like platinum on the Moon’s craters, a new study suggests. Minerals like platinum-group metals, including platinum, palladium, and rhodium, could be scattered across the nearly 6,500 craters made by asteroids on the Moon, according to the study published in the journal Planetary and Space Science. Mining of space minerals has become increasingly popular in recent years, with several ventures aiming to profit from the potentially trillion-dollar industry. Scientists and investors interested in the ... (full story)