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So, ten quintillion (if that is a real prefix) or 10 to the power of 19. Even assuming the metals in Psyche were that valuable, by the time you get TO it with enough hardware to move it closer to the Earth, then insert it into orbit around the Earth, then find a way to cut it into little enough pieces to bring down in expensive hardware so that it doesn't burn up on re-entry... Then you get to figure out how you are depressing the value of these now-abundant metals. You would essentially be spending money you can't recover because you made what you recovered worthless. - This is why smart versions of Star Trek have made rare metals and precious gems so commonplace they mostly lose value. If you can simply "beam in" a ton gold you chopped out of an asteroid with your phasers, why would you pay for it?
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