Re:Valuable metals? (Score 1)

Even if all they find is iron, it will be Moon Iron (mFe) which is worth more to eccentric wealthy folk. Nothing is as bling as Moon Iron. Maybe DeBeers will buy the moon and start an entirely new marketing campaign that will have our great great grandchildren proposing to their future wives with golden rings touting a half karat of Moon Iron. Only the poor buy diamonds. That is, until one day, where some lab finds out how to grow Moon Iron at a fraction of the cost of real Moon Iron. Maybe they will even master this so well that the lab-grown Moon Iron will be indistinguishable from real Moon Iron. I think there will be a market for elements mined from the moon, but I don't think that market will compete directly with the market for the same elements from Earth. At least, not at first.