Mining operation on the moon
Mining operation on the moon. Image credit: SpaceQ (AI Generated)

Iain Christie: This is the third installment in a series of articles that we have been calling Parallel Universes — Mining and Space. The articles are basically a conversation between me and Salar Javid a fellow mentor at Creative Destructions Labs with a background in the mining industry. If you have not read the first two columns, you will find a lot of the background material for this discussion there.

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Founder and CEO at SideKickSixtyFive Consulting and host of the Terranauts podcast. Iain is a seasoned business executive with deep understanding of the space business and government procurement policy. Iain worked for 22 years at Neptec including as CEO. He was a VP at the Aerospace Industries Association of Canada, is a mentor at the Creative Destruction Lab and a visiting professor at the University of Ottawa's Telfer School of Management.