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The Academy / Best route to mining Io
« Last post by legemaine on May 31, 2024, 03:36:53 AM »Hi all, just thought I'd ask the collective wisdom about some potential decisions
I've been fortunate enough to get a lot of minerals on Io - enough with other in system resources to help sort out the potential minerals crunch - in particular 3m (1) Duranium, 1m(0.9) Vendarite, 2m(0.4) Corundium and 3m(0.4) Gallicite.
Now how best to extract? I'm currently establishing a ground colony (6.2 CC) and relying on injecting greenhouse gas to get the temp up and the CC down, but I could automine or use an orbital habital I suppose. Bear in mind I want a really substantial mining operation here, to get all those lovely minerals out of the ground.
How would others suggest?
Legemaine
I've been fortunate enough to get a lot of minerals on Io - enough with other in system resources to help sort out the potential minerals crunch - in particular 3m (1) Duranium, 1m(0.9) Vendarite, 2m(0.4) Corundium and 3m(0.4) Gallicite.
Now how best to extract? I'm currently establishing a ground colony (6.2 CC) and relying on injecting greenhouse gas to get the temp up and the CC down, but I could automine or use an orbital habital I suppose. Bear in mind I want a really substantial mining operation here, to get all those lovely minerals out of the ground.
How would others suggest?
Legemaine