Lunar Mining Potential and Legal Challenges

2025 study by Jayanth Chennamangalam finds 6,500 lunar craters could hold commercial platinum-group metals.
Platinum, palladium, and rhodium deposits worth over $1 trillion exist in moon craters larger than 1 km.
Moon is richer and more accessible than near-Earth asteroids for mining.
Legal frameworks for space resource extraction remain unsettled under the 1967 Outer Space Treaty.
Rebecca Connolly emphasizes need for updated legal guidelines to address lunar mining challenges.

Law | Astronomy | Mining

Jayanth Chennamangalam | Rebecca Connolly

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