It's very interesting. Kartik Gada mentions it, and recently a Japanese spacecraft mined an asteroid, dropped the contents off to Earth and resumed its mission to another asteroid.
https://www.cnet.com/science/japans-asteroid-sample-returns-home-poised-to-reveal-solar-systems-secrets/
https://www.milkenreview.org/articles/mining-in-space-is-coming
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