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Iridium is the element that archaeologists use to as a marker to determine if a dust layer came from an asteroid impact or is simply volcanic earth ash. Theorists have also thought that asteroid mining could be productive to find iron, nickel, palladium, platinum and potentially rare earth metals.

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