Venus is actually moderately rich in my game. Compared to the rest of the sol system at least.
7,713 Duranium
2,667,134 Corbomite
3,293,451 Tritanium
10,657,568 Mercassium
The most Mercassium I have seen ANYWHERE at all in the 7 systems I have explored so far.
About 2.5 million people live on the planet right now. How do I build a space station to support the population? That's another thing that is not even mentioned in the wiki as far as I can tell.