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| Last Updated:: 25/04/2014

On the surface, mining the moon doesn't look that great

 

Michael Allan McCrae | April 6, 2014

 

911 Metallurgist published an infographic comparing various metal concentrations on earth and on the moon. The lunar data set on resources is limited, but what is revealed doesn't show much promise.

 

China has a probe on the moon, which landed in December.