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| Charted Planetoid Mines | ||
| Charting the planetoids and minor bodies for mining purposes. |
Very early reference to this idea.
| Where once the plantetoids had been a chaotic network of unplumbed mystery, frequented only by space scavengers and occasional pirate hordes, now it was a huge, charted, floating ore deposit for the entire Solar System. |
| From The Day We Celebrate,
by Nelson S. Bond. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1941 Additional resources -
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Compare to asteroid mining, probably the earliest reference to the idea, in Garrett P. Serviss' 1898 story Edison's Conquest of Mars.
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