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Mining Equipment for Outer Space Reaching Maturity

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 01, 2010 | 1:53 pm

When Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield said recently that he saw thefuture of mining as somethingout of this world, some people thought he was using a metaphor. He was not. A few companies, such as Neptec Design Group of Ottawa and Sudbury-based Northern Centre for Advanced...

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