The report noted that among shares of companies in the minerals and mining space, ARLP displayed both attractive valuation metrics and strong profitability metrics.
The report noted that among shares of companies in the minerals and mining space, RNO displayed both attractive valuation metrics and strong profitability metrics.
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The report noted that among shares of companies in the minerals and mining space, PVR displayed both attractive valuation metrics and strong profitability metrics.
And as energy businesses begin to resemble industrial producers, they will attract the interest of industrial businesses, even beyond the mining space, the banker says.
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For years, scientists and space enthusiasts have dreamed that new methods of harnessing solar energy and mining precious metals in space could lead to huge profits.
Most of those customers have been businesses: One group of McDonald's restaurants bought 1, 200 to set up their wi-fi networks, he says, and a Canadian diamond-mining Arctic expedition installed the space-saving computers in its planes.
Most of those customers have been businesses: One group of McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ) restaurants bought 1, 200 to set up their wi-fi networks, he says, and a Canadian diamond-mining Arctic expedition installed the space-saving computers in its planes.
Theoretically, mining and collecting solar energy in space for use on Earth hold tremendous potential.
Advances here will inform the more scifi-ish imponderables like a space elevator, and asteroid- or moon-mining.
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One of the big goals of asteroid mining startup Planetary Resources is the mass production of space telescopes for both its prospecting missions and to sell to customers.
That plus the news of the vastly larger 1012 DA 14 which has just gone sailing past (in a near miss that in astonomical terms is hardly a miss at all) leads to the hope that Deep Space Industries and Planetary Resources get going with their idea of mining asteroids pretty sharpish.
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Research at the Fusion Technology Institute at the University of Wisconsin has also suggested that the process of mining helium-3 would produce other minerals to support space settlements.
Instead of checking in to some wildly expensive spa for a few days of wired-up analysis by teams of kinesiology eggheads with space-age machines, how about doing a some deep data-mining using the soggy, smelly, salt-stained socks and shirt and shorts in your workout bag?
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The burgeoning commercial space sector is also casting its gaze towards Earth's only natural satellite with companies considering everything from mining the lunar surface to building extraterrestrial resorts on it.
While mining the millions of asteroids around Earth opens up a new area for the mining industry, questions arise regarding staking claims and owning property, or asteroids in this case, in space.
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