Either Mr. Bigg fed Méliès a load of nonsense about why he needed the space coupe or his knowledge of actual gold mining in next to nil.
Since the Moon has no active geology there is nothing to concentrate the gold into veins as on Earth and so you are left with ore mining.
The BEST ore to rock ratio on Earth (Tau Tona, Africa) is 28 grams of gold per TON of rock and the majority of deposits are in the 0.71 gram per ton range. Unless Mr Bigg was planning on setting up a refining plant on the Moon the space coupe was going to be making an an insane amount of commutes. In fact, Mr Bigg would have made more money from the rare earths known to be on the Moon.
More over unless the Blackhearts have inside knowledge shouldn’t the issue of there being an advanced civilization on the Moon come up?
In fact, NASA discovered the Moon is loaded with titanium which the Governor of the Moon claimed lack of was his reason for wanting to steal the space coupe. Also Diet Smith had more then one of those things so the plans to build one should still be around.
Either Mr. Bigg fed Méliès a load of nonsense about why he needed the space coupe or his knowledge of actual gold mining in next to nil.
Since the Moon has no active geology there is nothing to concentrate the gold into veins as on Earth and so you are left with ore mining.
The BEST ore to rock ratio on Earth (Tau Tona, Africa) is 28 grams of gold per TON of rock and the majority of deposits are in the 0.71 gram per ton range. Unless Mr Bigg was planning on setting up a refining plant on the Moon the space coupe was going to be making an an insane amount of commutes. In fact, Mr Bigg would have made more money from the rare earths known to be on the Moon.
More over unless the Blackhearts have inside knowledge shouldn’t the issue of there being an advanced civilization on the Moon come up?
In fact, NASA discovered the Moon is loaded with titanium which the Governor of the Moon claimed lack of was his reason for wanting to steal the space coupe. Also Diet Smith had more then one of those things so the plans to build one should still be around.