Ah yes, technical truth, the best kind of truth. There could be asteroids of pure palladium, platinum, gold, and silver, and it wouldn't matter a fig until it

Ah yes, technical truth, the best kind of truth. There could be asteroids of pure palladium, platinum, gold, and silver, and it wouldn't matter a fig until it was cost competitive with digging rocks out of the ground, sticking them on a slow barge to a massive refinery and processing them with cheap, probably exploitative, labor.