re commercial mining activities on the moon in article steinly apr topaz ucsc edu steinly topaz ucsc edu steinn sigurdsson writes why paul it s obvious once chlorine chemistry has been banned on earth as is being advocated by some groups ti prices will sharply increase we are of course not allowed to assume any developments in ti processing lunar ti will then be eminently competitive for the trendy jewelry market and certain applications of national importance well there already is a sulfate process for tio purification the chlorine process is cleaner however and for that reason is achieving dominance in the marketplace most ti is used in pigment btw as the oxide where it replaced white lead pigment some decades ago very little is reduced to the metal seriously i d say there is a flaw in gary s analysis in that he assumes an export oriented economy maybe the lunatics will just want some native ti for local use which merely evades the issue of why those lunatics are there at all and why their children would want to stay paul f dietz dietz cs rochester edu
