les gathered closer to the sun and lighter particles farther from the sun.Should mars not be less valuable as a minning prospect that say mercury.I know about the heat.
The bulk abundance of a given element is not enough to call a place a mining prospect. The element in question must also be found in a convenient concentration locally and in metallurgicaly convenient minerals. Nobody is thinking of mining a whole planet, but economically valuable parts of it. As an example, aluminum is found abundantly in the Earth but not all aluminum bearing rocks are used to extract aluminum.
The bulk abundance of a given element is not enough to call a place a mining prospect. The element in question must also be found in a convenient concentration locally and in metallurgicaly convenient minerals. Nobody is thinking of mining a whole planet, but economically valuable parts of it. As an example, aluminum is found abundantly in the Earth but not all aluminum bearing rocks are used to extract aluminum.
