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The idea of replacing all on world mining with magic sci-fi technology is exactly as implausible now as it was a century ago.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2023/10/18/this-asteroid-mining-startup-is-ready-to-launch-the-first-ever-commercial-deep-space-mission/
If we'd had Al Gore as President we'd have had an extra $5 trillion to use on this tech.